The white house pattern of denying any possible wrongdoing, only to backrock to and be presenteded with contrary backtrack and be presented with contrary office. Listen to this from ancamera White House Briefing how are we to take the blanket denials that occurred through the transition and now when it has been proven and recognized by the president s attorney and don jr. That those blanket denials were not factual . Look, i think the point is that weve tried to make every single time today and then and will continue to make in those statements is that there was simply no collusion that they keep trying to create that there was. Sanders adds that if President Trump only he only learned of his sons meeting with the russian lawyer in the last few days. The president himself has been staying largely out of sight. Today the second straight day with no Public Events on his schedule. More questions about the players involved in setting up the meeting between donald trump jr. And the russian
President ial campaign. I have a son who is a great young man. Commuting with a lawyer from russia. It lasted for a very short period. Nothing came of the meeting. I think its a meeting that most people in politics probably would have taken. Harris chief White House Correspondent john roberts is traveling with the president in paris. John . Reporter and it was interesting to see, harris, today, despite all of the observations so far that President Trump and president macron likely wouldnt have a good relationship. This is a lot of the pundits here in the United States and europe. The two have gotten off on a good footing and the both genuinely look like theyre looking forward to having dinner tonight on the second floor of the eiffel tower. They talked about a number of items when they were in their bilateral meeting, from trade to climate change. Of course, when it came to the press conference, the first question to President Trump was about this new fire storm surounding his son dona
Good morning. Its monday, july 24th. Well, President Trump spent much of his weekend putting his message out on twitter sending 19 tweets from his personal account alone and among them ten he sent before 8 30 on saturday morning was this one. While all agree the u. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against us. Fake news. The president s lawyers had denied any discussion says of pardons as nonsense after the Washington Post reported trump had asked advisors about pardoning powers. Now, a member of trumps outside legal team, continued to make that argument yesterday, but his new Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said the president had actually discussed the issue with him. We have not and continue to not have conversations with the president of the United States regarding pardons. Pardons have not been discussed, and pardons are not on the table. Im in the oval office of the president last week. Were talking about th
State stuff. I want to be careful because when somebody says we have information, you get this reporting and people are using name sources or saying according to people whose names in the certain email. I want to tell you what we do know versus what has been reported publicly. Lets begin there. New york times has been reporting that at least three people according to them have seen this email that apparently was sent to donald trump, jr. , last year and in that email, it informed him that any material that might come from that now infamous meeting with this russian lawyer may have actually been part of a government effort to aid his fathers candidacy. The lawyer for don, jr. , spoke with ben gomez this morning and he said among many things, at no time was there ever understanding or commitment that he, speaking of donald, jr. , or anyone else, would find that information, whatever it turned out to be, to be reliable, credible, or of interest, or would even survive due diligence. Bottom
Of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence and who was accused of orchestrating an International Hacking conspiracy, though those allegations were later withdrawn. The lobbyist denies having any connections but he said in april he received a letter from the department of justice telling him to register as foreign agent. I know what the lawyer, this lawyer, the law imposing sanctions on human rights abusers. Reporting it is shared by Vladimir Putin. So red wing at least five people were present in that meeting. Trump junior, manafort and kushner. The russian veselnitskaya and the russian Rinat Akmetshin aforementioned. The translator was in the meeting. Someone who has done work for the state department bringing the total up to six known attendees. And it is not known if rob goldstone, the british born who help set up the meeting was there. Or if there were other attendees we have yet to learn about. The lobbyist told the associated press, he recognized paul manafort, he said there