Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, everyone, to the last gasp of the russia collusion Conspiracy Theory. As democrats continue to voice this expect tackle on the American People as well as you, mr. Mueller, the American People may recall the media first began spreading this Conspiracy Theory in the spring of 2016 when fusion gps, funded by the dnc and the Hillary Clinton campaign started developing the Steele Dossier, a question of outlandish accusations that trump and his associates were russian agents. Fusion gps, steele and other confederates fed these theorys to naive reporters and top officials in numerous government agencies, including the fbi, Department Of Justice and the State Department. Among other things, the fbi used Dossier Allegations to obtain a
warranty to spy on the Trump Campaign. Despite acknowledging Dossier Allegations as being salacious and unverified, former fbi director james comey briefed those allegations to President Obama and president elect trump. Those bri
you say in page 184 volume i that the federal campaign finance law broadly prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions, et cetera. and then you say that foreign nationals may not make a contribution or donation of money or anything of value. it says clearly in the report itself. thank you. now, let s turn to what actually happened at the meeting. when donald trump jr. and the others got to the june 9th meeting, they realized that the russian delegation didn t have the promised, quote, unquote, dirt. in fact, they got upset about that. did they not? generally, yes. you say in volume i, page 118, that trump junior asked what are we doing here? what do they have on clinton? and during the meeting kushner actually texted manafort saying it was a waste of time, quote, unquote. correct? i believe it s in the report along the lines you specify. to be clear top trump
expecting from the trump administration. a meeting kushner was arranged between president trump and mexican president broke down when trump demanded his proposed border wall be on the agenda. then jared took over, talked to the president, talked to me quietly, but effectively, and jared brought back the directions and he s been instrumental in driving the relationships since then. in october 2018, president trump announced a new provisional trade agreement with mexico and canada, an agreement he played a key role in negotiating. terrific deal for all of us. we would not be here today if not for several people who cricketed so much for this endeavor. first, the president s key adviser and my good friend, jared kushner, was my partner in leading the u.s. negotiations.
it s not what we were expecting from the trump administration. a meeting kushner was arranged between president trump and mexican president broke down when trump demanded his proposed border wall be on the agenda. then jared took over, talked to the president, talked to me quietly, but effectively, and jared brought back the directions and he s been instrumental in driving the relationships since then. in october 2018, president trump announced a new provisional trade agreement with mexico and canada, an agreement he played a key role in negotiating. terrific deal for all of us. we would not be here today if not for several people who cricketed so much for this endeavor. first, the president s key adviser and my good friend, jared kushner, was my partner in leading the u.s. negotiations.
somebody close as jared. is to president trump. a meeting kushner arranged between president trump. and mexican president. broke down when trump demanded his proposed border wall be on the agenda. jared took over. and he talked to the president. he talked to me. quietly. but very effectively. he brought back the interabs and he has been instrumental in driving the relationship since then. october 2018. trump announced a new provisional trade agreement with mexico and canada. agreement kushner played a key role in the negotiating. this is a terrific deal. for all of us. we wouldn t be here today if it weren t for several people. who contributed so much to this endeavor. first, the president key advise ir and my good friend jared kushner was my partner in leading the u.s. negotiationing team. even as he negotiated over some of the worlds most volatile