. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> donald trump jr. refusing to tell the house intelligence committee about conversations he had with his father over that now infamous trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. >> democrat senator al-franken expected to make a big announcement this morning. dozens urging him to resign. >> firefighters in southern california racing against time and intense winds as all of l.a. county is under an extreme fire danger warning. good morning. >> some say the worst wind danger they've ever seen in terms of wildfires it is thursday, december 7, 5:00 a.m. in the east. live in california in a few minutes. >> up first eight grueling hours of testimony from donald trump jr. its awhat he refused to held house members is what's getting all the attention. the main focus of the close the door session, a june 2016 meeting at trump tower between don jr., jared kushner, paul manafort and a russian lawyer designed to get dirt on hillary clinton. >> how investigators press the trump jr. with his father's knowledge of that

mark preston, donald trump jr. that nothing really came out of that meeting at trump tower. there was no follow-up, he said. he wasn't on any of the e-mails. >> i think it's plausible and before we get too far ahead about whether there was follow up or not, including him, let's start with the basic premise. they said there was no collusion with the russians. perhaps there was no collusion with the russians but there certainly was an effort to collude with the russians by sole soliciting or being willing to get dirt on hillary clinton and that's why they held the meeting. so i don't think we should lose, you know, that point, because that's an extremely important point. >> and look -- >> go ahead, bianna. >> at best, for donald trump jr.'s defense, naivety comes to mind. not allowing americans to adopt russian children, that was not an enforcement by the u.s. that came from the russians. whether donald trump jr. put the two together, that's a different question. but this was never a trivial meeting from the get-go,

donald trump jr. testified before house investigators today but refused to tell the committee what he and his father, the president, discussed when the story over the meeting with russians in trump tower first broke. multiple sources also tell cnn that trump jr. testified that he spoke with white house aide hope hicks about how to respond when the story broke. hicks was on air force one with the president at the time. now, if you remember, trump jr.'s story about the meeting changed multiple times. the statement in question which the president took part in crafting read in part, quote, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the russian government but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. well, that statement was proven to be false, just a day later when apparently knowing "the new york times" was ready to publish the truth about the meeting, trump jr. was fo

donald trump jr. questioned by lawmakers behind closed doors for more than eight hours today. just getting out and refusing to talk about conversations he had with his father. we're going to speak to a member of congress who was in that room questioning. plus, allegations that michael flynn tried to text with a business partner about a scheme to make a fortune working with russia. suggesting the trump msh would rip up russian sanctions. all of this allegedly on the day during trump's inauguration. >>> and all eyes on senator al franken. is he about to step down? let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. tonight, the breaking news, donald trump jr. testifying before the house intelligence committee. questioned by investigators behind closed doors. it was a marathon session of more than eight hours. eight hours today. and it ended just moments ago. trump jr. refusing to reveal a conversation between himself and his father. a conversation that happened after news reports surfaced about that cru

donald trump jr. refusing to ns questions about communications with his father before the house intel committee today. what do you know about that? >> he answered a lot of questions, don, but one thing he would not answer was what exactly he discussed with his father after the news broke in "the new york times" earlier this year about this meeting that occurred in june of 2016 at trump tower where jared kushner, paul manafort was there, and we have now learned he was promised dirt from the russians on the clinton campaign and was told in an e-mail communication that the russian government wanted to help his father win the election. now, after donald trump, jr. published those e-mails on his twitter account, he did, in fact, meet with his father. we're now learning after that occurred. after he put those on twitter. now, he said that he would not respond to questions about that meeting with his father, because he said attorney-client privilege, since there were attorneys in the room. that's what he tol

donald trump jr.'s closed door testimony. bring in our analysts and specialist, jeffrey toobin, adam schiff says he claimed attorney client privilege in not discussing information about the meeting over in trump tower in june of 201 does that have any basis? >> none at all. the basic rule is the only covers conversations between a client and an attorney. if any third party is present, there is no privilege attached. so what donald trump jr. is counting on, a compliant republican dominated committee that won't hold him in contempt, but his legal position is absurd. >> donald trump jr. says he spoke to hope hicks, the communications director at the white house, and not his father about the trump tower meeting. but wouldn't his father have heard from hope hicks what donald trump jr. told her? >> this makes her much more central witness here. and she was clearly the conduit between donald trump jr. and the president, particularly upon air force one when they were trying to conduct a statement that proved to be untrue. but you know

