and then on june 3, 2016, donald trump, jr. is told the crown prosecutor of russia is offering incriminating information on clinton. on june 7th, candidate trump says this. i am going to give a major speech on probably of monday next week, and we re going to be discussing all of things that have been taking place with the clintons. including candidate trump says information having to do with russia. that s the dangle. and here comes the fishing, and these are attempts by the trump team to get information. on june 9th, jared kushner and paul manafort have that meeting with the russians. but what happens with that meeting, they insist later nothing is presented to thel in terms of incriminating information on hillary clinton. by the way, candidate trump never did give that speech about hillary clinton.
were hacked so we can try to connect the dots on the time line surrounding today s landmark event. we re going to do this in what we re describing as four stages. there s the hack, the dangle, the fishing, and then the release of those e-mails. we ll begin with the hack. july 2015 and march 2016 russian hackers breeched the democratic national committee and steal e-mails. and march 19, 2016, podesta s e-mails are hacked. that s stage one. that s the hack. next, the dangle. april 2016 trump foreign policy advisor george papadopoulos is told by a professor with ties to the kremlin that senior officials in russia tell him that they have dirt on hillary clinton, thousands of e-mails he says. in may 2016 there s a request from russia to meet with mr. trump as described in the papadopoulos plea agreement. and then on june 3, 2016, donald
through a phishing attempt. here comes the dang. april 2016 trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos is told that russia has dirt on hillary clinton, thousands of her e-mails, according to his plea agreement. in may 2016, a request to the campaign from russia to meet with mr. trump is made. that s also in the plea agreement. june 3, 2016, donald trump jr. tells him that the crown prosecutor of russia is going to provide the trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and dealings with russia that would be very useful to your father, unquote and he s receptive to that idea. on june 7 candidate trump says this. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. reporter: all the things, he says, including things having to do with russia. okay. that s the dang. here comes the phishing, the
information about hillary clinton. how did the information come together and how are players connected? a complex web. decide to lay it out all names involved in visual form here. we have vladamir putin, president of russia trying the intel community, to determined, to influence the election. on the other side the oldest son of president trump, who at the time was working on behalf of his father s campaign. now t. you have rob goldston, publicist, tabloid reporter the one, donald trump jr. e-mailed on june 3, 2016 with offer of a meeting with a russian lawyer tied to the kremlin. goldstone, he and donald trump jr. go back to, well, the miss universe page enlt ant in russi through the pop star, the son of a real estate tycoon. in russia known of something as
election law. right. i could tell you are very, very dangerous. you re talking about the in kind, the in kind contributions they seem to be suggesting as a crime. that is being a bit more ambitious than the false statements. but it would also drive a stake through the heart of the first amendment. if you start to say that sharing information is equivalent to giving money in a campaign, then any ngo, any foreign individual could be charged with a crime for simply sharing information with a campaign. so, professor, let s take up the argument we just heard from the president s attorney jay sekulow, which is no information was exchanged in this meeting. nothing came out of it. the e-mail those that set up the meeting that was sent to donald trump jr. on june 3, 2016, said their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would