. >> laura, then there is this bit from rob goldstone. he is the middleman who helped organize the meeting. he thought there would be a smoking gun. okay, so here's what it says. after a few minutes of this labor presentation, jared kushner, who was sitting next to me, appeared somewhat agitated by this and said, i really have no idea what you're talking about. could you please focus a bit more and maybe just start again? and i recalled that she, meaning the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, began the presentation exactly where she had begun it last time, almost word for word, which seemed by his body language to infuriate him even more." it seems to contradict what we previously heard from kushner, who basically described himself as bored in the meeting. what do you think? >> it doesn't entirely contradict it. he said he was bored. infuriated is the word of somebody else. either way, you have somebody in the big controversy what may be conflicting testimony is how long he entertained this. whether he was infuriated or bored or not,

says we went our separate ways and rob goldstone came up and apologized. undercurrent of all this, the testimony that was released today is that they came away disappointed. they were very upset that they seemed to have wasted their time. paul manafort, the chairman of the campaign was there. jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, they both apparently were very bored. jared kushner was visibly angry. they came here thinking they were going to get incriminating information from the hillary clinton campaign. they ended up empty handed. >> it's a fair point, an unknown person asking about the meeting, he was one of the russians involved, the person writes, how was the meeting with trump people, what happened? he responds, and i'm quoting here, meeting was boring, the mugs russians did not have any bad info on hillary. so what is mueller's take away? >> there's a lot of information here, most of it not flattering to the trump campaign. but does it move the needle illegally? it's not illegal to obtain opposition research. it's illegal to obtain opposition r

prosecutors asked about the exchange with music publicist rob goldstone. you say if it's what you say, i love it. what is the it that you love? potential information about an opponent. >> potential incrumb nating information on hillary clinton? >> yes. despite that donald trump jr. said that he didn't actually ask for incriminating information on hillary clinton during the meeting saying i don't believe i specifically asked that, no. one russian associate, the russian lobbyist and former soviet counterintelligence officers together investigators that donald trump was in charge of the meeting. he was definitely in charge. he said, i believe you have some information for us and ms. natalia veselnitskaya said yes, indeed i do have information. a second russian associate contradicted donald trump jr. saying donald trump jr. asked both natalia veselnitskaya and akhmetshin if they got anything on hillary. phone records anything that on the day donald trump jr. was planning the meeting he placed two phone calls to blocked numbers. days later after the meeting occ

goldstone, rob goldstone who directly set up this meeting between donald trump jr. the russians apparently said that the russian lawyer veselnitskaya's representation seemed to infuriate kushner here. i think it wasn't providing what kushner thought it was providing in getting dirt from hillary clinton and the actual meeting itself did turn out perhaps more than jared kushner wanted to be about the magnitsky act and perhaps he wanted more. jared cush pkushner who was sit next to me appeared somewhat agitated and said i really have no idea what you're talking about, shimon. >> he does say that. i'm reading through that, too, here, john. it says that he was agitated and seemed to infuriate jared kushner, though veselnitskaya to don junior, i hope you will look out for the magnitsky act and it did infuriate others. jared kushner from reading the transcripts was there and left to take a phone call. he said so much that he had his assistant call in so he could leave the room. he did leave the room. i really do think it's important in reading this that it's part of what w

had already released his e-mail exchange wes rob goldstone in which he was promised dirt on the clinton campaign. goldstone said it was part of the official russian government and president trump's candidacy. donald trump jr. said i love it. he wanted to get information about hillary clinton that could be damaging to her campaign and we now know that rob goldstone testified that he believed this could be, quote, bombshell revelation to donald trump jr. and others in this meeting. so there were a number of discussions that donald trump jr. had with goldstone and with russian pop star amin agalarov, and when asked about this coming from russian sources, donald trump junior said this, i'll read you from the transcript. he said i was interested in listening to information, the question, information on hillary clinton? yes. it came potentially from the russian government? again, i have no way of assessing where it came from, but i was willing to listen. what trump junior testified is that the dirt did not ultimately materialize and he did not inform his father about this meeting, but we are

