Here's what Trump is really defending when he defends Trump Jr.'s meeting

President Trump, who last August boasted "I'm not a politician," defended his son's decision to meet with a Russian lawyer to get incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as being what "most politicians" would have done:

Not everyone was buying Trump's defense. As elections expert Brian Klaas understood it:

And as MSNBC's Kyle Griffin noted: "The Gore campaign was given the Bush campaign's debate prep book in 2000. They called the FBI."

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