donald trump jr., next. >> sean: thanks to our friends on "the five." donald trump jr. is here to set the record straight about his june 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer. he will join us for an exclusive in-depth interview. that's coming up. by the way, for all the members of the district or media that have to tune into my show tonight, get out your pad and pen. you may actually learn a thing or two. we have a message for you. maybe you want to take notes. we want to lay out the real scandals that you are not covering that you should be covering. if you were actual journalists, you would be. let's lay out the facts of this story. that is tonight. important opening monologue. earlier today after "the new york times" reported on the content of email exchanges prior to this meeting at trump tower, donald trump jr. released what he said is the entire email chain. contact was initiated by rob goldstone, a music publicist who represents a russian pop star who knows the trump family from the 2013 miss un

donald trump jr., next. >> sean: thanks to our friends on "the five." donald trump jr. is here to set the record straight about his june 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer. he will join us for an exclusive in-depth interview. that's coming up. by the way, for all the members of the district or media that have to tune into my show tonight, get out your pad and pen. you may actually learn a thing or two. we have a message for you. maybe you want to take notes. we want to lay out the real scandals that you are not covering that you should be covering. if you were actual journalists, you would be. let's lay out the facts of this story. that is tonight. important opening monologue. earlier today after "the new york times" reported on the content of email exchanges prior to this meeting at trump tower, donald trump jr. released what he said is the entire email chain. contact was initiated by rob goldstone, a music publicist who represents a russian pop star who knows the trump family from the 2013 miss un

that is donald trump jr.. donald trump jr.d nothing came of the meeting because the russian woman he met with wanted to talk about adoption instead of destroying hillary clinton's campaign. that story will probably work for donald trump jr.. as the investigation proceeds because this is not a donald trump jr. story. meaning he is not the person in the most trouble in this story. donald trump jr. is now serving as a very convenient heat shield for his brother-in-law, jared kushner, who was also in that meeting, and was included on the e-mails entitled russia, clinton, private and confidential. the e-mails that set up that meeting. >> donald jr might face some legal liability for soliciting something of value to a federal campaign from a foreign citizen. that is against the law. but it is not clear that law could be applied to this kind of meeting. jared kushner is facing a much more serious criminal liability as a result of simply having received that e-mail. that alone. the e-mail. that is a serious criminal issue. for jared k

every tweet i would have from donald j.his twitter account, would be about jobs, the economy, whatever is going on with the national security, and those issues. that is what i would do. i would strangle the narrative. >> eric: that will not be very much fun, what it? [laughter] congresswoman maxine waters has been calling for the impeachment of donald trump for months, said come on twitter, "at this point, "the new york times" could release trump leaving a voice message thanking pruden for his services and the g.o.p. would still say nothing burger." really? kat, your thoughts? you may agree with some of that. >> kat: you would have a problem with this if there was a voice mail? >> eric: there are people who would agree -- i'm just saying there was no collusion. >> kat: i think that there are people who will excuse everything. i also think that maxine waters is someone who has been calling for impeachment over everything. it makes me frustrated that those seem to be largely the main two groups of people out there without muc

donald trump jr.d a family acquaintance with something to offer. from the opening e-mail dated june 3rd of last year, some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and would be very useful to your father from a music producer named rob gold stone passing on information he says is from a russian pop star who is the son of a real estate mogul known as the donald trump of russia. gold stone goes on to say, "this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump." that's the offer, dirt on hockey gathered by a foreign adversary to help him become president. trump's junior reply, if it's what you say i love it especially later in the summer and from there trump junior and gold stone go on to set up a meeting with what he calls the russian government attorney who is flying over from moscow. then in the next e-mail, the russia attorney. several more e-mails follow before donald trump looping in paul manafort and ja

if donald jr.d his fathe about this overte, copie him on these e-mails, it's a very big political problem, i think. it is not, i think, a legal problem. even if this contact between the russian government -- or russian government officials and the trump campaign is unlawful, and it's not clear that it is unlawful, but even if it is unlawful, simply knowing about it on behalf of the president, i can't imagine that would be seen as a crime. but you know, it's important to remember that as important as these, you know, e-mails are that were released today, we all know that e-mails travel in chains, and lots of people are copied, and lots of people have access to e-mails. and there were probably other e-mails about this meeting. all of which director mueller will have access to, and we, at this point, don't have access to. so, you know, we have an important part of the story today, but it's only part of the story, and i think that's important to keep in mind as, you know, people go make dramatic conclu

