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President Trump admits the real goal of the Trump Tower meeting was to do something that may be illegal – get foreign help with his campaign. Trump claims he did not know about the meeting, but former Trump Organization executive…

Rep. Adam Schiff says President Trump's tweet is evidence that explanations of the 2016 meeting have been incomplete at best and, at worst, untrue; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news…

President Trump tweeted that the infamous June 2016 meeting, which included Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, was designed to 'get information on an opponent.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering…

Critical testimony expected at the trial of President Trump's former campaign chair as Manafort's right-hand man set to take the stand as early as Monday; reaction and analysis from James Trusty, former Justice Department prosecutor. FOX News Channel (FNC) is…

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump on Sunday offered his most definitive and clear public acknowledgment that his oldest son met with a Kremlin-aligned lawyer at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign to "get information on an opponent," defending the meeting as "totally legal and done all the time in politics." It is, however, against the law for U.S. campaigns to receive donations or items of value from foreigners, and that June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya is now a subject of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. While "collusion" is not mentioned in U.S. criminal statutes, Mueller is investigating whether anyone associated with Trump coordinated with the Russians, which could result in criminal charges if they entered into a conspiracy to break the law, including through cyber-hacking or interfering with the election. "Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower," the president wrote in one of several early morning tweets Sunday, many of which took aim at the media. He concluded by further distancing himself from the meeting his son arranged, writing: "I did not know about it!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018 Trump was responding to a Washington Post report this weekend that although he does not think his eldest son intentionally broke the law, he is worried that Trump Jr. may have unintentionally stumbled into legal jeopardy and is embroiled in Mueller's investigation largely because of his connection to the president. The Trump Tower meeting also included Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his campaign chairman at the time, Paul Manafort, who is on trial over tax and bank fraud charges after being indicted by Mueller. In that statement, Trump Jr. had indicated that the meeting had been "primarily" about the issue of the adoption of Russian children by Americans. Amid public uproar over the meeting, the president's son was forced to release follow-up statements, ultimately acknowledging that the meeting's true purpose had been to get dirt about Hillary Clinton from a lawyer he had been told was working for the Russian government. The president's attorneys at first denied that Trump's involvement in drafting the response to the Times, but months later, in a letter intended to explain why Mueller should not interview Trump, they agreed that the president had, in fact, authored the statement.

Special Counsel Bob Mueller reportedly wants to interview the man who set up the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton – Russian pop star, Emin Agalarov. Watergate Prosecutor Nick…

At an Axios event in Washington, first daughter Ivanka Trump explains a low point in the White House.

Here's everything you need to know: The witnesses: The jury heard testimony from several witnesses, including political TV ad consultant Daniel Rabin, FBI agent Matthew Mikuska, clothing store manager Maximillian Katzman, general contractor Stephen Jacobson, financial officer Daniel Opsut, longtime Manafort neighbor Wayne Holland, builder Douglas Deluca and Ronald Wall, a financial executive at the House of Bijan. Paul Manafort used offshore accounts to finance a grandiose home renovation that included an outdoor kitchen and garden, according to testimony from a contractor who worked with Manafort years ago. Longtime friend and neighbor testifies against Manafort Wayne Holland, longtime friend and neighbor of Paul Manafort, was briefly questioned by prosecutors and the defense team about a real estate deal he helped the Manaforts with. Stephen Jacobson, a longtime construction contractor who worked on personal projects for Paul Manafort in the Hamptons and New York City, testified Wednesday that Manafort had paid him millions of dollars worth of home renovations, mostly through international wire transfers. One incoming wire transfer in 2010 paid for home improvements worth $124,000 and came from a shell company that Manafort allegedly used called Global Highway Limited. Daniel Opsut testified that Manafort's family bought and leased expensive cars from the luxury dealership and paid using Manafort's offshore accounts in Cyprus. The new expectation makes sense, given that Ellis has tried to move the evidence presentation along during the trial. In recent weeks, prosecutors told the judge they needed three weeks to present their case, but their side's presentation clearly won't stretch that long. Six witnesses have given testimony so far as of Wednesday afternoon. Much of Wall's testimony centered on payments the company received from Manafort's offshore accounts.

Trump denies the bombshell claim by Michael Cohen, that he knew about the Trump Tower meeting with Russia in advance. Conservative opinion writer Jennifer Rubin tells Ari Melber that if Cohen’s claim is true, it could “explain a lot of…

President Donald Trump’s long-time “fixer” Michael Cohen claimed the president knew about the infamous meeting at Trump Tower with Russians who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. Ali Velshi is joined by MSNBC Legal Analyst Danny Cevallos and former…