he's got the proof. >> it's a different crime. >> they called donald trump individual one. donald trump, jrxecutive two. again, the reason donald trump is not indicted is he's the president of the united states. that's his defense. >> listen, paul butler, i know you are all up in arms about executive number two, but right after michael cohen testified there were reports, i believe in "the washington post" where someone is saying executive two is actually a person known as jeff mcconney and not donald trump, jr. if donald trump, jr., is identified as executive number two then we are closer to donald trump, jr., being indicted. but that's not certain yet. >> let's go to really quickly pay maxine waters, the chairwoman of the financial services william. this was congresswoman waters on the all-in program on friday. take a listen. >> as you know we started sending letters to deutsch bank last year. now that i'm chairing the committee and the democrats are in charge of the house, they have said they will cooperate. deutsche bank is the bank he's been dealing with and his family have been dealing

to a congressional committee, donald trump jr., signing those reimbursement checks, donald trump jr. implicated in other criminal activity, you have the connections that are the hallmark of a conspiracy. >> you seem to have your eyes on donald trump jr. you think he lied to the committee? >> i think he lied to our committee, at least so far as we can tell right now. >>> ahead, congresswoman rashidah talib on her take of the cohen hearing and why she spoke truth to power with racism and the president and next, breaking news from "the new york times." the president of the united states lied, flat out, about overruling his own intelligence agencies to get national security clearance for his son-in-law. that story in two minutes. son-in-law that story in two minutes. >>> well, they lied again. think only specialty stores have what's new? olay has the hottest debut. new olay clay stick masks, hydrating facial mist, and brightening eye cream. only by olay. even our pets know to go because it's the easiest way to save 30% on all the medications we carry. so skip the search and go directly t

howard: i asked donald trump jr. got for saying early on this sounded like a hoax. >> i had the guts -- and, again, i take a lot of heat for it, i'm willing to do that, but i had the guts to question it. howard: and how do you feel about prosecutors dropping the charges without any apologize from just city smollett? >> i think it's disgusting. howard: clarence page, your newspaper denounced the act. this racially-charged hoax generated such emotional coverage. >> first of all, there are a lot of questions that still need to be answered, and jussie smollett is still insisting on his incidence despite overwhelming -- innocence despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. this was handled badly. after all the money that's been spent trying to solve this case of smollett's alleged attack, suddenly it's dropped one morning without much in the way of explanation. there was such an uproar over it. the tribune's not alone -- howard: oh yeah. i wanted to cite the local paper. it was also a political scandal because trump sa

that's the power of &. & when your patient's tests come back... >>> donald trump jr. ng his party red meat as his president prepares to run for re-election. >> the left hates donald trump much more than they love america. >> the president's oldest son also raising eyebrows with this exchange with jerry falwell jr. >> my boys always had guns in their hands, so we didn't -- that's not something -- >> #metoo. >> up front now, cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley. doug, this all happened at c-pac, the annual conservative gathering in washington. ilities prr not always like this. what do you make of the vitriol coming from the president's own family that we just saw there? >> i think donald trump jr. just gets all ginned up about saying some reckless things. he constantly wants to overstate, you know, his criticisms of elizabeth warren or gun issues. he's kind of a product of our time where you want to make the news cycle by saying something outrageous. we think donald trump says outrageous things. well, his son seems to at times want to one up his father. >> yeah, a

>> the first big takeaway is that donald trump and donald trump jr. are under investigation. the only reason that this has been redacted is because of an ongoing investigation. the two people that we know that the u.s. attorneys office is looking at is donald trump and his son. so, this does not auger well for either of them. >> you are going to say, and i'll have beret respond. you have enough evidence there, to be sure -- not that you want donald trump jr. under investigation in sdny, not that you think it's warranted but you say that proves it's already happening? >> i think it's happening. those are the two people that are potential subjects of this investigation that are so obvious. i mean, when you look at what the evidence is, now there are two witnesses that could testify against donald trump and donald trump jr. it's michael cohen and it's the fellow from the enquirer. and then you've got documents that back it up, checks that were signed. you've got a tape that corroborates him. and even better donald trump's kind of shifting statements on where he was on this whole

