so bannon slammed don jr.y that there's no way the president didn't meet with the russians that don jr. snuck into their gold house. yeah, and this is huge. steve bannon--steve bannon, trump's dude, not only accused trump's second dumbest son of collusion, but he's also accusing the president of being in on it. and then lying to the american people about it. you know what that means, people. buckle up, because trump's about to blow. - president trump issued a statement like no presidential statement ever before in american history, lambasting his former campaign and white house senior strategist steve bannon. - ohh! damn! i didn't even know presidents could release diss tracks. but i do feel bad for president trump because today he found out that some nazis aren't very fine people. [traditional russian music] [hip-hop music] [traditional russian music] - donald trump has a shadow of his own-- robert mueller. and so far, the special counsel has indicted four of trump's campaign officials, interrogated over 20 a

but days later, e-mails to don jr. revealed something far different. don jr. had agreed to meet the russians after he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. the e-mails said the dirt was high-level, sensitive information from, quote, "russia and its government's support for mr. trump." president trump tried to downplay the meeting. >> my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. >> reporter: that first misleading explanation was written on this air force one flight, the president and hope hicks helping to craft it as they returned from overseas. some critics asking, why did the president step in at all? >> the president weighed in, as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. >> reporter: and tonight, abc news has learned the spokesman for president trump's legal team at the time, mark corallo, was concerned about the statement's misleading nature. less than two weeks later, he resigned. a course close to corallo describes a conference call with corallo, president

we still want don jr. to come back before the committee and answer questions that produced that false statement. we want steve bannon to come back to this committee, we want corey lewandowski to come back. he didn't even claim privilege. he just said i am not prepared to answer those questions. has he been subpoenaed? no. that is inexcusable and there are countless of other examples. we know don jr. was direct messaging wikileaks. we would like to subpoena twitter to get those direct messages, but the majority has so far refused. it is time for this majority to make the decision to be serious investigators, to get the information we need that can either prove or disprove these allegations. we hope that is what they will do. thank you. >> c-span's "washington journal," live with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, nebraska republican congressman don bacon discusses the house intelligence committee memo and this week's government funding deadline. then, connecticut democratic cong

don jr.ife vanessa recovering from a scare, someone sending a suspicious envelope to their new york city apartment post marked from boston. it was addressed to don jr. but vanessa trump opened the letter to find a white powder inside. she called 911 just after 10:00 a.m. on monday telling police she felt dizzy. >> suspicious package. >> firefighters treating her and two others at the apartment then taking them to this hospital in manhattan for evaluation and precautionary tests. the powder later deemed to be nonhazardous and sources telling abc news it was just cornstarch. don jr. tweeting thankful that vanessa and my children unsafe and unharmed after the incredibly scary situation that occurred this morning. we'll tell you what the white house is saying coming up at 7:00 a.m. with your "gma" first look, i'm tom llamas, abc news new york. e. with a replacement you can trust. all done sir. >> grandpa: looks great! >> tech: thanks for choosing safelite. >> grandpa: thank you! >> child: bye! >>

i know he was with don jr. this weekend and don jr., he's an nra enthusiast. >> i think there are competing pressures for president trump. he views the nra as critical, as a core part of his base that helped get him elected and i think he's going to be very wary of crossing the nra. he also feels the political pressure to act, to do something. we know from our reporting down in the weekend in florida that the president was watching a lot of television. he watched those teenagers on tv pleading with the adults in washington to get something done. he also surveyed members down at mar-a-lago, his private club in florida about whether they think he should be championing more gun control. i think he returned to washington feeling that he needed to do something, that the pressure was real. i'm just not convinced that he's going to go very far. >> he did watch those kids on tv. he visited parkland florida. he also played golf over the weekend while they were teenagers -- >> yes, yesterday. >> -- teenagers buried on th

