it's focused specifically on robby mook. and again, i do think it's important to point out there's a lot we don't know. we know that this e-mail was sent, but we don't know what was said. we don't know what he thought was going to be in there. we don't know what the contents were. so it's really important not to rush, i think, into the breach as this is, therefore, evidence of. this is another piece of the puzzle that we're looking at. i don't think that it -- i don't think it necessarily answers all your questions. >> you could also make the argument, and donald trump jr. could make the argument that, look, i had this meeting. this person turned out to be pitching something that was so ludicrous so that the whole idea of russian government involvement seemed ludicrous along with the credibility of this person. >> no. i think that that's -- i think that's correct. i think, look, you can -- again, i hate to keep coming back to this and this will sound like an excuse making and it's not. but, you know, the trump campaign was n

showed in that july 2016 clip when robby mook was talking about how the russians were behind the hack and don trump jr. knowing full well that there were claims out there by confidants of his that the russian government wanted to help the trump campaign, and he himself released this e-mail chain today, and anybody who wants to see the e-mail chain, go to donaldjtrumpjr. twitter feed. they're all there. brian stelter pointed out, there is a sort of faux transparency to this. the "new york times" obtained the e-mails, were ready to public them when donald trump did so as well. that's just politics 101. get the information out on your own as much as you can. he could have done this, of course, a year ago. beyond that, beyond the indig nance of donald trump trump jr., the indig nance of president trump, vice president pence, the trump white house. very easy to find clips online or in our databases of the president and others very angrily talking how there's no their there, no contacts with russians. nothing to this story. it's fake news. et cetera, et cetera. one of the reasons why many s

i absolutely love the fact that robbie mook is talking about this. >> who is robbie mook? >> the campaign manager for hillary clinton. he literally worked for the most souless person on the planet who would literally sell her daughter to be president, if she could sell her only child to be president, that is how much she wants it. so i think there is a little bit of irony here that these people are supposed to be the voices of authority on morality or ethical -- you know, what is ethical or not given some of the people they work for. >> i don't know if anybody thinks that hillary is the voice of morality. any last words on this story? >> i think juan would agree with this, you've been in journalism for a long time. what kills me is how the left -- when ussr was a world power, you had a lot of apologists among liberals saying that we were overplaying the cold war, we were overplaying the communist threat. if we had listened to them, the ussr never would have broken up. if we listened to ted kennedy, the ussr would still be here and we would be dealing with a geo political t

let's discuss the implications of this with cnn political commentators robby mook, hillary clinton's er campaign manager, and jason miller, former communications adviser for the trump campaign. functionally you two are the case for and against this morning. robby, when you hear this story and the change of story, what does this mean to you? >> well, i think this is just another part of a pattern, chris, of revelations that are coming forwardment what's disturbing is at each and every juncture, the trump campaign gets closer and closer to russia and the connections become more direct. the person that they were meeting with was not just anybody. this was an operative of the kremlin, someone who was advocating not just there to talk about the op o on hillary, but advocating to repeal sanctions and other measures put in place against russian business people who were implicated in killing a journalist. this was a very serious conversation beyond the involvement in the campaign and what's disturbing to me right now is that we're seeing so much behavior from the white house that is cozy and

i spoke with robby mook. watch. >> first of all, i think we need to start asking ourselves, and i think in particular republican leaders in congress need to start asking themselves at what point do we stop giving the benefit of the doubt here? the evidence here of these close ties with russia continue to mount with each and every day. but then secondly, particularly concerning to me is we are seeing it play out in actual policy, and you mentioned don jr. was in the meeting, so was jared kushner who is now a government employee. senior advisor to the president, an official in the government. we saw the president propose this morning that the russian government worked with the united states to create some sort of cyber security entity for our elections, which is frightening. we've been reading that the president is doing everything he can to stop a bipartisan bill to impose further sanctions on the russians to punish them for intervening in our election. so at some point, somebody needs to step up and say enoug

that was robby mook. not the president's legal adviser.mook talking about the fact he wants republicans to step up and, in fact, there have been republicans who said they're very concerned about it. now let's play jay sekulow, the president's legal adviser. >> you're asking basically, is everybody reviews notes? of course people review notes, review data and find out that data, but this is much ado about nothing. no one has pointed to me where there's a legal violation of a meeting with a russian lawyer. >> sure. >> that involved the campaign. >> so are they just not talking to each other? the lawyers? did he not talk to donald trump jr.'s attorney and know these e-mails were even out there? >> the level of either incompetence or malpractice, and i don't think any of us really know for sure. it's just complete mystery. i would be lying to you if i said i could explain almost any of this. >> you've covered washington and politics for a few years. have you seen anything like this? you know, jeff was talking about the fact they got out ahead

