on october 3rd wikileaks and trump jr. had an exchange about a wikileaks story and about hillary clinton. on october 12th wikileaks reached out again to thank the trumps for praising them and to pass along a link to stolen documents. a source tells cnn congress has had the documents for a while. trump junior was briefly asked about them during a closed door interview that he did with the senate judiciary committee back in september. you know who else is going to find those documents really interesting? the special counsel, robert mueller, and his team. so let's get right now to cnn's senior political analyst mark preston. justice correspondent pamela brown. and julia ioffe, who broke this wikileaks story for "the atlantic." good evening to all of you. julia, this is the big scoop for you. huge scoop. let's get a closer look at these exchanges. okay? so this starts on september 20th, 2016. wikileaks private messages donald trump, jr. saying a pac-run anti-trump site, putintrump.org is about to launch. the pac is a recycle pr

that's when wikileaks contacted donald trump jr. via direct message on twitter alerting him to an anti-trump website. now, donald trump jr. did respond saying he'd ask about the source and then he e-mailed top campaign officials, including steve bannon and jared kushner. now, the atlantic report does note that the correspondence here was mostly one-sided. trump junior did frequently ignore these messages. however, donald trump jr. did show particular interest on october 3rd, 2016 when he actually wrote to wikileaks asking about what was behind word of an impending wikileaks release that other people were tweeting about including roger stone. now, this correspondence was just days before wikileaks began publishing hillary clinton campaign chair's hacked e-mails and that same day of the release by wikileaks the american intelligence community released a statement saying the publishing of the hacked e-mails was consistent with russian efforts, tying it to the russian government. so donald trump jr.'s lawyer, though, he's down playing th

and then donald trump jr. responds the next morning about 12 hours later saying offer the record i don't know who thrks but i'll ask around. thanks. julie, wikileaks was actively looking for help and cooperation from the trump campaign, right? >> uh-huh. and the trump campaign was looking for help wherever it could get it. i mean, you had then candidate trump saying publicly, hey, russia, if you're listening, go and find those 33,000 deleted e-mails. i should point out, though, is when donald trump jr. says i'll ask around, he does ask around, and that same day he e-mails several of the most senior people on the trump campaign, steve bannon, brad par skel who is in charge of digital for the trump campaign, jared kushner, who then forwarded it on to hope hicks. kellyanne conway, who is running the campaign. and it's not the first time -- it's not the only time that donald trump jr. followed through on a request that wikileaks made in these messages and this release that donald trump jr. made where he's tweeting

trump jr. and that's still on our to do list. and and if this story proves to be true, this story we need to cover. >> trump sent out the link. they said, next time you're tweeting out, why don't you tweet this link to this database, and he actually did that. is that collusion? >> that's what special prosecutor mueller in terms of whether criminal behavior was there, he'll have to make those dirnl nations, what we again see, our goal was counter intelligence. and what it continues to disturb me was obvious efforts from russians and russian agents of which i believe julian assange and wikileaks was involved with the russians. >> well, you're in line with the current cia director to believe that. >> mr. trump's appointee agrees with that strongly. we continue to see this pattern of them reaching out to trump officials, and we see communications back from trump officials. i think there's more to come, but that's what this investigation and what the special prosecutors criminal investigations are all about. >> i want to read you anoth

donald trump jr. and the wikileaks, which by the way, is characterized by the cia director, president trump's own kraib director as a hostile intelligence service abet by the russians. so here was donald trump, jr. actively engaged with a known russian agent. i want him to be subpoenaed to testify in public about all his communications. i want there to be sums of all the relevant documents because there's no assurance, none whatsoever that we're seeing all of those documents without that kind of subpoena. >> do you believe it's possible then candidate donald trump sr. did not know his son was communicating with wikileaks? i mean, october 12th, the same day wikileaks asked trump junior to tweet about its release, trump senior tweeted that wikileaks wasn't getting enough attention. >> one of the striking contents is the casual air and tone of them. and also the fact that donald trump jr. was in fact communicating up the chain of the trump campaign organization, including very likely to his father, the ca