just take this excerpt from rob goldstone, who is the middleman who connected the trump camp with the russians. goldstone said i was waiting if there was some smoking gun, which was why i had been asked to do this, after a few minutes of this labored presentation, jared kushner who is sitting next me appeared somewhat agitated by this and said i have no idea what you're talking about, could you please folk as you bit more and maybe start again. i recall that she, meaning the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, began the presentation exactly where she had last time, almost word for word, which seemed by his body language to infuriate him even more. donald jr. told senate investigators he did not tell his father about the meeting. listen to this exchange donald jr. had about his july 8th stating saying the meeting was about russian adoptions. the question is to the best of your knowledge did the president provide any ed it's to tits to ? and he said he may have commented through hope hicks. remind us about the emerging story line about who knew what and when, tom. >> well, this meeti

he did not mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting after british publicist named rob goldstone told him that the person had information that might hurt hillary clinton's campaign. the "washington post" reported that president trump dictated the statement on air force one. the committee asked if that was correct to which trump jr. replied, "i don't know. i never spoke to my father about it." the chairman of the judiciary committee senator chuck grassley says the public can read through the documents and come to their own conclusions. committee democrats say they need more from mr. trump. >> dana: then i was watching you trying to figure out, trying to piece all of this together. do you know if his comments provided through hope hicks were incorporated into the final statement? because this is all done on air force one as the president's flying home from the first meeting in europe. >> right. that was sort of one of the big questions, one of the big concerns is there was an exchange where president trump, the initial statement that came out on july 8. there were questions about w

british publicist rob goldstone set up the whole thing. then on the russia site you had an attorney, two lop byists and a translator. he says this meet was primarily about adoptions. turned out that was not the case as he acknowledged a few days later, remember that? that's when he said it was about getting dirt on hillary clinton with e-mails showing it was part of a bush by the russian government to help the trump campaign. lawyers for the president's son said it was pretty clear pretty quick that the russians had nothing to offer in that meeting and trump, by the way, has said did he not know about the meeting until it was reported in the news. we want to get to ken dilanian who has been leading the team sifting through these 2,500 pages of new documents, transcripts, statements, notes that are out there. let's go through what stands out to you. >> well, hallie, we have sort of competing narratives here by the republicans and the democrats on the jaw dish airy committee. republicans put these transcripts out because they believe that th

to the agent who represented the russians, music producer and worst case scenario simon cowell, rob goldstone( laughter ) simon cowell fans here tonight. ( laughter ) he told the committee that the oligarch's son insisted he help set up a meeting with donald trump, jr. to pass along dirt on hillary clinton, overriding goldstone's own warnings that the meeting would be a bad idea. and if he thought it was a bad idea, you know it was a bad idea, because here are some things he thought were good ideas. this hat, this hat, this hat. ( laughter ) not to mention these videos: >> hello andy pandy. i like to condition and moisturize my hair. ♪ oooh ooh oooh i can't get it off. >> stephen: when you're watching the royal wedding this weekend and thinking about how classy the british are, on behalf of the patriots who died at lexington and concord, i want you to remember rob goldstone. ( laughter ) now, prior to these transcripts coming out, the trump team had planned to use this anniversary as a turning point in their campaign to end mueller's probe. it's a turning point all right. you thought that pro

rob goldstone was there. the music promoter who helped set up the meeting with donald trump junior. he offered a connection to a russian oligarch whose son is in the music business. it featured donald trump junior in a music video, and the elder son met the duo when they offered to bring trump's miss universe pageant to moscow. >> finally a representative at the meeting. his presence hasn't been explained. he claimed to be there as a translator for the russian lawyer. he allegedly stayed even after discovering the lawyer brought her own interpreter. so if she had an interpreter, what was that guy doing there? nbc news intelligence and national security reporter, ken joins me now. he's the man who originally broke the news about the trump tower meeting. also with me former u.s. attorney, joyce vance, and mike memmali. >> ken, we have 2500 pages released less than two hours ago. we want to suppretress this is republican-led committee. and this is a lot of information. and the information is far different from what robert muler is working on. for you, i know you haven't seen all 2500 p

one of the e-mails that was released by congress earlier today which we wrote about shows that rob goldstone sent essentially a propaganda document to rhona gragt. gragt is president trump's longtime personal assistan. she was helping manage what got in front of him, what meetings he had during the transition. goldstone sent this propaganda document to gragt in november after election day. she saw it and thought it was important enough that she passed it along to bannon and asked him what they should do with it. bannon didn't reply to her e-mail in the documents that have been released. but what this shows is that the russians were able get their propaganda, very opposed to the mag newtski act sanctions -- the russians were able the get that propaganda into the hands of influential and powerful people in trump's inner circle. >> clint, you have had a chance to look at these documents. anything set off alarm bells? >> everything sets off alarm bells. what other country was having lots of meetings with the trump campaign? i can't name one. >> let me just point out that in these documents trump

