me read the statement from don junior's lawyer here.or has been professional and responsible throughout the mueller investigation. we are very confident in the crass a accuracy and reliability. this is a carefully worded stanlt th statement that to me, and i only applied to law school and didn't go, a pretty airtight story -- >> it's what the lawyer is going to say. my client told the truth. >> it doesn't say that, it says we're confident in the accuracy and reliability of my client. >> these lawyers are advocating on behalf of their client in the media. what is more important is what they say when they're under oath on the hill. and what they say to investigators. >> the other point i would make is that some of this goes to style. it is very straightforward, not bombastic. more traditional in the way of the response to issues and stories as you have seen, rude giuliani is willing to go a little extra. both are saying we stand by don juni junior. >> i don't know if you can use rudy giuliani as the bar. >> thank you for all of your exper

trump junior responded with the infamous line.f it's what you say i love it, especially later in the summer. the two decided to meet six days later at trump tower. we'll get to that meeting in a second. but look at kwhapd in the days between that email about clinton dirt and the meeting itself. donald trump still then a candidate publicly promised to make a major speech in the days ahead in which efld reveal dirt on his opponent hillary clinton. here he is. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you'll find it very informative and very interesting. >> that speech never happened. and here is what we know about what went down at the meeting two days later on friday, june the 9th. trump june we are was paul manafort, trump's campaign manager. trump's son-in-law jared kushner was there. you remember rob goldstein, the producer who first informed with the dirt. nalgtsia veselnitskaya. a russian lawyer who ad

i did not know of the meeting with my son don junior.nds to me someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam, taxicabs, maybe, question mark. he even retained bill and cracked hillary's lawyer. gee, i wonder if they helped him make the choice. how did we get to that point? jim sciutto, jeffrey toobin, and cnn law enforcement analyst josh campbell. jim, let me start with you. we have the statement from the president. remind us what cohen now is willing to say? >> so in effect it's the president's word against his former long time personal attorney's word. to summarize what michael cohen says he's prepared to tell the special counsel robert mueller is a number of things. one, that the president did know in advance of that 2016 trump tower meeting of russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. michael cohen says he knows this because he was present montana room when don junior, the president's son, let the president know or then candidate trump know about this meeting. we're told michael cohen is also p

trump junior responded, no, i did not. he said he did not know the identity of the person he called three times before and after that meeting and whose number was bought and weather that person was his father. the news always calls into question cohen's own testimony before congress and his past public statements. a source tells cnn cohen did to the tell the house intelligence last year he had knowledge about the meeting. >> there was nothing to tell. >> reporter: cohen treated so proud of donald trump junior for being so open an honest to the american people. trump pushed back on 26th to his long time personal fixer. i did not know of the meeting with my son don jr., it sounds like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself into an unrelated jam. rudy guiliani denies cohen's claims and accused him of lying in an interview with chris cuomo. >> he has been lying for years. >> reporter: that is not how he clarkized cohen weeks ago on cnn's state of the union. >> i do not expect michael cohen is going to lie

don junior, he's simply going to lie again. don't expect you're going hear anything different from him. he's not going to suddenly admit that he lied to the committee. i would think that with respect to cohen, they're probably not going be able to speak to him. he's going to be cooperating with the mueller investigation. keep in mind that cohen in a lot of ways is corroborated right on down the line on what happened here. it's not like this is some incident that was taken out of nowhere that suddenly we think donald trump knew about this meeting. i mean, i think it was pretty obvious to everybody he had to know. he is the one that had the blocked number for starters. also involved in going back to most recent indictment. he asked the russians in public to actually hack into hillary clinton's e-mail and her server an hours later that's exactly what they did. >> joy, i tell you where those blocked phone records are now. a few miles from here and reporter mueller's office. he already knows whether president trump was called by don