but donald trump jr.'s exposure on this is not a helpful thing if you are the president. >> i'm sure the president prefers -- thinks all of this is not helpful. every step, every piece of news on this i think he thinks is unhelpful. in the end what we have learned about this president is the public is going to make their judgment after a long period of time, after they get all this information. bob mueller is trusted. once his report comes out that's when they will decide. they are not going to weigh it on the leaks from the house committees. >> it's clear that partisans have already made their adjustments. they already now how they feel about this. it doesn't matter what bob mueller says. democrats aren't going to say you know, bob mutualer is making a good point. >> there is a large s.w.a.t. in the middle. there is large -- i think we sometimes are too dismissive. >> of the people in the middle? >> yeah. >> 60% of people think this is a serious issue. >> that's what i mean. >> it's not 50/50, it's # 0/40

donald trump jr. and the wikileaks, which by the way, is characterized by the cia director, president trump's own ci director as a hostile intelligent service abetted by the russians. so, he was donald trump jr. actively engaged with a known russia agent. i want him to be subpoenaed to testify in public about all his communications. i want there to be subpoenas of all the relevant documents because there's no assurance that we're seeing all of those documents without that kind of subpoena. >> do you believe it's possible, then candidate, donald trump seni sr., did not know his son was communicating with wikileaks? >> one of the striking assets of these communications is the tone of them. and also, the fact that donald trump jr. was in fact communicating up the chain of the trump campaign organization, including likely to his father campaign. there is so much circumstances evidence that this now president was knowledgeable about the conversation. >> the week that don jr. was asked to post the link from

the issue is did donald trump jr. or anybody else solicit wikileaks, which is not an american company, to give in kind contributions to the trump campaign. they essentially gave opposition research to the trump campaign. is that a campaign contribution? it's a legal question that i don't think has a clear answer at this point, but it is certainly something that the mueller team is going to be wanting -- will be investigating, whether there was a violation of the campaign finance laws in the relationship between the trump campaign and wikileaks. >> let's point out to jeffrey's argument here, one of the most concerning exchanges and what happened afterwards. so here is -- this is october 12th. this is wikileaks' direct message to don jr. great to see you talking about our publications. strongly suggests he mentions this link if he mentions us. by the way, we just released podesta e-mails. 15 minutes later, 15 minutes later, you see the time circled there, and the president, then candidate tweets, very little pickup by th

. >>> well, donald trump jr.'s secret communication with wikileaks about material stolen from the democratic party became public today. a new stress test for the trump administration and the trump campaign in facing the special prosecutor's investigation. and that happened on the same day that roy moore faced another stress test when he heard from the fifth accuser, the fifth woman, number five, to come forward to say roy moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old. and she came forward today because, she said, of the courage shown by the first four women who accused roy moore. >> i think he should step aside. >> this afternoon, another woman came forward with allegations that roy moore sexually assaulted her when she was a nigh mor. >> this is absolutely false. i never did what she said i did. >> nobody can say that we believe his denial more than we believe the women. >> i believe the women, yes. >> it's why i believe that it was appropriate for me to withdraw my indoersment. >> i just think there's n

donald trump jr. released a string of is these during the presidential campaign. this follows a report about these exchanges. though most of the communications were one sided, trump junior did interact on a number of occasions. wikileaks told him, quote, a the r.a.c. is a recycled pro-iraq war pac. we have guessed the password, it is putintrump. done responded, off the record, i don't know who that is boo but i'll ask around, according to te atlantic he did ask around, including trump's son-in-law jared kushner, telling them wikileaks had reached out. we don't know in what context he was saying that, but kushner forwarded that e-mail onto hope hicks. in a separate exchange, done junior reached out october 23rd asking wikileaks about an impending release writing what's behind the wednesday leak i keep reading about? wikileaks didn't respond, but just four days later it released john podesta's e-mails on the same day as you'll recall the u.s. intelligence community condemned russia for using wikileaks t

