To swing last autumns election. But today, Donald Trumps son, donald junior, was forced to release a string of emails suggesting he knowingly met last summer with russian officials who promised to dish dirt on Hillary Clinton. Today, democratic senator tim kaine mrs clintons running mate said, in terms of whats being investigated, this is moving into perjury, false statements and even potentially treason. A former watergate prosecutor described the emails as a smoking cannon. The president , meanwhile, defended his son as a high quality person committed to transparency. They only actually met last week but the exact relationship between President Trump and his russian counterpart is a constant theme among critics. There were plenty of allegations but not much fact. Now, details of a meeting between Meeting Willett were members of the Trump Campaign and a russian lawyer have changed that. The picture is rapidly evolving, the president s son having to shift his position over the last thr
hail mary wright. they because they they have to do something they have to throw hail mary at this point because of the politics of it. all. the three-and-a-half years ago, they could have started this, but wouldn t wouldn t you say had they done this 3.5 years ago? don t we think republicans would have used that as an excuse to not come to the table and have a broken can cyst at the best way to address the broken system is through congress, which will be a lot more. i don t know that i agree with them illegal. as one thing. one thing that you have to give credit to the trump administration doing is they re tough rhetoric actually brought down the numbers of people traveling to the border and the piece that we just saw these are individuals making decision on us policy that they re getting through their news sources and whatever country in the world ecuador, india, i mean, this, this is now an open gate for the world to come to him. and now it s come down since december for example
here. i need to do the right thing. so we have seen that now in that case. and so it seems to me that anyone who has good counsel, you know, anyone who has separate counsel from trump, is really in a position where wouldn t you advise i know you re a former proscurement, but if you were one of their lawyers, wouldn t you say, yeah, sing a song. sing out loud. sing out strong. sing! yeah, one of my former colleagues used to say, don t ever do anything wrong because if they come asking me questions, i m going to sing because i can t do time. it s something we use to keep ourselves in check. yes, and in fact, i think it seems likely that among these 30 unindicted coconspirators who are described in the georgia indictment but not charged, are likely people who have cut a deal. and so these were the stragglers who were stubborn. but sometimes it takes one more step closer to the judgment day for people to say, oh, wow, i guess this really is serious. this really is happening.
live now to our correspondent monica miller in singapore. monica, general li has said china will never step back from defending taiwan which they see as an internal affair seemingly a warning to washington? it is setting the record straight on this particular issue, which is really their flashpoint between the us and china, and continues to grow so, even over things like trade, semiconductors, but the world is vying for. so yes, i think the message was made abundantly clear by the chinese today that if they cross that line in the sand, china will defend what it considers is rightfully theirs. rightfully theirs. you also said that rightfully theirs. you also said that a rightfully theirs. you also said that a war rightfully theirs. you also said that a war between l rightfully theirs. you also i said that a war between the united states and china would be disastrous for the world. he also said. so seeking to downplay tensions, but still really remarkable, wouldn t you say, th
mar-a-largo was a storage room that was given added security. the trump team says they gave the fbi access. the biden documents were distributed around different locations. they didn t know what they had or where it was. all the fbi knew is that highly classified material was uncovered november 2 that this material had clearly been transferred more than once over six years. in the midst of this, or at least eventually, they re given the chance to conduct the search themselves as opposed to using unclear counsel. they declined. so what happened? uncleared counsel found more classified evidence. so you could not have handled this more poorly from the perspective of the department of justice. martha: you know, you d think if you really wanted to they keep talking about how seriously they take this. how transparent they re being with it. if that was really your motive, wouldn t you say, if you re the counsel for we re going to learn more about the circumstances why they were