Ike Kaveladze, an employee of Aras Agalarov, Trump's partner on the 2013 Miss Universe contest, testified that 40 days or so before the contest, he witnessed Agalarov on the phone with a Putin aide attempting to set up a "secret" meeting between Trump and Putin. 
Kaveladze says that Rob Goldstone, Emin Agalarov's publicist, requested that Agalarov ask that Putin agree to meet with Trump based on requests from "the Trump people."
Kaveladze said he doesn't think the meeting occurred. (Trump later falsely claimed to have met Putin.)
Kaveladeze says Trump, via Goldstone, personally requested the meeting with Putin.
Kaveladze also corrected his testimony to say that contrary to his claim he'd gone from the Trump Tower meeting to California, he'd later recalled he actually went to Moscow, the next day, for a month, to work on issues related to Agalarov's company's debt to Sberbank.
Kaveladze's revised testimony appears to belie Goldstone's. Kaveladze says that Goldstone conveyed Trump's request to meet with Putin in '13. motherjones.com/politics/2018/… But Goldstone told the panel the only Trump/Russia meeting he sought to arrange was the 6/9/16 Trump Tower one.
