rob goldstone, the publicist that arranged the meeting sent a follow up to trump's inner circle.one e-mail dated june 14, 2016, five days after the trump tower meeting, he forwarded a cnn story on russia's hacking to the client, russian pop star. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner and paul manafort describing the news in the e-mail as'rely weird. they said dnc hacking was not brought up at the meeting, which brings us to a central question, once again. what exactly was discussed at that trump tower meeting. trump jr. said after being promised he would get dirt on hillary clinton, the brief meeting focused on the issue of russian adoptions, which means sanctions. he also insisted, there was no follow up. here is trump jr. after the fact referring to the man who arranged it. >> it wasn't follow up. there was nothing there. as we were walking out, listen, i'm sorry for that. i think what happened, he built up. there was puffery to the e-mail to get the meeting, to make it happen. yo know, in the end, there was bait and switch about what it was supposed to be about. so, you know, ther

rob goldston, the british publicist who helped broker the meeting, between him and one of the russians in the room. ike and woman. among those present there. jared kushner as well. >> separate e-mail that mentioned russia's version of facebook. >> numerous e-mails between rob goldston, publicist who helped broker the meeting and dan scif evenno, now the social media director for the trump white house. in these series of e-mails goldston is pitching him saying should get a page for donald trump sr. on vk, russian media, and told the idea was from the meeting. significance is not clear. investigators looking into it but raises questions. one, clearly follow-up to the meeting and raises questions about the subject of discussion between the parties. investigators looking into it, sure to be asking rob goldston about it next week. >> former senior analyst and attorney, president fired three months into presidency. not a smoking gun but another piece of the puzzle. another reminder, just seen tip of the iceberg in terms of the e-mails around the meeting. only the ones that donald trump jr. d

i see rob goldstone in there today. was that the democrats question he be in there?he republicans idea he be in there? >> generally, and look, having said that the house investigation has been beset by bipartisanship, mike conway and adam schiff worked very well together and moments to request subpoenas, where we have requested witnesses and not happened quite as fast as we would like and we haven't been told flat-out no. if the investigation is ended and we are told flat-out no on a couple of dozen witnesss that are important we'll obviously explain to the men people who the witnesses were, why we thought they were important and let the american people judge. i do want to say that, you know, in general, it has been a cooperative environment within the investigation. >> a quick word about independent candidate jill stein. green party candidate jill stein. the senate intelligence committee requested documents from the jill stein campaign. is that an area that you're exploring? >> so i have no personal knowledge of that and we also tried to be pretty careful out of not

. >> rob goldstone, the british pr guy is set to meet with the intelligence committee what as early as next week. what will questions will you have for him? >> well, you know, he of course was at the center of the don jr. meeting. he rarnged it. and we'll go in open minded. i think he was accurately described as a colorful character. so it could be anything from just trying to raise his profile with the presidential campaign to actually having real tough. his name does pop up a lot, and we have questions beyond the don jr. meeting for mr. goldstone to really get behind whether this was all just him show boating or whether in fact he was in contact with any russians and of course there is a connection with mr. or whether that was a concerted effort to provide them with compromising information. >> was donald trump jr. forthcoming during what the seven or eight hours of testimony yesterday before your committee? >> i would describe him as largely cooperative. you heard ranking member adam schiff yesterday raised one point that was troubling, which was that he did have a conversation that

set up the meeting after receiving an e-mail from rob goldstone who works for a russian pop star. the june 9th meeting was attend i by jared kushner and paul manafort. after the public learned earlier this year about the meeting, which the trump team had hidden from the american people for more than a year, team trump attempted to down play it. first they lied, then they claimed nothing happened at all at the meeting. >> it wasn't a follow-up, it was a follow-up. as we were walking out. he said listen, i'm sorry for that. >> there wasn't really follow-up, there was nothing there donald trump jr. said. there were follow-up communications. cnn is reporting this right now. ones that congressional investigators are exploring to determine whether there was more to that june 9, 2016, meeting at trump tower that has been disclosed. i want to bring in jim sciutto and mano raju. tell us more about what you're learning. what was this follow-up communication from that meeting? >> headline here, these are previously undiscloeed e-mails. they show there were some follow-up communications about

