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 hacks as eerily weird, given what they had discussed at trump tower just five days earlier. that seems a bit odd. but one of the sources familiar with the e-mail, he really downplayed the interaction saying that news of the dnc hack was surprising to this group because in the run-up to the trump tower meeting the russian participants had promised information on illicit russian funding of the dnc but that dirt was never provided to trump jr. or kushner or manafort. so don, we reached out to scott ballber, attorney for ike kaveladze who was at that meeting. he does confirm his client received the e malbut he says it was odd because he claims hacking was never discussed at the meeting. but of course, don, with the
laying out, what we ve learned from these transskrimcripts fro senate judiciary committee, the initial story from donald trump jr. and donald trump himself was this was a meeting about adoptions, about u.s. adoptions of basically russian children, russian babies. then it became clear from the e-mails as we found out a long time ago that, no, this was about getting dirt. so this is reiterated in here that this is donald trump jr. very clearly admitting talking about how he wanted some information that was damaging to hillary clinton. yeah. and he was going to get it anywhere he could. and if it came from the russians, fine with him. as he said in the e-mail, i love it. but he tried to say in the transcript how was i to assess where it was coming from? he knew where it was coming from because rob goldstone made it very clear where it was coming from and he knew amen