then candidate donald trump was not donald trump jr.'s attorney. donald trump jr. was not the candidate's attorney. there's no attorney client privilege at work here whatsoever. i want to make another observation about this. in light of the tweet that donald jr. sent out tonight. there's a fundamental misunderstanding being made by the trump administration. they are misapplying their chaos theory, which has worked pretty well for them in the political realm, to the legal realm, the truth of the matter is, during the campaign and even in the last 11 months, the daily tweet storm of provocative, outrageous things has had a way of serving them well. the truth of the matter is, bob mueller doesn't care at all about donald trump jr.'s tweets or donald trump sr.'s tweets in so far as they may be used as evidence. there's the political environment, there's a legal environment and they're confusing the two. >> i would imagine, i don't want to put words in your mouth, did you think that donald trump jr. was trying to hide something? what do you think he's trying to hide? >>

trump jr. failure to answer questions about his conversations with his father. >> reporter: the white house is facing questions about why donald trump jr. is refusing to tell congress what he told his father after news broke about his controversial meeting in trump tower with a russian lawyer. trump jr. spent about eight hours before the house intelligence committee, answering questions about his june 2016 meeting. he had been told the russian lawyer had dirt on hillary clinton as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. trump jr. acknowledged discussing the matter with the president when the news broke over the summer, but he refused to describe that discussion, citing attorney/client privilege, because he said lawyers for him and his father were also on the phone. the top democrat on the committee says that's bogus. >> in my view, there's no attorney/client privilege that protects a discussion between father and son. >> reporter: we put that to the white house press secretary.

e-mail from someone that trump jr.'s attorney says we don't know who this michael ericsson guy is. the wikileaks outreach, even if the campaign did not respond you know looking at timing that manu reported that don, jr. tweeted about wikileaks the first time the same day the e-mail he doesn't recall went through. politically difficult for the team or legally some implications here? >> there's both potential and legal political implications. the most significant thing whether he was being honest with congress when he said he did not recall he didn't take further action. so certainly lying to congressional investigators, lying to the special counsel, as we've seen in mike flynn's case that has serious consequences. we've seen that trump jr. during this same period of time sort of came forward very strongly and said, you know, the russia story not only was fake news said it was disgusting that people would accuse them of this. now we're seeing story after story after story come out about the nature of sort of extent of the

donald trump jr. tell the committee what he and his father, the president, discussed when the story over the meeting with russians in trump tower first broke. multiple sources also tell cnn

donald trump jr. had a marathon session with the house intelligence committee talking about interaction with russians during the campaign season. one thing they focussed on in particular was that june 2016 meeting in which he, we now know was promised dirt on the clinton campaign and was informed the russian gofvernment wanted to help his father's campaign. we are learning that donald trump jr. did have a meeting with his father after the reports were published, but he did not tell the committee yesterday what he and his father were talking about. in fact, he cited attorney/client privilege saying that because attorneys were in the room, there paz no reason for him to disclose his information because it was covered by attorney client privilege. that's something democrats balked at. at the same time he was asked about the response that was misleading with the meeting when he said it was mainly about russian adoptions. it turns out the white house was involved. he said he texted with the communications d

trump jr. he did not follow up on the controversial meeting, but now we are learning someone did. rob goldstone, the publicist that arranged the meeting sent a follow up to trump's inner circle. in one e-mail dated june 14, 2016, five days after the trump tower meeting, he forwarded a cnn story on russia's hacking to the client, russian pop star. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner and paul manafort describing the news in the e-mail as'rely weird. they said dnc hacking was not brought up at the meeting, which brings us to a central question, once again. what exactly was discussed at that trump tower meeting. trump jr. said after being promised he would get dirt on hillary clinton, the brief meeting focused on the issue of russian adoptions, which means sanctions. he also insisted, there was no follow up. here is trump jr. after the fact referring to the man who arranged it. >> it wasn't follow up. there was nothing there. as we were walking out, listen, i'm sorry for that. i think what happened,

