that's how rob goldstone described it.t he did not make jared kushner and paul manafort aware. that's why they came to the meeting. it is also very difficult to believe he didn't tell his father about this information. >> and also, directly refute ing this, i want to share again, it said in that e-mail, as part of the russian government's effort to help trump, and then on july 24th, 2016, on television, donald trump jr. when asked about the clinton campaign's claims that the russians were helping trump, he said, it is disgusting, it is so phony. so for donald trump jr., in july of last year, to say it is disgusting and it is so phony, there is no other way to describe this, that is a lie, given what he clearly knew in this e-mail exchange that he has sent out in june. >> much more to be done about this, much more to be read, john harwood and our team are going to be scouring this information and seeing what other fallout comes out of it. thanks for watching this hour of msnbc live with us. i'm ali velshi. >> i'm stephanie

and which led to rob goldstone.he british national and music publicist who represents emin sending that e-mail to don jr. saying, hey, can you meet with this russian lawyer, a russian lawyer who was closely linked with the kremlin. the suggestion is that it was the kremlin working through its business contacts in russia of which obviously it has strong contacts to try and access the trump campaign. that's of course an allegation and something the kremlin denies. >> fascinating. matthew chance, keep us abreast of the developments and players. thank you, sir. >>> potential make-or-break day for senate republicans and their health care reform efforts. all of them back from holiday recess. they're getting their first opportunity to discuss the status of their measure to repeal and replace obamacare. it could give us our first real idea when a new bill could emerge. >> lawmakers didn't exactly receive a warm welcome in washington. 80 people arrested on capitol hill protesting the gop health care plan. demonstrations brea

fifth avenue, 25th floor which is trump tower. >> on june 8, the next day, rob goldstone bike -- right back, good morning, what it be possible to move tomorrow's meeting to 4 p.m. as the russian attorney is in court until three -- 3:00. i was just informed. best, rob. at 11:15e 8, 2016, p.m., donald trump jr. writes, yes rob, i can do that unless he wanted to do 3:00 today instead. let me know and i will lock it in either way. this is some eagerness this man has for this information. back, we can right do today -- we can't do today, 4:00 p.m. is great tomorrow. >> this email is from donald trump jr. sent wednesday, june 8, 2016 at 12:03 p.m., to jared kushner and paul manafort. subject, forward, russian -clinton private and confidential. meeting got moved to 4:00 tomorrow at my office. best, don. that completes the email chain. law, under federal election campaign act, you cannot solicit or accept any contribution from a foreign order for an country. the law defines the const -- the contribution as anything of value. in-kind donation. opposition research, anything of value that violate

the latest additions to the growing cast of characters, music publicist rob goldstone, and his client. this guy, emin agalarov, a pop star who asked goldstone to make that meeting happen. let's sort out who's who with senior international correspondent matthew chance. bring us the flow chart. he is live in moscow. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. that's right, and rob goldstone, he's the figure i think who takes place center of this at the moment because he sent the british national, a music publicist, based in new york. we've learned that he's currently located in greece, perhaps on holiday. but he -- he sent this e-mail to don jr. saying, look, you've got to meet with this russian lawyer. she's got information. this is according to "the new york times," she's got information that comes from the russian government that would help you in your campaign against the democrats against hillary clinton. now, that meeting, as we know, took place, it took place. rob goldstone represents a contact of don jr. and donald trump in russia. he -- emin agalarov, a pop star in the coun

in an e-mail, this goes from rob goldstone back to don. great, they just pulled it up on the screen. pleasant tris, then says amin asked that i schedule with you and the russian government attorney who is flying over from moscow for this thursday. so, that seems to be a problem in the fact this person is not connected to the kremlin at all. >> yeah. i mean -- you know, you can claim, i guess, this is somebody who wasn't in the government with no experience with this. i think they are going to run into a problem. you are taking information to hurt a political opponent in an american election from somebody that is identifying themselves as coming from the government, information from the russian government. that's going to raise a ton of questions with the fbi investigators among senators and house members on the hill. i think you saw that with senator mccain. the other question, if i were sitting in an interview with don jr., i would ask, if you didn't think there was anything wrong with it, why are we only finding out about it a year later