. >> robby mook, the campaign manager for secretary of state hillary clinton, i asked him about the dnck and he suggested that experts are saying that russians were behind both the leak, the hacking of the dnc e-mails and their release. he seemed to be suggesting that this is part of a plot to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. your response? >> well, it just goes to show you they're exact moral compass. 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 happening with the russians. it's disgusting. it's so phony. i don't mind a fair fight but these lies and the perpetuating of that kind of nonsense to try to gain some political capital is just outrageous, and he should be ashamed of himself. >> president obama -- >> calling for people to bring out the electric chair if it was republicans. >> and back with us, cnn commentator and former campaign manager robby mook with us, and the man just referred to and gloria borger is still with us. i

she most certainly did not sit down with chelsea clinton and john podesta and robby mook and say hereat i got. here is the other thing that's so important, let's not take the bait. what is important here, we are talking about what we now know was the intrusion of a foreign government into our election. we know that in 39 states they tried to interact with our voter data. the state of illinois says there were efforts to actually try to delete and change voter data. that is very serious. we are talking about a hostile foreign government trying to impact the outcome of this election. they were very clear with don junior about what their goals were, and he decided that that meeting was okay. this is total false equivalency here. >> as i've been saying, this is not apples to apples. it just didn't. these are two very different things that happened here. we've outlined what the differences are. we are trying to figure out the best we can the fact versus the spin here. one of the things that david stern said, at a very high level, what it does seem you might have is another government, in th

he was responding to a suggestion from clinton campaign manager robby mook that russia was behind themails and a plot to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. >> i mean, they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again, lie after lie. it's disgusting. it's so phony. i can't think of bigger lies. but that exactly goes to show you what the dnc and the clinton camp will do. they will lie and do anything to win. i don't mind a fair fight but these lies and the perpetuating of that kind of nonsense to try to gain some political capital is just outrageous. and he should be ashamed of himself. >> that right there a month and a half, excuse me, after his meeting with the russian lawyer apparently took place. we're back in 60 seconds. ♪ binders, done. super-cool notebooks, done. that's mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, get this ream of paper for just one cent after rewards. ♪ taking care of business. i was thinking around 70. to and before that?re? you mean after that? no, i'm talking before that. do you ha

cnn political commentator robby mook. w you were a cnn -- where have i an bn? tara, good to have you back. haven't seen you in a while. so thanks for coming on, everyone. i'm going to start with you, tara. anthony scaramucci has come in like a category 5 hurricane. in the job less than a week. i think his official starting day was yesterday. so -- you think he's going it make it through the week? >> well, he'll certainly make it through the week because obviously donald trump has empowered him to be this bulldog to come out there, not be a traditional white house communications director. i mean, i was a communications director on capitol hill. not in the white house. on capitol hill. the tenets are basically the same. this is not how you behave. >> would you have done that? >> if anyone had done that, they'd be fired. there's no way that type of behavior, that type of language, on the record, this very bombastic in your face antagonistic relationship would ever fly. that's just not appropriate. but this is something curiou

robby mook, the clinton manager, said the revelation puts potential collusion closer to trump.robby mookmer clinton campaign manager/cnn political commentator: "what's disturbing to me is at each and every juncture, the trump campaign gets closer and closer to russia and the connections become more direct." ( steve ) donald trump junior says he is willing to meet with the senate intelligence committee about the meeting. the panel is investigating russia's involvement in the 2016 election. (vicki) days after north korea successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile ---. no world leaders at the g-20 summit offered condemnation for the regime's latest aggression. now analysts say that may have essentially given a green light to kim jong-un to continue his nuclear missile program. brian todd reports.