e-mails in which donald trump jr. seems very eager to get what was described as dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. >> you remember, after this meeting was revealed, and again, the first story explaining what happened to this trump tower meeting has since been proven not to be entirely accurate. after this meeting, donald trump jr. released his seeshz of e-mails showing what was discussed in advance. and those e-mails show that the russians when they came into this meeting were offering, at least, the possibility of damaging information on hillary clinton. when donald trump jr. released all of those e-mails explaining what the real reason for the meeting was, at least in a advance, one of the participants in that meeting, ike, his son, e-mailed him with the phrasing, wolf, in this e-mail, an e-mail that congressional investigators have. e-mail his father saying why would donald trump jr. show himself to be colluding with the russians? he used that word colluding. to be clear, it's not clear if in this e-mail the

yesterday nbc news reported according to russian lawyer donald trump jr. solicited dirt on the clinton foundation in the meeting at trump tower in the presidential campaign. congressman adam schiff on the intelligence committee spoke with reporters after donald trump jr.'s eight hours of testimony today and revealed that he refused to answer questions about his conversations with his father about that trump tower meeting with those russians. >> he acknowledged having discussed the june 9th meeting and the e-mails that went into establishing that meeting after those e-mails became public. he acknowledged discussing that matter with his father. but refused to answer questions about that discussion on the basis of claim of attorney/client privilege. in my view, there is no attorney/client privilege that protects a discussion between father and son. >> who's the attorney and who's the client in that construction? >> well, the claim of privilege is that at a time when father and son were discussing the june 9th meeting and the e-mail that is led up to it, they h

neither trump jr. nor the president is a lawyer, but trump junior said lawyers were president by the conversation, so it's covered by attorney/client privilege. it appears so long as republican lawmakers allow the privilege claim the president's son won't have to provide anymore details about the conversations to congress. alisyn. >> thank you. >>> more news now, embattled senator al franken making an announcement on the floor, and there are calls for him to resign amid the allegations of misconduct. do we know what he is going to say? >> reporter: it's widely expected that he will announce a resignation, but we want to be careful about that because his spokesman via twitter is pushing back a minnesota radio report that he would step down. that spokesman saying that he was discussing these things with his family, but it's widely expected that is what he will do, and this comes amid an extraordinary day yesterday that happened, a sixth female came forward saying he inappropriately touched her, and this h

trump jr. ended up testifying before the house intelligence committee today for what appears to have been an eight-hour stretch. he went in at roughly 10:00 a.m. and didn't get out until roughly 6:00 p.m. in a closed door session. we don't know what the president's son testified to. but starting to figure out closed door sessions. as best as i can tell, there appears to be agreement within that committee that members aren't allowed to come out of the closed door sessions and describe what a witness testified to behind closed doors. but a member of that committee can come out from behind closed doors and describe something that a witness refused to discuss. something -- a question a witness refused to answer. can't say what they said but what they wouldn't say. and i think that's the rule. i think that's also the rule that explains why we got that very dramatic news last week from congressman adam schiff, top democrat on the intelligence committee when he told reporters he questioned attorney gen

you also learned that donald trump, jr. says he never spoke directly to his father about the news that he met with russians in 2016 at trump tower, only white house aide hope hicks. what do you make of that news? >> i don't know what to make of that. we're going to to have to wait and see what this further investigation reveals. this hasn't been a great week for the trump familis' attorneys. between one of them claiming he wrote a bizarre tweet. another claiming -- or maybe it was the same one. claiming that a president can't be held liable for obstruction of justice. and now, whoever gave donald junior, if anyone at all gave him that advice twhab hat he's n attorney-client privilege. i was pretty excited to hear that. i thought, i'm an attorney and i talk to myself a lot. maybe my ramblings and murmurings are privileged as well. >> that's perfect. maybe they are building an argument for ineffective assistance of counsel. >> laura coats said earlier, if that rule applied, by satellite, anyone in the sound of anyone's voice w

