russian intelligence services. >> david, the other thing is if, you know, just to his point, donald trump sromething 15 minutes after donald trump jr. receives this e-mail from -- this direct message from wikileaks saying your dad should tweet this stuff out. if it took 15 minutes and we don't know if donald trump jr. did talk to donald trump sr., but it raises a lot of questions and seems luke a huge coincidence, but if he was willing to talk to his dad based on that, the idea that he didn't talk to his dad based on this meeting he had when a russian lawyer allegedly from the kremlin told him that he has dirt on hillary clinton and that the kremlin is supporting his dad's campaign, is that seems hard to believe that he wouldn't have talked to his dad. >> this circle of influence that you're describing casts a very important light on the very important question you asked in this interview. to the question are any laws broken. it is illegal for an american to solicit anything of value from a foreigner. there's an exception to that rule, which is none of election law applies to media organizat

donald trump jr. and says i strongly suggest your dad link to this tweet. 15 minutes later donald trump sr., not juniorober 12th. >> is it 12th? >> yeah. >> gives a speech where he says everybody should go look at this new bombshell from wikileaks. i mean, how direct do you need? it is a direct example of coordination between wikileaks and not some peripheral figure in the trump campaign but donald trump. >> and it's not as if questions relating to this direct message exchange that he had with wikileaks was not something of interest to the congressional committees, which were not told about this, didn't know about this. you heard today that people on the key committee saying, you know, we want to get this information. the fact that he withheld it suggests that he was worried about it in a big way. in addition to that, according to this article, it wasn't just don junior who was caught up in this. he took the information and e-mailed it to basically the entire senior staff of the campaign, including he said steve bannon and hope hicks, who is now the communications director, kellyanne conway and others.

. >> do you believe it's possible, then candidate, donald trump seni sr., did not know his son was communicating with wikileaks? >> one of the striking assets of these communications is the tone of them. and also, the fact that donald trump jr. was in fact communicating up the chain of the trump campaign organization, including likely to his father campaign. there is so much circumstances evidence that this now president was knowledgeable about the conversation. >> the week that don jr. was asked to post the link from wikileaks, then t-- do you want to hear from the vice president on this? >> not only the vice president but the president himself. there needs to be a statement from the president about whether or not he was knowledgeable about his son and wikileaks. the trump administration owes the american people a full explanations. >> we just -- i just received a -- a statement from liz landers from vice president's pence's press secretary. excuse me ali a farrah. she said quote, the vice president was never aware of anyone associated with the campaign being in contact with wickly leeks. he ju

. >> 15 minutes later, donald trump sr. tweets that link about wikileaks, and on october 14th, two days later, don jr. tweets that link that wikileaks asked him to. do we have that right? >> donald trump, sr., then the republican nominee tweeted about a different part. there was a long message from wikileaks, and it ended by saying, hey, by the way, part four of the podesta e-mails is up and 15 minutes later donald trump jr. says they are not getting enough play in the mainstream media and the system is rigged. two days later donald trump jr. tweets out the search function link sent to him by wikileaks in the same long message. >> either way it's a crazy coincidence that they tweet right after requests from wikileaks to tweet or what can you conclude from this? >> he's acting on the question of an organization, on october 7th, a week before that, the office of the director of national intelligence put out an unprecedented statement saying the hacks of the dnc, and the democratic national committee were orchestrated by the ru

communication where wikileaks said your dad should tweet this thing out and 15 minutes later donald trump srtweets out basically saying the dishonest media isn't paying attention, if you believe that donald trump jr. contacted his dad or was with his dad and said, oh, wikileaks is pushing this, then the idea that donald trump jr. did not contact his dad after sitting with a russian attorney allegedly from the kremlin informing donald trump jr. that the kremlin is supporting his dad's campaigns and has date of birth on hillary clinton, the idea that he doesn't tell his father that seems hard to believe if one believes that he did tell his father 15 minutes after wikileaks texted him. >> added evidence to that, the current president, the candidate at that time made a reference during that time period about making the speech within a week that would reveal an awful lot of dirt on hillary clinton, so there's more truly circumstantial evidence that there was synchronization between the campaign and wikileaks. remember, this was a group wikileaks whose leader was likely already under indictment in

donald trump jr. was telling his father about what wikileaks was telling him, because at one point wikileaks messages donald trump jr. about a story and then 15 minutes later donald trump srbout wikileaks? >> yes. i thought that was very interesting. and we've got to remember, this was a family-owned business and donald trump was the patriarch of that family business. and they worked very closely together. so i don't think that donald trump jr. did anything without first checking with his father and vice versa. >> congresswoman, there's also this from vice president mike pence. this is on october 14. right when so many of these conversations were going on. watch this. >> some have suggested on the left all this bad stuff about hillary, nothing bad about trump that your campaign is in cahoots with wikileaks. >> nothing could be further from the truth. i think all of us have -- you know, have had concerns about wikileaks over the years, and it's just a reality of american life today and of life in the wider world. >> so, congresswoman, the vice president's office put out this statement saying the vice president was never aware of anyone associated with the campaign being in

