BLITZER: The issue of Russian adoptions here in the United States took center stage in a Senate hearing today on Russian influence in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Remember, adoptions were cited as they -- as having been at the center of that meeting attended by Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner with Russians. President Trump said he spoke about adoptions during his dinner meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. But this is what we heard about adoptions today. Listen.</s>SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D), JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: To a Russian agent or official, a conversation with an American about adoptions is a conversation really about what?</s>BILL BROWDER, CEO, HERMITAGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: The Magnitsky Act was passed. Putin retaliated by banning the adoption of Russian orphans.</s>WHITEHOUSE: But the Magnitsky Act is tied to sanctions, is it not?</s>BROWDER: Indeed. So they weren't taking --</s>WHITEHOUSE: So if you're talking about adoption --</s>BROWDER: You're not talking about adoption. They were not -- nobody was talking about adoption.</s>WHITEHOUSE: Nobody was talking about children?</s>BROWDER: Nobody was talking about adoption. They were talking about repeal of sanctions so that Russian torturers and murderers could freely travel and keep their money in America.</s>BLITZER: Let me bring in our senior congressional reporter, Manu --
Stunning Testimony in Russian Meddling Probe.