., i am sure what don jr. reported to his father what they had heard. i don't think there's anything wrong with that, by the way. >> you think donald trump jr. told his father everything he was hearing about getting offers of dirt. >> i'm sure he did. >> i'm sure too. >> now where's the crime? the issue is what is the crime? >> here is the crime. i'm happy toness a. >> and the other issue, is this why hillary clinton lost the election, the answer is no. >> that's irrelevant for the law, this is criminal and federal election law. so let me tell you because i'm going to answer your question. the federal election law that makes it a crime to get a thing of value from a foreign government or foreign operative in order to advance your campaign, it's irrelevant whether you won or lost because of it, and all that matters is that you are actively attempting to get that thing of value. >> that was a very fascinating thing you said. and you're right -- >> and by the way, something donald trump said, donald trump said so

the ads didn't say don jr.'s coming to india. they said trump is here in india.t's exactly the point they're trying to sell is you buy a property here, and you can get time, whether you're a foreign national or a foreign government, to bend the ear of the president's son. and, of course, they have got to keep these buyers happy because if they don't sell enough of these, people aren't going to keep licensing trump's name, and so what's to keep somebody from asking don jr. to pass a message to donald trump on a policy issue a foreign government cares about. and the answer is absolutely nothing. >> so, walter, i can see donald trump jr., eric trump for that matter, saying, hey, look, i don't work for this white house. i'm going over there for my business. why can't i be allowed to do my business? >> well, in fact, the rules, even if trump was a regular official, would not necessarily cover what any relative, even a child does. but let's remember that this is the president's business. this isn't a separate business that don jr. is involved in. this is the president'

don and eric jr. said they would stay out of politics. are very involved. don jr. is going around the world, giving speeches. eric trump is more in control of the company, he appears on "fox and friends." he makes tv appearances as a political analyst, talking about his father, praising his father. eric trump's wife, laura trump is a senior adviser to trump's re-election campaign. the family and organization are very entwined. >> that set the trump organization set limits on itself, most notably they would turn away new foreign deals, anybody that came with a deal in a foreign country would turn that away. as far as we can tell, they are abiding by, that get around it, they are trying to revive seemingly dead foreign deals from the past. >> we are so happy to have you on that beat and the nsnbc family. we hope you will join us at the table soon. thanks for joining us. >> that does it for our hour. i'm nicole wallace. chuck is giving me the stink eye, because i am 17 seconds late. >> i wish i was giving you a stink eye, oh my god, it's 5:00, she's not back from brea

they will ask about the aftermath of that summer meeting with don jr.d the russian lawyer were then on air force one they tried to craft a statement that it wasn't about sanctions. it was about adoption. and that hope hicks reportedly, according to the "new york times" sources, said those e-mails will, quote, never get out. >> one of the most dramatic pieces of evidence really stuning, was donald trump jr.'s reaction when he was invited to this june 9, 2016 meeting at trump tower. he was promised dirt on hillary clinton and he said, i love it.. and the president was used in drafting an explanation given to maggie haberman and other "new york times" reporters and apparently deliberately distorted and misrepresented the purpose of the meeting having to do with russian adoption not the dirt on hillary clinton. >> this is why your chair, chuck grassley, wants the don trump jr. transcript of when you all interviewed him to be released. is that going to be released? >> i certainly hope so. i believe it will be. it will be very dramatic because there are explo

we still want don jr. to come and answer questions. we want steve bannon to come back. we want corey lewandowski to come back. he did not even claim privilege. he said i'm not prepared to answer the questions. has been -- has he been subpoenaed? no. that is inexcusable. -- we would like to subpoena twitter to get those messages. time for them to be serious investigators so that we can prove or disprove these allegations. thank you. >> james mattis testifies tuesday about the pentagon's national defense strategy in the 2018 posture review. it is underway at 9:30 am 3.tern on c-span you can also follow it on c-span.org. >>

this as the president's son don jr. comes under scrutiny for liking two twitter posts pushing conspiracy theories about the florida shooting survivor david hagg and his father being a former fbi agent. president trump is going to hold a listening session this afternoon with parents, students, and teachers who survived and lived through mass shootings in the united states. the president may be open to imposing an age limit on ar-15 style weapons. but stopped short of saying he wanted to rein state the assault weapon ban. chris, alisyn, that is something that the students i spoke to on the bus said is encouraging talk from the president but they say talk is just talk and they're not going to rest until they see some action. >> understood. thank you for all the action from there. joining us to talk about is cnn analyst john avlon and editor at large chris solcillizza. the kids made a pilgrimage to the state capitol. and the governor expressed interest in hearing from them. he said he will move the needle. he will have a pr