this this e-mail british publicist rob goldstone who set up the trump tower meeting he encouraged ska vooeno to get then candidate donald trump to create a page on the russian social networking site called vk. in the e-mail goldstone said that "don and paul were on board with the idea." that was a reference to then trump chair paul manafort, also donald trump jr., and a source tells us goldstone also mentioned the idea of the social media post at the end of the trump tower meeting in june 2016 as everyone was leaving. goldstone continued to push that proposal in some of the e-mails in the weeks following. now, cnn has done a search of the vk pages but we could not find any indication that the campaign ever set up a page. so then there was a second e-mail. this one was dated june 14th, 2016, five days after the trump tower meeting. goldstone in this email forwarded a cnn story. it was on russia's hacking of dnc e-mails to his client. he forwarded the e-mail to his client, russian pop star amen agalarov. also ike kaveladze. kaveladze attended the meeting. he described the news of the ha

rob goldstone, to two of the russians who were in the room.ail contained a link to cnn reporting about russian's hacking of dnc e-mails. gold stone described it as eerily weird. back now with the panel. when you say t there's not many more people to interview here, the end is in sight, what do you think of here? >> i think back to a couple weeks ago when sarah huckabee-sanders said we have it on good authority that it's going to be over soon. and i asked her, who told you this, when is it going to be over? i kept asking her. she couldn't get it together. and the next day she had to come back and say, well, we are hopeful. this is not over by any stretch of the imagination. the drips and drabs keep coming. mueller is doing his job. going back to the issue of mike flynn. mike flynn is going through this plea deal. when you do a plea deal you go for somebody bigger. there are three people who could be bigger, junior, kushner, and bannon. we have to see -- i understand that you're hopeful as well, but this is real. this is not a myth, this is not

the social media director, in this email british publicist rob goldstone who set up the meeting. he encouraged donald trump to create a page on the russian social networking site called vk. in the email goldstone said don and paul were onboard with the idea. and a source tells us goldstone also mentioned the idea of the social media post at the end of the trump tower meeting in zwrun 2016 as everyone was leaving. goldstone continued to push the proposal in the emails in the weeks following. cnn has done a search of the vk pages but we couldn't find any indication that the campaign set up a page. so then there was a second email. spo this was dated june 14th, 2016, five days after the tower meeting. goldstone in this email forwarded a cnn story. ob on russian hacking of dnc emails to his client. a russia. pop star agalarov also to ike and he described the news of the hacks as quote errily weird, given what they discussed at trump tower five days earlier. so that seems a bit odd. one of the sources familiar with the email he downplayed the interaction saying news of the dnc hack wa

the "washington post" reporting that man, rob goldstone, sent an e-mail back on july 24th, 2015, arguing maybe trump would welcome a meeting with putin. there's no sign that meeting occurred. but this was all the way back in 2015. consider the timing. a month into trump going down that escalator and launching this long shot campaign. while he was initially surging with his name i.d. in the polls, many thought he wouldn't last. >> is trump toast? donald trump feeling the heat from fellow republicans after he slammed former vietnam p. on, with john mccain. >> i think they feel the quicker gets out, the better for the party. >> he needs to be out of the race. >> if he wants to play for the long run, he has to stop making these mistakes. >> i'm predicting this could be the beginning of the end for trump's candidacy. >> the beginning of the end. you've heard that before. if donald trump's team was getting these offers to meet with vladimir putin in 2015, it does raise questions that what the russians were thinking. as rachel maddow has reported, the trump-russia dossier which has not been ful

rob goldstone had the offer that donald trump would get dirt on hillary clinton from russia's meeting with the people you see on the screen. those people, of course, trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort and some russians. the issue was what would happen. there was a news story about russia hacking the dnc and said, it was quote, eerily weird given what they had discussed at the trump tower meeting five days before. and after trump jr. posted his e-mail response on twitter under pressure, it was revealed, of course, that there was that dirt offer. the son of one of the russian attendees e-mailed his father and said why was trump jr. admitting, quote, collusion? these pretty extraordinary. so i don't want to spend any more time reading the e-mails to you. i want to bring in our experts. frank, a former assistant director for counter intel at the fbi, and former u.s. attorney randall alyson. with government fraud, a key section of a key u.s. attorney's office located in washington, d.c. frank, i go to you. because there is the kind of thing that fbi agents do all the time. they pour o

and we know that e-mail exchange between rob goldstone who set up the meeting with donald trump jr.,paul manafort attended where he was promised dirt on the clinton campaign, she was mentioned in that e-mail exchange from rob goldstone to donald trump jr. saying, well, i can go straight to your father, fill him in on this information by talking to her. so the questions that the investigators are going to ask undoubtedly is that did the president know about the meeting at trump tower? now we don't have a full sense of what happened yet. that happened today off-site in new york. mainly staff of the house intelligence committee. and actually that has caused some concerns among democrats on the committee. they wanted her to come to washington and to interview her personally, but the republicans wanted to get this done at the end of this week. that's why they went up to new york. staff mens interviewing her today, jake. >> more to come on that interview. thank you so much. don't go anywhere. we've got a lot going on. >>> strong and insulting words about the united states from russian pres

