From the New York Times. I'm Michael Barbara. This is the date. Did it a newly revealed meeting between the president's son, Donald Trump Junior and a Russian would suggest for the first time that members of the president's inner circle were willing to accept help from Russia during the election and declares victory over ISIS, emotion, the view from the ground is complex, its Monday July, tenth, Adam What did you report this weekend? We reported this weekend that trumps Son Our junior met with the russian lawyer after he was promised damaging information, pillow Iranian Clinton and Adam. When was this meaning its many was June, ninth two thousand sixteen at the Trump tower

and just a place that in time, that's right around the time don't run was crowned the Republican nominating yes, and when you say russian lawyer, what do you mean by that and who is aware The russian lawyers Natalia Vessel, needs Gaia and shares our ties with the Kremlin, and she has a lengthy history, Jerry russian clients. She's, formerly married to a former deputy transportation Minister of the Moscow region, and our clients include state owned businesses, and I see a government official son was company, was under investigation, United States at the time that they met so soundly she's a highly connected. Here within the russian government. It would seem that way- and I also know through my report,

being a former senior law enforcement officials said that guy was was aware of her and were interested in and her activities and they work wasn't quite clear what her role was caught, it so Let's talk about how this reporting unfolded. For the past forty eight hours on Saturday, and I got the news alert about it. You reported on the existence of this meeting. Then what happened? We report on the existence of this meeting. We were told the reason for the meeting is that a russian lawyer I travelled to the United States the talked her Donald Trump Junior about this act. Carbon Mccluskey ACT, which black list the Spectre, Russian and the rights of users and in the meeting was poor man a poor that campaign truck campaign. German Turkish, nor the present Son in law?

an intermediary name: Rob Goldstone, who was a publicist so you report on the meeting and an array No explanation for why even happened, which was an inch in this russian lawyer talking about american law that she had some concerns about, and then what happens in the reporting? Well, we learn that the reason they said the meeting took place wasn't in the back. Reason the media to question, and the real reason was that they thought that this woman was gonna, bring them dirt on lorry cleansing, which is why man of war came to the meeting, and why Dear Krishna came to the meeting we know there are regional exploration did Matt up. What do you need this President son in law and parliamentary, or the captain turning to meet with this woman about some obscure act? That certainly would have been

trusted to the camp? So we dug around and we kept asking questions. We must Maggie everything. And others and learning wasn't the real reason for the meeting. In we Firstly, what is happening today in and gave them every time you get back, and they came out with this lengthy statements. We are describing what had happened, which was certainly different from what they said the day before that we reaction over. Why won't they honest matter? So, let's talk about is updated rationale for this meeting the explanation, as you have said, that they were offered potentially embarrassed Information about how we that the campaign will probably want to use against her. What do we know about that information that they thought We don't know a whole lot about it, other than you know they came, and it did. The Trump people came in expecting dirt on Hillary, and I got a lecture on the Magnitsky ACT

like what is less so they kind of felt they felt a little tricked there. They felt duped in their statement today, guard from tumors well, should Emmi details or information to provide, so quickly became clear to us that this wasn't gonna meet fruitful, so he himself had met. He was looking for this meeting, get it so the significant of this seems to be that in all the reporting so far that that we and others have done this this question is always was their collusion between folks in down trumps world and Russia, and in particular, the russian government how does this reporting and these concessions from Donald Trump Junior that we're talking about? How does he said our understanding of that question for the moment, because it is the episode the meeting,

Tom towers. The first such confirm private meeting involving members during the campaign, and I think it also illustrates the trump at least Donald Junior somebody in their circles willingness to take the information from a russian national that would damage wrought, important right, That's why it seems so surprising that don't you would volunteer this information? It seems to be literally handing over an acknowledgement of the kind of act that everyone around the present has vociferously denied for months well knowledge at the New York Times, learned about it. He and back them into a corner, and he was forced to disclose this what are the next set of questions it you're trying to answer about this, as you continue to report on, I think a big one for me is,

