I thought Jeb paid for the Steele dossier?

Also Steele was not representing a hostile government, so how is that the same thing?

Finally, there is no such thing as "attempted collusion" -- the crime has nothing to do with how successful you were in colluding, it's that you *tried* to collude with a hostile foreign government. And whether this meeting was innocent opposition research or not -- or a one-off meeting or not -- the email makes it almost laughably clear what's happening... and Jr took the bait anyway. End of story. 

I've supported the Trump family through a lot of ugly controversies, most of them created by the left. But it's over -- this is hard evidence and as conservatives defending the rule of law, we make ourselves look ridiculous making excuses here. Hillary should be in jail for her emails, but in all the emails we saw, we never found an email like this.