first of all, he did not indict donald trump, jr.. -- donald trump jr., jared kushner or other people. nationally -- . me president did not fire noter and the president did interfere with the robert mueller investigation. guest: that is true. we have been told by an official that there is not going to be any more indictments expected out of the molar investigation -- mueller investigation. some of that is still confidential. we only have a public version of what the mandate was. there was actually a detailed wasard -- version that released in august. with all that said, we have to remember that there is a lot of factors because as he was doing his investigation, he came across potential violations of law and they were sent to other u.s. attorneys. that is the office that brought the primary charges against the president's former attorney, cohen.l keoh that -- they are investigating other parts of the trump business. we know state prosecutors in new york are looking at the trump foundation. i would not necessarily jump to the conclusion that this is over. the mueller investigation, yes

donald trump jr. is here with his first interview since we learned what is inside that report. we will also give you a remarkable update on the creepy porn lawyer. a lot has happened in his life. first, to the mueller program of the special counsel's investigation did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinate with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 u.s. presidential election. " that's robert mueller's conclusion after nearly two years of investigating the matter. repeatedney general versions of that sentence four times in his summary of mueller's report released yesterday. whatever you think of donald trump, it's nowp, factuay establish that he did not collude with vladimir putin to steal the presidential election, period. that case is now closed. this is the point in the story where applause breaks out. not just cheers from trump and his family and his campaign staff and all those many people who were told they were going to be indicted but weren't,

i think this entire thing you heard donald trump jr.o last night is a continue eight of what president trump started in the state of the union where he's starting to define the democratic party and the nominee he runs against as a socialist. so i think -- as long as she's basically the heart and soul of the party, i think they'll keep going back to this well to define the democrats as socialists as they head towards re-election. >> i think obviously there's a lot of republicans who want to act like she is the heart and soul of the party. that's the big question for democrats right now. keith, what do you say? is she right that this is about them needing -- it was hillary and now it's going to be her? >> i think she's exactly right. she's a 29-year-old freshman member of congress. she has been in office for all of two months now. last year she said at this time she was waitressing at a taco bar. she just got health insurance a month ago. she is finding her sea legs as they say. she's a voice within the party. she is not the only voice of

so donald trump, jr., is far out of the woods. the other instances with regard to donald trump, jr.'gence committee. joy, i think there is compelling evidence according to the democrats who heard his testimony that he lied. i was a prosecutor, a public corruption prosecutor for the department of justice. i could get a jury to -- if donald trump, jr., said the conversations about trump tower moscow ended in january 2016, that's a lie. if donald trump, jr., said the meeting with the russian lawyer was about adoptions, that's a lie. i don't know why mueller didn't bring that charge. joy, if you deputized me to go back to the department of justice, i could prosecute and win that case. >> wow. strong words. tim o'brien, we know certain facts are on the table. the trump tower meeting which people thought would be a lynchpin of the mueller report. we know donald jr., was at the meeting. so was paul manafort who has not been cooperative though he was supposed to be. jared kushner was there. they were all at the meeting. that's a piece of the puzzle. there is the trump tower moscow which ivan

in 2008, donald trump jr. stated that russia was an important financial partner. >> donald trump jr. says in the 2008 conference quote, "russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. >> eric trump told james dodson the same thing. >> eric trump suggested to a well regarded call that those funding came from russia. >> eric trump told the new york post that he was misquoted, stating the allegations was quote, "complete garbage." donald trump had been to russia more than once. he first went to 1987 when it is still the soviet union, he returned in 1996. his connection with russia grew deeply when a russian oligarch helped him stage the pageant in russia. >> we met aguilar in moscow and he came up to us and received a warm welcome. >> rob gold stone is a publicist who works for aguilar. >> mr. trump says he believes that the russians had a strong leader in president putin unlike america whose leader was weak. >> donald trump expressed

that meeting who went to trump tower along with a couple of other russians and sat down with donald trump jr. and paul man a fort and this is this is now before donald trump just after he was nominated before he was elected president and they said. if your father talking to donald trump jr donald trump is elected president can you repeal the magnitsky act and could you indict bill browder and. she wasn't there just as a private citizen she was there effectively on behalf of lattimer putin in the russian government and it's remarkable from him from almost every different standpoint that that the russian government would send an emissary to talk about me in the magnitsky act is remarkable that donald trump jr. his son his son in law and his campaign manager would meet with this russian to talk so is it possible do you think in the end that if collusion is proven that it may turn out that bill browder in the magnitsky magnitsky act with powerful motivators well we know for sure that the russians were there because of the me in the magnitsky act and we know for sure that they supported donald tr

