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

i think it tells us that donald trumpjnr clearly knew it us? and he was going to be provided documents given information from russian government that was incriminating, damaging to hillary clinton, who was at the time the presumptive democratic nominee. it certainly shows an intent to collude with the russian government, whether that actually took place at the meeting with the russian lawyer, who has denied it, but this is documented evidence of what donald trumpjnr documented evidence of what donald trump jnr thought when he documented evidence of what donald trumpjnr thought when he was going into the meeting. another interesting point that has been picked up on is that this entire e—mail chain from the beginning was forwarded to jared kushner, donald trump's son—in—law, and his campaign chair the day before the meeting. if you follow the new york times articles, those two gentlemen had said they did not have any idea what the meeting was going to be about going into it. if these documents are legitimate and if they are accurately portrayed, t

fact of the matter is that even if he was blowing all this up, jared kuschner, paul manafort and donald trumpjnrd trump jnr turned kuschner, paul manafort and donald trumpjnrturned up. kuschner, paul manafort and donald trump jnr turned up. they kuschner, paul manafort and donald trumpjnr turned up. they took the meeting, they were actually there, and that calls into question the suggestion collusion, conspiracy? who knows? that's exactly right. there was a willingness to entertain this proposal. in a traditional presidential campaign, this sort of approach from someone purporting to bea approach from someone purporting to be a representative of a foreign government with opposition research, that should set off all sorts of alarm bells in a campaign. it would require notifying the fbi, for instance. it didn't happen in this case. they seemed willing, donald trumpjnr in case. they seemed willing, donald trump jnr in particular, case. they seemed willing, donald trumpjnr in particular, seemed willing to hear them out. he claims its traditional opposition research but it isn't traditional, even for

this last meeting was revealed in emails released by donald trumpjnr, in which natalia veselnitskayaaving "information that would incriminate hillary" which was "part of russia and its government's support for mr trump." mr kushner says that the election was not discussed at any of these meetings. and this is his father—in—law‘s perspective. i think those words were quietly spoken but forcefully spoken and what they've managed to do in that statement are several things. first of all some of you may have noticed the white house sale though, that is unusual coming to the microphone in the white house. it is usuallyjust reserved for the likes of the president or vice president. jared kushner was speaking for the white house. in that statement are not only did he manage to get across the fa ct only did he manage to get across the fact he feels he has been open and transparent and he has volunteered all the information that has been asked of him and that there was no collusion, he turned it round to donald trump's voters and donald trump's base by saying it is an insult to them to say tha

emails released today by donald trumpjnr have changed the debate here, about whether the trump campaignromised. "some official documents and information that would would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia, and would be very useful to your father. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information, but is part of russia and its government's support for mrtrump." donald trumer‘s response: "if it's what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer." well, joining us now is matthew rojansky, director of the kennan institute at the woodrow wilson center. matthew, put your moscow hat on. or are they making of this in the kremlin? what is very strange about how this has come together is that the lawyers substance of argument, which had to do with the sanctions bill, the russian retaliation etc, that was 100% consistent with the kremlin message. it plugs into basically a life and death struggle for the putin regime. the big proponent of those sanctions was bill browder, a former american citizen, british who bankrolled the campaign to get sanctions against moscow. t