accepting damaging information on a political opponent from a foreign power. it was response to a question about his son don jr. and that email he received back in june 2016 from a business associate, the associate wrote the russian government was willing to give the trump campaign quote, document and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be useful to your father. the email goes on to say the information is part of russia and government support for mr. trump. don jr. response, if it is what you say, i love it. let s put yourself in a position of new york congressman, somebody comes up and says hey, i have information on your opponent, would you go to the fbi? i don t think i have gone to the fbi in my whole life. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody out of your office.
e-mail he received back in june 2016 from a business associate, the associate wrote the russian government was willing to give the trump campaign quote, document and information that would in criminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be useful to your father. the e-mail goes onto say the information is part of russia and government support for mr. trump. don jr. response, if it is what you say, i love it. let s put yourself in a position of new york congressman, somebody comes up and says hey, i have information from your opponent, would you go to the fbi? i don t think i have gone to the fbi in my whole life. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody o ut of your office. al gore called the fbi. well, that s different. this is somebody that says we have information on your opponent. oh, let me call the fbi. give me a break.
night tweeting some choice words for clinton. dnc data folks, today s accusations are blankenship and i hope you understand the good you did despite that nonsense. the tweet has since been deleted. i m not willing to let my people be thrown under the bus without a fight. clinton went on during that speech yesterday to suggest that no one in the obama administration would listen to her campaign s concerns that the russians were interfering in the election. c.i.a. chief john brennan, however, said he called the russians during the campaign and told them to cut it out. shannon: she also went further than we ve heard her before linking and accusing trump & associates of colluding with the russians. tell us about that. she describes how the trump campaign quote and in her words weaponized data to tilt the election using their data team to marry up content provided by