as far as we know when rob goldstone was writing this e-mail, june of last year, the special counsel'sller's team, didn't yet know about the trump tower meeting involving donald trump jr. and the russians. the mueller team reportedly didn't know about the trump tower meeting until it was reported in the "new york times." this e-mail was sent 11 days before that report in the "new york times." so who were the federal attorneys investigating who were asking him questions and bothering him in this matter? that's mystery number one. i don't know what to make of it. mystery number two. there's a million things. here's the second thing i want to focus on. in the midst of a flurry of phone calls setting up the meeting, don junior had an 11 minute call with a phone number that was blocked. the judiciary committee asked donald trump jr. who that call was with. who was on that blocked call line? he said he doesn't remember. then he was asked, quote, does your father used a blocked cell phone or any numbers you call him on? >> don junior responded, quote, i don't know. quote, so you don't know if

so on june 3rd, he gets the e-mails from rob goldstone saying we've got you know, we've got dirt for you. on the 7th, the then candidate trump is accepting the win in new jersey in the primary and during his speech, he makes the statement, i am going to have a lot to tell you about the clintons. i'm going to give a major speech early next week. probably on monday. the meeting takes place on the 9th and they don't get the dirt they were looking for. i am absolutely convinced that then candidate trump was communicated with on the 3rd and that blocked phone call we could have actually access if we an independent intelligence committee that was in fact going to subpoena that information from a telecom company. of course, that wasn't the case during our investigation. >> why don't you ask mr. nunes to do a revision and go out and ask for the phone records and subpoena them and see whether father was talking to son and got the heads-up from him so he could tell the new jersey voters had some dirt? >> i this i that the committee should reopen its investigation. there's been so much that has

one of the transcripts we got today was of the committee's interview with rob goldstone, colorful musicting at trump tower in june 2016 with a whole bunch of russians for the purpose of getting dirt on hillary clinton. the committee released a new batch of rod goldstone's e-mails and texts. the one i'm interested in is from about a year later, june of 2017, goldstone writes rather frantically to a contact in russia, emen agalarov, who had asked him to set up that trump tower meeting in the first place. quote, "that meeting i set up for your father with the trump campaign and the russian attorney and her colleagues, it's causing massive problems. i've been interviewed by attorneys for the second time about it. they're concerned because it links don junior with officials from russia which he denied meeting. i did say at the time this was an awful idea and a terrible meeting. i am really not happy being put in this situation with federal attorneys investigating, et cetera." federal attorneys investigating, et cetera? as far as we know, when rob goldstone was writing this e-mail, june of la

using trump family friend rob goldstone as an example. >> goldstone told the committee that the oligarcheeting with donald trump jr. to pass along dirt on hillary clinton, overriding goldstone's own warnings that the meeting would be a bad idea. and if he thought the meeting was a bad idea, you know it was a bad idea because here are just a few thing he thought were good ideas. this hat. this hat. this hat, not to mention these videos. >> i can't get it off! >> when you're watching the royal wedding this weekend and thinking about how classy the british are, on behalf of the patriots who died at lexington and concord, i want you to remember rob goldstone. >> stephen colbert gets tonight's last word and this week's last word. coming up, "washington post" reporter robert costa joins brian williams with the breaking news about the fbi informant who met with three trump advisers during the campaign. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight the president floats out the notion that someone from the fbi infiltrated his campaign. but tonight new reporting on what an fbi inform

in his testimony he told the committee he agreed to the meeting after a publicist named rob goldstoned official documents and information that would incriminate clinton, her dealings with russia and the information would be useful to the campaign. he claims he was skeptical from the beginning but felt he should listen to what they had to say. trump junior said he did not tell his father about the email. when asked why wouldn't you share it with your father given your response that you loved it especially later in the summer, trump junior replied because i wouldn't bring him anything that's unsubstantiated especially from a guy like rob before i knew what it was actually about myself. >> heather: donald trump junior not the only person at this meeting, right? >> right. these are the six key players, three from the trump campaign were at the meeting, trump junior, paul manafort and jared kushner. according to the committee kushner and manafort declined to be interviewed in person by the committee. they submitted statements as did the russian lawyer. these people were interviewed by the

