translator. the russian lawyer told nbc news she was accompanied by at least one other man at the meeting though she declined to identify him. in an exclusive interview earlier this week she denied having any connection to the kremlin and insisted the meeting was to discuss sanctions not the presidential campaign, sanctions not orphans. but there is so much to get surrounding this fast moving story. we have the best team of reporters and guests covering all developments, starting with peter alexander live at the ite house and national reporter for nbc news investigative unit ken dell lain yan and michael is kof. what do we know about these two people attending the meeting and what is the re- aaction fro the white house? if anything, you would think the white house wants this story to be over but it remain in the
lerofs in part to donald trump. why? they were business partners of donald trump. not just in the miss universe pageant of2013 but in a formal letter of intent business arrangement to build a trump tower in moscow as i reported earlier this week. donald trump jr. was put in charge of that product. ivanka trump flew over to moscow in february of 2014 to scout potential sites for the property with emin, so they were both close to the putin government and very close to the trumps because they were business partners together. ken, walk us through quickly this time line. i want to pull it up on the screen. for those who say this is a nothing burger, this is just a conspiracy theory, this is the media trying to solve for a conclusion that they want.
please go through jared kushner s time line with me. on january 18th, he filed excuse me that s when he filed the security clearance form, 2017, this year. he told the fbi that he would amend that. on april 6th, ken, the new york times reports that he had no foreign contact. on may 11th, filed a revised form. in may he was interviewed about the form. in june he filed another revised form on june 23rd he was interviewed about the form and now hearing he went revised. having no contacts to having more than 100 foreign contacts. walk us through the rationale that you have been given. to peter s point earlier, the white house is outsourcing this saying go to the individual lawyers. we know trump has got a lawyer, jared has a lawyer, trump jr. has a lawyer. what is the rgs nal given when you continue to go back to them, the changes they are making. why is that?
extent. guys, good to see you, all three of you, peter, ken and michael, we ll continue this conversation and i m sure we ll have lots of conversations about it. there s sort of af slightly different story going on now and i want to over to the walk and talk to you about it. the white house is releasing excerpts from president trump s 90-minute conversation with reporters he had on the way to the flight to paris to join emmanuel macron. it was first off the record and excerpts show he talked a lot about vladimir putin claiming he asked putin twice if russia hacked the election. according to the transcript, the president said i said to him were you involved in the meddling in the election? he said absolutely not. i was not involved. he was very strong on it. i then said to him again in a totally different way, were you involved with the meddling? he said i was not, absolutely not. trump then told reporters i m not saying it wasn t russia, what i m saying is that we have to protect our