how much this narrative has changed. as geoff mentioned just a moment ago, donald trump jr. was on capitol hill. he testified before the house intelligence committee for six, seven hours about this meeting. how much has this story changed? it s evolved greatly. and i want to take you back to september of 2017. almost a year ago. when donald trump jr. testified in front of the senate judiciary committee. the day after he testified, senator chris coons, who is a senior democrat on that committee, his office sent out the u.s. code statute for giving false statements to congress. he sent it out just basically as a reminder that, hey, you know, a hardy reminder, saying if you lie to congress, that s a crime. and he was in the context of donald trump jr. s interview with the committee. so there has been a healthy dose of skepticism among those on capitol hill who have been greatly involved in this investigation, and questioning the people involved in that meeting for a long time now. and y
said i think in september of 2017 on this network if you were looking for a russian plant, if you were looking for agent to plant on the trump campaign, paul manafort would be your guy. there s really no such thing as coincidence in law enforcement. it s remarkable that we have paul manafort who is millions of dollars in debt to the russian oligarch oleg deripaska, suddenly he shows up despite ta debt and volunteers to work for free on the trump campaign. and then during his tenure, he offers to brief deripaska on what s going on. this is a remarkable string of coincidences and i think jeremy s analysis from pretty far out will be accurate at the end of the day. so we could see this case come together certainly the special counsel team hopes that manafort will become available to them as a witness. i m sure that they would prefer to have him decide to cooperate with them. but at the end of the day, even
political stuff. did you know that no, i didn t know anything about it. so just keeps on saying he didn t know. then, in testimony before the senate judiciary committee in september of 2017, don jr., back to the son claimed that his father, quote, wouldn t have wasted his time with it. i in every spoke to my father about it. okay. so that s the history of the trumps continually denying they knew about the meeting. joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. gentlemen, good to see you. lie begins about the concept that this was about adoptions. more detailed than a lot of people want to get into, but russia stopped the adoptions of russian babies to america to protest the magnitsky act, which punished oligarchs with assets in america which is personal to vladimir putin. concept that there was this meeting about adoptions that had
because that s the system. are you okay if he walks free? i m not okay if the family s not okay. i believe brendan was involved in this. that he was there and he was involved in it. the wisconsin attorney general also believes brendan was involved in teresa s murder. he appealed the judge s order for release, asking a full panel of federal judges to review the case. in september of 2017, that request was granted. the seventh circuit u.s. court of appeals heard arguments about whether dassey s confession was coerced. nine weeks later, the seven-judge panel ruled that his confession was voluntary, meaning the young man will remain in prison. dassey s lawyers have vowed to appeal the decision to the u.s. supreme court. coming up he told me to watch dateline. how a 6-year-old dateline led to a brand-new attorney.
time to evaluate the country s vetting system to make sure terrorists can t get into the country legally. the so-called travel ban has been challenged several times, and a decision from the supreme court could come very soon. now, trump later took aim at the daca program, which had been established by president obama june 15th, 2012. it protected undocumented immigrants who were brought to the united states as children and gave them a chance to work legally in the united states. in september of 2017, attorney general jeff sessions announced the program would wind down and gave congress six months to act on a replacement. that six months has passed. we are still waiting on a solution. we ll talk about that a little more through the course of the show. another change, the obama administration had a program allowing central american refugees into the united states on a temporary basis. it was set up in 2014 for the large number of young people fleeing violence. then it was expanded on jul