those were disgusting attacks by donald trump jr. engaging in birtherism and every democrat should condemn them. look, kamala harris had a terrific night. she articulates a vision of a pluralistic america very well and she's a compelling candidate. she's a serious contender that we should make sure that the republicans don't resort to those kind of attacks. >> let's turn, congressman, to the president's historic steps into north korea. the first american president to do so. you say the president should be applauded for his latest meeting with kim jong-un. what does president trump have to show for all of this? >> well, he has to show that we at least aren't having an escalation of threats. you remember when we were having the bloody nose theory. largely of his own making, at least that has calmed down. but i think there are two things that we could have happen moving forward, first let's have a peace agreement and move past the 1953 armistice and then insist on denuclearization. and i think if we have the first, the north koreans wou

within a few months, donald trump jr. preliminary agreement with agalarov's company to build a big trump tower property in moscow. ivanka trumpinisits the countr 2014, scouting out possible locations.ng then tseem to stall. desjardins: until 2015. president trump: theni am officially running for president of the united states. (cheering and plause) desjardins: in june, mr. trump announces his candidacy.r muelints out that, three months later, a new effort to build the trump tower in moscow begins, this time led by trump's lawyer, michael cohen, and developer felix sater. brangham: on pags 69, mueller make clear that candidate trump knew this was happening. he writes "cohen provided updates directly to trump about the project throughout 2015 and into 2016." but mueller stresses that, publicly, candidate trump repeatedly denies any such dealings.en prestrump: i have nothing to do with russia.n' i have any jobs in russia. i'm all over the world, but we're not involved in russia. brangham: meanwhile, felix sater tells michael

in this email, donald trump jr. is being told that the russian government wants to pass along information which would hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump." is that correct? >> that's correct. >> trump jr.'s response to that email is slide three. he said, and i quote, "if it's what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer." then donald jr. invited senior campaign officials paul manafort and jared kushner to the meeting. did he not? >> he did. >> this email exchange is evidence of an offer of a legal assistance, is it not? >> i cannot adopt that characterization. >> but isn't it against the law for a presidential campaign to accept anything of value from a foreign government? >> generally speaking, yes, but generally the cases are unique. >> you say on page 184, volume one, that the federal campaign finance law broadly prohibits foreign nationals for making contributions, et cetera. and then you say that foreign nationals may not make a contribution or donation of money or anything of value. it says cl

tonight, donald trump jr. raising money for his father and billionaire tom steyer kicking off his own campaign. >> it's not often the trump family is in the bay area. the president's son in town with his girlfriend, the former first lady of san francisco. nbc bay area jean elle followed both trump jr. and steyer and joins us in the city. >> reporter: raj, billionaire tom steyer held awhil donald tr fund-raiser for his father at this private home. >> how are you? >> wonderful to be back in san francisco. >> reporter: mr. trump's supporters say about 70 people attended the knob hill event, raising 70,000 for the campaign. >> taxes are great. immigration. he's doing as well as he can. >> how about my 401(k)? how about low unemployment? i mean, we all know what he's done since he's been president, and we want four more years of that. >> reporter: while his son was raising money in the bay area, president trump hosted a re-election campaign in north carolina. one day after the house of representatives voted to cond

can you respond to this tweet and delete of donald trump, jr. d talk about this in the tradition of the trump family, really, president trump himself, just as a private new york developer, leading the birther movement against president barack obama, questioning where he was born? >> yes. this is not just a pattern of this family, the trumpmp family. please, remember, trump is also the one that tried to get five inwn and black boys executed central park. let's not forget this is a history within this family of racism. the other parts of this is we also need to remind ourselves -- also, they participated inn housusing discriminationon. there were all kindsds of legal ramififications about t them tatargeting black anand brownn cocommunities. so this is not new. this is not t a surprise to me d should not be a surprise to anyone else. the ways in which they use our identity as s a weapopon to raly their base is very problematic and very consistent. kakamala harris being g a womanf color and running for office and running against donald trump, going -

