under oath to congress that he doesn t remember those calls. he has no recollection. according to phone records obtained by the senate judiciary committee, while he was communicating with emin, trump jr. also had a phone call with a blocked number. we know that donald trump uses a blocked number so the big question is, did he speak to his father? all we know is what the records show. don junior connected with agalarov and in between those calls he spoke to a blocked number. after that, the meeting was set. june 9th, trump tower. goldstone would bring the russian lawyer. trump jr. said he would bring the candidate s son-in-law, jared kushner, and campaign chair paul manafort. before joining the trump campaign, manafort worked as a political consultant for oligarchs and pro-russian clients. persons of interest to me frankly, is mr. manafort. he s been in russia, he s been in ukraine. if donald trump jr. and jared kushner took this meeting innocently, in ignorantly and
u.s. government to sanction russian officials and businesspeople believed to be human rights offenders. the magnitsky act really sticks in vladimir putin s craw. because it goes after his wealthy friends. it freezes their bank accounts and ability to travel. to retaliate the government government stopped americans from adopting russian children. at trump tower, vesilnintskaya was there with three russian spies. there was a russian-american lobbyist, a former soviet military officer who has been in the united states for many years and he had been working with veselinskaya. to lobby against the magnitsky act. and also there, a translator and business representative for the agalarov family. at about 4:00 p.m., goldstone and his companions boarded the trump tower elevator to the 25th floor conference room.
to the trump campaign from the russia side, those are the people you would go to. according to goldstone, during their call, emin said a well-connected attorney from russia had damaging information about the democrats. i knew in my mind when someone is saying well connected and you wanted a campaign meeting with the trumps, who else are they connected to? it s obviously the government in my mind. so i was taken aback first because emin and i have worked together maybe three-plus years have never even had a conversation about politics. we d had a conversation about donald trump, but not about politics. in donald trump, goldstone admits he saw opportunities that had little to do with government. selfishly i thought if donald trump is elected president, that s amazing. there s lots of favors we could ask. i would like emin to play at the inauguration.
i d like to do a photo shoot with emin at the white house. those are the favors i would like to ask, not some random attorney that you have this bizarre scant amount of information, so i was really against this thing, but i managed him. instead of approaching candidate directly, he decided to approach the candidate s son, donald trump jr. that s when he typed out those 138 words that would later be scrupulously examined. good morning. emin just called me and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information. this is obviously very high-level and sensitive information. that is part of russia and its governor support for mr. trump. goldstone now admits some of the details were not true. all right, the first sentence. emin just called and asked me to contact you. that s true? that is true. the crown
yes, i set up the meeting and described the meeting. the one thing he did not want to say in the first phone call is he said he had done it on behalf of a russian client. but he did not want to name the client. when i first was asked again about this meeting, the only thing i could remember was adoption. come on, you didn t remember you had offered dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government? well, i didn t remember that s not the meeting, that s the email but what the meeting actually transpired. the only thing that sat with me was, it was that ridiculous meeting about adoption. goldstone says he continued on with his vacation. so i went shopping and tried on crowns and took selfies and it was more hats. and you posted them. and i posted them. you were not getting it? i was not getting it, no. it wasn t long before someone slipped goldstone s email exchange with don junior to the new york times reporters. i mean my jaw dropped. i mean, there it was in