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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 ....
Three years before that trump tower meeting. she also uses this language. she says that i am an informant. remarkable thing to hear from the russian lawyer who got that meeting with senior members of the trump campaign. joining me now is democratic congressman eric swalwell. he serves on the house intelligence committee, which, of course, has been central to the russia investigation. congressman, thanks very much for joining us this morning. of course. good morning, jim. first, let me ask for your reaction to this story, this lawyer saying that she had much closer ties to the kremlin than we knew. of course she was a russian spy, jim. everything about the setup for this meeting that donald trump jr. knew was that she was a russian spy. it was a russian lawyer connected to the top prosecutor in russia who had dirt on their political opponent. that should have raised alarms for the trump team. it didn t. instead, it actually got them the meeting sooner. you saw in that e-mail excha ....
I think they didn t want to know what the answer was. what would the significance of the answer be? does that close the circle and prove the president was involved in, had knowledge of the 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 g ....
Ironically, michael now holds the leverage over trump, said none other than sam nunberg, adding cohen should maximize that leverage. joined by the author of the upcoming book on trump/russian. a chapter of his book focuses on what michael cohen is up to. it was published in rolling stone last week. joyce vance back with us. when you look at all this, seth, what do you think is real, separated from the hype of the sparring in the civil case? well, ari, i think cohen s team is bracing for an indictment. that s pretty clear. i just had an e-mail exchange with michael avenatti before i came in here. he told me from the courtroom that s what cohen s legal team expressed. he also separately has knowledge that there s an indictment coming, although he wouldn t tell me how he let s break that into two. number one, cohen s team didn t say there s an indictment coming immediately. what they said was the exposure ....
Cohen said he would take a bullet for trump, maybe not anymore. it says trump long felt he has leverage over cohen but sources say the raid changed that and michael holds the leverage over trump, said by sam nunberg. joined by the author of the upcoming book trump/russia. a chapter of his book focuses on what michael cohen is up to. joyce vance back with us. when you look at all this, seth, what do you think is real, separated from the hype of the sparring in the civil case? well, ari, i think cohen s team is bracing for an indictment. that s pretty clear. i just had an e-mail exchange with michael avenatti before i came in here. he told me from the courtroom that s what cohen s legal team expressed. he also separately has knowledge that there s an indictment ....