trump junior and on his behalf. i should say contacted by cnn one of cohen's attorney lanny davis he declined to comment. and of course i know you are speaking to rudy giuliani and i'll leave his response to you. >> thank you for mentioning that. we have rudy giuliani the president's lawyer was already scheduled to be on the show tonight. he's in the green room. he's listening to the reporting. and then he will get a full and complete opportunity to make his case to the audience. so in talking about this, interesting in that statement, jim, nothing, and carl, about rebutting the specific allegation from cohen about the meeting and what he says he heard. now, let's get into the context a little bit. let's listen to what the president himself told "the new york times" about whether he knew about this trump tower meeting. >> i didn't look at it very closely, to be honest with you. i just heard there was an email requesting a meeting or something, yeah, requesting a meeting, that they have information on hillary clinton

six days later, don junior met with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya at trump tower. joining him, trump's campaign chairman at the time, paul manafort, and his son-in-law, jared kushner. when "the new york times" broke the story last year about the secret meeting, don junior didn't initially disclose the intended purpose of the meeting. instead, he said the purpose was to discuss the adoption of

i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, also denied cohen's claims and accused him of lying. in an interview with cnn's chris cuomo. >> i expected something like this from cohen. he's been lying for weeks -- he's been lying for years. >> reporter: that's not how giuliani, characterized cohen weeks ago on cnn's "state of the union". >> i don't think cohen will lie. he'll tell the truth. if he does that, we're home free. >> reporter: democrats say this opens a new front in the russia probe. >> it brings the issue of collusion or conspiracy to the president's feet. >> reporter: this claim wrapping up a week that saw a stunning public fallout between the president and one of his closest confidantes, starting with the recording revealed by cnn of trump and cohen. >> i was attracted to him, yeah. >> reporter: discussing paying off a model who alleged an affair with trump. and thursday's revelation

an attorney for trump junior told cnn that trump junior has been responsible through the mueller investigations. we are confident in the accuracy and reliability that has been provided by mr. trump jr. and on his behalf. dave and christine. >> jim, thank you for that. president trump's lawyer giuliarudy giuliani was quick on the attack. questioning michael cohen's credibility and calling trump's long time fixer a pathological liar. >> he has been lying all week. he has been lying for years. i don't see any credibility. if you had a trial, you say which lie do you want to pick? the first lie? the second lie or a new lie? this is the witness that can destroy your case. any finder of fact loses confidence in the case when you rely on a guy like this. >> one of michael cohen's attorneys declined to comment when contacted by cnn. adam schiff when contacted. if this was true, it means he appealed to russia for help, but privately approved receiving it. the conspiracy case may have gotten stronger. >> as part of the investigation into michael cohen, "the wall street journal" reporting the finance chie

this is him, don junior, everyone has denied this, right, consistently. over and over they're on the record. jay sekulow, all of them. so if that's a lie, they lied in a lot of circumstances, including to congress. and, matt, there's a key point here, right, which is about the credibility. this is a very strange thing that we're watching unfold that i can't quite make sense of, because if you were trying to get a cooperating deal with robert silent. we're watching this whole thing play out in public. what do you make of that? >> it makes no sense strategically. if you want to get a deal with mueller or the southern district of new york, the best card you have is your information and you want to offer it quietly. there's no need to broadcast it publicly and in fact it hurts you. the explanation that maybe the trump team leaked this. i don't know how the trump team would know that he was ready to testify to this unless -- i mean the only thing i can think of and it's somewhat suspect circumstance is if cohen had gone to trump or the people around him and sa

why would trump junior not tell his father. why would jared kushner not tell his father-in-law.u have the russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. >> do you agree with that? do you think republicans should back the democrats push for donald trump junior to testify again? >> i think there is reason to have him testify him again. there's no reason to believe michael cohen at this point. we don't know -- they have to show substantial proof. that may be the proof that gets him a deal. what we have seen is when it comes to this meeting, the trump's both junior and the president have lied over and over and over again when it comes to this. if they have new concerns, that would be good. instead of takie ining michael cohen's word, bring him back to testify if he does have proof. that would be the logical thing. >> that's a good point there. how big of a factor do you think credibility will be and do democrats consider michael cohen credible. >> this sort of piggy back on su susan' point, i don't think democrats should put any stock to what michael cohen said. he was defending the pre