today donald trump, jr. questioned behind closed doors and under oath by the house intelligence committee for about eight hours. this is him leaving the trump hotel this morning. this is the second go around for him on the hill. latest round of questioning seemed to focus on what he told his father about how that now famous june 2016 trump tower meeting came to be. a source with knowledge of donald trump, jr.'s testimony of the house intel committee tells us at nbc news trump junior said it was 29-year-old white house communications director hope hicks who he spoke with on the day that 2016 meeting became public and that she acted as an intermediary to relate comments to the boss, the president. this source says the younger trump did speak by phone the next day with his father as well as attorneys. the committee's ranking member, the top member adam schiff of california was less than pleased with the answers he gave the panel. >> there was one significant area he declined to answer. he acknowledged having dis

more e-mails, more problems for donald trump jr. and the russia investigation. cnn has new details about a message sent in the final stretch of the 2016 campaign offering access to hacked wikileaks documents. a previously undisclosed effort to reach donald trump himself, his son, and his inner circle, just weeks before the election. this comes on top of other new evidence. other new evidence of followups to the famous trump tower meeting between don junior and a russian lawyer, follow ups he promised when he promised there weren't any. over to manu raju. a lot you have gotten in the past day plus. lay out your new reporting on the effort to give trump access to wikileaks documents. >> this e-mail on september 4th, 2016, was sent to donald trump, then candidate donald trump, donald trump, jr. and others in the trump organization including donald trump jr.'s personal assistant and in this e-mail, it actually has a decryption code and link to web address where purportedly they could have received the hacked wikileaks documents included in this, it says that they cou

only the ones that donald trump jr. decided to put online under pressure. >> point you're making is fair. don't know if there was conversation between the publicist and donald trump jr., but story keeps changing and other dimensions over time. but fact we're continuing to hear about information a little bit at a time, week after week, means -- good thing -- we don't have any idea the scope of what robert mueller is looking at, what he has in possession and in the future. >> in the e-mails that donald trump jr. did release, seems to indicate he wanted a phone conversation with one of the og lairovs prior to the meeting and no idea if phone call took place but could be something mueller has access to. >> points out the issue, making sure in investigation if you're potentially a target, get story right and put out in full and proper way in first instance. if it turns out there was no follow-up as donald trump jr. i believe said, i didn't do anything, thought it was useless. then turns out to be traffic follow-up, doesn't h

donald trump jr. in the hot seat. we'll talk to one of the house intel committee members who grilled the president's son on russia today. >>> finally, reactions pour in from all sides as the president changes decades of u.s. policy in the middle east. >> it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. >>> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd here new york and welcome to "mtp daily." using forgiven if you're exhausted from the sheer number of important stories breaking on the hour today. donald trump jr. was grilled by congress many investigators for the first time since revelations about his contact with wikileaks. the president recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel, upending decades of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east. the house took a vote on his impeachment forced by democratic congressman al green. yes, actually an impeachment vote today. mr. trump threatened a government shutdown could happen in two days as he prepares

trump jr. was echoing that. and then donald trump jr.at length on capitol hill about his june 2016 meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer. and he compared his scrutiny to hillary clinton's. >> i have now spent 23 hours testifying about a 20-minute meeting. hillary clinton, as secretary of state, spent 11 hours testifying about benghazi! >> and then donald trump jr., he went on to defend his meeting with that russian lawyer, again explaining that it was his mentality as a business guy to take those meetings. he says, it's what you do. he said it might have been a waste of time, but you hear it out. but of course, john and poppy, special counsel robert mueller and several congressional committees, they are closely scrutinyizing that trump tower meeting. >> thanks so much. our panel back with us now. brian, this idea that there are people at the highest levels of government that don't want to america be america. the highest levels of government right now are president trump and everyone he's appointed since then, so i'm not quite sure