. >> saying give us a boost and donald trump sr. does just that. >> the supposition is or what's suspicious is that maybe this was a window into greater cooperation or some kind of exchange of something valuable to the campaign at the behest of a foreign power. i think that's where you get into -- >> and the question is -- >> but remember before -- >> why is this not enough? it was already in the public domain. you would have to show that donald trump jr. was helping to motivate wikileaks to do something to influence the election. >> that would be collusion. we're not there. >> it's an element of a larger crime where you have to show that you did something to help something illegal happen. that's a much higher bar than people think. certainly, i don't think this alone makes the grade. >> and i'm not going there. i'm just going coordination. >> coordination is different. >> what the special counsel is looking at. it's part of its purview. if you're going to cooperate, coordinate, there is another part of the analysis, which is what d

donald trump jr. in october that there were very important democratic e-mails found on the wikileaks site. 15 minutes after that message was sent to donald trump jr., donald trump sr. tweeted very little pick up by the dishonest media of information provided by wikileaks. we also now know wikileaks sent a message to donald trump jr. that said hi, don. if your father loses, we think it's much more interesting if he does not concede. wikileaks planned a post election push to make hillary clinton's victory seem illegitimate. the kremlin had a similar plan. donald trump mentioned wikileaks 145 times in the months before the election. we examine the tweets every day here on "today in the bay." if you have comments, i'm at scott mcgrew. >> thank you. >>> 6:49. it has been an incredibly difficult time for jimmy fallon. >>> his mother, glory, died one week ago. he returned to the air and understandably became emotional talking about the woman he calls his biggest fan. >> she was such a fan of the show and everything i did. i feel grateful to be able to do this every single night and appreciative of all the support we received from you over the past week. we are going to w

donald trump's movements, meetings, private utterances than keith schiller. i can think of two particular occasions. one would be the june 2016 trump tower meeting hosted with the russians. it has been reported that donald trump sr. was in trump tower that day. if he was with him they will want to ask did he meet with his son afterwards? the other occasion would be the 2013 trip to moscow for the ms. universe pageant. they will want to ask about what he remembers and what he recalls about donald trump's movements. >> donald trump was in trump tower that day of the meeting. he had just returned from a donor's meeting at the four seasons in new york. he was back in trump tower. i know this because i was standing outside. in order for donald trump to leave that building it's a pretty big to do. secret service has to escort him out. he definitely was in trump tower that day, the day of the don jr. meeting. keith schiller may know whether or not he met with don jr. speaking of which, any idea, phil, if anyone is trying to speak to donald trump's long-time personal secretary? if anything else knows anything about his movements and who he might have been speaking to roana is the person to talk to. >> i don't know if ei

donald trump jr. it's unclear if donald trump jr. receiving that message is what informed the then-presidential candidate donald trump sr. to issue that tweet, but if there were a connection there, it would certainly look like coordination. but i think politically it's more damaging because it's yet another example of some connection between the trump campaign, in this case the candidate's namesake son, and russian agents which is what wikileaks is. they are funded by the russian government and help distribute these e-mails. these democratic hacked stolen e-mails. >> peter baker, we are duty bound to point out the references and mentions of wikileaks we might have all heard during the presidential effort. we'll listen to some of those and talk about it on the other side. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the >> so peter, how to put this, he's a president who often wears his motivation on his sleeve. >> he does, yes, of course. what's interesting about these e-mails, i think, we don't get a lot of donald trump jr.'s voice in this or a huge amount of illumination on what his role in this. what we d

donald trump jr. there were important e-mails to be found on the site. 15 minutes after it was sent to junior, donald trump sreeted little pick up by the media of incredible information. so dishonest. the pick up trump himself found out minutes earlier. >>> "the washington post" reports jeff sessions is considering appointment of special counsel to look into the clinton campaign and russia. president trump has been critical of the justice department for not investigating hillary clinton. earlier this month, he said the fact he couldn't control the justice department was one of the saddest parts of his presidency. we will watch everything else going on in washington. you are welcome to tell us what you think. reach me on twitter. >> thank you, scott. >>> we have all experienced loss. it's been incredibly difficult for tonight show host, jimmy fallon. his mother died a week ago. >> he returned to the air and became emotional talking about his biggest fan. >> she was such a fan of the show and everything i did. i feel grateful to be able to do this every night and appreciative of the support from all of you my f

