Winner after the announcement of the absence of telephone contact before the 2016 meeting in Russia: NPR

Updated at 11:55 am Eastern Time

President Trump has written that new information regarding Donald Trump Jr.'s phone records in 2016 justifies them in an important aspect of the 39, survey conducted in Russia.

Trump quoted information by which the Senate said the investigators found that Trump Jr. had not telephoned his father when he had arranged the much discussed Trump Tower meeting during which he expected to dirty Hillary Clinton.

Democrats and others focused on Trump Jr.'s calls to a blocked number when he was organizing the meeting. Trump Jr. told members of Congress that he did not remember who he had called. The old Trump used a blocked number.

If investigators could establish that Trump Jr.'s calls had been made to his father, that could to suggest that they had discussed the meeting and so this theory was valid for Trump to be aware of Russia's offer of assistance to his campaign.

But CNN, then ABC and the New York Times, reported Thursday that Senate investigators had established that Trump Jr. had not called his father. Trump Sr. seemed to confirm that in a tweet Thursday night

To this day, members of Congress have not confirmed accurately the information collected. The president and the vice-president of the senatorial commission of the intelligence services did not comment the articles of press.

Trump said that he was unaware of the scope of Russia's campaign in 2016 nor of the "active measures" it was taking against the West; he comes and goes about what he recognizes about the story.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, D-Calif. – who told NPR that Trump Jr.'s phone records would be the focus of his investigation this year – said that he could not confirm the information provided and that all that Senate investigators learned, that is not conclusive.

"The conversations could have been by phone or by Don Jr. walking down the hall to talk to dad," said Schiff. "But it's essential to understand the president's involvement in all of this and if we look at what we already know … the president and his son misled the country about the meetings that the campaign had with them. Russians. "

Schiff's comment referred to the evolving explanations given by the President and President Trump Jr. about the 2016 meeting, which, in their view, was largely about ". adoption "and, since then, have recognized seeking compromise documents to be used against Clinton.

Others, including former Trump campaign director Steve Bannon, have speculated that Trump Jr. may have spoken to Trump about the meeting in person or even presented Trump Tower guests, but the facts about it are not yet clear. 19659009] According to the stories of people who took part in the conference, what the Russian delegation actually told Trump Jr. and his colleagues was a hint of the Democratic investors who might have got out of the money inappropriately from Russia.

Trump Jr. said that nothing came of the meeting and that 39, he had not given the example to the lawyer Natalia Veselnits. kaya.

Trump Jr. and the President deny that the campaign was implicated in Russia's interference in 2016, which is currently the subject of an investigation by the special advocate of Department of Justice, Robert Mueller.

Trump Jr. is congratulated on what he called the death of another false narrative around him.

Trump Jr. also spoke to Schiff, who raised the issue of telephone records when he assumed the presidency of the House's Intelligence Committee and pledged to restart his investigation of Russia.

The panel, chaired by Devin Nunes, President of the time, R-Calif., Concluded last year that there had been no collusion between the campaign Trump and Russian interference and that contacts between the residents of Trump camp and the Russians were, at worst, "misguided".

Trump asserted that summoning a conference to dirty an opponent is a classic game in politics and nobody was doing anything wrong.

Schiff and others discussed the changing explanations of the meeting and wondered if Trump Jr. might have broken the campaign finance law by seeking the help of a stranger.

There are also a number of unanswered questions about the expanded investigation into Russia, including the contact of the Trump campaign, through intermediaries, with WikiLeaks, and meetings that his former president campaign had had with a partner who had links with the Russian military intelligence agency. .