don jr.'concern among some ethics watchdogs that the trump organization is touting access to the president's son abroad but he's pushing back saying any talk of his family profiting from his father's presidency is quote, nonsense. don jr. says his family is actually missing out on business opportunities because his father pledged to conduct no new foreign business while he was in office. >>> let's turn to business for a moment. the federal reserve meeting minutes signaling that the economy is strong enough and ready for an interest rate hike and reversing what would have been a 300 point rally. we're joined live from london. good to have you with us this morning. what more can you tell us about what happened yesterday? a little bit unexpected. >> reporter: absolutely. it's got a little bit spooked by those minutes and it's given a signal that they were going to hike more than what the market is expecting potentially hiked four times this year and that sends yields a lot higher. as a consequenc

don jr.'s wife and two others take on the hospital, after opening an envelope, wide power inside. the note was postmarked boston and expressed anger toward trump jr. reportedly addressing the son directly. abc's gio benitez leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, the secret service and the nypd are investigating a suspicious package sent to donald trump jr. his wife vanessa opening a letter to find a white powder inside. she called 911 just after 10:00 a.m., telling police she was feeling dizzy. >> respond to 44th, suspicious substance. >> reporter: firefighters treating vanessa trump and two others there at the family's new york apartment before taking them to the hospital, where they had tests done as a precaution. the powder later deemed non-hazardous. donald trump jr. tweeting late today, "thankful that vanessa and my children are safe and unharmed after the incredibly scary situation that occurred this morning. truly disgusting that certain individuals choose to express their opposing views with such disturbing behavior." the white house reacting this afternoon. >> i know the pr

their path to bleeping trump goes rite through paul manafort, don jr. and jared kushner. it's as plain as a hair on your face." maybe on your face, mr. bannon. michael schmidt, you had the big scoop last night. this is something i have to say, i've heard from chris christie i think on this show, other people, nobody thinks it's a good idea for the president to talk to the special counsel. what did you learn? >> as you sort of saw it today, there are concerns about the president's discipline, not only that he will tell the truth -- what? >> the understatement of the century. there are concerns he's going to end up giving them the obstruction of justice case on a platter. isn't that one of the concerns? >> but the other concern is that he likes to talk and that he would go on and on and try and explain himself and in the process of that, open up all sorts of avenues to mueller and allow them to probe into areas that would be outside of what the president's lawyers think he should be questioned about. the question is is that is this a negotiating tactic? or do the lawyers re

last week, i watched don jr. on twitter say i've never seen so many journalists upset about transparency. if you want information, let it out. well, isn't that what this is today? so how are republicans going to handle it? >> well, i think house republicans are going to be under extraordinary pressure today to show transparency from both sides. we've seen how speaker paul ryan signaled he's open to approving the release of this democratic memo. i think if they were to stop this democratic memo from the house intelligence committee from coming forward, that would just be showing that this whole nunes memo was entirely a partisan exercise. just to underscore what was said earlier, what's been so striking in the last week or so, that the republicans have shifted away from being the party of law and order and are now really almost at war with the fbi and the department of justice over all of this in defense of president trump. >> it's stunning. you know, the president says that the memo vindicated him. but -- >> tota

a topic that is of course close to don jr.'since his brother was adopted from, transylvania? [ laughter ] i think? but then emails later surfaced in which it was revealed that the meeting was explicitly about getting dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. the times reported that trump and his communications director hope hicks knew about the emails, but that hicks said the emails, quote, "will never get out." amazing, so not only did the emails get out, the comment about how the emails would never get out, got out. [ laughter and applause ] this administration is so incompetent they cover their tracks with bigger tracks. [ cheers and applause ] and yet as more evidence comes out about trump's attempts to obstruct justice, republicans in congress are becoming more aggressive in protecting it. today the white house reportedly approved the release of a secret, classified memo written by house republicans alleging wrongdoing by the fbi in its investigation of the trump campaign. "the washington post" reported today that trump h

