Meeting with the russian lawyer last year that he went into expecting dirt on Hillary Clinton. He was told coming from the kremlin. Tonight President Trump is fuelling new questions about what he knew and when he knew it. Speaking to reporters while flying to paris, he seemed to contradict his own public statements that he learned about the meeting with the russian lawyer only within the last few days, the president saying, quote, in fact, maybe it was mentioned at some point. Were digging on that this hour. Another key question. Did donald trump jr. Speak on the phone with a pivotal figure behind the meeting . A wealthy and well connected russian popstar. Were going to talk to his attorney live this hour. Were covering all the developments with our team of correspondents and analysts. And the potential crisis for white house aids. Were joined by evan perez. How did the white house aides get gragged into all of this . Get dragged into all of this . This all begins in june when this. An
there s photographic evidence on the facebook page of ivanka and emin in moscow at the time goldstone told me it was. it is true this ultimately didn t happen. emin aguilar af said it was because trump decided to run for president. in fact, trump properties organization went forward projects went forward around the world. what really happened according to goldstone s account was in 20s 14 russia annexes crimea in ukraine, and the u.s. imposes sanctions. and the project is no longer economically feasible. so if nothing else, when we learn as we have, that in the early weeks of the trump organization of the trump administration, they were looking to lift sanctions on russia, you have to wonder if the fact that sanctions torpedoed his long cherished project in moscow, may have been
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-