trump jr. is refusing to tell congress what he told his father after news broke about his controversial meeting in trump tower with a russian lawyer. trump jr. spent about eight hours before the house intelligence committee, answering questions about his june 2016 meeting. he had been told the russian lawyer had dirt on hillary clinton as, quote, part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. trump jr. acknowledged discussing the matter with the president when the news broke over the summer. but he refused to describe that discussion, citing attorney-client privilege, because he said lawyers for him and his father were also on the phone. the top democrat on the committee says that's bogus. >> in my view, there is no attorney-client privilege that protects a discussion between father and son. >> reporter: we put that to the white house press secretary. >> we believe that his lawyers had a legitimate reason and basis for not answering the questions, but that's something i would direct

he would not comment if hooechted donald trump, jr. back. donald trump, jr. ked attorney client privilege over his conversations with his father after the initial stories broke about the trump tower meeting. now, the question is did he invoke attorney/client privilege today. we don't have that answer yet. and when i posed the question to mark warner, he would not answer that question either. maybe one reason why, this closed door meeting is still going on. >> it's been going on for hours and hours. thank you very much. onto the special counsel's russia investigation. and allegations of political bias within robert mueller's team. let's bring in our justice correspondent jessica snyder. the man who appointed mueller faced a lot of questions up on capitol hill today. >> he did. he faced hours of grilling criticism about the special counsel's probe from republicans. but rosenstein was unwavering in his support of robert mueller and his team throughout that contentious hearing. deputy attorney general rob rosenstein found himself taking incoming fire from members

trump jr.'s answers on capitol hill. about that trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer during the campaign. the president's son refusing to answer questions about what he told his father about that meeting, claiming attorney/client privilege. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: tonight, the white house is facing questions about why donald trump jr. is refusing to tell congress what he told his father after news broke about that controversial meeting in trump tower with a russian lawyer. trump jr. spent about eight hours before the house intelligence committee, answering questions about his june 2016 meeting. he had been told the russian lawyer had dirt on hillary clinton as, quote, part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. trump jr. acknowledged discussing the matter with the president when the news broke over the summer. but he refused to describe that discussion, citing attorney/client privilege, because he said lawyers for him and hi

donald trump jr. refused yesterday to tell congress that he and his father discussed -- what they discussed about the trump tower meeting with the russians. and as i just mentioned we have learned there was follow up after that meeting despite denials from trump junior. >> there wasn't really follow up because there was nothing there to follow up. as we were walking out in the he said listen i'm sorry about that. in the end there was some bait and switch about what it was supposed to be about. there is nothing there. >> and it was less than a week ago that michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with russia's then ambassador to the united states, the president later tweeting this. "i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies. it's a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide." raising questions about whether the president was trying to obstruct justice. all of

as jake was saying, trump jr. has more months contended that after being promised he would get dirt on hillary clinton in trump tower, the brief meeting focussed almost exclusively on russian adoption saying there was no discussion with the participants after that session. no discussion at all. the e-mails were raised at wednesday's classified hearing with trump jr., he told congressional investigators that he could not recall those interactions, several sources tell us i should also note that the white house has declined to comment for this story as did rob goldstone's lawyer. >> mano, what specifically did the e-mails say? >> one of the e-mails discusses a topic that we have actually not heard discussed before the e-mail actually. >> goldstone, dan ska vino who was now one of president trump's closest aids. from his e-mail, it encourages him to convince then candidate trump to create a page on the russian social media site, the k. and now goldstone says in this e-mail that quote, that quote, don and paul were on

trump jr.'s communications with wikileaks about hacked democratic party and clinton campaign e-mails. we're live on capitol hill coming up from the fox news deck and just crossing from associated press, dateline los angeles, the city council just voted and los angeles will be the nation's largest city with recreational pot after a vote to license sales next year. january 1 in los angeles, you can smoke'em if you got'em. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >> i'm lea gabrielle with a fox report. more of today's headlines. british investigators say they have busted two terrorists that were planning to assassinate theresa may. one of the suspects in court today. the prosecutor says they planned to set off a bomb near her office on downing street in london and go after her with a knife and a suicide vest. u.

