house. just in the last week it seems everyone has either been fired or decided to leave the administration. i think there are still a lot of things that he is micromanaging. he s not the best manager for the white house. this is the question that was put directly to the white house. what was the president s involvement in forming this response to this meeting. this is how they dealt with it a couple weeks ago. has president trump had any communication with his son donald trump jr. over the last several days and was he involved in helping donald trump jr. craft his statements as reported in here? i m not sure about specific communications and the nature of these conversations. i know they ve spoken at least some points over the last few days, beyond that yofr any further details. like we said, misleading the public is not a crime, if it was the communications team in the white house would be facing
circle. and what don trump jr. s lawyer has told us is initially they were inclined toward this more fulsome statement, and that ultimately, he declined to confirm, in fact told us he had no evidence that the president was the one who dictated this statement. but he said it was group worked out by what he called a communal group of lawyers and communications advisers. interesting. now white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders repeatedly responded to questions on the meeting. take a listen. has president trump had any communication with his son donald trump jr. over the last several days? and was he involved in helping donald trump jr. craft his statement over the weekend on air force one as was reported in the new york times ? i m not sure about specific communications and the nature of those conversations. i know that they ve spoken at least some point over the last few days. but beyond that i don t have any other further details. response? not that i m aware of. i
the new york times is reporting that president donald trump okayed the statement. has president trump had any conversation with his son, donald trump jr. the last several days and was he involved in helping donald trump jr. craft his statement over the weekend on air force one as was reported in the new york times ? i m not sure about the specific communications and the nature of those conversations, i know they have spoken at at least at some point in the last few days. you don t have a response? i m just not sure. is that not try? i don t know the answer, i ll have to check and let you know. jeff toobin, let s start off with you, just legally, does this put the president in some potential is this a potential legal issue for the president? well, first of all, there is the dispute about the facts.
during the leader s first face-to-face meeting in germany last week. president trump through his private legal team has said that he does not know the russian lawyer who met with his son. the president s son-in-law and the president s former campaign manager paul manafort did know about the beating. they knew about it because they were there. the chief white house corresponde corresponde correspondent john roberts in paris. who else did donald trump jr. say about his meeting? he will be leaving for paris in the next half hour. we expect to get more about the briefing. it s going to be a hot topic of conversation. we expect the christian broadcasting network to get excerpts of the interview with pat robertson. they talked about vladimir putin but they didn t talk about don jr. and this e-mail controversy.
all of our intelligence agencies that have looked into the thing, all of them, they re 100% sure the russians put their thumbs on the american democracy. next time it may be the candidate you love who is getting hurt. yet he still calls this whole thing a witch hunt. he said the reason she says the reason that the president still calls it a witch hunt and he know what s he has done and what he hasn t done and it s a witch hunt. more breaking news. video of note. we have the video of part of president trump s interview with pat robertson from cbn. this clip runs less than three minutes and has pat robertson asking the president in general terms about russia. here. what do you think he wants? i know he said what he wants. what do you think his game is? he wants what is good for russia. i want what is good for