trump, jr. had direct communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. on october 3rd, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct mess origin to trump, jr. asking you guys to dem nate a link alleging candidate clinton advocating drones to attack julian assange. trump, jr. said he had already done so. same question. this behavior at the very least disturbing? your reaction? >> disturbing and subject to investigation. >> director, thank you. you made it clear that you think it unethical to put it politely to timeout a foreign service like wikileaks publishing stolen do you means in a presidential campaign. >> certainly calls for investigation. >> certainly calls for investigation. what you just quoted pea o me about the way donald trump, jr. communicated with wikileaks, that is subject to investigation. oh. that touting of wikileaks publishing stolen documents calling for an investigation? though they are happening? there is an indictment against julian assange and wikileaks which relates to stu

donald trump jr. retweeted that observation. for that, cnn denounced him as a terrifying racist. >> don jr. is facing big backlash about kamala harris's race. >> donald trump jr. tweet add racist lie. >> this is a constant theme with the president. implied racism. i don't have a racist bone in my body but the muscles are bigoted. >> a strategy that republicans have used, divide and conquer on race. >> it's a horrible form of black racism that has been harnessed to be a voter suppression tool. >> this is an attempt to divide the black community and attack a black candidate not on policy but xenophobia and racism. >> tucker: sure. it's a racist lie. turns out that no less authority than don lemon also of cnn said virtually exactly the same thing just a few months ago. this tape has been floating around washington. don lemon has been calling other anchors and asking them not to replay it because he's embarrassed of it. you have a right to see it and decide for yourself if don lemon is an anti black racist. >> to say is she african

donald trump jr.hink of what happened yesterday? both of them respond exclusively right here in just a moment. but first tonight, the russia hoax ended yesterday. we can say that. it ended not with a bang but with the modeled half memories of a fading old man slipping in and out of focus. america's got transfixed by robert mueller's testimony before congress. no honest persones could come ay at the end believing that the president ofen the united states colluded with the russian government to steal an election. that was the allegation, you will remember. and then, after the most extensive investigation in modern american history, we found the truth. we can say conclusively, once again, what we told you the day this all started, the whole thing is a crock. it never happened. they were lying to you. that's clear now that the day is peover. but that doesn't mean the russian story quite ended. there are loose ends. for two and half years, some of the most powerful people in america, supposedly y serious,

this hgoes back to donald trump jr. ll according to last poll i saw probably a year or more old, some 20% or more americans think barack obama was not born in the united states, what's don jr.'s explanation for why he retweeted that? >> i think you are right when you talk about donald trump and appealing to the base on this. i think there are a certain percentage of people who feels this is something that's kindred with him on. that's speaking with president trump's own base. in terms of donald trump jr., his spokesperson is out with a statement to us over the weekend saying that he was questioning and he had not heard she was half indian. he put that tweet out questioning something he was not aware of. he deleted it when he saw it was being misconstrued on twitter. we have to watch history repeating itself specifically on this birther front and several other candidates including joe biden are seeing shades of what we talked about in the birther movement. i think that the other candidates were quick to call it out. there

why was donald trump jr. n attendee of that infamous trump tower meeting not questioned by mueller's investigation? i'm joined by josh gers seen it, a senior legal affairs writer for "politico." carol, let's start with you. talk us through your reporting. how much of a focus will be on the president's son tomorrow? >> well, what we know is that the trump tower meeting in july -- in june of 2016 was the key focus of the investigation into whether there was any coordination between associates of donald trump and the russian government to influence the election. and donald trump jr. was the trump associate who was contacted by russians to set up this meeting. there are -- had this is not just some piece of the investigation where one person says one thing and another says another. there are emails showing that there was an offer of dirt on hillary clinton and donald trump jr. responding saying that he would love it and accept that. and then there's the meeting that happened and donald trump jr.'s the only trump a

your investigation found in june of 2016, donald trump jr. made an arrangement to meet at trump tower along with jared kushner and others expecting to receive dirt on the hillary clinton campaign, correct? >> correct. >> you found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack hillary clinton's e-mail for the first time they did about five hours later, correct? >> that's correct. >> you found august 2 that mr. manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. kilimnik, gave him internal campaign strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. >> i'm not certain of the tie. >> the fact of the meeting -- >> yes, that is accurate. >> your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the trump campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wikileaks releases of materials that were stolen from the democratic national committee, correct? >> is that f