president donald trump. also what we're seeing here as well -- there is a divide between what the u.s. and south korea want in their policy with north korea and how to deal with the country. and then what china and russia wants. certainly this is something that is being played out here in south korea. media is focusing quite heavily on this perceive d divide betwen the two sides, them versus us, how to deal with north korea. china and russia asking that there is a halt in the u.s.-south korea military drills in return for a halt or freezing in north korea's nuclear weapons program. it's been rejected in the past. china has suggested this in the past. but it is a divide that is concerning some here in south korea. hannah? >> paula hancocks, thank you very much. in seoul, south korea. >>> well, moscow is urging washington to end its joint military drills that it conducts with south korea. matthew chance is with us now live from the russian capital, moscow. the u.s. and russia at loggerheads again over what to

that donald trump, mr.somehow seems to believe that his outsized personal and social media following make him larger than the presidency which a lot of people have been saying. he's wrong. he and his family seem oblivious to the brutal realities of washington politics. those will destroy mr. trump, his family and business reputation unless they change their strategy toward the russia probe. they don't have much more time to do it. it's saying he thinks he's larger than the presidency and the family does, as well. they're dead wrong. >> yeah, i don't know whether they think they're larger than the presidency or not. i know this, the reality of the russia issue is threatening to engulf this particular presidency. there's a way for them to get a handle on it, a, they should go testify. donald trump jr. at least and kushner. b, i think i would ask for the russia sanctions bill immediately. c i would have the intelligence community come to the whourks give me a full updated briefing on the mettling and use that

donald trump responded by saying we will see what happens. i don't like to draw redlines but i have some severe things we are thinking about. as to what those severe things are he doesn't like to talk about it but he did say this. listen. >> we will take a look at what happens over the coming weeks and months. they are behaving in a very dangerous manner and something has to be done about it. >> reporter: the other big issue that came up at the press conference was of course russia and allegations of russian meddling in the with election, donald trump said definitively he said i think it was russia that was behind this russian interference in the us election but he also said something he has said in the past, he also says he thinks it could be others, other countries as well. donald trump suggests he took another big swipe at his predecessor, former president barack obama. >> obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were russia, found out about it in august. he did nothing about it. why do nothing about it? >> a few

donald trump jr.'s revelation that he met last year with a russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. there's that and there's donald trump jr.'s changing story about it. there's also repercussions. more on all of it now from our jeff zeleny. >> reporter: the white house faces a new round of questions tonight over potential collusion between the trump campaign and russians during last year's election. fresh off president trump's meeting with vladimir putin, it is another meeting in june of 2016 between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer that's drawing fresh scrutiny. the russian lawyer, known for her opposition to u.s. sanctions against russia over human rights, said she had damaging information about hillary clinton. the white house on the defensive again, insisting president trump didn't know about the session in trump tower that came only two weeks after he clinched the republican nomination. white house spokeswoman sara huckabee sanders said the president only learned about it in the last

donald trump jr.'s role in organizing it to congressional investigators who had questions about his foreign contacts. according to people familiar with the events. and so, ron, it seems to me that the trump administration knew this was coming out. manafort's disclosed it. the house investigators know it. now it's on jared kushner's disclosure form finally, and it represents a possible crime in jared kushner's case because he did not put it on his original disclosure forms. so at some point, the trump administration has the decision, do we want to see this thing come out in the middle of a house hearing that jared kushner is the witness at, where it lands as a bombshell on jared kushner, or do we want it to come out before that and maybe come out with donald trump jr. being the star of the article because donald trump jr. doesn't face the same criminal liability as jared kushner does. >> yeah. you know, they're shaping up for a very interesting thanksgiving dinner in the trump household. i mean it does