trump junior and on his behalf. this to the point of whether or not there was any coordination with his father before, during, after that meeting, which was only one floor away in trump tower. and we know from other records that the president, then-candidate donald trump, was there in the trump tower office that day, and then had even more opportunity to speak to his son because they went off-site to a campaign luncheon. so what would be the significance if these reports are true about what michael cohen is supposedly asserting? >> andrea, it's incredibly significant. this is huge. if the government can prove, and i'm using those words carefully, i'll get back to that in a minute, if the government can prove that donald trump knew about the meeting with the russians ahead of time, knew at least generally the purpose of the meeting, and gave it the go-ahead, he is smack dab in the middle of a conspiracy to defraud the united states by the process of fair elections with the russians. now, let's go back to what i said,

across the street, teachers, students, genders, pta and the principal of her junior high, brown junior high school, stood on the sidewalk. to their minds, it was something made up. something fantastic. but here, this child is just coming on. engaging a situation, she recalled what her parents had taught her about how to act in polite company. and so she says, i smiled nicely. and when the principal told her, you don't want to come here, she responded, respectfully, but firmly, i do want to come to the school. the response carried within it, the contradictory attributes that were required in these kinds of confrontations. she smiled. a sign of social reciprocity, trust, a willingness to engage. she also compatibly and courageously talked back to the white school official borrowing away from the newly built citadel learning, two blocks from her home in washington d.c.. she sued elliott junior high school. in her case, this was one of the earliest school desegregation lawsuits. of the postwar era. it was one of about a dozen lawsuits that were filed everywhere from rural texas to kansas,

six days later, don junior met with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya at trump tower. joining him, trump's campaign chairman at the time, paul manafort, and his son-in-law, jared kushner. when "the new york times" broke the story last year about the secret meeting, don junior didn't initially disclose the intended purpose of the meeting. instead, he said the purpose was to discuss the adoption of russian children. but the very next day when the "times" broke the news that the president's son was promised damaging information about hillary clinton, don junior issued a statement saying, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were supporting mrs. clinton. he also said the lawyer changed the subject to adoption. two days after the story broke, white house press secretary sarah sanders denied the president had any prior knowledge of the meeting. >> when did the president learn that that meeting had taken place? >> i believe in the last couple of days is my understanding. >> reporter: the next day on fox news, don junior told sean hann

trump junior, no, i wouldn't have wasted his time with it. in fairness, did you go up? not necessarily a phone call here. but who do you believe? michael cohen or donald trump? amy, there's a lot of evidence -- >> i guess the question is does it really matter. >> does it matter? >> i think at the end of the day that we're left where we always are talking about the president and when we're talking about these issues, which is he has said stuff that's not true a lot. and this would not surprise anybody to find out that, yeah, maybe he knew about it. but we are going to just then move on to whatever comes next. to me the question is what this is going to say or what michael cohen has to say about stuff that is much more problematic to the president himself. this does seem very problematic if mueller already has this information about don junior and his peril going forward. >> dan, i'm curious if you just view watching the president this week and rudy giuliani, that they seem to be fearful of something, that it's not -- it feels more like they fear something is coming. it's

cal turner junior. and i was bitten with the feeling. even though i was just 11, i knew that my life would be different from then on. i am still exploring what that difference might mean. spinnaker was appointed chose between the ministry account. >> there was indeed. in fact, my first choice was the ministry because i didn't want to go into the family business. we saw their preachers out over 40 years and scott jill at our church. we keep trying for another one, but we got a new one and he said i am cal junior at the ministry. don't do it. he said do something else. do anything else because only if there is not being you can do or you call it to be a minister of the gospel of jesus christ. i thought globally these. i am liberated. yes, okay. what is life's greatest challenge. yep, i can be my own person. i bet most of the jobs in that company. i am good at none of those jobs. and then i thought about the customers i had waited on. they are struggling people who come into at that time there wasn't even the dollar general story. i could t