jared kushner, rob goldstone. who else have we heard from a new documents? heard from paul manafort. he is facing charges from bob mueller's investigation. this is more than five hours of fromioning and that's just donald trump, jr. alone. on the flipside you have had a committee staff not only from the senate judiciary committee but also from the select senate intelligence committee. we have had on the house side. i can tell you yesterday i spoke on the telephone with tim nurnberg, a previous close confidant of the campaign who told me they are growing increasingly frustrated that this has dragged on and that they are also facing questions from bob mueller's investigation. for the folks who are being investigated and the folks around them this is something that is a daily type of questioning that is often perceived by them is very much continuing and there is no sign of it stopping anytime soon. david: one of the things that doesn't make sense to me is if this is all the story there is about donald trump, jr. why is it that this music promoter that sherry j

. >> to ken, one of the e-mails from the don junior or this is from rob goldstone to his russian contacte was the middleman. i have told them what i know. i'm not happy put in this position with federal attorneys investigating. that's an interesting window into the mind set at time. >> before this happened, donald trump junior said he had no connections, no interactions with russians and lam basted democrats who were raising that as an issue. what this e-mail shows is that once the reporters started asked about it, attorneys swung into action and were concerned because they knew how incriminating this would look. that's when the stories started to get into place. we know that robert mueller is investigating the actions of the campaign druing donald trump the candidate. >> illinois senator was critical of chairman grassley today. let's play a bit of what he told garrett. >> there's an important role for the judiciary committee to play. not just to find out what happened before but our chart, our responsibility of the constitution is to make sure it never happens again. at this point littl

the meeting almost didn't happen according to the music reporter who set it up, rob goldstone said i believe that was a bad idea and we shouldn't do it and gave the reason being that i'm a music publicist, politics i knew nothing about. once the meeting started things unfolded like this. according to a us citizen of georgian descent works for a group run by russian oligarch mr. trump asked if they got anything on hillary to which he responded why don't you do your own research, we gave you the idea but a russian lobbyist was asked by investigators was there any discussion of anything that might be considered collusion between the trump campaign, not the way understand it, no. trump junior told congress the meeting was focused on russian adoptions. today trump junior said i answered every question asked and was candid and forthright with the committee. democratic lawmakers, not so sure. >> i have no confidence he has told the whole truth. >> the top republican on the judiciary committee may have them back to testify again. this morning obama era intelligence, a bipartisan group of sen

one is the agalaras are the ones who robbed rob goldstone, so he's going back to the origins of that relationship. and to your point about quid pro quo, there are questions about the u.n. policy and the questions about sanction. it goes back to that point of was there a relation between the trumps and the russians. >> and there is one question about whether they softened some of the questions where ukraine is concerned. >>> all right, guys. stick around. there's more news we're following. recertify or abandon. the deadline to decide on the nuclear deal involving iran is looming. this as the white house issues its iran statement with one very, very consequential typo, as they're calling it. >>> plus, president trump postpones his deadline on oppose rg tariffs on a major trade threat. we have new details. stick around. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. your company is and the

. >> rob goldstone who helped set up that meeting between the trump campaign and the russians, he was also talking about the possibility of actually setting up a meeting between donald trump and vladmir putin back in july of 2015. that's almost a year before the trump tower meeting. what does that tell you about goldstone's role and the time line of this russian out reach? >> we know that for a long time donald trump wanted to meet vladmir putin when he was doing the miss universe pageant in mas c -- moscow. the russians realized they were onto a big asset that donald trump was dominated as republican nominee. they were coming back hard to try to make something happen. it looked like the russians thought they were onto a good thing. they thought donald trump would be in their corner. >> it seems to be a pattern of donald trump junior, his phone calls with a blocked phone number around that controversy meeting. what do you make of that? >> it's very hard for me to know what a blocked number was. i would imagine at some point mueller's team will be able decipher it. my expertise is what

told the committee that he agreed to the meeting apartment a publicist rob goldstone said that someone had documents that would incriminate clinton. the big issue here is the meeting and the subsequent explanations of it initially. the president's son told "the new york times" the meeting was mostly about russian adoptions. never mentioning the fact that he agreed to the meeting after being told the person had information that might hurt clinton's campaign. some called trump jr.'s initial statement misleading and not long after "the washington post" reported that president trump actually dictated it on air force one. the committee asked that "the washington post" report was correct to which trump jr. replied, i don't know, i never spoke with my father about it. later in the interview, mr. trump suggested that the president was involved in drafting the statement through former white house communications director hope hicks. he also said that she wanted to know if i spoke to him and i chose not to because i didn't want to bring him into something that he had nothing to do with. trace? >>