and yet don, jr. fox news to claim the gop memo disproved the entire russia investigation. >> what does this say now about the entire investigation? is it rotten to the core? >> listen, it always has been. you're right. we always said this. i mean, it is so ridiculous that -- let it go, though. at this point, let it go. at least they uncovered this, because what if they wouldn't have? what if -- if they would have just let it go, at this point, i mean, there is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family. >> seth: sweet revenge for the family? that sounds like something you say to a guy just before you close the car trunk on him. [ light laughter ] "say hello to the worms from the trump family." so what does this memo written entirely by house republicans actually say? well, to understand the memo, you first need to understand the man behind it, california congressman devin nunes. who, of course, has been compromised by the russians ever since putin got ahold of his hi

the statement that was released in don jr.'s name was pretty narrow. among the things in our story tonight is that he had been the person who insisted on the word primarily being in that statement, as in the meeting was primarily about adoption. as opposed to solely about adoption. >> but it was the president, correct me if i'm wrong, according to your reporting, who was the one pushing the idea that this meeting or was insisting that this meeting be described as a meeting about adoptions. >> yes. that it be cast in the narrowest way possible. that is correct. >> is it clear why he would have wanted to do that? >> look, anderson, you've interviewed him many times. i've interviewed him many times. he tends to go in the opposite direction of what is suggested to him. number two, his impulse is often not to do full disclosure with the press on any number of topics for any number of reasons. i think it would be dangerous to speculate as to what exactly he intended to do there because that is clearly what an investigator is looking at. >> it is so interesti

no don jr. tonight.was in the fbi, could make time to talk about it. appreciate you being with us. david, first of all, that donald trump jr. is liking tweets espousing a conspiracy theory involving you and your dad, i'm won d wondering what goes through your mind? >> i'm so sorry these people have lost their faith in america. i know i certainly haven't. the fact that these people refuse to believe that something like this could happen is something that all of us don't want to believe, but the sad truth is that it is. these people saying this is absolutely disturbing. and i'm not an actor in any sense, way, shape or form. i'm the son of a former fbi agent, and that is true. but as such, it is also true that i went -- that i go to stoneman douglas high school. and i was a witness to this. i'm not a crisis actor. i'm somebody that had to witness this and live through this. i continue to have to do that. but i've also -- it's just -- it's unbelievable to me that these people are even saying this. the fact t

>> finally don jr.with a russian lawyer offering dirt on hillary clinton. >> the stories kept changing about what the meeting was about. >> we got more information when donald trump jr.ppeared on f news. >> someone sent me an e-mail. i can't help what someone sends me, you know? i read it, i responded accordingly. and if something was interesting there, i think it pretty common. >> the difference in this case was that it came from russians. >> russia, america's adversary. sean hannity did not press trump jr. about russian interference, but one year earlier, jake tapper did. he asked trump jr. about what were then still just suspicions. >> robbie mook, the campaign manager for secretary of state hillary clinton, i asked him about the dnc leak and he suggested that experts were saying that russians were behind both the hacking of the dnc e-mails and their release. >> keep in mind as you watch this, it was six weeks after the trump tower meeting, after trump jr. had been told russia wanted to help his fath

but days laterer, e-mails to don jr. revealed something far different. don jr.eet the russians after he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. the e-mails said that dirt was high-level, sensitive information from, quote, russia and its government support for mr. trump. he tried to downplay the meeting. >> my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with russian lawyer. not a government lawyer. but a russian lawyer. >> reporter: that first misleading information was on this air force one flight where they hoped to craft it while returning from overseas. some asking why did the president step in at all? >> the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information he had. >> reporter: the spokesman for president trump's legal time at the time was concerned about the statement's miseleading nature. less than two weeks later he resigned. a source close to corolla promising dirt on hillary clinton, only, quote, a few people have them. they will never get out. he responded, this is washington, everything gets out. the special counsel has now c

