on hillary clinton. jared kushner who was sitting next to me looked like he was becoming more and more agitated as the attorney continued. at which point jared kushner said, i have no idea what you re talking about. could you possibly refocus? and the attorney started again. then she started talking about how unfair it was for the adoption of russian children by americans. then my ears picked up because i was like, what is she talking about? why is what s adoption got to do with any of this? don junior stood up and said, i really don t know why you would address this to us. my father s a private citizen. i suggest you address it to the obama administration. they re in power. they can perhaps do something. goldstone says he ushered the russians out of the room. the meeting lasted about 20 minutes. i jumped up. i was like, thank you very much. thank you, goodbye, we have to leave, and i was horrified. the three russians who were
sentence. emin just called and asked me to contact you. that s true? that is true. the crown prosecutor of russia, not true? it s not true. what it is, is my interpretation. what i was talking about was this attorney from russia. so, you then say, that they re offering to provide the trump campaign with some, quote, official documents and information that would incriminate hillary in her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. what parts of that are true? so what is true is the call so what emin had said was potentially damaging to the democrats. so the democrats only had one candidate, which was hillary clinton. i also was writing this to the son of somebody who was a reality tv star who was running for president and who most people, most polls, believed had as much chance of becoming president as myself.
but he quite candidly said, yes, yes, i set up the meeting and described the meeting. the one thing he did not want to say in the first phone call is he said he had done it on behalf of a russian client. but he did not want to name the client. when i first was asked again about this meeting, the only thing i could remember was adoption. come on, you didn t remember you had offered dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government? well, i didn t remember that s not the meeting, that s the e-mail but what the meeting actually transpired. the only thing that sat with me was, it was that ridiculous meeting about adoption. goldstone says he continued on with his vacation. so i went shopping and tried on crowns and took selfies and it was more hats. and you posted them. and i posted them. you were not getting it? i was not getting it, no. it wasn t long before someone slipped goldstone s e-mail exchange with don junior to the new york times reporters. i mean my j
trump tower in an in-depth interview with cynthia mcfadden of nbc news. so the meeting is set. don junior has replied to you, if it s what you say it is, i love it. and i d like to say here, i have a different interpretation of that. to what the media has had over the last year. i was like, thank god. he knows that i don t really know all of what i m saying here. and i obviously don t have all the facts. so if it s what i m saying, he loves it. but it s like you ve turned off your thinking brain, rob. if it s what you say it is, if the russian government is going to turn over dirt against hillary clinton he loves it. yeah. i was focused on me. i was focused on saving face. not embarrassing myself. not embarrassing my clients. not whether this was an unpatriotic or maybe even treasonous offer. correct. goldstone arrived at trump
at the meeting, have testified that don junior asked specifically about where the dirt was on hillary. do you recall that? no, not at all. did anyone in the meeting say, where s the dirt about hillary? no. so the russians are not telling the truth. if that s what they say. that s what they testified to. veselnitskaya spoke to nbc news last year about the meeting. translator: i would say in one word, it was a disappointment of sorts. nbc news obtained her talking points of the meeting. most of the document is criticism of the magnitsky act. there s only one mention of hillary clinton in passing in regarding donations to the dnc. translator: it was maybe, for me, a completely insignificant part. at no point was there ever compromising material about