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inner circle in legal jeopardy. first, why did trump jr. initially lie about the purpose of the meeting. conflicting stories, for prosecutors like blood in the water for a shark. it attracts prosecutors and investigators. they want to know why there is conflicts. then there is this. do the e-mails contradict any information campaign associates have provided to the fbi that could lead to criminal charges. and furthermore. why didn t jared kushner include the meeting when he submitted his government security clearance form. the most serious criminal issue, in these, in these controversies, comes done to false statements. for those of us who do criminal defense work, that s the crime we fear the most. because the it is very hard to defend against. the government tend to use false statements to prosecute people in washington. more than any other crime. and another big question, do the e-mails point to violation of election law, by soliciting information that could b ....
no match for a sea of samaritans. this is this is the cbs evening news. mason: good evening. i m anthony mason. the russia investigation the president calls fake has just become a very real problem for his son. today donald trump, jr., released an exchange of e-mails in which he accepts what is purported to be an offer of help from the russian government in his father s campaign against hillary clinton. a russian lawyer was to deliver dirt on clinton in june of last year at that trump tower meeting we first learned about last weekend. it involved trump, jr., brother-in-law jared kushner, and campaign chairman paul manafort. we have extensive coverage tonight, including major garrett on team trump s changing stories, nancy cordes with the political fallout, and julianna goldman on the legal implications. but we begin with jeff pegues, who is following the e-mail trail. reporter: the first e-mail on june 3rd was blunt. music publicist robert goldstone wrote donald ....
away. you have an e-mail suggesting that the russian government wants to help the trump campaign. you have a response from, from, don jr. saying, i love it. trump jr. insist he s had to listen if the russian lawyer had info about an opponent. i asked florida s marco rubio who ran for president last year himself what he would have done. very suspicious. i m very anti-putin. be very suspicious. would you report it to the authorities? i think i would have. the trump team s changing stories about who they met with and when, have left few republicans willing to go to bat for them on russia. oklahoma jim inhoff is one of them. you guys trying to spend all of your, every breathing moment, trying to, destroy trump. vice president pence was here on capitol hill today, but took no questions. his office says that he was unaware of this controversial meeting and that, he is no longer focused on the campaign, especially the part that took place anthony before he joined ....
coming to america. los angeles poised to host another olympic games. but will it be sooner rather than later? those stories plus riptide rescue, courtesy of a human chain. a new twist in amelia earhart s disappearance and this photo. and all-star heroics. all the way to right. back at the wall. gone. a thrilling finish to the midsummer classic, today, july 12th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everybody. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. going to get to all those stories in a few. let s start with our top story, a host of developments of controversy in donald trump jr. s meeting with that russian attorney. and this morning, president trump is weighing in, as well. we ll talk to the president s personal attorney. first, two reports from the white house, starting with peter alexander. take it away. reporter: good morning to you. the swirling contr ....
correspondent, nancy cordes is on capitol hill. no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath. at any point during this process. i sure as heck didn t offer one. christopher ray told senators today he has been assured he won t face the kind of presidential pressure his predecessor outlined in a series of memos. the president asks you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? first, i would fry to talk him out of it. if that failed, i would resign. wray says he met with president trump and top aides twice last month. i ve went into both meetings. listening very carefully to make sure that i didn t hear something that would make me uncomfortable. wray headed justice department criminal division before entering private practice. he was new jersey governor chris chris christy s personal lawyer during the bridgegate scandal. but he is seen by both side as a straight shooter. i do not consider director mueller to be on a witch-hunt. he didn t sh ....