so trump jr. definitely has some defenses to these allegations. >> and as we continue to have this discussion, we continue to monitor that hearing that is underway in the house judiciary committee. the opening remarks continue. that is ranking member john conners. this was previously scheduled, nothing significant about it on its face, however, we are expecting some fireworks given some of the latest revelations about the russia probe and also given everything that we're talking about, the attorney general looking into the possibility of starting a second special counsel. while we wait for this hearing to get underway and to hear from the attorney general, i want to play now a sound bite from senator warner on don jr. donald trump jr. and potentially calling him into testify. take a listen. >> i want to bring donald trump jr. in. he has not testify in a public way. >> in a public way? >> we want to get a chance to have folks hear his side of the story. >> julie, we may hear from donald trump jr. h

last night trump jr. released the exchanges that gen on september 20th, 2016, 49 days before polls closed the wikileaks account warned about a new anti-trump website and gave trump jr. the password that wikileaks says it guessed. they wrote back 12 hours later, off the record, i don't know who that is, but i'll ask around. an anonymous source familiar with russian interference told the "atlantic" on the same day, trump jr. did ask around, e-mailing other senior campaign official, including the bannon, kellyanne conway, digital media director and jared kushner, kushner reportedly forwarded the e-mail. >> they're saying, thank you for that. >> oh my god, on october 3rd, wikileaks asked trump jr. to push a story that hillary clinton wanted to drone asaj san him. it's amazing what you can get away, what's behind this wednesday look i keep hearing about? and that same week, roger stone tweeted, wednesday, hillary clinton is done, wikileaks did not respond four days later posted a trove of john pod effoestas e-m

we now know from this great reporting that wikileaks then corresponded with donald trump jr., trying te the wikileaks disclosures. and in one case donald trump sr.himself, 15 minutes after wikileaks communicates with the son, donald trump himself from his account tweets out a notice to, hey, everyone, pay attention to the latest disclosures in wikileaks. so we have, you know -- this is -- we use the "c" word all the time, collusion. this is some pretty serious evidence of a back and forth between the russian cutout that was pumping this information into the american bloodstream and the trump campaign. >> yeah, in the article, we are reminded of a rally on october 10th before the election. donald trump proclaimed, quote, i love wikileaks. >> right. and let's remember, during the democratic national convention, i remember i was sitting in a coffee shop waiting for the democratic national convention to start. donald trump held that very famous press conference where he urged russia, he said he was joking later, but he urged russia, please find hillary clinton's e-mails. the "c" word we k

trump jr. as kristen welker says, it involves him secretly corresponding with wikileaks in the months after the elect months of correspondence during the campaign between the president's eldest son and wikileaks, the hacker wit u.s. intelligence community was used by the russian government to disseminate information. the direct twitter messages were turned over to congressional -- to lawyers. trump jr. largely ignored the frequent messages from wikileaks, but in one instance wikileaks direct messaged trump jr. writing strongly suggest your dad tweet this link if he mentions up. trump jr. didn't respond immediately but his father tweeted 15 minutes later. very little hiccup by the dishonest media of incredible information by wikileaks. two days later on october 14, 2016, trump jr. tweeted out the link wikileaks sent him on election day, wikileaks wrote to don jr. hi if your father loses, it's more interesting if he does not concede and spends time challenging the media and other rigging that occ

newly revealed communications between donald trump, jr. wikileaks during last year's presidential campaign. let's discuss now with michael weiss and shawn turner, john dean, and michael antonio, author of "the truth about trump." good evening, gentlemen, good to have you on. mike, i'm going to start with you. can you connect the dots here on donald trump, jr., wikileaks story? how do these communications add up to you? >> it's an influence first and foremost. >> it's michael weiss. >> wikileaks has been described by cia director mike pompeo as a hostile service which often does the bidding of the services of the kremlin. i would go a step further and say it has been at least in the last five or six years an unwitting, intelligence services. and we see this not just the election, but all across the board, from catalan independence, julian assange and wikileaks is out there, pounding this line. for them to reach out to the son of the gop -- by the way, i have to stress, the wikileaks twitter account has been widely assumed to be monitored by

it makes me think if donald trump jr. information, he told him right away, which makes me think that donald trump sr., the president, mate might be in trouble for denying -- maybe not legally in trouble, but denied he knew anything about this meeting. didn't he until him about a meeting he had with russians? >> one could argue that's what happened. look, i think what we've learned today, something that we've already already knew, lots of people in the trump orbit have been karlts with the truth for lack of a better term and that could result in some legal action. so this is just shocking to me because i didn't think it was confusing that twitter is not a secure channel of which to share information. so i think the trump administration could be in deep stuff, but republicans on the hill have to now come to a point where they're going to have to hold this white house accountable and hold lots of folks in donald trump's orbit accountable. i just haven't seen that that has necessarily happened. >> republicans have hat these em