and a closed door hearing, donald trump jr. ey/client privilege of his conversation between him and donald trump. it is quite a lot to unpack. joining me now is a member of the house committee, is jim heyes of connecticut. wet come. >> thank you, todd. let me start with some seven or eight hours, just characterize donald trump jr. is forthcoming. would you describe it is fourth coming. there was the one episode that's talked about since that interview where he declined to answer questions of the conversations that he had with his father that's relevant of the don jr. meeting at trump tower and part of that i would say he's forthcoming. was it a conversation that he had after the meeting itself or a conversation he had with his father trying to spin the disclosure of the meeting. we did not get to hear the content or we don't know. i am not a lawyer myself. every lawyer i know says there is no attorney client privilege. this is not a court of law where the judge would say no, that's insufficient. you don't have the ability that h

recently aired a story that donald trump jr i mean sent a direct link to wiki leaks documents on the democratic national committee before they were even made public it was september fourth two thousand and sixteen at the height of the campaign that's when candidate donald trump his son donald trump jr and even trump jr's personal assistant they got an e-mail with a decryption key and a web site address for hacked wiki leaks documents. well the documents were made public on september thirteenth on wiki leaks twitter feed c.n.n. claimed the e-mail was sent on september fourth but later turned out to be false the e-mail was actually sent to trump jr on september fourteenth the day after the data went public he later tweeted a response to the spread freak. but now that you know the truth you should. call for somebody to be fired and i would like to run the correction giving quote the proper context for the timing of the illness or seek a social network offer to promote candidacy among russian speaking americans during no news is good news but that explosive information comes from anonymo

that was the meeting donald trump jr. took after being promised dirt on hillary clinton courtesy of the russian government. trump junior insisted nothing came of the meeting. he never got the dirt he was promised and just kind of moved on. >> there wasn't really follow-up because there was nothing to follow up. as we were walking out, he said listen, i'm sorry for that. >> did you ever have any contact with goldstone again? >> casual, how's it going, something like that. >> but tonight we now know there were in fact follow-up e-mails uncovered by congressional investigators. cnn reporting that an e-mail from rob goldstone to senior trump aide dan scavino reveals a previously undisclosed topic discussed at the time meeting. it encouraged candidate trump to create a page on the russian social networking site vk telling him that don and paul were onboard with the idea. donald trump jr.'s eight-hour session with the house intel committee yesterday he was asked about these follow-up e-mails an said he was not aware of them or c

undisclosed e-mails show followup after the trump tower meeting in june 2016, followup that donald trump jr happened. jim sciutto joins us now with more details. what do the e-mails show? >> well, anderson, the e-mails contradict what has been the trump campaign and now administration story line about this meeting since it broke. one, that it was a one-off, and two, that the subject of the meeting was entirely about russian adoptions. these e-mails contradict that. i'll give you an example. one e-mail on june 14th, 2016, five days after that trump tower meeting between the man who set up that meeting and one of the russians who was there, this happens to be, i should say, the day that news broke that russia had hacked dnc e-mails, so, in one of these e-mails the man who brokered this meeting forwards a cnn story about the russian breach of dnc e-mails to two of the russians involved in this meeting and says, isn't this eerily weird, and i'm quoting there, in light of what we talked about five days earlier. now, that is interesting. one, there was followup between participants in that meetin

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you have donald trump and his son don jr. you've got donald trump and his son-in-law jared kushner involving the kushner family. and you've got sort of these kids, these second generations. and you have mike flynn, of course, and his son. so you have four families with two generations ensnared in a criminal investigation, criminal probe. i wonder sort of what kind of man subjects all those young people to something that could ruin their lives. >> first off, this is why we have nepotism laws in the country. none of these kids should be in any of these -- any of these positions. certainly not the president's children, number one. we do know this about hope hicks. i don't know whether she will lie for donald trump to the special counsel with criminal liabilities attached. she certainly was complicit in the lie to the american people that she was a party to crafting aboard air force one. she certainly didn't resign her seat. i think it bears mentioning how abnormal all of this is. the obama presidency at some level seems like it w