russian music promoter who set up meeting rob goldstone told congress it almost didn't happen.t says i thought it was bad idea and we shouldn't do it, i gave reason, i'm a music publicist, politics i knew nothing about. democratic senators they doubt trump, jr., is telling the whole truth. they want him back here testifying in an open hearing. melissa. melissa: that sounds fun. peter, thank you. david: i sweat that is just what they want. here is senator john thune of south dakota, senator republican conference chair. i haven't read all the thousands of pages but i read enough it is pretty clear what was happening here, the russians spy, she admits what she was, what is her name, natalia she was baiting the trump campaign, she was baiting them by suggesting she had negative information about hillary clinton. apparently she was doing the same with democrats about donald trump? >> i don't think it should come as any surprise that the russians were trying to interfere with the elections in 2016 on both sides. i think more comes out, the more clear it is that is sort of a garbled m

and we're goes to hear rob goldstone statement. and paul manafort also sitting in on this meeting. so, we're hoping to learn more details about this meeting which a lot of people say looms large, at least in establishing the intent of the trump campaign in incriminating information about hillary clinton. >> i got to ask you, how does the white house feel about this transcript being released? >> you know, we have not heard from them but it can't be a great day for the white house anytime we're focusing on this kind of a subject. >> well, we don't know the answer to that yet, because we don't know what's in the transcript. ken, i know you'll bring that to us as soon as you see what's in it. >>> and now the other massive story, north korea threatening to walk away with that historic summit with president trump. it seems like it happened fast. it certainly did, all within the last 24 hours. it was just before noon on tuesday that we got word that north koreans were cancelling a high-level meeting with south korea that was supposed to take place today. the official reason, joint militar

he did not mention the fact he agreed to the meeting after a british publicist named rob goldstone told him the person had information that might hurt hillary clinton's campaign. "washington post" reported that trump dictated this on air force one. when asked if it was correct trump jr. said i don't know. he was asked if he provided any edits to the statement and trump jr. said he may have commented through hope hicks. do you know if the comments were incorporated to the final statement? trump jr., "i believe some may have been but this was an effort through lots of people, mostly counsel." the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee says the public has a right to know about all the interviews. the committee democrat says mr. trump's answers were not good enough. >> he needs to come back before the committee to testify in person under oath. there is a lot that needs to be explained. i have no confidence he has told the whole truth right now. >> the public has a right to know and the public can go through the 2,000 pages and make up their own mind and daw -- draw their own concl

rob goldstone told congress, i believed it was a bad idea and we shouldn't do it and i gave the reason for that being, i'm a music publicist. politics i knew nothing about. once the meeting started, things unfolded like this, according to a u.n. citizen of georgian descent who works for a group run by a russian oligarchs. mr. trump asked if they got anything on hillary, to which he responded, why don't you do your own research on her, we gave you the idea. but the russian lobbyist was asked by investigators, was there any discussion of anything that might reasonably consider collusion between the trump campaign on the russian government? not the way i understand it, noah. trump jr. told congress that, the meeting was instead primarily focused on russian adoptions. today, trump jr. said the public can now see that oh four over five hours i answered every question asked and was candid and forthright with the committee. democratic lawmakers, not so sure of. >> i have no confidence that he has told the whole truth. >> reporter: and so the top republican on the judiciary committee made duri

but smoking gun to use rob goldstone's words, probably not. there are a couple of interesting things that shimon pointed out that robert mueller clearly does know the answer to, but we don't. like the fact that don, junior did have an 11-minute phone call after he hung up, you know, learning about this -- the promise of this meeting, had an 11-minute phone call with a blocked caller. we don't know who that is. the caller knows who that is. there's suspicion it's his father. and he denies it. >> if you get a phone call from a white house official, it's blocked. but anyone can block a call. according to documents, 25 minutes after the first call ended, you made an outgoing call to that same number. but a call lasted four minutes in the transcripts from a blocked number. with whom did you have a call? i have no idea. now, people -- busy people do forget some of their phone calls. but the yi have no idea part, he's absolutely certain he didn't tell his father. did your father, the candidate, know you were meeting russians in trump to youer? -- tru