rob goldstone wrote back, they can't do today as she hasn't landed yet from moscow. 3:00 p.m. is great tomorrow. best, rob. mr. gallego: this email is from donald trump, jr., sent wednesday, june 8, at 12:16 p.m., to jared kushner and paul man forth. bject -- fanaforft, subject, forward, clinton, private and confidential. meeting got moved to 4:00 tomorrow at my offices. best, don. mr. lieu: that completes the email chain and under federal law, under the federal election campaign act, you cannot solicit or accept any contribution from a foreign national or foreign country. and the law defines the contribution not as just a monetary donation but anything of value, in kind donation, opposition research. anything of value violates the law. and in this case, we absolutely have conspiracy to violate the federal election campaign act. i'm a former prosecutor, i know it's very easy to prove a charge of conspiracy. you just have to have the personal take one act in furtherance of the conspiracy. so in this case, when donald trump jr. replies back to the offer of incriminating informati

and his contact rob goldstone, they prove the collusion junior's been denying all along. >> goldstonetes "the crown prosecutor of russia offered to provide the trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. this is obviously very high-level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. >> trevor: you could not write a clearer, more narc-y email than that. it was like getting an email saying would you like by your own choi to speak illegal marijuana drawings in violation of local statute 22 section 3? ( laughter ) to be fair to don, jr., just getting the email is not proof of collusion. you're not responsible for the e-mails you get. you're on responsible for the e-mails you send. >> 17 minutes later trump, jr. responds, if it's what you say, i love it. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i love it. 17 minutes later. the russians said they wanted to team up with the trump campaign against hillary clinton in the american presidential election, an

the e-mail was sent by rob goldstone who was this person who donald trump had known for a few years. he was an acquaintance. and that donald trump basically took it, essentially giving this guy a hearing. what we don't know is what this supposedly compromising information was. we don't know whether it was discussed at this meeting. we don't know what other correspondence there was, but we do know that there was in writing some -- some statement that this information had come from a foreign adversary that was seeking to help donald trump become president. in typical campaigns, that could often be enough for a red flag. for the trump campaign, which has operated and did operate different than certainly any campaign i've ever covered, this was not and donald trump jr. who was known for having straight open-door policy in meeting with almost anyone didn't disdain

the first email, let's talk about who with rob goldstone? >> donald jr.,: he's a talented manager for a russian singer, she performed at miss universe and later at the golf course tournament we held. >> sean: do -- >> donald jr.,: i met him at the golf course. i wasn't at the miss universe pageant. >> sean: heat sensitive this email. we will give you a chance.

this is what rob goldstone promised in his email to donald trump jr: let's take a closer look at theil. 0ur senior north america reporter anthony zurcherjoins us now. it looks damning and put into context vladimir putin's comments to donald trump at the g20 meeting last week that he had nothing to do with trying to mess around in the american election. yes, it does. 0bviously, american election. yes, it does. obviously, we don't know whether rob goldstone was trying to blow smoke donald trump jnr‘s way goldstone was trying to blow smoke donald trumpjnr‘s way by overpromising or he was serving as a conduit for the russian government to pass on damaging information to hillary clinton. we are seeing rob goldstone's e—mails here but donald trump junior seems very interested in whatever rob goldstone has to say and the possibility that the russian government itself could be providing help to his father's campaign. he took the meeting, but only that but he invited the chair of the campaign, paul manafort, and jared kuschner, donald trump's son—in—law, to sit in as well. it is quite explosi

rob goldstone referred to her as a russian government attorney. ms veselnitskaya denies that. here she is speaking to nbc earlier today. have you ever worked for the russian government? to have connections to the russian government? translation: no. they had the impression, it appears that they were going to be told some information that you had about the d&c. how did they get that impression? translation: it's possible they were looking for such information and wanted it so badly. we're looking at this from washington, and what we have here and is at the smoking gun so many are looking for? it's hard to tell what a smoking gun is these days. every time we think we've got some major revelation, donald trump seems to find a way of surviving at. this is very big and points to what donald trump jnr was thinking is very big and points to what donald trumpjnr was thinking when he went to this meeting, and he thought he was meeting with someone who was a russian government lawyer, thatis who was a russian government lawyer, that is the way it had been presented, a natalia veselnitsk

three unnamed sources tell the times that the e-mail sent by rob goldstone, the man that coordinated the meeting, indicated the russian government was the source of the potential damaging information.

