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Trump sr., the president, to appear in one of his music videos, and there was a fair amount of back and forth on social media between these families going back to 2013 where then donald trump sr. publicly tweeted about possibly building a trump tower here in moscow with the father, the billionaire, agalarov. so these are families that knew each other and as recently as november 2016, shortly after donald trump won the election, the pop star, emin, gave an interview to russian state tv in which he boasted about how good his relationship was with the trump children. he said, i've had ivanka trum...

That what we've read in the e-mails between donald trump jr. and rob goldstone are, quote, utterly inconsistent with what our understanding of what the purpose of the meeting was. he goes on to say, it was never our understanding, neither then nor now, to communicate negative information about hillary clinton, nor was it our understanding that the meeting had anything to do with the election or the prospective election campaign of mr. trump. now, i asked, what was the relationship between this russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, and the pop star, and his representative says, well, she was j...

E-mails, donald trump jr. called, as the first step, before this meeting even took place, called this russian pop star, apparently -- or was called by him soon after he got off stage in order to find out more about the reason for the meeting and whether it was worth having, and then after having had that discussion, it seems, through the e-mails, that they had a discussion. the meeting then was scheduled. so, what we don't know is what was said in that phone call, but whatever it was was important enough to donald trump jr. that he continued to have the meeting. >> reporter: absolutely. and yo...

Ivan, you just heard from the pop star at the center of this meeting. can you just explain what role this pop star has in this whole drama and what are they saying now? >> reporter: yeah, he goes on stage simply by the first name emin. his father is a billionaire with the last name agaladav. and they've denied to comment. instead, they've retained an outside counsel, who i just got off the phone with named scott balber. he confirms that the father and son helped facilitate this meeting between donald trump jr. and this lawyer. he confirms that the pop star's son asked his -- effectively, his m...