he didn't mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting at a british publicist named rob goldstone said that the person might have information to help hillary clinton's campaign. the "washington post" said the president dictated the statement on air force one. the committee asked if that was correct to which trump jr. said i don't know. i never spoke to my father about it. he was later asked did the president provide any edits to the state or input. trump jr. said he may have commented through hope hicks. next question. do you know if his comment through hope hicks were incorporated in the final statement? trump jr. said i believe some may have been but this was an effort through a lot of people, mostly counsel. chuck grassley said the president can read through these documents, there's over 2,000 of them and come to their own conclusions. the democrats say they need more information from mr. trump. >> he needs to come back before the committee, testify in person under oath. i have no confidence that he has told the whole truth. >> the president's son-in-law, jared kushner and paul mana

rob goldstone told congress i believed it with a bad idea and we shouldn't do it and i give the reason for that being that i am a music publicist. politics i knew nothing about. once the meeting started, things unfolded like this, according to a u.s. citizen of georgian descent who works for a group run by a russian oligarch. mr. trump asked for a godly on hillary. to which he responded why don't you do your own research on her. we gave you the idea. a russian lobbyist was asked by investigators, was there any discussion of anything that might reasonably considered collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. not the way i understand, no. trump, jr. told congress that the meeting and service primarily focused on russian adoption. today trump, jr. said the public can see that for over five hours, i answered every question asked and was cagey and forthright with the community. the democratic lawmakers not so sure. >> i have no confidence he told the whole truth. >> top republican on the judiciary committee may bring trump, jr. back to testify again. >> i will take it

patriots who died at lexington and concord, i want you to remember rob goldstone. >> stephen colbert gets tonight's last word and this week's last word. coming up, "washington post" reporter robert costa joins brian williams with the breaking news about the fbi informant who met with three trump advisers during the campaign. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight the president floats out the notion that someone from the fbi infiltrated his campaign. but tonight new reporting on what an fbi informant was actually investigating inside the trump camp. >>> plus rudy giuliani claims robert mueller has narrowed the scope of potential questions for donald trump, which would officially qualify as an interesting development. >>> and we're live in santa fe, texas, tonight where ten people are dead, ten wounded in a school shooting outside houston as "the 11th hour" begins on a friday night. >>> and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight the death toll is ten in santa fe, texas, following this nation's latest mass school shooting. t

it was set up by rob goldstone, a british music publicist. goldstone had emailed trump junior he had dirt on hillary clinton that was "part of russia and its government's support fo" mr. tr trump junior replied, "if it's what you say, i love it." and he later told the committee, "i had no waof assessing where it came from, but i was willing to listen," and he ed incriminating information. the same day trump junior set up the meeting, his father promised to soon reveal new revelations: >> we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintns. i ink you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> schifrin: but trumpheunior told t committee he didn't inform his father about the meeting "because i wouldn't bring him anything that's e unsubstantiated... befoknew what it was actually about myself." hendaid the same last summer called the meeting a waste of time. >> it was such awaothing. thernothing to tell. i mean, i wouldn't have remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it w

rob goldstone, the british music publicist said he expected something big, perhaps a smoking gun. i'm setting up a meeting for someone that is going to bring you damaging information about somebody who was running to become the president of the united states. i thought that was worthy of the word smoking gun. instead the russian lawyer began talking about russian adoptions. that, according to goldstone, triggered kushner and he appeared agitated and said, i really have no idea what you're talking about. could you please focus a bit more and maybe just start again,she delved into adoption again and it seemed to infuriate him even more goldstone testified. after the meeting goldstone immediately called the russian pop star who had asked goldstone to set up the meeting. goldstone message, this was the most embarrassing thing you've ever asked me to do. i've just sat in a meeting about adoption. trump jr. testified that goldstone apologized to him for wasting our time. according to his testimony, trump jr. said he never told his father about the meeting. but on june 6th, shortly after

rob goldstone who arranged the meeting testifies that he expected something big.eeting for someone that is going to bring you damaging information about springboa somebody who was running to become the president of the united states. i thought that was worthy of the words smoking gun. instd e, the russian lawyer net sky area ban talking and goldstone says he called the russian pop star. goldstone's message, this was the most thing you've ever asked me to do. i've just sat in a meeting about adoption. trump jr. testified that goldstone apologized to him for wasting our time. trump jr. says he never told his father about the meeting. but on june 6th, shortly after the meetingarranged, trump jr. made an 11-minute phone call to a blocked number. the manager testified that the president's primary residence has a blocked number. when the meeting first came to light more than a year later in a "new york times" story, the trump team was left flailing for a response. ultimately, they crafted a misleading one. aboard air force one as the president returned from the g-20 sum

