even don jr. himself tried to cover for his dad, telling congress, and that is under oath, i will note, that he did not know if trump was involved in drafting the misleading statemenand claiming that, quote, i never spoke to my father about it. so for nearly a year, let's be clear here, team trump claiming the president had little to no involvement. now in that newly released letter to robert mueller, trump's own lawyers say trump himself dictated the misleading statement on his own, which would seem to implicate the president in an effort to cover up his campaign's entanglement with russia. today sarah huckabee sanders was repeatedly asked to reconcile her past claims at that very podium in front of everyone like we saw on the tape with the new disclosure from the president's own lawyers, and she did not have much of an answer. >> if you say one thing from the podium that it wasn't dictated by the podium, you'reg something entirely different and contradicty. how are we supposed to know what to be

., what does this do in terms of expezzure to the president and don jr.? reason to expect he will say i was misinformed because i wasn't at the meeting. i was relyingan on information provided by others when i was crafting this or helping craft it. i suspect there is going to be some wiggle room there. now it's going to be one of the many building blocks that show conspiracy, collusion, obstruction of justice. i don't think this standing alone is necessarily a blockbuster. >> okay. not alone. but certainly part of the witch's brew, shall we say? susan del%io, the resonance from the letter really is not only the idea of operating as a royal, number one, but number two, some drilldowns on that would be he could kill this case at any time, right? that's one of the assertions being made. >> one of the assertions. >> a second assertion is i can fire anybody involved in this process at any time. >> let's not forget why they have to make those assertions. it is a because they do not want donald trump testifying in any shape or form to robert mueller or in front o

well, let's move on from the smartest man the world has ever known to don, jr. ( laughter ) today is d's birthday and he celebrated in the most normal way possible. >> don, your dad's birthday is today. >> it is. >> what's your message for him? >> hopefully he's watching, i imagine he is. happy birthday, dad. i love you very much. we love you. look forward to seeing you soon. i don't get to see him that much anymore. ( laughter ) >> trevor: this is so sad... ( laughter ) you realize trump's son knows the only way his father will see him is if he goes on "fox & friends." ( laughter ) ( applause ) and you know what's funny, you be what's funny is the president will see don, jr. on tv saying happy birthday, dad, and because he saw it on fox there's only an amount of time before he tweets, happy birthday, dad! real news! although i'm not going to lie, i like this idea of trump's family going to "fox & friends" to communicate with the president. melania should come on and be, like, donald, please stop leaving the toilet seat up! back to you steve doocy! ( laughter ) the main story, the 201

and it gives us some new details in what's going on in don jr.'s strangely wet head.o one source close to junior, now that mueller is looking into the infamous trump tower meeting, d.j.t.j. "regrets taking the meeting. does he regret it because he thinks he did something wrong? no. he regrets it because it ended up causing a situation that wasted a lot of time and money," which, coincidentally, is the motto on the trump family crest. ( laughter ) and this is how the article sums up the essence of the man that donald trump certain calls "what's his name?" one source said that "don jr., like seemingly everyone else in trump's orbit, was uselessly trying to impress a man who can only be impressed by himself." "he's hustling and trying to do what he can to contribute but without knowing where the lines are. he's a sad and tragic figure." aw, my heart goes out to that poor russia-colluding, wife-cheating, conspiracy-theory-tweeting son of a billionaire. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) in the words of a great poet, "womp, womp." ( laughter ) well, i'm excited about the

he wrote the letter admitting trump drafted don jr.'on "meet the press." >> the president was not, did not draft the response. the response came from donald trump jr. the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump jr. >> stephen: wow, he is good. but there is a very subtle tell when a president's lawyer is lying. see if you can spot it. right here! where he appears on tv. now it's possible that sekulow just got bum information from trump. so either he was lying to us, or the president was lying to him. though, to be fair, it was probably both. and sekulow's not alone. sarah huck-a-sanders also denied it last year. >> he certainly didn't dictate, but, you know, he-- like i said, he weighed in and offered suggestions like any father would do. >> stephen: yes, advice on hiding your crimes from the feds is what any father would do. i'm sorry. that's what any godfather would do. the point is-- the point is-- the point is, they've lied to us for a year, but now they'v

