his name is michael caputo.ible reason is there for the trump campaign to hire putin's image consultant? my thoughts on that? >> no thoughts. >> you worked on putin's image? >> that's false. i worked for the media company, which was a subsidiary, which was aligned with putin. i didn't work on putin's image. i was trying to help the media explain why they took over a television network. if that somehow down the line helped the kremlin, that wasn't what i was hired for. >> he says he has known donald trump since 1988. never thought he could be elected president but in november of 2015 was asked to become a part of the trump campaign by his old friend, manafort. even though he supports the trump presidency, personally he says working on the campaign was one of the biggest mistakes of his life. >> this was the hardest campaign to work on in my entire career. there is nothing even close. >> he was hired to help with communications, but says he was never paid. fought with the trump campaign manager almost daily and wh

>> that's why i was so surprised that michael caputo just went on to praise donald trump jr.'s transparency. the transparency is out the window. i know that's what his father was praising as well, and that was the line there, but obviously these revelations we're learning mean that a fourth or fifth version of events now needs to be proffered from donald trump jr., because what's been on the record with him no longer are the facts as we understand them. that's the crux of the matter, it's a credibility problem. that's why there's all these ly lingering questions. more people in the meeting are asking what the context was of the questioning. >> you talked to the people in the white house administration. why can't they get a handle on the story. >> my reporting is they tried to pull some strategy together in late june. we don't know why that strategy wasn't put into motion, or if this was their strategy, why did they decide on this course of action? the bottom line is this is a very complicated case. it has a lot of legal pitfalls that will now involve white house staffers, we b

thank you to former campaign advisor michael caputo, he testified last week for saying powerfully there was no collusion in our winning campaign and this with all the unnamed sources and highly slanted and fraudulent reporting, fake news is

michael caputo joins us now. good morning, michael. >> good morning. how are you?> i'm doing well. you testified for four hours behind closed doors. can you tell us what they wanted to know and what you told them? >> well, it would seem to me in a lot of ways, and i think the attorney who is a veteran prosecutor, that this is a fishing expedition to some degree. there were some very well directed, well researched questions and they asked me a lot about individuals going after name after name after name. they asked about the six or seven years i lived in russia in the 1990s which was rather a historical discussion and had nothing to do with donald trump. i think they were looking for the context i brought to the campaign. i was hoping i was successful in clearing up the matter. >> i think you were successful certainly in gripping and holding their attention because congressman danny heck said of your appearance, i will tell you that's probably the most fascinating three hours of time i have spent in my five years in the united states house of representatives. what w

are youonon a fishing expedition when you bring in someone like michael caputo? >> no. we appreciate his cooperation. he's a p.r. guy. he got an at t at thaa he got an at tttaboy from the president about this. if we said we were looking for evidence that top trump campaign pete met with russian government officials to get dirt on hillary clinton, they would have said there's no such thing. you're looking for something that doesn't exist. now, of course, we know, that does exist. that did take place. they can call it a fishing ex it's all an alined message with the white house. nonetheless, real evidence is coming forward that can't be ignored. >> we have learned more people were there. not just the russian lawyer. we have this russian-american lobbyist. what is the significance of his presence or is there a significance? >> i think it's very significant. here, you have two people now aligned with the russian government. a third, a translater, we don't know the identity of that person. did they come from moscow? do they have ties to to russian government? you have a hist

here. >> reporter: michael caputo now a fill-in radio talk show host in buffalo, new york wantedull view. instead he said he's telling cnn exactly what he planned to tell the committee about russia and the trump campaign he was involved with. there is just nothing to the allegations of collusion. let me ask you some questions you'll probably get in congress. before, during or after your involvement in the trump campaign, did you bring any russian to see that campaign? did you talk about russia or the possible help the russian government could give the campaign? >> never once. never once. >> reporter: did you overhear anybody talk about collusion, getting help from the russians either through information, through fake news spreading, through tweets? >> i heard nothing of the kind. in fact, we were so busy just trying to keep up with the sun rising and setting on that campaign that i can't imagine anybody had the time nor the wherewithall to go out there and do anything like this. anybody who covered the trump effort knew this was a pell-mell operation from the moment he woke up in

