it was hillary clinton. >> you're saying it was okay for an american president. >> it was hillary clinton, it was hillary clinton who called out vladimir putin for rigging his election in russia. it was hillary clinton who called out vladimir putin for human rights abuses. >> wait a minute. >> we're saying then if putin chooses to get involved in our election that's okay? that's crazy. >> congresswoman. >> anderson, it was hillary clinton who signed off on 20% of our nation's uranium. >> i being sold to a russian majority owned company. >> that's false. that's false. it's not true. might like to peddle fake news, that's not true. >> let's. >> that's a real national security issue. >> to paraphrase kellyanne conway, can we refocus on actually what happened today.

everybody knew there were stories about hillary clinton and the russian government, whether it was podestaboard of a russian company while advising her in the state department, whether it was the clinton foundation in the uranium swapping or whatever went on there. everybody knew that stuff like this was going on. in wikipedia that did not come out because of trump -- >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks, he excuse me. let's say what we're hearing from the democrats is a violation of treason. there's no treason there. i haven't seen anybody make a credible case about that. >> what do you think about the e-mails? >> the e-mails would bother me, understand that, but however, if somebody comes up to me and they did repeatedly -- i was on the ballot 15 times -- people would always come up to you and say, i have something on your opponent. that is as routine as answering the phone in an election. i will say this. most of the time nothing comes of it. you listen because, okay, if hillary clinton was involved in criminal activities, i want to know about it, it might do me some good. if somebody said someth

about hillary clinton.is the account that they didn't bring anything to the table except their desire to get the sanctions repealed. and donald trump jr. was inexperienced enough to take the meeting. >> thank you very much for providing that insight. e we do appreciate it. thank you for being with us. >>> just moments ago, president trump weighed in teaming up with vladimir putin tweeting this. the fact that president putin ask i discussed a a cyber security unit doesn't mean i think it can happen. it can't, but a cease-fire can and did. the latest words from the president regarding russia and the idea of teaming up with russians on cyber security. once again a big night ofbreaking news. stay with cnn. thank you for being with me. brooke baldwin take its you to "the nineties for a a cnn original premier live to the preparty, next. at whole foods market, we believe in food that's naturally beautiful and fresh. delicious and powerful, and full of nutrients. so there are no artificial colors... no artificial f

she shared her findings with officials from the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign.gs according to that report, working with ukraine and alsopa offering up information about the clinton campaign. she also said she also said she would assist a lot of journalists in writingo stories about manna fort and they trump campaign. we reached out to her for a quick comment explosive story, she hasn't gotten back to us. there's one other thing, enough is enough when it comes to the scandal. tonight, we on this show are demanding answers. answers to questions that you the american people deserve to know about because the evidence that we have here points to a foreign power that actually did work to influence the election. the dnc operative at the center of the scandal, she needs to be put under oath. she needs to tell congress what she knew, when she knew what and who she told it to.. the same goes for the ukrainian ambassador that she met with, maybe it's also time for debbie wasserman schultz, maybe she's to answer questions under oath aboutt chalupa's exact role. that would include a former clin

there is a lot of stuff on hillary clinton. e foundation, the clinton foundation that they have reserved and that up and so mention anydo not of this and i was a federal employee for 39 years. in the area of taxation and what is going on with the clinton foundation is unbelievable. rolfe from charlottesville. keith, independent line. caller: thank you for c-span. opaganda, tell their lives, but that young man cannot tell a straight story if he tried. us got up fairly early for this -- we will show little bit more from that interview, but how long did sean hannity speak with donald trump junior? caller: that interview went what, 20 minutes or better? host: you listened to it. you talked about him being a liar. do you think he learned any new information that you learned any new information you did not learn before? caller: the young man -- he is not even truly part of this administration, yet he is part of this administration. this is one of the most bizarre times in american history. it is incredible what america can believe. it

hillary clinton, let's see. we know she mishandled and destroyed top-secret special access government information. what about a real russian collusion conspiracy? the uranium one deal. at secretary of state hillary clinton, she signed off on giving up to 20% of america's uranium to vladimir putin and the russians. all those people in the deal? they kicked back over $100 million to the clinton foundation. bill clinton doubled the speaking fees in moscow. let's not forget the clinton foundation, taking millions of dollars from the worst human rights record nations. since he took office, 125 deep state leaks and 126 days. by the way, they are all likely felonies and happened at a rate which is seven times greater in the previous two administrations. what about lieutenant general michael flynn? you will follow the story, have you been reporting on the fact that he was unmasked and that intel, raw intelligence was leaked to the press? that would be a crime. then james comey. company of comey's seven the most containe