. >> cnn's anna cabrera spoke earlier with the robby mook. >> and she asked him what his reaction wasthis new york times report. listen. >> first of all, i think we need to start asking ourselves and i think in particular republican leaders in congress need to start asking themselves at what point do we stop giving the benefit of the doubt here? the evidence here of these close ties with russia continue to mount with each and everyday but secondly with particularly concerning to me is we are seeing it play out in actual policy and you mentioned don was in the meeting, and so was jared kushner. he is now an employee. an official in the government. we sought president propose this morning that the russian government work with the united states to create some sort of cybersecurity entity for our elections which is frightening. we have been reading that the president is doing everything he can to stop a bipartisan bill. to stop further safrpgs fr sancs on the russians for intervening in our election. the trump administration has to clean house, get rid of conflicts of interest and somebod

robby mook as well. this is a major scandal, but only the tip of the iceberg of what needs to be investigated. we still have christopher steel, the former intelligence agent of great britain, that wrote the fake news dossier about donald trump, and, by the way, paid for some of the information, that cited russian sources, and then the group connected to hillary that's fusion gps, remember, they were sending it around, and the democrats were using that phony information to attack then candidate/now president trump. they need to be brought from congress under oath and answer questions. then the former fbi director, comey, he wanted to pay this guy 50 grand, and his removal of government information from the fbi, legging it to "the new york times," helping his friend to be a special counsel. let's put him under oath in this. the special counsel ended up becoming comey's buddy, robert mueller. oh, okay. then he hires hillary clinton's attorney. we've been saying this over and over again. it's time to investi

robby mook, thank you so much for providing that take, and giving your reaction.eral reserve chair meantime, janet yellen, will be back in the spotlight this week in a meeting that could impact your wallet. and cnn money correspondent christina has more tonight. >> janet yellen is headed to capitol hill this week. on wednesday the fed chief will testify on monetary policy before the financial house services committee. investors want to know whether the fed is still on track for more interest rate hikes this year. and when it will begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. now, most economists say friday's strong job report gives room for raising interest rates. they added 222,000 jobs in june. the unemployment rate did tick slightly higher, because more people joined the labor force. now, later this week, investors will turn their attention to bank earnings. jpmorgan chase, wells fargo and citigroup delivered quarterly report cards to wall street on friday. bank stocks have been on a tear since the presidential election. analysts are spenting strong profit g

listening to people like robbie mook. the ukrainian government working with the hillary campaign. there was a hillary clinton donor behind the dossier. she set up her own private server and deleted tens of thousands of emails with the intent of running for president. the obama administration used the irs to target conservatives and potentially using government resources to keep tabs on the trump team. then you look at "the new york times" ," whose executive editor said he would be willing to break the law to release the trump tax returns. there is a lot of gray area. unfortunately everybody's in operating -- operating in it. >> bret: the president hitting on it again and again about the media. here is alan dershowitz and jonathan turley. >> i don't see any crime at this point. at the moment, i see no legal jeopardy for trump, jr. but of course we have to know more facts. simply using the material you know is obtained illegally is not at the moment regarded as a crime. i think it would be wrong to prosecute somebody for that noncrime. >> while they might be chumps, it doesn't make

. >> so, i don't know if you were hearing earlier, but robby mook, the campaign manager for secretary state hillary clinton, i asked him about the dnc leek and he suggested, the experts are saying russians were behind both the leak, the hacking of the dnc e-mails and their release. he seem to be suggesting this is part of a plot to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. your response? >> well, this goes to sow you their morale campus. they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again, lie after lie. he won't say, with the i say this, it's we hear experts. it's disgusting, it's so phony. >> so april what are you making of what he's saying there now that we're learning about this e-mail? >> it's -- it's very startling to hear him say that and understanding that he allegedly or possibly had these meetings and talked about, or knew that he was going into a meeting about information against the clintons. it's -- if this is indeed true, this seems to be the mo of not just donald trump, jr., but the president. you know, go against the opponent, ruthless businessma