. >> but wanted to talk also about our closing night film, which is sammy davis, junior, "i've got to be me". this is a film by sam pollard, another great documentary film maker. he was the editor for many of spike lee's films. he's been nominated for an academy award and this is an overview of sammy davis, junior's life. >> wonderful. >> and it's much more complex and complicated than i ever imagined. he was t ciefl heri fghints movemorent w martin luther king, jr. when i was growing up, he was kind of known as having hugged richard nixon. but there's so much more to his life. that's the clip we're going to see. >> should we go to the clip or would you like to set it up? >> this is is a trailer of the film so we can go right to it. >> let's go. >> i'm colored, jewish and puerto rican. when i move into a neighborhood, i wipe it out. >> sammy davis, junior's life was about confronting obstacles. ♪ mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, mr. bojangles, come back and dance ♪. >> his gift was his talent. the curse was being black in america. >> it's no fun to walk into a place you're going to play

that was jared kushner's response ability, some was donald junior. he will probably see indictments of both of those people. >> that is a pretty bold statement. >> there are two rules of thumb, one, mueller knows quite a bit more than the public knows and speculations about what he knows are as likely as not to be unfounded. there's reason to think based on the michael cohen developments that donald trump junior in particular is in the crosshairs, he does seem to have been particularly involved in it and to have lied about it and you could see him as a logical investigative next step but in general, mueller from the start has been methodical and professional and anyone who tells you what is happening next is likely just speculating. >> we know that he has talked to lawmakers on capitol hill. one of the most senior senate democrats said this in a tweet a couple days ago. in our needs to come back before the senate judiciary committee in public and under oath. this is because of statements we have gotten from michael cohen. this is what the graham has

resign the presidency in exchange for immunity for don junior.don junior will be indicted for lying to the senate judiciary committee." rachel, what's your take? >> first of all, i think that's really problematic for a couple of reasons. you know, do we really want -- understanding that someone's unpopular but there's a constitutional process for how an impeachment, how someone becomes removed from the presidency to let someone in a position of robert mueller decide who the president is at any given time is a dangerous precedent to set, even if it's an unpopular president. remember, our constitution's only as good as how it protects those that are unpopular. if the unpopular aren't protected then none of us are so we have to be really careful about this idea that just because he may be unpopular, he may have done some unsavory things, some bad political things, doesn't mean that someone in robert mueller's position should really have the right to choose who is the president of the united states at any given time. that's extraordinarily undemocrat

don junior said, quote, it was a short introductory meeting about the adoption of russian children. he also claimed the focus of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. nearly a month later reports broke that president trump helped personally draft his son's misleading statement. don junior then walked back his initial statement acknowledging that he did in fact meet with the russians because they promised campaign information, but that the meeting ended up being about adoptions. two days after that, don junior appeared on fox news with sean hannity to explain. >> a lot of people are going to want to know this about your father. did you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i mean i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >> don junior echoed that in his testimony before the senate judiciary committee saying his father, quote action wouldn't have wasted his time with it. i never spoke to my father about it. i've

trump junior has already testified up on the hill. so there has been a lot of opportunity for folks under oath to either tell the truth and perhaps already be unbeknownst to us cooperating with mueller or to have lied and subjected themselves to criminal charges, which could possibly be used against them now to get them to finally reveal the truth. >> a lot of this looks very bad circumstanti circumstantially. but i wonder what you make of what trump allies point to, that there was no speech given. that donald trump may have even shown some what our lawyers call rec wiz it intent but if he didn't get the goods to give the speech, then there wasn't an overt act. >> at this point we can spa speculate a lot of different directions about what happened but the reality is we don't know what happened in this meeting. we do know what it wasn't about. it wasn't a meeting that was exclusively about adoption. was it a successful meeting where the russians came in and offered trump something? we don't know that. was it a meeting where the russian