they already did have damaging information with hillary clinton.would learn later that they would use that in a deliberate effort to help trump get elected. so the contents of that e-mail are quite accurate. this also, if it is true, puts the lie to the whole idea we have no idea whether the russians are trying to help us. we have no idea whether this came from the russians. if that e-mail and description is accurate, it means that among the very first people, if not the first people of the public who would learn that the russians would help elect donald trump were the trump family themselves fwlchlt a themselves. >> in terms of priority and big deal factor, where does this go? >> it is a big deal that you see the potential evidence of the inner circle of the trump campaign having direct contact with the russians, promising them damaging information about hillary clinton. here they are talking about a form of sanctions, the magninski act that places sanctions on russian individuals to highlight human rights, something putin wanted to get rid of. we

trump officials were trying to get dirt from russian officials on hillary clinton. moments ago i had a chance to talk to mark werner who said this. >> this is the first time the president sees levels of the trump campaign meeting with russians to try to obtain. it's also a continuing pattern that we've seen of trump campaign and trump administration officials who ha have. they need to acknowledge those kind of meetings. >> we want to speak to doc jr. >> absolutely. >> wolf, this comes as the senate intelligence committee is also trying to move forward to interview trump campaign officials this week. this is the first time this committee has moved into this new phase of the investigation. i'm told by a source familiar with the plans that they have interviewed roughly 50 people so far but not trump campaign officials. we will give out the names of those interviewed this week. they're expecting jared kushner, paul mana port, donald trump jr. to come forward. he didn't say when they would come forward or if they would come forward in the august recess. they have talked

them and i was like this is a weird red flag it's almost like they're circling the wagons for hillary clinton long before she was designated by the party as the primary nominee while she's raising money at the clinton foundation while employed the state department and aligning all the superdelegates to the hillary victory fund the united states it was such a playground collusion i found it to be very concerned ok let me try to speak like yours i think that when you are in it's be careful of the word collusion here and that's because we have we have the accused with this right now the accused rob you want to get out of the. what's so interesting about all of this is donald trump have the you know this in many respects rob you know let me lend it let robbie as you're good just let rob answer go ahead he's not also going to put a question i want to make sure he hasn't done for the question all right go ahead zack yes. rob did you were you directed by the clinton campaign or by the d.n.c. to write those pieces about hillary clinton back in the day before anyone had vote in the primary election. i

coming to trump tower for a meeting to talk about dirt on hillary clinton. coming to trump tower on the recommendation of someone that donald trump, jr., knew from the time the trump organization put on the miss universe pageant in moscow. now, meeting with a russian person who you know or in this case meeting with a russian person who you say you don't know, that's not a crime. it's a little weird for that to happen in the middle of presidential kp presidential campaign. it's weird, but it's not criminal. that said, it may actually be criminal. if the stated and explicit purpose of that meeting is because they're aware that foreign nationals are trying to influence a u.s. election and they explicitly overtly take that meeting because they would like to help those foreign nationals in their goal of trying to influence our election in a way that will hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. if you explicitly take a meeting with the express purpose of trying to help foreign nationals succeed in their attack on the united states, which you understand they ar

had met with russians with opposition on hillary clinton. i was just saying that the russians were getting involved in this election to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton, which obviously turned out to be true. he called me a liar for saying that. i think now what's been revealed for the first time is potential real coordination between the kremlin and associates of the kremlin and the trump campaign. an i think we need to prepare at this point to see more of this. and to potentially see more direct evidence. >> jason, i want you to be able to respond to that. that interview in which donald trump jr. went after robby for raising red flags about russia, that was after trump jr. met with the russian lawyer who claimed to have information on hillary clinton. how do you square that? >> well, anderson, let's go back to the beginning when this meeting happened with don jr. so this was before any of this russia news had popped up or there was any sort of narrative or any conversation at all about this point. somebody reaches out to the camp

and who is the lawyer allegedly claiming to have dirt on hillary clinton? nald 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,

