place and nothing happens. then you raise the issue which i ve been concerned about for a long time, the whole issue of state department funding, hundreds of thousands of dollars running a cup politl campaign against the state of israel. there you have it. again, it s not even fair to say double standard. i want everybody to remember donald trump jr. what did he do today? he put forward the entire chain of emails. he did not delete them as others have done in other campaigns, as we know. sean: i never run out of questions on this show. i felt like i ran out of questions. i just don t know at that point what else you can do. he answered every question, explained what happened and didn t happen. i don t know what paul manafort was saying. i don t know if every
implying? donald jr.,: as i recall, it was all about this email coordination. in the end, it wasn t about that at all. sean: lets go into the meeting. you meet at trump tower. the meeting was described earlier today on the today show. did she describe it accurately? donald jr.,: i think it was fairly accurate. i was a little surprised about me pressing information but it was hey, we have information. if there was some small talk. i don t remember what it wants. was nonsensical. then he quickly went on to a story about russian adoption and how we could possibly help. really, that s where we shut it down. it was like wait a second, what does this have to do with sean: had you heard about the magnitsky act? donald jr.,: i hadn t heard about it until that day.
the pretext of the meeting was hey, i have information about your opponent. hey, some dnc donors may have done something. i said hey, what does this have to do with anything? in specially in light of what was going around out there. sean: did you ever have any contact with this woman or goldstone ever again? donald jr.,: not the woman. not since this transpired. sean: this is a hypothetical. in any point in your mind did don jr. have a siren saying okay, i go back to the first email about russia, russian government. did you ever think maybe this might not be donald jr.,: like i said, in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. again, this is before the russia mania and building it up in the press.
the stories i d been hearing about. that were probably underreported for years, not just during the campaign. it really went nowhere. it was apparent that this was not what the meeting was actually about. sean: let me ask a hypothetical. maybe you have thought about it since. since this has become russia collusion, et cetera. did you ever meet with any other person from russia that you know? donald jr.,: i don t even know. i have probably met with other people from russia. not in the context of a formalizeded meeting. because why would i? in the grand scheme of things, how busy we were, this was a courtesy to an acquaintance. sean: let me play a montage. these are democrats attacking you today. i will give you a chance to respond to what they are saying and what the left is saying. they have taken it to the ultimate extreme. i will ask you about some perspective.t here s what they are saying. we now knowar they sought to
she signed off on a waiver that allows 20% of america s uranium potentially to go to vladimir putin and russia. where i grew up, that s called bribery. pay to play. use whatever phrase you want. do you doubt that that is inappropriate and illegal? president trump would have never authorized a deal like that. period. sean: then we haveve loretta lynch, the tarmac, it s a matter, not an investigation. look at what loretta lynch did. she had a meeting with president clinton the secretary of state will be interviewed that very weekend. she has this meeting with the president on the tarmac. does she recuse himself from mthis investigation? she says she will abide by whatever the fbi says but she did not recuse herself. think about this. you talk about a double standard at play here. this is the ultimate discussion or ultimate example of a double standard.