so rob goldstone, in the e-mail, encouraged skavino to get then candidate donald trump to create a page on the russian social networking site called vk. in the e-mail, goldstone also said that, quote, don and paul were on-board with the idea. that was a reference to then trump campaign chair paul manafort, also donald trump jr. so source tells cnn that goldstone had actually also mentioned that idea of a social media post at the end of the trump tower meeting as everyone was leaving. goldstone continued to push that proposal in the e-mails in the weeks following. now cnn, it's done a search of vk pages, but we could not find any indication that the campaign ever set a page up. then there was another e-mail, dated june 14, 2016, this was five days after the trump tower meeting. so in that e-mail, goldstone forwarded a cnn story on russia's hacking of dnc e-mails, he forwarded that to his client, russian pop star aguilar ra and also ike. he was one of the russians who intended the meeting and in the e-mail, he described the news of the dnc hacks as, quote, eerily weird, given what they ha

numerous e-mails, again, between rob goldston and dan skvino, at the time with the trump campaign, he'sial media director for the trump white house. and in this, in the series of e-mails, i should say, rob is pitching him, saying that, we should really get a page for donald trump sr., the condition, on vk, which is russia's facebook, in effect, and we're also told that that idea came out in part from that meeting in trump tower. so, you know, the significance of it is not clear. but again, it raises those questions. there was clearly followup to the trump tower meeting and it raises questions about what was the subject of discussion when all those parties were sitting down in trump tower. congressional investigators are looking into it. >> all right, jim sciutto, appreciate it. joining me now, preet bharara, who president trump fired less than three months into his presidency. not a smoking gun or anything, but again, another piece of the puzzle. it is also a reminder that we've only really seen the tip of the iceberg, just in terms of e-mails around the donald trump jr. meeting. we've

information comes from anonymous sources familiar with an e-mail sent by the british publicist rob goldstone he's the guy who arranged the infamous trump jr meeting with the russian lawyer back in june of two thousand and sixteen c.n.n. issued an exclusive report saying those emails are the first indication there was any follow up after that meeting and that follow up centers around what goldstone allegedly referred to as a cute marketing idea scandalous here's what happened the director of partnership marketing v.k. russia's equivalent of facebook hit up team trump to set up a page on their website to appeal to russian americans before the election finally the smoking gun right on the network confirmed they made an offer to trump just like they did to a bunch of other popular people we welcomed international celebrities joining our social network we invited donald trump to create a v.k. account like many other celebrities but the media all but push those facts of the side choosing instead to focus on the young the exact himself one outlet said they became manager represented a new point of

this firm, fusion gps, but also another high-profile witness coming before the committee today, rob goldstone, who is a british publicist who set up the meeting in june 2016 at trump tower where donald trump, jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, met with russians after trump junior was promised dirt. goldstone has met with senate intelligence committee staff last week, but kate, democrats are concerned that this is all part of the effort to end this russian investigation. republicans are saying look we've interviewed everybody, do as much as we can, we have no date to end this just yet, but still they realize they say this investigation cannot go on forever, kate. >> all right. we'll see. manu, great to see you. thank you so much. very busy day and busy week. joining me to discuss this former u.s. attorney michael moore here, michael zeldin, former federal prosecutor worked under special counsel bob mueller when they were at the justice department together and elian na johnson, a national reporter for politico. michael moore, first to you, on this back and -- it's -- maybe it is a back and fort

the number of characters from rob goldstone to the professor in london. it's hard to make sense of. >> that's exactly right, chris. to malcolm's point, look what this is. russian spies have a very standard procedure. they target people then they recruit them and if you make it through the recruitment, you're an asset. what that means simply is you are taking orders from the kremlin. when i was active in my operation, that's what the russians thought to do. they were aware, they targeted me. they recruited me and i made it through the recruitment process. when it comes to hope hicks, it's clear. many people are targeted. not many people make it past that phase. it's important to make this crystal clear. you can be targeted. that is not an illegal thing. >> right. >> exactly right. >> right. >> the one thing i'll say about hope hicks, what is interesting is the muller team, the fbi actually decided to give her a defensive brief. they didn't decide to do that for flynn and kushner. it's a really interesting thing the only person that received a brief is hope

