reputation, even with your base. it would seem that all the pressure now is on general kelly to rein the white house in, to bring order to what has been widely described as chaos. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski had some advice for him. take a listen. the thing that general kelly should do is not try to change donald trump. chuck, as you know, i say you have to let trump be trump that is what has made him successful over the last 30 years. that s what the american people voted for. anybody who thinks they re going to change donald trump doesn t know donald trump. wendy? is that the right way for general kelly to handle? i think he is probably right in what he said. but i believe general kelly believes that he can change things that he can change the way in which the white house operates. i think it s a tall order, a tall task. and the first thing that really will demonstrate that he has made a difference is to not see tweets by donald trump every
but i m assuming that was between mr. donald trump jr., between don jr. and his lawyer. i m sure his lawyer was involved. that s how you do it. john, wendy? again, the question is how do you square that with the washington post reporting. i mean i think it s very clear. this is going to be a problem for the president of the united states. what it says there is that they lied. he was involved. i mean, this story today has legs. it s not something that is going to go away. and it is going to be looked at by mueller. every time that some other story comes up, he is still going to be looking at the russian story. i think the president is misleading the public. and that s a scary thought for this country. i think three days from now we re going to be moving on to something else, not remembering this story. if it is true, if he did participate in this, it s not what he should be spending his time on. it s not illegal in and of itself. politicians do it all the time. but there are o
kremlin. the washington post is reporting president trump personally dictated a misleading statement claiming the meeting was only about adoptions. trump jr. later released e-mails showing the meeting was set up to provide dirt on hillary clinton, which was provided from the russian government. well, the post says, quote, the strategy that 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 couldn t be repudiated later in the full details emerged. but within hours at the president s direction, the plan changed. joining us now here in los angeles, cnn s senior reporter for media and former l.a. councilwoman wendy crewel and trump supporter john phillips. welcome to you all. back to the original statement that came out in response to the new york times. this son july 9th. they re having exactly what that meeting was about. this is a statement that came from donald trump jr., why he was meetin