breaki breaking news, cnn reporting about the meeting at trump tower. there were multiple e-mails following up on the june 2016 meeting from the british publicist. trump jr. said he did not follow up on the controversial meeting, but now we are learning someone did. rob goldstone, the publicist that arranged the meeting sent a follow up to trump s inner circle. in one e-mail dated june 14, 2016, five days after the trump tower meeting, he forwarded a cnn story on russia s hacking to the client, russian pop star. trump s son-in-law, jared kushner and paul manafort describing the news in the e-mail as rely weird. they said dnc hacking was not
it was on russia s hacking of dnc e-mails to his client. he forwarded the e-mail to his client, russian pop star amen agalarov. also ike kaveladze. kaveladze attended the meeting. he described the news of the hacks as eerily weird, given what they had discussed at trump tower just five days earlier. that seems a bit odd. but one of the sources familiar with the e-mail, he really downplayed the interaction saying that news of the dnc hack was surprising to this group because in the run-up to the trump tower meeting the russian participants had promised information on illicit russian funding of the dnc but that dirt was never provided to trump jr. or kushner or manafort. so don, we reached out to scott ballber, attorney for ike kaveladze who was at that meeting. he does confirm his client received the e malbut he says it was odd because he claims hacking was never discussed at the meeting. but of course, don, with the
adoptions and afterward, there was nothing to it. there was no follow up. no communications after that. we now know, from our reporting there were e-mails sent by rob goldstone to senior white house aide after this meeting to discuss the social media site as well as an e-mail that rob goldstone sent to a russian who attended the meeting about the dnc hack five days after that occurred, saying it was eerily weird. one course familiar with the matter down played the e-mail about the dnc hacks. look, it was because going into the meeting, they were promised dirt from the russians. it clearly did not happen at the meeting. the attorneys said they did not view the hacking discussed at the meeting. kate, these e-mails raising new
works for a russian oligarch. i know we have video where you can see him with donald trump in vegas back in 2013. who is he and what was his role in the room? reporter: yeah, brooke, we do have that exclusive video to us that appears to show this eighth attendee standing just steps away from donald trump in las vegas in 2013. there it is. you can see ike kaveladze. he s in the light-colored suit jacket. directly behind russian pop star emin agalarov who s talking to donald trump on the eve of the miss usa pageant in 2013. our pamela brown has spoken extensively to kaveladze s attorney and we know that kaveladze is the senior vice president of the crocus group, the real estate development firm run by emin agalarov and his father, and his lawyer confirms that kaveladze, yes, he was in fact in the room in that meeting in 2016. of course it also involved the russian attorney, also the russian-american lobbyist, and now special counsel robert mueller s investigators are looking for inform
this revelation coming on the same day we finally know the name of that eighth person in the room at trump tower for that june 2016 meeting. his name is ike and he works for the russian oligarch who requested the meeting be arranged. it appears they had interactions with the trump family in the past. ike appears to be steps away from donald trump in this exclusive video from 2013 taken in las vegas on the eve of the miss usa pageant. he is in a light suit jacket standing behind russian pop star. his attorney now confirms to cnn that he was at trump tower on june 9, 2016, the eighth person inside the meeting with donald trump, jr., campaign chair paul manafort and now senior advisor and trump son-in-law jared kushner. music publicist rob goldstone arranged the meeting at their request and sat in on it. russian lawyer natalia