with russians and never heard anybody in this trump campaign talk with russians. >> reporter: michael caputo met with house investigators three hours today and testified he had zero contacts with russia during his time on the campaign. caputo, on thing trump campaign from november 15 to june 2016, had lived in russia in the 1990s, working for the u.s. government. he returned to the u.s. in 2000 and worked as a public relations advisor to a subsidiary of the state-ronde russian conglomerate gazprom. he told the buffalo news, last year, i'm not proud to have the work today, but at the time, putin wasn't such a bad guy. >> i intentionally stayed out of the hair of the white house and the administration, especially since m my name was brought up n the context of the russia investigation. nobody in the administration or the white house needs my telephone number on their call list, needs me on their visitor logs or needs e-mails from me. >> reporter: he's a protege of roger stone, whose appearance before the house committee later this month was postponed so members have more time to prepare. for h

and i think that it's important for the investigators to get to the bottom of this. >> martha: michael caputo. >> michael: we want the people to understand there's nothing to it. >> martha: thank you very much, good to see you tonight, thanks for coming in. founder of the rorschach university's institute of politics and public service, both are fox news contributors. he could to have you here. let me start with you, you listen to mr. caputo and am curious to ask you how credible you think he is. you go through the fact that carter and roger stone and all these people who were the initial names that the investigators were so fired up about, now they don't even really need to talk to, they are saying. they are moving on down the chain. how strong is the case that there's anything there beyond what we know so far, which is the latest news from last week? >> look, i don't know how strong the case is, are not part of the investigation, i'm not privy to everything they have. what's becoming increasingly apparent is that every day there seems to be more information coming to light that is at least o

but one person who is speaking about this is michael caputo. he actually met with the house intelligence committee investigators today. he said it was all to set the record straight. >> i had no contact with russians, and i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. but i never was asked questions about my time in russia, that i never even spoke to anybody about russia. we did not use russian dressing. there was absolutely discussion of russia on the trump campaign to the day i left. >> so michael caputo speaking extensively there after a meeting with house intel investigators. he said he never at any point saw any foreign agents at trump tower during the campaign. although the white house is not officially commenting, we do know that top aids here are well aware of this changing story and the changing details to this june 2016 meeting and of course, kate, they are not happy about the shifting details as they continue to emerge here. >> well, and plus some of those white house aids and advisors may be having to face thos

right now, behind closed doors on capitol hill, the house intelligence committee is grilling michael caputoe is a former trump campaign communications adviser, and he's being questioned as part of the panel's investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election. now, caputo, who worked on the trump campaign, has strong ties to moscow. he's one of several former trump aides who has worked in russia and is the first one to testify before the house intel committee as it tries to find out what, if any, involvement russia had with the trump campaign. drew, what is caputo expected to say today behind closed doors? >> i don't think it's any surprise he says he will deny there was any involvement in russia while he was part of the trump campaign. he's a long-time supporter of donald trump but he was no fan of how this campaign was run. he was actually fired from the trump campaign in june of last year after seven months of in-fighting with campaign manager cory lewandowski. he says during his time there, he saw no collusion with russia. in fact, no one in his circle even spoke of russia to

michael caputo testified on friday. the public relations specialist lived in russia for years. he is one being questioned as multiple investigations into russian meddling. >> i had no contact with russians. i never heard anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. i was never asked about my time in russia. i near heard the word russia and we did not use russian dressing. there was no discussion of russia of the trump campaign until the day i left. >> cnn's drew griffin sat down with caputo friday before capitol hill's hearing. >> mike am chael caputo denied involvement in russia while part of the trump campaign. he is a long time supporter of donald trump. he was fired from the trump campaign in june of last year after seven months of in-fighting with corey lewandowski. he said he told house members he saw no collusion with russia. he said no one in his circle spoke to russia at all. not even over policy decisions. >> let me ask something. before, during or after your involvement with the trump campaign, did you bring russians to the campaign? did you talk about russia

