Rob Goldstone, the publicist who set up the Trump Tower meeting between several Russians and Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner in June 2016, revealed new details of the meeting to NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden:

McFADDEN: : So you would agree with the intelligence officials, both past and present, who say that this was most likely a Russian probe to the Trump campaign?

GOLDSTONE: I mean, I can’t say that definitively… I’m willing to believe that I don’t know who wanted this meeting.

McFADDEN: But it was a dirty offer.

GOLDSTONE: Yes.

McFADDEN: It was a dirty offer that they accepted.

GOLDSTONE: Yes. That is true, that didn’t materialize, but yes, it’s the willingness to accept it.

“About a month after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, a British music promoter suggested his Russian pop-star client could arrange for the new candidate to meet with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin,” according to an email obtained by the Washington Post.

“The July 2015 offer by publicist Rob Goldstone came about a year before he set up a meeting for Trump’s eldest son with a Russian lawyer who he said had incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.”

Rob Goldstone, the publicist who helped arrange the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, tells the Times of London that Jared Kushner was “furious” that the focus of the meeting turned to the Magnitsky Act instead of dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Goldstone also denies being part of some Russian plot: “When people said that, I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. That doesn’t mean that maybe there wasn’t any Russian interference or Trump campaign collusion in other ways. I don’t know. But I’m sure I wasn’t part of it.”

He notes that Paul Manafort seemed to be paying little attention during the meeting.