manifests. so i immediately brought it to the lead targetter s attention, a border patrol agent, and from that point he brought it to the watch demander s attention commander s attention, and from then the events started spining from there. bill: i know you told our producers you had a gut reaction once you saw his name. so you react and now the story moves to petra and you call jfk airport. what time was this, do you remember petra, because the plane was scheduled to leave at 11:30 at night. that is correct. we had approximately 20 minutes to find this individual, as he mentioned, our lead target or border patrol agent was on top of it, he notified me, at the same time, he was on another call. this was a joint effort. we moved immediately, did what we aretained to do, and intercepted this individual. bill: did you think he was going to get away, petra? i do not think he was
investigation. you will hear from him and senators from both parties that are on a mission. this is in just moments. in the meantime this is how donald trump jr. is now defending the meeting he had more than a year ago with the russian lawyer on the promise of russian government information. in retrospect, i probably would have done things differently. to me this was opposition research cnn now has also learned that special counsel robert mueller plans to investigate that meeting and all of those e-mails. cnn reporters covering this from every angle as this story moves quickly. let s begin with cnn senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny and you have a lot of color out of the west wing directly this morning feeling paralyzed. reporter: good morning. there is a sense of dismay in certain quarters of this west wing of the white house largely because they had hoped this week was a chance to turn the corner