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Trump jr. or any of the other people at that meeting or in the trump campaign aided and abet ted the russian government or any foreigner for that matter in providing assistance to the trump campaign. that s what criminal liability could arise. so it s aided and abet ted a foreigner working on behalf of a foreign government or is it any foreigner at this point? it doesn t have to be a foreign government. a foreign citizen. that s correct. because the whied is foreign money is illegal inel campaigns, period, so an inkind contribution, assistance from a foreign citizen, is that seen through the law as simply foreign money? that s exactly right. it doesn t have to be money. it doesn t have to be cash. it can be something of value, anything of value is what the statute says. that s on campaign finance side. correct. is there any national security law that he broke in here? i m not aware of any national security law that has been violated. a number of commentators have ....
Campaign strategy in the middle of dealing with two big problems you re staring at if you re mitch mcconnell, one is wherever health care will end up and dealing with that and two is the drip, drip, drip of russia. so you have a base fired up with donald trump. at the same time embracing donald trump in six months could be a bad idea. what do you do? you know, i m not so sure what the political climate is in the country. i think here in washington i m with you. i don t know either. we have our noses very deeply into this russia stuff, but i think the majority of people who voted for donald trump didn t vote for him because they think he has, you know, sterling character and because they love his personality. they voted for him because they were fed up with republicans and fed up with democrats. i don t think that s changed at all. donald trump hasn t gotten to work at fixing any of the problems that he was elected to fix, and so i don t think the democrats are going to sweep to ....
Months, ten months since it really became a thing. in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. again, this is before the russia mania. this is before they were building it up in the press. for me this was opposition research. and president trump s attorney today also adamantly defended the president s son. the truth of the matter is that a meeting under the circumstances that were described by the release of the e-mails that donald trump jr. did yesterday is not a violation of the law. no exchange of information, the meeting ended up producing nothing, and now there s a media fren zbli going around us because russia is in vogue to attack as kind of the great involvement in the campaign. well, the fact is zero happened here. joining me now is washington university professor kathleen clark. she joins me now. misclark, thanks for coming on. thank you. so let s talk about this issue for legal jeopardy for donald trump jr. from just simply what we know. ....
Senate when senator jeff sessions became attorney general. he s now running in a republican primary right now and he s on the air with an ad that doesn t just support the president. it hugs him. big losers a trump man working to advance the president s agenda. extreme vetting of islamic terrorists, endorsed by the nra. now, one of strange s primary opponents is congressman missouri brooks, who was the target of a mitch mcconnell aligned super pack ad for not being with mr. trump from the beginning. take a look. career congressman missouri brooks. i don t think you can trust donald trump with anything he he says. they all attack donald trump, trying to stop him. i don t think you can trust donald trump with anything he says. and, why he, those were pictures of elizabeth warren and nancy pelosi just thrown up there, right, because missouri brooks and nancy pelosi. so why is mcconnell doing this? pause he fierce brooks will be ....
But from what we know, in the e-mail release and, frankly, in the multiple explanations that he gave the new york times over that 48 hour period, what legal jeopardy is he? he may be in legal jeopardy because it is illegal for someone to assist a foreigner in contributing to or providing assistance to a u.s. campaign. and what donald trump jr. did is he took a meeting with a russian lawyer and in advance of that meeting he was told that the lawyer would be may be able to provide assistance to the campaign, provide information that would be helpful to the campaign. can you get charged with a crime if you take that meeting knowing the motivation behind the meeting, but don t act on it? it s not illegal to take a meeting. it s not illegal to meet with russians or representatives of the russian government as such. the question is whether donald ....