in it, hicks reportedly said that e-mails written by the president's son don jr. about, the trump tower meeting, quote, will never get out. importantly, a lawyer for hicks denies she ever said that. maggie, one of the co-authors, add someday context when she wrote this. worth bearing in mind that mueller has the text exchanges between hope hicks and don jr., and has since last summer. it will be corallo's word versus those exchanges. jennifer rubin writes this. it seems core y'allo did everything possible to leave investigators a brightly lit trail of possible evidence. this all comes as nbc news has learned from a source familiar with the matter that steve bannon has not yet met with the special counsel. this source says discussions are ongoing as they say, for an interview date. here to talk about all of it, joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. i am reminded by you that hope hicks has already had her interview with the mueller team. having established that, what kind of legal jeopardy, and we know her denial of this, what kind of legal jeopard

sources are saying that the president has been spending time in mar-a-lago with his sons eric and don jr. who encouraged him to go after the fbi hard. so is this a strategy we're seeing from the president, channeling the anger of what happened at the fbi agency? >> this is a clear sign that president trump has really decided to go to war and will continue to go to war with the fbi. and in situations like this one, when you have an intelligence agency that does make a mistake, usually there is an acknowledgment by the person of that directive to look at what went wrong, but also context that is for all the work the intelligence agency does to keep americans safe. instead, you mind a tweet storm president trump will add in the fbi and not acting on the intelligence it had. and bringing russian collusion into that. this is a president we have talked about him being disciplined or just sort of firing off tweets left and right. but really, he has a very disciplined concerted strategy, and this could ultimately hurt the legitimacy of his presidency. and some are saying russia influenced the ou

nothing. ( laughter ) remember, before meeting with the russians, don jr. said in his emails that he loved the idea of colluding with the russian government? well, this former legal guy is going to say that hicks told president donald trump that the trump jr. emails "will never get out." there's no way. how could they? unless donald trump jr. does the stupidest thing possible and tweets them out himself on july 11, 2017. ( laughter ) so, good luck, ms. hicks. these are the trumps you work for. you're literally the only hope they have. we'll be right back with michael shannon! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) ♪ oh, ba-baby ♪ hey! ba-ba-baby ♪ oh, baby-baby ♪ look, look so good ♪ oh ( ♪ ) ♪ hey! ( ♪ ) ♪ oh, ba-baby ♪ hey! ba-ba-baby ♪ oh, baby-baby ♪ look, look so good ♪ oh, ba-baby ♪ look so good ♪ oh, ba-baby your heart doesn't only belong ♪to you. bye grandpa. and if you have heart failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. in the larges

and don jr. knows why people are suddenly calling his dad a racist. >> it was only till he got into politics that all of a sudden, "oh, he's the most terrible human being in the world. i don't know. he wasn't so terrible a couple of years ago when you were at his events. he wasn't so terrible then when you were hitting him up for charity dollars and he's sponsoring things and sponsoring scholarships and doing x, y, z for you guys. >> stephen: yes, how dare you call trump racist after he gave you guys "things" and "x,y,z? ( laughter ) it's all part of his charity: "donald trump's things and x,y,z for the rappers and the this. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ you know their slogan, "we have pictures with black people." jon, that is absolutely outrageous. what an outrageous claim. >> good to see you, man. >> jon: good to see you. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: now, we're still dealing with the fallout of the infamous republican memo written by house intelligence committee chair and man wondering, "w

it's president trump's condos that don jr. is selling.ou saw in that advertisement they didn't say "don jr." is here, they said "trump is here." that's what they're selling, access to president trump through his son, who is supposedly running his phony trust to resolve conflicts of interest, and who says he talks to the president all the time. and his mission there is to make as much money and sell as many condos as possible. and they've got to keep those condo buyers happy. so what's to keep donald jr. from promising to pass on a message from some foreign national who paid access to him, or worse, some foreign government that paid for access to him? the answer is, absolutely nothing. >> i have to ask you, michael, and consider the rules. as you said, there's no legal application for this. but it goes against all decency and norms. did we just think that we were going to -- in the history of america or in the future of america, that we would always nominate someone who was a decent person? wouldn't trade on the history of the united state

