A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Trump is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers and group of russians, including a lawyer directly tied to the kremlin. President trump breathed new life into the story with a tweet acknowledging the meeting it was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, not adoptions as the president and his son donald trump jr. First claimed. Well talk about that and more with the top democrat on the House Armed Services committee, congressman allen smith. Former director of national intelligence, james clapper, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, near the president s new Jersey Golf Club where the president is spending the week. Jim, the president continues to tweet about this Trump Tower Meeting against the wishes of his legal and political advisers. He is steering clear of the media, laying low after resur
tweet the president posted. fake news reporting, complete fabrication that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald had in trump tower. this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal, done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. i did not know about it. how significant is this tweet from the president after a long, long time of suggesting that whole meeting was about adoptions. i think politically quite significant, just the fact that there s been a long standing practice of deception, objeand i suspect to use a military phrase, prepping the battlefield for revelations that make him to the mueller investigation, what the real point of the meeting was, which i think most people understood anyway. i think it is quite significant politically. legally, i don t know. do you think a crime, based
counter proposal last week of what parameters could be in a potential interview with the president. and guiliani told me that as soon as today, maybe tomorrow, they are going to give another proposal. now, the back and forth has been going on for months and the question really is, big open question, whether there s going to be any resolution. whether at the end of the negotiations the president is really going to sit down with robert mueller in any way, shape or form because as we have been hearing and saying repeatedly, his legal team, pretty much everyone around him thinks it is a terrible idea. it is a perjury trap. it is a nightmare situation. but he feels he wants to clear his name. we ll see. guiliani wouldn t give me details of the counter proposal. hopefully we ll get more information once it is given to special counsel. we know last year when new york times broke this story of the trump tower meeting with the russians. there was a statement drafted
you could still brief that individual and get the latest information? if that person determined that he or she felt i had a need for the access to information, classified information, they could do that, so as far as i know now and the same is true with the others that were named, we still have our eligibility for access. and to my knowledge, no action has been taken. raised the question because the president specifically said he wanted john brennan, former cia director s clearance removed, and sarah sanders was naming others including you. as far as you know, they haven t taken action against you yet? as far as i know. thank you for joining us. thanks, wolf. following brneaking news in the trial of paul manafort. former deputy rick gates under a plea bargain has taken the stand as star witness for the prosecution. let s go to jim sciutto at the
have over time facts develop. reporter: the problem for the president, trump jr. initially released a misleading statement to new york times about the meeting which was also attended by his son-in-law, jared kushner, and campaign chairman paul manafort. trump jr. s statement said we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. no mention that it was about getting russian dirt on hillary clinton. you re sending your son, a family member, to talk with a foreign government that is an active enemy or potential adversary at least of this country to talk about information that you could use against your opponent, the optics of that are absolutely terrifying and very disturbing. reporter: the president previously acknowledged the true purpose of the meeting days after the initial misleading statement was issued by his son. i think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting. it is called opposition research or even research into you