we are told and why they wanted he wanted it that way included not being interrupted by his more hard line advisers when talking to vladimir putin. they are behind closed doors. each has a translator and that s it. we won t know what was said until we hear the reckonings of both men. before the meeting started, there was a little bit of a press avail. president trump spoke second and brought up a list of topics he wanted to discuss. no mention of the following, no mention of syria, which was surprising. crimea, ukraine, the russian election, the american election rather, take a listen. most importantly we have a lot of good things to talk about and things to talk about. we have discussions on everything from trade to military to missiles to nuclear to china. we ll talk a little bit about china, mutual friend, president
anif you ve got a lifee. you gotta swiffer . pz and vice president pence meeting with the executive director of the nra lobbying arm last night. the nra official later tweeted that the two, quote, don t want gun control. how does that square with what the president said in his meeting with bipartisan lawmakers. take a listen. i m going to write the bump stock, essentially write it out. it doesn t make sense that i have to wait until 21 to get a handgun, but can get this weapon at 18. i like take the guns early. take the guns first, go through due process second. florida republican congressman brian mast was at that meeting. how do you marry these two reckonings of the status quo? i think it s very difficult to try to walk that back whatsoever. you can t do that. you can t walk back saying, hey, bump stocks are as good as gone.
proceeding and then go public and say we fully cooperated when they haven t. i will leave that for others when we publish the transcript and i hope at the conclusion we will publish all the transcripts so the american people can see what they had to say and whether it supports the conclusions we reached. did you learn more about why donald trump, jr., provided reckonings about the meeting, and if the president of the us knew about the meeting, and what happened in that meeting in furtherance of what was cooperation after the meeting? we know more than what we did go into the hearing, and we did gather additional facts, and what we learned early is not necessarily that a witness says i did it, and did you conclude
i think we have to wait to see. you ve seen reckonings like this over the years. do you think this is different? is this something that s actually going to change how it is? i ve been surprised by the degree to which this has spread. i didn t cover the anita hill hearings. that s the other big moment when there was the women s moment and people thought it might change after that. it didn t. i think the issue will be whether it spreads beyond a few famous people. until it spreads to the people who are really vulnerable and financially dependent on their jobs in industries people don t talk about where nobody knows the name of the bosses, then the culture isn t changed. it needs to go beyond politics, beyond hollywood. we want ta touk again about hillary clinton who was attacking president trump going furth thaeer than she did durin campaign. here she is on wabc radio. when someone admits to sexual assault and more than a dozen women come forward with very specific allegations, t
media. we know he watches the show often. if he s watching this morning, you know what he s not seeing? republicans telling him he did the wrong thing and saying that they are going to speak out and they are going to exercise their checks and balances on him. i m not talking about anything exaggerated like impeachment. i m talking about censure, healthy robust debate about what we re going to do. paul ryan gave a statement, throwaway statement, first line wasn t accurate. we have no way of knowing what happened in the meeting. we know from reporting the white house wanted to take certain information out of those reckonings of the meeting, the transcripts because it s sensitive information. they don t want to get it out there twice. that s what they are getting from speaker of the house. gop isn t coming forward. you need to have both parties for there to be any meaningful reproach here. seems like it s not going to