Why the intermediary Rob Goldstone reached out to Donald Junior to set up this meeting, Rob Goldstone Sadie, they told the what Post that he had a russian climb who asked him do that he who is is russian climate. Why would this russian climbed Ducas? I think I think some questions check back to Russia Adam. Thank you very much I'm sorry Donald Trump Junior offer new details about his meeting with the russian lawyer. After exchanging pleasantries. He said the lawyer stated that individuals connected to Russia had funded the Democratic National Committee and, worse supporting Hillary Clinton, the law her statements, he said, were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. She then clean change the subject and the magnet it be Came clear to me, he said that Was the true agenda all along, and

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where was sleeping on a rooftop, our sleeping unroofed up, because it really hot and it's really beautiful, outside the full moon and on out here, you have a little bit of a breeze and of quiet he's, really need there's reporting. That's yes, just now that ISIS has been defeated in Mosul. Why, as you said, you're you're your by what happened, and why

have you seen? I think what has happened is. Ices has certainly lasted grip on the biggest said he, but they want controlled and most all at the moment, when ISIS invaded it in twenty four Kane was a city that that would lead to them than Philadelphia and had a population of one point. Eight one point: nine million people I right here yesterday and we spend all day yesterday, basically totalling our sons and not being able to go in and then. Finally, today we got a ride in with a military commander and we were basically being escorted through this decimated city, and we were told that there are multiple play We couldn't go that wouldn't hear the front lines, because the fighting but I'll go and ask me were touring. We got an alert on our phone, which was the New York Times. Breaking news of earnest thing that Iraq had declared victory over, gives one state an essentially announced the end of the operation. Emotional, but were on the ground, and we could still hear the shooting

going out gunfire. We could hear the occasional thought of air strikes. So from our standpoint, the operation is still very much ongoing. Luke many. Let's talk about muscle for a minute. I think we ve done that. Would you

the past short how metropolitan of a city was it before ISIS arrive? What did it look like a short, but you know what I when I first came to mobile might microscope here, while in October or November of last year, I would really stand at about how dense of a population core it is that you have street at the street after street, address street tightly packed building the Edison, but that I was struck by is in certain neighbourhood multimodal you have truly beautiful how that there was one health, but I did I took pictures of and that I tweeted about, but I would share a few months ago and the pictures I took were in the world garden of the house- would have this neatly: trimmed beautiful, green lawn. Instead,

or by orange trees, and when I put it out, people commented on it that it could have been somebody's backyard and in southern California it looked like the backyard that I grew up in and what does western muscle look lake now? What did you see today yeah? So we went to notice what model, but through the heart of the old city, which was the seat of the headless fighting it was actually a saddening to be there. I mean that that part of the city looks decimated. I think you could take a snapshot of it and render a black and white picture and ask people to guess what it is and people might come, but it was just a turnover true, there's mountains of rubble that are blocking many of the five streets, and you to see this completely. Destroyed landscape and it didn't hit me really until we ve gotten home? How meaning

as we tolerate looking at, but my translator on this trip, the young man who was from Gaza and in the back seat of our car, he was visibly moved and visibly paint. You see what his home town looks like the committee sadness in it. This is a historic city who, historic core is now gone ruminate. What about the ices fighters, who have been fighting little to the to the death in most of what has open to them as the iraqi forces with you. I support have near the moon territory downturn to basically nothing another declaring victory mean. Does that mean that all of these issues fighters are dead or have some of them a scaped? I shall certainly some of them are dead and we basically walked next to two bodies to killed ISIS.

