characterizing here, now, is part of another matter that is being handled by the department of justice. but you did not establish any conspiracy, much less a well-developed one? again, i pass on answering that question. the special counsel did not charge carter page with anything, correct? special counsel did not. all right. my time is expired. i yield back. director mueller, i would like to turn your attention to the june 9th, 2016, trump tower meeting. slide two, which should be on the screen now, is part of an email chain between don junior donald trump jr. and a publicist, representing the son of a russian oligarch. the email exchange ultimately led to the now infamous june 9th, 2016, meeting. the email from the publicist to donald trump jr. reads in part, the crown prosecutor of russia offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that
lines of the report, i support it. anything beyond that is not part of that which i would support. i think it does, sir. i think it shows an infuriating lack of patriotism from the very people seeking the highest office in the land. director mueller, manafort didn t share this information in exchange for. i can t answer that question without knowing more about the questio question. it s clear he was hoped to be paid back money he was owed by russian olgarchs for the passing of campaign information. that true. as my colleague, mr. heck, will discuss later, greed corrupts. sharing private campaign information in exchange for money represents a particular kind of corruption, one that presents a national security risk to our country, sir? i m not going to reply on that. i don t have the expertise in
would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and is part of russia and its government s support of mr. trump. in this email, donald trump jr. is being told that the russian government wants to pass along information which would hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. is that correct? that s correct. now, trump junior s response to that email is slide three. he said, and i quote, if it is what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer. then donald junior invited senior campaign officials paul manafort and jared kushner to the meeting. did he not? he did. this email exchange is evidence of an offer of illegal assistance. is it not? i cannot adopt that characterization. isn t it against the law for a presidential campaign to accept anything of value from a foreign government? generally speaking, yes, but generally the cases are unique.
betrayed our country, lied to the grand jury, tampered with witnesses and who repeatedly tried to use his position with the trump campaign to make more money. let s focus on the betrayal and greed. your investigation, sir, found a number of troubling contacts between mr. manafort and russian individuals before and after the campaign. is that right, sir? right. correct. in addition to the june 9th meeting just discussed, manafort also met several times with a man named konstantin kilimnik, who was found to have ties to the russian government. correct. he didn t just meet with him but shared private trump campaign polling information with this man linked to russian intelligence. is that correct, sir? that is correct. in return, the information was shared with a russian oligarch tied to vladimir putin. is that correct, sir? allegedly. director mueller, meeting with him wasn t enough. sharing internal polling
united states attorney. as a result, we structured our investigation around evidence for possible use in prosecution of federal crimes. we did not reach what you would call counterintelligence conclusions. we did, however, set up processes in the office to identify and pass counterintelligence information on to the fbi. members of our office periodically briefed the fbi about counterintelligence information. in addition, there were agents and analysts from the fbi who are not on our team, but whose job it was to identify counterintelligence information in our files and to disseminate that information to the fbi. for these reasons, questions about what the fbi has done with the counter intelligence information obtained from our investigation should be directed to the fbi. i also want to reiterate a few