MSNBC's Halperin: Trump Jr. 'in a world of hurt' [View all]

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BY JOE CONCHA - 07/10/17 08:27 AM EDT

MSNBC's Mark Halperin said Donald Trump Jr. "is in a world of hurt" after a New York Times report on Sunday disclosed the president's eldest son had a meeting with a Russian lawyer that has ties to the Kremlin after being promised damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in June of 2016.

&quot Trump Jr.) was forced to change his story by seemingly what The New York Times was able to learn," Halperin said on "Morning Joe" on Monday. "Whoever is helping The New York Times with these stories seems to be doing it in a way like maximum damage on at least Donald Trump Jr.

"Even if you accept his Sunday version. Accept his Sunday version, ask no questions, have no suspicions, he is in a world of hurt," Halperin concluded.

The Times report noted that the Trump Jr. meeting at Trump Tower with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya "represent(s) the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help." Trump Jr. confirmed to the Times he had met Veselnitskaya at the request of an acquaintance; he denied that he received any information on Clinton.

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