What Everyone Missed In The Donald Trump Jr. Emails | All In

>>> WE NOW KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP JR. RECEIVED A SERIES OF
E-MAILS LAST JUNE IN WHICH HE WAS OFFERED UNSPECIFIED DIRT ON
HILLARY CLINTON. DIRT HE WAS TOLD WOULD COME FROM
THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. TRUMP JUNIOR ADMITS TAKING A
MEETING WITH WHAT WAS DESCRIBED IN THOSE E-MAILS AS RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY IN ORDER TO GET THAT DIRT.
HE MAINTAINS, HOWEVER, HE WAS OFFERED NOTHING OF VALUE.
LAST NIGHT ON FOX NEWS, SEAN HANNITY ASKED TRUMP JUNIOR IF
BEFORE THE MEETING HE HAD BEEN BE GIVEN ANY INDICATION AS TO
WHAT THE INFORMATION WITH HILLARY CLINTON MIGHT BE.
AND LISTEN CAREFULLY TO HIS ANSWER.
>> AT ANY POINT WERE YOU TOLD EITHER IN PHONE CONVERSATION OR
OTHERWISE, WHAT THEY MIGHT TELL YOU?
WHAT GOLDSTONE SEEMED TO BE IMPLYING?
>> AS I RECALL, IT WAS ALL THIS E-MAIL COORDINATION.
LET'S TRY TO SET UP A MEETING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS AND THAT IT
WOULD BE INTERESTING INFORMATION.
IN THE END, WASN'T ABOUT THAT AT ALL.
>> HE SAID NO, AS I RECALL, IT WAS ALL BASICALLY THIS E-MAIL
COORDINATION. >> BASICALLY.
SOMEONE SAYING THEY HAD INFORMATION TO PROVIDE.
AND THE MEETING WHICH HE SAID WAS A DUD.
BUT NBC NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER NOTICED SOMETHING
INTEREST. A CAREFUL READING SEEMS TO
SUGGEST THAT DON JUNIOR IN FACT DID HAVE A CONVERSATION ON THE
PHONE BEFORE THE MEETING WITH THE PERSON IN MOSCOW OFFERING
INFORMATION DESPITE CLAIMING HE HAD NO SUCH CONTACT.
JUST LAST NIGHT ON CAMERA. THE E-MAILS WERE BETWEEN DON
JUNIOR AND HIS AQUABLTANCE RON GOLDSTONE.
NOW GOLDSTONE REFERENCES HIS SOURCE, THAT'S THE POP SINGER.
AT 12:30 HE WROTE, HI, DON, LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU ARE FREE TO
TALK WITH EMIN BY PHONE ABOUT THIS HILLARY INFO.
YOU HAD MENTIONED EARLIER THIS WEEK SO WANTED TO TRY TO
SCHEDULE A TIME AND DAY. HE SAYS, COULD WE SPEAK NOW?
GOLDSTONE RESPONDS, LET ME TRACK HIM DOWN IN MOSCOW.
WHAT NUMBER HE COULD CALL? ONE MINUTE LATER MIRGS CELL.
>> OKAY. HE'S ON STAGE.
THAT'S THE GUY AT THE CENTER OF THOUGHT.
HE'S STAGE IN MOSCOW BUT SHOULD BE OFF IN 20 MINUTES SO I'M SURE
CAN CALL. AND THEN NEARLY AN HOUR PASSES.
AND DON JUNIOR WRITES, ROB, THANKS FOR THE HELP.
SO WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT HOUR?
IT APPEARS THERE WAS A PHONE CALL.
DID THAT PHONE CALL TAKE PLACE? THAT THANKS FOR THE HELP AN HOUR
AFTER SUGGESTING THE CALL MIGHT HAVE.
HE ASKED THAT I SUGGEST A MEETING WITH YOU AND THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY WHO IS FLYING OVER FROM MOSCOW THIS
THURSDAY. I BELIEVE YOU ARE AWARE OF THE
MEETING. SO WONDERED IF 3:00 P.M. OR
LATER ON THURSDAY WORKS FOR YOU? I BELIEVE YOU ARE AWARE OF THE
MEETING. THAT SEEMS TO BE A REFERENCE TO
THEM HAVING A FORM OF COMMUNICATION.
PERHAPS A PHONE CALL. MAKING DON JUNIOR AWARE OF THE
MEETING. LATER HE MENTIONS FOR THE FIRST
TIME THE OTHER PARTICIPANT HE PLANS TO BRING.
IT WILL LIKELY BE PAUL MANAFORT, CAMPAIGN BOSS, MY BROTHER-IN-LAW
AND ME. THE FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY FROM
MICHIGAN, PROFESSOR OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY HAVE MICHIGAN.
YOU NOTICED THIS. IT SURE DOES LOOK LIKE A PHONE
CALL HAPPENED. IT SURE LOOKS LIKE IT.
>> IT SURE DOES. IT IS A LOGICAL INFLUENCE.
AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE ROB GOLDSTONE IS NOT THE
MAN WITH THE CONNECTIONS TO THE KREMLIN.
EMIN AND HIS FATHER ARE THE GUYS CLOSE TO THE KREMLIN.
AND THIS COULD EXPLAIN A FEW THINGS.
