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On the recordJuly 10, 2017
You can't call a rookie mistake not having the knowledge that if you got an e-mail that acknowledges that at least on its face says we've got information that's part of a Russian government effort to try to help his father, anyone with a lick of sense would know that you don't take that kind of help from a foreign government and particularly a foreign adversary.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Warner criticizes the notion that Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer was a rookie mistake, emphasizing the seriousness of accepting foreign assistance in a political campaign.

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