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$50 million penthouse in trump tower moscow to putin. joyce, ill start with you, explain to the viewers why this is such a big deal. >> so, its really coming together at this point. when we see theres communication between cohen and a russian talking about political synergy, to me as a former prosecutor that sounds like were talking about conspiracy at this point. in that context, the buzzfeed payment is very interesting because one of the strictly prohibited practices under u.s. law for our com...

Is possible, i would do that. at some point, youre going to die anyways so you want to do it before then. i happen to believe in my heart of hearts, you cant be independent and nobodys going to believe that youre independent. quite honestly, i dont want the reporters im paying to write a bad story about me. >> bloomberg said hes also considering not covering politics at all, ceding all political stories to wire sources during his campaign. the interview rattled bloomberg lps news division which ...

Trump. they dont tamper out in the open. the other layer is that the president has the power to pardon these people. the mob bosses cant pardon the witnesses they tamper with. he has that context is important. hes sending a signal to these people, hold the line, stay the course and there may be something at the end of the rainbow. >> donald trump isnt hiding at all what his motivation is, its to protect himself and himself alone. thats what he cares about. thats why hes willing to go and signale...

President trump. it would seem they are directly related to the president even though he is trying to put them as far away from him and the white house as possible. the other question is going to be, is he dangling a pardon in front of roger stone that the legal team said they didnt want him to talk about because they were worried it could open him up to accusations to obstruction of justice. john? >> the legal team may want one thing, but the president does as he wishes. with me here in studio,...

Decided to stop lying when he decided to cooperate with mueller. if hes telling the truth, then we already knew the trump organization was pursuing a real estate project in moscow before january 2016. now supposedly through june of 2016 when hes winning the nomination. buzzfeed has additional comment thats vladimir putin was promised a $50 million condo in the building. emily: while hes calling michael cohen a liar hes saying this deal was widely known at the time. if we have the president on tv...

Howie: cohens version is he decided to stop lying when he decided to cooperate with mueller. if hes telling the truth, then we already knew the trump organization was pursuing a real estate project in moscow before january 2016. now supposedly through june of 2016 when hes winning the nomination. buzzfeed has additional comment thats vladimir putin was promised a $50 million condo in the building. emily: while hes calling michael cohen a liar hes saying this deal was widely known at the time. if...

Interests in russia who is over. trump knew he did. and russia knew he did. and the kremlin, we now know was actively involved in discussions with the trump organization about the financing, about the building project. according to buzz feed, even about putins personal sweetener in the deal, which would be a free $50 million penthouse that he could keep for himself in the deal, free for nothing. so trump knew this was in the works, but was keeping it secret. the kremlin knew it was in the works....

Discussions with the trump organization about the financing, about the building project. according to buzzfeed, even about putins personal sweetener in the deal, which would be a free $50 million penthouse that he could keep for himself in the deal, free for nothing. so trump knew this was in the works, but was keeping it secret. the kremlin knew it was in the works. they knew that trump was keeping it secret. they even helped him keep it secret. in a call with reporters, the senior kremlin offi...

Specifically that was under u.s. sanctions. so if its a sanctioned bank, americans cant do business involving that bank. trump took this weird outlier political stance that he wanted to drop sanctions on russia. he just conveniently didnt mention his personal involvement in a gigantic real estate scheme that could only go ahead if the u.s. dropped sanctions. trump knew that at the time, although he lied about it repeatedly, insisted over and over again that he had no business interests in russia...

Sentencing for the new plea. this sentencing on december 12th is just on the campaign violations, but i think these so high-profile, that it would be the hard message for him to get no jail time. >> aaron, you write about one of the nuggets about the cohen business. that there was a plot to give vladimir putin a $15 million penthouse in moscow were that to have been built, which it has not been. how might that be a problem? i do want to make a disclaimer here, felix sader is the man who made thi...