trump jr. had direct electronic communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. on october 3rd, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump jr. ask iing you guys to help disseminate a link alleging candidate clinton advocated a drone to attack julian assange. jump jtrump jr. responded to tht quote, he had already done so. same question. this behavior, at the very least, disturbing, your reaction? >> disturbing, and also, subject to investigation. >> director, i think you made it clear that you think it unethical, to put it politely, to tout a foreign service like wikileaks publishing stolen political documents in a presidential campaign? >> certainly calls for investigation. >> certainly calls for investigation. and, yeah, what you just quoted me about the way that donald trump jr. communicated with wikileaks, that is subject to investigation. oh. the touting of wikileaks -- so, these investigations are happening? i mean, there is an indictment against julian assange and wiki

in this email, donald trump jr. is being told that the russian government wants to pass along information which would hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> now, trump junior's response to that email is slide three. he said, and i quote, if it is what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer. then donald junior invited senior campaign officials paul manafort and jared kushner to the meeting. did he not? >> he did. >> this email exchange is evidence of an offer of illegal assistance. is it not? >> i cannot adopt that characterization. >> isn't it against the law for a presidential campaign to accept anything of value from a foreign government? >> generally speaking, yes, but generally the cases are unique. >> you say in page 184 volume i that the federal campaign finance law broadly prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions, et cetera. and then you say that foreign nationals may not make a contribution or donation of money or anything of value. it says

well, if that's the playbook, can you imagine a negotiation between trump and don jr.? mp senior and junior ) "junior, clean your room." "how about i set fire to my room?" "how about i divorce your mother? deal? let's shake on it." ( applause ) quick update on trump's ongoing trade war with china. hit it, jon! ♪ trade war, huh good god, y'all ♪ what is it good for? i am really asking ♪ say it again, y'all ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: i thought it would happen this time. >> jon: i did, too. >> stephen: so close. today, chinese president xi jinping gave his first public statements since the tariffs ramped up and described the escalating conflict between the u.s. and china as a "stupid idea and disastrous act." it's not an act, sir. he really is that stupid. ( laughter ) xi, xi-- ( cheers and applause ) xi-- xi called for understanding between the two nations, saying, "we should hold up equality and respect and abandon pride and prejudice." way ahead of you, xi. i abandoned "pride and prejudice" about two chapters in. ( laughter ) no explosions, no quality kills. mr.

trump jr. was the only trump associate who participated in that meeting and who declined to be voluntarily interviewed by your office. is that correct? >> yes. >> did mr. trump jr. or his counsel ever communicate to your office any intent to invoke his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination? >> i'm not going to answer that. >> you did pose written questions to the president about his knowledge of the trump tower meeting. you included -- also asked him about whether or not he had directed a false statement. >> i don't have it in front of me. i take your word. >> i can represent to you that c-13 states as much. according to page 100 of volume 2, your investigation found hope hicks in june of 2017 was shown emails that set up the trump tower meeting. and she told your office that she was, quote, shocked by them details. >> you have the citation? >> sure. page 100 of volume 2. while you're flipping to that page, i will also tell you orgt page 99 of volume 2, those emails in question stated

a spokesperson for trump jr. id he was simply asking about harris' ethnicity and deleted the tweet when his intent was misconstrued but a trump campaign adviser and former spokesperson katrina pearson was tweeting racial jabs at harris. nbc news reached out to pearson, neither she nor the campaign had any comment. >>> well, we've all been hearing a lot of talk about the upcoming 2020 sense us and now facebook is doing its part by banning misinformation. the social media network said that it will examine posts with the same scrutiny it now gives elections. it is considered -- it is concerned that the bad information could disrupt the count. groups and the census bureau have been asking tech companies to step up their fight against false information. >>> new for you at 11:00, japanese whalers set sale today on the country's first commercial wars. it is creating outrage from environmentalists and ocean lovers. the ships will hunt up to 227 whales in japan's nearby waters and exclusive economic zone. yesterday japan l