. >> the trump campaign met with a russia lawyer to get dirt on hillary clinton. are there any consequences? >> plus, what happens if the republican healthcare bill isn't revived soon? >> it's very, very difficult when you can only lose two votes, and there may only be two that are irrelevant retrievable. >> and victory in mosul. what it means for the international fight to stop isis. this is mtp daily and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm katyty tir in new york in for chuck to do. it's been called everything from a nothing burger to board erg on treason. last june three of mr. trut's closest advisers, his son done junior, his campaign chief paul manafort and his son-in-law jared kushner met with a russian lawyer at trump tower seemingly hoping for a bombshell, maybe about hillary clinton. trump jr. says the lawyer whose client claimed to have information about russians aiding the dnc and hillary clinton. he says her statements on the matter didn't make sense, and the matter was dropped. but the mere confirmation that a meeting like that happened at all h

this was about hillary clinton in order to help trump's prospects in the campaign. so that discussion was in may. that meeting was in june. since we learned about the scale and the impact of the russian attack to try to manipulate social media and the news media in this country, there has been a lot of -- i think there have been a lot of serious questions raised as to whether or not the russians could have pulled off that attack as well as they did, without any domestic help. without somebody in america helping them do it most effectively. there have been serious questions raised as to whether somebody in the u.s. might have had to help them in terms of the groups of american voters to target, what messages were expected to work, how they might be able to dovetail their media manipulation with what the trump campaign was doing at that time to try to hurt hillary clinton on their own terms. there have been a lot of questions about that when we realized the scope of what russia did with its social media targeting, right? mcclatchy reports today that investigators in b

trump to weigh in not only on a controversy about his daughter sitting in the seat but to bring hillary clintonit? chelsea clinton, i'm sorry. >> i think he's saying that the media is treating him different than they would another and i think they are. the reality is, she was part of the delegation, this is customary, even heard chancellor merkel say it was nothing out of the ordinary. she was part of the official delegation and when the president gets up as this happens all the time, they have bilateral meetings during these types of summits and the entire team goes to this bilateral meeting, including the secretary of state and other senior members. you have someone junior sit in and take notes and represent the president of the united states. i don't think it's a big deal and the fact that the media is making a big deal makes donald trump's point. >> i have to say, i thought it was pretty shocking. paul, i also have to say it would not surprise me at all if clinton senior asked chelsea clinton to sit in the chair, if the roles were reversed. >> not a chance. >> not a chance in. >> i've known

let us just remember to substitute the name hillary clinton here for donald trump. and if the clinton team had had these contacts with the russians, what they would be saying. what would sebastian gorka be saying this morning about those contacts and about their conduct thus far and that should be -- that should always be in people's minds. >> i'll just answer because i already know what sebastian is going to say. they're going to say, the clinton campaign? look what the democrats did with ukraine. they had lots of contacts with ukraine. that's what i believe -- >> the uranium deal. >> and uranium. >> but that's fair enough. so let them explore that further. but that doesn't answer how -- i mean, it makes the point really. they're saying any kind of contact like that is inappropriate. so is the defense, they were doing it, too, so i guess it's okay. >> the russians call that what about-ism. you are attacked on one level and point out the same error in another. >>> we are following some breaking news. at least 16 marines have been killed after a u.s. military plane cr

she never producedru solid information about hillary clinton. he says that she didn't even really make sense when talking about clinton. it's worth noting that the legal team pointed out they think the whole meeting could have been a set up. it was made to look like potential russian collusion. the team also said that the russian lawyer is connected to fusion gps, the opposition research firm that produced the discredited christopher steele dossier on donald trump. by the way, as "the new york post" has reported, fusion gps has several ties to the democrats, including clinton allies and even planned parenthood. from looking at the facts as we have them, a friend of the trumps offered to coordinate a meeting t to share opposition research on hillary clinton, which donald trump jr. agreed to. nothing came of it because there was no information exchange. then it ended there. the democrats and mainstream media are hysterical over the story. we are glad you are all watching. theye have completely ignored an example of actual election interference and