- >> to put a button on it, this was a lie about a meeting with the russians at trump tower where don jr dirt on hillary clinton. if those are the agreed upon facts now, we learned from josh do'sy and other "washington post" reporters overnight, that the president is parrazy right now. he is very into the idea that he n pardon people, which he can. >> he can. >> and the article also goes into some concerns that john kelly and chief of staff knows that he is not going through the normal process on this. >> well, he is certainly not going through the normal process. this is a characteristic donald trump moment. like a lot of presidents, but probably in a more extreme waeurbgs he's frustrated. it is hard to accomplish things. it is hard to get things through congress. pardons are very different. they are close to absolute powers on the part of the president. he can, with the stroke of a pen, accomplish something. he also likes celebrities. he also likes to make celebrities happy and get publicity. pardons get lots of publicity. he has kim kardashian asking for a pardon for a seemingly deser

besides everyone who attended it. ( laughter ) we're offering this special don jr.ers: don jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and natalia veselniskaya. and if people get mad about it, just flip it over and you can pretend the coin is really about russian adoption. ( laughter ) ( applause ) this coin commemorating trump's reaction to white supremacist marches in charlottesville has very fine people on both sides. ( laughter ) these are all legal tender at participating cracker barrels. we'll be right back with jessica chastain. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) thanks for the ride-along, captain! i've never been in one of these before, even though geico has been- ohhh. ooh ohh here we go, here we go. you got cut off there, what were you saying? oooo. oh no no. maybe that geico has been proudly serving the military for over 75 years? is that what you wanted to say? mhmmm. i have to say, you seemed a lot chattier on tv. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. you ok back there, buddy? sorry, one second it's loading, look. security: let's speed thi

if all those people i just listed, don jr. and flynn and -- if they were all pardoned, mueller would still be prosecuting this case against all these russians. this conspiracy case. as part of this case alone mueller and his team can pursue everybody who might have been involved in this alleged criminal conspiracy. which means even if they're all officially pardoned they can all end up named as co-conspirators in any superseding indictments or any court proceedings that derive from this case, up to and including the president himself. the only way the president could avoid that, the only way the president could avoid having mueller continue to investigate, having the whole criminal conspiracy laid out for the american people is if in addition to pardoning don jr., paul manafort, carter page, george papadopoulos, jared, mike flynn, himself, if in addition to all of those pardons, the real way he could only make this go away through his pardon power is that he would also have to pardon all of the russians in this indictment. he

. >> a russian emailed don, jr., we have dirt on hillary clinton and he said i love it. jesse: you know how suspicious that is. if you are don, jr., you are a businessman and you are looking for anything you can get on hillary. and the woman who comes in gets a special visa approved by loretta lynch before the meeting and after the meeting meets with fusion gps? doesn't that look like a setup? >> the activities are questionable. they are inexplicable. they do not comfort with traditional law enforcement and trade cast of spy. they comport with an effort to subvert the campaign of the opposing candidate. when you go back to july 5, 2016, and james comey's famous news conference where he accused hillary clinton of a series of crimes, then exonerates her, whatever the russians were trying to do, they couldn't have done anything worse than james comey did on that day. he gave a blow to the hillary clinton campaign. the bottom line is this. while all that is going on, james comey, john brennan and james clapper are trying to figure out how to subvert the candidacy of the oppo

because he thought he was watching obstruction -- >> let's watch the president try to explain that. >> don jr. did you dictate the statement about donald trump jr.? >> let's not talk about that. you know what that is? it is irrelevant. a statement to the "new york times." the phony failing "new york times." >> clear it up. >> that's not a statement to a high tribunal of judges. that's a statement to the phony "new york times." frankly, he shouldn't even speak to the "new york times" because they only write phony stories anyway. although yesterday they wrote a nice story. >> i don't know. i have question to formulate. just go. >> i mean, so many things to look at there. obviously, that is just -- the simple plain truth of it is that's a question he didn't want to answer and didn't come close to answer in any way. all he did was turn on the fog machine, and say next question, right, while throwing a few elbows at the "new york times." >> right. >> if you try to pars it in logical terms his argument would be something like the "new york times" is fake news so it's okafor me to lie to the "new yo

the lie from his legal team and white house that he had nothing to do with the initial misleading don jr. statement about his meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower. the president did have something to do with it and dictated the statement because his lawyers admitted to it in a memo to special counsel seen by the "new york times." and the white house hasn't had a good explanation for why they have not told the truth. >> why do you think they chose to lie about his role in drafting this statement about trump jr.'s meeting with the russians? >> you think maybe somebody could have made a mistake. >> one thing from the podium, it wasn't -- bth president. why is it contradicting, how can we believe what you're saying from the podium if lawyers are saying it's entirely inaccurate? >> i can't comment on a letter from the president's outside counsel. i direct you to tm tnswer it. john? >> the words -- you said he did not dictate. the lawyer said he did. what is it? >> i can't respond to the letter from the president's outside counsel. >> it is still unclear what to believe from what she

