remember, it wasn't just donald trump jr. room, paul manafort was in the room, you had jared kushner, you had people who were in the room who would have direct contact with, then, candidate trump. paul manafort was the chair of the campaign at that point in time. so to suggest that, oh, i don't know if anyone happened to mention to my father this was going on, was there anyone in the room that could give me any information, also the context of this, not too long after this meeting happened, or the meeting was promised, wasn't there a campaign trail discussion by the president of the united states talking about information that was forthcoming about hillary clinton. all of those things and those pieces come together to say, this was an exercise by donald trump jr. about trying to create plausible deniability and the reason why it's not, you know, fatal to the investigation of robert mueller to suggest that maybe donald trump didn't know directly or no one maybe told him directly is because people have this misimpression that m

but hours after donald trump jr. confirmed the trump tower meeting would take place, donald trump with candidate said this in a campaign speech. >> i am going to give a major speech, on probably monday of next week, and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very impressive. >> no, donald trump jr. never -- never talked to him about that trump tower meeting. >>> congressman eric swalwell and michael isikoff will join our discussion next. i feel a great deal of urgency... i think, keep going, and make a difference. at some point, we are going to be able to beat als. because life is amazing. so i am hoping for a cure. i want this, to uh, to be a reality. um, yeah. ♪ ♪ i want some more of it. ♪ i try so hard, ♪ i can't rise above it ♪ don't know what it is 'bout that little gal's lovin'. ♪ applebee's new bigger bolder grill combos. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. these are the specialists we're proud to

but hours after donald trump jr. d the trump tower meeting would take place, donald trump with candidate said this in a campaign speech. >> i am going to give a major speech, on probably monday of next week, and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very impressive. >> no, donald trump jr. never -- never talked to him about that trump tower meeting. >>> congressman eric swalwell and michael isikoff will join our discussion next. stop fearing your alarm clock... with new*! zzzquil pure zzzs. a drug-free blend of botanicals with melatonin ...that supports your natural sleep cycle... ...so you can seize the morning. new! zzzquil pure zzzs. it's just a burst pipe, i could fix (laugh) no. with claim rateguard your rates won't go up just beacuase of a claim. i totally could've... (wife) nope! switching to allstate is worth it. handcrafted layers of clean food you can give your kids. tomatoes. even the picky ones. pan

donald trump, jr.ng into this meeting now? >> listen, this is yet another case where donald trump, jr. is at best inconsistent or at worst misleading. it's a meeting -- he was asked in his testimony, did he know about any contacts between trump campaign officials or transition officials and russian officials. initially he said no. then he said he only knew about one of these meetings after it was reported in the press. the meeting, specific meeting between ambassador sergey kislyak, then russia's ambassador to the u.s., michael flynn who of course became trump's national security advisor, and jared kushner. don junior claiming he only learned about that after it was reported about in the press. then he recalled that in fact coming out of the gym, he said, in trump tower he walked into a meeting between kislyak, flynn, and jared kushner, but said he did not take part. so, another case where he has changed his story, but presumably that final answer arrived on something on the truthful one. but it was in

. -- donald trump's campaign at the donald trump jr. hosted meet, that in exchange president trump would go easy on russia. that's exactly what happened. >> trump junior was asked about whether the campaign or there was any discussion in this meeting about the hacks of the e-mails, dnc e-mail hack, and i want to read a little bit of this interaction because donald trump jr. says no, he didn't recall any specific discussion in this meeting about those hacked e-mails. and then later says, i just don't know that if someone had a passing conversation with me and said, hey, what do you think about that? but, no, there was no substantive conversations that i can at all remember about any of that. >> i mean, claiming that you don't remember is not a definitive know. i think he said i don't know or how i recall 103 times during the interview because he's not being transparent. >> to play devil's advocate, could he really have just not remembered or not known? >> this is a significant meeting you had planned before you attended. if you're sitting

trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner and russians connected to putin and russian oligarchs but the new details from "the new york times" in which we learned the original investigation had a secret code name, cross fire hurricane. a nod to the rolling stones lyric from jumping jack flash and the agents were afraid of leaks so much so they kept details secret from the justice department, only five officials at doj knew the whole story. the facts had they surfaced might have devastated the trump campaign and his national security adviser was under investigation and his campaign chairman. one trump adviser appeared to have russian intelligence contacts, another was suspected of being a russian agent himself, unquote. this comes in stark contrast with the way that hillary clinton e-mail case was being handled with a public press conference from former fbi director james comey and a public announcement the case would be reopened a week and a half before election day. but when it came to the trump

trump, jr. admits and what he says about his father's involvement. all that coming up. up first, can the north korea summit be salvaged? moments ago, president trump said, we'll have to wait and see. [ overlapping speakers ] >> can the korean summit be salvaged? >> we'll have to see. we haven't seen anything, we haven't heard anything. we will see what happens. we'll see what happens, we'll see. time will tell. >> time will tell, the president says. the fate of the historic face-to-face meeting between president trump and the north korean leader kim jong-un is in jeopardy. north korea's threatening to cancel the summit scheduled for june 12th in singapore. jeff, how is the administration responding to the threat, the threat to cancel this meeting? >> reporter: good afternoon, wolf. you could hear the president there measuring his words very carefully, not saying anything too intentionally to provoke kim jong-un or not saying anything to disrupt the potential disruption of this summit. some of th

donald trump, jr. and several russians in june of 2016. and when i say a lot, i mean a lot. the senate judiciary committee today releasing nearly 2000 pages of interview transcripts with people who were in that meeting including 23 two-pag2 p testimony from donald trump, jr. some of the most testimony has to do with trump junior what he says he spoke to his father about. he never spoke to his father including conversations between the president and then fbi director james comey. comey's firing, comey's testimony to congress after he was fired, michael flynn's firing, the fbi's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election, congressional russia investigations, possible pardons for individuals charged and the president's very evident frustrations with the investigation. trump junior saying, nope, i never talked to my father about any of that. really? given the fact the president talks and tweets about russia all the time, calling the investigation a witch hunt, and reportedly venting about

. >> donald trump jr. says he does not remember if he ever talked about the russia investigation with his father. that's according to newly released transcripts. they provide new details on the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer and the president's role in responding to the media when word got out. plus, sanctuary laws that protect undocumented immigrants. san diego is the latest to take a swipe at the crackdown. president trump set to sit down with california officials including some that support the administration's fight against the laws and north korea warning the summit with president trump might not happen. is it a bargaining tactic from kim jong-un like a car buyer threatening to leave the lot? we'll get into it in this hour of "shepard smith reporting." >> president trump confirms that he reimbursed michael cohen who paid hush money to michael cohen to pay off stormy daniels. the document does not mention the payment to daniels. last month, president trump denied knowing about the payment.

donald trump jr. and a russia lawyer with ties to the kremlin. senate judiciary committee released thousands of pages of testimony about the meeting today from donald trump jr. and others who have come before them. among the headlines here, donald trump jr. was anxious for opposition research or dirt on hillary clinton. but meeting attendees said no valuable information was provided. donald trump jr. said he didn't recall telling his father about the meeting, but as nbc news points out, trump jr. was, quote, grilled about a phone call he made to a blocked number during the planning stages of the trump tower meeting, but said he didn't remember who he spoke with. asked whether his father used a blocked number, trump jr. said i don't know. this as the senate intelligence committee released a report today that backs the conclusion from intelligence officials that russia interfered in the 2016 election with the goal of helping donald trump. and finally, shannon pettypiece of bloomberg is reporting today t

donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino. this is the "the daily briefing". the document shedding new light on a meeting where the russian lawyer had promised to deliver damaging information on hillary clinton to the trump campaign. ellison barber is in washington. catch us up. there is a lot to digest here. >> right, there is. of course, with over 2,000 documents we are still trying to go through a lot of it. but what we know is that in his testimony, trump junior told the senate committee he did not tell his father about the e-mail setting up the meeting and he doesn't know when the president and his team learned of the e-mail. when it comes to questions about president trump's involvement in a july 8, 2017, statement about the controversial meeting, trump junior seemed to suggest he was involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. the initial july statement trump jr. told the "new york times" the meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnits

donald trump jr. meeting with the russian lawyer who now admits to be a russian informant. he took that meeting on the promise of getting dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government and don't forget then-campaign chairman paul manafort was in that meeting and so was the president's son-in-law jared kushner. >> the senate committee published hundreds of pages of these interviews with this exchange that was put out after the trump tower meeting by the white house at the time, quote, the washington post has reported that your father was involved in drafting the july 8th statement. is that correct? >> the response of donald trump jr. was, i don't know. i never spoke to my father about it, but if you look at the exchange even further it notes he may have commented. his father was involved in the drafting of that statement. let's bring in shimon prokupecz in washington with what you are seeing there, shimon. >> that's right, john. certainly in reading what don junior has testified to, you know, it's

donald trump jr.'famous trump tower meet wg the russian b lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton. the big question is whether donald trump himself, not jr., himself, the now president, knew about that meeting. trump jr. says he didn't tell his father, but there was a mysterious phone call made to a blocked number. right after he learned more about the meeting and you know, right before the meeting. when he thought that he was going to get this dirt. it raises a lot of questions tonight. sarah murray is "outfront." >> the senate judiciary committee releasing approximately 2,000 pages of interviews, shedding light on the june 2016 meeting between trump campaign officials and a russian lawyer. in his testimony, donald trump jr. says he was interested in listening to information, but claimed he didn't know it came from the russian government. saying i had no way of assessing where it came from, but i was willing to listen. he testified he told paul manafort and trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, about

>>> roseanne barr and trump, jr. both pedaled the same anti-semitic conspiracy theories, so why isn't the president's son facing any consequences? let's discuss now. matt lewis, simone sanders, steve cortez. good evening to all of you. so good to have you on. so matt, let's see i'll start with you. just a few minutes ago donald trump, jr., we said he has a history of retweeting conspiracy theories. what do you think is behind it and who's buying what he's selling? >> i think there's two possibilities. one is that this is the 21st century version of a dog whistle. he's trying to overtly signal all of his followers. they always have plausible deniability. hey, man, i just like the tweet. i didn't retweet that. that's one possibility. the other is that this is not him trying to overtly influence people but who he is. i think out of the 21st century it's out of the abundance of the heart the hand tweets. >> all right, matt. preach on, brother. >> preach. >> so, steve, do you think it's irresponsible for the president's s

donald trump jr. had already released his e-mail exchange wes rob goldstone in which he was promised dirt on the clinton campaign. goldstone said it was part of the official russian government and president trump's candidacy. donald trump jr. said i love it. he wanted to get information about hillary clinton that could be damaging to her campaign and we now know that rob goldstone testified that he believed this could be, quote, bombshell revelation to donald trump jr. and others in this meeting. so there were a number of discussions that donald trump jr. had with goldstone and with russian pop star amin agalarov, and when asked about this coming from russian sources, donald trump junior said this, i'll read you from the transcript. he said i was interested in listening to information, the question, information on hillary clinton? yes. it came potentially from the russian government? again, i have no way of assessing where it came from, but i was willing to listen. what trump junior testified is that t

but the president emphasis own son donald trump, jr.etweeted one of those comments from barr and he is pushing the same debunked conspiracy theories. it's part of a pattern for trump junior. jason carol has the story. >> reporter: no apology from donald trump, jr. in retweeting the anti-semitic tweets. early wednesday again retweeting the same unproven conspiracy theory barr did. saying only in the world of 2018 could donald trump, jr. retweet a jewish woman attacking a well-known and admitted nazi sympathizer be considered anti-semitic. nonsense. sorros a biggian air magnet and survived the nazi occupation in hungary. while conspiracy therazz about him being a nazi sympathize, have been repeatedly debunked. trump, jr.'s re-tweets come after barr's re-tweets that sorros wanted to over throw the u.s. government. trump, jr. saying one retweet doesn't mean don endorses everything. he went onto lash out at the media saying it's pieces like this that dishonestly use inend o to unjustly smear political enemies. the president's eldest son has