sto >>> donald trump jr.'an lawyer leaving the white house in turmoil, but what about the trump family? i want to discuss with author of "why wall street matters "snoorks do" "why wall street matters "snoorks do" ," douglas brinkley and cnn contributor emily ann fox. emily, i want to start with you. we talked about the staff, now let's talk about the family. what are you hearing from your sources about how they're dealing with the fallout on this donald jr. e-mail? >> i think eric said it best on twitter yesterday when he said our family is incredibly close. what you see when times are tough for this family is that they are brought closer and closer together, and i think it's a very us against them mentality and we're seeing that now as we've seen that for years and years and years. what you have to remember about this family, particularly the children, is that they have been in the public eye their entire lives and they have been in the papers their entire lives, and so i think they know how to band together

then donald trump, jr. the oldest son of donald trump at the time working on donald trump's campaign. and you have the tabloid reporter rob goldstone who donald trump e-mailed regarding the russian meeting with the kremlinx and they go back to the miss universe pageant in russia. the pop star, son ever the russian real estate tycoon. in fact he's the donald trump of russia. trump partnered with him to bring 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow which is when they met his son. so they were very familiar by the time the e-mail was sent. so you have the prosecutor general. this is where it gets interesting. the prosecutor is a putin appointee and also close with the other player in all of this, netalia is the lawyer who met with donald trump, jr. that day as well is jared kushner and paul manafort met there. you look at the faces on the screen and you have connection going back to miss universe pageant where goldstone was familiar with donald trump, jr. saying he could introduce donald trump, jr. to a lawyer wh

donald trump jr. who moments ago responded on twitter again, with this, media and dems are extremely invested in the russia story. if this nonsense meeting it all they have after a year, i understand the desperation. >> everybody lied. on the disclosure forms, everybody lied in the trump administration about this meeting. >> if there is a conspiracy to obtain foreign assistance, that's a crime. >> there was no other connection, no phone calls or no further meetings, this is a massive nothing burger. >> it is not standard political practice to seek information from a foreign government. >> we don't know all the details. i know it's serious and i said a long time ago it's serious and this is a serious situation and one that is a long way from over. >> we're now beyond obstruction of justice in terms of what's being investigated. this is moving into perjury, false statements and even into potentially treason. >> lots to talk about here, including the conversation with sebastian go rca. >> qutsz new york

. >> we haven't put donald trump jr. or the russian lawyer. well did play an interview that the russian attorney gave. but of course if she is linked to the kremlin, she is going to deny it. >> jim acosta said they spoke to the russian-american. >> right. the other guy. >> and he said nothing happened. let me go back to the legal issue for just a moment. because i'm the lawyer. here is the legal issue. what law was violated by that meeting is? and your experts have said it too. nothing. and at the end of the day that's what this is about. >> we have to take a break. if you could just stick around, a couple more questions. i'd love to continue the conversation. >> great. >> we'll be right back. no. with claim rateguard your rates won't go up just because of a claim. i totally could've - no! switching to allstate is worth it. over the course of 9 days sthe walks 26.2 miles,. that's a marathon. because he chooses to walk whenever he can. and he does it with support from dr. scholl's. only dr. scholl's has massaging gel inso

saw from donald trump jr.rprise. that seems to be a major headline for someone in the midst of a campaign to discover and yet it seemed almost like a second reference or that this was sort of a known fact already. >> exactly. and i think that kind of presumption makes anyone -- you don't have to be a lawyer or a prosecutor to think this, hey, wait a minute. if i got that e-mail, i'd say, whoa. and i'd say that if i was the trump administration. but instead it seems like this is just a part of the general course of business and certainly opposite of what we've been being told throughout the campaign, that they had no relationship with the russian government. and here you see a meeting with his son, his son-in-law and his campaign chairman directly with a high-powered lawyer who works directly with the kremlin. >> in the e-mail chain again, we don't know if it's complete, donald trump jr. wants to have a phone call with the russian oligarch's son who is a pop star in russia who is the conduit to set up this meet