president obama, nancy pelosi, maybe even hillary clinton set to hit the campaign trail.sia and the u.s. form of cease-fire in syria. but there are some other hands in the pie, some are backing the rebels there. next on "america's news headquarters," i hope you will watch. >> eric: a case attracting global attention, the plight of little charlie gard. his parents back in the u.k.'s highest court, hoping they will be granted permission to take him home to our country for what they say is desperately needed treatment. >> and emotional appearance that brought a glimmer of good news. the judge today granted his impairments until wednesday to present research and set a new hearing for thursday. >> charlie's parents are forward to new evidence being presented before the high court this thursday, the 13th of july. that will result in his parents taking him to either the united states of america or to italy for groundbreaking treatment. >> 11-month-old charlie has a rare disorder requiring a ventilator for him to breathe. >> we've been fighting for his medication since november,

that donald trump junior met with a russian lawyer after being promised damaging information on hillary clinton. this is the first public indication that at least some in the trump campaign were willing to accept russian help. donald trump junior has provided cnn with the following statement. quote, i was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance i knew from the 2013 miss universe pageant with an individual who i was told might have information helpful to the campaign. i was not told her name prior to the meeting. i asked jared and paul to attend. jared kushner and paul manafort and told them nothing of the substance. we had a meeting in june 2016 and after pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting miss clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. no details or supporting information was provided or even offered. it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information, she then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of russian chi

a meeting where he hoped to get information damaging to hillary clinton.eased those e-mails, by the way, on twitter just after being notified by the

when you type it into google, the top two recommended autocompletions are hillary clinton indiana and: as it happens, google's parent company, alphabet, was a top clinton donor. its chief executive worked on the clinton campaign. last year, former facebook insiders alleged they "routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers." we hear from a lot of people that they don't trust "politico" or facebook or google or whoever it might be that's trying to sort through the truth or the facts. susan: we're looking at a crisis of faith in institutions. the media, being one set of institutions that is under assault. more broadly, political parties you know, no longer have the trust and the faith. sharyl: torba claims twitter censors conservatives, but not liberals for similar behavior. on gab, anything goes, he says, as long as it's legal, not inciting violence, and not exposing information like credit cards. mr. torba: what we're doing is brother and, you know, curating content and deciding what is news and what isn't and what people should see and what they shouldn't, we

the show should ask themselves, what would they be saying if all the facts were the same that hillary clinton were president, and we know what they'd be saying because we have the experience of the clinton cashbook and the long history of republicans pursuing the clintons on account of their ethical transgressions. so it's not -- republicans should just ask themselves out of a sense of intellectual honesty, if you had a democratic president talking with russian agents or russian lawyers about finding incriminating evidence about a republican presidential candidate, a mitt romney or a john mccain, what would they say? >> we are out of time. well, it doesn't need to be partisan because robert muler is there and he's on the case. >>> next, much more on donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer. deputy assistant to the president, sebastian gyorko, joins me next. >>> and the latest details on the horrific military plane crash in mississippi. at least 16 people have died. and why residents are being asked to stay clear of the area. it is still considered a danger zone. for your heart... yo

was able to get a sense of his soul. >> thank you, thank you. >> on the campaign trail in 2008, hillary clinton had a different take. >> i could have told him he's a kgb agent, by definition, he did not have a soul. this is a waste of time. >> originally mrs. clinton said you do not have any soul. >> putin's reply. statements should not be guided by their hearts, they should use their heads. put clinton had a lot of tough words for putin over the years. >> we have to stand up to his bullying. he's somebody who'll take as much as he possibly can. but, it was what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. it began with the arabs spring protest early this year. the kind of popular up rise that putin dreaded. he begins to see himself through the eyes of closing the mark. >> the mark of egypt was facing prosecution. >> syria's bashar al-assad was on the ropes. peculiari putin may have feared the same bloody fate for himself. just a few weeks later, rebellion arrived in russia. tens of thousands rallies in the streets of mouscow. the biggest protests there since the fall of the union. >> peo

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released an e-mail chain between himself and others about hillary clinton that the campaign would find interesting. they seem to show trump jr. knew one year ago that the russian government wanted to support mr. trump and his campaigns. his reaction, if that's what you say, i love it. >> 2016 and potentially 2017 all come down to this. our word of the day, and that is e-mail. >> we've just sign donald trump jr. tweeting out the e-mail in question that everyone's been talking about. >> these e-mails are explosive. this should have set off alarms. instead, it activated their sal vary glands. >> there's an e-mail from the russian government suggesting they want to help, that would be problematic. >> i said a long time ago it's serious, and this is a serious situation. one that is a long way from over. >> the russian attorney in that meeting, sat down for an exclusive interview with my colleague keir simmons. the story she told is different than the narrative offered up by the president's son and his attorney. >> they have the impression that they were going to be told some information tha

