calls. but then emin about a month ago gave a full interview on, i believe, vice on hbo, in which he said, no, we did speak. and he laid out what they said, and it seemed a bit vague, but at the end of it, he said, don said, if you re ask for the meeting, i ll do it. so i ve always said this, my e-mail was designed to get don junior s attention, not to get a meeting. and it worked. so manafort and kushner, you didn t invite them. did you know that they were going to the meeting? not until after that phone call. how do you think they got invited to meeting? if my e-mail from don junior is to be believed, he said, also joining us will be paul manafort and my brother-in-law, jared kushner. i assumed i always had assumed, after that call, he invited them. which is why i always thought, that call is what s important. do you think that there s any reason to believe that the president or then-candidate knew about the meeting, wanted his guys there, wanted hi son there,
there are conversations between your client and donald jr. we know this. that there are records of the conversations. donald jr. says, i don t remember any of those. but you say in the book, oh, he remembers. he has to remember, because after those conversations, that s when the meeting was made. you weren t on those calls. i wasn t on those calls. but your confidence is 100% they talked about this. i can only go by what i ve read and what i ve seen. so i ve seen testimony from don jr. in which he s said, i believe there are a few short calls. but then emin about a month ago gave a full interview on, i believe, vice on hbo, in which he said, no, we did speak. and he laid out what they said, and it seemed a bit vague, but at the end of it, he said, don said, if you re ask for the meeting, i ll do it. so i ve always said this, my e-mail was designed to get don junior s attention, not to get a meeting. and it worked. so manafort and kushner, you