his name is michael caputo.reason is there for the trump campaign to hire putin's image consultant? any thoughts on that? >> no thoughts. >> you worked to improve putin's image? >> that's false. that's jackie spear relying upon her interns for too much information. i worked for gazprom media. i didn't work on putin's image. i was trying to help gazprom explain why they took over a television network. if that is down the line helped the kremlin, that wasn't what i was hired for. >> reporter: he says he's known donald trump since 1988. never thought he could be elected president but in november of 2015, was asked to become part of the trump campaign by his old friend manafort. even though he supports the trump presidency, personally working on the campaign was one of the biggest mistakes of his life. >> this was the hardest campaign to work on this my entire career. there's nothing even close. >> reporter: he was hired to help with communications but said he was never paid. fought with campaign manager corey almos

planned testimony from another trump adviser after the adviser went on a talk radio show with michael caputo and issued a threat to democratic congressman eric sowell and said, "i think he's a yellow-bellied coward. and i don't think he will show up. but if he does show, he will regret it for the rest of his life." after that threat to the congressman, the planned testimony from that trump campaign adviser was delayed, although we don't know if it was delayed because of the threat to the congressman or if that's just a coincidence. on top of that, jared kushner lost his top lawyer today. a very regarded democratic lawyer in washington, she dropped out today. bloomberg reported that the president himself may be replacing at the top of his legal team his somewhat troubled lead council on russia matters, mike kasowitz. apparently trump may be considering a new lawyer named ty cobb who will head up the russian defense on the media issues. there's a lot happening. a lot going on. there's also a lot being said but trust me, it's all nonsense. what's going on is moving fast enough that it's worth f

i mean, just today trump campaign advisor michael caputo who has had a long business history in russia, he testified behind closed doors with the house committee. today they delayed their testimony after an advisor went on a top radio show with michael caputo on that talk radio show. he issued a threat to democratic congressman eric swaulwell, who is a member of house intel. after that threat the planned -- was delayed, although we do not know if it was delayed because of the threat to it is congressman or if that's just a coincidence. democratic lawyer in washington. she dropped out today of representing jared kushner when it comes to matters related to russia, although she will continue to represent him on other matters. also today, bloomberg reported that the president himself may be replacing at the top of his legal team apparently trump may be considering a new lawyer named ty cob who will now head up the russian defense both on the media and on legal issues. there's a lot happening. there's a lot going on. there's also a lot being said, but trust me, it's all nonsense. we got a l

and just this week we learned former trump campaign aide michael caputo will testify later this monthefore the house intelligence committee. he once worked for an energy company with close ties to putin. caputo has denied any contact with russian officials while he was a member of the trump campaign. caputo is a long-time ally of trump advisor roger stone who is also volunteered to answer questions before the house panel. lawmakers want to know more about stone's communication with wikileaks. and the panel also plans to interview susan rice, who served as national security advisor under former president barack obama. rice has come under scrutiny from republicans on the panel who accuse her of improperly unmasking names of trump associates in classified intelligence reports. she denies the accusations. all right, let's bring in cnn legal analyst michael zeldin, former federal prosecutor and former special assistant to robert mueller at the department of justice. mueller is head of this special counsel leading the investigation into the alleged russian interference in the u.s. elections

i mean just today trump campaign adviser michael caputo, who has had a long business history in russia, he testified behind closed doors at the house intelligence committee. today that same committee delayed its planned testimony from another trump adviser after that adviser went on a talk radio show with michael caputo in upstate new york. on that talk radio show, he issued a threat to democratic congressman eric swalwell, who's a member of house intel. the adviser said on the radio about congressman swalwell, quote, i think he is a yellow bellied coward. i do not think he'll show up for the hearing but if he does show, he will regret it for the rest of his life. after that threat to the congressman, the planned testimony from that trump campaign adviser was delayed although we do not know if it was delayed because of the threat to the congressman or if that's just a coincidence. on top of all that, jared kushner lost his top lawyer today. jamie gorelick, who is a very well regarded democratic lawyer in washington, she dropped out today of representing jared kushner when it comes to m

