LISA DESJARDINS:

What did the president know, and say, about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer? The Washington Post reports that President Trump was more involved than the White House and his attorney originally let on.

This starts with the Trump Tower meeting last summer that included Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya. Flash-forward a year. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, at the G20 summit, learned The New York Times is about to report the story. They huddled to craft a response.

According to The Post, they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn't be repudiated later. But The Post reports that on Air Force One flying back to the U.S., the president overruled his advisers. The Post writes that the president directed that Trump Jr.'s statement to the Times described the meeting as unimportant and unrelated to the campaign.

That quickly was contradicted by Trump Jr.'s own e-mails showing he'd promised damaging campaign material on Hillary Clinton. The Post story of the president's role in his son's statement conflicts with what his lawyer said last month.

JAY SEKULOW, Attorney for President Donald Trump: I do want to be clear. The president wasn't involved in the drafting of the statement and didn't issue the statement. It came from Donald Trump Jr.