purpose of that now-famous trump tower meeting on june 9th, 2016. they re looking at the statement that donald trump jr. released after the meeting with the russian attorney and others became public knowledge and asking how much of it the president wrote. according to the sources prosecutors want to know what the president knew about the meeting and whether he sought to conceal its purpose. trump s lawyer called the president s role in crafting the response minimal. that story comes on the heels of a new york times report from about a trump associate who boasted that a moscow business deal will quote get donald elected. the copy of the times, writer sater writes, our boy can become president of the usa and we can get engineer it. i will manage the process. the messages were reported sent to trump s lawyer.