rob goldstone in the room and helped arrange the meeting said the focus of the discussion began to, quote, infuriate jared kushner. after a few minutes of this labored presentation goldstone received, jared kushner who was sitting next to me appeared somewhat agitated by this and said, i really have no idea what you're talking about. don jr. testified the meeting lasted 20 to 30 minutes and at the conclusion goldstone apologized to him for what he believed was wasting our time. dond jr. believed there to be a pretty substantial delta between the meetings original purpose and what actually took place. asked if he informed his father about the meeting and the russians offer to supply dirt on clinton, don jr. said he did not. explaining that he, quote, wouldn't bring him anything that is unsubstantiated especially from a guy like rob before i knew what it was about before myself. and shortly after arranging the meeting, don jr. made an 11-minute phone call to a blocked number, asked if he remembers who the call was with, trump jr. said i don't. democrats note that former trump campaign aide

calls between himself and the russian developer who was pushing for this meeting according to rob goldstone-- i'm sorry the british publicist who help set it up. they were pushing for this meeting with the trump campaign people and so the question was, did you ever speak and he says, i don't think we ever did. he says it's possible. it's possible they left each other voice mails. >> evan we're just getting more information from these thousands of pages of transcripts. let's get a quick break in. we'll have more on this right after this. ♪ last night took an l, but tonight i bwhat's an l?♪ the rap singer took a loss, and now he's ok again. right. yeah, you can get a mortgage that avoids pmi, but there's no way to avoid mip... hey! this'll help. rocket mortgage® by quicken loans® makes the complex simple. so, origination fees and... this takes care of it, thank you. understand the details and get approved in as few as eight minutes by america's largest mortgage lender. bounce back. right, right, right, right. i get it now. ♪ i woke up in beast mode, with my girl that's... ♪ it was here. i cou

congressional investigators asked about a number of issues, including questions for this man, rob goldstoneestimony that the meeting almost didn't happen because he said it was really kind of a confusing, chaotic situation with the russians saying i am a music publicist, not someone who knows a lot about politics. >> bill: more to come when that draft report goes public. back across the pond we go. sandra. >> sandra: meanwhile, some more breaking news back at home. it has now been if you can believe this, one year since robert mueller began his investigation and now president trump's attorney is calling out fired f.b.i. director jim comey for engineering the whole thing. >> what is your optimal timeline for this to wrap up? >> they should do it today. as soon as possible. i think that they have the facts from which they can write their report. if you write a fair report, fine. if you're going to write an unfair report write it and we'll combat it and we're ready to rip it apart. >> sandra: congressman daryl issa joins me now. first of all, your thoughts one year has now passed. what do you

jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, who is then the campaign chair, natalia veselnitskaya, and a rob goldstone. that's meeting number one, june. two months later, another meeting, same venue, time you have donald trump jr., different cast of characters, erik prince, george nader and joel zamel. you want to focus on the social media manipulation. the first meeting was about having dirt straight out provided by the russians on hillary clinton. this, was about social media side. how extensive was, to your knowledge, that kind of manipulation and how effective could that have been to move the election in the direction of donald trump? >> i don't know how extensive based on this last meeting because it seems there's some debate about it they follow-up on this or actually do it. the motto of the group was shape reality, which is fascinating. what we've seen even before the election, the russians kicked off the wave but now they just ride the tide. these companies that are using social media to manipulate audiences to try and push them towards a certain candidate or against them and we see this in th

called back agalarov then e-mailed rob goldstone to thank him. trump jr.d call was with. that will be an area of great interest, i assume, for bob mueller and with subpoena power can find out whose number that is between the two calls with a agalarov. >> let's think about two things the. phone company has to bill you for what's going on. secondly they have to route the number being dialed to you so they know what the number is. if they know it, mueller can learn that number through a subpoe subpoena. >> do you think they understand, jeffrey, that mueller can get -- maybe they don't. where do you think things stand watching rudy trying to vouch for the president, "newsroom tokyo" -- michael cohen in the cross fires of the mueller probe and and maybe i'm overstating it but it seems like rudy giuliani is just kind of like not stable as he presents himself the american public vouching for the president. >> i prefer runaway beer truck. >> you like that one? >> that's a joe scarborough expression. >> it just seems like any time he goes on air he makes things wor