jersey as members of the house intelligence committee questioned former trump campaign adviser michael caputo. house minority leader nancy pelosi renewed calls friday for an independent panel to investigate russian collusion in the 2016 election specifically calling out the president's son-in-law. >> i also call for the resulting of a security clearing clearance for jared kushner, it's absolutely ridiculous that he should have that clearance. >> reporter: cbs news has learned kushner has updated his security clearance form three times to include 100 names of foreign contacts he had meetings with during the election after initially saying there were no meetings. democratic senator richard blumenthal has called for his resignation. >> he apparently concealed a meeting that is harmful to our national security. >> reporter: that meeting involving a russian attorney who said she had dirt on hillary clinton has placed members of the president's inner circle including his oldest son under a cloud of suspicion. a russian-american lobbyist alleged to be a former soviet spy confirmed to the "associated

. >> former campaign praetive michael caputo met with the intelligence committee behind closed door and spoke. >> i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. >> with growing demands for information, the trump white house is expanding the internal legal team with washington lawyer ty cobb who will tackle russia related requests requests from congress and the media. >>> that was kelly o'donnell reporting. >>> well today we learn new details about a deadly honolulu high rise apartment fire and the it broke out on the 26th floor of marko polo conminimum yums. flames spread up to the 27th floor. debris fell on several floors below. the fire chief says the building didn't have sprinklers. didn't have to because it was built in the 70s before they were required. one residence says it was a disturbing scene. >> i heard three women's voices screaming, pleading, moans kin use screaming for five ten minutes then i didn't hear more. >> two of the residents killed were a flight attendant and his mother. at least four others injured. >>> firefighters lost the upper hand on th

friday on capitol hill, former trump campaign operative michael caputo met with the house intelligence committee blind closed door and then together to the media. >> with growing demands for information, the trump white house is expanding its internal level team with russian lawyer ty cob who will tackle requests from congress and the media. >> and at this point, the different legal teams are trying to sort out more discipline as it's been described to me. so you'll have the white house attorney who will be dealing with some issues, the president's outside personal council. and find the lanes where family members can talk to each other, where the lawyers can strategize with one another but they don't want them talking to these issues altogether. they're trying to make sure they handle these issues properly so they're not strategizing out of the presence of their lawyers, trying to keep things a little more controlled than what we have seen in the first week since this really sort of blew up. so that's one of the complications for the trump family being so involved in the white house. d

friday on capitol hill, former trump campaign operative, michael caputo met with the house intelligence committee behind closed doors and then spoke to reporters. >> i had no contact with russians. i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. >> reporter: with growing demands for information, the trump white house is expanding its internal legal team with washington lawyer ty cobb, who will tackle russia-related requests from congress and the media. the only known person in that meeting during the campaign season who is now a government official is the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. democrats are saying his security clearance should be revoked. the president has told us via twitter that he will be at the golf tournament today and in very trump style he says there will be very big crowds. craig. >> kelly o'donnell for us this morning. kelly, thank you. ashley parker is an msnbc political analyst and also white house reporter for "the washington post." ken dilanian is an investigative reporter for nbc news. good morning to both of you. ken, you broke the st

michael caputo. >> he will join us in just a few minutes for a debrief in what he saw in congress today. jeff sessions gave a speech to a group of christian lawyers. and that's pretty much what the attorney general talked about when he spoke to them. but that is not at all what the press reported. here's the headline from abc news. "jeff sessions approaches lgbt hate group." jeff sessions tells hate group doj will issue freedom guidance. in fact, the alliance defending freedom takes positions that are not so different from the ones barack obama ran on in 2008. how did this get branded a hate group? an organization that for decades has tried to shut down a legitimate debate. it has designated a hate group. hardly the clan. but thanks to the southern poverty law center, they are now in the same category as the clan in news stories. but there's a bigger point at stake here is one of the most basic questions of all. who decide what we get to talk about? what should you be allowed to say in public? what should your kids be allowed to learn in schools? which ideas are legitimate and which are

