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Goldston is pitching him saying should get a page for donald trump sr. on vk, russian media, and told the idea was from the meeting. significance is not clear. investigators looking into it but raises questions. one, clearly follow-up to the meeting and raises questions about the subject of discussion between the parties. investigators looking into it, sure to be asking rob goldston about it next week. >> former senior analyst and attorney, president fired three months into presidency. not a smoking gun but another piece of the puzzle. another reminder, just seen tip of the iceberg in terms of...

But it shows that the discussion there went beyond -- went far beyond the issue of adoptions. donald trump jr. was in that room. listen to what he said soon after the meeting was revealed. >> there wasn't any follow-up because there was nothing to follow up. in the end there was probably bait and switch about what it was supposed to be about. there is nothing there. >> reporter: well, and another thing they followed up about. this is the first time it has been reported. putting donald trump on vk, russia's facebook. covino pushing for this idea. it is contradicting the long trump story on this...

Numerous e-mails, again, between rob goldston and dan skvino, at the time with the trump campaign, he's now the social media director for the trump white house. and in this, in the series of e-mails, i should say, rob is pitching him, saying that, we should really get a page for donald trump sr., the condition, on vk, which is russia's facebook, in effect, and we're also told that that idea came out in part from that meeting in trump tower. so, you know, the significance of it is not clear. but again, it raises those questions. there was clearly followup to the trump tower meeting and it raise...

Familiar with their content. vk contacted donald trump jr. and dan scavino in january and november hoping to help promote trump's campaign to its 100 million users. while scavino showed interest, it was unclear whether the campaign pursued that idea. he did not respond to requests from "the washington post" for comment. joining us now, political correspondent for "business insider" natasha bertrand. let's start with that second story first, vk reaching out trying to get trump on their social media platform. why could that be a problem on its face? >> there are two things that jumped out at be ...

The second thing is there's a new player in all this, which is dan scavino. he knew that the russians were trying to reach out to trump to create this social media page on vk, which has very few users in the united states. it's really used around the world just for russians, ex-pats, russian language speakers, so it's really, you know, it also speaks to the extent to which the russians really saw a friend in donald trump to the point where they wanted him to actually begin to advertise to social media users over there. >> david, what jumps out to you about that story? >> what jumps out to me i...