trump jr. and wikileaks during the presidential campaign. julia yafey broke the story and joins me exclusively in just two minutes. hi, i'm the internet! you know what's difficult? armless bowling. you got this, jimmy! you know what's easy? building your website with godaddy. pick a domain name. choose a design. you can build a website in under an hour. now that's a strike! get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. build a better website in under an hour. i love you. that adjusts on both sides semi-to your ideal comfort,y bed your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? right now our queen c4 mattress is only $1499. plus 36 month financing. ends monday. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. >>> breaking news tonight. another incredible report about trump campaign communications. and once again donald trump jr. is at the center of it all. the atlantic's julia ioffe reports for the first time tonight that trump jr. and the wikileaks twitter account secretly traded direct

two days later donald trump jr. tweets out the search function link sent to him by wikileaks in the same long message. >> either way it's a crazy coincidence that they tweet right after requests from wikileaks to tweet or what can you conclude from this? >> he's acting on the question of an organization, on october 7th, a week before that, the office of the director of national intelligence put out an unprecedented statement saying the hacks of the dnc, and the democratic national committee were orchestrated by the russians and by the top of the kremlin, the russian government, so at that point it's not a secret where these documents came from, and the trump family did not seem to have a problem with that as long as they were rowing in the same direction. >> one more thing i think is so important to point out from your reporting and from what has been disclosed today, and that's wikileaks bills itself as a radical transparency organization, and just are interested in transparency and don't like state secrets, howeve

leaks on his twitter feed now the timing here is important on october twelfth wiki leaks message to trump jr suggesting that his father tweet a link to wiki leaks information about hillary clinton just fifteen minutes later donald trump tweeted what we had suggested to trump jr our we go to washington now our correspondent karl even two more years on this story for us good evening to you carlina's of donald trump jr is apparently now suspect number one in this investigation. hello grant well we know very little about them our investigation and as we also don't know who is suspect number one however the findings are very significant this shows a clear cordie nation between terms campaign last year two thousand and sixteen and we can leagues and the question is did a trump junior already know that we could leaks was offering him what he what they were offering him and that this was originally obtained by russia and that he also know that we could weeks had this ties to the russian government so there are still lots of questions to be answered and if he did know about this ties this would be a

. >> now donald trump jr. confirming he had -- trump jr. tweeted out the exchanges shortly after the atlantic first reported them. he wrote quote here is the entire chain of messages with my whopping three responses. >> the timing is notable. trump jr. responded to two of them. in one it urges him to push a story about hillary clinton. trump june your replied he already has and inquired about an upcoming leak. a week later john podesta's e-mails. >> just days after that president trump tweets urging his followers to read about clinton's disgraceful behavior as exposed by wikileakwikileaks >> more now from cnn's jessica snider in washington. >> christine and alex, messages turned over to congress show wikileaks actively solicited donald jr. two months before the election. that's accord tology -- contacted donald trump jr. via direct message on twitter alerting him to an anti-trump website. donald trump jr. did respond saying he'd ask around about the source of that website and then he e-mailed top campaign officials including steve bannon an

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donald trump jr., the president's oldest son released a series of twitter messages during and after the election. the exchanges took place at the same time wiki leaks was releasing messages. >> good morning. the messages mainly consisted of wiki leaks offerg to trump jr. also praising donald trump's comments about the website mplts. >> in a series of screen shots donald trump jr. released hiss conversations with wiki during the campaign writing in part how ironic that one of the congressional has chosen to selectively leak the messages. trump jr.'s release came just two hours after the claek published his messages. in one instance they suggested that if mr. trump were to lose he should not concede and instead claim the election was rigged. cbs news has confirmed that investigators are in possession of the messages and that leaks published them. >> in order to seek to influence our election. >> during the election candidate donald trump frequently praised the website for releasing damaging e-mails and