hillary clinton signed off 20% of uranium to russia. he foundation of nuclear weapons and people gave big donations to the clinton foundation and bill clinton double teamed his speaking fees in . will the possible election collusion ever be investigated? this broke in january. it involves ukranian government officials. that sounds like collusion. they wanted to defeat and hurt donald trump. now 6 months later, she denies any wrongdoing. senator chuck of iowa is not buying it. writing a letter to the justice department about a possible foreign agent violation. it's not just the republicans going after the trump administration? we will have equal justice under the law and former obama attorney general loretta lynch potentially obstructing justice. she called it a matter instead of an investigation. and lynch's tarmac meeting with bill clinton. there is good news on this issue. we now finally have a group of republican lawmakers that believe in equal justice under the law. jim jordan and others are calling for lynch to be investigated and t

then he says it was to get bad information about hillary clinton. this all matters. and sheds light on an investigation that you say doesn't matter. but it proves that it does matter. >> what light does it shed? hold on. hold on. hold on. you and i are lawyers who never practiced law, which is why we're happy people. >> i practiced law for several years but continue. >> what light has been shed on this investigation because of all of this? ton jr. sent out an entire statement. i want everybody to read the entire statement. >> make sure they pick the right ones because he's changed it twice. >> tell me what you learned. tell me what you learned. >> i learned that it's not true that he never met with anybody with russian connections. i learned that it's not true that he didn't take a meeting that mattered to investigators. >> and you learned that it was vague, ambiguous, completely meaningless and the pretext for why the woman was actually there -- >> the fruit of the meeting is irrelevant to taking the meeting. >> about russian adoption. >> none of that is relevant. >

he cannot and won't stop talking about his former gone hillary clinton. ntioned her, quote sorks why are the committees and investigators and looking into crooked hillary's crimes in russian relations. there were three other tweets over the weekend where he mentioned hillary clinton. but our count this is 41 tweets about hillary clinton since he's won. >> you know, my opponent didn't work out there because she was so -- she was so she thought she was going to win michigan. there is no path to victory for hillary clinton. people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. hillary clinton came 20% of our uranium. hillary clinton did a reset remember, with the stupid plastic button. hillary clinton got the questions to the debate and didn't report it. that's a horrible thing. when wikileaks which i had nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, they're not giving classified information. they're giving stuff what was said in the office about hillary cheating on the debates. nobody mentioned that hillary rece

campaign and hillary clinton herself. their response evolved to say, yes, that's true, and by monday morning, donald trump jr., you know, tweeted out, well, this is what anyone would do. anyone involved in the campaign always wants derogatory information about their opponents. then on monday, we approached them again and said, actually, we now know that the information, the derogatory information was part of -- was presented as part of a russian campaign to discredit clinton, and that they eagerly accepted the meeting, knowing that. and then, of course, today, when we presented the e-mails, that's when donald trump jr. came forward with the e-mails themselves, just minutes before we published. >> and mark, i don't know if you can tell us this, but is this a story that is an ongoing story? that there is continuing reporting that there are things to know about what happened here, that we should expect to learn about in the future? do you guys consider this to be a closed case in terms of explaining what happened here? or is

hillary clinton, let's see. we know she mishandled and destroyed top-secret special access government information. what about a real russian collusion conspiracy? the uranium one deal. at secretary of state hillary clinton, she signed off on giving up to 20% of america's uranium to vladimir putin and the russians. all those people in the deal? they kicked back over $100 million to the clinton foundation. bill clinton doubled the speaking fees in moscow. let's not forget the clinton foundation, taking millions of dollars from the worst human rights record nations. since he took office, 125 deep state leaks and 126 days. by the way, they are all likely felonies and happened at a rate which is seven times greater in the previous two administrations. what about lieutenant general michael flynn? you will follow the story, have you been reporting on the fact that he was unmasked and that intel, raw intelligence was leaked to the press? that would be a crime. then james comey. company of comey's seven the most containe

