now know he was attempting to broker a summit between then-candidate trump and vladimir putin. so there was an attempt to have a meeting with trump, it never came off. the plan was to have it at the nra convention. but donald trump jr. did meet with mr. torshin during that time. so the point here is that this guy was a major russian target of the spanish police in money laundering investigations, who is forging all these ties with american political figures. and my only question about the revelation from mr. grinda which i reported on, is what took the fbi so long? these wiretaps have been there since 2013. really quickly, michael, is there any evidence that these
should concern the trump administration. grinda said mr. trump s son should be concerned. at the time we are getting information about more contacts with more trump people they are distracting the country with the spying ruse. yeah, joy. things got high this week because james clapper, former chief of national intelligence said but for russian interference donald trump would not be president. it got dangerous because rod rosenstein had a bad week. when rosenstein has a bad week the rule of law has a bad week. he and special counsel mueller are all we have now to protect our democratic institutions. so, yes. donald trump, jr., meets with this person who has been sanctioned for russian interf e interfering with the election. donald trump meets with this guy.
investigation with russians so they were conducting this investigation. how they ended up getting in touch with, and they have been investigating torsion for a while. there has been some reporting there was an arrest warrant out for him, but how they got in touch with american authorities is still in question. american authorities have been in touch with grinda through unofficial channels so they ve got an an unofficial copy, can be used for evidence-gathering purposes and obtains leads. it can t be used in any evident sear proceeding, that would take an official transfer of this material. right. that could take a while. before i move on to something else, if don jr. testified, and he did so voluntarily, we know, previously behind closed doors to the intelligence committees, if he gets called back, does he have to show up? would it be a subpoena?
don jr. admitted he met with torsion. in that testimony they only discuss the business agreements with torsion. the question, is that true, did portion in these spanish wiretaps mention don jr.? did he say something else about what they had discussed? if there s some way what torsion said on the wiretaps undermines the testimony that don jr. gave, that could be very problematic but it is an open question and the other question is when are the wiretaps from. did they pre-date his meeting with torsion which was in may or june of 2016 at the nra convention in louisville or postdate it and recap what went on there. do we know how jose grinda got the wire taps? they were doing an
broker a summit between then-candidate trump and vladimir putin. so there was an attempt to have a meeting with trump, it never came off. the plan was to have it at the nra convention. but donald trump jr. did meet with mr. torshin during that time. so the point here is that this guy was a major russian target of the spanish police in russian money laundering investigations who is forging all these ties with american political figures. and my only question about the revelation from mr. grinda which i reported on, is what took the fbi so long? these wiretaps have been there since 2013. really quickly, michael, is there any evidence that these