. >> while donald trump jr. tries to assert attorney client privilege to keep quiet with the conversation with the president. i will talk to house intelligence members, congressman jim heye from connecticut and joining me, halie jackson, david brooks, 8 çi/7Ñsunday, it is "meet the >> this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. it is possible to make so much of any one senate race. it is hard to over state how 1 the senaten a 49 seat. the president's agenda with one less vote. senate republicans will have harder time of getting anything passed. there is the sexual harassment issues. no matter how credible as republican roy moore has done is a successful strategy. we'll worry that the democrats will hang more in his daily antics around the next republican candidate. on friday, alabama, what i found is widespreadÀ?discomfort among f conservative states. >> the kand dacandidates are hi the campaign trails hard.ç >> with two days in alabama, politics is the story. 60 miles where president t

recently aired a story that donald trump jr had been sent a direct link to wiki leaks hacked documents on the democratic national committee before they were made public. it was september fourth two thousand and sixteen at the height of the campaign that's when candidate donald trump his son donald trump jr and even trump jr's personal assistant they got an e-mail with a decryption key and a web site address for hacked wiki leaks documents well the documents were made public on september the thirteenth via wiki leaks twitter feed c.n.n. claimed that the e-mail was sent on september the fourth which later turned out to be false the e-mail was actually sent to trump jr on september the fourteenth the day after the data went public he later tweeted a response to the full c.n.n. story i know that you can't help but spread freak news c.n.n. but now that you know the truth you should have the decency to retract the full story make the correction take down the b.s. tweets and apologize to the two or three people that still believe you to be credible your welcome well the us president also slam

trump jr.'s refusal to discuss about his father after reports about the infamous trump tower meeting back in june of 2016. adam schiff is the cop democrat and he said donald trump jr. cited attorney-client privilege. >> here invoked the privilege and we made it clear at least on our side of the aisle we didn't think it was a recognizable privilege. he then said they would go back and discuss it further with their lawyers and get back to us. the question is if they say we are not going to answer the questions, we will be required to subpoena donald trump jr. back before the committee. >> let's bring in jessica who has been following this for us. what's the reaction to the claim of attorney client privilege? >> quite simply, the democrats are saying it doesn't stand on firm legal footing. in particular, top democrat adam schiff said you can't shield the conversations because an attorney is present. it is designed to protect communications exclusively between the attorney and the client. that was

a lawyer for trump jr. declined to comment, referring nbc news to his past statement saying the younger trump wanted to hear the russian out if they had -- about whether special counsel robert mueller is zeroing in on president trump's personal finances. both reuters and the "financial times" report mueller's team has subpoenaed german deutsche bank for mr. trump's records before he ran for office. >> has mueller crossed a red line, mr. president? has mueller crossed a red line? >> reporter: last july, he told "the new york times" his finances should be off limits to mueller. [ inaudible question ] >> i would say yes. >> reporter: in fact, mueller justice department melania trump orders on russia include any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. the white house says the stories are fake news. >> no subpoena has been issued or received. >> reporter: the president's personal lawyer says his team's confirmed that with deutsche bank, but some subpoenas are supposed to remain secret, me

. >>> on capitol hill the president's son donald trump jr. behind closed doors being questioned in the russia investigation. there's also a new report about michael flynn, what a whistleblower says flynn was promising about russia just minutes after president trump was sworn in. nbc's kristen welker has those details. >> reporter: congressional investigators say trump jr. spoke to his father and attorneys a day after the meeting became public. >> they acknowledged discussing that matter with his father but refused to answer questions about that discussion on the basis of a claim of attorney/client privilege. >> reporter: donald trump jr. on his way to capitol hill today and under a microscope amid new insight into his june trump tower meeting with a kremlin-linked attorney natalia veselnitskaya. also in attendest, jared kushner and paul manafort. the russian lawyer's testimony to the judiciary committee obtained by nbc news. in it she says trump jr. was only looking for one thing at that meeting. >> donald trump jr. was at this meeting for one