Carried political and potentially legal peril. The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. To release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account Couldnt Be Repudiated later if the full details emerged. But within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. Flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. Said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. When they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the New York Times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a Campaign Issue at the time. The claims were later shown to be misleading. Further down in the washingtwa post story, quote, as special Counsel Robert Mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broader probe o
best way is just to go talk. will: and, brook, what would you say, what did this experience change in you? i would definitely say that it made me a lot more open to, honestly, everything. we are very much similar people no matter who you meet p. i was able the find a correlation between any single person i met. and i think that s something we just need to realize, is we all are the same, we all bleed red. it s what we are. will: yeah. i hope also, zj, you got a chance to have, like are, real barbecue. i m sure somewhere along the line you got a good brisket and you understand now and you can take the message and the gospel back to california of. [laughter] all right, zj, brook i m doing my best. will: thank you both for meating with us morning. kayleigh, over to you. kayleigh: great segment. turning now to your headlines, former secretary of state hillary clinton in a recent podcast stated what direction she believes the country would go in former president trump is elected for a
weeks into this process, the local ku klux klan held its own meating to plan not just resistance but a violent counterattack to stop these kids. and we know this. there is documentary proof of it because the local klan in jacksonville at the time included one man who volunteered to be an fbi informant inside the klan and he gave the minutes of the klan meeting from august 24th, 1960, to the fbi. this meeting in which they planned to attack these young people from the naacp youth council. the fbi then alerted the local sheriff s office that the klan was planning a violent attack. local authorities, local law enforcement knew the whole plan in advance. they knew the klan was planning to bring hundreds of white men downtown into jacksonville the following saturday, august 27th, whereupon they would have stashed baseball bats and ax handles to use as their weapons.
charged with that crime. that is a huge, huge deal. we didn t have that reporting in our understanding of the charges so far today. and that s a big deal. it is one thing for trump s enablers and defenders will say so what if a former president had documents that he was authorized to have when he was president and they were sitting in mar-a-lago and no one saw them. hospital in foreign adversary. when you show classified documents to people who weren t cleared to see them, that is a breach. people have gone to prison for a long time for doing that. it happens all the time. it is more than just taking them home and squirrelling them away. so they have two incidents here where they say that he did that. and a recording or rather a transcript of the recording that we ve been reporting on where he is meating with some people who are working on a memoir for his chief of staff mark meadows and he talks about having this iran-related classified document knowing that it s classified and lament