HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thousands of pages of interview transcripts with the participants of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting shed new light on how eager Donald Trump Jr. and senior members of the Trump campaign were to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton — and how frustrated and angry they were that the material did not come to fruition. The nearly 2,000 pages of interviews do not appear to contain information that would change the course of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s team and Russia. But the transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Committee fill in new details about how Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort were expecting a bombshell from Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Rob Goldstone, the British music publicist who arranged the Trump Tower meeting, told the committee he was anticipating a ‘smoking gun’ from Veselnitskaya when he urged Trump Jr. to take the meeting, even though he thought it was a ‘bad idea and that we shouldn’t do it.”
-Jeremy Herb, “Trump Tower transcripts detail quest for dirt on Hillary Clinton,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 16, 2018 2:00 pm