donald trump jr.g the same kind of questions. questions the president's son-in-law retweeted from an alt right online personality saying kamala harris wasn't, quote, an american black because of her ancestry. with a comment, is this true? wow. and people noticed. donald trump jr. later deleted that tweet and a spokesperson for him -- imagine that job -- later called it a misunderstanding adding this -- don's tweet was simply asking, asking if it was was true kamala harris is half indian because it's not something he have ever heard before. once he saw folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he quickly deleted it. by the way, talking about kamala harris, in the last hour brand-new polling conducted over the weekend after the debates has her surging into second place, five points behind first place joe biden. joining our conversation, alicia menendez, co-host of pbs's amanpour & company. what is going on, my friend? >> oh, my goodness. so many things going on. >> i know. take your time. >> goi

donald trump jr. retweeting then deleting a post questioning her race. senator harris attending pride events, rival candidates coming to her defense. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: it was a raw and personal story about being a black kid in america. >> there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> reporter: but a right wing commentator took offense, questioning senator kamala harris' racial identity. tweeting, "kamala harris is not an american black. she is half indian and half jamaican. i'm so sick of people robbing american blacks like myself of our history." it drew the attention of the president's oldest son, donald trump jr., who shared it to his millions of followers, asking, "is this true? wow." his spokesperson telling abc news it was a misunderstanding. that don junior asked the question because he was unaware of harris' heritage. adding, "once he saw that folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he quickly

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. >> did you want to interview donald trump jr.? >> i'm not going to discuss that. >> did you subpoena donald trump jr. >> and i'm not going to discuss that. >> did you want to interview the president? >> yes. >> so i'm confused. does anybody have an answer. why would he not answer the questions about donald trump jr.? he made it clear -- >> because he's a private individual. >> so this goes to -- if we look at the actual report itself, the report itself does not get into -- and there are sections redacted that i think pertain to that category of information that attorney general barr said they would not release which is derogatory information about a private individual. i think that is why he was willing to answer more questions about the president because he's the president and he's a public official. >> it was in section c outlined exactly that whole deliberation which i thought was unusual, but they put it in the schedule in the report about talking about why they ended up going with written questions versus not and i think that

up next, our recap of donald trump jr.'s closed door testimony. sketch artist was granted access. the hearing began with don jr. being sworn in on a stack of maxims and then re-icing his keg of natty lite. senator kamala harris grilled the president's son about the trump tower meeting. don jr. responded by shooting the last white rhino. later in the hearing, 75-year- old maine senator angus king fell asleep, and the president's son drew a penis on the senator's forehead. the hearing came to an abrupt end when it rn

goodwill. >> he keeps having these summits and meetings that don't really produce anything. >>> donald trump jrleted a tweet that was questioning senator harris's blacknesses. >> i was born black and i will die black and i am proud of being black. >> the trump family are trying to divide this because they haven't delivered what they promised. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john bremer. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i think we're on the tv. >> the fact that we can't see it, we're going to press ahead. >> we're going to take their word for it that we're on tv. this is "new day." it's monday, july 1st, 6:00 here in morning. we're waking up to new reporting of what could be, what could be a major new u.s. concession to kim jong-un in the nuclear negotiation with north korea. the president returned to the white house where the president game the first sitting u.s. leader to step foot in north korea. it was a remarkable picture. but a more lasting impact might be the substance of what's happening behind the scenes. "the new york times" this m

his campaign and russian individuals at trump tower in june of 2016 according to your report mr trump jr was the only trump associate who participated in that meeting and who declined to be voluntarily interviewed by your office is that correct did mr trump jr or his counsel ever communicate to your office any intent to invoke his 5th amendment right against self incrimination. you did pose written questions to the president about his knowledge of the trump tower meeting you included also asked him about whether or not he had directed a false press statement the president did not answer at all that question correct i don't have it in front of me to take your word i can represent to you that appendix c. specifically c 13 states as much according to page 100 of volume 2 of your report your investigation found that hope hicks the president's communications director in june of 2017 was shown e-mails that set up the trump tower meeting and she told your office that she was quote shocked by the e-mails because they looked quote really bad true you have a citation sure it's page 100 of volume 2

donald trump jr. >> what's that? >> do you know who else agrees with you? donald trump jr.out an op-ed entitled "donald trump will win the democratic party civil war." he claimed it won't be division, per se, but exists like alexandria ocasio-cortez are in charge of setting the party agenda. so how do you feel that, you know, you and donald trump jr. agree? >> well, donald trump jr. and i don't agree on a whole lot in this world, but somebody wrote that editorial. i'm doing this out of concern. he's just doing this out of straight up trolling. because they're in a mode of trying to stoke this further. and, look, donald trump will elevate people that they -- that they believe are going to do harm to the party's long-term image. look, when ted cruz came along in 2012, there were a lot of republicans who lost their minds and thought he was the second coming and basically he became this force inside the party that was a big divider. >> yeah. >> in a lot of things that they were trying to get done in the minority. and so there are some parallels between trump -- ted cruz and aoc

