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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, he s been transparent and open. he s come out and given the whole story. but there are a lot of questions that still remain and in the white house i think they re very well aware these are not questions that are going to go away and they re not questions that they re prepared to take. there s a lot of legal jeopardy around this meeting. there s 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 f
adoption meeting by a guy he trusted or knew a little bit and he said it turned out to be kind of a bait and switch. it wasn t exactly what he thought it was going to be. he didn t walk out of there with any information. he called it a nothing meeting. so do you still see a criminal connection? i do. first of all, we don t know what information he got. right. we only have his version of it. and remember, you read the e-mail and it s a very clear request for a meeting about negative information from the russian government as part of their effort to help the trump campaign and to hurt the clinton campaign. that cannot be any clearer. and donald junior answered, i love it, especially if it s later in the summer. and that little phrase is being ignored. but remember, he met on june 9th with this russian lawyer, identified to him as a russian government lawyer. and on july 25th, on the eve of
along to the fbi as was done back in during the bush/gore debate, if you remember. the gore team was given background information, illegally obtained, about candidate bush, and they passed that along to the fbi. that s what reasonable people do. congressman, it s willie geist. i want to run past you the two defenses given last night by donald trump jr. of taking this meeting and see if they compel you in any way or at least what you think about it. the first one was, we were naive. we re new to politics, we ve never done this before. i thought this was part of the research process. i wanted to susz out some of these theories he d heard online and about other information heard on clinton. number two was, it was a nothing meeting, it wasn t even worth reporting, wasn t even worth telling my father about the candidate at the time because we walked in it was advertised as some big intel meeting about hillary clinton and it didn t happen. it was more about adoption than anything else. wha
as far as nondisclosure, look, chaired kushner put in his pre-disclosure prematurely and has since amended it. it was a nothing meeting. what is developing if you look at the article that circa put out, set the individual who set up the meeting may have been involved with fusion gps ways which is an opposition research firm which is being subpoenaed and talk to by the senate judiciary committee about their role in putting together a phony dossier that people know about in regard to the president. it s a developing story. i don t know much except it seems to be on the end of the trump individual, big nothing burger but might spin out of control for the dance in democrats. chris: in terms of the dnc, are you suggesting that this was somehow a set up by democrats to link them or compromise them with the russians?