Spoke with Sergey Kislyak last july. It was during these conversations, im told by j. D. Gordon, they talked about improving relations between the u. S. And russia. It was dur thag time, erin, that j. D. Gordon says he went to the convention, Advocating On Behalf of the campaign for language in the gop platform that advocated against the arming of the ukrainians in their fights against the prorussian rebels. That is something the Trump Campaign denied they were doing at the time. It denied it was advocating for that language in the gop platform. Flash forward to december and according to a Senior Administration official, the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner and the former security adviser, Michael Flynn, wret with the ambassador during a previously undisclosed meeting. James comey was making the rounds with house members. Democrats were not happy when the top democrat, adam schiff, who believes comey was not forthcoming on key details in the investigation into russia and the contact
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Guiliani described the supposed meeting, then said it never happened. And he once again reiterated the president knew nothing about the meeting in advance. Tonight, Rudy Guiliani seems to be muddying the waters about what meetings may have taken place before the now controversial june 2016 sit down between donald trump jr. And the russians. Guiliani brought up for the first time another meeting without the president three days before the russians met at trump tower. Guiliani claims reporters have been asking questions about its occurrence, and guiliani is trying to make clear it did not happen. There wasnt another meeting, that has been leaked, but hasnt been public yet. That was a meeting, alleged meeting three days before. He says there was a meeting with donald jr. , with jared kushner, with Paul Manafort, with gates, and possibly two others in which they out of the presence of the president discussed the meeting w