newly revealed communications between donald trump, jr. leaks during last year's presidential campaign. lest discuss now with michael weiss and shawn turner, john dean, and michael antonio, author of "the truth about trump." good to have you on. mike, i'm going to start with you. can you connect the dots here on donald trump, jr., wikileaks story? how do these add up to you? >> wikileaks has been described by cia director mike pompeo as a hostile service which often does the bidding of the services of the kremlin. i would go a step further and say it has been at least in the last five or six years an unwitting -- across the board from catalan independence, julian assange and wikileaks is out there. for them to reach out to the son -- by the way i have to stress the wikileaks twitter account has been widely assumed, and there's been some reports to confirm it, to be manned by julian assange himself. >> so you believe this is julian assange? >> correct. and if more proof were needed the suggestion that a man was held up in the u.s. embassy fo

if anything, donald trump jr.e white house and you know members of the campaign in a tough spot just because he has not been forthcoming about everything that happened there do you think we'll see donald trump jr. and jared kushner at a hearing answering questions in public? >> i would be surprised they were not called to do that. >> thank you so much. >>> the senate questioning the president's power for nuclear weapons. >>> and that's at 1:00 today t. author of a new book explains why he is questioning whether moscow has blackmailed donald trump. . >>> for the first time in 40 years, a senate committee is discussing the president's authority to launch a nuclear strike. tuesday's phone relations committee was led by senator bob corker and outspoken critic of president trump. >> is this hearing -- >> not in anyway. no. we've gone through a series of hearings. >> we are concerned that the president of the united states is so unstab, so volatile, as a decision-making process that is so quicksotic he might o

trump jr. was secretly corresponding with wikileaks throughout the 2016 presidential election. according to the report, "the messages, obtained by "the atlantic" were also turned over by trump jr.'s lawyers to congressional investigators. they are part of a long and largely one-sided correspondence between wikileaks and the president's son that continued until at least july 2017. though trump jr. mostly ignored the frequent messages from wikileaks he at times appears to have acted on its requests." and to be clear, on recent history, u.s. intelligence officials say russian hackers sent dnc documents to wikileaks, which then posted them online. in one instance, wikileaks sent don jr. a link to help him spread the contents of those stolen e-mails. trump jr. did not respond, but then 15 minutes later, candidate donald trump posted this on twitter. "very little pickup by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by wikileaks. so dishonest. rigged system." donald trump jr. has now confi

trump jr. responded to two of them. to push a story about hillary clinton. trump junior replied he already has and inquires about an yum coming leek. da day. >> days after that president trump tweets, urging his tole lowers to read about clinton's disgraceful behavior. a source says trump jr. was asked about them. >> joining us now josh r -- what do you think is the motive here behind the attorney general asking his prosecutors to look into whether a special prosecutor is needed on the hillary clinton matter? >> well, we've seen several examples over the past few months of attorney general jeff sessions responding to public comments about president trump about what he should and should not be done. this seems to be the latest example that. the president says i shouldn't be interfering but if i was here's what i would want them to do. that's interference. that's a public call for the attorney general to do something, to investigate his political rival, and pursue a prosecution of his political op pone naptss. or the inte

trump jr. and wikileaks during the presidential campaign. julia yafey broke the story and joins me exclusively in just two minutes. >>> breaking news tonight. another incredible report about trump campaign communications. and once again donald trump jr. is at the center of it all. the atlantic's julia ioffe reports for the first time tonight that trump jr. and the wikileaks twitter account secretly traded direct messages during the election. the messages including wikileaks sending trump jr. the password for a new anti-trump website, trying to get donald trump's tax returns. not because the returns would be newsworthy, but because, listen to this, this is wikileaks talking. if we publish them, it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality, wikileaks explained that means the vast amount of stuff that we're publishing on clinton will have much higher impact because it won't be perceived as coming from a pro-trump, pro-russia source. hi, don, if your father lose, we think it is mu