rob goldstone, the british intermediary who helped arrange the meeting, asked donald trump jr. time of the meeting. would it be possible to move tomorrow meeting to 4:00 p.m. as the russian attorney is in court until 3:00, i was just informed. donald trump jr. accepted the time change and then immediately informed campaign manager paul manafort and jared kushner about the schedule update. he didn't check with them to see if they'd be available at that time. he just changed the schedule. and apparently knew that they'd be available because presumably they all agreed this meeting was so important. the meeting was changed because the russian attorney is in court until 3:00. doing what? she doesn't speak english. what was she doing in a new york city courtroom until 3:00 p.m. with her translator? now we know. she was the russian representative dealing with the american lawyers who were hired to defend russians and a russian company in a massive money laundering case. preet bharara, the united states attorney prosecuting the case, said the defendants were a russian criminal organiza

-- >> through rob goldstone. >> rob goldstone is the intermediary here. when you get an e-mail like this. don jr. didn't say, are you kidding? both the intermediary and the family to him. so it would seem to me that if he got this kind of e-mail, he might have told his father. in fact, rob goldstone said, i wanted to send it to you first. and don jr. never said, don't pass it along to my father. we have don junior's word and his attorney's word about this. and so i think this is a -- this is something that the special counsel is going to have to look at and get an answer to. >> you spoke with donald trump jr.'s attorney this evening. what did he have to say of note? >> he basically said that his client did nothing wrong. he didn't break any laws. he said the fbi has not reached out for an interview or reached out for any other documentation, but he said that don would do so. don jr. would hand over anything that the fbi would like. and he said when it comes to these accusations that he could have violated campaign finance law by his willingness to accept

s e-mail with publicist rob goldstone. he is the guy who set up this meeting on behalf of the pop star client. and then there is his father who has a connection to putin, both of whom have a connection to president trump. my question is, all of this will likely expand the scope of this investigation, will it? >> well, it has to. i mean, here you have in plain language in e-mails representations that the russian government was seeking to aid the trump campaign. so, that begs all sorts of questions, leave aside how don junior and paul manafort and jared kushner reacted to the meeting. you have rob goldstone, who i spoke to for hours back in march, stating flatly that the kremlin, through the agularofs, business partners of donald trump, going back to that 2013 miss universe pageant, were seeking to assist trump's candidacy by providing damaging information about hillary clinton. so, how extensive was this russian government effort? was this the sole message, the sole effort to provide information to tilt the scale, or was it

the e—mail continues: the meeting was set up by a british publicist, rob goldstone. lawyer today denied any links with the kremlin. she was asked why those at the meeting thought she was going to deliver any information on hillary clinton. translation: it is possible they were looking for such information, they wanted it so badly. but the reaction from politicians today shows that these drip, drip revelations are proving damaging to the trump administration. it's serious and this is a serious situation and one that is a long way from over. it doesn't appear that when they had information that this person might be connected with the russian government or a russian national, that they didn't immediately call the fbi. this is very problematic. we can't allow foreign governments to reach out to anybody's campaign and say we'd like to help you. it is a non—starter. what does president trump make of it all? well, today, he says that his son was a high—quality person and praised his transparency. but the president is also said to be frustrated but after today the questions

and someone said, let's get rob goldstone, a music publicist, to convey the message. and let's get as many people as possible involved in this conversation and let's do it by e-mail. it just makes no sense. >> to be fair goldstone, yes, set up the meeting but the lawyer is a very well connected lawyer with an effort, a history of challenging u.s. sanctions against russians accused of human rights abuses, et cetera, the magnitsky act. so these are big issues and she was at the center of fighting those issues. she didn't just come out of nowhere. >> well, it is true she has been a vocal opponent to the magnitsky act. that's a fact. it's not the case as far as we understand, that she works for or was associated with the russian government in any capacity. she's a moscow-based -- >> what do you base your certainty on, that she had no association with the kremlin? >> well, what i believe i said and what i meant is that we had no understanding or reason to believe that she has an association with the kremlin. she's known as a private real estate lawyer in moscow, who over th