Leaders in watching muzzle today? They were identified as foreigners, one you're to russian another word from Tajikistan, but the iraqi troops are telling us that a lot of the body that of finding and watching muzzle now or body the people that do not have arab features. He they look forward to them and we are being told that their finding, mostly foreign fighters from the Caucasus from russian speaking territories, including Chechnya, including Russia, including automatic if Bosnia and Uzbekistan and the working scary on this, is that as the area that I said controlled immobile continued

Frank, but the a walkie members of ISIS shape their beards turn. Then their suicide belt and change in civilian clothing and managed to get out with the russian people. At least that the worry, because the preponderance of foreign fighters, whether other finding in this area, is not one, it's too many, and just to be sure. I understand why are these four fighters staying in fighting until the very end, and why are these arab fighter blending in and fleeing what the problem is? The cap, London? They look, they look different, they perhaps of the, and so they can't

out of an eminent in autumn, the population, the other thing that is new in terms of the tactics that ices accusing is in ice literature. Women are not encouraged to take part in the fight is considered embarrassing for the man for them to do so, but in the last couple of weeks we ve seen several female suicide bombers. Come out about your mother, including one a couple of days ago. She was wearing a long. Do black robe, he was carrying a babe and one arm? He and you can see the court at the dutch nadir sticking out from the belief and being held in her right hand, and she was in a group of other refugees, and you see her approaching a soldier was wearing a camouflage uniform. The her goal was to blow herself up and most likely to kill that soldier in time while holding her baby.

That is horrifying with me, what happens now and most what's goin to be happening? These next come. Days I, There are four them and and what will look like for a city of Vienna size to fall right, so I am delighted that the first thing that going to happen is that they need to actually snuff out the rest of the resident. These these pockets were fighters are still is gone and and are fighting back so that that the first thing and those neighborhood you nowhere were hearing differing reports. I had commanders telling me that there's no more than fifty meters that still uncontrolled in other reporting that I've seen a hundred and twenty eight hundred TWAIN vibes four metres we're talking about

blog blocked at here, just not even neighborhoods anymore, because blocks yeah we're talking about treats, but what a rocky general have told us that they were not just fighting one by room. He, unless your mother, they were fighting meter by NATO and- and they ve told us that it over and over again it literally of a fight for every yard and every single year, in involved sacrifices on both sides. So a final question remains: what does Muscles for according to the iraqi government, what is it mean for the fight against ISIS. More generally, is this mostly symbolic? Is this actual significant. This is a major

I dont want to dump where this is the most important urban centres that the Islamic state held. It was the largest city, but the largest population, larger than even walk up, which is their self declared capital in neighbouring area. So what it represents is a major blow the morale of ISIS, so there's that it's a blow to their revenues train, because the majority of ISIS finances are derived from taxes in order to be able to tackle people, you have to help people under your control its enough and they have just lost the biggest source.

A population of people killed in in those respects, but all of mother is significant. What I get annoyed about is the Sabre rattling about you know in the interest of drumbeat that comes with the notion that most will have fallen and people equating that with the collapse of the caliphate, were very far from that. So before the caliphate, the territorial caliphate collapses, just in Iraq, if you are going to have to take at least three major other areas in the town of the weaker, what our control completely the town of tallow, far what our control completely and the area of onboard tell us far before ices took it in TWAIN. Fourteen I had a population of around two hundred thousand, which has worked with a population of welcome. You can imagine the just in Iraq. There is yet another walker, but they need to take

with me. I want to thank you and we should say that you are with a member of the daily team of producer. I am, I am from our too Andy mills. I've wanted to build anything. He had been. Such a great companion with you on the roof. I wanted to tell both of you to please be safe and that we we care. Doing we're thinking about you and mangled, like can t you as the situation develops over the? Thank you very much. Thank you take out by here is what else you need to know. On Sunday morning, prayers, tromp proposed that the United States work with russian president. Vladimir Putin took against cyber attacks, despite the inclusion by. U S, intelligence agencies that prudence government conducted cyber attacks against the? U S during the election,

after meeting with prudent at the G20 summit in Germany tweeted that the two men would seek to create a quote impasse the trouble Cyber security unit. The idea was quickly marked by law makers from both parties, including blocking Senator John Mccain? I am sure that Vladimir Putin could be of enormous assistance. That effort, since he is due on the hacking, and Public and Senator Lindsey Ground. The dumbest idea, I've ever heard, but it's pretty close by Sunday Night President Trump back away from the plan in a new Trump wrote quote, the fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber security I mean I think it can happen if cat that's it the daily I Michael Burma see tomorrow.

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