and they can back up what they re saying. the idea he would go into a meeting with a russian lawyer described as a lawyer for a government which wants to give information doesn t sound naive at all. and that we would bring in paul manafort and his brother jared kushner to say hey why not flush it through and if he s there we can talk to other staffers in the campaign and also troubling is the russians have been sitting on this information for a year and watching this administration come out repeatedly saying we have not had meetings with russians and they were flat out lying. talk about compromise there you have it. they were willing to help the russian government or at least representatives help them in the election. you either have to be comfortable with that and defend it as okay or not. but that s what we learned
summsum summit meeting historic meeting between president putin and trump just last friday their first face to face meeting and one of the basic agreements they reaches was for setting up the cyber security working group has essentially falling apart. one newspaper here saying we can t trust trump s tweets. the kremlin has been more protective with trump with a spokesman saying we believe we can still work with him. we re also hearing from russian official that s they are threatening to finally respond to the sanctions that the obama administration put out at the end of december, amid charges of meddling in the election when the obama administration seized two russian kpouncompounds and expeled 35 russian diplomats we hearing the russians may run out
is frustrated he focuses his ire on his aide and that s what is happening here flz a lot of contradiction who approves what. we have three people telling us don jr. advocated on saturday for pushing back must more publicly with what happened. we have other sources insisting that s not what happened. although it would be in keeping with how don trump jr. has handled things to more want to defend himself but this is becoming complicated. so just on the question of whether donald trump, jr. wanted to give out more information or push back you re saying the president signed off on the statement saying that the meeting was a about adoption, that statement would then later in subsequent days had to be amended? yes it s not clear the president actually knew there
was more than that there. you know, we ve had don jr. and aides to the president insist the president was not really aware of the nature of this meeting or what happened. it s not clear once the e-mails were known to exist how much the president was read in. but he certainly was aware it was happening. and very briefly you said the team of the attorney for donald trump for president trump are frustrated with jared kushner, do you know why? they believe he is a quote unquote freelancer who whispers in the president s ear and who is trying to help himself. what s gotten lost largely in this issue with this meeting that don jr. was the key in arranging is that jared kushner is the one that went into government who had to amend his foreign contacts for security clearance and that is part of how, you know, all of this became known. yeah, maggie haberman with
megan s smile is getting a lot because she uses act® mouthwash. act® strengthens enamel, protects teeth from harmful acids, and helps prevent cavities. go beyond brushing with act®. well as the russian meeting e-mails came to life there was relatively silence from the white house. and new reporting from maggie haberman on growing tension in the west wing. back now with the panel. it is interesting the president has been largely silent other than short tweet tonight. he s not calling it a witch hunt not going after the media. maybe he s listening to his lawyer or white house aides usually that doesn t last long as we ve seen during this investigation he s always been tweeting. to take a step back, the take