republican nomination, cohen was considering a trip to russia to meet about the project with high-level government officials, business leaders and bankers. about a month after michael cohen was still reportedly working on a trump tower moscow deal, donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner met wp russian officials in trump tower. today the senate judiciary committee released thousands of pages of information from that meeting. donald trump jr. took that meeting with the promise of receiving dirt on hillary clinton. prosecutors asked about the exchange with music publicist rob goldstone. you say if it s what you say, i love it. what is the it that you love? potential information about an opponent. potential incrumb nating information on hillary clinton? yes. despite that donald trump jr.
covered by these reports, now you have multiple examples. let s remember there have been 40 revisions to jared kushner s financial reports. at some point you have to say you re hiding things, slati vio the law. this is a civil law, but you sign it under penalty of perjury and that exposes you in theory to criminal prosecution. of course, luckily for donald the justice department is headed by a man he appointed. a quick bit of your guidance on this report because there are numbers on here that are big. this is supposed to reveal your personal income. donald trump puts down $40 million from a washington d.c. hotel. it is impossible that he personally derives $40 million in income from the hotel. is he putting down the total revenue number of the hotel without subtracting any expenses of the hotel. he is putting in these categories revenues, not income.
in a campaign speech. i am going to give a major speech, on probably monday of next week, and we re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you re going to find it very informative and very, very impressive. no, donald trump jr. never never talked to him about that trump tower meeting. congressman eric swalwell and michael isikoff will join our discussion next. i feel a great deal of urgency.
we should let the people see for themselves how eager and willing the trump team was willing to work with the russians. and to make sure that bob mueller has the ability to follow the evidence and subpoena the records that the republicans wouldn t do. michael, in your book you were following this closer than a lot of us, what s your reading of the transcripts today? there were some fascinating new nuggets we didn t know before. one which i found absolutely fascinating and we posted a story tonight on yahoo about it. remember, this meeting was set up at the request of aris agalarov, the billionaire oligarch who was donald trump s business partner in the ms.
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