ONE, THE DAY AFTER THIS ARRANGEMENT, THIS PHONE CALL MAY
HAVE TAKEN PLACE, DON JUNIOR MADE A SPEECH WHERE HE PROMISED
TO MAKE SOME ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON AND HER
DEALINGS. AND OF COURSE, HE NEVER DID
THAT. BUT HE WAS INTIMATING THAT HE
HAD SOME DIRT ON HILLARY CLINTON.
THE OTHER ISSUE IS THERE'S A HUGE DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE
E-MAIL THAT VERY EXPLICITLY PROMISES INCRIMINAL NIGHTING
INFORMATION ON HILLARY CLINTON AND THE EXPLANATION OF HOW THIS
MEETING ACTUALLY PLAYED OUT WITH THE LAWYER WHO WAS TALKING ABOUT
THE ADOPTION AND DONALD TRUMP ARE JR. SAYING I DIDN'T REALLY
GET ANYTHING. THERE IS NO REAL EXPLANATION FOR
THAT DISCONNECT. MAYBE THIS PHONE CALL EXPLAINS
IT. >> BARBARA, YOU WERE A FEDERAL
PROSECUTOR. WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE?
>> ALL WE REALLY HAVE IS ONE LITTLE NUGGET ABOUT THIS WHOLE
SCENARIO. SO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS GET AS
MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAN AROUND IT TO SEE WHAT ELSE
HAPPENED. SO NUMBER ONE, GETTING THE
TELEPHONE RECORDS OF DONALD TRUMP JR. MIGHT BE ONE WAY TO
CONFIRM WHETHER THERE WERE ADDITIONAL PHONE CALLS.
YOU GET GET PHONE CALLS AFTER THE FACT BUT YOU CAN DETERMINE
WHETHER THEY OCCURRED. I WOULD WANT TO TALK TO ROB
GOLDSTONE AS WELL. NOW, HE OF COURSE IS A BRITISH
NATIONAL SO YOU CAN'T JUST USE YOUR SUBPOENA TO PULL HIM IN.
BUT WE DO HAVE TREAT BUSINESS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
SO AN INTERVIEW COULD BE ARRANGED.
SO I WOULD WANT TO FIND OUT AS MUCH AS I CAN.
I WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS.
WERE THERE ANY SUBSEQUENT E-MAILS?
I WOULD BE USING A SEARCH WARRANT TO TRY TO GET THE
CONTENT OF THE E-MAILS BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP, JARED KUSHNER,
GOLDSTONE, ALL OF THESE PLAYERS. >> TO BARBARA'S POINT ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED AFTER, THAT'S THE STORY THAT WE'RE GETTING WHICH SEEMS A
LITTLE UNRESOLVED. SO LET'S SAY, IF EVERYTHVERYTHIT
DONALD JUNIOR IS SAYING IS TRUE. IT IS WEIRD AND DISAPPOINTING
AND DOESN'T INVOLVED WHAT HE THOUGHT.
DO YOU JUST LET IT GO? DO YOU SAY WHAT THE HECK WAS
THAT? YOU WASTED MY TIME.
YOU MADE ME LOOK BAD IN FRONT OF PAUL MANAFORT.
THERE'S A LOT YOU CAN IMAGINE WOULD HAPPEN AFTER THAT OTHER
THAN A SHRUG. >> THERE ARE SOLE UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS. WHEN HE GETS E-MAIL ABOUT THE
EFFORT TO HELP YOUR FATHER. HE DOESN'T SAY WHAT EFFORT?
SO HE IS ACTING LIKE HE UNDERSTANDS THERE IS SUCH
EFFORT. THEN AGAIN THIS DISCONNECT
BETWEEN HAD VERY EXPLICIT PROMISE OF HELP AND WHAT THEY'RE
SAYING WAS A NOTHING BURGER. >> DID YOU GET THAT SAME LINE?
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS.
IT SAYS THE RUSSIAN EFFORT TO HELP HER FATHER.
IT IS NOT LIKE HERE'S SOME CRAZY BOMBSHELL NEWS, BRUH.
IT IS GOING TO HELP YOUR DAD GET ELECTED.
>> WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT MUELLER'S MISSION IS, IS A QUEST
FOR THE TRUTH. ALTHOUGH PEOPLE WANT TO SEE
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ANYONE WHO HAS COMMITTED CRIMES HERE.
THE REALLY BIGGER QUEST FOR TRUTH THAT WE WANT IS WHAT WAS
THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT UP TO IN THIS COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION? WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
WHAT WAS THEIR GAME? AND THAT QUEST FOR TRUTH IS WHAT
ROBERT MUELLER WILL WANT TO KNOW.
>> AND I CAN'T HELP BUT NOTE THE IRONY, WE W WENT THROUGH AN ENTE
CAMPAIGN. WE'VE READ A OPPORTUNITY OF
E-MAILS THAT THE SECRETARY TURNED OVER TO THE STATE
DEPARTMENT. WE READ CRIMINAL RECORDS.
THIS IS FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE READ AN E-MAIL FROM THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN ON THE INSIDE. IT DOES MAKE YOU WONDER WHAT
ELSE IS IN THOSE INBOXES. >> IN THE ABSENCE OF HARD FACTS,
WHAT WE'VE GOTTEN IS SPECULATION FROM CURRENT GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS. THEY SAY THIS IS RIGHT OUT OF
RUSSIAN PLAY BOOK. THEY BELIEVE THERE IS A DANGLE.
THEY BELIEVE IT IS RUSSIAN TENSE TRYING ON SEE HOW THE TRUMP TEAM
WOULD RESPOND TO AN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE.

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