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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 ....
commencements since becoming president. it comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. we have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. let s begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is at the commencement. you see him there on the left. what are you hearing from the crowd there? i understand there s about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. what are they saying? what do they expect? reporter: well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. this is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at liberty university their president jerry falwell jr. a very influential evangelical leader that allowe ....
put what on the president? this idea that you just said the the new york times is reporting that the president approved either wrote or approved the that is not an outlandish suggesting. i take the the new york times reporting on its face and why wouldn t a father that s president of the united states want to have a say in what his son was putting out that involves him and his presidency. seems like a legitimate thing that s why i asked. 39-year-old son whose running the trump corporation and the trump organization, so he doesn t need to be looked over the shoulder by his father. here s what i think we need to really focus on and obviously i appreciate you having me on. i need to be clear about three things here. number one, the president was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting and was only made aware of the e-mails very recently by counsel and not seen the e-mails. in fact, you know, i didn t see the e-mail until yesterday and i m one of the lawye ....
talk about the e.u. the e.u. is not a very democratic institution. when you look at the majority of people in poland, in other parts of europe, they support these policies that the e.u. elites themselves really deplore. there s talk earlier this year of the e.u. sanctioning the czech republic and poland and hungary for their immigration policy. huge majorities in those countries favor restricting migrants. they don t want the country to be flooded with migrants the way germany has been. the e.u. wants to punish them for that. when we talk about e.u. or european elites, we aren t really talk about people who care all that much what actual citizens of poland want. or think. tucker: you see that here in this country on display every day. how long can fake democracy continue? ethically seeing the repercussions, the backlash from everything about his little puppet donald trump. our president is walking into a room tomorrow morning in hamburg germany with a guy looking across ....
what he says in private conversations. he thinks this is an unfair attack against his presidency. but that these probes have expanded, mushroomed to different veins, different associates of him. there hasn t been any wrongdoing proven, of course, so far, but it s kind of gotten hotter and hotter over the past few months and that frustrated the president. he also gets frustrated when these senators are trying to take some of his autonomy away. he wanted to determine the bill on russian sanctions and exactly what would happen. he wants to be able to fire mueller if he chooses to do so. he says he doesn t want to, but he says if i have that option, i might want to take it. and he says he doesn t like being backed in a corner. so you see him really getting frustrated by these different measures. the latter point about mueller, there s a sanctions argument, we ll get to sanctions in a moment. the latter point about mueller, the president said he s not going to fire mueller and there ....