statement about don jr. s meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign. according to the washington post, the president insisted on a change in strategy after advisers planned to issue a truthful statement to get ahead of the story. before that broke in the new york times. now the post citing people with knowledge of the deliberations says the president dictated a statement saying his son and the russian lawyer discussed adoption of russian children. the statement was worked out on air force one on the flight home from the g-20 summit in germany where, mind you, the president sat down for several hours with vladimir putin. the adoption claims were later shown to be misleading. trump jr. eventually acknowledged he took the meeting because he was promised damaging information on hillary clinton from the russian government. president trump s lawyer, already on the record denying the president had anything to do with crafting the statement. he didn t have anything to do with
with crafting the statement. he didn t have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out, that was being worked on with his team? that s no. the statement that don jr. put out you talking about yesterday s, chris? the one over the weekend that the president s team was helping no, that was written by donald trump jr. in consolidation with his lawyer. the new york times is reporting that the president ok d the statement. they re incorrect. the new york times is wrong? i know. is that shocking that sometimes they make a mistake? the extent of the president s personal intervention adding to a series of actions trump has taken that advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy. there s concern that his direct involvement leaves him vulnerable to allegations of a cover-up. we should also note here, cnn was first to report concern that white house aides involved in the trump jr. response may have exposed themselves t
about this is that the president s attorneys have subsequently come out and said the president didn t have anything to do with this, that initial statement which is misleading was crafted by donald trump jr. and his attorneys, donald trump or attorneys for donald trump jr. had told our pamela brown that they were ready and wanted to put out a more fullsome same, is their terminolo terminology, but that s not what ended up happen. this is donald trump attorney and sarah huckabee sanders at one of the audio briefings. let s play that. so he didn t have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out that was being worked on with his team? no, the statement that don jr. put out, are you talking about yesterday s, chris? no that was written by donald trump jr. and i m sure in consultation with his lawyer.
post, the president insisted on a change in strategy after advisers planned to issue a truthful statement to get ahead of the original story before it broke in the new york times. the post citing people with knowledge of the deliberations says the president dictated a statement saying his son and the russian lawyer discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. the statement was worked out on air force one on the flight home from the g20 summit in germany. the adoption claims were later shown to be misleading. trump jr. acknowledged he took the meeting because he was promised damaging information on hillary clinton from the russian government. president trump s lawyer already on record denying the president had anything to do with crafting this statement. he didn t have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out that was being worked on with the team? no, you talking about yesterday s, chris? the one over the weekend that the president s team was h
the g-20 meeting is where the strategy discussions were taking place. about how to handle the inquiry about the don junior meeting. i don t know if president trump was fully briefed on those e-mails, he knew when he drafted that statement, there was more to the story. he decided to overrule his team. donald trump s own lawyer was asked numerous times by reporters whether or not the president had anything to do with this statement, with drafting this statement. here s what he has said. the president was not did not draft the response. the response came from donald trump junior, i m sure in consultation with his lawyer. the president was not involved in the drafting of a statement. he had nothing to do with the statement that don junior put out? the statement that don junior put out, you re talking about yesterday s, chris? the one over the weekend. that was written that was