foundation. democrats and the media in the country if they care about the rule of law, the equal application of the rule of law, it s time to start demanding justice, time to start investigating these scandals and these people need to be put under oath. from circa news sarah carter is a lawyer and investigator, gregg jarrett, john solomon welcome back, good to see you. john let s go back to her investigative work here, tell us why this is so critical to all the donald trump junior hype. if you go back to last saturday, just days ago, the story was there was a kremlin backed lawyer who snuck into trump tower and had a secret conversation with donald trump, jr., that looked like collusion, people were using trees and on monday morning. what we found out that this lawyer was part of a lobbying campaign commits a private attorney, a lobbying campaign that started before the donald trump meeting in march when a congressman dana war
with everyone. this is as far as you re concerned all of it? this is everything. everything. kelly o donnell is with us from new jersey where president trump is spending the weekend along with national security reporter ken dilanian, and the washington post chief white house bureau chief philip rucker. chief was a bit redundant in there but you get the picture. ken dilanian, this is your reporting. what do we know about this meeting and do we have any idea why this former counterintelligence officer would have been in it? well, there s the official story and then there s the suspicions that people have. the official story is we re not rinat akhmetshin, this former intelligence officer has worked with the russian lawyer who went to the meeting on a lobbying campaign against magnitsky act sanctions for a long time and they re arguing against the sanctions to argue against the underlining story behind the sanctions. according to their accounts at
extraordinary circumstances before she embarked on a lobbying campaign. this revelation means it was the obama justice department that enabled the most intriguing figure in the russia-trump investigation to enter the country without a visa. we are going to learn more about her connections as time goes on. let s bring in our panel. michael crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent for political, editor-in-chief of lifezette laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. i m not impressed by the story about the lawyer. i think it s a red herring the size of a whale. she was a pawn. it doesn t change the fact of the scandal, the email received from an intermediary by donald trump, jr. said a russian government lawyer. the president was wrong. a russian government lawyer would be coming with dirt on hillary and that the kremlin was supporting his campaign and that the state prosecutor in the
juan: she was rejected, megan! speed when she got to the trump tower to talk to the presidential candidates on! that s not normal! kimberly: and a lobbying campaign that included journalism as a department officials. fact! juan: here is what normal, megan. not normal, i should say, donald trump, jr., with full knowledge that this woman was being sent as an emissary of the russian government, with information from russian crown prosecutor, says yes to a meeting and takes the campaign manager and his brother-in-law! jesse: because he s a patriot! what s the crime? blood? there is no crime! everybody, he just said there is no crime! juan: i said, what you have here, somebody acting in such a way kimberly: ignoring the actual collusion. you see this. juan: this is collusion! kimberly: you re ignoring the collusion and that she s actually linked to this guy, diffusion, the gps, they christopher steele dossier that was used to smear trump.
juan: she was rejected, megan! speed when she got to the trump tower to talk to the presidential candidates on! that s not normal! kimberly: and a lobbying campaign that included journalism as a department officials. fact! juan: here is what normal, megan. not normal, i should say, donald trump, jr., with full knowledge that this woman was being sent as an emissary of the russian government, with information from russian crown prosecutor, says yes to a meeting and takes the campaign manager and his brother-in-law! jesse: because he s a patriot! what s the crime? blood? there is no crime! everybody, he just said there is no crime! juan: i said, what you have here, somebody acting in such a way kimberly: ignoring the actual collusion. you see this. juan: this is collusion! kimberly: you re ignoring the collusion and that she s actually linked to this guy, diffusion, the gps, they christopher steele dossier that