trump, donald trump jr., the ivanka trump, and eric trunk. mr. jordan: in your sentencing statement in december in front , myhe judge you said weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump, a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness. is that accurate? you wrote that and said that in front of the judge. mr. cohen: that is correct. mr. jordan: let me ask you why you did some of these things. when you filed a false tax 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 was all of that out of blind loyalty to the president? mr. cohen: it was not. mr. cummings: when you fail to report $4 million in income to the internal revenue service, did you do that to protect donald trump? mr. cohen: i did not. mr. cummings: and when you fail to pay what mr. jordan: -- and when you hel fail to pay $1.4 million in tax to the u.s. treasury was that out of blind loyalty? mr. cohen: it was not the number was 1.38 and change and i have pay that money back to the irs. mr. jordan: i think the american people appreciate that. mr. cohen: it was over course of five

we have with us donald trump jr., trump organization executive vice president. charlie kirk, who you heard from before, founder of turning point usa. and now i am going to throw to a video about donald trump jr. [laughter] >> in business, i was trained by my father to make the tough investment today to ensure a brighter future tomorrow. a --e most basic as aspect thing the first. the second, protect that. that seems to be at risk. ♪ [applause] >> failed to mention the two most important people on the panel. my wife, becky, and kimberly guilfoyle, vice chairwoman of america first policies and america first pac, also a prosecutor. i am a recovering lawyer too and she has many other credits. but welcome, kimberly guilfoyle. >> thank you, pleasure to be here. >> got to debate the audience tonight. >> that's right. you want to have a seat? >> i was doing an interview this morning, and i had a reporter ask me how colleges and universities, mainstream universities, have become so intolerant of conservative viewpoints and students who are conservatives, they ridicule the

we know from hearing roger stone that wikileaks was seeking to help him, hearing donald trump jr. talk to his father about a meeting being set up around the same time the trump tower meeting took place, and also knowing that donald trump kept asking michael cohen so often about this trump tower and moscow project during the campaign, that's circumstantial evidence of collusion. our job is to put that into context with all the other evidence out there. this, i think, put more color into this picture here, and we're going to keep doing our job to secure the upcoming election and hold accountable anyone in america who worked with a country that works so hard against our interests. >> you talked about using the mri analogy, taking that to all of trump's connected entities. the president used part of his speech at cpac yesterday to attack you and fellow democrats for investigating him, including your committee. take a listen. >> they fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phoney deal they put together, this phoney thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with rus

and how telling is it that there were not any mueller indictments specifically against donald trump jr. or jared kushner? >> thank you for having me. good morning, alex. i don't think we should read too much into anything until we know what is actually in the report, and we should call upon the department of justice and attorney general to do everything they can to release

katherine, we don't often see donald trump jr. putting this up. om member of parliment who says donald trump jr. telling britain our democracy is dead. he was promised dirt on health care health caillary clinton. >> i think it is a continuation of what we'll see again in the general elections. it is a continuation of a message we have heard from the president about advice he has given to theresa may. also setting up a pitch for 2020 which is this trump versus the establishment, that they still want to frame this race as much as they frame the 16 race but forces are working against him that he is fighting this fight alone. >> and not new to see him as a surrogate. >> it was a little bit of a surprise. president trump said a couple of days ago she should have listened to me. he kind of took that and went to the next step. i covered him during the midterms. the donald trump jr. rally is just like the trump rally but smaller. there are people enthusiastic for him. there is the lock her up chant. he was just like his dad. i'm the fighter. my dad is the