statement claimed don jr. only let a kremlin linked lawyer to talk about adoptions. now trump's legal team admits the president was not just involved he actually dictated the statement. >> first it was all denied. now you are saying he dictated it. >> i don't know -- jay would have to answer that. i've talked to him about it. i thought jay was wrong. this is the reason you don't let the president testify. all recollection keeps changing. >> point two, discredit the investigation. trump has tweeted about the investigation and that it is a witch hunt specifically 52 times. this morning he tried to again claim the investigators are bias biased. quote, the never ending witch hunt led by 13 very angry and conflicted democrats and others continues in to the mid-terms." point three. muddy the waters t confuse public. like this. paul manafort came in to the campaign very late, trump says, and was with us for a short period of time. again, not true! >> when the president says that paul manafort only played a small role in the campaign for a short time, or only says -- >> it's

that was a false statement that don jr. later gave to the senate committee, later gave to investigators, and it's a false story that donald trump has put out there for all of his minions to follow. so if we're talking about paul manart, we also ought to be talk about donald trump. >> paul manafort is known to consider himself tough, to not break. if you are writing and he is jailed he has been around the world and he's dealt with all kinds of sundry individuals, do you see him as being more likely to break if he's in jail before trial? >> let me say this, before trial and after the trial, if they charge him, which they well could with witness tampering, which is a 20-year felony, i think this felony carries more years than any of the other felonies that he's charged with. he's look at life in prison at this time. so he's got to make a very significant choice. it's either him or it's the higher-ups that he knows about. >> neera, your view of this, as adversary of this individual. you held a high role in the clinton campaign.

is saying it was about adoptions, the meeting at the trump tower was about adoptions when his son don jr. was trying to get dirt on hillary clinton -- >> shepard: from russians. >> right. >> shepard: from russians. that's what the lie was about. they were trying to get dirt on the campaign of hillary clinton's campaign from the russians who were in the room. they forgot that in the beginning. nobody mentioned that initially. then they wrote a memo saying it was about adoptions. and then saying no, it was about dirt on hillary clinton except sarah sanders isn't admitting that. >> the question is can we rely on the president and the white house to give us accurate information about questions that were asked. so we're told by the lawyers in this memo that the president dictated the statement. the statement was not accurate. it was misleading. you know, the public and the press are genuinely asking for answers to explain that and we're not getting them right now. until that happens, there's credibility problem that they're not going to go away. >> shepard: frustrating? >> for all of us, shep

the president did dictate that first misleading statement regarding that trump tower meeting with don jr. who wanted dirt on hillary clinton. don junior said he didn't speak to his father about the statement. the president may have commentsed through hope hicks. if the president didn't do anything wrong, surely he speaks to his son. >> i don't know. i mean, the facts are murky, only thing that's quite clear is that the letter and the statements by sarah sanders and jay seculo are completely contradictory. >> yes. >> she said -- and she used the exact words. the president didn't dictate the letter. the response to the trump tower meeting. the 20 page letter says he did dictate it somebody's wrong. i don't know who's right and who's wrong. the -- now, hope hicks has testified repeatedly before, i believe, both the senate judiciary committee and the mueller investigation. she was intimately involved in this, i would suspect her view would carry a lot of weight about how the statement came into being. as for -- i don't think we have anyway of knowing which one is telling the truth. >> when s

that's our jodownside. >> don jr. obviously not part of the administration in an official capacity but he is obviously one of his father's closest advisers. and is at camp david right now. he's saying this is all a leverage tactic by president trump. he is keeping the pressure on north korea. and that's why the summit is going to take place. pam, we'll have to see if it ends up resulting in any sort of tangible outcomes here for this administration. >> yes, we shall see. ryan nobles, thank you so much. >>> these negotiations happened back and forth for weeks now. the summit finally moving forward it appears. cnn's global affairs correspondent elise labbat joins me now. it's been a roller coaster ride. it was a couple months ago where the president said hey, we got some big news on north korea coming out. you find out they planned the summit, then canceled, then back on. how much of a role did the president canceling the meeting play in terms of a negotiating tool? >> well, look, i think we forget that these things are

