in the meeting where donald trump jr., his brother-in-law, jared kushner, and trump campaign chair paul manafort. don came out and saw these people. they went in and i said, thank you very much, i m leaving. and he said, where are you going? and i said i m leaving and he said why don t you just sit in so you can get people out at the end. i found myself in the meeting. was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? not as far as i was aware. i decided i would use the opportunity to check my e-mails, just sit there, but to keep half an ear open. my eyes were definitely open. because although i thought, well, i don t really know much about this subject. i m smart enough i ll be able to tell if there s a change in body language. goldstone said he noticed the mood deflate as the attorney talked about sanctions and the magnitsky act. it didn t sound like useful dirt
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we go inside the room with a firsthand account. suddenly what should have been two people and don junior was now don, manafort, jared. who would have their campaign manager, their son, their son-in-law all attend this meeting to talk about adoption? it didn t make sense. it could have been used as a green light back at the kremlin. most campaigns never would have taken that meeting. this campaign was happy to take it. he s talked to congress, the mueller team, the grand jury and now to us. rob goldstone with the inside story of the trump tower meeting. tell us what happened. was the dirt on hillary clinton forthcoming? it was the e-mail that set
hillary clinton. not from my mouth, not from my documents. an attorney for the agalarovs tells nbc news that no one in the russian government asked them to arrange the meeting. jared kushner s attorney said his client went into the meeting not knowing what it was about, didn t participate, and left before it was over. jared was told about a meeting with his brother-in-law. no topic was mentioned. when jared got into the room the conversation was about russian adoption. he was probably in the room for 10 or 12 minutes. what happened before he came in and what happened afterwards, he wasn t there to see. when the meeting ended, goldstone said he was worried he had annoyed don junior. i said it was the most embarrassing thing. he said to me, you know, i do lots of meetings, that s fine. it was kind of like there, there, it s okay. then he said i just have no idea what that was about. coming up, the story breaks. come on, you didn t remember you had offered dirt on hillary cl
off a chain of events leading to the meeting. just a few sentences long, but every word subject to intense scrutiny and speculation. would you read it to us. sure. good morning. amon just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father 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. the father of course? then-candidate donald trump. and the e-mail s author? an unlikely man to be in the center of what would become a political firestorm. rob goldstone sat down with nbc news cynthia mcfadden to tell his story. you have been called a wide variety of names over the past year. useful idiot, dunce, clown, bonkers, puppet of the kremlin,