one of the biggest questions, when and if the mueller is report is made public, weren't donald trump jrer indicted? several other investigations still pending. it wasn't meeting with russians at trump tower, donald trump helping don junior create the explanation. even after being warned that russia could be trying to infiltrate the campaign. joining me ellie, joyce vance, david corn, mimi roker, former district attorney for the southern district of new york. which brings me to you. the spotlight feels like it's shifting to sdny. in your view, is the confidence of donald trump jr., he's out there, has his new beard, feeling good. should he be feeling so confident? >> no. i don't think it's only because of the sdny. i'll get to that in a second. as to the mueller russian piece of it, don jr. was never subpoenaed or charged. he hasn't yet been charged. i'm not convinced that there is not a charge in his future as to the russian piece. but i will answer your question. on the southern district of new york, he's in clear jeopardy. now -- he's not the president so there isn't that debate of co

donald trump jr. is here. we'll have a remarkable update on the creepy porn lawyer. and the special counsel's investigation did not find that the trump campaign anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with russia in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. that is robert mueller's conclusion after nearly two years of investigating the matter. the attorney general repeated versions of that sentence four times in his summary of mueller's report. whatever you think of donald trump, it's not factually established that he did not collude with vladimir putin to steal the presidential election, period. that case is now closed. this is the point in the story where applause breaks out. not just cheers from trump and his family and campaign staff and all of those many people that were told they would be indicted but weren't. but gratitude from the country itself, from all americans. for years we've all been told our government was being controlled by a foreign power. there were spies in our midst, the pr

do you think we're talking about southern district of new york for donald trump jr.? a minimum. i mean, the litany of potential pitfalls that could be facing somebody like donald trump jr., ivanka trump, jared kushner, the list goes on and on, involves what, the trump foundation, the trump inaugural committee, the trump organization, campaign finance violations, tax fraud. i mean, the list goes on and on. and so, i think that people have been saying on one side, look, there has been no indictment of donald trump. well, yeah, i mean, so that doesn't mean that robert mueller didn't give the evidence to bill barr through his report to be able to state that there was enough there, he just couldn't do it. we don't know. but we have people on the side who are disappointed that sitting president of the united states didn't get indicted. i mean, what a sad day that would have to be. but i think what we need to do is wait and see, because barr's only going to give, quote, principal conclusions, and that's such an open-ended concept, alex. so beyond that, if we want more, keepin

congress will ensure that no one is above the law. >> for instance, what do you want to know from donald trump jr well, in each one of these cases there are -- there are a whole range of issues that we're going to be asking about. in the case of donald trump jr., in the case of -- i'm going to take a step back, john, in all of these, for example, we know that on the issue of obstruction of justice we know that it certainly looked like obstruction of justice when the president fired jim comey, asked him to go easy on flynn, it looked like obstruction of jess justice when the president -- when the president allegedly reached out to the former acting attorney general to ask if the southern district of new york u.s. attorney could unrecuse himself so he might get more favorable treatment? we know the issues about the potential corruption and the president enriching himself while he's president, a violation of the emolements clause by having foreign monies spent to enrich the president. in all of these issues, the people who are closest to him have information about what the president was actually doi

djtj, donald trump jr. is reportedly being groomed for a run in 2024. not an expression. iterally groom him like a dog. apparently, they're hoping to form a trump political dynasty like the bushes had. even though it's 2024 they're already running campaign ads. >> my name is donald trump jr. people call me donald trump jr. that as our big hotel. that's my name on the outside. it's also my dad's name. he's president. i shot this leopard with a gun. i wasn't scared. someday i want to be president like my dad. then maybe he'll stop saying he should have had a vasectomy. i'm donald trump junior. my name is trump too. >> jimmy: he's off to a hot start. we have a great show. music from jenny lewis. retta is here. and we'll be right back with sean penn. ♪ >>> abc's jimmy kimmel live, brought to you by turbo tax. turbo tax. there's no food, we just said that so you would show up. what?! no food? there's someone we think you should talk to. hey, dan! your coworkers told me you haven't done your taxes. i just want to say, you can call a turbotax live cpa for help. we'll help you get

meanwhile, donald trump jr. is saying he didn't do what his predecessor did. the younger trump at sea pack a short while ago. watch. >> you want to find a bad deal that means nothing? no, that's what obama did. he was great at signing bad deals that meant nothing or were terrible for the united states. but it doesn't matter, because when you have 95% of the media coverage and 93% of the media coverage and they want to do anything to make you a hero, you don't have to make good deals. you made good deals with 93% negative coverage, but the reality is the results are speaking for themselves. >> harris: republican caucus been michael waltz of florida, who sits on the house armed services committee, joins me now. let me just add a little bit more for the audience to know. congressman waltz as a combat decorated green beret veteran and served multiple combat tours in afghanistan. your military background is something that we will lean on, too. sometimes when 24 or 48 hours passed he will look bad on deal and have more perspective and texture. as you look back at wal

