we are learning a lot more tonight from the trump tower transcripts especially from the 232 pages of testimony from the president s eldest son and name sake don junior. back with me now jim sciutto, chris cillizza, laura coates. jim nailed it. there is another big thing we learned in these transcripts, that there was another meeting in trump tower between michael flynn, jared kushner and russian ambassador sergey kislyak. why are we just learning about donald trump, jr. walking into this meeting now? listen, this is yet another case where donald trump, jr. is at best inconsistent or at worst misleading. it s a meeting he was asked in his testimony, did he know about any contacts between trump campaign officials or transition officials and russian officials. initially he said no. then he said he only knew about
introducing and to cut one penny out of every dollar and the budget balances and there is that much waste find that much waste under every rock here in washington. i ll give you one example n. afghanistan we learned this week we spend $90 million on a luxury hotel that was never completed and now they re talking about tearing it down because they re afraid snipers will go up in this half-built hotel. that abounded throughout government and everywhere you look there is wastes and i i giving people a chance to see if conservatives are conservative or fake conservatives. we ll see what happens when the legislation comes up for a vote and it will come up. senator paul, thanks for joining us. thank you. more breaking news. a middle east investor confirms he was in a meeting over at trump tower in new york after the presidential election. why was he talking with trump transition officials. stay with us. we test all of our paints and stains for months.
his involvement in that meeting on that date was limited. now we re also told by a person familiar with those trump tower meetings that there were several meetings that took place between the qatari allegation and trump transition officials. during one of the meetings, michael cohen we re told briefly popped in. so this is a denial that al-rumaihi met with michael flynn but that he met with trump transition officials and that he would have had at least some face time with michael cohen. it is interesting, that this person said michael cohen popped his head into one of the meetings over at trump tower. does all of this make things worse for michael cohen? well i think we just want to be very careful about what we know and don t know. yes, we are told that michael cohen briefly popped into one of the meetings with the delegation, but for now that is kind of it. we don t know exactly what popped in means. does it marine that he engaged in the qatari delegation in any real way. if he d
maybe frank has other ideas on that, but nothing on the public record. i guess my question, one of the things that came through from this, to frank s point, do you feel like we have a clear and full understanding of what it was that was making people worried about michael flynn in the national security apparatus of the united states government? michael? yeah, i think if you go back and look at the criminal charges that were filed against flynn, there were activities during the transition, where he was talking to ambassador kislyak of russia, about russia sanctions and suggesting that they would take a new look at them. but also, the activities at the u.n. about the resolution condemning israel about settlements in which the united states the obama administration had decided was going to abstain. and the flynn and other trump transition officials were
there were activities during the transition, where he was talking to ambassador kislyak of russia, about russia sanctions and suggesting that they would take a new look at them. but also, the activities at the u.n. about the resolution condemning israel about settlements in which the united states the obama administration had decided was beginning to obtain. and the flynn and other trump transition officials were actively calling ambassadors from the u.n. city council, telling them not to vote for that and telling them the trump administration would have a very different policy. flynn was part of that. that really was interfering in u.s. foreign policy during a time that trump was not yet president.