best, rob goldstone. bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, these e-mails, very, very explicit. this is a bombshell. >> no question. listen, you have the senate and house intelligence committees, fbi, special counsel, for weeks and months been investigating the question of collusion, cooperation, whatever you want to call it. to this point, that's been based on the existence of meetings, right? perhaps unusual in number. perhaps unusual that they are with russian officials or others tied to the russian government. and unusual as well that many were undisclosed. but the reason of those meetings until this point wasn't know. the meetings happened. the question, why did it happen? with one meeting you have the intention. damaging information on hillary clinton supplied by the russian government. not just russians. by the russian government pnd a and designed to help donald trump. written down in e-mail form to the president's son a

on the 3rd ofjune 2016 donald trump junior received an emailfrom this man, rob goldstone.sic publicist and acquaintance of donald trumpjunior. in it, he explains a former russian business partner of donald trump had been contacted by a russian government official — and the offer was of "information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia." to which the reply is, "if it's what you say, i love it". four days later, rob goldstone emails again — asking donald trump junior if he would meet with a woman called natalia veselnitskaya. she was described in the email as a russian government attorney. the meeting took place two days later at trump tower in new york. we know as much because here's rob goldstone, on facebook, checking in at trump tower and announcing that he's there. donald trumer says no useful info was handed over. that was much, much later in proceedings. here's more of his interview on fox news. in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. again, this is before russia mania, before they built it in the press. for me, it

and someone said let's get rob goldstone, a music publicist to convey the message? t's get as many people involved in the conversation and do it by email. it just makes no sense. >> to be fair goldstone, yes, set up the meeting but the lawyer is a very well connected lawyer with an effort, a history of challenging u.s. sanctions against russians accused of human rights abuses, so these are big issues. >> it is true she has been a vocal opponent to the act. it's -- she is a moscow based --. >> what do you base your cert.ty on she had had no association with the kremlin? >> what i meant was we had no understanding or reason to believe she has an association with the kremlin. she has been a private real estate lawyer who over the course of time has been engaged in the transactions and that's how alling a will arknows him. if someone has a basis, i would love to see it. >> so to be clear, were they told by anyone that russian government was in campaign to medal in the u.s. election and even if they weren't aware of it, did they ever direct rob goldstone to say that in th

>> as you know rob goldstone is a music publicist. he's not a political guy.e's not a lawyer and we suspect that he was trying to do a favor for his client and make this introduction to the lawyer, but this is not his realm and therefore he said things which were quite frankly foolish and false. >> do you know goldstone? >> i do not know him personally, no. >> by reputation is he known to be a pathological liar? >> i don't know his reputation. i have no reason to suggest that. i will tell you that what he says in the e-mail is not true. >> but -- how do you know it's not true? >> well, i know it's not true because i've had communications with the people referenced in the e-mail and it's simplification that this was some effort to create a conduit for information from the russian federal prosecutors to the trump campaign and maybe just pause for a second and let's look at how absurd it would be, you indicated mr. trump and mr. agalarov had a relationship dating back to the pageants and the story here is the russian federal prosecutor's spoke to the father who h

>> translator: no. >> so according to rob goldstone, this british p.r.om wee2 entertainment, his company, on behalf of the father and son, the father a billionaire, his son this pop star who goes by the first name emin, and, again, they were close business partners with t donald trump during the miss universe contest here in moscow in 2013, and in interviews on russian state tv just last year, the son, emin, said he's still in very close contact with donald trump jr. that they text message each other all the time. that he had had ivanka trump in his office here in moscow and according to one of president trump's tweets dating back to 2013, he had been in talks with the father to build a trump tower here in moscow. that's a project that was never completely fulfilled. dana? >> thank you so much for that report. i want to bring back jim sciutto and jeff zeleny. jim sciutto, you cover national security. the intelligence world. have you found anybody who thinks that it's plausible that this russian lawyer was not connected to the kremlin? i haven't. >> well,

the explosive emails begin with a message from music publicist rob goldstone about how the crown prosecutor of russia had offered to provide the trump campaign with "some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary." goldstone went on to say -- "this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump." minutes later trump jr. replied, "if it's what you say i love it especially later in the summer." within a week, on june 9, trump jr. met with a kremlin-connected attorney nataliaia veselnitskaya at trump tower. the meeting have been kept secret until kushner recently made referenence to it in a a form torsion of obtain a security clearance. this is donald trump, jr. speaking out about the meeting that he had with the lawyer, kushner, and manafort on tuesesday. >> in retrospect, i probably would've done things differently. this is before the rush of mania, before they were building it up in the press. tuesday, trump junior his father knew nothing about it. >> did you tell your father anything about this

