kushner, roger stone there is highlighted there. and i m asking you about roger stone because obviously there was this episode, and you were questioned about the special counsel about this where you helped arrange for roger stone a meeting between stone and some purporting to the russian or someone who apparently was russian promising dirt on hillary clinton. so twheent fawouldn t that falle document request? it wouldn t because this gentleman who was an inform meant for several years turned out to be offering information from ukrainian national who worked for the hillary clinton campaign. he has been that s your assertion there, by the way. that s actually there s no proof to back that up. i absolutely have proof. john, you re wrong, i have absolute proof. i have a signed affidavit from the informant that he informed for the fbi for 17 years, it was regardless, when he came to you, he didn t say hi, i m an
fbi informant, he said to you i have dirt on hillary clinton. you said, okay, talk to roger stone here and i have communications, which again you ve provided. right. between you and roger stone. let me show people about this. michael caputo, how crazy is the russian? stone, wants big money for info, waste of time. caputo, the russian way, anything at all interesting? stone, no. you say this exchange is exculpatory. people may look at that and say the same thing. all i m saying is wouldn t this be the type of thing easy enough to turn over to the investigation? i don t think my attorney didn t think also that it fit within the parameters of the request. that s publicly available information, it s nothing i would be hiding or have any reason to hide from the committee if you look at the letter of the request from the committee it did not say did you speak to some russian national who lives in the united states who was offering you information from a ukrainian national who lives in
i am ashamed because i know what mr. trump is. this is michael cohen speaking tomorrow. this is his testimony. he is a racist. he is a con man. he is a cheat. he talks about that. he was presidential was a presidential candidate who knew that roger stone was talking with julian assange about a wikileaks drop of the democratic national committee e-mails. and then he goes on talk about that conversation. on page 10 he says, in july 2016, days before the democratic convention, i was in mr. trump s office when his secretary announced that roger stone was on the phone. mr. trump put mr. stone on the speakerphone. mr. stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and that mr. assange told some stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton s campaign. mr. trump responded by stating to the effect, wouldn t that be
of time. and the answer is yes. as i earlier stated, mr. trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wikileaks drop of e-mails. in july of 2016, days before the democratic convention, i was in mr. trump s office when his secretary announced that roger stone was on the phone. mr. trump put mr. stone on the speakerphone. mr. stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and that mr. assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton s campaign. mr. trump responded by stating to the effect, wouldn t that be great. mr. trump is a racist. the country has seen mr. trump court white supremacists and big
today, we will also hear mr. cohen s account of a meeting in 2016 in donald trump s office during which roger stone said over speakerphone that he had just spoken with julian assange, who said there would be a, quote, massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton s campaign, end of quote. according to cohen, mr. trump replied, quote, wouldn t that be great, end of quote. the testimony that michael cohen will provide today, ladies and gentlemen, is deeply disturbing and it should be troubling to all americans. we will all have to make our own evaluation of the evidence and mr. cohen s credibility. as he admits, he has repeatedly