did in fact or his staff did lie to the american public bought who dictated that response regarding don jris meeting with the russians. it was in fact donald trump, and i think they tried to get out a little ahead of that by releasing this memo. >> all right. don and susan, sit tight. next, we unpack a new book that gives a glimpse into president obama's views on the 2016 election. ♪ most people come to la with big dreams. ♪ we came with big appetites. with expedia, you could book a flight, hotel, car, and activity all in one place. ♪ >>> an upcoming book on the obama white house from long time adviser ben rhodes is revealing new details about the emotional stages the former president went through after president trump's election. "the new york times," which had an early look at the book "the world as it is" writes that few moments shook mr. obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth. let's bring don calloway and susan back. i'm pretty excited to talk to ben rhodes about this next saturday. former president obama reportedly aski

reporter: did you dictate the statement about don jr.? president trump: that's a statement to the "new york times" that's a state optometrist the phony "new york times." in fact, in fact, frankly he shouldn't even speak to the "new york times" because they only write phony stories anyway, although yesterday they wrote a nice one about what a good job i was doing. reporter: on the i.g. report you said twice it exonerates you. president trump: if you read the report, i'm exonerated. take a look at the investigation, how it started, take a look at the horrible statements peter strzok, the chief investigator said and take a look at hillary clinton. i would -- i'll tell you what, you're asking me about peter strzok being fired. i'm amazed that peter strzok is still at the f.b.i. and so is everybody else that read that report. and i'm not even talking about the report. i'm talking long before the report. peter strzok should have been fired a long time ago. and others should have been fire department. president trump: i'm looking at scott, scott

president dictated, not just weighed in on, but dictated the initial untruthful response to that don jr. meeting and jared kushner and paul manafort meeting in trump tower with that russian lawyer. >> reporter: that meeting of course was set up on the belief that a russian lawyer was going to provide dirt on hillary clinton. the controversy surrounding the purpose of the meeting and more importantly really the initial lies that the president and don jr. made in statements to the media claiming that the meeting was about adoptions. for the tfirst time the president's lawyers admit that he helped in this letter despite denials from his lawyer. rudy giuliani blaming it on poor recollection, saying this is one of the reasons why he doesn't want the president talking to mueller about this issue. take a listen. >> this is the reason you don't let the president testify. recollection keeps changing or we're not evensked the question, somebody makes an assumption. in my case, i made an assumption, then we corrected it and i got it right out as soon as it happened. i think that's what happened he

a er don jr. did it."aughter ] according to a rreleased by the justice department's internal watchdog, former fbi j directes comey used a personal gmail account on us occasions to conduct fbi business. and when she heard that, hillary clinton punched a wall so hard the building collapsed. [ laughter and applause ] " according to tshington post" epa chief scott pruitt last year tasked an aide with fiing his wife a job. while trump tasked an aide with finding his wi, period. [ light laughter ] "seriously, it's been like three erweeks and i haven't seen [ light laughter ] the craft site etsy raised it's transaction fee for sellers today, and they are not happy about it. [ laughter and applause ] a new study has found that people who run marathons have less arthritis tn non-runners. responded non-runners, "this. this is why no one wants to hang out with you."ht [ light la ] and finally, the cdc is warning that there has been a tis a out break in six states. and you know what that means, he's back on tour, baby

that has to doh the don jr. meeting at trump tower in 2016. of course, poppy, that meeting was set up on the belief that a russian lawyer was going to provide dirt on hillary clinton. now, the controversy surrounding the purpose of the meeting, but more importantly it was the initial lies in this statement that was provided to the media from the president and also don jr. claiming that the meeting was about adoptions and now in this letter, this 20 page letter, the president's lawyers submitted to mueller, they admit, they admit the president dictated that misleading statement, despite as you will recall repeated denials from the white house, and his lawyers. now, giuliani yesterday was blaming it on poor recollection saying that this is one of the reasons why he doesn't want the president talking to mueller about this issue. here's giuliani. >> i mean, this is theso you don't let this president test if, you ow, our recollection keeps changing, or we're not even asked a question and somebody makes an assumption. in my case, i made an assumptio

while the senate judiciary committee released new evidence about don jr.'th the russians at trump tower suggesting an attempted cover-up. and also a qatari businessman says cohen asked him for a million dollars. and also cohen was working on a deal to build a trump tower in moscow and also donald trump is currently leading the police on a high-speed chase on the los angeles freeway in a white ford bronco. >> seth: who knows. we had to make some educated guesses. i hope all that information was correct. [ light laughter ] now as we learned last week, trump's personal attorney michael cohen had a secret shell company set up not only to pay off stormy daniels, but to collect millions of dollars in secret payments from companies. and a firm link to a russian oligarch. we know about these secret payments because cohen's bank records were leaked but, last night we got a truly crazy story about why. the person who leaked those bank records decided to do it. >> the new yorker speaking to a law enforcement official who claims to be the individual who leaked michael

