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 decide to approach the candidate s son. donald trump jr. that s when he typed out those 138 words that would later be scrupulously examined. gorl, 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 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. emin just called and asked me to contact you. that s true? that is true.
midst of a campaign, to discuss what? the times reporters reached out for comment. what would donald trump jr. say about the meeting? we were told in a statement that don jr. gave us that this was simply a meeting to talk about russian adoptions. we thought that s pretty high-level staffing for a meeting about russian adoptions. it just didn t make sense. it was a washington post reporter who tracked down goldstone on vacation in athens. i was the first reporter to call him and ask him what his role was. i took the call and it was a reporter from the washington post. and said to me, did you set up a meeting between some russians and donald trump jr. at trump tower? and i said yes. and the next question was did you see the new york times yesterday? he was quite open. he sounded a little nervous.
amusing, let me hook you up with a dinner there. goldstone worked in trump s home town. but their first connection ran through moscow. with a family that s been described as the trumps of russia. aros agalarov and his son, amon. his father one of the most powerful men in russia. he s a billionaire pop singer who also happens to be a hugely successful businessman in his own right. music has no language. i would do a song in russian and the audience that doesn t speak russian still responds. runs and operates shopping malls and fashion brands and restaurants. including co-owning nobu with robert de niro. so he s a pretty interesting character to begin with. and how amon led to trump takes a detour through the world of beauty pageants, miss universe.
innocently, in ignorantly and sort of sto stepped into it it s possible. but mr. manafort? he would 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 re 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 the attention the trump tower meeting would 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 clients 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?
to meet you on the next possible occasion. 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 delighted 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 mac miller who recently passed away has recorded a song. had 90 million youtube views and it s about me. and i said to him, maybe do