A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Trump is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers and group of russians, including a lawyer directly tied to the kremlin. President trump breathed new life into the story with a tweet acknowledging the meeting it was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, not adoptions as the president and his son donald trump jr. First claimed. Well talk about that and more with the top democrat on the House Armed Services committee, congressman allen smith. Former director of national intelligence, james clapper, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, near the president s new Jersey Golf Club where the president is spending the week. Jim, the president continues to tweet about this Trump Tower Meeting against the wishes of his legal and political advisers. He is steering clear of the media, laying low after resur
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justice department than mr. mueller. neil, thank you so much. good seeing you. turning now to tensions with iran, which really began escalating earlier this month when national security adviser john bolton acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, secretary of state mike pompeo and other members of the trump administration said there were quote indications of a credible athlete by iranian regime forces which prompted them to send major military assets and weapons to the region in part to send a quote message. since then the administration has continued to ramp up its threatening rhetoric with trump even threatening iran s total destruction by a weekend tweet. now, however, in a reversal president trump says there s no indication iran is up to anything nefarious after all. iran, we ll see what happens. but they ve been very hostile. they truly have been the number one provocateur of terror in
with the discussions. that follows a weekend tweet with the president saying the purpose was to get damaging information about hillary clinton. mr. trump and his son donald trump jr. initially claimed the meeting was designed to discuss russian adoptions here in the united states. let s dig deeper with correspondents and analysts, gloria borger. why is the president admitting to the true purpose of the meeting? i think it is on his mind. you never know why donald trump is tweeting about anything, but i think he is probably worried about his son as dana bash is reporting, and he wants to sort of say look, everybody does it. everybody gets opposition research, this is no big deal, somebody comes in, wants to give you dirt on your opponent, so what. so what. everybody does it. so it has shifted from suddenly a meeting about russian adoptions and don t forget the president dictated that statement from air force one about this meeting to now being well, so, it is not a big deal. and i thi