documents. yes. he says the documents in some way detailed this, the illicit money transfers from russia to the dnc, presumably. all right. thank you. thank you. joining me now, the senior reporter for a business insider. and you ve been following this in a granular sense. what do you make of the day s developments? well, this is just another example of the trump campaign seemingly not knowing how to manage a crisis. i think donald trump jr. s story has changed roughly four or five times this week already. and it raises a lot have questions about why he wouldn t just disclose everyone who was in that meeting immediately. rinat akmetshin is not someone you forget. he was a very experienced political operative in washington, d.c. he is known for being a very fast talker. known for knowing exactly what he s talking about and he s been
and you ve been following this in a granular sense. what do you make of the day s developments? well, this is just another example of the trump campaign seemingly not knowing how to manage a crisis. i think donald trump jr. s story has changed roughly four or five times this week already. and it raises a lot have questions about why he wouldn t just disclose everyone who was in that meeting immediately. rinat akmetshin is not someone you forget. he was a very experienced political operative in washington, d.c. he is known for being a very fast talker. known for knowing exactly what he s talking about and he s been
is everything. this is everything. no, no, it wasn t everything. this morning, nbc news broke the story there was another participant in that meeting who trump junior had failed to mention. someone besides the russian lawyer. that person has been identified as a russian born american lobbyist named rinat akmetshin. the former soviet officer suspected of some u.s. officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence and who was accused of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy, though those allegations were later withdrawn. the lobbyist denies having any connections but he said in april he received a letter from the department of justice telling him to register as foreign agent. i know what the lawyer, this lawy lawyer, the law imposing sanctions on human rights abusers. reporting it is shared by vladimir putin. so red wing at least five people
akmetshin, it is like a screenplay. he says there was a document that natalia veselnitskaya left with donald trump jr. is this all going to come out in little bits? there must be some reason for it to come out so slowly, right? i m trying to get to what the conversation is like among voters and among your constituen constituents. places that it is competitive. maybe where democrats won and donald trump will some thought of saying. today you were at that national governors association. he had mike pence come in there. he was there in part to try to sill, i imagine with you he didn t make much head way. to sell you on the idea of overhauling obamacare with this republican plan. if you re going to a swing voter in colorado, as a democrat, trying to do this, what will you
had with rinat akmetshin. he said there was a fold we are information about an american hedge fund operating in russia that she believed was funning money to the democratic committee. this was the promise on tuesday to turn over additional documents pertaining to that meeting. did you hand over any and all documents? i will. i ve said it publicly. i said it yesterday. more than happy to cooperate with everyone. i just want the truth to get out there. so michael isikoff, he said nothing with being handed a folder in this meeting. what can you tell us about the contents there? what might be being done with it right now. all we know is what what rinat akmetshin said. that the lawyer natalia did have such a folder. it related to hedge fund contributions to the democratic national committee. that she had been researching this for years. now, we know they were going