donald trump jr.ook in june of 2016. the most recent report shedding new light on what he knew before that meeting took place. another potential bombshell report from "the new york times." alleging that donald trump received an e-mail that the russian government was frying to help his father's campaign. before the june 2016 meeting with jared kushner and a russian lawyer thought to have compromising information about hillary clinton. three unnamed sources tell the times that the e-mail sent by rob goldstone, the man that coordinated the meeting, indicated the russian government was the source of the potential damaging information. six weeks later, trump junior slammed the clinton campaign for suggesting that the russians were involved in an effort to help then candidate trump. >> that goes to show you their exact moral compass. they will say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again. noting, don junior's takeaway was that someone had information potentially helpful to the campaign a

trump the right, his son, donald trump connected to donald trump. the right, his son, donald trumer, the attorney generaljeff sessions, son—in—law attorney generaljeff sessions, son—in—lanared kushner, attorney generaljeff sessions, son—in—law jared kushner, for national security and —— national security adviser and then his former campaign manager paul manafort. at the g20 — and in various tweets over the weekend — the president continued to equivocate on whether russian hacking had even taken place. he even went so far as to suggest forming a joint cybersecurity unit with the russians, to defend against election hacking in the future. that idea brought this response from republican senator lindsay graham. when it comes to russia he's got a blind spot, and to forgive and forget when it comes to putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower putin and that's exactly what he's doing. i am dumbfounded, i am disappointed, and at the end of the day he's hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that putin's a bad guy who tried to undercut our democr

donald trump junior, his washington related to donald trump. donald trumpjunior, his son, has admitted to meeting a russian lawyer after she promised him damaging material about hillary clinton. it happened during the 2016 election campaign. this is the original story in the new york times. at the time, donald trump junior confirmed he in the new york times. at the time, donald trumpjunior confirmed he had met with this woman but claimed the campaign was not discussed. a day later he changed his story and admitted that they had met under their belief that information about hillary clinton would be shared. donald trump junior says that no information was offered and it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. the president's son—in—law was also at that meeting. we just got this update. donald trump junior that meeting. we just got this update. donald trumpjunior has hired in new york lawyer to represent him in connection with those russian related investigations. we can get more on this from washington. we just had an offer from d

senator, yesterday after donald trump donald trump jr.'e-mails were released, you tweeted saying, it is now incumbent of elected officials from both parties to stand up and do their duty, protect and defend the constitution. what did you mean my that? >> first of all, i hope that this will lay to rest the argument that we hear in these corridors that there isn't any evidence of collusion, because there certainly is clear evidence that there was an attempt at collusion. and what my colleagues have got to do and it's important to do this in a bipartisan way, is insist on strong oversight, ask the tough questions, make sure that there are plenty of open hearings, use the subpoena power, and go where the facts lead. >> do you question at this point his credibility. i mean, as you said, all we know about what happened in the meeting is from donald trump jr. and also the russian attorney, who has given an interview to nbc. the president, this morning, tweeted praising his son for being open and transparent, and yet we know, donald trump jr.'s st

donald trump, jr. pre-empted it. i think there's been some frustration on the part of donald trump, jr. and people close to him about how the last couple of days have gone in terms of the disclosures and the slow roll, drip, drip. in terms of kushner, i'm not entirely sure what you're asking me. >> our understanding is that for a second time he has amended the information that he gave in order to get a security clearance. he gave that once earlier and more recently he did that to include this meeting that he hadn't previously disclosed. my question is, was he aware that you were investigating and that's why he amended this or was this just a coincidence? >> more broadly, without getting into specifics about our reporting and the nature of it, jared kushner did amend his security clearance form, his foreign contact disclosures. i believe it was for a second time, included some reference to this meeting. around the same time paul manafort provided some more specifics to one of the congressional committees that is inves

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donald trump jr.'s twitter account and these e-mails are staggering. again, this unquestionably depicts somebody saying the russian government wants to help the trump campaign with documents damping to hillary clinton, and donald trump jr. saying, "i love it" and setting up a meeting to do so. >> and taking the meeting. >> taking the meeting. what took place at that meeting is a whole other question and we have different versions of events. shifting versions in some cases. we still haven't heard from paul manafort at the meeting, or jared kushner, who was at the meeting's we heard from the russian attorney in question who's depicting this all as the trump people wanted damaging information on hillary. >> right. >> but she didn't want to talk about that. again, grain of salt when it comes to, to her story as well as anybody else's who hasn't been up front about this, but it's -- it's a staggering turn of events, and it's rather momentous. this can't just be -- this can't be dismissed as people out to ge

