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
midterms, where is the sensibility, where is that comfort in the presidency right now? there hasn t been reporting from any other outlets i ve seen that the president is going back to see steve bannon. it s possible that s true but not something widely reported. the president is dealing with a significant amount of angst as a result of the mueller investigation. he s been angsting about it since the legislation, but he seems particularly concerned that mueller could be getting information on his son don jr. that s why he put out these tweets this morning, sort of te telegraphing those concerns. we haven t seen people in don jr. s immediate circle being brought in for questioning, we haven t seen reports about raids or subpoenas being directed on people who might have information on don jr., but despite that, the president
determines if the underlying issue is legal. the reason why it s important that he spoke just now, and what you re talking about is so key here, is that the president s under statements have. it almost speaks nothing on the issue of, you have to keep. ment. the president referring to his justice department this morning which he clearly doesn t like. he said i may get involved in the justice department because what s going on is a disgrace, it s an absolute disgrace. he s hinting right now, sessions and rosenstein and others, maybe they ll still have jobs, but at some point he could change his mind. the president essentially te