music publicist rob goldstone. he said an attorney had quote, information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. talking about hillary clinton and donald trump. and more than that, the e-mails indicate that donald trump jr. was told in advance that this attorney was with or representing the russian government. as for that attorney, he met with my colleague, keir simmons, who tracked her down in moscow, in an exclusive interview she denied any connection with the kremlin but in an apparent contradiction to what donald trump jr. has said, the attorney says the premise for the meeting was to discuss sanctions. >> reporter: what was the purpose of that meeting? >> translator: i never knew who else would be attending the meeting. all i knew that mr. donald trump jr. was willing to meet with me. i could recognize the young gentleman who was only present in the meeting for probably the first seven to ten minutes and then he stood up and left the room. it was mr

the meeting was set up by a british publicist, rob goldstone.ut the russian lawyer today denied any links with the kremlin. she was asked why those at the meeting thought she was going to deliver any information on hillary clinton. translation: it is possible they were looking for such information, they wanted it so badly. but the reaction from politicians today shows that these drip, drip revelations are proving damaging to the trump administration. it's serious and this is a serious situation and one that is a long way from over. it doesn't appear that when they had information that this person might be connected with the russian government or a russian national, that they didn't immediately call the fbi. this is very problematic. we can't allow foreign governments to reach out to anybody's campaign and say we'd like to help you. it is a non—starter. so, what does president trump make of it all? well, today, he says that his son was a high—quality person and praised his transparency. but the president is also said to be frustrated but after to

replied to rob goldstone the same day writing, "thanks, rob, i appreciate that. i'm on the road for the moment. perhaps i speak to emin. seems we have some time. if it's what you say, i love it. especially later in this summer. could we do a call first thing next week when i'm back?" the documents show donald trump jr. and rob goldstone e-mailed over scheduling before deciding to hold the meeting on june 9, last year. trump jr. explained his brother-in-law, jared kushner and then trump campaign manager paul manafort would likely be there as well. donald trump jr. could manafort "the campaign boss." rob gold stone in the e-mail chain referred to the russian lawyer as a russian government attorney who was flying over from moscow. in an interview that aired today on nbc news, that woman denies working for the russian government or having connections to it. nbc news reports she claims a man she did not know called her and told her to come to trump tower to meet with the trump campaign. it also reports she says the trump campaign wanted information on the clinton camp

to the other point, rob goldstone, unless he was lying, rob goldstone is making clear this is highlyensitive information. he uses the word incriminating, his word about hillary clinton, this comes from a russian government official. so it's all there and, again, donald trump jr. takes this meeting because he views goldstone and the russian family, therefore, as credible sources looking out for donald trump's best interests. it's important to extricate those two things from one another. >> so on this point, about who is in this room, right, and this is what we're looking at now, the big mystery right now, ivan points out there was another person in that meeting and we now is it was a representative of the agalarov family. they actually cared enough not just to have an intermediary set it up but a representative from the family in that room. do you, phil, feel that there are a lot more details here that we're going to learn? >> heck yes. look at this from an investigative angle. we've seen a sliver. one slice of e-mails from one person. as soon as i see the number of people in the room

including statements from rob goldstone. he told rosalyn as he was boarding a cruiseship that he was setting up papers to do a prohibition on russian children that he implited and in response to the magnitsky act because he did not care for those sanctions and wanted to create a sort of political op skigs to those sanctions. so rob first told us that's what it is about. today he sent an e-mail to the washington post and other news organizations explaining that in fact his initial appeal was made on behalf of emmon and the appeal was to donald trump jr and the appeal was related to offering information, negative information, about hillary clinton and democratic donors. >> we should note that both these stories, the goldstone story and trump jr story both evolve in the same way. both had their stories straight with each other. this is an adoption meeting then move to the story they have now. >> an evolving story. >> thank you for your time tonight. >>> filling separate offices in the hauflt campaign. what hups are planning to