we've talked about torshin, trump jr. and victor vekselberg. for those at home, this can be vexing keeping things in your head. but the bottom line remains, russia attacked the united states and while that was going on, the trump campaign tried to collude with moscow. they had secret contacts with putin and putin's office which certainly encouraged putin. then they denied that any of this was happening. we have to keep remembering that's the big picture trump wants to distract us from. >> that and his fixer michael cohen getting a lot of money attempting to arrange meetings with the boss. david corn and danny cevallos, thank you both for joining us. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >>> donald trump has proven again he isn't running the country so much as putting on a reality show. that's next. >>> donald trump is one reason that women are running for office in record numbers. one woman who accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior just won her primary and she will join us. ♪ he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal ♪ ♪ he holds your house

trump jr. was to play ball when it came to getting incriminating evidence about hillary clinton during the campaign season. but we're also learning that this meeting in trump tower certainly didn't shape up to be what the trump campaign hoped it would be. >> reporter: donald trump jr. excitement over getting dirt on hillary clinton quickly turning to frustration for top members of the trump campaign. when the quest for damaging info came up short. the senate judiciary released 2,000 pages of interviews. shedding light on the june 2016 trump tower meeting. between trump campaign officials and a russian lawyer. in his testimony, trump jr. said he was interested in listening to information. but claimed he didn't know if it came from the russian government. saying, i had no way of assessing where it came from. but i was willing to listen. he testified that he told campaign chairman paul manafort and jared kushner about the meeting. but said he didn't tell his father about it. or the offer of incrim

what he's talking about is testimony in which donald trump jr. was asked the following question in front of congress. did other foreign governments offer to provide assistance to the trump campaign? none that i know of. did other foreign nationals offer to provide asince answer the to the trump campaign? no. did you directly or indirectly seek foreign government or foreign nationals assistance for the trump campaign game. no. are you aware of anyone else seeking foreign government asince answer the. >> no. and we just keep hearing more and more. >> those questions track the federal election campaign act. what they're seeking to find out is whether there were contributions of any, including in-kind services, pamphlets, anything at all from a foreign government or foreign national and if donald trump jr. appeared to answer, no, i know nothing about it, i was not involved, then he may have presented false testimony. i want to be very careful what i say here, but it sounds entirely possible. and if they're asking him to come back, they're giving him a

an attorney for trump jr. denied any wrong doing fp saying he recalls a meeting with erik prince, and another individual, they pitched mr. trump on a marketing strategy. that was the end of it. the president himself discumiss the meeting over the weekend. the ranking democrats on the house and senate intelligence committees called news of the meeting disturbing. >> if the times story is true we have now a second and maybe a third nation that was trying to lean in to this campaign. and i don't understand what the president doesn't get about the law that says if you have a foreign nation interfere in an american election, that's illegal. >> you have to be concerned why are so many foreign powers during the campaign, and perhaps thereafter, that the trump family is willing to play ball. >> paul manafort lost a battle in his ongoing legal troubles, he tried to get one of the charges dismissed, charges for failing to report a foreign bank account, the judge denied that. >> lots going on, jim sciutto, thanks very muc

he was never able to pull that off, but he did have a meeting with donald trump jr. at the nra convention in louisville in may of 2016. >> you're at the hudson institute, you talked to jose grinda. he said mr. trump's son should be worried. explain how that is. >> the context is i asked grinda was he concerned that one of his targets, one of his -- a suspected russian organized crime leader was having all these meetings with political figures in washington, including donald trump jr., and he said he wasn't concerned but donald trump jr. should be concerned. now one interpretation of that was simply that donald trump jr. should be concerned that he's meeting with somebody who has this kind of background. >> jill, let me bring you in here and broaden this a little bit. something that michael points out in his piece is there's no indication this is something tied to robert mueller's investigation but looking broadly at this, we see a wideni wideni wideni widening geography here. >> the fbi asked for this wire tap information. we know somewhere it is being looked at by a

