fact, steph, that's what's going on around the country meeting came with a promise of dirt about hillary clinton and it was being provided pi the russian government, and of course that based on e-mails that donald trump jr. provided. we reached out the president's outside counsel overnight. jay sekulow saying apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate and not pert nen. john dowd saying fake news, misinformed, of no consequence. let's point out the bottom line, steph. neither statement flatly denies the basic allegation, which is that it was president trump who drafted that initial statement. that runs counter also to comments that jay sekulow made two weeks ago on "meet the press" in which he outright denied the president ha any involvement drafting the statement. another layer in the russia controversy as they're trying to have a reis the at the white house with the new chief of staff, kelly o'donnejohn kelly