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You see jim shuuto up on the screen. he joins me now with more. >> reporter: you're familiar with this. since the beginning, since this trump tower meeting was revealed, the trump line has been two things. the meeting was a one-off. there was no follow-up. and it was clearly about russian adoptions. these e-mails more evidence that that is just not true. you see follow-up between russians who were in that meeting. rob goldstein who set up the meeting between trump senior leadership and the russians. they are talking about things far beyond russian adoptions. the british publicist mails one of ...

Washington. what do you have? >> reporter: alisyn, john, the consistent story from trump world, once this meeting was exposed, is this was a one-off. there was no follow-up, and the discussion was purely about russian adoptions. this is evidence that they just don't stand up to the facts. the british publicist brokered this meeting between jared kushner and others and being promised dirt on hillary clinton. five days after the trump tower meeting, goldstein forwards a cnn story as the news was broken that russia had broken into dnc e-mails. he forwards that and at the top says isn't this eeril...

Comments at the top, and it was referencing that there was more to the conversation than russian adoptions. there's another series of e-mails where rob is talking about getting donald trump a page on the russian equivalent on facebook, it's called vk, and he pitched it frequently and aggressively. it shows two days after the meeting there was back and forth between participants, and after that meeting there were references to other things talked about in that meeting besides russian adoptions, and the russian adoption story is falling apart from the beginning because there's an e-mail in advan...

Donald trump, jr., insists the meeting was about adoption. he has more on this. your reporting is counter to what he said? >> he said some in the meeting, the publicist that brokered the meeting between trump senior officials and russians, between him and a russian that was in the meeting and others, there were multiple e-mails following that meeting. five days after the trump tower meeting, rob goldstein forwards a cnn story on the news breaking that day that russia hacked dnc e-mails, and he forwarded that story with somewhat cryptic

>> he's the publicist who set up this meeting between don jr., jared kushner, and the russians who were coming into this meeting promising damaging information on hillary clinton. well, following this meeting, rob goldstein e-mailed dan ska vino who was at the time with the trump campaign and is now the social media director for the trump administration. e-mailed him, pressing him, suggesting that donald trump sr., the candidate open up a page on vk. that's basically the russian equivalent of facebook. very popular millions of russians use it. and he repeatedly presented this idea and suggeste...