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donald trump jr. and other participants in the meeting with the russians were released today. this is the most comprehensive look yet in the get-together. donald trump jr. said this in a statement -- >> harris: ellison barber is live for us. >> in the testimony he told the senate committee he did not tell his father about the e-mail setting up that meeting and he doesn't know when the president and his team learned of the e-mail. when it comes to questions about president trump's involvement in a july 8, 2017, statement about that controversial meeting trump jr. seemed to suggest he was somewhat involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. in a july state he told the "new york times" the meeting with the russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya was about russian adoption. he did not mention the fact he agreed to the meeting after a british publicist named rob goldstone told him the person had information that might hurt hillary clinton's campaign. "washington post" reported that

at some stage there are no more coincidences, and donald trump jr. is an adult male who is running the trump company. the idea that he's somehow naive, it's like male privilege at this stage. it's ridiculous. he's an adult male. he knows that this is wrong. >> i want to talk about george nader and his role in this, because we know, michael, that he is cooperating with robert mueller, and cnn is reporting that nader attended a number of meetings involving emirati officials and trump's inner circle. >> it seems as if this august 3rd meeting that we were just talking about at trump tower, along with another meeting in the seychelles, and the allegations that there were policy changes in the aftermath of those meetings that nader is in the epicenter of those things. so what we thought was a sort of incidental witness seems now to be coming more important to the investigation. >> harry, also at the same time in january of 2017 of that meeting, cnn news reporting that nader was at the same hotel bar as eric prince when prince met with a russian banker and a

donald trump, jr.'s account of that infamous trump tower meeting is now public. yes, he wanted dirt on hillary clinton. no, he didn't tell his father, and maybe the president was involved in a damage control phone call from air force one. >>> north korea shifts to defiance, canceling talks with south korea and warning it might back out of the planned trump-kim summit. >>> and the embattled epa administrator on the hotseat on capitol hill. scott pruitt says it's not worth all the fuss. >> i share your concerns about some of these decisions. i want to recollect ftify those forward. but some of the criticism is unfounded and i think exaggerated and it feeds this division we've seen around very important issues affecting the environment. >> back to that a bit later. we begin with new documents and questions about that june 201 trump tower meeting with russians. transcripts released include testimony from the president's son, donald trump, jr. he arranged that meeting and concedes yes, he took it because he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. trump, jr. said he's ce

the times said donald trump jr. sponded approveingly according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. the times adds, quote, after mr. trump was elected. mr. nader paid mr. zamel a large sum of money, described by one associate up to $2 million. donald trump jr.'s attorney released this statement. prior to 2016 election, donald trump jr. recalls a meeting with erik prince, george nay der, they pitched him on a social media platform, he was not interested in. erik prince's roll in arranging the meeting contradicts his testimony to the house committee in a way that sure looks like perjury. togeth according to the transcript he had this exchange. aside from writing these papers donating, supporting in a -- mr. prince, yard sign in myrd -- my yard. mr. rooney, so there was no other formal communications or contact with the pain? mr. prince correct. joining us now the co-author of the new book how to rig an election to be published tomorrow. and david frum is back with us. brian your reading of this. >> it speaks to t

donald trump, jr. says he didn't tell his father before meeting with russians who claims to have damaging information about hillary clinton. that's according to an interview the president's son had with the senate judiciary committee. the panel released the transcript today. trump junior said he was skeptical of the value of the meeting and his skepticism was justified. european union council president donald tusk is criticizing the policies of president trump. he spoke today ahead of a summit in bulgaria. >> we have seen today a new phenomenon. the capriciousness of the american administration. looking at the latest decisions of president trump someone could with friends like that, who needs enemies? leaving euusk is member states to take a united stance against outstanding issues with the trump administration including the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal and the threat of punitive trade sanctions on the 28 nation bloc. talks aimed at forming a populist government are said to be ramping up.