and rob goldstone are, quote, utterly inconsistent with what our understanding of what the purpose of the meeting was. he goes on to say, it was never our understanding, neither then nor now, to communicate negative information about hillary clinton, nor was it our understanding that the meeting had anything to do with the election or the prospective election campaign of mr. trump. now, i asked, what was the relationship between this russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, and the pop star, and his representative says, well, she was just an acquaintance. i then asked, well, why did the pop star, emin, go to such lengths to set up a meeting with donald trump jr.? it was very important at that time, in the time of the electoral calendar, and he said, well, i don't really know the answer to that. that's kind of what you do in business. you set up meetings for other people. so, that is the agalarov family's vurersion of what transpired. finally, i asked about this promoter, rob goldstone, why did he write in his e-mails that he had secret, sensitive information from the russian government

and an acquaintance, rob goldstone, outline how russian pop singer amin agalarav, whose father is tied with the kremlin, wanted them to meet with attorney natalia veselnitskaya. it also included jared kushner and paul manafort. he sa trump said, how about 3:00 in our offices? thanks, rob. i appreciate you setting this up. trump jr.: if it's what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer. the president's son tweeted photos of the e-mails along with a statement that reads, i first just wanted to have a phone call, but when that didn't work out, they said the woman would be in new york and asked if i would meet. i decide to do take the meeting. the woman said publicly shef wa not a government official and had no information to provide. the lawyer apparently stated she had information regarding campaign promises by the dnc which she believed mr. trump might find important. i agreed with a very tight meeting schedule. i was told she didn't work for the russian government. >> translator: it's very possible they were looking for such information, they wanted it so badly. >> reporter:

this comes from a publicist cold rob goldstone who arranged the june 2016 publicist cold rob goldstone e—mails on your screen. rob goldstone e—mails donald trump was my son and said this would be part of the support for his father, and mrtrumpjnrsaid he of the support for his father, and mr trumpjnr said he loves the idea, at least of learning more about a meeting. there are one to other lines beginning to emerge, and e—mail to lines beginning to emerge, and e—mailto mrtrumpjnr lines beginning to emerge, and e—mail to mr trumpjnr says lines beginning to emerge, and e—mail to mr trump jnr says that there was an offer to provide the trump campaign with documents damaging to hillary clinton, that is one line. and an e—mail as well citing sensitive information that is, quote, part of russia and its government support for mr trump. we should stress that mr trumpjnr is a list offending attending the meeting, but was the line that was around this morning, saying the promise of damaging information did not materialise. but we may get more on that. certainly a very interesting development as th

in fact rob goldstone said i wanted to send it to you first and don jr. never said don't pass it along to my father. but right now we have don jr.'s word and his attorney's word about this. so i think this is something the special counsel is going to have to get an answer to. >> and you spoke with donald trump jr.'s attorney this evening. >> he basically said his client didn't break any laws. the fbi has not reached out for an interview or documentation but said don would do so. don jr. would hand over anything that the fbi would like and said when it comes to these accusations he could have violated campaign finance law, there is an allegation that the russian government wanted to hand over incriminating information. his argument was look we don't know what this was. we can't vouch for this email. are you telling me when someone reaches out saying you have incriminating information about your opponent, you hang up? he said it was all puffery for the woman to get in the door and talk about adoption. >> take a listen to donald trump jr. describing the emai

the air that the meeting be arranged rob goldstone. is an entertainment industry publicist so i think it's fair to say that he was out of his element in. making these communications and andy what he said was just not true it is not true that idol are had a meeting with russian prosecutors about the campaign is not true that the tali is a. lawyer for the russian federation government we understand that she is a private practitioner who represents private clients it is not true that our understanding was that the purpose of meeting was to talk about the campaign. our understanding was only that the purpose of the meeting with the discuss the magnitsky act which is the issue that we understand is how you as. pursuing an interested in present time. meanwhile president ronald trump has praised his son for his transparency in a tweet again claiming that his family is subject to the greatest witch hunting political history political and legal analyst lionel told us there was no substance to the story i mean the bus what russia making it a poi