yet he goes out there and donald trump jr. did the exact same thing the exact same week. we had nothing to do with russia. donald trump said that while negotiating a $100 million deal and colluding with michael cohen to get help with that. forget about mueller for a second. we already know they're lying about interactions with a foreign adversary and covering up for it. malcolm's right. benedict arnold couldn't have dreamt of doing such an extensive power coverup and that should be enough for outrage, for congressional investigations, and for us to pound our fists every day and say we don't need crimes. >> you know what, sarah kendzior, he didn't have any of that. if it was nixon, he might not have resigned if he had it. >> that's certainly true. we have that as a crisis point. but, you know, the amount of evidence and the public domain is so vast, and one thing i would really encourage people to do is to look at trump's own words, look at donald trump jr.'s own words, paul manafort's own words. they have confessed to their crimes. they commit crimes with audacity, with br

that meeting who went to trump tower along with a couple of other russians and sat down with donald trump jr. and paul man of fort and this is this is now before donald trump just after he was nominated before he was elected president and they said. if your father talking to donald trump jr donald trump is elected president can you repeal the magnitsky act and could you indict bill browder and. she wasn't there just as a private citizen she was there effectively on behalf of lattimer putin in the russian government and it's remarkable from him from almost every different standpoint that that the russian government would send an emissary to talk about me in the magnitsky act is remarkable that donald trump jr. his son his son in law and his campaign manager would meet with his russian to talk so is it possible do you think in the end that if collusion is proven that it may turn out that bill browder in the magnitsky magnitsky act with powerful motivators well we know for sure that the russians were there because of the me and the magnitsky act and we know for sure that they supported donald t

donald trump jr. will come out next. he'll appear in video from liberty university and defend donald trump the man and i have every reason to believe it will be a fiery speech. >> let's go back across the river to your day job, which is on capitol hill and talk about the overall strategy at these haer hearings. if you listen to what happened at cpac so far you'd think no trouble at all. democrats obviously see it differently. >> reporter: that's right. you saw this towards the end of the michael cohen hearing on wednesday where democrats started to lay the predicate for what they would do next. you saw members of congress asking for specific names of specific people who might know more information about the things that michael cohen had already brought up. who could they call next? you named some of them. we need felix sader will appear in an open hearing in just a few weeks. democrats are following the breadcrumb that were left behind and pursuing them into other hearings. you're not hearing democrats use the i word. nan

just as today donald trump and donald trump jr.ant to focus on the conduct of the fbi and robert mueller rather than the president. as you pointed out, we didn't hear a lot of defense of the president and the things that he was accused of on wednesday. >> talk about base pressure though. john boehner and then paul ryan did what they could to keep the benghazi conspiracy theorists from like hijacking all these committees. and then they tried do it piece meal and it still didn't satisfy the base and finally they threw up their hands and tried this -- so do you think as much as boehner didn't want it, you had to appease -- will pelosi be in that position? >> yes. first new information came to light that led to the committee. and that select committee almost accidentally discovered hillary clinton's home e-mail server which led to a whole other set of issues. but yes, i do think that nancy pelosi because the energy in the democratic party is the white hot hatred of their base against president trump. i think because of the issues we we

every time we connected the dots, by the trump family's own words, donald trump jr. and eric trump saying that, "we're seeing a lot of money from russia flow into our organization," the fact that their bank, deutsche bank, was sanctioned for money laundering with the russians. we think that's at least, as you would say in the law, probable cause to look further. and we weren't able to look further. and we don't believe that the mueller investigation is doing that, because of its narrow mandate, but we think it's important enough -- >> wait. most people don't think the mueller investigation has a narrow mandate. they think it has a broad mandate. at least, certainly, that's the criticism from the right. >> yeah. so, the president said, if you remember -- he said that if mueller was to investigate his finances, he would see that as a redline. we don't see any evidence that they are pursuing money laundering within the trump organization. >> and you have said that you will get president trump's tax returns. >> yeah. that's a priority of our caucus, yes. it's not me who can do it, but the cha