we should know that trump jr. later deleted the retweet and denied any ill intention to the "new york times." but harris said the tweet was emblematic of the history of racism in this country. and while many of harris's fellow 2020 contenders came swiftly to her defense, the ugly attacks echo similar birther comments promoted by the trump family against then president barack obama. who was accused of not being an american citizen. >>> our big question today is how divided are 2020 democrats on this issue of race? joining me now, nbc news correspondent mike menially, eugene scott, philippe rhinnen es, and mike singleton. mike, starting with you, this has been a significant crisis in a way for them, what are they doing to try to change this conversation? >> well, it's funny you should ask, what we've seen so often from joe biden and his campaign so far is he's much more comfortable in a general election matchup with donald trump than a primary election matchup with democratic counterparts. we get this new statement

a tweet that was shared and then deleted by donald trump jr. cnn's kyung lah is with me. and i know a spokesman for trump jr. says his words were misconstrued. that's what they're saying. team harris says his retweet was part of a larger racist online attack and these attacks will not work. tell me more of what they're saying. >> yeah, team harris isn't buying that excuse at all. and what you're hearing from that campaign is they are saying that they are going to call it out, they are going to hit back, and they are going to hit back hard. so we've seen her surrogates, we have seen her spokespeople hitting the cable airwaves, hitting social media, saying they will not take it. we're also hearing from the other 2020 hopefuls, uniformly, across social media and even in interviews to the press. they are calling this out. take a listen. >> the tweet of donald trump jr. was the act of a coward. you see what they do. put something out there and then he deletes it. so that he can say it was just a mistake. >> we have a president who is a racist and apparently based on a statemen

as the only black person on this stage, i would like to speak on the question of race. >> donald trump jr. tweeting thts true wow, questioning whether harris is african-american. the president's elder son later deleted the tweet, a spokesman saying once folks saw he was misconstruing the intent of the tweet, he quickly deleted it but trump's senior adviser katrina pearson also tweeted obama is actually african-american kamala harris is not who is best to speak for the african-american community in february harris compared a tax like this to the birther movement the president once championed >> this is the same thing they did to barack. >> yes >> this is not new to us >> reporter: harris' rivals are leaping to her defense >> you see what they do, put something out there, and then he deletes it so that he can say it was just a mistake >> reporter: meanwhile joe biden speaking friday about how young black men are stereotyped. >> we've got to recognize that kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next laureate and not a gang banger. >> reporter: to many hitting the wrong note >> this is jus

donald trump jr. is a racist, too. shocker. d, jake, the harris campaign has weighed in comparing it to the birtherism attacks from -- against president obama from donald trump. and said it didn't work then and it won't work now. and donald trump jr. didn't know she was of half indian descent and once he realized it was being misconstrued he immediately deleted the tweet, jake. >> phil mattingly, thank you so much. >>> three face-to-face meetings with kim jong-un and repeated presidential promises of denuclearization but will north korea actually get to keep their nuclear weapons? stay with us. not even our competitor's best battery can match the power of energizer. because energizer ultimate lithium is the longest lasting aa battery in the world. [confetti cannon popping] energizer. backed by science. matched by no one. introducing zero account fees for brokerage accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. we have fidelity mutual funds with zero minimum investment. and now only fidelity offers four zero expense ratio index

she's half indian and half jamaican the tweet then retweeted by the president's son, donald trump jr who added, is this true? wow. harris' father is a black man born in jamaica and her mother was born in india. in a statement, his spokesman tells nbc news, once he saw that folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he deleted it the same type of racist attacks used to attackobam it didn't work then and it won't work now her democratic rivals rushed to her defense. >> it's disgusting and has no place in our politics. >> reporter: cory booker responded saying kamala harris doesn't have anything to prove the issue of race takes center stage in the 2020 campaign frontrunner joe biden found himself a target because of some of his past positions and meet aim. someone who can talk openly an e debate as the campaign intensifies.n florida have released some terrifying dash cam video. the officer pulled over the driver for dark, tinted windows. when the driver got mad, thing >> reporter: this routine traffic stop in florida on saturday quickly spiraled out of control. >> put your hands