. >> michael caputo testified on friday, he is a veteran of new york politics and used to work in russia. thank you for being here and thank you for coming on sunday night with megaen kelly with me yesterday to dive deeper into the trump campaign to figureout this meeting happened in the first place. in that interview i did with you, you said don junior essentially didn't know better. is being new to politics an excuse? >> that is up to the investigators, right? ing to look into this, apparently, and find out what happened. that is up for them to decide. we do know that when people don't understand how to run an election, when they don't understand how to fix a car, they might break the muffler. donald junior had a television interswru c interview with candor that i admired, he said if he could do it over he would do it differently. these are lessons learned for me 30 e years in politic. i might have seen the e-mail and seen a red flag. >> you might have, you have been in politics, but wouldn't someone who has the best interests of this country in find, not say hey, yes, i would love hel

. >> we understand that you may be interviewing michael caputo, former communications adviser to the trump campaign. can you tell us anything? >> we're working hard to keep the actual day-to-day activities quiet. we want toem poo come in front of us voluntarily. we think it's important that they be able to come and speak frankly behind closed doors unless we do open hearings, which i expect you'll hear more of. i don't want to get into individual witnesses other than to tell you, alison, the pace has picked up dramatically. interviews are happening every week. we are getting good information, reviewing documents. so, things are going pretty well. where this all leads, you know, still early to say. but the investigation is proceeding well. >> do you have any response to what the president tweeted where he retweeted this video of wrestle mania where he's punching somebody with a cnn logo on his head to the ground? >> we approach the fourth of july, our national holiday where we celebrate the freedoms and liberties that we have. pretty much every other president before this one has unde

preparing to interview several major witnesses later this month, including former trump advisers michael caputor stone. >>> straight ahead, senator bernie sanders says the investigation into his wife's land deal is, his words, pathetic. more of what he told cnn this morning, straight ahead. that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ♪ >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield in new york. senator bernie sanders, defending his wife amid an onwere going fbi investigation telling jake tapper on "state of the union" he plames partisan politics for the probe into her dealings with president of burlington college. >> i want to ask you about the fbi looking into burlington college and a land deal and financing around it from the time when your wife jane sanders was president of the college. you and your wife recently obtained lawyers. did you or anyone on the staff reach out to the bank related to any loans related to this transaction? >> absolutely, of course, not. and, in

michael caputo got hauled in front of a congressional committee today. dvised the presidential campaign. he was at closed door house hearing not long ago. he joins us now with an update. michael, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. tucker, i want to congratulate you on the success of your show. i always admired your affinity for the grateful dead. i'm really happy to be here. >> tucker: thank you. there is a lot i don't know about this story. and i'm sincere in wanting to learn more. so, what did you learn in the event you went to today, the closed door session? >> this is a fishing expedition. >> tucker: okay. >> they told u two hours they went three and a half hours. they asked me about the same people two and three times. they were looking at each other with quizzical looks on their face. they don't know where they are going. did you know this person. ever spend time with jared kushner. et cetera. all the different things that you would expect. they couldn't hear no enough times. the fact of the matter is i lived in russia 25 years ago, you