let me ask you, robbie mook was here and he said, where are the republicans? members of congress who are republicans? there are any number of republicans, conservatives like yourself who are not office holders who have been expressing outrage and have been intellectually consistent throughout this. where are the lawmakers on this? >> they're being political. they're looking out for their political survival. i don't think if you're a republican on the hill you want to be holding the bag on this investigation. i think if we're entering a criminal realm, they will be happy to take a backseat and let the fbi pursue this. it is a criminal matter. congress can't do anything about criminal matters. all they can do is make a recommendation, say what happened. i can see them very easily sitting back and saying, we're going to let mueller handle this, we'll talk later. that's the most politically safe thing to do. i'm not lahappy about it, but ii had to make a prediction what would happen, that's it. >> don't go anywhere. stay with us. we'll be back after this. day 13.

robby mook is the former campaign manager for hillary clinton. gentlemen, welcome, welcome.e begin with you, if you boil this down, this is the ethics guy has left the building. the building being the white house. how big of a red flag is this to you? >> it's not a red flag for me. this is nothing. in fact, it's opened up, just a black bean nothing burger. we have a former obama democrat whose decided to take another job after nearly five years in this particular appointment. this is not a huge deal. there's a succession plan in that office. president trump can appoint someone to run the office just as the president did before him. i don't think this is a huge deal and this guy is grand standing a little bit. >> okay. how do you see and robby? >> this is one in a long string of ethical lapses, shall we say, in this administration. this is a president who doesn't take these roles seriously. i don't think he cares. keep in mind, just down the street from the white house is his hotel, which he gladly markets out to foreign leaders who come to visit washington. fundamentally, i

and asked, jake asked him to respond to hillary clinton campaign's manager robbie mook saying the russians were behind the dnc hack and leaking of information again. this interview was right after that meeting took place with the russian lawyer. watch this. >> well, it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again, lie after lie. it's disgusting. it's so phony. i watched them bumble through the interview. i was able to hear it on audio a little bit. i can't think of bigger lies. that goes to show you what the dnc and the clinton camp will do. they will lie and do anything to win. >> so if these reports are true -- go on. >> this is -- you could not find anything more duplicitous. a few weeks before this, he had met with people representing the kremlin, told that they were interested in providing material, damaging to hillary clinton. and then after that, he goes on to cnn and tells jake tapper that this is all lies. you know, i'm used to -- i've covered politicians a long time and used to politicians spinning, exag

robby mook came on our air and said, i'm told by experts that the russians hacked.eople say, oh, he's a conspiracy buff. turned out to be true. now it's the government. now our country has been attacked and we are not responding. that's what i want to know. >> there is now an active fbi investigation into this. this is not -- there is a real investigation. >> i think the translation is, correct. that is what some people angry about it. and they're angry about it does seem like rules are not evenly applied. and i think a that can be a valid argument and complaint. it doesn't help coming from the president's twitter account all the time. and you have the problem on both sides, which is, yes, doing something that's not technically illegal does not mean that it's ethical and good for the potential leader or leader of the country. and you get that too much from both sides. it happens a lot. and we shouldn't be patting ourselves on the back for not technically illegal. hillary or trump. >> we'll take a quick break, more with the panel, continue the conversation. we'll dig

former republican congresswoman nan hayworth, paul begala gala, robbie mook and jeffrey lord.o things we've heard from trump surrogates is every campaign looks for opposition research and nothing to see her. what we've heard more is donald trump jr. was politically naive and just made a mistaking. > right. if that's their story, they should stick to it. it's not going to hold. trump junior was the son of the presumed at that moment republican nominee. in that meeting also was paul manafort. decades of experience including experience with russians. when you get e-mail, you don't have to have a lot of experience when you get an e-mail that says russia and its government's support for mr. trump. when the russian government is an adversary of the united states, had always been in the eyes of republicans. mitt romney was ridiculed for saying russia was our chief geostrategic adversaries. at the time i was more upset about isis. it's not going to hold. you can't -- the notion that every campaign does it, i've been in touch over twitter with matthew dowd who ran bush's campaign, spen

