good afternoon, welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. and we begin with the toll the politics news and new stunning information about the trump tower meeting involve members of trump campaign. natalia veselnitskaya has close tied to the kremlin. she disclosed to nbc news she was the source of information for russia s chief prosecutor saying, quote, i am a lawyer and i am an informant, since 2013 i have been actively communitied with the office of the russian prosecutor general, unquote. in june of 2016 she met with officials of the trump campaign, jared kushner, paul manafort and donald trump jr. after they were promised dirt on hilling. they mailed a european move: the house intelligence committee down played it as an act of poor judgment in the newly released report that the president is celebrating this afternoons evidence of no collusion between his campaign and the russian government. we have all angles of this story covered with the reporters from the capitol and le