the music promoter wrote the email telling don trump jr. that the russian government was offering derogatory information about hillary clinton. been don trump jr. took the meeting. now the story the news yesterday was the presence of the russian-born lobbyist who is interesting in his own right. what s perhaps most interesting about the presence was that it wasn t disclosed even after don trump jr. said i ve told you everything there is to tell about the meeting. we re learning new things about it. and we re rinat akmetshin is the name of the lobbyist he did a stint in the intelligence. he is noun known as gun for hire. works with orlg arcing been accused of computer hacking although the accusations were withdrawn. and his presence at the meeting is adding a more intrigue sure to draw skrunny from investigators. ken in terms of what s
were two other people that we had not previously known about. that s the bottom line here. there s questions remaining about why this was not disclosed earlier publicly by, for example, donald trump jr. when he went on television to essentially defend himself for what he says being transparent. pointing to the e-mails he posted online. showing the exchange in how this meeting was arranged. the e-mails coming as the new york times was indicating it was going to be breaking the story quoting those notes. ken delaney, you broke the story today. tell us about this man, a lobbyist, former counterintelligence official. denying any connections to spy agencies. what do we know about him? we have a picture now. he was at the same hearing the russian lawyer was at on capitol hill. he s a classic washington type. he s been described as a gun for hire. he s russian born. he did serve in the soviet military. i wouldn t want to overstate it.