she s the russian lawyer? the russian lawyer. and he doesn t, in fact, make a speech with dirt on hillary, but the wikileaks start coming out a week later. there s circumstantial evidence that he was told immediately about the fact that they expected shortly, a lot of dirt on hillary from the russian government, and he then said, i m going to have a speech with a lot of information. and we should point out again his son did not tell his father about this at the time. yahoo news is reporting tonight that president trump s lawyers found out about this meeting more than a few weeks ago, when it was found in the e-mail exchange. and at that point they told jared kushner s legal team. but do you think it s possible they wouldn t have told him at that point? no. it s perfectly plausible the way the white house seems to operate that they didn t tell the legal teams. but given the timeline i just said and given the fact if you re the president s son and
told the meeting was about obtaining dirt on hillary clinton. trump s attorney telling cnn he was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting and was only informed about the e-mails very recently by his counsel. reporter: donald trump jr. tweeted out the e-mail exchange on tuesday as the new york times prepared to publish their story. the result, a scramble by white house aides that respond to the meeting controversy that may have disclosed those aides to scrutiny by special counsel robert mueller to explain what they may have learned about the meeting and when. in terms of those who work here who have been asked to cooperate, they ve made very clear through their attorneys that they are willing to cooperate. reporter: and jim, akhmetshin, that russian lobbyist, russian american lobbyist, took a familiar line of defense with regards to that particular meeting. he basically told the associated press that he didn t feel as though it yielded any
no, other than the fact he s the president of their country and mr. aguilar received a high level award. not an insignificant high level award. it s people who mr. putin considers important people. i m saying it s the case that mr. aguilara is an important person in the russian federation. he s a very successful businessman. he s involved in lots of activities which have put him in high prominence in the russian federation. he doesn t have a personal relationship with putin any more than any other powerful person in any country has with their leadership. let s me circle back. months before this meeting, there was a phone conversation between your client and don junior. speaking to the attorney for don junior said they re going through the phone logs to make sure there weren t any other conversations. have you done the same? and i want to circle back to whether or not there were any conversations after that meeting as well. you said there weren t any in that time frame of the e-
to the bottom of this and to allow the special counsel to do their job. but at the same time, congress and especially the senate should be holding hearings because those are in public so the public understands what s going on here. one of the other things that s really struck me in that e-mail exchange and again, we don t know if that s the full e-mail exchange. but it wasn t just that they were pitching dirt. it was that the sentence where they say that the russian government is backing donald trump or wants donald trump to win the election and there was no reaction from or apparently in those e-mails that we saw from donald trump jr. of surprise. that seems to be a major headline for someone in the midst of a campaign to discover and yet it seemed almost like a second reference or that this was sort of a known fact already. exactly. and i think that kind of presumption makes anyone you don t have to be a lawyer or a prosecutor to think this, hey, wait a minute. if i got that
democratic hoax, an e-mail exchange between donald trump junior and this guy trying to set up a meeting with the russian lawyer who purported to have information coming from the russian government? how is that a democratic hoax? i think what the president was speaking to was the complete double standard we see out there where we saw there was absolutely collusion between the dnc sitting down with the ukrainians to try to dig up information on president trump, and also this double standard we ve seen when we talk about e-mails. we ll talk about the ukrainians in a second. are you admitting, therefore, the russians did have conversations with the trump campaign? if you re saying it was a double standard because the democrats did it, too, are you saying, yes, the trump folks did it, it s just the democrats did it, too? this was completely made up. there was no collusion or coordination. is the e-mail made up? there was absolutely no