" and just after our program started, "thank you to former campaign adviser michael caputo for sayingo powerfully there was no rush of collusion our winning campaign." -- russian collusion in our winning campaign." that interview with the former top trump campaign adviser, you can see that story on cnn. is clearly with this topic on his mind. we will be talking about that from 8:30 to 9:00 on the washington journal today. we will also be talking about the future of iraq after the fall of mosul, after retaking it from isis. we will be joined by james jeffrey, a former u.s. fromsador to iraq 2010-2012. but for the next 40 minutes, we are talking about the opioid crisis and how does affecting your community. dave is a medical professional in washington dc, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you. ? host: i am doing well. caller: the main point i want to make to anyone who is a legislator working as part of the staff, or who works at the doj under a.g. sessions -- two points. number one, you cannot incarcerate away addiction. it does not work. people so grave that substance that t

michael caputo, the former trump advisor told them there was no inclusion. >> while there was intent he made that clear. he wanted dirt on the hillary campaign. he knew it was coming from someone associated with the russian government and he was completely okay with that. i think wrap five iterations from don junior on what this meeting was about. you know from the get-go, from his e-mails which he did not release because he's transparent and honest, he released them because the new york times that you have x amount of time to deal with us. this was someone who is excited about the prospect of getting information they couldn't help think had been hacked. >> again, this is not the president. >> but it's an investigation into the whole campaign. >> not a hardened politician though. >> paul manafort should have known. you know who's winning? vladimir putin. when you go out and see what the russian lobbyists who were there and has links to counterintelligence is doing, he's telling the associated press, we left a binder full of information. i don't know what they did with that. that is d

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michael caputo was a trump adviser during the campaign. on friday to the house intel committee. what did he tell them about the trump campaign's ties to russia? we'll ask him when he is here live. >>> also as i'm sure you've heard, anytime you bring up any ties to russia with the trump team, they say hillary clinton did it, too. her people met with ukranians. they met in the ukranian embassy, they got opposition research. what is the truth behind that? our investigative team has been looking into it and today we will separate the fact from fiction of those claims about ukraine. so all of that when john berman and i see you at the top of the hour. >> we look forward to that. thanks. >>> an american researcher convicted of spying and now sentenced to ten years in prison in iran. princeton identifying him as his tow grad student xiyue wang.university saying he was arrested in iran last summer while doing research in connection with his dissertation. farce news agency saying wang was accused of gathering information and that the ruling can be

a former adviser to the trump campaign, michael caputo was on this morning and defended manafort. i thought it was interesting. listen to this. >> i know at that time, he was getting upwards of 500 e-mail messages a day. he, you know, paul probably did not read all the way down several inches into the string of the e-mail. he received a request from the president's son. his job was to say yes and to go. >> errol, what are they going to see when he testifies if this is the defense. >> a fixture in new york politics, a loyal political soldier. he is doing what they do, cover for his guy. the notion that paul manafort didn't read the e-mail, let's grant that. certainly, when he arrived, he would know what was going on there. he will have to answer questions under oath, if he does testify before congress about when in the course of the meeting, in the run up to the meeting, certainly during the meeting or after the meeting, when did he discover. >> especially after the meeting. >> there were probably e-mails after the meeting, one would think. you don't convene eight people at that le

steve, former trump campaign official, michael caputo was on cnn's "new day" this morning.e is how he said the meeting should have been handled. listen. >> i would have said, you know, take it upstairs, kick it to the attorneys, kick it to the opposition research department to see if this is appropriate or worthwhile meeting. you know, you don't want those kinds of meetings to come anywhere close to the president or to the president's family. >> he says don't get close to the family and the president's family. take it to the council, the lawyers on the team or someone else. don't bring it in the family. does that matter? does it make it okay? >> well, it depends what the attorney's advise. working with the campaign or attorney's i have known, i have had to ask where the legal boundaries are. they would have advised me this was a bad idea and furthermore, we should report it to the fbi. that's what's happened in the past with similar incidents. during the 2000 campaign, al gore's campaign was given a stolen dossier by the george w. bush campaign and they reported it. >> they