with respect to let's say donald trump jr. if the justice department finds it can't indict donald trump jr., i don't think it should put out a report characterizing his conduct because they've decided they can't indict him. they ought to shut up. but the president is very different. by the justice department's own definition, they can't indict him. the usual rules of indict or shut up don't apply. i think what it means if you can't indict, you have to give the evidence to the body of government, entity of government that by the justice department itself says is the arbiter of presidential conduct. so that gets to the point we made a minute ago. it means at the end of this, they're not going to indict the president. whether they think he committed a crime or not, they need to turn the evidence over to congress because their standard is different. it's not whether he committed a crime. it's high crimes and misdemeanors. not necessarily a higher or lower standard, it's a different standard informed by both legal and political ques

in a sense does he mean ivanka trump, donald trump jr. he named sater, a business associate. amed alan weisselberg and he named people at the trump association involved with things. all, including the president's children? >> i asked him specifically the president's children. i said, mr. cummings, ivanka trump, eric trump, donald trump jr. do you want to speak to them? he said, if they were named in the hearing, you can expect the committee will contact them. does that mean they'll actually bring them in for interviews and have a hearing, that needs to be sorted out. but expect letters, asking for documentation, but there are different aspects of all of this. people are involved in knowledge of different things that were brought out through the hearing. for donald trump jr., his signature was on one of the checks to went to michael cohen to reimburse him for part of that hush money scandal to keep quiet these alleged affairs right before the election. they'll probably want to ask about that. certainly alan weisselberg will be on the top of everyone's list. he'll come before th

specifically jared kushner and donald trump, jr., because while that clearly looked like an intelligence operation on the part of the russian, it was unclear whether or not anyone in there had committed a crime by showing up. so paul manafort should have known better, but it was an open question about donald trump, jr., and jared kushner. the current justice department does in the believe a sitting president can be indicted, so now the question is what if anything will this president, because if mueller found any evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of the president, he would pass that off to the attorney general, and then it's up to him. what do you do to that information? do you pass it off to congress for possible impeachment proceedings? you know as well as anyone barr has a broad definition of executive power some he may be more willing to defer to the president on questions of possible obstruction of justice. that's the question we don't have an answer to right now and why i don't think you're seeing your champagne corks popping at the white house, even though the president,

that meeting who went to trump tower along with a couple of other russians and sat down with donald trump jr. and paul man of fort and this is this is now before donald trump just after he was nominated before he was elected president and they said. if your father talking to donald trump jr donald trump is elected president can you repeal the magnitsky act and could you indict bill browder and. she wasn't there just as a private citizen she was there effectively on behalf of lattimer putin in the russian government and it's remarkable from him from almost every different standpoint that that the russian government would send an emissary to talk about me in the magnitsky act is remarkable that donald trump jr. his son his son in law and his campaign manager would meet with his russian to talk so is it possible do you think in the end that if collusion is proven that it may turn out that bill browder in the magnitsky magnitsky act with powerful motivators well we know for sure that the russians were there because of the me in the magnitsky act and we know for sure that they supported donald tr

ivanka and donald trump jr. could be next. plus another big public hearing announced, this one with felix say the every, t sater, what does he know about trump's plans to build a tower in moscow. and trump reportedly ordering officials to give jared kushner a security clearance despite concerns from intelligence officials. and he said he didn't do it. turns out it is not true. let's go "outfront." i'm erin burnett. breaking news, michael cohen coming back. just wrapping up his third, supposed to be his last hearing before congress, but the committee says there is more to learn. he has much more to tell us. >> not much i can say other than it was very productive as i said i'm committed to telling the truth. and i will be back on march 6 to finish up. there is more to discuss. >> more to discuss next week. and even too, we are learning that cohen is not the only person who in his case was and still are in trump's inner circle who could be testifying before congress. >> there were names or records mentioned during the hearing. we'

