Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Later. Would you say that all of this now can be attributed to the decisions made in washington by the president . I think whats fair to say is that as they move along and move further away from the obama administration, were more than 18 months in, its harder to democrats to make that case. At this point, you see how democrats have talked a lot about other issues, talking a lot about health care, thats their main issue right now, especially as they chug toward the Brett Cavanaugh confirmation. The democrats are talking about health care, talking about russia, talking about issues that arent the economy. Thats something that the republicans have in their back pockest. As long as the economy is moving
trump p tower meeting that s become a feature in the mueller probe. the meeting took place in new york city on june 9th of 2016 and included donald trump junior, paul manafort, jared kushner and a kremlin lawyer. the president taking to twitter yesterday to reinforce the claim he s made several times saying i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. sounds to me like someone s trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. the president s son has long insisted his father had no knowledge of this meeting. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was a waste of 20 minutes which was a shame. reporter: this claim from cohen comes days after someone leaked a recording of a conversation between him and president trump about hush money paid to a playboy model. now the president s inner circle is painting an unflatter portrait of cohen. he lied to people abou
here is just a selection of what was released. bear with me here. according to the e-mails on june 9th of 2016, rob goldstone writes to donald trump. goldstone, again, an acquaintance who manages a pop singer whose father has ties to the russian government and to president trump. goldstone writes, the crown prosecutor of russia met with his the singer s father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. in that same e-mail, goldstone writes, this is very obviously high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. 17 minutes later, trump jr.
today, obviously. it was june 9th of 2016, the day this meeting took place. we went back and searched our records. donald trump, the president, then, i guess candidate trump, spent most of that day at trump tower. he briefly broke away to go to the four seasons midtown for a republican donor luncheon. but to give a better understanding of what else happened that day, it s also the day he tweeted about hillary clinton s missing 33,000 e-mails. he said, where are your 33,000 e-mails you deleted, he tweeted that same day. and to more broadly give a sense of paul manafort being there, and jared kushner being there, this is in the words of two former campaign staffers, a time when they describe the campaign as being both disorganized and naive even as the president had all but clinched the nomination. and there was in-fighting at the time between corey lewandowski and paul manafort over who was going to be running the operations. paul manafort brought on earlier. the kids pushing corey
in the writing of that statement. he didn t know about it. so the white house added some new information to this broadening picture. it s not just a news story. it s an investigation going on here. i think as sarah huck aeb sanders was trying to deflect, talking about russia, clintons, other things. they acknowledged for the first time the president indeed helped craft that statement. so he knew about that shifting shaping of that narrative about that all important meeting on june 9th of 2016 between his three top campaign officials and the ru z russians. the white house said he weighed in. the washington post said based on their sources that he dictated it. i m trying to imagine when the president of the united states throws his ideas into the group think of the meeting, i would think his ideas tend to dominate