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michael caputo testified before the house intelligence committee in a closed-door session on friday.tions into alleged russian meddling into last year's election. following his testimony, caputo told reporters he never once hurts anyone discuss russia during the campaign. listen. >> i had no contact with russians. and i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. and i never was asked questions about my time in russia. and i never even spoke to anyone about russia. i never heard the word about russia. and we did not use russian dressing. there was absolutely no discussion of russia on the trump campaign to the day i left. >> caputo also told cnn the idea that anyone in the trump campaign would have colluded with russia is as he says laughable. >>> one of jared kushner's talk lawyers is step ago side from the russian investigation. cnn confirms that jamie gorelekt will hand over discussions about the russian meeting with a russian lawyer and american lobbyist and whether he told president trump about it. tom foreman takes a closer look. >> reporter: inauguration

. >> you know, michael caputo, working inside the trump campaign at the time, he wasn't at the meeting and didn't know about the meeting at all. he just did an interview with alisyn. from his perspective, that russia is not an adversary at all. paul manafort, campaign chair for some time. what do you make of that statement that russia is not an adversary? >> the evidence out there for anybody willing to give it fair hearing is that the russians have been very aggressive, very adversarial and the point on planet earth were russian and american interests recently where they have agreed have been quite rare. credit to the trump administration. find those points where the interests overlap and work from them. but to say they're not an adversary, i think, just avoids, ignores the clear evidence that's present. >> general hayden, thank you very much for giving us your take on all of this. fascinating. >> as the investigations heat up, why is the white house blaming everyone but donald trump jr. for meeting with the russians? the promise to get dirt on hillary clinton from the kremlin? this w

also watching the health intelligence, witnesses including michael caputo, trump adviser on friday for that committee. it shows the new direction the investigations are heading. don jr. adding more steam into the investigation. >> saying he will answer questions, you can bet they will ask them whether it's in public or private. thank you very much. back to our panel. legally, you heard what senator tim kaine said. this, you know, could be close to treason. the argument in the white house is nothing came of the meeting. much to do about nothing is the terminology used by the lawyer hired by don jr. does it matter what came of it or intent matter, legally? >> that's a great question. it's all about intent. in a criminal investigation, the first thing a prosecutor will try to determine is did this person make a mistake or intend to break the law. we have not just a willingness by the trump cam tan to meet with the russians, but almost a hunger for it. they sent their top guys to meet with someone they didn't know who she was. what was interesting to them? the fact they may have informatio

former campaign adviser michael caputo testified friday before the house intelligence committee. >> i had no contact with russians and i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. irnever heard the word russia and we did not use russian dressing. >> reporter: it is the changing story as much as anything that raises some serious red flags and that's one big reason why lawmakers on capitol hill want don junior to come and testify. dan, paula. >> that would be quite a moment. all right, david, thank you for your reporting from new jersey this morning. >>> we want to check in with matthew dowd who joins us from austin, texas. good morning, matt. >> good morning. >> so, you know, russia -- >> he's just taking in the word guru. >> i am taking in the word and analogies used on the golf thing in the previous thing. that was very good. >> beautiful. >> let's see if you can top that. we believe in you. you can top that, matt, so back to russia continues to be a slow drip and it's infuriating the president and saw dblg this week releasing e-mails in a move of transparency

one of his campaign officials michael caputo did appear behind closed doors and then spoke to reporters afterward and said he never witnessed anything related to russia. so the president using that to say thank you for testifying to that and in our winning campaign as the president tweeted about it. so he is talking about the russia issues in ways where he is fighting back. he's also again raised hillary clinton, saying why is his son getting such grief when hillary clinton had deleted e-mails and those sorts of things. so the president, very much in a fighting mode. dealing with these issues. it's clearly on his mind. the white house officially isn't talking about this because they point us to the attorneys. so one of those attorneys was making all the rounds today as you indicated, jay sekulow, and one of the points he was making is this was a meeting he claims with donald trump, donald trump jr. arranging this with some of the top officials about opposition research. and he suggests it's only incidental that the participants from the other side were russian. here's how he explained t

