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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never heard about it. i wouldn t even have remembered it. it was a wasted 20 minutes, which is a shame. this meeting took place almost two years ago. it is easy to forget how the whole story unfolded and also how the trump camp has repeatedly changed its story about what happened that day. for more, here is our randi kaye. reporter: on june 3, 2016, in an e-mail from publicist rob goldstone, donald trump jr. is promised incriminating information about hillary clinton. his response, if it is what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. six days later, don junior met with the russian lawyer at trump tower. joining him, paul manafort and his son-in-law jared kushner.
Time? even in the absence of a corroboration, a smoking gun that would go to show this, clearly you can look and say, michael cohen did know this. the final point is, of course, the president, look, he has a reputation for being a serial liar himself. if you measure one against the other, i would have to it would have to anore to the benefit of michael cohen. a lot of lies going around. samantha, let s walk through the timeline of these meetings. there are a lot of signals that make it plausible the president might have known this in advance. june 3, 2016, don junior first gets word of this russian offer of information on k hillary clinton. three days later he calls agalrov and then he called a blocked number. we know the president s number is blocked. at least raises that question. the next day trump says, there s interesting information on the clintons coming soon. june 9th that meeting takes
About new e-mails between president trump and his son. president trump responded in those e-mails, i love it when the lawyer said he would bring political dirt on hillary clinton. this was june 3, 2016. according to news shared with the times, hicks told carollo and the president that the e-mails will never get out because only a few people had access to them. she, of course, was wrong. a few people had access and released them which prompted don jr. to release them himself. now, an attorney for hicks denied anyone suggested any e-mails would be concealed, and carollo reportly told mueller that they said it in front of the president without a lawyer on the phone and that the