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we learned later not from don junior but from e-mail exchanges that were released that don junior knew it wasn't first about adoptions. the reason the meeting happened between these group of russians, don junior, jared kush nerkushn paul manafort is because dirt was promised on hillary clinton. finally, they've basically said, okay, well, our initial story wasn't right, but nothing happened. this meeting was a nothing burger, so no need to pay any attention to it. the problem, jip, so much of what we initially were told from dong junior, donald trump, donald trump's lawyers about this meeting was not accurate, and knnow they're saying that stuff might not have been accurate, but this time we're saying it is. now we have michael cohen saying it isn't. too unreliable narrators. the question is, who do we believe? >> this is part of their explanation. apparently if they had offered the dirt on hillary clinton, it would have been a worthwhile meeting. i might have told my father about it. that's the thing. hard to find a consistency. chris, thanks very much. joining me now, former federal

maggie was six, jefferson davis junior, who was four and joe who was two. mrs. davis was pregnant when they moved in. she gave birth in december 1861 upstairs. their first child, samuel, had died in 1854, ready for his second birthday. he never saw this house. these were young, wild kids by all accounts. the wildest was certainly jefferson davis junior. we have a couple of his things in this room. this is one of them. it is a fully functioning canon. it was a real canon eared he had several confederate army uniforms. that is one over there. would put a uniform on and take the canon out the back and set up targets that he would call yankees and he would shoot them with the canon. jefferson davis junior and his brother joseph were in a street game called the shockoe hill cats. this house was on top of shockoe hill and it was a wealthy, urban neighborhood at the time. these were the rich kids in this gang. down the hill was a less wealthy urban residential area called butcher town. that was the home turf of the butcher cats, the arch enemies of the hill cats. these

this is the meeting where don junior was supposed to learn russian dirt on hillary clinton. >>> blockbuster reporting from the wall street journal. the cfo for the trump organization, the day-to-day money man, the highest ranking non-trump has been subpoenaed. >>> mueller's case for obstruction. why the special counsel is looking at the president's twitter feed. we'll look at what it means for this president and the white house from the reporters breaking the story as the 11th hour gets under way on a thursday evening. >>> good evening once again from new york. day 553 of this trump administration. there's breaking news yet again tonight and it's this. a source saying michael cohen asserts the president knew about the june 2016 trump tower meeting in advance. was told it about by his son before it happened. the source also goes onto say cohen is willing to make that assertion to robert mueller. you may recall that the june meeting between donald trump junior and several different russian nationals including an attorney with reportedly close ties to the kremlin in that meeting. russians were

first up in the sights is don junior.f cohen's statements turn out to be credible, i think he is going to be number one. getting the culpability heightened on the president takes more work. there's some hints of how that might happen with some of the recent references to witness tampering in the tweets. absolutely first up with a big problem is don junior. >> david, remind the american people this morning who -- a fair amount have accepted the president lies and still support him. remind the american people why it is so important. because this meeting was about dirt on hillary clinton from russians. >> right. what this meeting stands for conceptually and symbolically in this long-running saga about russian interference in the election and did or did not the president or his associates try to collude with the russians to beat hillary clinton is that this is the one piece of definitive evidence that there might been been anhave been an collusion. it's why michael cohen's revelation could be significant. i agree with david t