quote information that would incriminate hillary and would be very useful to donald trump ultra sensitive stuff he adds don jr answers if it's what you say i love it the meeting takes place on the ninth of june two thousand and sixteen in new york at trump tower around the table donald trump's son his son in law his campaign director paul manna for intermediary and for russian nationals the news spread like wildfire according to the new york times the residue york times report on the new york times reports the president's son donald trump jr was promised damaging information about hillary clinton for agreeing to meet last summer with a russian lawyer a russian lawyer question has and actions with the front line when donald trump jr responded enthusiastically to the idea of receiving information that would be harmful to hillary clinton i think that was a gift to russia it represented an attempt by. russia to have a base of influence if you will. the news comes at a time when trump was in hamburg for an international summit where he had a meeting with vladimir putin and. told through a lot of very positive thin

kushner's and donald trump jr.'s here. what's your response to people who say look, all you're doing is fishing? >> thank you, erin, for your question. let me first say that i hope our investigation turns up no wrongdoing because i don't want to think that we have a criminal in the white house. but i fear that our investigation is going to expose some wrongdoing. we're going to leave no stone unturned. we're going to connect the dots if they are to be connected. and we want to hear from these individuals and get their documents and at the time american people what happened. >> so chairman nadler was telling me you're going to subpoena, you're going to do whatever it takes. if any of these 81 don't comply, you're going to go all the way to the mat? >> that's correct. and a number of them did not work in the white house or they were not senior white house advisers. so they can't claim executive privilege. there really is no reason that they shouldn't produce these documents. we expect to get most of the documents. and we've

and donald trump jr. was a few tables from his father at mar-a-lago resort and has been tweeting several times today, essentially framing this as an exoneration for the president. continue to expect to hear more of that, wolf. we'll wait to see what the president's initial reaction to this will be. >> just curious, we saw the president reading a newspaper on his way to the golf course. do we know which newspaper he was reading? >> you couldn't tell exactly. we zoomed in on the president there, you see him holding the newspaper in the back seat. based on people that talk to the president, he reads "new york times," "the washington post," "new york daily news," several newspapers and looks at the headlines. and watches television constantly. you've seen the president tweet so many times in the last week and a half, behind the scenes quizzing members of the legal team, some of them down there with him about what the status of the mueller report was. so he is very interested. week predict what the president w

administration, the trump administration and the trump family high on the list, the president's son donald trump, jrnd trump organization chief financial officer alan, admits they're not there yet. >> impeachment is a long way down the road, we don't have the facts yet but we are going to initiate proper investigations. >> and democrats believe that despite a lack of production thus far their probe will show direct evidence of russian collusion. >> there's abundant evidence of collusion. >> i think there's enormous amount of evidence. >> presidential harassment by crazy democrats at the highest levels in the history of our country, like wise the most vicious and corrupt mainstream media that any president has ever had to endure, yet the most successful first two years for any presidents, we are winning big, envy of the world but just think of what it could be. meanwhile the president's former lawyer michael cohen back again for a fourth time heather behind closed doors to house intelligence committee where he will be and finally we still have no idea when we can expect the mueller report to be submi

and the fact that he hasn't indicted donald trump, jr. and hasn't indicted jared kushner, i mean that's good news for them. the idea that maybe, well, some other case will be brought, sure maybe. but by and large this has been the main investigation. and, you know, a lot of attention has gone, and a lot of critical commentary has been about, you know, these people around donald trump. and the fact they are not indicted and are not going to be indicted by robert mueller and his grj is unambiguously good news for them. does that mean donald trump is in the clear, absolutely not. but i think the sort of swirl of suspicion, you know, is not really justified. >> shimon? >> i was just going to make the point about the hush money payments. that's actually a legit crime that the president has been implicated in and no one wants to focus on it. we know in a lot of the reporting we've been doing the hush money payments and what's going on in the southern district of new york in that investigation has worried the lawyers for the president because th

stage at liberty university, please welcome from liberty university jerry falwell jr., and from the trump organization, donald trump jr. >> i have a great song. you just won't believe it. college kids probably think it is great, but i spent the last three years perfecting it. he got this band. i really think it is going to become the replacement for l