the tweet then retweeted by the president's son, donald trump jr. who added, is this true? wow. harris's father is say black man born in jamaica. her mother was born in india trump junior later deleted his retweet and in a statement his spokesman tells nbc news, once he saw that folks were misconstruing the intent of his tweet, he quickly deleted it harris's spokeswoman shot back this is the same type of racist attacks used to attack barack obama. it didn't work then and it won't work now and her democratic rivals rushed to her defense even drawing parallels to donald trump's birth era tax on barack obama. >> it's disgusting it has no place in our politics. >> reporter: cory booker responded to the tweet with an expletive. saying kamala harris doesn't have anything to prove the smears against harris come as the issue of race takes center stage in the 2020 campaign front runner joe biden has found himself a target because of some of his past positions and comments on "meet the press," booker once again took aim, saying the eventual democratic nominee should be someone who can talk

attorney/private privilege. >> i'm not going to discuss that. >> did you want to interview donald trump, jr.? >> i'm not going to discuss that. >> did you subpoena donald trump, juror? >> i'm not going to discuss that. >> did you want to interview the president? >> yes. >> director mueller, on january 1st, 2017 through march 2019, donald trump met with vladimir putin in person six times, called him ten times, and exchanged four letters with him. between that time period, how many times did you meet with donald trump? >> i'm not going to get into that. >> he did not meet with you in person, is that correct? >> he did not. >> as a result of lies, deletion of text messages, obstruction, and witness tampering, is it fair to say that you were unable to fully assess the scope and scale of russia's interference in the 2016 election and trump's role in that interference? >> i'm not certain i would adopt that characterization in total. maybe pieces of it are accurate, but not in total. >> but you did state in volume one page 10 while this report embodies factual and legal determinations the office b

specifically, why donald trump jr. american attendee of the infamous trump tower meeting in july of 2016 not questioned by investigators. that is a really good question, carol. >> yeah. mika, it is one that is certainly chairman schiff of the intelligence committee talked about over the weekend as something that he seems likely to ask robert mueller about. that was a key focus of the investigation in terms of the collusion portion of the investigation. you know, this was not some he said/he said. there were explicit emails from russians to trump -- to donald trump jr. making an offer for information and explicit acceptance of that offer, interest in the offer. and then there was this meeting and one of the things that we don't know is why donald trump jr. wasn't interviewed, why the -- as part of the investigation. robert mueller's report said he declined on the voluntarily interviewed and that is a key, because it suggests that there was an ask so sources we spoke to said there were two possible reasons that donald tru

this type of racism has existed for years, long before donald trump or donald trump, jr. came along. but what the trump people, the trump family and campaign have done is they've normalized it. they've made it acceptable for people in the republican establishment to say things like this and apologize after the fact, after they've spewed their racist b.s. out there. >> thank you. >> let's clean it up. >> i'm very impressed with your catch. i think we've done that. let's move on to something else, something very different. second quarter fund-raising numbers are in. pete buttigieg first released their numbers and they're very big, $25 million, basically trip pling what he pulled in in the first quarter. it's big for any candidate, especially won who was unknown. what does this mean for his campaign and the rest of the democratic field? what are you hearing? >> kate, it shows that pete buttigieg is in this for the long hall and it ups the ante for the other democratic candidates. the fact that he was able to turn out such a high figure when he was an unknown mayor just a few

and a spokeswoman for the harris campaign equated donald trump jr.'s tweet to his father's birtherism attacks against president barack obama. saying it didn't work then and won't work now. as for don jr., a spokesperson said he was genuinely asking the question whether or not kamala harris was of half indian descent. he didn't know the answer to that. once he realized, the spokesman said, his intent was misconstrued, he immediately deleted the tweet. phil mattingly, cnn, washington. >> so let's take a closer look at all of this with political analyst michael jen veez. he is the president of the global policy institute at loyo loyola marymount university. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> so let's start by taking a closer look at that new cnn poll taken after last week's two democratic debates, showing joe biden's support plummeting ten percentage points since may to 22%. kamala harris and elizabeth warren both doubled their support, shooting up to 17 and 15% respectively. and bernie sanders dipped four points to 14%. of course it's early days

