Poor judgment. And those who met with the Trump Officials in 2016 now admitted she has closer ties to the kremlin than previously disclosed. Was she lying all along. The nra connection. Allegations that the russians may have funneled money through the nra. It is a cnn exclusive. And korean thaw, a historic meeting between kim jongun and the south korea president , the two vowing to finally end the korean war and work toward denuclearize is. Is north korea already dismantling the test site. Wolf blitzer is off. Im jim acosta. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Were following Breaking News, including a new report that russian lawyer at a 2016 meeting with top Trump Officials had closer ties to the kremlin
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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Don jr. And it goes on to say this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. It is done frequently in politics when everyone involved is an american citizen. It is much more treacherous if there are any foreign nationals who are part of a meeting like that because there are violations of the law if foreign nationals contribute anything of value to a campaign. Money, information, anything of value. So thats where it gets a bit tricky. Now, one of the issues, we know, is that donald trump jr. , through his testimony and the emails that he released, did acknowledge that it was a meeting to get information, dirt as it was described on Hillary Clinton. We also know that another attendee of that meeting, jared kushner, who is the president s soninlaw and senior
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 wasnt 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 emails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. There was some small talk. I dont even remember what it was. It was sort of nonsensical. Then it quickly went on to, you know, a story about Russian Adoption and how we could po
that s the debate. do that s the debate we want in 2020 and that s what donald trump is framing right now. the washington post is reporting they look back at what happens on her send her back tweets. republican leaders including mccarthy and how much influence does mike pence have here, is it too little or too late? i don t think pence influences anything when it comes to donald trump. they agree with him. however, roughly 70% of swing voters completely disagree with the president and finds his tweets to be racially offensive.
june of 2019, just a month ago, hope hicks gives closed-door testimony to the house judiciary committee and she basically flat out denies knowledge, involvement regarding payments to stormy daniels. you think about later on, the fdny releases evidence with a series of text messages, phone calls and emails. we know that hope hicks doesn t stand on the sidelines. she was involved in the air force one statement involving donald trump jr. there wasn t ellie anything about russian adoption. she needs to come forward and she needs to clarify what s going on. jo ling, the final thing i ll tell you is this. you ve built cases as a prosecutor on circumstantial