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 jr. connected with agalarov, and in between those calls, he spoke to a blocked number. after that, the meeting was set. june 9. 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-russia clients. first it was of interest to me, frankly is mr. manafort. he has been in russia. he has been in ukraine. if donald trump jr., and jared kushner, took this meeting innocently, and ignorantly, and
son of the president of the united states. if it had been, i might have spent a little bit more time on it. this was written in about three minutes on my cell phone. interpreting what i believe my client was trying to get across. and puffing it. that s what i do. i m a publicist. the strategy worked. 17 minutes after goldstone s e-mail, the future president s son responded with these words. if it s what you say, i love it. campaigns accept opposition research all the time but most campaigns, professionals, will tell you, they wouldn t accept it from a foreign government or a foreign intelligence service. that s just something that is considered out of bounds of american politics. how you are? thanks for coming by. if the e-mail lacks specific, trump jr. had at least three opportunities to clarify the details. there is a clear trail within the phone records that shows that donald trump jr. and emin agalarov connected by phone, but donald trump jr. testified under oath to con
described the meeting. the one thing he did not want to say in that 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 adoptions. oh, come on. you didn t remember you had offered dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government? well, i didn t remember that, that s not the meeting, that s the e-mail. 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 e-mail exchange with don jr. to the times reporters. i mean my jaw dropped. there it was, in black and white. once again, they
possible occasion, and why don t you come the miss universe pageant co-owned by nbc back then did go on. congratulations to you. good night everybody, from moscow. and then it ends with, he and the agalarovs announcing that they re going to join together to try to build a trump tower in moscow. despite his deleted tweet about the project, trump tower moscow never happened. but goldstone says the friendships from moscow continued. he got to know don jr. and three times visited the elder trump at trump tower. on one visit, not long before donald trump declared his candidacy, goldstone says trump was there listening to a rap song. he said look, 90 million views. a rapper called matt miller, who recently passed away. has recorded this song. it has 90 million views. and it is about me take over the world. and i said to him, do you think you maybe should listen to
sort of stepped into it, you know, it is possible, but mr. manafort, we have clearly known what the russians were up to. two nights before the meeting, on june 7, trump greeted supporters with what now sounds like a curious promise. we are going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you re going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. we just don t know if the speech that donald trump made is a coincidence or not. and so the timing seems awfully strange. for all of the attention the trump tower meeting would later get, goldstone says at the time, he hardly gave it a second thought. i didn t care about the meeting. it sounds bad. but it s true. i didn t care. i wanted my client to be happy. that s always my ultimate goal. coming up, so tell us what happened, was the dirt on the democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming? e democratic party and hillary clinton forthcoming?