russia investigation. because of this. here s the cia director, trump s own cia director, the guy he picked, okay? mike pompeo, here s what he says about wiki leaks. . it s time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is. that s trump s own cia director saying that wiki leaks is an agent of the russian government. evan perez is out front tonight to begin our coverage. what more can you tell us about these messages? there s a lot we don t know including the context, there s a lot more the congressional committees and the special council have been given that probably give more context of how these messages were sent. i think we can make sure that people understand that this
does that establish improper contact? i think you understand he is not russian. i get to ask the questions and you provide the answers in this capacity. does he want to change his testimony in the intelligence committee? i would just say this. i stand by this testimony at the intelligence committee. sessions isn t the only trump ally facing fresh scrutiny. atlantic is detailing correspondents the president s son don jr. had with wiki leaks during the course of the campaign. released direct messages initiated by wiki leaks and his three responses. today is trump s department of justice ready to go after hillary clinton at president trump has been pushing it to do? suggests he may not be ready to do the president s bidding. we have a team of reporters ready to discuss all of this beginning with our nbc news
together that s what we re seeing this is not ok now irwin when the president arrives home something else we re going to talk about in just a bit o. be confronted with the latest developments in investigations of the alleged russian influence in the u.s. election campaign president trump s eldest son has now revealed a series of messages exchanged with wiki leaks during and after his father s campaign from junior released the messages on twitter in the exchange wiki leaks asked him to push a story about former democratic presidential. slamming the site s founder julian assange now wiki leaks also tried to convince him apparently to release his father s tax returns to the site material is. being looked at by congressional investigators irwin what do you make of this what would these allegations mean for the investigation into the campaign s alleged russia connection i think something is going to be really important to figure out wiki leaks that s not a person who there s
it pell tells you the inner heart. you got to read it. then, wiki leaks again writing in part, strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he follows us. 15 minutes later, donald trump fired off this tweet, very little pickup by the dishonest media. incredible information provided by wiki leaks. so dishonest, rigged system. the link that they wanted tweeted out. donald trump jr. did tweet it out. i cannot confirm the alleged direct messages from@donald j. trump jr. to wiki leaks. the atlantic s conversation is edited. let s be clear why these messages are so relevant in the
russia to recruit these lower level aides. as we saw from e-mail exchanges we saw officials say we don t want a meeting at that level between trump and putin but green lighting meetings from below. does carter page face any kind of criminal charges here based on lying? based on maybe with holding these e-mails? to your previous question who else did he meet with? if you recall in the christopher steele dossier it alleges he met with other senior associated of vladimir putin and made another trip back to moscow in december of 2016. we would be remised if we didn t point out the timeline of events upon the return to the u.s. from that july meeting was the change in the gop platform and the dumping of wiki leaks. and not to mention the carter