donald trump jr. and paul manafort and donald trump jr. are not noebs.be nobody in the meetings did anything wrong, but it's fascinating to listen to america's top spy and the nsa. listen to him describe how even if nothing comes of this in the criminal investigation, russia already won. >> we teach our case officers a step by step process. spot, assess, develop, recruit. now we have two instances. one with papadopoulos and the other in the summer of trump tower. the russian service already got through steps one and two. they were spotting and assessing. keep people in the trump campaign. that should make every american service. >> the point he was trying to make is russia already won and you have to be naive to take the meetings and he thinks it's a fair avenue to explore. >> woor to see how they are responding and about the news of social media and the relationships between russian officials and the the people in the trump circle. they are one news cycle from declaring these were all volunteers. saying they don't matter. the documentation that bob muel

no response from donald trump jr. to that. the trump administration has consistently denied any coordination with wikileaks. >> i think all of us have, you know, have had concerns about wikileaks over the years. and it's just a -- it's just a reality of america. >> right. >> life today, and of life in the wider world. >> reporter: donald trump jr.'s lawyer released a statement to "the atlantic" which says in part, "we can say with confidence that we have no concerns about these documents." trump junior is already under scrutiny for meeting with a kremlin-linked attorney during the campaign. this latest revelation raises more questions about the level of communication between the trump campaign and agents of russia. lester? >> kristen welker at the white house, thanks. >>> now, the new twist in the killing of an american green beret in mali. for the first time, we're learning what two navy s.e.a.l.s under investigation in this case initially told investigators. this, as another new report claims the victim was killed after he di

there's word tonight that donald trump, jr., corresponded with wikileaks during and after the 2016 presidentialampaign. jeff pegues is following this breaking tori. >> wikileaks. i love wikileaks! >> reporter: during the election, candidate trump frequently praised the controversial web site wikileaks for releasing hacked e-mails and damaging information about hillary clinton and her campaign. now a new report confirmed by cbs news says the president's son, donald trump, jr., was in direct communication with wikileaks from september 2016 until july of this year. one source says the web site initiated the contact through private messages on twitter. in the first message, wikileaks asked trump, jr., about a new anti-trump organization. trump, jr., responded: i don't know who that is, but i'll ask around. in another instance, wikileaks suggested to trump, jr., that his father push for web site founder julian assange to become the australian ambassador to the united states. and on election day itself, the web site wrote that if mr. trump were to lose, he should not concede and instead claim the ele

trump jr. and a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. does he have incriminating information? >>> double standard? the white house faces questions of presidential hypocrisy as president trump lashes out at senator al franken's sex harassment scandal but stays silent on roy moore. what is the trump team saying about the women who accused the president himself? >>> down is up. as congressional republicans move forward with their plans to overhaul the tax system, a new study shows one bill would increase taxes for many americans in the long term in stead of reducing them. who would really benefit from gop tax reform? >>> and pause button. a sudden and surprising lull in north crease's missile tests and launches. is kim jong-un succumbing to pressure from china, or is he planning something sinister? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. the white house facing a flurry of questions about president trump's attacks on dem

the messages mainly consisted of wiki leaks offering advice to trump jr. also praising donald trump's comments about the website. >> in a series of screen shots donald trump jr. released hiss conversations with wiki leaks during the campaign writing in part how ironic that one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak the messages. in one of the messages from october 2016 don jr. was asked by the hacking site to publicize its leaks in the hillary campaign. in one instance they suggested that if mr. trump were to lose he should not concede and instead claim the election was rigged. cbs news has confirmed that investigators are in possession of the messages and that wiki leaks published them. >> the president's son would be in direct communication with the vehicle that was used by russia in order to seek to influence our election is a really striking development. requently praised tion candidate the website for releasing damaging e-mails and information about his opponent hillary clinton. in october of last year vice president mike pence

hours after the report, trump jr. released a series of direct messages he says hee trump jr.n played the messages. >>> we could learn a verdict in the gang-related murder of a 15-year-old girl in fairfax county. the jury started to deliberate yesterday. prosecutors say the 21-year-old stabbed the 15-year-old back in february. they say the murder was revenge for the part reyes had allegedly played in a previous gang killing. >>> the driver who was behind the wheel of a food truck is headed to court toward in loudoun county. he's accused of killing a local mother. that crash also injured her children and their grandmother. prosecutors say tony dane will now face charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving. >>> police want to find the person driving this nissan. pieces of the car were left behind after it crashed into an apartment building. >> this is on dodge park road in the kentland area of prince george's county. the damage was so bad that two families can't go back home surveillance video shows the car drive into a parking spot and then slam into a wall yesterd

