Aug. 2, 2016. Manafort, Gates and Kilimnik meet at theGrand Havana Roomin New York, a members-only cigar club near Trump Tower.
It’s this meeting that the Mueller attorney Weissman described as being “very much to the heart” of the question of collusion.
“[T]here is an in-person meeting with someone who the Government has certainly proffered to this Court in the past, is understood by the FBI, assessed to be — have a relationship with Russian intelligence,” he said, referring to Kilimnik. “And there is an in-person meeting at an unusual time for somebody who is the campaign chairman to be spending time, and to be doing it in person.”
"That meeting and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel,” he added.
Later in the transcript published Thursday, it’s revealed that Gates and Manafort took pains to leave the meeting separately from Kilimnik, in an effort, Weissman suggested, to mask their interactions with him.
What was discussed at the meeting? It's not clear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...naforts-time-campaign/?utm_term=.0df7753808f0
It’s this meeting that the Mueller attorney Weissman described as being “very much to the heart” of the question of collusion.
“[T]here is an in-person meeting with someone who the Government has certainly proffered to this Court in the past, is understood by the FBI, assessed to be — have a relationship with Russian intelligence,” he said, referring to Kilimnik. “And there is an in-person meeting at an unusual time for somebody who is the campaign chairman to be spending time, and to be doing it in person.”
"That meeting and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel,” he added.
Later in the transcript published Thursday, it’s revealed that Gates and Manafort took pains to leave the meeting separately from Kilimnik, in an effort, Weissman suggested, to mask their interactions with him.
What was discussed at the meeting? It's not clear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...naforts-time-campaign/?utm_term=.0df7753808f0
