information. i don t think the republicans wanted to know the answer. i just want to make sure i m tracking this. because it seems important. and it seems important in sort of fairness to the president here, to make sure we know what s going on. don junior talks to agalarov, there s a call with a blocked number and then he talks to agalarov again. what you re telling me is that the committee had the power to subpoena the phone records and figure out what that phone call was, and to show that it wasn t to his father, if it was to his father, and they refused to do that? they absolutely refused to do that. and we asked donald trump jr. to provide those records to us or to ask himself what the blocked number was. he refused to provide that as well. there are a number of ways we could have done that. and also, just remember that in the e-mail thread on june 6th, donald trump jr. is talking to rob goldstone, who says, let me connect you in a few minutes, 20 minutes, 2008, the emin. so t
not candidate trump knew about this meeting. he was in the building. he was just one floor above where the meeting took place. he was very close with the agalarov family, who asked to set up the meeting. so the fact that he wouldn t have been a part of it or had any idea, it just does not make much sense. he was exchanging gifts at the time with the agalarov family, who were sending him a birthday painting just a couple of days after. and then, of course, there s the timing of what he was telling the world would be coming. and just a couple days later after the meeting, julian assange tells the world that there s hacked materials that will soon be released. we could have found out this information. i don t think the republicans wanted to know the answer. i just want to make sure i m tracking this. because it seems important. and it seems important in sort of fairness to the president here, to make sure we know what s going on. don junior talks to agalarov, there s a call with a block
know who that number was. corey lewandowski told the committee that donald trump s primary residence has a blocked phone line. and two days after those calls, candidate trump made a big announcement. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday or 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 interesting. congressman eric swalwell is a democratic member of the house intelligence committee. let s talk about this first. there are calls between don junior and agalarov. there was a call in between. was the committee able to determine anything about that call or whether don junior talked to his father? good evening, chris, no. the republicans who held the subpoena power were completely unwilling to subpoena donald trump jr. s phone provider, who would have been able to tell us who that blocked number belonged to. we have a lot of circumstantial evidence that
thank you. all right, you can watch richard s full interview with natalia veselnitskaya with a special edition of on assignment with richard engel tonight at 9:00 right here on msnbc. while the president is touting the report released today by the republicans in the house intelligence committee, the democrats say the report does not present a full picture. and they put up their own minority report with the threads they say their gop counterparts refused the pull. it reveals some very interesting new information about who donald trump jr. was talking to in the run-up to that trump tower meeting. according to the report, trump junior s phone records show two calls to and from the same russian number on june 6, 2016, three days before the meeting takes place. that number appears to belong to evan agalarov, the russian pop star, remember him, and the trump business partner who was the one who helped initiate the meeting. and here s the interesting part. the phone records also show
richard engel, i am going to be walking this in 51 minutes. it s great to have you with us. i can t wait. reporter: thank you. all right, you can watch richard s full interview with natalia veselnitskaya with a special edition of on assignment with richard engel tonight at 9:00 right here on msnbc. while the president is touting the report released today by the republicans in the house intelligence committee, the democrats say the report does not present a full picture. it reveals some very interesting new information about who donald trump jr. was talking to in the run-up to that trump tower meeting. according to the report, trump junior s phone records show two calls to and from the same russian number on june 6, 2016, three days before the meeting take place. that number appears to belong to evan agalarov, the russian pop star, remember him, and the trump business partner who was the one who helped initiate the meeting. and here s the interesting part. the phone records al