with russians? today i spent my time detailing that i had no contact with russians, i never heard anybody talk about contact with russians. i never spoke to anybody about russia. i never heard the word russia, and we did not use russian dressing. there was absolutely no discussion of russia on the trump campaign to the day i left. congressman speier described you as vladimir putin s image consultant. i know that angered you. respond to that description of your work in russia. there was no way i was vladimir putin s image consultant. you have to be very naive or uninformed or have a team of very unknowledgeable aides. i discussed it with the committee. i laid that out there. i m still very offended by representative jackie speier bringing my wife into this. the day that she did that on
issued one statement on saturday, one on sunday and released those e-mails and did an interview on tuesday. donald trump jr. saying nothing tonight. also his lawyer who said earlier this week that all of this was much adieu about something, cnn has reached out to that lawyer. he has not gotten back to us. but one person who is speaking about this is michael caputo. he actually met with the house intelligence committee investigators today. he said it was all to set the record straight. i had no contact with russians, and i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. but i never was asked questions about my time in russia, that i never even spoke to anybody about russia. we did not use russian dressing. there was absolutely discussion of russia on the trump campaign to the day i left. so michael caputo speaking extensively there after a
he put russian dressing on his salad folks will talk about it. we re not talking about russian dressing or white russians. we re talking about russians promising to give them information that would help the campaign in the middle of the campaign. it s not nothing. well, kate, i was underscoring your point in terms of disclosure, but let me say this. this is what we absolutely do know. is that whatever interference there was, any meddling did not affect the outcome. that is something that there is an absolute, positive consensus about it. we also know on november 20th barack obama said weav ve we re that, behind us. we re over that, and we know donald trump dropped 59 tomahawk missiles into syria on russian-backed territories and that lehe s continued sanctions and selling patriot missiles to poland against russia s wishes and we also know he s expanding
he also lashed out at congresswoman jackie speier, a democrat from california. you might have seen him talking about that during those remarks there. she was referring to, and his response to her was a reference she had made to what she called a ta rarantula web of links tha caputo was involved in. and she lashed out as his wife. that was how caputo was married to a russian woman. i just want to get a quick take on what we heard from caputo. he was very passionate about it. said he had no contact with the russians, that he didn t even use russian dressing. so people connected to donald trump jr. can say the same thing. more staffers will appear in front of these committees. it s a crime to lie to the russian investigation. so what necessarily matter is
is it worth me having this meeting and asking the campaign manager and brother-in-law to have a meeting? can you have a judgment call on that and also always bring a lawyer to these meetings. always. that way, you protect yourself and others and you don t have to have a kerfuffle. i would say the white house i m sure that they wish from a communication standpoint they could get ahead of this story so they can stop having every monday start with it. kimberly: i m sure the president is getting pretty frustrated because the communications team is behind the eight ball. he s got to be personally very upset, very active during the campaign who was looking out for him, his family, to make sure in a position like this? that being said, do you think there s anything here? jesse: i don t. i think of don jr. put russian dressing on a solid they will say treason.