and that donald trump jr. went into this meeting with every expectation he was going to get incriminating information on hillary clinton. at one point as the meeting was rambling along with the russian layer and other russians trump cut in and said what have you got on hillary, according to one of the participants? witnesses said he was deeply frustrated when it became clear that in fact the russians didn't have anything that he considered particularly damaging to hillary clinton. the other major takeaway of course is that donald trump jr.'s story is that he never consulted his father when he was setting up this meeting and never informed his father after the fact. that's something a lot of democrats have a hard time believing of the but that's his story and he is locked in now. >> trump jr. told the committee he didn't recall telling his father about the russia meeting then there is this from page 60. to the best of your knowledge did the president provide any edits to the statement or any other input. he may

today, trump jr. said the public can now see that oh four over five hours i answered every question asked and was candid and forthright with the committee. democratic lawmakers, not so sure of. >> i have no confidence that he has told the whole truth. >> reporter: and so the top republican on the judiciary committee made during trump jr. back to testify again. >> i will take it under advisement. >> this morning obama morning obama officials briefed a bipartisan group of senators how they came to the conclusion that russians meddled to help trump in in and i see a which reportedly relied on the unverified dirty dossier. and in a break with house republicans, republican chairman richard burris says quote we see no reason to dispute the conclusions. "today's talks focus less on trump campaign collusion and more on russians using facebook and twitter to interfere. >> we never had social media to this extent in any other election before. >> former cia director john brennan and security advisor james clappe

"new york times" reports donald trump jr. volved in a 2016 meeting with an em sere for two arab princes who offered to help the then candidate trump win the election. >>> students return to the high school in the aftermath of the shooting. we'll hear from survivors as the debate intensifies. >>> say hello to the new duke and duchess of sussex. we will have the sights and sounds from today's royal wedding. >>> but we begin with new reporting today that it was not just the russians who were trying to influence the

a new report revealed donald trump jr. had a secret meeting with two arab princes and an israeli social media expert offered to help his father. >>> and cramming for the summit. north korean study up on president trump, reading his art of the deal as well as a book about him before his meeting with kim jong-un. but the president may be getting cold feet about the summit. is he worried it could turn into an embarrassing failure? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room". >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. president trump meeting with the fbi director and top intelligence officials after demanding in a tweet that the justice department look into his claims that the fbi planted a spy in his 2016 campaign. that demand threatens the spiral potentially into a constitutional crisis. even as the president appeals to supporters to back him in a petition. our correspondents are standing by with full coverage, but right to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the president is taking on his

donald trump jr.'s reaction and much like it was with the now-infamous trump tower meeting, was not to call the fbi, not to tell the business executive to get lost. his reaction, katy, was to bring this operative in closer. now we should be clear, we don't know for sure what happened next. donald trump jr.'s attorney tells me that the israeli social media specialist who flynn did this multi-million dollar plan to manipulate essential voters, that trump jr. wasn't interested in it. but as you mentioned earlier in the open of the show, we do know that cambridge analytica harvested private data from millions of facebook users with a specific intention of helping the trump campaign. >> again, the president will be meeting christopher wray and rod rosenstein. we are following the story where he could potentially be talking to them about opening an investigation in to the fbi. we're following that. we're going to get into it right after the commercial break. but i really do want to keep drilling down on this

but donald trump jr.'s lawyer has said that nothing came out of this and he did not accept anything. it's kind of similar to what we heard from the russia meeting with the lawyer natalia veselnitskaya, that nothing came of that meeting, she had nothing. is that the legal line here, that nothing came of it? they didn't use anything, so it's okay? >> the trump campaign showed a willingness and eagerness to receive it. where we should have explored further his communications we could have subpoenaed those logs, his travel logs we know he went to paris weeks before election day. we don't know who he met with. same thing with michael cohen. i don't understand why the president's son and his lawyer are over in europe just weeks before election day and we could have subpoenaed their travel records, their hotel logs, their flight manifests to figure out who they were meeting with, why they were abroad right before the election. bob mueller, i hope he and his team will find this if we allow them to do it. >> talkin