. >> so you write some annex dirt al writes including don jr. you say when don jury was born oh, it was the price worked out. they want to talk to ivan na. it's called, what raise if it's loser? >> this is the thing, when you have one of the russian participants in the try tower meeting. take jourp spot and go, 3457b, i feel bad about the guy. anybody but himself. >> and when the russians who are -- see you as their kind of delivery boy, when they feel pretty for you. it's maybe not the best. then when you wrote this, my dad would call him donnie. why don't you call it something like that. the exports are out to here. seen i don't remembers. always living in shadow. i have kind of strategize approval. there are so many different dumps. ivanka want to get divorced. they started having an epic public battle over the assets, over their marriage. my drunk beld him to get some arrangement, keep today 2. it happened bank cuss. i said, yeah, it was all my fault. >> wow. >> well, let's called a real story with dump. it's fascinating. thank you. >> thank

president he knew everything about the counterintelligence investigation of donald trump he knew that don jr and the rest of the crew met with the russians in trump tower he knew the papadopoulos had met with you know they had bragged to the australian a baster about the dope the dirt on on hillary he knew about felix ater trying to get a trump tower moscow bill he knew that there was fake there with lies put out about about the trump tower meeting and yet he did nothing to disclose to the public that this counterintelligence investigation was going on before donald trump got elected and at the same time he encouraged. me to put out that letter that was so damaging ten days before the campaign was over that was struck still and so to me this note . and that for the poisonous tree is twisted it is prevert and as i said i think kind of duran to it speaks to how people want to kind of see ghosts you know donald trump refers to this as a witch on the phrase witch hunt became because there were no which is. gotten five plea agreements he's gotten another dozen or more people indicted these are no

this is the day don jr. was born. quote, what should we name him, donald asked ivanka. usband balk. what if he's a loser? the name stuck and by 8:00 he'd left the hospital. it's one anecdote that begins the brand of trump parenting that you described in the book. how do you characterize the upbringing that all these trump kids had? >> in one sense it was incredibly privileged. they had a castle essentially in palm beach on the ocean. they had a house in grenich. these were kids who grew up with a gold spoon if their mouth but they had a fairly traumatic childhood themselves. their parents' divorce was so public they had to be pulled out of school and live in mar-a-lago for two months. they had parents who was very self-focus and while they gave them so much. >> they were essentially raised by staff. >> two nannies and ivanka's parents were very much available for their young childhood as well. their parents were around, they lived in trump tower, they worked in trump tower, they saw their dad every day but it was not a traditional father, son relationship as well. >> so

steve: we had your son, don, jr. on our show, was not getting anything for your birthday because you have got everything. >> i just want to have a successful country. to be honest, this is so intense we've done more, i don't say this in bragging way, some of the haters say, we have done more 500 days, now 510 days than any 500-day president first term by far. and that is what i want to do. i want to really -- you know, i got elected to make america great again very simple, make america great again. that's what we're doing. we're respected around the world. you look at iran. not talking about iran taking over middle east. i gave them that crazy deal. iran is not looking to the mediterranean. they had to go through a lot of territory. they're looking to survive but i will tell you, some day soon, they will come back and they want to negotiate a deal and we'll make a deal. but they were nasty. they were very, very nasty. they had to be stopped. i took away the deal and i think they have been treating america with much m

it claims trump dictated don, jr.'s letter. legal experts say the mueller team is looking deeply into that. there are a lot of moving parts here. but is it evidence of impeachable wrongdoing? here to break it down. judge andrew napolitano. first up, mike lee. he's not only a lawyer. he's a member of the senate judiciary committee and the author of the book written out of history. that is available in paperback and a perfect summer read. welcome back to the show, senator. so you have worked in the supreme court. your name has been floated as a possible nominee to become an associate justice. you tell me. does the president have the absolute power to pardon himself? >> i'm not aware of anything in the constitution that says he doesn't have that power. just because he could doesn't mean he should. it's clear he shouldn't and it would and big mistake politically to do so. kennedy: everyone on his team echoed what you said, it would be a bad idea. i think the president knows that, so why brit up in the first place? >> they like to t