trump jr. and wikileaks were in touch during the campaign and since his father's been president. while questions mount for the president after he, again, seems to give putin the benefit of the doubt. >>> also, another woman comes forward accusing alabama senate candidate roy moore of sexual misconduct when she was in high school. >>> and now the majority leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, says he believes the women in this case. "the 11th hour" as we start a new week gets under way right now. good evening once again from our nbc headquarters in new york. day 298 of the trump administration brings us a bombshell report connecting the trump campaign and the president's son directly to wikileaks. julia yaffi of "the atlantic," occasional guest on this broadcast, was first to report donald trump jr. was secretly corresponding with wikileaks throughout the 2016 presidential election. according to the report, "the messages, obtained by "the atlantic" were also turned over by trump jr.'s lawyers t

leaks on his twitter feed now the timing here is important on october twelfth wiki leaks message to trump jr suggesting that his father tweet a link to wiki leaks information about hillary clinton just fifteen minutes later donald trump tweeted what we hear leaks had suggested to trump jr our we go to washington now our correspondent karl even more us on this story for us good evening to you carlina's of donald trump jr is apparently now suspect number one in this investigation. hell brant well we know very little about them our investigation and as we also don't know who is suspect number one however the findings are very significant that this shows a year cordie nation between terms campaign last year two thousand sixteen and we can leagues at the question is did a trump jr already know that we could leaks was offering him what he what they were offering him and that this was originally obtained by russia and that he also know that we could weeks had this ties to the russian government so there are still lots of questions to be answered and if he did know about this ties this would be a pi

a bombshell report, donald trump jr. was exchanging secret messages with wikileaks during the 2016 campaign. what they reportedly said. >>> new charges in the hazing death rocking penn state. frat brothers accused of leaving a pledge to die. what police have just recovered on video that they say the frat brothers deleted. >>> and buddy cops on the beat. a veteran and his rookie partner, keeping the neighborhood safe. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, thank you for being here. the sordid sexual accusations against alabama republican senate candidate roy moore, which have already thrown that race into chaos, were bolstered late today by a new accuser. a woman who went before the cameras to blame moore forced himself on her when she was a teenager. now the fifth accuser to step forward in the face of moore's forceful denials. >> i tried to open my car door to leave, but he reached over, and he locked it so i could not get out. i tried fighting him off, while yelling at him to stop. but instea

, raising the question about the conspiracy theories that maybe these people tried to set donald trump, jrup to get some semblance of dirt on the trump campaign to try to make this false scandalous scurrilous accusation of colluding between the trump campaign and the kremlin. lou: to bring in the private sector more in this discussion of collusion. we also know despite all the protests and nonsense that emanated from the silicon valley, the only collusion that has been established is that between facebook and twit errant russians who have been snorting and superiority suggesting we couldn't have a president who had so conspired with the russians when it turns out it was -- they were the ones together conspiring and the colluding and all of the other nonsense. it's between quite a remarkable awakening for most of americans. charlie: only the innocent american taxpayer is the only people that the campaign finance laws apply to. they don't apply to facebook or the dnc, they don't comply with all those campaign finance rules. lou: i want to bring the audience up to date. 19% of the precincts i

legal representatives for trump jr say he has answered questions on the allegations in the quote appropriate forum unquote assigned has since criticized the atlantic's reporting for being selective and misleading he continues to troll trump the younger deer trump jr he said our offer of being ambassador to the us still stands the public will get a turbo charged flow of intel about the latest cia plots to undermine democracy direct message me. in venezuela a new law has been passed the media watchers called another step toward stifling dissent and increasing censorship of the media there both mainstream and social. on november eighth the constitutional assembly in caracas passed a statute that prohibits the dissemination of messages of hate or violence through broadcasts and social media the law proposes prison sentences of up to twenty years . the last passage follows a wave of anti-government protests earlier this year and gives the government the power to revoke licenses or block web pages of outlets it deems to have breached the new rules prime minister nicolas maduro his government says

