donald trump jr. says the meeting was also attended by trump s son-in-law and adviser, jared kushner and former campaign chairman, paul manafort, and it was primarily about the adoption of russian children. we have learned from both our investigation and public reports that the participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for. the story comes as president trump touched back down on american soil after his trip to the g20 summit in germany. where he met face to face with the russian president for the first time. let s talk about it with ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley. ambassador haley, there were conflicting reports about what happened inside president trump s much-anticipated meeting with president vladimir putin.
is the magnitsky act, a very powerful sanctions legislation thats if against russian human rights abusers. if this was an effort to do away with that sanctions policy, that is obviously very significant. if they re talking to the president s team, then candidate trump s team, that contradicts, of course, what the president and his people have said about whether they were meeting with any representatives of the russian government. congressman adam schiff, thank you so much for joining me this morning. something has to be done. president trump says north korea s nuclear ambitions must be stopped but what would a preemptive strike really look like?
the bottom of. it doesn t excuse what the russians did. you don t blame the victim for the hack, no matter what kind of security precautions the dnc took or what they did afterwards. this was still an orchestrated effort by an adversary of the united states. congressman, i want to ask about something the new york times is reporting this morning, that donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner met at trump tower, during the campaign, with a lawyer who is a high-professional russian national. the president s eldest son told the newspaper that the meeting was primarily about an adoption program. does this story raise questions for you? it certainly raises questions for a variety of reasons, of course. the president s son had denied having any kind of meetings like this. they claim that this meeting had nothing to do with the campaign and yet the trump campaign
i think that president trump, president xi meeting is extremely important right now and extremely timely. and i think it s going to be telling in the next few days what happens and what that relationship is going to look like. and you ll see how the u.s. responds accordingly. ambassador nikki haley, thank you for joining me this morning. thanks, deigna. good to be with you. the president s new plan, working with putin to stop election hacking. is it letting the fox guard the hen house? fresh tweets from the president next. david. what s going on? oh hey! that s it? yeah. everybody two seconds! dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald s helps more people go to college. it s part of our commitment to being america s best first job.
nature of his own intelligence agencies? then saying we need to move on. i don t think we can move on, and i don t think that russia could be a partner in a cyber security unit. i think that would be dangerously naive for this country. if that s our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to moscow. i don t think that s an answer at all. i want to talk to cyber security in a minute. are you saying that the president is not telling the truth about what happened in that private meeting? i m saying as much as i like nikki haley, she wasn t in the room any more than i was. and it s just strange credulity that the president took such a different position privately with vladimir putin than he took publicly the day before. why on earth would you do that and so undermine your own position? we re, i guess, meant to believe he s much stronger in private than he s willing to be publicly.