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American who attended this meeting is ike kavalodze. he is a senior vice president at crocus group, which is the real estate development company run by russian oligarch agalarov. as you'll recall, brooke, the agalarov family were mentioned in that e-mail exchange that don junior released as being sort of orchestrating this meeting. his personal website says that he holds responsibility for multiple elements of the company's russian development projects so several projects in russia. he studied at the moscow academy of finance and kaveladze is an attorney and has worked for the agalarov's busin...

Front of the sep at judishly committee at the intelligence committee. i have a line out to the trump legal team to see if it's under consideration. >> shepard: we reported earlier to o. this eighth person in the meeting, formerly the mystery guy, who we know was the eighth person in donald trump's meeting. what else do we know about him? >> okay, his name is ike kaveladze and he is a u.s.-based employee for a company called the crocus group. the crocus group is controlled by this other russian, agalarov, who initiated the meeting with donald trump jr. on the premise he meant with the crown pro...

2013. a year later, trump appeared in a happy birthday video. on his 35th birthday. now the father, he is the president of this company called, crocus group, they own nobu restaurants here in rush yeah. they own shopping malls. and they're building stadiums for the upcoming fifa world cup. it reveals, real estate. business internationally. and entertainment. and move into politics that has ended in such a dramatic controversy. is this getting a lot of coverage in moscow. is this viewed as a big deal. the kremlin has the not commented on this yet. and it is more kind of receive

Stranger, essentially, this necessa mysterious lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya. >> we should also point out that the billionaire father of this pop star -- does he have connections to the russian government? i understand he received a high order medal and he's a billionaire real estate developer, which i imagine is not an easy thing to accomplish without some sort of help from the russian government. >> reporter: that's right. he did receive a medal of honor from vladimir putin directly. i believe it was in 2013. and yes, while he owns shopping malls and even local franchises of the nobu restaur...

Here, restaurants, convention center, he's building soccer stadiums. he was awarded a medal of honor by vladimir putin. and get this, we've learned that a couple years ago his company was awarded $129 million contract from the russian government to help work on customs infrastructure with the former soviet republic of kyrgyzstan. the crocus group and the family have denied they've sent this russian lawyer to try to help with the trump campaign to help win the election in 2016. they do confirm that they sent the lawyer to meet with donald trump jr. >> it's all very interesting. ivan watson, tha...