A spokesman for manafort says its 100 false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the Trump Campaign or the Republican Party. When donald trump jr. Talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. The whole contact took how long . 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. And jared left after five or ten. Yes. Like she said and paul manafort. On his phone. The whole time. Like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. It does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. Nbcs reporting says manafortses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate
think you know. Im not answering about any particular eggs vexes. I cant talk about that in a classified setting. I want to be careful in open setting. I carefully chose the words. Like look ive seen the tweet about tapes lordy, i hope there are tapes. Jeremy theyre making the
he hadn t had a chance to talk about it today. and exactly what you said. he comes back to say, look he actually told us it s in the transcript, that he was thinking of trump s own speech. he had been up early that morning to watch the afghanistan speech where if you remember trump tries to bring unity to the country. he said we need to come together. he said that is what i was thinking of when i said. i was actually thinking of the president s own words, and people said i was coming out against the president. let s give him that. yeah. we also had an instance i m going to play this to you when reporters were asking him about the president s tweet on north korea that where he said the time for talking is over. here is what general mattis said. the president this morning tweeted that talking isn t the answer. are we out of diplomatic solutions for north korea? no. we re never out of diplomatic solutions.
tweeted that talking isn t the answer. are we out of diplomatic solutions for north korea. no. we re never out of diplomatic solutions. so that was wednesday. that was just after the president tweeted that the time for talking is over. one could say that was bad cop good cop but that was within hours direct contradictsen what the president said. and here is how mattis explained it. he said ifd asked about dploltic solutions i was not asked about the tweet. we said did you see the tweet and he said i did what you did you think. he said look the president tweeted we shouldn t be talking to north korea. i agree with the president. we aren t talking to the north korea. there are other diplomatic actions. at the same time nikki haley was in the u.n. the security council was meeting. there are economic means. that is on the table.
the president. let s give him that. yeah. we also had an instance i m going to play this to you when reporters were asking him about the president s tweet on north korea that where he said the time for talking is over. here is what general mattis said. the president this morning tweeted that talking isn t the answer. are we out of diplomatic solutions for north korea. no. we re never out of diplomatic solutions. so that was wednesday. that was just after the president tweeted that the time for talking is over. one could say that was bad cop good cop but that was within hours direct contradictsen what the president said. and here is how mattis explained it. he said ifd asked about dploltic
week. the president yesterday took to twitter writing, quote, the u.s. has been talking to north korea and paying them extortion money for 25 years. this is true. talking is not the answer. but in his latest break with the president, defense secretary james mattis rejected the idea that the u.s. was ready to take diplomacy off the table. here s when he said while meeting with his south korean counterpart in washington yesterday. the president this morning tweeted that talking isn t the answer. are we out of diplomatic situations for north korea? no, we re never out of diplomatic solutions. we continue to work together and the minister and i share a responsibility to provide for the protection of our nations, our populations and our interests, which is what we are here to discuss today and look for all the areas that we can collaborate with. already very strong collaboration, we always look