so, that in itself, taking that and donald junior saying i love it, the fact that he s accepting it is in itself a crime. i mean, what he should have done the minute that came up was to call the fbi and turn these people in. you don t say, when somebody suggests that is clearly involved in our election and to rovide assistance to any campaign to say terrific i love it. you should be calling the fbi, going to trump tower and getting the secret service agents who are all over the place and telling them there is a federal crime that he wants to report. he did not do that. the real easy one here is jared kushner. he is probably under the worst possible umbrella because of this meeting. we know that he lied about the fact that this meeting even took
months, ten months. all right, so jim earlier asked him, then why would you invite manafort and kushner to the meeting. what s your reaction to that? yeah, i mean, i think, you know, this i heard this from somebody who was a trump campaign adviser during the campaign who said, you know what, they were getting all kinds of opposition research coming in around this time when donald trump clinched the nomination and the weeks that followed, and this person was saying, you know, maybe donald trump jr. was acting as sort of a pollyanna, working out of naivete, not fully understanding what the implications were of having the russians come in and sit down for a meeting, a russian lawyer come in who reportedly had connections to the kremlin, but that does not really answer the question as to why paul manafort would come in and sit in for a meeting like that, why jared kushner, the president s son-in-law, why all three of them would get in a room with a russian lawyer with that kind of ex
doorstep. yeah. and michael, listen, i want to talk about your new reporting shortly, but cnn is now learning that special counsel robert mueller will be looking into donald trump jr. s e-mail with publicist rob goldstone. he is the guy who set up this meeting on behalf of the pop star client. and then there is his father who has a connection to putin, both of whom have a connection to president trump. my question is, all of this will likely expand the scope of this investigation, will it? well, it has to. i mean, here you have in plain language in e-mails representations that the russian government was seeking to aid the trump campaign. so, that begs all sorts of questions, leave aside how don junior and paul manafort and jared kushner reacted to the meeting. you have rob goldstone, who i spoke to for hours back in march, stating flatly that the
former judge in trump s miss universe pageant, offers to set up a meeting with someone who he calls a russian government attorney with information and documents that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. doesn t get any plainer than that, or does it? it goes on to say, this is obviously very high-level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government s support for mr. trump. let me read that again. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government s support for mr. trump. government. donald trump jr. s response back then if it s what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer, in other words, closer to the election.
a meeting like this or have e-mails like this and not tell his father, and we had some people respond to it last night and the other guys in the room. and the other guys in the room, but here in the e-mail, it says what do you think is the best way to handle this information and would you be able to speak to imin about this directly? i can also send this information to your father varoerronia ronae know is the gatekeeper. make it quick because we re out of time. the e-mails were discovered by jared kushner s lawyers in late june, june 21st, i believe. okay. so, it s been known inside the white house for, you know, three or four weeks now. good point. go ahead, david, quick. the other question is what signal did they send to the russians by taking this meeting? did they signal to the russians that they wanted to play ball with them? yeah. thank you all. thank you all. by the way, david axelrod sits