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it was postmarked in boston and contained an angry letter for don jr.campaign packages were sent to eric and his campaign headquarters as well. >>> smoke forced more than 140 people to evacuate the aircraft. a fire in a power unit broke out. everyone on board had to use the emergency chutes to evacuate. there were minor injuries reported. the plane was supposed to fly to san jose in california. >>> and three people and a gunman are dead after a 14-hour standoff in detroit. police say it started when two women arrived at home when their niece was having trouble with her boyfriend. they were shot and killed. and when police arrived, they also met gunfire. three were wounded. the gunman kept shooting. >> the officers were pinned down at least an hour while shots were being fired. >> investigators say the gunman shot and killed his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself. he had no criminal history. a relative says the gunman suffered from mental illness but authorities have not confirmed that. >>> an ohio man is accused of buying the gun used to kill

." >> stephen: okay. ( laughter ) bannon unloaded on don jr.leep). coincidentally, those are also their secret service code names. ( laughter ) trump fired back hard: now all he has to do is lose his dog, and he's going to have an awesome country song. still-- ( cheers and applause ) thank you very much. >> i've never been in a fight before. my entire life i haven't got in any fights. i'm undefeated. ( laughter ) i came very close to getting in a fight recently. i was at a bar. it was very busy. and this guy walked right into me, stepped on my sneakers. so, naturally, my reflexes kicked in. i apologized. ( laughter ) i said, "sorry." he must not have heard what i said, because next thing he did, he pushed me, rips off the shirt he had on, and he goes, "what? you think you're hard?" i was like, "now i am." ( laughter ) ( applause ) i didn't expect this to happen. ( laughter ) ( laughter ) >> stephen: i'm hoping to be nominated in all categories, including: ( laughter ) ( laughter ) ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: we'll be right

don jr. is a patriot, so that meeting wasn't treasonous and unpatriotic. was just treasonous. ( laughter ) we've got a great show for you tonight, everybody. ( cheers and applause ) liam neeson is here. but, when we come back, did you see that stephen miller on jake tapper yesterday? we did! stick around, we'll talk about it. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) touch is how we communicate with those we love, but when your psoriasis is bad, does it ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to help people with moderate to severe psoriasis achieve completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. in fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or have symptoms, or if you've received a vaccine or plan to. inflammatory bowel dis

don jr. released them if we are talking about the same body of information.the potential relevance of of that information to investigators? >> well, it's just another indicator that they tried to cover up the purpose and what happened at that june 2016 meeting. mark qaa rollo was the head of the office of public affairs at the beginning of the bush administration. he understands investigations. he understands how the justice department works. and so he's going to be a credible witness, i think, for the mueller team when they interview him. if the story he has to tell if there was some effort, we don't know exactly whether or not sort of the way in which hope hicks meant those statements if, in fact, she said them. but certainly the story that he has to tell will indicate that they were trying to in some way hide what went on in that particular meeting. >> so, michael, the question is how do we know what he will say since he hasn't been called before mueller yet. this is based on three sources with knowledge of what he plans to say, we're told. and when he is

would devin nunez and don jr. be undertaking these activities without telling donald trump what they are doing? >> there is no way that donald trump does not know what's happening. while he may not have been the most hand-on manager there is, the whole structure that he creates is one in which people are aiming to please him? that is a structure he creates. the notion that chris christie didn't know this was happening is utterly ridiculous. what he created too was a structure where people were doing all these things for the express purpose of pleasing him. the same thing with donald trump. that's why devin nunez has been caught running over there all the time, spending so much time there. he is trying to also curry favor with donald trump. that's why all of his pundits who support him get on tv and perform simply for donald trump. so the notion that he would somehow not know this when the entire structure around him is based on pleasing him. the fact that paul ryan and all of these people sat around the table and

