meeting, that donald trump jr. had. and of course early yerl today the white house spokes william sarah huckabee sanders said the president only learned about the meeting in the last couple of days because of the news reports. but there is no indication of a broader strategy within the white house they ve really been trying to isolate this russia issue and keep it focused with the legal defense team. so of the four of us i mean this in the nicest way katie tur you spent the most time hanging around the lobby of trump tower. today as well. today what was going on in time in the life of the trump campaign? i know you ve been writing a book. so a lot of this you ve just been through all over again. yeah. what was going on back then. this is june 9th, 2016 this was a pivot altime he was face ago serious deg git fight at the convention it was unclear he would be able to hold on to the nomination. the campaign brought in somebody who knew how to do that his name was paul manafo
dangerous acme products. making an arsonist your local fire chief. hours after the president announced the plan for the joint cybersecurity agreement with russia, he backtracked on it. writing on twitter, the fact that president putin and i discussed a cybersecurity unit doesn t mean i think it can happen. it can t. but a cease fire can. and did. in today s white house briefing which again took place in the dark today without cameras and with only audio allowed, deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders addressed this issue. shfs a part of a discussion in that meeting. and the look we recognize that russia is a cyberthreat. but we also recognize the need to have conversations with our adverses. i m not sure there were specific details discussed. i think it was simply just a discussion on cybersecurity threats and potential options not necessarily a formal kind of
it seemed like the story got more and more complicated the more interaction there was with the reporters doing the pretty extraordinary reporting. there are a lot of questions to be answer pd by the trump team, the white house, the legal defense team, including what the president knew about all of this back when he was a candidate and whether there were other meetings. one thing that stuck out at the white house was that sarah public huckabee sanders explained this as not inappropriate as frankly normal behavior upon a campaign, normal sorts of interactions on a campaign. and it just begs the question of whether there were additional meetings with additional players. and phil, because you are white house bureau chief i was going to ask you i did read on a o on twitter i ll parafriez glenn tlush tweeted out tonight if the house knew this was coming, this is again an area where there was no apparent strategy. has there been a reaction tonight to this? not yet. we ve seen the presid
national committee emails. at this point probably a good idea to bring in our starting panel as we start a new week. starting with the panelist katie tur who covered the donald trump campaign effort from the beginning. be michael schmidt back from the new york times and msnbc national contributor. you heard him questioning sarah huckabee sanders. phillip rucker washington pos bureau chief and newly minted msnbc political analyst from his seat at the white house. welcome to you all. michael i ll begin with you. just about every night there is a a print journalism development that causes us to ask a nice guest like you, usually a print journalist, how does this change everything? and i ll ask that about the reporting of your colleagues at the new york times. how does tonight s story now change everything? well, this story by my colleagues really raises new questions about why is it we
the reporters doing the pretty extraordinary reporting. there are a lot of questions to be answer pd by the trump team, the white house, the legal defense team, including what the president knew about all of this back when he was a candidate and whether there were other meetings. one thing that stuck out at the white house was that sarah public huckabee sanders explained this as not inappropriate as frankly normal behavior upon a campaign, normal sorts of interactions on a campaign. and it just begs the question of whether there were additional meetings with additional players. and phil, because you are white house bureau chief i was going to ask you i did read on a o on twitter i ll parafriez glenn tlush tweeted out tonight if the house knew this was coming, this is again an area where there was no apparent strategy. has there been a reaction tonight to this? not yet. we ve seen the president s private personal lawyer say that he knew nothing about in meeting, that donald trum