against the donald trump foundation alleging the president and three of his children, eric, ivanka and don jr. misused fund in a pattern of persistent illegal content. it delivers documentation and specificity we have not seen before. the president says it's all the product of sleazy new york democrats. and a draft immigration bill adds new restrictions to asylum seekers and would offer protection to young children. this comes as attorney general jeff sessions is using the bible to defend that practice. the "washington post" notes it is the same bible passage once used to justify slavery. we have this all covered for you. a lot going on. abby phillip live at the white house. abby? >> reporter: well, good morning, john. it seems very much like 2016 all over again thanks to the independentor germ report into the fbi's handling of the clinton e-mail probe. both sides seem to be taking some vindication from the report's findings, but it also appears to be a preview of the partisan arguments we might get when robert mueller finishes his special counsel probe into the russia investigation. >> tomor

on to the mueller team basically saying that that initial misleading statement, that the fact that don jr., paul manafort and others from the trump team were meeting over the russians were adoptions, that was misleading. ultimately relearn it was about dirt on hillary clinton. pamela brown asked the question if sarah sanders wanted to correct the record because we heard the president did indeed dictate the statement and rudy giuliani, the outside counsel, who sarah sanders kept refurrerg to yesterday in the briefing said this: >> i don't think anybody was lying. i think it was in the very early stages of a representation by a lawyer, which happens a the time. i don't think it's a significant fact. it was a mistake. i swear to god, it was a mistake. the guide madey made a >> so that said, mave restin to you, today it was asked do you want to correct the record? we did hear rudy giuliani saying it was a mistake and yet she dodged. >> first of all, it doesn't make any sense that giuliani said it s a mistake, considering that was a contention made by different members of the administration an

the significance of this meeting is that don jr. thought he was meeting with someone that was going to provide dirt about health care heal hillary clinton. he wanted to talk about adoptions. finally bla finally what's really important here is that the president's lawyers have been making arguments to the special council. now some of them publicly why the president should not be subjected to an interview and it seems at least from everything we know that that's not working. >> this issue of whether a president can be compelled, the courts have never been crystal clear about it. for instance, going all the way back to to thomas jeffer son. you think we have problems today. of course he had killed secretary of state alexander hamilton. he did ultimately submit personal papers for the court to consider. nixon never personally testified. the only example are situations where presidents have voluntarily agreed to testify. bill clinton did that. it is still an open question whether he could be compelled to appear in front of a grand jury.

clearly a shot at don jr. ( laughter ) they're going after-- ( cheers and applause ) yes. next, they're going after mayonnaise, which everyone knows that's mike pence's favorite drink. and sailboats, motorboats and inflatable boats. so, there goes melania's escape plan. ( laughter ) but the biggest hit of all is that canada will harshly tax imports of maple syrup. that's right. that's right. canada's going after trump's favorite food: topping. but the thing that really has canada's toques in a tangle is that, in order to justify the tariffs, donald trump had to essentially declare that canada is a security threat to the united states. oh, no. it makes sense. no, no, it makes sense. have you ever gotten one of their quarters while doing laundry? that's a war crime. ( laughter ) but trump's declaration didn't sit well with trudeau. turns out, in a recently revealed phone call that happened last month, trudeau pressed trump on how he could justify the tariffs as a national security issue, and trump responded, "didn't you guys burn down the white house?" ( laughter ) adding, "

that trump's lawyers admit they put out false statements denying that trump wrote that defense of don jrth trump tower and those same lawyers admitting that trump can commit t

they had somewhat of a tense relationship. >> don jr. was 12 when this played out.dren in school were talking about it. he had a lot of anger at the time. he didn't speak to his father for quite a bit of time. and the relationship took a while to heal. his relationship with ivanka was interesting. she was concerned that, perhaps, she would be replaced. she asked her mother, am i still going to be a trump? is that still going to be my last name. she would call her father more often. she would visit him at his office more often. it was an interesting dynamic. eric was very young when it all happened. the press was so scrutinizing of their every move, that ivan was moved to palm beach for three months to get them out of the public eye. >> what did we learn about donald trump as a father. his children i codolize him. was he a hands-on father? what kind of father was he? >> i would not call him hands-on. he is someone who was self-focused and still very self-focused. his children learned to work around this. they had two full-time nannies who filled the lion's share of t