and if i could have will put up the statement offered by donald trump jr.'s lawyer. he says that his client recalls a meeting at trump tower and that he was pitched on a social media strategy but that he was not interested and that was the end of it. okay. so right now let's bring in democratic senator ben cardin of maryland, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, welcome on this sunday. i want to get your wraeks react this new report. what does it add up to if anything in your mind? >> good to be with you. it really cries out for why the mueller investigation needs to be able to be -- get to its conclusions and not interfered with by anyone. this is certainly very important information to understand whether there were contacts with foreign governments to try to influence our campaign. we now have more information about contacts. it is very relevant and that is why i found the president's tweet this morning particularly again saying stop the witch hunt to be just wrong and outrageous. >> can you put the report about this previously unreported meeting, p

can so that we are not talking about, for example, the revelations over the weekend that donald trump jr. has another meeting in trump tower where he -- >> we'll talk about that next block. i promise. >> conspired with folks from the middle east, because this is, of course, what donald trump wants to do. focus on what the bad guys are doing and how unfair i am being treated nap is red meat. >> charl sykes, mimi and e.j., thanks to you all for being here. from now on when you talk about a controversial trump tower meeting from 2016, you may need to get more specific. those reports, just heard charlie reference them. a second meeting involving donald trump jr. and a foreign interest promising to help defeat hillary clinton. >>> plus a state-wide moment of silence in texas after a gunman killed ten people inside a school. even if there's a call to replace moments of silence with moments of action -- >>> plus, lava spewing from a hawaii volcano. look what's happening right now. these pictures are unbelievable. we'll talk about them. the new dangers all of this poses add that lava reaches the

investigators also noting that trump jr. blocked phone number while there were calls placed that were planning the meeting. now, some democrats on the committee speculated that number could have been donald trump. but let's be clear. nothing in the new disclosures today adds evidence to that theory. they asked trump jr. if his dad used a blocked number, and he said, i don't know. skeptics note, a reasonable person would know when their dad called and you look at your phone, whether it says "dad" or blocked number. but even an evasive answer, to be fair and clear, doesn't mean that donald trump was the person on the other end of the line. trump junior also evasive when he said he doesn't remember anyone encouraging the russians to hack hillary clinton's e-mails. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> the big issue, though, is not trump junior, it's the candidate himself, as you saw there. and as we also saw when three hours after donald trump jr. did confirm the trum

donald trump jr. and other campaign aides reportedly met with an israeli specialist in social media manipulation as well as an adversary who represented saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for the first time in august of 2016. that adversary has been cooperating with the investigation. thank you for being with us on this sunday morning. liz, how significant when you look at the report from the new york times on the up trump tower meetings are? >> for me there are two big takeaways. "the new york times" reports that robert mueller was interviewing people in this meeting in recent weeks. so we know that president trump is very impatient for this investigation to wind down. you heard one of his press secretaries complaining about all the hours they have spent, all the documents they have turned over. and this report really confirms something that i think a lot of people have suspected, which is mr. mueller's in the very intense phase of this investigation. this is not an investigation winding down.

trump jr.'s meeting with a russian attorney at the trump tower. remember that? one thing they show, it appears that trump jr. was skeptical about the meeting in the first place. ellison barber with more. ellison? >> hi, neil. trump jr. told the senate judiciary committee that he did not tell his father about the e-mails setting up the june 2016 meeting. he doesn't know when and if the president learned of the e-mail. when it comes to president trump's involvement about the meeting, trump jr. seemed to suggest he was involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. in the initial july statement, trump jr. told "the new york times" the meeting with lawyer veselnitskaya was about russian adoptions. he didn't mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting at a british publicist named rob goldstone said that the person might have information to help hillary clinton's campaign. the "washington post" said the president dictated the statement on air force one. the committee asked

