weren t allowed to progress and attest to truth or falsity of that statement and probe and find additional evidence. in our interviews, for example, of donald trump jr., we asked him about this blocked call that he received in between communications he was having with agalarov. he claimed not to remember who that call was to or from. it was a blocked number. we know the president was using a blocked number when he was then candidate donald trump. it s very easy to find out by subpoenaing donald trump s phone records during the campaign to see if that was him, if that was a conversation that don jr. was having in midst of trying to figure out whether to take this meeting at trump tower. that s a key piece of evidence, a pretty obvious step. the republicans on our committee wouldn t allow us to take it because they didn t want to know the answer. it didn t appear the senate judiciary committee took that step either. but bob mueller, i have to
the judiciary committee in terms of their portion of the investigation into that trump tower meeting. i m wondering as someone who was part of your own investigation on the house intelligence side, do you feel like you learned things today from the documents made public? you know, we re still going through the documents. on first read, a lot of the testimony in the senate very much tracks what we heard from these same witnesses in the house. we also see some of the same infirmities i think in the investigation in the senate judiciary committee that we ve had in the house, and that is that when witnesses would make a statement, the investigators weren t allowed to progress and attest to truth or falsity of that statement and probe and find additional evidence. in our interviews, for example, of donald trump jr., we asked him about this blocked call that he received in between communications he was having with agalarov.
he trivializes the meeting. you know, the democratic response to the recent house memo also contains some interesting evidence related to this meeting because they pointed out that donald jr. had two phone calls in the time frame just before this meeting with agalarov, the russian industrialist, the ultimate source of this information so that adds another dimension to this, that makes it look suspicious. yeah. particularly, ayman, since they refused the house republicans the request to subpoena who the one of the phone calls which was from a blocked number came from. harry, it s as if you read my mind because that pivots us to the house intelligence committee. i appreciate it because i actually wanted to shift gears a little bit and talk about the intel committee releasing their final report this past friday about the russian investigation basically clearing the president of wrongdoing in many sentences like hedging their bets saying there was communication but we don t know wh
generous offer on behalf of the russians to give dirt to the trump campaign about their opponent? it would be very powerful circumstantial evidence. when you look at the time logs where he s talking in the e-mail exchange, donald trump, jr. tells him let s talk on the phone. they talk on the phone. then donald trump, jr. calls a blocked number and then he calls aman right back. to me as a former prosecutor that looks like he may well have called his father about taking this meeting with the agalarovs who are friends with donald trump. it would blow up the whole story that donald trump the candidate had no idea this meeting took place, which again to me is ludicrous considering he was in the building. was in the building with the family that asked for the meeting and that he had an interest in getting dirt on hillary clinton and that he had been intimating during the time that the meeting was taking place that there would be new information coming out about hillary clinton. so, that
would ask for the meeting were close friends with the president who were in constant communication with donald trump. they were sending gifts back and forth to each other. so they re important people to donald trump. we know that candidate trump was just one floor above where this meeting took place. we also know that ivanka trump was present when the meeting took place. but we know that when the meeting was being set up, donald trump, jr., talked to had a phone call and made a phone call right after that to a blocked number. he calls agalarov right back it a blocked number. we know this blocked number may very well be donald trump s because other witnesses told us that donald trump would use a blocked number to make some of his calls. all we asked of the republicans was to allow us to subpoena the cell phone records for donald trump, jr. to see if you could link donald trump, jr. to his father as he s talking back and forth with the agalarovs. i think they didn t want to know what t