he is upset about it and president's son don jr. tweeted this. not a cult at all.be they like somebody who actually fights. not just someone who talks about it and folds every time like they have seen for decades maybe they enjoy having a conservative at the helm who actually likes to win. todd: somebody talking about it yesterday was rush limbaugh. here is what he said taking down bob corker. take a listen. >> senator corker, this isn't a cult by any stretch of the imagination. donald trump does not have a hold on these people. in fact, senator, you want to know the truth? donald trump is not the cause of all of this. donald trump is the beneficiary. donald trump has the ability to understand where a majority of republican voters were and what they were thinking and how fed up they were about certain things. and donald trump came along and he spoke their language. he validated what they were thinking. and he has become their champion. nobody else in your party stepped up. brian: that is rush limbaugh. if we have a chance we should book don jr. todd: 8:00 today? br

. >> i tried to side step questions over the don jr. statement. you're saying one thing from the podium that it wasn't dictated from the president. how can we believe what you sere saying in his lawyers are saying it's entirely inaccurate? >> i can't comment on a letter. >> you said he did not dictate. the lawyer said he did. what is ? >> i don't know, i can only respond to a letter from the president's outside counsel. we purposely walled off and i would refer to them for comment. >> to that reporter's point who are we supposed to be when the official white house spokes person is saying shing the official -- >> and then rudy giuliani is saying something totally different as well. >> this has come up again and again. how are we supposed to trust you when we're getting all of these contradicting statements. i mean, you have directly contradictory statements here. speaking on behalf of the american government that the president did not dictate this statement, rudy giuliani saying actu she made a mistake. that jay sekulow just made a mistake. it was

the first time, president trump's attorneys admit he dictated the initial response about his son don jr. meeting with a russian attorney months before the election. something the white house had previously denied. >> he certainly didn't dictate, but like i said, he weighed in. >> reporter: when asked about this, giuliani used it as an example for why the president shouldn't go before mueller. >> first you're saying he denied, now you're saying he dictated it. >> this is the reason you don't let the president testify. our recollection keeps changing or somebody makes an assumption. >> reporter: president trump is again accusing the justice department of being unfair. he said they should have told he knenage hsaheouldavner red hf tara palmieri, abc news, the white house. >>> and more news out of the white house. the first lady will not be joining the president at the g-7 summit in quebec and has no plans to join him in singapore for the meeting with the north korean leader. over the weekend she stayed behind even though the first family went to camp david. she is meeting with staff and pl

if you want to pick a fight, pick it with me, you, the don jr., sebastian gorka. kick it with us.nhannity, we will tell you where you are eating. you can come. shame, shame, shame. you can chant all you want. thanks for being with us. when we come back, ed henry with a live report on two big stories that will consume washington tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> sean: a big day on capitol hill tomorrow. house representatives are going to vote on a highly contentious immigration bill. also anti-trump fbi agent peterr strzok will appear in a closed-door hearing and we willa be working hard to bring you that story. here with more on these stories and more, chief national correspondent, who didn't really want to hang out at the white house tonight, so he went to the studio where he's drinking coffee all night. that's a good shot of the white house, it looks better. maybe he will walk outside and say hi like he did to steve doocy. >> this is a story about immigration and capitol hill. we decided to do it from the studio. just a stone's throw away from capitol hillll. now that you've shamed me i will go

legal team actually acknowledged that the president dictated a "short but accurate statement" on the don jr. meeting at trump towr. it was misleading, let's put that out there. this was a statement that as you'll recall said it was primarily about russian adoption and we find out no, it was to get dirt on hillary clinton but this also comes after the president's lawyer, jay sekulow and sarah sanders had said he didn't diblg tate it. sarah sanders later said he weighed in. what do you make of that? >> look, it's a problem when a president misleads the press because you're misleading the publ and bill clinton found that out when he told anybody he didn't have sexual relations with a particular woman. it wasn't he was misleading the reporters asking the questn he was misleading the american people and he suffered liticall that time. i think that this tells us, there's a lot we probably do not know about what mueller is investigating and what he has found out and you've seen especially since giuliani came on as the president's lead legal spokesman and lawyer this desire to get out in front of t