it is no surprise that much of donald trump jr.'s testimony absolves his father. the president -- the president, that is. when trump's eldest son is asked if if he told his dad about the meeting, he responds, no, i wouldn't have wasted his time with it. he denies the trump organization has business interests in russia, insists none of his father's policy decisions on russia would be suede by business deals. and says he doesn't know if his father was the one who drafted that july 8th statement aboard air force one. when asked, to the best of your knowledge, did the president provide any ed ditz to the statement or other input? donald trump jr. responds -- he may have commented through hope hicks. in a statement issued this morning, donald trump jr. seemed pleased with the release saying the public can now see that for over five hours i answered every question asked and was candid and forthright with the committee. the fallout on capitol hill regarding the document dump is split along party lines. to republicans the testimony is consistent with what we've heard, but

the meetings took place between donald trump jr., agilof and the other intermediary. president trump said, now that we are the actual nominee for the republicans, i'm going to give a very important speech next monday on how and why hillary clinton is a horrible candidate to be president. on the 9th, that meeting takes place, and there was no dirt coming from it, so that speech never took place. so i'm convinced that trump jr. went to his father immediately by phone or in person going up one flight of stairs to talk to him about what they were going to get. >> we do know from corwin lewandowski, the former trump campaign manager, that the phone that donald trump's personal residence over there at trump tower was a blocked phone number. once again, we don't know who donald trump jr. was calling, but we do know it was a blocked number. do you believe the special prosecutor, robert mueller, knows who don jr. called? >> i believe he does, virtually because he has access to any information he wants to get in terms of due diligence and the investigation. >> i want to ask you

whirlwind wednesday starting with the breaking news, secret congressional testimony from donald trump jrp tower meeting with the russians, what he said or did not say to his dad about it, and what democrats say it all means and how it fits into the special counsel investigation ahead of the one-year mark for robert mueller. chuck grassley just speak, we'll bring that to you in a second. also right now on the hill, a cambridge collapse. that data firm in the spotlight with reports this morning the fbi and doj are investigating the now defunct company. >>> we're also talking about what could be a

the meeting with donald trump jr. for two arab princes and an israeli social media specialist, happening just three months before the election. "the new york times" talked to several people with knowledge of this meeting and reports that a social media expert at this meeting talked about how his company could help a political campaign gain an advantage. the "times" also reports this company by then had put together a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect mr. trump. joining us now, david fitzpatrick. he is the international correspondent for the "new york times" and part of the team that broke the story for the "times." david, take us inside this 2016 meeting at trump tower. who was there, and what exactly were they offering? >> so the person who convened the meeting was eric prince, who people might know of because he was the founder of black watter, the controversial security company that was active in iraq. he appears to have set up the meeting as a campaign meeting, as a

new insight on everything from donald trump jr.'s trump tower meeting to the hush money paid by the president. but we begin with whether robert mueller can actually indict a sitting president. we go to cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. what did rudy giuliani tell you? >> he told me that mueller's team informed trump's team orally, not in a written form, that they have concluded that the justice department can't indict a sitting president. now, this is a conclusion based on existing justice department guidelines, guidelines that have been in place since the nixon years. at that time the office of legal counselin side the justice department concluded that because the president has a lot on his plate that it is not something that should happen. and that the clinton administration years later reaffirmed those goodliuideline. having said that, it's never been challenged in court, ever. it was not a given whether mueller would follow the guidelines and a big question if he would challenge them to potentially indict the presiden

donald trump jr. and trump campaign members were to get dirt on hillary clinton. but the transcripts also show how frustrated they became when that did not pan out. just take this excerpt from rob goldstone, who is the middleman who connected the trump camp with the russians. goldstone said i was waiting if there was some smoking gun, which was why i had been asked to do this, after a few minutes of this labored presentation, jared kushner who is sitting next me appeared somewhat agitated by this and said i have no idea what you're talking about, could you please folk as you bit more and maybe start again. i recall that she, meaning the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, began the presentation exactly where she had last time, almost word for word, which seemed by his body language to infuriate him even more. donald jr. told senate investigators he did not tell his father about the meeting. listen to this exchange donald jr. had about his july 8th stating saying the meeting was about russian adopti