>> donald is always out for donald. he will throe members of his own family under the bus. he can't directly fire mueller. he has to find somebody to be his robert bork. he should have said to richard nixon, no, fire me i won't fire arch bald cox. >> i think you see republicans who in private are uncomfortable with trump begin to move to being publically uncomfortable with donald trump. >> we shall see. thank you both for being here. appreciate it. >>> coming up donald trump turns on his own cabinet, disparaging his attorney general. tonight jeff sessions is responding and we'll go inside a white house in crisis in two short minutes. the best way to hit the beach? with neutrogena® beach defense® sunscreen. helioplex™ powered, uva uvb strong. beach strength protection for the whole family. for the best day in the sun. neutrogena®. yeah, and i can watch thee bgame with directv now.? oh, sorry, most broadcast and sports channels aren't included. and you can only stream on two devices at once. this is fun, we're having fun. yeah, we are. no, you're not jimmy. don't let directv

donald trump jr. just releasing a chain of e-mails leading up to his meeting with a russian lawyer. a meeting where he hoped to get information damaging to hillary clinton. he released those e-mails, by the way, on twitter just after being notified by the "new york times" that it was about to publish those e-mails. this is from one of the e-mails donald trump jr. just posted. it's from the british publicist rob goldstone who helped around the meeting with a russian lawyer. "good morning, emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting." emin is a pop star whose businessman father has ties to president putin and did businessry president trump. the e-mail says, "the crown mince met with emin and offered information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father." continuing -- "this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but it part of the russia and its government's support for mr. trump helped along by em

eastern is donald trump, jr., don't miss that.urse, i have one the best press secretaries sitting next to you coming want to know what she does now? >> ari: you should ask dana perino that. i think what she has to do is button-down with governmental employees. she speaks for the white house, that's what she needs to talk to this morning, get their facts, know what they know, and say it. as for donald trump, jr., he is not a government employee. she cannot speak for nongovernmental employees, even the president's son. >> melissa: that's a great point. i wonder if she knows that. i wonder if she has that line memorized and ready to go. i would hope so. >> mike: she has to have the discipline to meet the press and say -- the reason she can't be his spokesman is she's not responsible there. >> sandra: i'm checking the twitter accounts of both the president and don, jr., because they have been so actively tweeting throughout this period nothing for the last five hours from the president. >> ari: donald trump, jr., is smart to go on tv

donald trump jr. was e-mailed ahead of time about the material a russian lawyer wanted to pass along to him and was told the source was the russian government. don jr. admits he was promised information helpful to the campaign about hillary clinton. in response to this, his attorney says it's much ado about nothing. no one denied the existence of the e-mail. the russian lawyer who met with don jr. at the height of the campaign is now speaking out. listen. >> they had the impression, it appears, that they were going to be told information that you had about the dnc. how did they get that impression? >> translator: it's quite possible maybe they were looking for such information. they wanted it so badly. >> have you ever worked for the russian government? do you have connections to the russian government? >> translator: no. >> the white house denying collusion. the president's lawyers denying he knew about this meeting at all. i do want you to keep this in mind. this makes at least seven current or form

and to this donald trumpjnr replied: donald trumpjnr says he released them in the name of transparency but it might also have had something to do with the fact that @nytimes the new york times was just about to publish it. and we've just had this reaction from the white house. trump says his son, donald trump junior, is a high quality person and applauds his transparency. these emails were sent between donald trump jnr and a publicist, rob goldstone, who set up a meeting with this woman, natalia veselnitskaya. rob goldstone referred to her as a russian government attorney. ms veselnitskaya denies that. here she is speaking to nbc earlier today. have you ever worked for the russian government? to have connections to the russian government? translation: no. they had the impression, it appears that they were going to be told some information that you had about the d&c. how did they get that impression? translation: it's possible they were looking for such information and wanted it so badly. we're looking at this from washington, and what we have here and is at the smoking gun so many are