michael caputo, a trump campaign adviser, has agreed to speak to the house intelligence committee in a closed session later this month. caputo lived in russia for several years in the 1990s and worked as a consultant for a russian conglomerate. he has denied collusion with russian officials. >>> joining me, dr. jill stein, of course former presidential candidate for the green party. ma'am, welcome back, nice to see you again. >> thank you, alex, nice to be here. >> you've gotten caught up in the russian probe after this picture surfaced of you sitting at the same table as vladimir putin and michael flynn at the state-sponsored event for russian television. why do you think this is all coming up now? >> yeah, i think it's coming up now in part because the democrats aren't doing so well and they're looking for scapegoats. they're blaming jim comey. they're blaming myself, bernie sanders, everyone they can think of other than themselves cause they lost a thousand seats in the state legislatures. they've lost two-thirds of the governors' seats. they've lost their four special elections.

jersey as members of the house intelligence committee questioned former trump can pain adviser michael caputo behind closed doors. house minority leader nancy pelosi renewed calls friday for an independent panel to investigate russian collusion in the 2016 election, specifically calling out the president's son-in-law. >> i also call for the revoking of the security clearance for jared kushner. it's absolutely ridiculous that he should have that clearance. >> reporter: cbs news has learned kushner had to update his security clearance form three times to include 100 names of foreign contacts he had meetings with during the election after initially saying there were no meetings. democratic senator richard blumenthal has called for kushner's resignation. >> he apparently concealed a meeting that is harmful to our national security. >> reporter: that meeting involving a russian attorney who said she had dirt on hillary clinton has placed members of the president's inner circle including his oldest son under a cloud of suspicion. a russian-american lobbyist alleged to be a former soviet spy confirm

this comes as former trump campaign aide michael caputo prepares to testify later on this month beforeer russia's meddling in the u.s. election. caputo is a longtime ally of roger stone, chos also volunteering to answer questions before the house panel. lawmakers want to know more about stone's community case with wikileaks. the panel also plans to interview susan rice who served as national security adviser under former president barack obama. rice has come under scrutiny from republicans on the panel who accuse her of improperly unmasking the names of trump associates in classified intelligence reports. she denies the accusations. all of this has the potential to not only become a p.r. nightmare but a legal issue for the trump administration. let's talk more with a civil rights attorney and law professor and also a criminal defense attorney. >> good to see you. >> this meeting between putin and trump, that's what could potentially really make matters even more complicated as these ongoing investigations continue. so richard, you know, everybody in the administration including the pre

over on capitol hill, a house intelligence committee questioned former trump campaign advisor, michael caputo for three and a half hours, on russian meddling in the election. >> i had no contact with russians, and i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. >> caputo called the whole thing collusion dilution. >> it all smells like fish to me, so if you go ahead, dig into this thing, i hope you dig in on both sides of this. >> house democrats renewed calls for independent panel to investigate with some lawmakers even demanding the president's son in lawn, jared kushner, resign from his advisory position. seth lemon, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >>> and still ahead, right here on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this saturday morning: drying out after tran clinic rains and storms mover through our region. matt peterson back with your which witness weather forecast for this weekend. >> and we talked with firefighters, as they trained to fight basement fires in their own words they share what it is like to work in extremely dangerous conditions. we'll be right back. >>joe: hi.this is

learning the house panel is set to interview former trump adviser in russia -- in the russia probe, michael caputor trump campaign communications adviser, has agreed to come before the committee next month. caputo, who once worked in moscow and has connections to russia has strongly denied he was involved in any collusion with russian officials. all right. the gop's to-do list. it's a very long one. and the bruising battle over health care is threatening to tie the hands of lawmakers anxious to pass major legislation. that story and much more still ahead in the "newsroom." ♪ ♪ a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. neulasta helps reduce infection risk by boosting your white blood cell count, which strengthens your immune system. in a key study, neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1%... ...a 94% decrease. applied the day of chemo, neulasta onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the next day. neulasta is for certain cancer patients rece