. >>> we know british's publicist rob goldstone can also appear.bring to this investigation? >> well, he says in a british newspaper that he wants to put on the record of his involvement bringing together manafort and donald trump jr. and the e-mail he had sent says that he had official documents discrediting hillary clinton. that was clear in his e-mails. this was what he apparently wants to put some explanations behind that. it is interesting watching how this is played out. gold stone talked about the e-mail and being there, he's a russian lawyer and would have connection to the government. she was on television here discrediting the whole hypothesis that goldstone have laid out here. he will put some lights on that on the investigation. >> we know they spoken about russia meddling in the past. is there an expectation or belief that there could be a diplomatic relationship between these two despite what intel tells us of what happened with the meddling? >> well, certainly, we caught a lot of people by surprise. a, vladimir putin, when he gave hi

we have yet to interview rob goldstone.n interesting interview. >> what the russian government was trying to make contact. >> the question got asked.?4 we got a similar answer to answers of other odd behavior with jared kushnerwy that's kn m=w he saw a back channel perhaps at the russian embassy. again, was it that odd? the answer that we got is hey, we were really busy and we'll throw it out there to see with don jr. with respected information. it is not illegal to listen. so down playing these things. >> the scope ofp your' investigation rightmÑ now, dona trump jr. once talked aboutç d bragged about how much russian money was important to the real estate empire. he said it back in 2008. the scope of your investigation when it comes to finances, how far did it go back? >> it goes back to 2008. robert mueller and others can look into the kind of things they look into of paul manafort and he's charged with money laundering and all sorts of things that are not apart of the congressional. our job is to figure out what happen

she was mentioned by name in the 2016 e-mails between donald trump junior and rob goldstone, where the two discussed the campaign with a russia lawyer offering information on hillary clinton. gold stone wrote i can also send this info to your father via rhona but it is ultra sensitive. also three household committees questioned fbi deputy director andrew mccabe for 16 hours. the fbi's investigation of hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state, notable for republicans. he was also grilled on his interactions with fired fbi director james comey, who mccabe told lawmakers informed him of conversations he had with donald trump soon after they happened. this occurred with three sources. democrats are again warning president trump not to undermine special counsel roy moobert mue investigation. >> firing mr. mueller would not only call into question this administration's question to the truth, but also to our most concept, rule of law. it also has the potential to provoke a constitutional crisis. >> that is a warning the white house quickly shrugged off. >> i want

. >>> the house intelligence committee will question rob goldstone today. and that russian lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton. the panel is expected to question former dnc chair debbie wasserman-schultz. she denies knowing of an arrangement for the dnc to help fund a dossier containing sell salacious accusations against mr. trump. >>> on sunday, thousands of firefighters faced intense wind gusts topping 70 miles per hour as the fire spread to more than 270,000 acres. there was a pause in the fight to honor cory iverson who died. people saluted as the funeral procession # went by. the fire is now 45% contained. >>> prince harry and former president barack obama. watch. >> do i have to speak faster? >> no. >> do i need a british accent. >> if you start using long pauses between answers, you have to do the face. >> oh, okay. >> that was good. president versus prince. it happened in september during the invictus games. he shared his hopes for the future. the bbc will air the full interview december 27th. it will be released as a podc t podcast. >>> i'm

s emails were with british music publicist and guy who tony soprano whacked in season three, rob goldstone at the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. and i believe his job was to remove all the locks from the dressing room doors. so, let's dive in to these emails. remember, it is going to take careful parsing to prove that the trump campaign was privately colluding with russia to get damaging confidential information about hillary clinton. this is the first email. "subject: russia-- clinton-- private and confidential." ( laughter ) let's stop right there. i think we can pause. we should talk a pause, maybe even hydrate. okay. >> jon: a worthy cause. >> stephen: we are five words in! and four of them are "russia, clinton, private, confidential." the only one that's innocent is "and." goldstone goes on to write about their mutual acquaintance, russian pop singer emin agalarov. "good morning. emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father aras this morning and, in their meeting, offered to provide the trump ca

