throughout the weekend. thank you. julie: the associated press is now reporting that a russian lobbyist confirmed he was at the june 2016 meeting with donald trump, jr.. and now former democratic aides are using controversy over this meeting to taunt to the first family online. a former obama aide tweeting a former clinton aide tweeting tweeting and there are more. howard, i want to get to those tweets in just a moment but we must address, the mystery man we have been hearing about, this person who is at the russia meeting, apparently the trump team had met with him.
he is a russian accused of international hacking, who he is, former soviet counterintelligence officer, a u.s. citizen. what say you about him attending this meeting? the fact that he was accused in this lawsuit a few years ago of hacking into a company s computer system has got to be a head snapping detail for anybody who thinks there might be any conduction to russian hacking in the u.s. election campaign. in terms of the white house damage control, they have managed to turn what might have been a one or two day story into a nine-day story, may be a nine week story. donald trump, jr., in a slowly acknowledging to the new york times and putting the emails out about the meetings he had never said anything about a former soviet counterintelligence agent also being in that meeting, so to
lewindowski was fired he sent out this tweet, ding dong, the witch is dead. he was fired almost immediately. but you still love, support donald trump. absolutely. i supported donald trump before he ran for president and now. i think he s delivering on what he promised me and my family. the problem we have is that he s got a huge impediment in front of him with russia collusion delusion. jim, as for the news of this week, michael caputo was on the trump campaign when this meeting took place between donald trump s inner circle and this russian attorney. he says he never heard one word about that meeting at the time or after and says that supports his belief that no matter what meeting took place, he believes russia had no involvement with the trump campaign. certainly not while he was on it. great piece, drew. thank you. more breaking news on the russia investigation ahead and the u.s. strike a new blow to
introduction specifically says that the russian government is attempting to aid your father s campaign. that s completely unacceptable. it s not normal. and it s unpatriotic also. so you re saying that the president s son behaved here in an unpatriotic fashion, is that what you re saying. absolutely. that s a pretty strong charge. it s the son of the president of the united states, you want to expand on that? well, to be meeting with a representative of a foreign government, to get involved in american democracy, to effect an election for the highest office of this land, yes, i think that s unpatriotic. and do you think it represents collusion to you? do you believe that laws potentially have been broken here? do you want to see donald trump jr. testifying publicly on capitol hill about this? i have said that the house intelligence committee on which i sit should call donald trump jr. and everyone who was in that meeting to come testify and also
brought in? don jr. only released four pages of e-mails yesterday, presumably there may be others, pamela brown was just talking about possibly there being a phone conversation at the potential was there for a phone conversation, and that opens up the possibility of phone records, and we know that on air force one and these off the record, now on the record comments from the president, he sounded receptive to the idea of his son testifying, how much disclosure do you need to see to be satisfied by donald trump jr. in all of this? we need to see everything they have with respect to any kind of interactions with russian business owners, tycoons, folks who wanted to have an influence on that campaign. we can t assume that because donald trump jr. said nothing came of the meeting, that in fact, nothing came of the meeting. i think we need to follow the paper trail, the e-mail trail, and get further evidence before we can make that determination.