but kushner did receive and forward an e-mail from donald trump jr. about contact trump junior had with wikileaks according to a new report this week and a letter from the senate judiciary committee. we do not know the content of what was in that e-mail. kushner's lawyer just released a letter saying in part this. as to the wikileaks document to which you refer, this has been miss arctic iced in the press. mr. kushner had no contacts with that organization and was along with others forwarded an e-mail from donald trump jr. that has been widely reported and disseminated. this is no new document concerning mr. kushner. there is no new document concerning mr. kushner. we'll have more on this in a moment for you here on this program. but first i want to turn to president trump. seemingly doing everything he can to avoid talking about roy moore and the sexual allegations against him. he wants us to believe al franken, harvey weinstein and bill clinton accusers, but not his own. more than a dozen women, as a matter of fact. and today he sent sarah huckabee s

their reporting tonight concerns donald trump jr. and yet more unreported contact between the trump campaign and people involved in the russian operation targeting our presidential election last year while that russian operation was under way. now, you may have heard about this scoop already tonight. there are two really important things about this scoop. one is that this is yet another contact, another set of communications that they lied about. this is yet another contact between the trump side of things and the russia side of things that they have apparently sought to keep secret all this time. and it's -- it shouldn't blow my mind, but it does. i honestly felt like i'm not sure what's going to happen next in this scandal in terms of who's going to be arrested next, who might be indicted next, who will turn out to be aware of something that they previously pled ignorance of. i was expecting twists and turns. i was not expecting that -- a new fbi raid or something. i was not expecting we would still be learning about more contacts b

the atlantic reports trump jr. then e-mailed a number of senior officials, letting them know that wikileaks had made contact. on october 2nd, president trump's friend announced that it was coming. trump didn't get an answer back but four days later the intelligence community announced it believes russia was behind the dnc hacks. shortly after, wikileaks began releasing hacked e-mails from hillary clinton's campaign manager jon podesta. these infamous remarks from then candidate trump. >> wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> reporter: wikileaks was back in trump junior's dms, strongly suggest your dad tweet this is link. if he mentions us, there are many great stories the press is missing. trump senior tweeted how wikileaks wasn't getting enough press coverage. that same day, mike pence denied that the trump campaign was coordinating with wikileaks. >> nothing could be further from the truth. >> reporter: a spokesman says pence wasn't aware. wikileaks made a request, a quote, unusual idea, asking trump junior to leak them

and mary, as we heard there, donald trump jr. didn't respond to all of wikileaks' messages, but "the atlantic" is reporting tonight he did respond to some of them. what are you learning on that front, and we're hearing from don jr.'s lawyer tonight? >> reporter: david, it does appear that, at times, this was a two-way conversation. don jr. just weeks before the election asked wikileaks what they planned to leak next. and tonight, don jr.'s lawyer says they've turned over all of these correspondence to congressional investigators and, quote, have no concerns about these documents. david? >> mary bruce leading us off tonight. mary, thank you. >>> we turn next to the developing new headline involving alabama senate candidate roy moore tonight. a fifth woman now stepping forward to accuse him of sexual assault when she was 16. moore tonight vowing to stay in the race. and this evening, the message she says was written by roy moore in her high school yearbook. abc's chief national correspondent tom llamas on capitol hill. >> reporter:

. >> and now focusing on a meeting between donald trump jr. and lawyers and other at that meeting. it was set up after trump junior was told that the lawyer had dirt on hillary clinton. >> we have a team of analysts standing by, we want begin with abby phillips outside of the white house. what are you hearing this morning. >> lawmakers from both parties raising questions as to whether jared kushner was not entirely responsive to their inquiries into e-mails and documents related to their investigation. but kushner's lawyer is saying that his client was responsive. that the e-mails they're asking for actually deal with other people's contacts with wikileaks and russia. the senators are actually looking for some documents. an e-mail that they now exists about russian back door meetings. this was a message that was sent to kushner. he was copied on it and kushner then later forwarded it to other people in the campaign. let me read you a little bit from kushner's lawyer statement in response to that request. he says in over six hours of voluntary testimony, mr. kushner answered all ques