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provided by don junior. for now, no proof of whatever went down, a he said, they said situation. as for donald trump junior, he was seen today at the airport waiting for a flight a few feet from none other than the special counsel. you see him on the robert mueller's spokesperson said the two did not interact but lester, it's a d.c. moment you can't make up. >> that's a picture that will get around. hallie jackson, at the white house thanks. >>> is your vote at risk in the critical er mielections with 100 days to go, current and former officials tell nbc news the trump administtion has no central strategy to stop russia from meddling again. this is a democratic senator up for reelection says russians already tried to hack hecommuterutputers. here is nbc news white house correspondkrt isten welker with more. >> reporter: explosiveve relations, russian hackers targeted the senate offices of missouri senator claire mccaskill. an issue he railed against. >> i never thought i would see the day russia would go aft

and donald junior has admitted denying telling him in advance. tonight rudy giuliani attorney has said cohen has been quote lying for years. and trump junior attorney says we are confident of the accuracy and reliability of the information been provided by mr. trump junior and his behalf. we have new information bts russian lawyer who was at that meeting. natalia veselnitskaya was denying she was acting as representative of the russian government but according to documents by the associated press, top russian lawyers and has worked with senior lawyers with ministers as well. the trump administration met with her after she promised damaging information with hillary clinton. now second stunner of the week about the audio of the two discussing a possible payment to silence a former playboy model who said she had an affair with trump. >> thank you, ian. the clock is ticking for midnight. that is the deadline for trump administration to reunify thousands of children separated from their children at the border. the deadline the government is not expect

and junior says i love you. come and get us. come and get us.m on my way. >> reporter: the fire is so large and temperatures so hot it's creating its own weather system. it can be seen from space. winds whipped towering flachls into that firefighters described as fire tornadoes. fire doubled in size overnight over the weekend. the fire threatening and burning parts of redding, california, population more than 90,000. >> this fire is scary. this is something we haven't seen before in the city. >> reporter: some were given 30 minutes to evacuate not knowing if they'd ever see their homes again. >> it looked like an atomic bomb after the fact. we got a few pictures after the fact. >> reporter: for this family their worst fears realized. they lost everything. there are now scattered reports of looting in those abandoned areas. on the fire lines 17 helicopters, 300 engines and over 3,000 personnel continue to fight for control of this inferno. >> nick watt joins us from redding. . you said it doubled in night over the weekend. wildfires seem to be mo

don junior and robert mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at reagan national airport. at the same time the president's inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. later we'll talk to senator chris van hollen about matters foreign and domestic. he floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. but we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a greatest hits of grievances against special counsel robert mueller. quote, is robert mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and contentious business relationship? i turned him down to head the fbi one day before appointment as special counsel and comey is his close friend. >>> michael schmidt in "the new york times" reported back in january that amid the first wave of news media reports that mueller was examining a possible obstruction case, the president began to argue that he had three conflicts of interest that disqualifie

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now what does donald junior do with that information?idn't know before that time, that russia wanted his father to be elected president, human nature tells us, he would have sprinted to his father's office. and said, dad, dad, great news. russia's backing you. russia wants you to win and russia has incriminating information about your opponent. so, i think human nature tells us you can't help but do that, if this is brand-new information and it's a revelation to you. so, again, it seems like the president would have known. but let's flip that on its head, alex. if donald junior didn't run to his father with that information, what can we infer from that? well, we can infer that donald junior must have already known that russia was his father's corner. you know, i've said recently that maybe for donald junior, this was just another day at camp collusion because he had already been made aware that russia was trying to help his father get elected. >> thank you very much for the conversation. good to see you. >>> is the government doing enoug

he was torn between the two and mlk junior was inside and outside but as he got more radical and older and more mature began to challenge those presuppositions of the reigning civil rights organizations. that was the tension going on there wanted to mark the fact that younger generation took a lesson from the older people. a guy like you you are on tv you are famous that you maintain a respectful etiquette as you challenge that to speak to obama acknowledges power and respecting his power and the office but you challenge at the same time. that is a beautiful o development of your generation of activists who take a page from the earlier ethnic but also to apply that in ways that are interesting so i want to call upon both of those traditions to talk across the chasm of the ages. >> i will probably mispronounce her name but she looks at obama and says that's not my name and he looks like what is happening but yelling back and forth across the room and it's not on me he's the president. i guess he's yelling in the meeting then they went back-and-forth and said i want to make sure i hear y