gloria, five days after that controversial meeting, rob goldstone, the british publicist organized the, sent an e-mail to russian who is also attended the meeting and attached a cnn story about the hacking of dnc e-mails writing that it was, in his words, eerily weird given what they had talked about in that meeting five days earlier. >> it sounds suspicious. the benign interpretation is that given the run-up to the meeting where dirt was promised by the russians to donald trump jr. that this was eerily weird and you can interpret it, given that what was discussed at the meeting, that the news of this dnc hack was eerily weird. obviously the congressional committees and bob mueller are going to want to know more about this interpretation from goldstone. >> this latest twist is eerily period. >> biana, what do you think that goldstone wanted when he recommended that president trump create a page on this russian social networking website? well, the website is the most popular website. has 460 million users worldwide so it's not trivial. but why would a u.s. president want to set up simil

we know that rob goldstone, who arranged that meeting, in the e-mails between him and don junior setting it up, there was a reference to rona. because if he wanted to get the incriminating information about hillary clinton to donald trump, it was through rona. that had to be one of the areas they focused on today. >>> also, we're learning new details about the meeting with the embattled fbi director andrew mccabe who worked directly under james comey for a time. wednesday mccabe spent nearly eight hours with the intel committee, and the very same mike memely of nbc news reports, quote, a source familiar with mccabe's testimony before the committee, told nbc news that mccabe confirmed that then fbi director james comey told him that trump had asked for a loyalty pledge from him. for those who need it, here's a reminder of what comey said about that during his testimony, this is back before the senate intelligence panel this past june. >> he asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. my common sense told me, what's going on here is, he's looking to get something in

and importantly we know that rob goldstone, he's agreed to talk with congress, with both the house and senate intelligence panels, that could be as early as next week. so we have these emails a lot more information could be forthcoming when goldstone comes to the united states and goes before congress. >> jessica, thank you for the latest piece of this puzzle. let's talk to our guys here, ethics czar and watchdog group in washington. so gentlemen thanks for being with me on this friday. ambassador eisen let me begin with you, first we heard from, it's this pattern of i don't recall, right. and don junior says nothing to see here with regard to the trump tower meeting, it's all about adoptions. then it's dirt on hillary clinton. then apparently this bit maybe we have this idea of getting trump on networking site for russians, russian americans. your response to that? >> well, brooke, thanks for having me back. and it's yet another example of the profound connections between russia and the trump campaign. and here what you have is follow up. and you have an assertion that don junior and

her name was found in this e-mail from rob goldstone to donald trump jr.romising dirt on hillary clinton. i wanted to send to you first because it's sensitive. house intelligence committee staff wants to know what she knows. >> i would say if there are bodies buried somewhere in the organization and somewhere else in donald trump's campaign or even in more distant past, rhona would be able to point out where they lie. >> and that was alison kosik reporting. >>> coming up on this saturday, an alleged christmas terror plot foiled. the popular american tourist spot that the feds say the suspect tried to target. (avo) when you have type 2 diabetes, you manage your a1c, but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk. victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill. (avo) and for people with type 2 diabetes treating cardiovascular disease, victoza® is now approved to lower the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. and

the emails in question are from the man who set up the trump tower meeting, british publicist rob goldstoneseen here dressed as the star of president trump's recurring nightmare. for a long time now, various sources have insisted that the subject of the hack of the d.n.c. was never brought up at the meeting. so, you know where this is going. one of the emails forwarded a cnn story on russia's hack of the d.n.c., describing it as "eerily weird" given what they had discussed at the trump tower meeting five days earlier. oh, you dummy. that's like forwarding an article about arson and saying "this is eerily weird, given that warehouse we torched five days ago!" ( laughter ) donald trump, jr. was asked about these emails yesterday, and he said he was not aware of them or could not recall the contents. wow, two excuses! "look, i never got any emails, and furthermore, i don't remember what were in all those emails i got." laugh but after his testimony, don, jr. left in style. he posted this instagram photo of this trump-helicopter with the caption, "time to roll." coincidentally, "time to roll" i

rob goldstone is part of the investigation now going forward. >> let us know if you can get questions into don jr. as he arrives on the hill. >>> new revelations as to what vice president mike pence knew about flynn lying to the fbi and when he knew it. we are joined from the white house. this has been painted by the administration for long time as pence in the dark, but this is not only the vice president but this is the guy running the transition team. what more are we learning? >> if you piece together a timeline of all the things that happened, about a year or so ago, it really paints more of a picture of how the vice president could have remained in the dark for so long. new questions are being asked about if he will be brought into testify at some point with the special counsel here. a republican who is close to the vice president told us that they are preparing for that paus b l possibility. they don't believe it's imminent but are preparing for the possibility. the question is the phone calls that started on the 29th, when the obama administration announced the sanctions. offi