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carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broad ....
they may not even have to go that far. i think the lesson is that you can terrorize people into not doing anything just by having a law and having the threat out there that somebody could be criminally prosecuted for doing something. the comstock act, this is not a hypothetical. there are lots of folks in right-wing circles writing about and talking about this. lisa rubin, thank you. thank you. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner starts now. good evening. there are women already terrified making choices about bodily economy. certainly. fear at all levels of american society. thank you, my friend. today donald trump made his first visit to capitol hill. the first time since his followers ransacked the capital on january 6. to understand why trump chose to come back now after more than three years away, you don t have to look as far back as the insurrection. you just have to remember what trump has been asking congress to do since his crim ....
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Particular problem in our elections. there was an effort that the senate with a bipartisan group of senators led by senator collins and manchin, head of the rules committee advised them throughout the process. we are excited about our bill that s coming up tomorrow. we are going to make some changes that we have agreed to. and i think we are going to have a really strong vote in the senate committee tomorrow. this is the only committee, rachel, that includes both senator schumer, our leader, as well as senator mcconnell, and ted cruz. so what can go wrong? [ laughter ] actually, this is so important, as you pointed out. voting is about where is the power. i love what you said earlier in the show. if you disregard people s votes, you disregard their power. so what we re doing here is saying the role of the vice president is ceremonial. the insurrection got within 40 feet of vice president pence as they were yelling hang mike ....
But i feel some hope that there s so many republican cosponsors on this effort to fix this particular problem in our elections. , well there are. the house is doing great work. but there is an effort that started in the senate with a bipartisan group of senators led by senator collins and manchin, and advised them through the process. we re pretty excited about our bill that s coming up tomorrow. ....