theodore junior had died during the normandy campaign after the d-day landings. not from combat, for complications from heart disease. it was in the roosevelt family felt that quentin would be more honored by line next to his older brother. the american battle monuments commission allowed the family to take quentin's remains and place it in a world war ii cemetery. because there is such interest in seeing quentin roosevelt's and the siteuntain were his plane was shot down, the local village place a historical marker showing the type of airplane he flew, a new port. underneath it is young quentin with his mascot, his dog. here is an early photograph of the fountain after it was first constructed. fountain is on avenue quentin roosevelt in chamery in france. >> on american history tv we are taking your questions in your comments. your quote -- vote. which party changed the most 1968? the vote right now with more than 24,000 casting their vote is saying the democrats changed the most. 56% to 44%. >> issa everyone who voted in our twitter polls on 1968: america in tu

this contradicts the president and junior's accounts, so if this is a true, how damaging could this be? >> i'm not sure how big of a deal it would be when it comes legally i think there could be implications if anyone didn't tell the truth under oath, but i think politically this would be a bilge deal. people say that president trump is untouchable in a tense, but i think to tell such a -- if it turns out to be true to tell up a bold lie about your conduct and so say you didn't know something about such a pivotal meeting, to do that, i think it would affect president trump. i think this would be something that would be hard for him to defend and hard for this administration to defend. >> speaking of lying, jonathan, rudy giuliani is claiming that michael cohen is lying and has zero credibility. >> i expected something like this, he has been lying all week -- lying for years. i don't see how he had any credibility. if you had a trial, which lie do you want to pick, the fist lie, the second lie, or a new lie. there is nobody that i know that knows him that has not warned me that if his b

i did not know of the meeting with my son don junior.meone trying to make up stories to get himself out of a jam. he even retained bill and crooked

don junior lied to your newspaper. the original statement on this 3450e9ing from don junior was that the meeting was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and has since ended, ended by the russian government. it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. i guess when you see rudy giuliani out there calling cohen a liar, they're all liars. >> it complicates things, doesn't it, when you get statements like that? you know, look, it wasn't a campaign issue at the time and they reached out to the campaign and said, we want to support the russian government wants to support your campaign and we have information that will help. they met with that expectation. they didn't think the information was useful. i'm not sure whether they didn't understand that what was being discussed here was russian sanctions and it is very much, you know, when we talk

don junior told congress that manafort and kushner didn't know the subject of the meeting. if there have a prestrategy meeting that would bring a lie to all these statements. >> let's ask an attorney about this. why would rudy giuliani want to get out in front of a stories that not yet published an a story that he completely denies. a story that has not published, even though rudy giuliani has gone on the record to it twice. >> he may be adhering to the old trial strategy that if there's damaging information about your client, get it out so that the cross-examination doesn't detonate later in the trial. if you create an issue out of whole cloth that simply wasn't there before. it's curious that rudy giuliani could take this approach. >> you know what it a minds me of is rudy giuliani talking to sean hannity about the stormy daniels payment. seems like there's so much going on that rudy giuliani might have a hard time keeping things straight. is that unfair? >> giuliani has proven himself an unreliable narrater on things that happened to donald trump. he talked to sean thant

charge of negotiating britain's withdrawal from the european union resigned this morning as did a junior minister. the resignations could jeopardize the government of prime minister theresa may. david davis stepped down following a weekend cabinet meeting to solidify plans for britain to leave the eu. davis and other supporting brexits expressed unease to maintain close trade ties. they say it's a betrayal of the promise for a clean break. davis said it would leave