you have rob goldstone who i spoke to for hours back in march, stating flatly that the -- the kremlin through the aguilar rof business partners of donald trump going back to that 2013 miss universe pageant were seeking to assist trump's candidacy by providing damaging information about hillary clinton. so how extensive was the russian government effort. was this the sole efforts and information to tip the scale or was it it part of this campaign the intelligence community described back in january. >> april, a couple things. if donald trump jr. thought so little of this why bring in the campaign chairman and top adviser? why bring in manafort and jared cu kushner if if he thought so little of this meeting why would he bring in those people who has such influence of donald trump? >> you said it exactly, such influence with donald trump, the man who they wanted to be president of the united states. don, that brings if the question, how wide will this go and how high will this rise to. who else? what higher heights would this implicate someone else? it's touching a nerve in the press roo

david, i want to dig a little deeper into this, what more do we know about rob goldstone? 's sort of a happening guy. i think he's happy to be connected to this story. he's a pop star in addition to everything else he's involved in. that's probably goldstone's biggest claim to fame. other than having a way to get through to donald trump jr. the connection to amin is really the issue here. >> how close are the connections between amin and putin? >> okay, so amin and his father do business. they build things they are building amazing entertainment complexes. amin studied in the united states, he lived there for a long time. they're massive projects, just outside moscow, nobody does that without everybody knowing about it, then, also because arasas is a big time businessman, you're never that big a businessman in russia without being close to power. there's the deals that get done with various people who end up being close to putin. shipping deals, all these trace back to people who are friends of putin. the one time i saw him, he was outside putin's press office. >> is it log

and rob goldstone wrote. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with. and especially later in the summer. on june 7th, goldstone to wrote to set up the meeting and identified as the russian government attorney flying over from moscow. junior told that paul manafort would likely attend with him. this despite trump junior saying in his revised sunday statement, in quote, i asked jared and paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance. trump junior said he was releasing the e-mails. and yesterday, president trump released a short statement saying my son is a high-quality person and i applaud his transparency. but "the new york times" said it was doing a story on those e-mails and as huff post michael calderon reported, the response to the e-mails by 11:00 a.m. and that is exactly when he tweeted them out. >> and on fox news last nigh

the e-mails rob goldstone, a trump acquaintance who set the meeting up.e wrote, "the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. this is obviously high-level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump." a half hour later donald e-mailed back, "thanks, rob, i appreciate that. if it's what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer." and then he forwarded this to kushner and to manafort. the meeting happened. and now all has broken loose as a result of it. donald jr. is like the guy at work who opens the obviously fake document and now everyone in the office has a virus on their computer. [ laughter ] so today that russian lawyer said for an interview with nbc, where she denied having any ties to the russian government at all. >> this morning she denies claims she is connected to a

this is what rob goldstone actually posted on the day of this meeting.checked in to trump tower new york preparing for meeting." "preparing for top secret meeting with trump team and shady russian lawyer." [ laughter ] shh. and of course trump and almost every member of his team have publicly denied having any connection at all to russia at least 20 times, it's preposterous, it's a lie, it's ridiculous. but donald jr. hired a lawyer yesterday. this lawyer in the past represented members of the mafia which actually makes it -- the trumps are like the corleone family if all of them were fredo. every one of them. [ cheers and applause ] but fortunately, the good news is for donald jr. his father, the president, is very lenient when it comes to this sort of thing. >> she deleted the e-mails. she has to go to jail. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: wait a minute. maybe not. i almost feel sorry for him. could you imagine being donald trump jr.? the only thing worse than being donald trump jr. would be being donald trump jr. jr. that would be it. [ laughter ] the presiden

also at the dinner, rob goldstone. yes, that rob goldstone, the very same man who set up that infamous meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. the one that blew up in the face of the white house this week. the meeting laid out in black and white in e-mails released yesterday by the president's own son and namesake, e-mails showing the trump team was ready and willing to work with the russians to hurt hillary clinton and to help donald trump. but the president tried to tell you today, ilts nt's not black white. it's fake news, a witch hunt. so if black and white is not enough, here they are in living color. everyone looks pretty chummy,.nchummy, don't they? here's michael cohen, donald trump's personal attorney who now has a lawyer himself and says he will testify before investigators. wining and dining with this family few of us had ever heard of until now, but the president had. list ton what he said the night after this dinner. >> thigese are the most powerfu people in russia, the richest men in russia