don't know if you're hearing earlier, but the campaign manager for secretary state hillary clinton robby mook , i asked him about the dnc leaked and he suggested that experts are saying that russians ofe behind both the hacking the dnc emails and their release. he seemed to be suggesting that this is part of a plot to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. your response? >> it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. they will say anything to be able to win this. this is time and again ,lie after lie. he won't say "i said this." you know, his house cap one said, this is what happened with the russians. it is disgusting. think of bigger lies. that goes to show you what the dnc and what the clinton camp will do. they will lie and do anything to win. amy: that was donald trump, jr. speaking to jake tapper in july 2016, just weeks after he met with the russian attorney. marcy, i would like you to comment on that. but also, your thoughts before that you mail trail was released -- you know ultra was released. an interesting piece you wrote this weekend, though your views have changed o

at that point i had interviewed the chairman of the clinton campaign, robbie mook, and he had said, beforemation from the u.s. intelligence community, he said the clintons had been telling the campaign that this was done by the russians. keep in mind when you watch this clip this was several weeks after donald trump jr. had been told that the russian government wanted to help his father, e-mails from his associate, that at least based on the e-mails he seemed to believe and took the meeting. think of that as you watch this clip. >> it just goes to their moral compass. they'll say anything to be able to win this time after time, lie after lie. we hear experts. his house cat at home once said this is what's happening with the russians. it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> so a very strong rejection in july 2016 by donald trump jr. of the clinton campaign saying that experts are telling them the russians were behind the dnc hack which, of course, the u.s. intelligence community went on to say is the case. it's quite a lot of indidnance from donald trump jr. when you read these e-mails from june

lawrence, i think you ought to invite him on your show to come on tomorrow night and apologize to robby mook, who in that interview he called despicable for saying that there was evidence that the russians were working with the trump campaign, and he gave that interview just days after he had this meeting where we now know he was sent an e-mail saying, hey, we want to come help. we're the russians. we want to come help you beat hillary clinton. so clearly he was just telling a bold faced lie, throwing accusations, and he owes secretary clinton, her campaign, everyone involved a big apology for that. >> bill browder, thank you very much for joining us tonight with your unique perspective on all of this. also jill wine-banks, thank you for joining us again tonight. appreciate it. >>> up next, member of congress who wants to stop the president from creating a cybersecurity unit with russia. that crazy proposal that donald trump came up with on twitter sunday morning. we can't stay here! why? terrible toilet paper! i'll never get clean! way ahead of you. charmin ultra strong. it cleans better. i

robby mook, the clinton campaign manager, said the revelation puts potential collusion closer to trump.robby former clinton campaign manager/cnn political commentator: "what's disturbing to me is at each and every juncture, the trump closer and closer to russia and the connections become more direct." ( steve ) donald trump junior says he is willing to meet with the senate intelligence committee about the meeting. the panel is investigating russia's involvement in the 2016 election. ( catherine ) a new view tonight of the huge rebuilding of the spillways at the oroville dam. we'll see the work being down and the progress being made as crews race to finish...( steve ) plus a big update on wells fargo's fake account scandal. the settlement in the works and how much the san francisco bank could payout.( catherine ) and is it safe to ride bart? the latest crime that has grabbed the attention of bay area commuters. (catherine) there's been another bart passenger robbed by a group of teenagers... it's the latest in a series of these types of crimes involving the transit system (steve) but in this

joe biden and not listening to a lot of other people who were telling her back this august, and robby mookgoing to poll, he says he will look at analytics to try to figure out. there are a thousand reasons why hillary clinton lost starting with hillary clinton being a terrible candidate. but you can say that and believe that and still say what russia did was offensive to our country and we have to punch them back hard. >> and mika is right, being it would be liberating to allow him to address as we sgued international issues with russia and also create space between him and the nationalist elements in you're room that are benefiting from russia intervention in elections. >> admiral. >> yeah, we are also -- also remember we have some advantage which is sanctions. we are holding significant sanctions on putin. that is something that we should consider as we craft the strategy for working with him at some point. but we do need to punch them hard at the beginning of the conversation. >> gordon, final thoughts. >> the important thing right now is we have to separate china and russia. remember,