that was damage at sonoma as the nationals are this weekend, time trials today, and junior, yes, he is a champ like his dad . once upon a time, he was a legendary motorcycle racer in indiana. >> i see, you know, his excitement at the truck. watching me. and he needs to celebrate with us and win. it is cool to have him in all of the races with us. >> i am going to pretend to be your dad. see if i have it right? that is my boy! that is my car! that is my boy! >> you are doing a good job. the camera is right there, the camera is always on him, no matter what. you got it done pretty good. >> college football, mike leach, the head coach at washington state, how he recruits kids out of los angeles to pull in washington might be quite a sell job. he has to convince kids to leave the southern california amenities like the traffic jams on the 405 or the 10. >> you might love the traffic in l.a., a lot of great things about l.a., you might sit in the car, listen to the radio, look at the person beside you, you know, you get flipped off, i always thought it was funny when somebody flipped me off.

i did not know of the meeting with my son don junior.nds like someone is trying to make up stories to get himself out of an unrelated jam. if cohen is telling the truth, it would make liars of the president and those closest to him. they have said that he learned of this meeting only after "the new york times" asked about it a full year later. >> did you know that they had the meeting? >> i didn't know anything about the meeting. it must have been a very important -- must have been a very unimportant meeting because i never heard about it. >> did you tell your father anything about it? >> no. it was such a nothing. >> let's focus on what the president was aware of. nothing. did not attend the meeting. was informed about the e-mails very recently by his counsel. >> mj lee is joining us now. timing is suspect. he has had a year to come out with this information. why now? >> that's right. the timing just speaks volumes of when this story have coming out. remember, michael cohen testified before congress last year. a source familiar with his

she viewed the junior high school as the earliest dues one -- desegregation lawsuit. it was one of a dozen lawsuits that went from rural texas to kansas to washington d.c. and virginia in the late 40s. most of these cases never went to the supreme court but these were the cases that first got the attention of thurgood marshall and lay the groundwork for brown v board of education. as they approached the white schools the hostile white principles would turn around and have a meeting with lawyers if you have you know how long and boring they can be so my apologies to any lawyers in the room. and they talked about their cases with conviction to both the black and the white press they wanted to know from all of the school plaintiffs do you want to go to school with white students? do you think you'll become friends friends with white students will that be difficult and explosive questions to ask and the girls did well. so the essential question at the heart of the book is why did girls ask for desegregation first? there are two primary reasons. first girls disproportionat

why would trump junior not tell his father? why would jared kushner not tell his father-in-law? this seems like a pretty significant meeting you got the russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. then you've got the president going on national tv telling the russians to hack hillary clinton. there's a not of coincidences that only make sense that donald trump now about this in advance. >> the president as talked about on television saying big news is forthcoming, didn't he about hillary clinton and nothing was said a few days later? >> that is also very coincidental timing that again makes more sense that donald trump himself knew about this meeting in advance that he might get dirt on hillary clinton that looked like it might not have materialized at that specific meeting. >> because you're a member of the foreign affairs committee i want to ask you about your take on vladimir putin inviting trump to moscow. this is after he said he was going to delay the meeting in washington which originally was going to be in the fall and now it's going to happen next year, allegedly, becaus

for now, it's his word against the president's a don junior's. when we asked michael cohen's lawyer if he would flip, he said cohen is commi to telling the truth. >> peter alexander at the white house. thank you. >> why don't we bring in nbc news legal analyst ari melber? good morning. morning. >> how significant is this news? >> this is very big. it deals with three number one, was donald trump in on any kind of international consracy regarding the election? two, was he covering something up that he knew about? is that why he made that fateful phone call from air force one about is? and ree, were any other aides involved in lying about this, now that the it's interesting b somebody's putting out this information tt cohen knows this and is willing to tell the special counsel this, but cohes being looked at by prosecutors in new york city that have nothing to do with the mueller pre. if you're robert mueller and you're waking up and you read do you doine, what with this? >> this is hot information. prosecutors would always rather get it secretly r