attempt by the white house, signed off by the president of the united states to cover up the story. and don jr. went away from the story compe completely. that was very explicit in that e-mail from goldstone to donald trump jr. this is about hillary, potential ties to russia and this is part of russia s support for mr. trump. nothing to do about adoption until later when they realized there was no information they could use against hillary clinton. well, that they re telling us and a very significant part of the lie for the investigators, mike barnicle, is the fact that don jr. also lied saying, no, manafort and kushner weren t made of a way of what this meeting was about. he forwarded the entire e-mail chain that said right off the top russia-clinton-private and
tweeted out the proof. like, so many people out there were trying to track this down. and it just got delivered on a tweet. what the hell? that is great. so funny. isn t that great? yeah. welcome back to morning joe. it is wednesday july 12th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, steve ratnor and msnbc mark halprin and nbc capitol hill repo reporter kaci hunt. marc, we k, sum up what you n hearing on capitol hill and what you ve learned so far. and tell our viewers where you think we are right now in this story. republicans look at this latest thing and really question the judgment of the team around
their behind it s all so that the media is discredited, impaired a bit so when all this bad stuff comes out, people don t really understand what s going on. first of all, i don t have any independent knowledge of that so it s hard to say whether that s actually happening. but you re right there s been a pattern starting from the very top of the president of the united states using his communication vehicle of twitter and public comments and his white house. and his white house in his official capacity. as president. to use terms like fake news in an effort to undermine the media. all of the evidence is there that that s something that is a strategy that he likes to use, whether it s because of a story he doesn t like, because of a reporter or news organization he doesn t like, that is his m.o. and on q will he? he writes remember when u hear the word sources say from
summer of 1973, only about 25% to 30% of the population thought it was an important story. right. and today it s probably even less on an average person s basis with regard to this story and yet watergate turned into something. well, you know, we were upset in our household because the watergate hearings preempted everything. at that time only three or four channels. so we were very angry. sure, it was commercial, probably cartoons at the time, but, no, people didn t focus at the time. and, you know, we were focused on my parents were focused on paying the bills. right. how we were doing in school. like you said, health care, those are the things people are focused on right now and understandably. but ted cruz is paid to worry about more. yeah. reporters are paid to dig in deeper, to see if laws were
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