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was actually dictated by president trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. with no mention of dirt on hillary clinton. it wasn t until the new york times was going to break the story that trump junior was promised damaging information on clinton back in july of last year. that was the new york times reporting. at the time, trump junior and the trump team started changing their tune, saying the promise of damaging information turned into mainly an adoption conversation. they get into the meeting, and it quickly turns a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statement. the comments are about any type of information on hillary clinton were vague, meaningless. as you can see from the e-mails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. there was some small talk. i don t even remember what it was. it was sort of nonsensical. then it quickly went on to, you know, a story about russian adoption ....
hong kong. good morning. welcome to early start. i m phil mattingly in for dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. let s start with the president. president trump admitting during the 2016 presidential race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. on sunday, the president called the trump tower meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. adding i did not know about it. you may know that tweet contradicting the earlier statements. the president acknowledging for the first time the purpose of the meeting was to gather dirt on hillary clinton and not to discuss russian adoption. as for it being totally legal? it addresses that the president is now concerned over don junior may have legal exposure in the robert mueller probe. that is according to sources close to the white house. cnn reported that michael cohen may have knew about the meeting despite his denials. let s get more from boris sanchez. reporter: christin ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. sources tell cnn he is concerned that his son don junior may be caught up in the mueller investigation. the white house ready to put sanctions back on iran. that country s leader is set to speak out as the deadline approaches. breaking overnight. a second meeting between north korea us kim jong-un and president trump could take place some time later this year. we have reports from tehran and hong kong. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. nice to see you. i m phil mattingly. she is putting up with me all week. it is monday, august 6th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. president trump admitting during the 2016 presidential race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. on sunday, the president called the trump tower meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. adding i did not know about it. that tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. the presid ....
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. unfolding in the same district, there are a lot of legal issues these are all people, you say people all in the president s circle. it s congressman collins, his son and the son s soon to be father-in-law. there are a lot of references to coconspirators not named as defendants. yes. so are those folks who if you re a prosecutor, are these other family members who are cooperating or might they be indicted down the road. they could be indicted down the road. at this point they re not being indicted but they participated in criminal conspiracy according to the indictment. the most famous coconspirator in an indictment probably was richard nixon in the watergate affair. he was never indicted but he was clearly listed as a coconspirator with respect to some of the charges that were brought. so, this is something they do in the early stages of a case. the case may name others later. might you have othe ....
A look at the day s top news and headlines. plausible, innocent explanation although i can t see one here for building all these offshore accounts and funneling money there to escape reporting it to the irs. on the other hand, i don t think the manafort defense is working. his defense is essentially this: he is batman, he s blaming robin for all the problems. and that s just not going to work. dana: like the jury is not going to buy that let me ask you a few things that other possible, you know, big shot lobbyists in washington, d.c. are rethinking some of their own practices at this point. that is a great question, dana. i think one of the things people overlooking is that manafort is not the unusual one in a way. he is unusual in that he tried to hide the money and not report it to the irs. it s not unusual in the way that he is making the money. he, like a lot i think this is partially why trump campaigned against quote, unquote, the swamp. there are lobbyists. a lot ....