putin will see this as a sign of weakness. >> on the russia investigation, the white house is now confirmed the president weighed in on the initial statement put out by don junior about the meeting with the russia lawyer. before that was confirmed, you said if it was true, it would be a bad decision by the president. you said, when you get caught in a lie, it makes it harder to let the other stuff go. how problematic is it? >> if he was involved in drafting the statement on saturday, which was completely misleading about the actual meeting, then he has reinforced the narrative you have to look harder when he speaks about russia. if he knew the e-mail existed, which clearly was an offer by an intermediary to have the russia government help the trump campaign, it wasn't about adoption, if he knew that existed and he was part of drafting the statement, then that was incredibly misleading to the american public. i think it put his son in jeopardy. it sends yet another signal that