from a story titled Rancor at White House as Russia Story Refuses to Let the Page Turn, note the following two paragraphs:
As Air Force One jetted back from Europe on Saturday, a small cadre of Mr. Trump’s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to give to The New York Times explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the Russian government. Participants on the plane and back in the United States debated about how transparent to be in the statement, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Ultimately, the people said, the president signed off on a statement from Donald Trump Jr. for The Times that was so incomplete that it required day after day of follow-up statements, each more revealing than the last. It culminated on Tuesday with a release of emails making clear that Mr. Trump’s son believed the Russian lawyer was seeking to meet with him to provide incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
I remind people that while Richard Nixon did not have prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in as far as we know, he became involved in the coverup almost immediately.
I know, the parallel is not exact, but it is interesting.
The rest of the article, written by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, is worth reading.
I just thought I ought to highlight the two paragraphs on which I focused.