meeting with donald trump jr. and others? as you know, i can t get into the interviews we had but if we assume that the e-mails are authenticated, there was an attempt to continue the conversation and perhaps to continue working together on a relationship between the trump campaign and russian agents in the 2016 election. so those e-mails are very disturbing and i expect in the coming weeks and months we ll see more things that are equally disush tissuing come to light. five days after that trump tower meeting, gold stone sent an e-mail to two russians who also attended the meeting. he attached the cnn story and you heard from jim sciutto about the hacking of dnc e-mails writing that it was, quote, early weird given what they talked about during the early meeting at trumpb tower. will you be asking goldstone
russian-americans, proportionately i would say that more russian-americans supported donald trump but maybe we re talking about 800,000 russian-american voters. i mean, it is a bit trivial. i don t want to overread too much into all of these details but that s a strange e-mail to send. and also, don t forget, we re hearing different stories more and more information about what happened in that, quote, nothing burger meeting. remember, reince priebus, that was his explanation for it last year. remember who else was in that meeting? jared kushner, paul manafort. who have they talked to? they ve talked to investigators. we know mueller knows a lot more than we do but for donald trump jr. to assume that they may have revealed already what was discussed in that meeting even though we re hearing different stories from him, i don t know how that hasn t crossed his mind. so keep that in mind as well. you re absolutely right.
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of a new follow-up to the 2016 trump tower meeting in new york when donald trump jr. and others expected to get what was described as dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. let s bring in our analysts and specialists. gloria, five days after that controversial meeting, rob goldstone, the british publicist organized the meeting, sent an e-mail to russian who is also attended the meeting and attached a cnn story about the hacking of dnc e-mails writing that it was, in his words, eerily weird given what they had talked about in that meeting five days earlier. it sounds suspicious. the benign interpretation is that given the run-up to the meeting where dirt was promised by the russians to donald trump jr. that this was eerily weird
dirt on hillary. and you re also learning about the reaction that was received after donald trump jr. received released those private e-mails in which it was expecting to get so-called dirt on hillary clinton? that s right. donald trump jr. forced to release this because a major publication was publishing them and this followed the initial explanation. this was all about adoptions. when it did release those e-mails, it showed in advance of this trump tower meeting in june 2016, in fact, his expectation was that the russians were going to bring damaging information on hillary clinton. when he released those e-mails, one of the participants in this meeting, a russian national who participated in this meeting received an e-mail from his son saying it looks to me like donald trump jr. is admitting to collusion here. that is one observation about the revelations there. he might have been joking, wolf. but it does get to the fact that the people who took part, the russians, the people