receive the special counsel's close scrutiny with the relevant question being whether one or more federal employees had induced other federal employees to lie. agrieved unyielding and threatening president dominated the discussion, pushing into line his daughter and her husband hicks and raffel insisting the meeting at trump tower purely and simply about russia adoption policy. that's what was discussed, period. it was a realtime example of denial and cover-up. the persistent trump idea is it is not a crime to lie to the media was regarded by the legal team as at best reckless and in itself potentially actionable. explicit attempt to throw sand in the investigation's gears, the spokesperson for the trump legal team was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed, not