Trump Jr. has told House investigators that he did not communicate with his father about the meeting before it happened. Trump Jr. — who had emailed Goldstone ahead of the meeting about the dirt, "if it's what you say I love it" — told congressional investigators he was interested in "listening to information" about Clinton in the June Trump Tower meeting. The transcripts also detail the scramble that occurred across the Trump orbit and for those connected to the Trump Tower meeting after it became public roughly a year later. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Wednesday that he decided to release the Trump Tower transcripts because "the public's business ought to be public." Trump Jr. testified at the conclusion of the meeting, Goldstone apologized to him "for what he believed was wasting our time."

Source: CNN May 16, 2018 13:06 UTC