. >> from the white house to the department of justice, donald trump jr., allen weisselberg, to beginhe investigations to present the case to the american people when obstruction of justice. it is very clear that the president obstructed justice. >> allen weisselberg is chief financial officer, thought to have detailed knowledge of trump's tax situation. his name came up repeatedly in michael cohen's testimony last week. congressman nadler says the list will also likely include john kelly and don mcgahn. >>> president trump had a tweetstorm that sounded nix ownian, declaring i'm an innocent man being percent dutiesed by very bad conflicted and corrupt people. the president spoke for more than two hours to the annual gathering of conservatives the cp cpac. >> it began with a literal, you see it there, embrace of the american flag and then he launched into the russia witch hunt, jeff sessions, crooked hillary and more. >> you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that sthoontd be there and all of a sudden they are trying to take you out with

chairman, what do you think -- reporter: what about donald trump jr., do you need to talk to them? rep. cummings: we probably will. that is a very good question. there are certain areas we have got to be careful with because special counsel, the southern district of new york, and others have basically said that there are things that they are looking into. there are a number of areas we couldn't even get into and did not get into that they are looking into. i think that there are still a number of shoes to drop. i think there is more. i don't know what it is, but i can tell you that we work very closely with special counsel to try to make sure that we did not interfere with the investigation. one more thing. wait a minute. i have a bad cold. reporter: do you believe -- rep. cummings: i want to be clear. i don't know whether you missed this. i said that i would rather have no hearing than to have a hearing that interfered with mueller. i would rather not have it. because i think mueller is doing very, very important work. but the press, come on, guys and ladies, one of the things we

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. >> on the cohen hearing, democrats are now saying they want to hear from donald trump jr., allen wiseleberg, some of the allegations that cohen made. what do you make of that? >> that they're doing exactly what they said before the election, that their whole goal was to try to impeach the president. it's not about the challenge we face as america. it's not about the challenge that we face to make the next century ours. this is purely political. to even have a hearing, while the president is overseas in vietnam negotiating with north korea, says a lot about this new majority. it says a lot about what their agenda is. i thought jim jordan made a very clear point, what were the town hall meetings happening in nadler's district? or coming's district prior? it was all about the impeachment of this president. if you watch the questioning of some of the new freshmen democratic members, all they talk about is impeachment. that's their goal. i don't think that's what america wants to see happen. i don't think that's where america wants that we can find and work together. i don't know if you had any

and president trump and david pecker and donald trump jr. we know a.m.i. and david pecker entered into immunity agreement. that leaves president trump and donald trump jr. as potential targets of the investigation. the fact that the judge continues to keep that part redacted which requires a showing suggests to me there are individuals urn investigation that could include those two are yet to be charged. >> barb, we tend to forget not repeat often enough, southern district of new york during cohen's plea in court did they say he admitted to crimes that were done at the direction of individual one later identified as our president? >> yes, even in the document itself, it was a direction of and in coordination with individual one. people have said it is a kin to saying he's a coconspirator there then we run up to the whole idea if a sitting president could be charged. it could relate to president trump himself and other people who's involved in the scheme. robert mueller continues to look at that piece of the investigation. >> clint, i am with barbara. when y

when donald trump jr.at russian assets and money makes up a disproportionate amount of their assets, allen weisselberg is in a position to tell congress whether that's actually true. when we talk about the sudden spending of millions in cash to buy certain properties, where did that money come from? how did he insert $200 million into his scottish golf courses that were failing? all things that allen weisselberg could potentially answer. he could say this money potentially came from a foreign entity. this money was used in an elicit manner. whether he's going to testify unless he gets immunity because he could be part of these crimes, is another question. >> ifs thereler sorts of things and he might be able to connect the dots on if there's anything there and would he be willing to answer any questions on those fronts? >> i think congress is certainly going to put the questions to him. hard to know how he's going to get out of coming up before those committees and talking about what he knows. i think the c

do you know that this financial scheme that the president, allen weisselberg and donald trump jr. are involved in is being investigated by the southern district of new york? >> i would rather not discuss that question. because it could be part of an investigation. >> you were part of the preparation. what did you think of cohen's responses? >> i thought it was really interesting and important and i don't know why that was not more of a focus. >> i think more people should be paying attention to that. it is really interesting. james talked about the campaign finance piece. these payments were part of that campaign finance crime that he pled guilty to. that he is serving time in prison for. another one was, you're the only one going on prison. and that was right. one of the interesting things that comes out of that, as a result of those payments, and we saw the checks because of that hearing. there are false statements in the books and records of the trump organization. and that was by the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. i would say that's certainly part of the ong