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but don jr.d to say that mixing the two is unavoidable. >> obviously the business responsibility is a great one and even though i'm not in the administration, politics becomes a part of it. >> the president's son is in india to promote the trump organization's luxury apartments. and he is not quite the business meeting lined up. >> you will be meeting prime minister on the sidelines of the summit. no government official, but do you have anything in mind in what you will be discussing with him? >> no, not really. again, i'm here as a businessman and there is a reason why india is way before we were ever in politics but a place that we were looking to do deals and invest in. >> you heard that right, the prime minister of india is meeting on the sidelines with the president's son. president trump hasn't divested from his business, which means he could profit from his son's deal making with india. and just as a reminder, here is what the constitution says about profiting from politics. no person hold

don jr. using the trump brand to sell new luxury apartments. newspaper ads in the country touting trump has arrived, have you? don jr. is also set to speak at a business summit in new delhi this week, raising ethical questions about conflicts of interest. joining me now, we have democratic congressman john garamendi, a member of the house armed services committee, and, sir, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> so the president's son now runs the trump organization, which has this license property in india, and it had this before the election. now he's trying to sell those condos. you to see an issue here? >> absolutely. it is not just this. this goes on and on. this entire family is using the presidency to promote its personal business interests. we're seeing this all around the world. last april, the president of china in mar-a-lago, that same evening, ivanka gets free trademarks given to her, very valuable to her by the chinese government, and now off to india, mixing policy

and we know from the don jr. meeting, from papadopoulos, from others that putin took advantage of this by reaching out to trump again and again. we don't yet have the missing link. >> sure. >> but we have an awful lot of information. >> it's like with the sistine chapel picture of god and adam where we're at this point in the investigation. the fingers not quite touching yet. we'll see what will happen. >> it's almost there. and we know from the don jr. meeting, from papadopoulos, from others that putin took advantage of this by reaching out to trump again and again. we don't yet have the missing link. >> sure. >> but we have an awful lot of information. >> it's like with the sistine chapel picture of god and adam where we're at this point in the investigation. the fingers not quite touching yet. we'll see what will happen. >> it's almost there. >> new yorker david adamson, great to have you. >> thanks. >>> next, details from the russian troll farm operation interfering in the election. what an employee says it w

notice, don jr. backed out of a speech in order to fix the optics a bit. >> with don jr., jared kushner, ivanka trump, there has always been this question of, what experience do you have to be in these positions in the first place, which has always been -- >> some people would say, donald trump, what experience did he have to be are the? in fairness to that. >> to be in this position within are you looking at classified information, when you don't have the cre den recall to do so has been a problem for a lot of people. i think the optics are important for the public at least even if it doesn't ring true. >> you bring up a serious thing, why were they so worried about your sister in israel? we had israel spies steal stuff in that area. so they were certainly concerned. in china, an actual threat to us intellectually. >> the president-elect son-in-law is in a room in beijing, shanghai. you don'tly the there are 20 members of the chinese intelli-- they have involved in massive industrial political espio

don jr.s it was primarily about russian adoptions but we learned that the meeting was set up in the hope that the trump campaign would receive dirt about hillary clinton to help win the election. and they found that the spokesperson is expected to meet with bob mueller and he was consulted on the memo the next day and that he will tell mueller that the email showing the true nature of the meeting won't get out. >> and she was concerned she intended to obstruct justice. legal analysts say that lying to the public has been used as evidence for an obstruction of justice case. >> any lies could be part of an obstruction case, you put together you have different pieces and lies become part of the pieces. in the case of bill clinton when ken starr recommended the articles of impeachment one was based on lying to the public. >> and our sources say that mueller was only interested in the testimony after report fire department michael wolf's book that he was concerned about possible obstruction of jus

ultimately don jr. did release all of those e mailings. does that exxoexonerate them? >> the real question is what was donald trump sr. up to in that situation. not whether he was trying to lie to the media. what knowledge did he bring to that entire press statement drafting process? what did he actually know about the meeting? is it true as steve bannon suggested he knew the russians are coming and even met with them. we don't month that's the case. the reason that i would guess the special counsel is interested in donald trump's involvement is not because he was engaged in a public relations effort but because he was engaged in a larger effort to protect himself. >> hold on. paul ryan is taking questions about the fbi. >> over a very unique law, fisa. and if mistakes were made and if individuals did something wrong then it is our job as the legislative branch of government to conduct oversight over the executive branch if abuses were made. remember, fisa is a unique situation which involves americans civil liberties and if american civil liberties were abused then th