Sen. Whitehouse on Donald Trump Jr’s Released Emails: ‘It Clearly Shows Intent to Collude’

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WHITEHOUSE: "It clearly shows intent to collude. Going in, they knew that this was Russian information, that a Russian attorney was flying over to deliver it, that it was intended for political purposes, that the campaign was going to be involved. They even talked about the timing of it, that it would be better to come out later in the summer, presumably closer to the election. So, later on, it may not be that they actually got very useful information. That's yet to be determined. But this e-mail chain, and particularly connecting in both Manafort and Kushner, shows clearly an intent by the leadership of the Trump campaign to try to collude with Russians to get opposition research. And because opposition research is valuable, because people pay for it, there is a good case to be made that it's actually a thing of value under the American campaign finance laws which makes this a potential conspiracy to violate the campaign finance laws prohibition on receiving a thing of value from a foreign government."