compromising material about hillary clinton. not from my mouth, not from my documents. an attorney for the agalarovs tells nbc news no one in the russian government asked them to arrange the meeting. jared kushner s attorney says his client went into the meeting not knowing what it was about, didn t participate and left before it was over. jared was told about a meeting with his brother-in-law. no topic was mentioned. when jared got into the room the conversation was about russian adoption. with what happened before he came in and what happened afterwards he wasn t there to see. when the meeting ended goldstone said he was worried he d annoyed don junior. he said to me i do lots of meetings, and then he said to me i just have no idea what it was about. coming up, the story breaks.
what was the state of mind of the trump team? they re also looking at it through the lens of obstruction of justice. why were misleading things said about this meeting? if the president had a hand, it appears he did, in drafting a false statement as to the true meaning of the trump tower meeting, then the special counsel is asking, is this obstruction of justice? not long after the trump tower sit-down, music publicist rob goldstone ended his working relationship with russian pop singer aman aguilarov. it catapulted russia into the campaign. it was goldstone who wanted to meet with donnie jr. to share dirt on hillary clinton. goldstone first testified on capitol hill. then the special counsel came calling, asking him to respond to questions as a voluntary witness. tell us what it was like
and her next question she said to me was did you see the new york times yesterday? he was quite open. he sounded a little nervous, but he quite candidly said, yes, i set up the meeting and described the meeting. the one thing he did not want to say in that first phone call, he said he d done it on behalf of a russian client but he did not want to name the client. when i first was asked about this meeting the only thing i could remember was about adoptions. come on, you didn t remember you d offered dirt on hillary clinton. that s not the meeting. what the meeting transpired, the only thing that sat with me 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.
business associates in russia? the guys he did miss universe with. aras agalarov and his son emen. if you wanted to get on it russia side, those are the po people you goto. emen said they 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 trump, well who else are they connected to? it s obviously the government in my mind. so i was taken aback first because emen and i we worked together maybe three plus years had never had a conversation about politics. we d had a conversation about donald trump but not about politics. and in donald trump, goldstone, admits, he saw opportunities that had lilt to do with government.
states in 2016. they walked through the door, donald trump is at the other end of the lobby and scream, bellowed, the richest man in russia has come to see me. i thought that was hilarious. at the time i think he was the 54th richest man in russia. he sounds kind of giddy about the whole thing. he was a bit excited. he was trying to fake them feel welcome, which he did. goldstone says while celebrating the pageant deal during dinner the conversation took an off-color turn. he said to emen something along the lines of i ll take a million dollars off the cost of this pageant right now if you tell me if you ve ever slept with any of the contestants, and he had this smile, and emen went interesting and he smiled, and he said, mr. trump, i ll