inside hillary clinton campaign. jonathan and amy reconstructed key decisions and unseized opportunities, well-intentioned misfires and hidden thorns that turn ad winnable contest into a devastating loss. "new york times" write, although the clinton campaign was widely covered and many autopsies covered in the last several months, the blow by blow details in "shattered" and observations made lear by campaign and democratic party insiders are nothing less than devastating. sure to dismay not just her supporters but everyone who cares about the outcome and momentous consequences of election. without further adieu, let me welcome jonathan allen and amie parnes. >> good evening. thank you for coming. i see family, friend, and people we don't know yet. so, there is my family waving over there. they must have been drinking already. they're laughing like they were. so i think what we'll do here, read a little bit of one of the early chapters of the book, chapter 7. then we will, we'll talk a little bit about what our process

the reporterld that he did not have the information about hillary clinton. we have a link to that. >> what was the purpose of that meeting? >> i never knew who else would be attending the meeting. i'll a new was that donald trump junior was willing to meet with was that donald trump junior was willing to meet with me. leftood up, and he soon the room after the meeting. jared kushner never came back, by the way. the other man at the meeting was always looking at his phone. he was reading something, and he active role in the conversation. that was mr. paul manafort. >> they were under the impression that you would be sharing information with them about the dnc. how did they get that information? >> it is possible that they were looking for that information. they were looking for it so badly. >> this morning, she denied being part of a russian government effort to influence president trump's election. you have any connection to the russian government? >> no. nbc news providing that link. you can find it on their twitter page. line inon the democrats west virgin

we're not talking hillary clinton and the clinton foundation. we're talking about the leader of the free world and the commander in chief. we're talking about the president of the united states. to the point of changing stories, we've seen this. when you talk about a pattern, we saw michael flynn, the fired national security adviser was not necessarily truthful in what his relations were or his discussions were with the russian ambassador. we also saw that jared kushner had had to change or at least amend his forms to get his top secret clearance. we also saw the attorney general, jeff sessions, during his confirmation hearing not reveal that he himself had met with the russian ambassador. they all have answers or excuses for doing so. but you have to wonder when you see all this smoke, what i don't understand is why people get upset when we look for the fire. >> i have to say the response from the president's team tonight is that asked for reaction in the "new york times" report, mark corallo, spokesman for president trump's outside legal team

hillary clinton gave them 20% of our uranium hillary clinton did a reset. remember? with the stupid plastic button. hillary clinton got the questions to the debate and didn't report it? that's ha horrible thing. when wikileaks which i had nothing to do with with, comes out and happens to give, they're not giving classified information. the they're giving stuff what was said at an office about hillary cheating on debates. which, by the way, nobody mentions that hillary received the questions to the debates. >> so, let's talk about why this works for the president. let's once and for all put to rest the idea of who keeps doing this. this isn't about the media that keeps bringing up the election. it's the president. he does it all the time. the question is why. >> well, i mean he is fixated on it for one. so that's part of what may just be the way he sees the world. but also, he prefers to talk about politics and election politics and rehashing that than he likes talking about the nitty-gritty of policy. you seem to hear him talk about it more and more. this is a very b

vladimir putin was not a fan of hillary clinton. >> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose.clinton. >> prime minister, we have a lot of problems. >> the tension between the leaders had been brewing for years. in 2001 another american leader, george w. bush, vouched for putin. >> i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> thank you. thank you. >> but on the campaign trail in 2008, hillary had a different take. >> i could have told him he was a kgb agent. by definition he doesn't have a soul. this is a waste of time, right? >> mrs. clinton said you, as a former kgb agent, by definition, can have no soul. >> putin's reply, statesman shouldn't be guided by their hearts, they should use their heads. he had a lot of tough words for putin over the years. >> he's a very arrogant person to deal with. he will takes a much as he possibly can. >> but it was what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. it began with the arab spring protest early that year, the kind of popular uprising that putin dreaded. >> he begins to see himself through the eyes of mobaric. >> mobaric of egy

i mean, here hillary clinton had done the uranium one deal for $2 million to the clinton foundation,e the university deal, which made university for $2 million to the clinton foundation. the silicon valley of russia. someone came to a political campaign and said we have information on your political opponent. of course you should listen to that. where else do you think we're going to hear it? do you think cnn, which provided the debate questions in advance to hillary clinton's campaign is going to give us information of what the hillary clinton campaign is doing? so opposition research, you have it in business, you have it in law. i can tell you stories -- i may write a book some day if i'm sure i'm going to die within a year that can tell you all kinds of stories of infiltrating opposite camps. it's very common. it's a part of the process of politics. liz: you know, president trump made an interesting statement last week, doug, that if he -- if president trump was winning last -- during the election cycle last time, that president obama would have acted about russia medaling and ins

