tower moscow project? don trump jr. and ivanka trump. if mr. trump and his daughter, ivanka, and donald trump jr. are involved in the rump in the russian trump tower deal, is it possible the whole thing is conflicted or compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election? yes. all right. you don t have to be a lawyer to see what s going on. democrats digging into what the trumps, plural, knew and when, in light of facts that the president s business dealings with russia extended far into his presidential campaign, something that would mean that the president has not told you the truth about. congressman steven lynch, you were there, thank you very much for being here, after a very long day. good to be with you. two big questions. first, did you believe cohen? and if so, on everything or what? i found him believable. and as you ve noted before, if he was going to just do a hatchet job on trump, he would
would be told that a u.s. adversary who is working against our interests every day is helping his campaign or that any adversary would be helping his campaign and that he doesn t say stop it, he doesn t say don t do it, he doesn t say that s not what we do. go to the police. instead, he says wouldn t that be great. and so that s what we ll probe further, but, of course, we ll get into the mueller investigation as well. i want to listen to two things that were said today about the related to the trump tower meeting. one is a question by congresswoman wasserman schultz about the way the trump family shares information. let s listen to that. if mr. trump and his daughter ivanka and son donald jr. are involved in the russian trump tower deal, is it possible the whole family is conflicted or compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election? yes. and with that possibility, let s now also listen to what
terms of who knew what? and also just ravesing tising t obvious question of is it true that donald trump s personal lawyers okayed this and green lit this false statement that michael cohen was going to make to congress, then, yes, it s reasonable to ask the question of is there a possibility and a scenario in which donald trump himself knew? yes. and all of these people around him knew. hold on, mj. this fault statement was going to be there clearly are those scenarios. what he s saying is basically that donald trump creates an environment where people absorb the lies, understand the lies, and go along with the lies understanding that they re liars. that he s denying anything to do with russia and at the same time asking michael cohen consistently over the campaign how s russia going? and it s not only the moscow trump tower deal that s discussed in this testimony regarding russia. there s the really bombshell revelation that cohen says that trump was aware that roger ston
the deal, which meant that the family was involved in the deal. if mr. trump and his daughter ivanka and son donald junior are involved in the russian trump tower deal, is it possible the whole family is conflicted or compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election? yes. based on your experience with the president and knowledge of his relationship with mr. stone, do you have reason to believe that the president explicitly or implicitly authorized mr. stone to make contact with wikileaks and to indicate the campaign s interest in the strategic release of these illegally hacked materials? i m not aware of that. was mr. stone a free agent reporting back to the president what he had done? or was he an agent of the campaign acting on behalf of the president and with his apparent authority? no. he was a free agent. a free agent that was reporting back to the president what he had done? correct. he frequently reached out to mr.
the russian tower deal? the company was involved in the deal. if his daughter and son are involved in the russian trump tower deal, is it possible the whole family is conflicted or compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election? yes. based on your experience with the president and knowledge of his relationship with mr. stone, do you have reason to believe that the president explicitly or implicitly authorized mr. stone to make contact with wikileaks and to indicate the campaign s interest and the strategic release of these illegal materials? i m not aware of that. was mr. stone a free agent of the president or of the campaign acting on behalf of the president? no, he was a free agent. a free agent that was reporting back to the president