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
mcfadden. i wanted to tell my story and by that i mean my story. i thought without context this story would never make sense. he says an important part of the story took part three years before the meeting in moscow. there he saw a growing relationship between donald trump and the family of a russian oligarch. one reason that donald trump was so keen to hold this contest in moscow was because he would be doing it with agalarov, a billionaire developer. journalist david korn has reported extensively on trump s relationship to russia. in perhaps his presidency. he said that he believed that the russians had a strong leader in president putin. unlike america, whose leader was weak. and he was referring to president obama. and i think this came about at a time when nobody had anything good to say about either vladimir putin or russia. one guest then asked trump about the greek financial crisis. mr. trump stood up and said before i answer that, have any of you heard of the ap
it was called the magiski action. it allow the u.s. government to sanction russian officials to believed to be offenders. it goes after wealthy friends and freezes their bank accounts and makes it hard for them to travel and do business in dollar denominations. to retaliate, the russian government stopped americans from adopting russian children. at trump tower, natalia was there with three associates. the other people on the russian side, one was a russian-american lobbyist, he is a former soviet military officer, who has been in the united states for many years. and he had been working with natalia to lobby against the act. also there, a translator and a business representative for the agalarov family. at about 4:00 p.m., goldstone and his companions boarded the trump tower elevator to the 25th floor conference room. in the meeting, where donald trump jr., his brother-in-law
emin, which isn t unusual, we had about 20 a day, and what was usual was what he wanted. and he said to me initially, i would like to you set up a meeting with the trumps. given this relationship between the agalarov family and donald trump, why did they need you to act as an intermediary? because when you deal with people at the levels of the agalarovs, remember we re talking about billionaires, they don t pick up their phone to donald trump and go, hey, will you do this, or will you do that? and one of the reasons people like me are employed is to be that buffer. it seems to me pretty obvious why the meeting developed this way. who was trump s closest pals and business associates in russia? the guys he did miss universe with. aris agalarov and his son emin.
he seemed to like the fact that he was adored there. and these are people who are some of the sternest people i ve ever seen in my life. loved him. the remainder of trump s day was filled with pageant prep. that night happy birthday. fantastic guy. he went to a birthday party for ross agalarov. he left at 1:00 a.m. and what happened over the next several hours in moscow has been the subject of intrigue and innuendo. he had a suite at the ritz carlton moscow. it is a notorious wire tap where russian officials have it wired, and there is allegations that he cavorted with prostitutes and it is yet to be proven. the allegation is in the dossier, opposition web site initially paid for by a conservative web site and then funded by democrats. the most salacious item in