is responding that he was promised damaging information about hillary clinton. it was interesting enough that he asked two other top campaign insiders into the meeting. presidential son-in-law jared kushner, who is now a top adviser and campaign chairman paul manafort. but explanations have changed since he was approach fwid "new york times." that's important here, because it shows we weren't getting the full story initially. and frankly, we still don't know iffer right now. on saturday, when the meeting was reported, trump jr. said it was about americans adopting russian orphans and volunteered nothing about hillary clinton. just a day later on sunday, when confronted or approached again by "the new york times" with their new reports about the dirt on the clinton campaign dangled in front of trump, jr., he released a statement saying -- >> two days, two different statements. now, you can make of that what you want. we'll talk more about it with the panel, whether it makes any sense on its own terms. what it represents is a contradiction of a line from his fathe

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 emin." what do you think is the best way to handle the information? and the e-mail goes on, would you be able to speak with emin about it directly? it continu

e's saying the woman told him she had dirt on hillary clinton. what does this en courter say about the willingness for the campaign's accepting information about hillary clinton. >>> adding to the president's russia troubles, why did mr. trump say it is time to move forward on russia despite the conclusions of the u.s. intelligence that putin ordered the hacks on the 2016 election? did president trump buy putin's denial last week. the battle over health care heating up again. congress is back in d.c., what will they get done? that question starts in the senate. can the gop, the senators from the republican party get on the same page? we have it all covered for you. there is news to discuss. let's begin with cnn's suzanne malveaux live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. news of the meeting between donald trump, junior and a russian national first reported by "the new york times" raising new questions about the connectiontion between the trump campaign and russian officials going to the heart of the question over the federal inve

or information that might prove that hillary clinton was somehow working or getting aid from the russian government? >> i think what most people would have done is consult a lawyer. we know this is a foreign government. there probably are laws about this. we're in a presidential campaign, which is a national event. not an international event. so i think that would have been the first step. and a law probably would have said to them don't take the meeting or maybe take the meeting but you know, maybe you need to tell the fbi -- >> what about take the meeting, see what they have, if anything's there, then you can decide whether to go to the fbi if something is there -- >> sure. and they didn't do that either. even if there was nothing, they still could have report td to the fbi. they still could have reported this attempt to bring them in. but again, as your earlier guest said, the lawyer, the professor who was just on, this is happening in a context of multiple meetings by multiple trump people with russians. so clearly there's a really -- cavalier is probably an oversimplific

russian lawyer with the kremlin after hearing she might have information for the campaign of hillary clinton. obviously the first person to take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. it went nowhere but had to listen. trump jr. took this meeting because he was promised damaging information about clinton. he wasn't the only one in the room also there. the president's son-in-law jared kushner and then-campaign chairman paul manafort. this seems somewhat of a reversal of a statement trump had given hours earlier when he said that meeting was to primarily discuss adoption of russian orphans. there was no evidence that anyone on the trump team knew at the time of the russian hack of the democratic national committee, but it is worth noting that a few weeks after that meeting, after the hack of the e-mails was made public, trump was quite dismiss sieveiv trump's campaign manager, blaming russia. >> they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again lie after lie. notice he won't say, well, i say this. we hear experts. his house cat at home once said this is what's happeni

this woman claimed to have dirt on hillary clinton. >> not just donald trump jr. who attended, the president's son-in-law, jared kushner was there as was the campaign chair, paul manafort. all of this coming out as the president is backing away from his idea of a joint task force with the russians to fight russian hacking. it's drawing sharp criticism and sparked a new response from the president himself. the fact that president putin and i discussed it doesn't mean it can't happen, but a cease-fire can and did. what does this all mean? joining us, we are covering the story. susan malveaux is there. susan? >> good morning. there's a strong response inside and outside the white house. this story has been percolating the last 24-48 hours. statements coming from kellyanne conway, a top adviser and donald trump jr., himself. this, after the news broke from "the new york times" meeting that took place between donald trump jr. and a russian national. this happened at the trump tower on june 9th, weeks away from when his father became the republican nominee, not only in