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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run ....
Wanted to give you some information that you could use to get your candidate elected. obviously, there s lots of legal detail work that has to be done to make sure that each element of that statute would be satisfied. but on its face, this is a very damaging admission for the president to have made. i think it s important to keep drawing this contrast between what we learned today and what we learned initially from the new york times as a result of their reporting. we learned approximabout this m andrew. i m going read the first statement, we know drafted by the president initially. those around the president said it was drafted by representatives of donald trump jr. and jared kushner. just reading it here, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago, and was since ended by the russian government. but it was not a campaign issue at the time, and there was no followup. again, that was given to t ....