russian government? but she has connections to the chief prosecutor in russia who she shared her talking points with months before the trump tower meeting. she also denied bringing up any dirt on hillary clinton. translator: toipt make sure everybody understand that is there was never a talk about damaging information about mrs. clinton. now she says she may have had dirt about alleged illegal donations to the clinton campaign. natalia says sh she provided certain documents to the russian prosecutor general. agalarov family attorney scott balber spoke with veselnitskaya. she makes reference to the possibility that money was also provided to the hillary clinton campaign. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. donald trump said that a year ago.
actions of john kelly and also don mcgahn. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin. i want to ask you about the white house counsel, don mcgahn. toipt get this right his role in this story. because cnn learned an ex-girlfriend of rob port her s contacted kmf began, informed him of abuse allegations. she also alleged that she had he abused his two ex-wives. what should don mcgahn have done here. he should have convened the people at the white house who decide who gets a security clearance. because ultimately that s up to the white house, not up to the fbi, and say, look, we need to make a decision here about whether this person can have a security clearance, because he is subject to blackmail from several women. and he did nothing. and nobody did anything. i m asking you something, if you had the answer to then you wouldn t be working here you d be out on your yacht because you
i think he is trying to get people to use these this colorful crazy wild language that stirs up the base to get people to write checks that are going to be used to pay for donald jr. s criminal defense. that s what this is. it s no difference nan the trump university scam except there will be more and more victims all over the country sucked into it and more and more lies. i think it s we can never skate past the fact that he said countless times last year that mexico would pay for the wall. he had the crowds chanting mexico would fay pay for the wall now what he is saying all of the government services will shut down unless u.s. taxpayers pay for the wall. the lies continue. the lies moun. as a result the criminal defense bills will mount too. toipt thank our guesting for helping us in this life coverage of this presidential speech. i m not sure we ve done it the right way by interrupting the president and pointing out when he is lying. but it is a unique situation to
welcomed. toipt ai want to ask you abo the president himself has characterized the appointment of special counsel, as often does via twitter and he pronounce today a witch hunt. do you think that s a fair characterization of the investigation? bob mueller is a very highly ordered, my conversation since yesterday with colleagues here on capitol hill, both sides of the aisle, conservatives, liberals, republicans, democrats everyone holds bob mueller in the highest regards. we hold our law enforcement as well as our intel community in the highest regards. as it relates to the department of justice, the appointment of special counsel, we have the great professionals doing their work and it s important that we get their facts and that they don t jump no one jumps to conclusions. we do have people who serve in congress. we have members of the american public who are jumping to
department cannot keep up with you? yes, it s true. so what do we do about that because we don t have press conferences and we do you don t mean that. just don t have them. unless i have them every two weeks and do it myself. we don t have them. npg it s a good idea. so here you have the president suggesting maybe they ll do away with press briefings not just in the tweet but on that interview in fox. the briefing went ahead as expected yesterday, didn t seem that briefings are going to be removed from the table but he s acknowledging that his staffers have a challenge. all right athena jones at the white house thank you. toipt talk it over back with our panel, managing editor of cnn politics.com. jeffrey wolf, and david an drill lee. david i ll start with you. does president trump see the fib