united states, so we re not talking about and we re not necessarily talking about a government passing information to the campaign. this was this third intermediary. but again, ukraine is an ally of the united states. russia is, you know, a known adversary whose intelligence operations in the united states have always been subject to scrutiny, and it s also, you know, there was a government effort by the russians, according to the intelligence community, to subvert, to collude with certain people to help donald trump. this was more of one person who was sharing information that she heard. i mean, it s not completely apples and oranges, but i think what we re talking about with the russian instances is a much more concerted effort at the top levels of the russian government as opposed to a kind of third intermediary that was passing on information, passing on impressions without it really
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also mary kcatherine and jackie. so, jackie, the president says this meeting between his son and a russian lawyer, along with jared kushner, paul manafort, was all very standard. i want to get your take. well, if it was very standard, why didn t they just come out and say that with the first explanation that donald trump jr. gave. they didn t. they said a couple different things, and then finally, he released his e-mails once the new york times was going to publish their story. so that s problematic. not only that, this isn t happening in a vacuum. this is the latest, the closest trump adviser to, it turns out, have contact with the russians during the campaign when they said that when trump himself said that didn t happen. so, because of that, it just continues to erode the credibility of the white house and the president when it comes to this issue, and him dismissing this as something
people to talk about them. senator john thune, thank you. thanks. coming up, what happened on the days leading up to that meeting donald trump jr. had with a russian lawyer in trump tower, how those events unfolded, and what president trump knew about it next. plus, the trump camp trying to change the subject by throwing it back on democrats, drawing connections between the dnc and ukraine. what s going on there? we ll discuss. that s mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, get this ream of paper for just one cent after rewards. taking care of business. across the country, we walk for those affected by alzheimer s disease. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end it.
of the family going forward. you know, i was thinking earlier today about how there have been a reluctant trump in every generation, going back several among the trump family, and in donald s own upbringing, his own brother, fred, was reluctant about being in the family business, and i think donald junior was the reluctant trump in his generation, and it s more than ironic that he s the one now caught in this terrible situation. and yet you say he belongs to a clan that considers, quote, self-confidence to be the same as competence. do you believe that played a role going into this meeting? yeah, this is the real trap, i think, of the family business. and also the dynamic that anyone born into the trump clan baface. they are isolated as many very wealthy, very powerful people are, and don t often hear about