world. st. charles avenue. how are you? morgan. nice to meet you. pleasure to meet you. nice to meet you as well. thank you. john tailing is a high-powered attorney and entrepreneur in new orleans who has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of his career. your house is amazing. oh, thank you. this place was built by the cotton king in new orleans. this was a wedding president to his wife. your kitchen is bigger than my apartment. oh. yeah. it s a working kitchen. what s like the monthly cost to run the snous. it s a lot. it s more than i made my first year as a lawyer. what did you think of the first time you met? as i later found out, she s from moscow and she s a big russian pop star and this is kind of normal. this is her normal life.
words smoking gun. instd e, the russian lawyer net sky area ban talking and goldstone says he called the russian pop star. goldstone s message, this was the most thing you ve ever asked me to do. i ve just sat in a meeting about adoption. trump jr. testified that goldstone apologized to him for wasting our time. trump jr. says he never told his father about the meeting. but on june 6th, shortly after the meetingarranged, trump jr. made an 11-minute phone call to a blocked number. the manager testified that the president s primary residence has a blocked number. when the meeting first came to light more than a year later in a new york times story, the trump team was left flailing for a response. ultimately, they crafted a misleading one. aboard air force one as the president returned from the g-20 summit in germany, say iing the
emissary who is the go-between who arranged the meeting and he is also a manager for a big, russian pop star, but here s what we don t know. he did this on behalf of a client who is unnamed. so this could be that the lawyer who happens to be russian and don t mistake that for representing the russian government, might have been brought in there to have a meeting that now dealt with someone else s interest. it might have been that they re feeling their way in. what might be useful for later on. someone should have known they didn t have any information on hillary clinton because they never did. if this, there hear other ways of injecting it to the political system which is why i also think as the story unfolds in four congressional committees and these special prosecutors
the administration, he s the one who is at more risk than donald trump, jr. steve hall, i want to ask you two questions. i m not sure if you can or would answer them. but a, how likely is it that u.s. intelligence would have been aware that potentially kremlin linked individuals would been trying to connect with the son of a presidential nominee? and secondly, if there was a phone conversation between donald trump, jr., and this russian pop star, is it likely or possible that that was picked up and is recorded somewhere, whether in the u.s. or overseas? well, taking your second question first, anderson. yes, it s certainly possible that the intelligence community may have intercepted such a call. although it would have been involving a u.s. person, you know, it would have been we get back to the old masking
judiciary committee, chuck grassley. he asked for information regarding akhmetshin, accused of acting as an unregistered agent for russian interests. he has denied that to the washington post and the associated press. we know he work with an organization called the human rights accountability global initiative foundation. he work with the russian lawyer who was at that same meeting. they both were lobbying against the metniksky act that punished russians in these activities. we keep hearing details that fill the picture. the original connection was this russian pop star and his publicist who know the trump family. what else have you learned about