Say about this controversy after the sort of the statement after statement that changed the story a little bit on donald trump jr. s meeting with this russian lawyer. He basically said my son is a high quality individual, hes been transparent and open. Hes come out and given the whole story. But there are a lot of questions that still remain and in the white house i think theyre very well aware these are not questions that are going to go away and theyre not questions that theyre prepared to take. Theres a lot of legal jeopardy around this meeting. Theres a question of whether the president himself knew about it. Of course we heard donald trump jr. Say in the interview last night that he had not discussed it with his father. But that is going to really hamstring their ability to get ahead of this story. I think there are a lot of questions about what more the president can say without getting a little too close to what is really one of the more damaging revelations of the last few week
like within days of that. of this meeting. and suspected it was the russians because it came from the obama white house and that was normally who was hacking you. but never imagined at that point something at this level that the russians russians, you know, they hack all the time. they hack everybody and try to get information on the political candidates, not that they d take the information and be part of the leaking targets of it. the defense from donald trump jr. was twofold. we re new at this, i get the e-mail, i have to replay to the e-mail. the second part was yes, we had the meeting but no significant information exchanged hands, therefore, nothing happened. nothing to be afraid of. they didn t see fit so report it. jared kushner was in the room as well. not only that but we had month after month of denial of anything to do with. we don t have anything to do with russia, we don t know where