donald trump jr. speaking out about the emails saying in retrospect he would have done things differently. let's listen just a few minutes ago. >> did you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i mean i wouldn't have even remembered it except you start scouring through the stuff. >> did you ever meet with any other person from russia that you know? >> i don't know. i've probably met other people in russia. not in the form of a formalized meeting because why would i? how busy we were, this was a courtesy to an acquaintance. >> our correspondence and analysts are here to help us analyze donald trump jr.'s interview. donald trump jr. stating unequivocally he did not tell his father about this meeting. is that credible to you? >> it's difficult to say right now. i know the panel has talked to his layier who's also said the same thing. we know this is a family who had a personal relationship with the trumps. the father was donald trump's partner in th

donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer that's drawing fresh scrutiny. the russian lawyer, known for her opposition to u.s. sanctions against russia over human rights, said she had damaging information about hillary clinton. the white house on the defensive again, insisting president trump didn't know about the session in trump tower that came only two weeks after he clinched the republican nomination. white house spokeswoman sara huckabee sanders said the president only learned about it in the last few days. >> i would certainly say don jr. did not collude with anybody. our position is no one in the trump campaign colluded. >> reporter: but it's the first ak nlment people in trump's inner circle were willing to accept help from russians. the question of whether they accepted any is the subject of a special counsel's investigation and inquiries on capitol hill. the president's oldest son said he, jared kushner, and campaign chairman, paul manafort, agreed to meet with the russian lawyer to hear what she

is it liberal critique of donald trump?” is not enough. is it liberal critique of donald trump? concentrate less on donald trump the personality, the personality, the personality, the personality, the extremist, the shock machine that has everybody gusting with his tweets and put him into the context really off the last a0 years of economic history and how we arrived here. in this culture where we have had the chance of lifestyle brands and we have humans merging with corporations, we worship wealth, consumption is a way of life. we have dominance raised logic on our economy at every level so trump makes sense and i want to put him in context. in what way does he represent all that? as you say, he has become a i—man mega brand with his children and wife spin—off brands. he breathes brands within his family. this is the first time we have had a politicalfigure of this stature who is a fully commercialised superbrand. the trump corporation is built around his personality so it isn'tjust corporation is built around his personality so it isn't just that corporation is built around h

donald trump jr.'s response back then -- "if it's what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer," in other words, closer to the election. and now this tonight. >> do you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. >> so, let me ask everybody at home this. why should you, why should any of us believe that? this interview is like, i think his fifth attempt to defend the indefensible. don junior is the latest person in the president's orbit to mislead you, the american people, about their contacts with russia. former national security adviser michael flynn, attorney general jeff sessions, his own son-in-law and top aide, jared kushner, and now the closest yet, his namesake, donald trump jr. so, no one knows exactly where this investigation is going to end up, what it's going to uncover. the president and his supporters have said time and time again that this is fake news! it's a witch hunt! please, it's time to end that garbage. read the e-mails

>> donald is always out for donald. he will throe members of his own family under the bus. he can't directly fire mueller. he has to find somebody to be his robert bork. he should have said to richard nixon, no, fire me i won't fire arch bald cox. >> i think you see republicans who in private are uncomfortable with trump begin to move to being publically uncomfortable with donald trump. >> we shall see. thank you both for being here. appreciate it. >>> coming up donald trump turns on his own cabinet, disparaging his attorney general. tonight jeff sessions is responding and we'll go inside a white house in crisis in two short minutes. that's a marathon. because he chooses to walk whenever he can. and he does it with support from dr. scholl's. only dr. scholl's has massaging gel insoles that provide all-day comfort to keep him feeling more energized. so he even has the energy to take the long way home. keep it up, steve! dr. scholl's. born to move. or a little internet machine? [ phone ringing ] hi mom. it makes you wonder... shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the

donald trump jr.'s e-mail exchanges will be part of the investigation as well. details of the contacts were not fully known to investigators until recently. the times is also reporting the e-mails were only discovered after mr. trump's senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner updated his security clearance form after initially failing to disclose his involvement in that meeting. as the possible legal and political consequences escalate for the president and his inner circle, we'll ask president trump's lawyer what mr. trump knew and when. we're covering this breaking story from every angle with our team of correspondents and analysts. let's begin with those explosive e-mails between donald trump jr. and rob goldstone who was working to arrange a meeting between the russian lawyer and the trump camp in june 2016. the russians were offering, quote, official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. goldstone adds thi