her rivals coming to her defense today after donald trump jr. shared a tweet that questioned her race. asking, is this true? he later deleted the tweet. her democratic hopefuls taking to twitter and the television to support her. >> this is a game that these folks play. they put something out there. you notice what he did. he tweeted it out and then he deleted. like a coward, so he can say that's just a mistake. he knows what he's doing. he's giving voice to these racist, you know, utterances about senator harris. >> joining me now from south carolina, south carolina state representative j.a. moore, a surrogate for the harris campaign. nbc road warrior mike menially, following. and zerlena maxwell. representative moore, i'll start with you because you are in south carolina. joe biden, he likened the tweet about harris to the birther attacks against former president barack obama. what do you make of it, representative, and what's the campaign's plan to deal with it? >> craig, it's good to hear from you. we originally met here in south carolina, j

donald trump jr. took this meeting, of course we investigated that, george papadopoulos came back and told the campaign they had emails, of course we investigated that, the president of the united states is tweeting, it's giving hope or a boost to illegal activity. i love wikileaks, what else does wiki leaks have. of course we would look into that, knowing they're a hostile actor. this is where he's been the most passionate, we did this for a reason, we had every right to do it, because the republicans are trying to say, you shouldn't have been here to begin with. >> to go back to the clarification that director mueller made about why they did not indict president trump, that's something the democrats had gotten excited about, they thought that this was big news. >> for good reason, and we all noted at the lunch break, because the idea that there was proof of a crime committed by the president, and the only reason it was not prosecuted by robert mueller is because of the justice department decision yo

trump jr. responded that, quote, he had already done so. same question. this behavior at the very least disturbing? your reaction? >> disturbing and also subject to investigation. >> could it be described as aide and comfort to a hostile intelligence? >> i wouldn't categorize with any specificity. >> i yield the balance to the chairman, please. >> i'm not sure i can make good use of 27 seconds. but director, i think you made it clear that you think it unethical to put it politely to tout a foreign service like wikileaks publishing stolen political documents to the presidential campaign? >> certainly calls for investigation. >> thank you, director. we go now to mr. crawford. and then after mr. crawford's five minutes, we'll take a five or ten-minute break. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you, mr. mueller for being here. there's no big there there in the trump campaign or investigation, did struck or anyone else tell you that around ten months into the investigation the fbi still had no case for collusion? >> who? can you repeat that? >> peter stronzok. >>

called you an idiot. [ light laughter ] donald trump jr.is a guy who doesn't even know how to stand like a normal [ laughter ] i mean, look, he always looks liketoe's waiting for someone pin a medal on his chest [ laughter ]s "my father said i wagetting an award for most oily. [ laughter ] what all this is exposing once again is the rot of intellectual bad faith within the gop for years, they claimed that when they criticized president obama, they were just upholding the constitution and complained they were being fairly maligned as racists. and to prove that, they would bt consistethey said they would also stand up to a republican president. for example, according to a new book out this week, li then-repubn congressman mick mulvaney, who is now trump's acting chief of staff, said back in 2016, "we're not going to let trump dismantle the bill of rights for five and half years, every time we got to the floor and try to push back against an over-reaching president, we get accused of being partisan at best and racist at worst when we do it aga

trump jr. was the only trump associate who participated in that meeting and who declined to be voluntarily interviewed by your office. is that correct? >> yes. >> did mr. trump jr. or his counsel communicate to your office to invoke his fifth amendment right to avoid incrimination. >> i'm not going to answer that. >> you did pose written questions to mr. trump about his knowledge of the trump tower meeting and asked him whether he directed a false press thpresid? >> i don't i in front of me. i take your word. >> i can represent to you appendix c, specifically c 13 states at much. according to page 100 of volume ii of your report, your investigation found that hope hicks, the president's communications director, in june of 2017 was shown e-mails that set up the trump tower meeting and she told your office that she was, quote, shocked by the e-mails because they looked, quote, really bad. true? >> do you have the citation? >> sure, page 100 of volume ii. while you're flipping to that page, directo