went to his father and said we have got wikileaks on our side, they're hacking and donald trump sr.that. i think this is another brick in the edifice of solution that we have seen here, it goes from carter page meeting with a deputy russian prime minister to popadopoulos meeting with a russian intelligence operator, working with the entire hierarchy of the campaign, mike flynn. and then of course the key thing that remains, the high command of the campaign got an email that says this was part of the russian government support for donald trump's campaign. i think it's pretty clear that there was multiple avenues of collusion here. >> and so, let's just -- let's change the word, because i think collusion's become loaded. we now have -- the debate over whether there was coordination between the russians and the trump campaign is over, it's over, folks. there were nine contacts wi tha know of, you just laid out four of them. carter page, donald trump, jr., jared kushner, george popadopoulos, carter page, j.d. gordon, mike flynn and jeff sessions were all in contact and several of them,

donald trump jr. got interesting information, he told him right away, which makes me think that donald trump sr., the might be in trouble for denying -- maybe not legally in trouble, but denied he knew anything about this meeting. didn't he until him about a meeting he had with russians? >> one could argue that's what happened. look, i think what we've learned today, something that we've already already knew, lots of people in the trump orbit have been karlts with the truth for lack of a better term and that could result in some legal action. so this is just shocking to me because i didn't think it was confusing that twitter is not a secure channel of which to share information. so i think the trump administration could be in deep stuff, but republicans on the hill have to now come to a point where they're going to have to hold this white house accountable and hold lots of folks in donald trump's orbit accountable. i just haven't seen that that has necessarily happened. >> republicans have hat these emergencies for months. >> for months. >> and it is kind of part of a pattern, as bill was saying, of

does the -- do we know for sure that the rnc has only been paying for donald trump sr. and jr.?it possible they have been paying for anybody else? >> it is because we don't have the filings yet. i believe the most recent filing we have is from the third quarter. so the next round of filings there could be more in there. but yeah, it raised a lot of people's eyebrows to see those bills from donald trump jr. in there. eyebrows of people who had worked on the campaign. i've been keeping in touch with campaign staffers who are faced with 30, 60, $100,000 in legal bills themselves, who are liquidating their own kids' college fund, their retirement accounts to pay for these. and yes, when they saw 286,000 i think is the most recent number we had going to donald trump jr. and no one else there were a lot of questions and there were a lot of frustrated campaign staffers. >> is this also becoming a controversy been the republican party in terms of how these decisions were made and who's responsible for these outcomes? >> well, there's plenty of donors who donated money to the trump campa

hillary clinton and that he was going to bring that because he was first going to send it to donald trump srrough his secretary but he felt that it would be best to bring it in person to don jr. no questions were asked about that. that information very likely was the e-mails that were stolen from the democratic national committee. that's what this all centers around. we know just from the papadopoulos guilty plea that they knew about this -- these e-mails as early as april of 2016. >> so why do you think he gave the interview then? why would he put himself out there? now he's on the record saying that this information i hyped up and it wasn't that big but if there are e-mails that the mueller has that could totally contradict that he could have put himself in a bind? >> it could. i don't think he'd ever show up in the united states. he would be a fool to show up here and i don't think any lawyer would allow him to do that. >> we'll see how that all plays out. rick, let me ask you about this pattern that emerges about jared kushner, where information and e-mails not disclosed by jared kushner

donald trump, jr. ended up tweeting out a link to this page. sr.rump, talking about wikileaks all through the final weeks of the campaign. it is not a smoking gun. it does not look like he is knee-deep in collusion. but there shows a connection, which the intelligence community concludes was being handed information from russian hackers. jane: what has been jeff sessions' reaction to that? anthony: he is considering that as one of a range of options, whether they will open their own investigation in the justice department or hand this off to the special counsel, which is something usually reserved for when the justice department cannot investigate itself. today, he was asked about that. he said he would come to a thick quick conclusion on this. it was going to be based on whatever evidence and cts they find. there's a lot of pressure. donald trump -- it is unusual to see a president publicly pressure a justice department on any sort of ongoing investigation. jane: thank you very much for joining me. you are watching "bbc world news america." still

sr. about that trump tower meeting is just wildly -- >> ludicrous. >> thanks for your time. the rest of you are going to stay here. >>> ahead, what will robert mueller find as he follows donald's money and why the manafort indictment related to money laundering. >>> next, did the president try to impede the russia investigation? we'll look at the firing of james comey in the case of obstruction after this. >> it's my judgement that i was fired because of the russia investigation. i was fired in some way to change -- or the endeavor was to change the russia investigation was being conducted. that is a very big deal. if yor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection

sr. about that trump tower meeting is just wildly -- >> ludicrous. >> thanks for your time. the rest of you are going to stay here. >>> ahead, what will robert mueller find as he follows donald trump's money and why the manafort indictment related to money laundering. >>> next, did the president try to impede the russia investigation? we'll look at the firing of james comey in the case of obstruction after this. >> it's my judgement that i was fired because of the russia investigation. i was fired in some way to change -- or the endeavor was to change the russia investigation was being conducted. that is a very big deal. jump... or swim in for our tempur-pedic black friday savings event. get the limited edition tempur-legacy queen mattress set for the best price ever. or save up to $500 instantly on select tempur-pedic adjustable mattress sets. ♪ and with our 90-day trial, your satisfaction is completely guaranteed. tempur-pedic sleep is power. find your exclusive retailer today at tempurpedic.com. >>> sp special counsel robert mueller ultimately presents evidence that president trump tried to obstruct justice, it is entirely possible that it happened in plain sight. preside

sr. was moved by bush to do what he vote for clinton. >> it tells you donald trump is a different kind ofn politician, so much so that he's not a republican. he's a republican nominally only. but husband policies, his stance on domestic and foreign policy is very different than the stances of those of george h.w. and george w. bush. >> why did these two men talk to you? >> they've been circumspect. i talked to them about the important historical aspect of this situation. this is the only father/son relationship that we've had -- father/son presidents with the exception of john adams and john quincy adams. there was 24 years between those presidency, the the presidency of john adams and john quincy adams and only eight between george h.w. bush and george w. bush. it was a communications age where they could talk to each other on an immediate term basis to the nature of that was more important than the adams' relationship and history has to know what that relationship was ultimately about. >> george bush sr.'s view of his son's decision to start the iraq war? >> he was supportive. the one t

donald trump took office he signed an executive order temporarily banning entry into the u.s. by citizens of seven majority muslim countries. the report focuses on confusion and suing afterwards and allegedly claims sr. managers were caught by surprise with trump's order federal agents violated two court orders and he wrote a letter to lawmakers. the washington post claims that while cbp, customs and border patrol action, was compliant with the port of entry to travelers who already had arrived, they were aggressive in preventing affected travelers from boarding aircraft to the united states and took actions that violated separate court orders in our view and they were enjoined from this activity. the questions roth is asking about this report, is why it wasn't released to the public and he now writes to lawmakers hoping to get interest with this. the timing is interesting. last night, the trump administration asked the supreme court to impose a new round of travel sanctions and travel bans and we will hear more about that in the next couple of weeks. live in san jose, sandra osborne, kpix5. >> of federal judges permanently blocking president donald trump's order to cut funding for sanctuary cities

donald sr. was talking about those e-mails and, you know, what we're seeing now is all of this allegation of conspiracy and collusion coming together among the wikileaks, the trumpampaign and the russian government. >> i feel like i just got the ackerman closing argument here. the goldstone point, joyce, i want to talk about a few things, but just to follow up on nick's point, goldstone -- the one line that has stuck with me of all of the different revelation as in some ways the most incriminating and the thing i think i would remember the most in realtime is goldstone saying to don jr. the russian government's support for your father. that was a thing he put in an e-mail on the record that had to just be very memorable to anyone that encountered that sentiment, particularly when it became clear the russian government was hacking various people's e-mails. >> it's absolutely true, chris, and it's really important to remember that it's a crime for a foreign government to make a contribution to a united states election. so it's just remarkable that this didn't send up all sorts of red flags in the campaign. there should have been an immediate full stop on any addit

donald sr. was talking about those e-mails and, you know, what we're seeing now is all of this allegation of conspiracy and collusion coming together among the wikileaks, the trumpgovernment. >> i feel like i just got the akerman closing argument here. the goldstone point, joyce, i want to talk about a few things, but just to follow up on nick's point, goldstone -- the one line that has stuck with me of all of the different revelations as in some ways the most incriminating and the thing i think i would remember the most in realtime is goldstone saying to don jr. the russian government's support for your father. that was a thing he put in an e-mail on the record that had to just be very memorable to anyone that encountered that sentiment, particularly when it became clear the russian government was hacking various people's e-mails. >> it's absolutely true, chris, and it's really important to remember that it's a crime for a foreign government to make a contribution to a united states election. so it's just remarkable that this didn't send up all sorts of red flags in the campaign. there should have been an immediate full stop on any additional conversation. and

donald trump was president. can you talk about the dread around not just the potential for a flynn indictment but the added complication of his son's legal liabilities being in the mix, michael flynn sr. >> talking to white house officials and other people around the trump orbit, there was a real sense of dread about flynn possibly being indicted and, you're right. there was a relief last week when it wasn't flynn but manafort. the reason for that is flynn was so close to the president for such a long period of time during the campaign he was at donald trump's side on the plane. he heard a lot of conversations. he was a party to some of the most sensitive things that the president was discussing when it came to national security, when it came to the russia relationship and then he was involved in the transition, helping make decisions about who would staff this government and what sort of information the president-elect would receive and for the first 24 days of donald trump's presidency, mike flynn was his most important national security figure in the government. the national security adviser. so he's heard a lot. he knows a lot. and there's a lot that potentially he could share wi