entire senior high command of the trump organization s campaign. it was a meeting with don jr., with paul manafort, the campaign chairman, and jared kushner. second myth was this was just one lone lawyer to talk about adoptions. no, it was a russian government delegation. it was a meeting with multiple players, all of whom had significant ties to the russian government, and they came with specific they came to say that they intended to utilize the information that they had stolen through cyber attacks. they intended to weaponize and it interfere in the 2016 election. then for some reason because they didn t bring the documents to the meeting and they didn t actually do any specific collusion or conspiracy across the table, that somehow that wasn t conspiracy. of course, that s not how it was set up. it was them coming on behalf of the russian government to say we ll be doing this and in response we want sanctions relief which is exactly what they ended up getting.
the trump organization s campaign. it was a meeting with don jr., with paul manafort, the campaign chairman, and jared kushner. second myth was this was just one lone lawyer to talk about adoptions. no, it was a russian known delegation. it was a meeting with multiple players, all of whom had significant ties to the russian government, and they came with specific they came to say that they intended to utilize the information that they had stolen through cyber attacks. they intended to weaponize and it interfere in the 2016 election. then for some reason because they didn t bring the documents to the meeting and they didn t actually do any collusion or conspiracy across the table, that somehow that wasn t conspiracy. of course, that s not how it was set up. it was them coming on behalf of the russian government to say we ll be doing this and in response we want sanctions relief which is exactly what they ended up getting.
jeremy, just remind us the short list of facts versus myth. all dating back to this one fateful meeting. one myth was that it was just a meeting with don jr. no, it was a meeting with the entire senior high command of the trump organization s campaign. it was a meeting with don jr., with paul manafort, the campaign chairman, and jared kushner. second myth was this was just one lone lawyer to talk about adoptions. no, it was a russian known delegation. it was a meeting with multiple players, all of whom had significant ties to the russian government, and they came with specific they came to say that they intended to utilize the information that they had stolen through cyber attacks. they intended to weaponize and it interfere in the 2016 election. then for some reason because they didn t bring the documents to the meeting and they didn t
the e-mails that don jr. made public himself. they were e-mails specifically from the person who set up the meeting with don jr., a group of trump campaign officials and this russian lawyer. in the e-mails rob goldstone said hillary and her dealings with russia and it will be useful to your father. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information and is part of russia and its government s support for mr. trump. don jr. responded by saying if it is what you say i love it especially later in the summer. everyone that has been connected to the trump campaign in this particular meeting has said the meeting ended up not being about hillary clinton at all and ended up being a meeting about russian adoption and their contact with this individual from russia never went any further. the president has gone further.
jr. are ensnared in the russia probe because of their connection to him. some children have officials roles in the administration. some don t. help us understand the role of family and the particular complications of running a government in this way, having one s daughter work for him, having a son-in-law work for him as well. well, remember that donald trump when he ran his business, the trump organization, he ran it with don jr., ivanka and eric trump. their offices were one floor blow h below his and they wer involved in the projects. that has transferred into his political life. they were major surrogates on the during the campaign. a little less tiffany trump as well. and then, you know, now in the white house we have ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner, being involved. ivanka and jared have tried to and ivanka in particular walk this fine line where they publicly break with the president on certain things and then not with others.