looked like he was becoming more and more agitated as the attorney continued and at what point jared said i have no idea what you re talking about, could you possibly refocus. and the attorney started again. then she started talking about how unfair it was for the adoption of russian children by americans. then my ears picked up. because i was like, what is she talking about? why is, what s adoption got to do with any of this? don jr. got up and said i don t really know why you would address this to us. my father s a private citizen. i suggest you address it to the obama administration. they re in power. they can perhaps do something. goldstone says he ushered the russians out of the room. the meeting lasted about 20 minutes. i jumped, i was like thank you very much, thank you, good-bye, we have to leave. and i was horrified. the three russians who were at the meeting have testified that don jr. asked specifically
the true meaning of the trump tower meeting, then the special counsel asking, is this obstruction of justice? not long after the trump power sit-down, music publicist rob goldstone ended his working relationship with russian pop singer emin agalarov. the questions about his role in the meeting catapulted goldstone into the middle of the russia probe. it was goldstone who wrote the e-mail on behalf of the russians who wanted to meet with donnie junior 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 inside that room when you went in to face the mueller lawyers. the publicist part of me thought it would be this glamorous thing, it would be at the j. edgar hoover building and it would be some incredible
jared kushner, and trump campaign chair paul manafort. don came out and saw these people, they went in, and i said thank you very much, i m leaving, and he said where are you going? i said i m leaving. he goes why don t you just sit in. so you can get these people out at the end. i now find myself in the meeting itself. tell us what happened. was the dirt on the democratic party, and hillary clinton forthcoming? not as far as i was aware. i decided i would view the opportunity to check my e-mails to sit there, but to keep half an ear open. my eyes were definitely open. because although i thought, well, i don t really know about this subject, i m smart enough to, i will be able to spot if there is a change in body language. goldstone said he noticed the mood deflate as the attorney talked about sanctions and the magnitski act. it didn t sound like dirt on hillary clinton. jared kushner next to me
a publicist who wrote an e-mail on behalf of my client. but it s not just goldstone s words that have the attention of special counsel robert mueller. it s the response from the president s son. donald trump jr. said if it is what you say, i love it. his reaction to that was not to say, is this all right? should i call the fbi? it is potentially criminal. it is embarrassing. it s a scandal. this meeting in some ways goes to sort of the heart of what robert mueller has been looking at. he was appointed to look at any connections that existed between the trump campaign and russia. there wasn t anybody higher in the trump campaign except donald trump himself at this meeting. so how did a celebrity publicist wind up as a central player in that trump tower conference room? and later as a witness in mueller s grand jury room? his background is far removed from politics. he was at one point in time a
let me hook you up with a dinner there. goldstone worked in trump s hometown. but their first connection ran through moscow. with a family that s been described as the trumps of russia. eras agalarov and his son emmen. explain who emmen is. his father one of the most powerful men in russia. a billionaire possibp singer happens to be a hugely successful man in his own right. music doesn t have a language. i can do russian and english in russian. and he runs shopping malls and restaurants and including co-owning one with robert de niro. he is a pretty interesting character to begin with. and how emmen led to trump takes a ze tour through the world of beauty pageants. miss universe. emmen and i went to meet with the miss universe organization