donald jr.-- >> we're still not going to know what was on the call. >> he says i don't remember what was said. pretty much the end of story. so i think, you know, it's all part of a mosaic that investigators have to look at, but there are a lot of questions they want to look at and one phone call, one e-mail is not going to determine, you know, the future of the trump administration. >> you know because, mark, here is what's interesting. they are coming up with excuses for what happened, but the most recent one is, you know, this is a guy i don't know well. this is an acquaintance and they have said that now several times. let me just play it. >> an acquaintance sent me this e-mail. i was basically sit thrg listening as a courtesy to my acquaintance. sometimes you do things differently for acquaintances than for friends. >> mark t poi, it doesn't matte whether it was your best friend, a brother or an acquaintance. who did you think you were meeting with to get what kind of information. on the e-

donald trump jr. provided cnn with the following statement. i quote, i was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance i knew from the 2013 miss universe pageant. i was not told her name prior to the meeting. i asked jared, and jared and paul to attend, but told them nothing of the substance. we had a meeting in june 2016, after pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting miss clinton. her statements were vague. and ambiguous, made no sense. no details or supporting information was provided or even ordinary. it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. she then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of russian children, and mentioned it. it became clear this was the true agenda all along and claims with potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting. i interrupted and advised her my father was a private citizen, and that her comments and conc

every tweet i would have from donald j.bout jobs, the economy, whatever is going on with the national security, and those issues. that is what i would do. i would strangle the narrative. >> eric: that will not be very much fun, what it? [laughter] congresswoman maxine waters has been calling for the impeachment of donald trump for months, said come on twitter, "at this point, "the new york times" could release trump leaving a voice message thanking pruden for his services and the g.o.p. would still say nothing burger." really? kat, your thoughts? you may agree with some of that. >> kat: you would have a problem with this if there was a voice mail? >> eric: there are people who would agree -- i'm just saying there was no collusion. >> kat: i think that there are people who will excuse everything. i also think that maxine waters is someone who has been calling for impeachment over everything. it makes me frustrated that those seem to be largely the main two groups of people out there without much room for individual thought i

donald trump, donald trump jr., and the ago lair offs. i had actually interviewed months ago rob goldstone because i wanted to understand what went on in moscow 2013 when trump went there. and he laid out that there was much more to the visit than people sort of understood. there was a formal letter of intent signed between the trump organization and the agilarovs to build a trump tower in moscow. donald trump jr. was put in charge of that project. ivanka trump flies over to moscow in february 2014 to scout sites for the trump tower. then what happens? russia invades -- annexes crimea, intervenes in ukraine. the us and eu impose sanctions, and the sanctions tank the ruble. and basically undermine the whole project. it's no longer economically feasible. so that's a significant point when we look at trump's interest in lifting sanctions. it may have been a factor in his viewpoint of this. but when you look at the e-mails and you see that it's the agilarovs who are very close to putin, who are providing this -- offering this intelligence to

what do donald trump junior's e-mails prove? criminal conspiracy to defraud the united states, plain and simpbl. >> will he have to testify. >> he will be somebody we want to talk to. >> the top democratic on the senate intelligence committee will be here live. >>> health care hustle. republicans taking another crack at repealing obamacare. >> i have am sit ting in the ovl office with a pen in hand waiting for our senators to give it to me. >> breaking news on the latest development that threatens to derail it. a key senator reveals how she will vote, next. >>> the best political minds will be here on insights with what happens next. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is disapproving. a brand new poll shows president trump has hit a new low with americane americane voters. just 36% say they approve and 58% disapprove. half of the american people say they strongly disapprove of the job. 55% say the president is not making progress on his agenda. overnight the number one item repealing and replac

