russia story. if this nonsense meeting is all they have after a year, i understand the desperation. and then this from his newly appointed attorney who says, in my view, this is much to do about nothing during this busy period robert goldstone who helped set up this meeting, contacted don jr. a and also important to point out that a spokesperson for the president s outside legal counsel said that he wasn t aware of this meeting. that s what donald trump jr. is saying, as well. he is also insisting that he didn t get any information. there is no follow through from this meeting. bottom line, this continues to raise very difficult questions and you have mounting calls on capitol hill now for him to testify. he says he s willing to cooperate. hallie sn hallie? kristen, thank you. i want to bring in the folks sticking with us for the hour and one-time lawyer for president george w. bush, thomas
welcome back. i m stephanie ruhle. you re watching msnbc. one day after iraq s prime minister declared total victory over isis, clashes have erupted in mosul, a sign that the fight is still far, far from over. right now i m joined by sebastian gorka, deputy assistant to the president. we ll get to mosul and the g-20, but i want to start with the new york times report that rob goldstone sent an e-mail to donald trump jr. before last june s meeting, making it clear that he was being offered damaging information about hillary clinton that was part of a russian government effort. what s your take on that? look, i think donald jr. s statements stand for themselves, an individual who at the time had no connection to the russian government, requested a meeting under false pretenses. once the discussion began and this individual started to talk
also, a source familiar with the special counsel s russia investigation tells cnn that robert mueller and his team are in talks with an attorney for a british publicist who set up that 2016 trump tower meeting between a russian lawyer and donald trump jr. investigators want robert goldstone to come to the united states to talk to mueller s team but no date has been set and goldstone has not been subpoenaed. and new tonight, u.s. military officials are trying to figure out my north korea hasn t conducted a missile test in over two months after a flurry of rocket launches and underground nuclear tests, the kim jong-un regime s aggressive weapons program appears to be in a lull. but there is deep concern north korea may still be using the pause to set up its cyber operations. we re covering all of that and much more this hour with our guests, including congressman john garamendi of the armed services committee and our correspondent correspondent and specialists
goldstone who actually first pitched the meeting to donald trump jr., promising that it would deliver dirt on hillary clinton. which trump jr. says never actually happened. investigators want goldstone, who is overseas, to come to the u.s. to talk to the special counsel. now this is an invitation to talk and not a subpoena and no date has been established yet. neither goldstone s attorneys nor the special counsel are commenting on this right now and the revelation does come at the same time congressional investigators are implying that jared kushner has not been forthcoming in handing over key documents. reporter: tonight, the senate judiciary committee is calling jared kushner s disclosures into question, labelling what he submitted so far incomplete and demanding more documents. the letter sent by chairman chuck grassley and top democrat dianne feinstein points to revelation monday that donald trump jr. engine changed direct messages with wikileaks over twitter during the campaign.
the meeting. it included rob goldstone, campaign chairman paul manafort and jared kushner, who is top adviser to the president. a translator and a representative of the agalarav family were also in attendance. ashmeshin was also described as a russian agent apparently with ties to russian intelligence. that was in a letter to homeland security secretary john kelly requesting his immigration history earlier this year. achmechin denied to the washington post that he served as a russian host saying, i never worked for the russian government. i served as a soldie agency.