donald trump jr. and this russian lawyer. does this give you any sense how this was received in trump world? >> we don't have a broader sense at the moment, you know, whether there was some bigger take away. you know, the people around the president have -- and donald jr. has said the president was not aware of this, so it's entirely possible given the way this campaign ran. we only know what we know which is there was this meeting, that there was an approach that was made related to damaging information about hillary clinton that was advertised as having some kind of russian government relation. and that did not serve as a det deterrent. to be clear this was a couple of days this meeting took place, i think it was four or five days before it was reported that russian government hackers had infiltrated the servers. and this was many weeks before the john pa december that e-mails became an issue. so it's not clear this was on don junior's radar the same way. however it was clear russia was considered a

donald trump jr.'s meeting with a kremlin connected lawyer during the campaign. deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders saying there is nothing wrong with the president's son meeting with the russian lawyer after being promised damaging information on hillary clinton as first reported by "the new york times." >> i've been on several campaigns, and people call offering information. as i know many of you receive similar calls of people offering information. don jr. took a very short meeting from which there was absolutely no follow-up. the only thing i see inappropriate about the meeting is the people who leaked the information on the meeting after it was voluntarily disclosed. >> if this sort of meeting is normal practice in the campaign, do you know if there were any other meetings that either donald trump jr. or other representatives of the trump campaign had with other russian officials or any other foreign agent? >> i don't know of any other meetings with don jr. but i also haven'

he is the one who is having this email exchange with donald trump junior.h, the question has been out there since james comey was fired, since robert mueller was appointed special counsel, about whether or not the trim campaign and fact did collude with russi russia. do you believe that this raises any suspicion, whatsoever, i'm not this is evidence, the collusion to take place? so far, the fbi has been unable to provide any actual evidence. do you believe this does raise some suspicion of possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia? >> there's an awful lot of critics are going to jump to conclusions that this is a smoking gun. the reality is, as far as amending its own, absolutely nothing came out of this. if you're looking for collusion, there's nothing there. the problem at this poses for the trump administration and donald trump, jr., is that there was intense. he was willing to entertain the conversation and thus the piece of this puzzle that robert mueller has to get to the bottom of and figure out when they not anybody did actually collu

donald trump jr. has released an e-mail chain detailing the plan for his secret meeting he had with the russian lawyer last summer during the campaign. a meeting that clearly was set up with the intent of getting incriminating evidence against hillary clinton from the russians. the meeting that we're told the fbi did not know about until now. the first e-mail from rob gold stone, a confidant of the trump family, sent june 3, 2016, reads in part, the crown prosecutor russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your dealing with your father. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. i can also send this info to your father, but it is ultrasensitive so wanted to send to you first. trump jr. then replies, thanks, rob, i appreciate it. if it

donald trump jr. does it point to collusion with the russian government? and who is the lawyer allegedly claiming to have dirt on hillary clinton? >>> plus, donald trump and chelsea clinton dueling on twitter over ivanka. investigators want donald trump jr., the top democrat wants answers from the president's son. senator mark warner calling donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign the first, quote, clear evidence that members of the trump campaign met with russians with the specific goal of hurting hillary clinton's campaign. now, donald trump jr. was joined by paul manafort who was then trump's campaign manager and jared kushner and top adviser in that meeting. >> it's also a continuing pattern that we've seen since the election of trump campaign and trump administration officials who have conveniently forgotten meetings with russians only when they are then presented with evidence they have to recant and acknowledge those kinds of meetings. >> so what pattern is w

but at the end of the day, you can always count on donald will look out for donald, and the person tois jared kushner. jared kushner is the member of the family most subject to pressure from mueller's office and to leverage, and jared kushner is going to face some difficult choices down the road as this investigation goes forward. >> i would imagine manafort would as well, in deep debt to the russians. >> the other two people who are most subject to leverage by saying, you know, cooperate or face the music, are paul manafort, longtime representative of many dictatorial regimes, and close connections here with the russians and the ukrainian -- the pro-russian ukrainians and general michael flynn who has already said, i've got a story it tell. >> please tell it. >> but he wants immunity. >> that means he's guilty. thank you all so much for joining me. our coverage continues. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good luck getting through your show without 18,000 pieces of breaking news. >> i'll be sitting in for chris tonight, while ten major stories break all at once, all in the hour be