i m shower they re looking to see if that money went to michael cohen. went through michael cohen and somehow found its way back to donald trump, because donald trump would not take meetings and make money for other people. without giving money back to himself. especially if it were michael cohen making that money. it s also a question about payments, and michael avenatti will join us on set in our 7:00 a.m. hour. now to a story with global implications. the president s decision to fulfill one of his signature campaign promises and end the united states involvement in the iran nuclear deal. it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. the iran deal is defective at its core. if we do nothing we know exactly
took all this money for himself and it wasn t spread around and didn t lead to any interactions with the white house. we know that the president took or lunch with the head of novartis at some point into this relationship. we understand it was a one-year relationship now based on the statement that novartis just issued. also the amount of that payment, the per month payment of $99,980 is a very unusual amount. it s $20 short of a $100,000 payment. it appears and we haven t confirmed this, but we heard from individuals that the reason why it would not have been $100,000 is because of the reporting, there s an internal reporting requirement at novartis that would have required the parent company in switzerland to sign off on any such arrangement. now, i don t know if that s accurate or not. that s what we heard as of this morning. there s a lot of questions being raised relating to these payments. why did michael cohen take these payments? you showed earlier in the
at least ask for a cut of that money. it would go against everything that we know about him. that we ever knew about donald trump for a decade, especially when you consider how little donald trump thought of michael cohen, how he continually mocked and ridiculed michael cohen behind his back, suggested he was stupid, suggested he wasn t good enough to work on the campaign, suggested he wasn t good enough to work in the white house, that he was a bull in the china shop that broke glass. that is not a guy that donald trump is going to allow to profit off of him setting up dinners with corporate lobbyists to meet with donald trump. a lot of smoke right now. not a lot of fire, but i m guessing that that fire is being pursued by a special counsel that donald trump s allies and the conservative media and
msnbc make all this money? i should be making all this money. he would say this publicly, too. he talked about how much money the networks were making for the debates. and seriously, was thinking about charging to show up at the debates. and people say, well you can t do that, they re not going to let you do that. my point is this donald trump would believe, i know he would believe, knowing him for a decade, if he were going to meet with at&t and money was going to exchange hands for those meetings, he would say there s no way that michael cohen should make money off of that. there s no way michael cohen should make money if i have dinner with fill in the blank. drug companies, you name it. that s, that s the first thing that, that question that was raised in my mind when i heard this story.
settling. that s a lot of money. he spent maybe 50 hours of work. i doubt it was 50 hours negotiating this potential settlement. i don t understand why he was paid this round figure by mr. broidy or why these why these p were made. it doesn t make a lot of sense and it s very suspicious to me. your document points out within 75 days or so of the payment to your client, $500,000 from columbus nova, a private equity fund controlled by a russian oligarch, went into the cohen account. i think the report is a little different than that. there were payments over time beginning in january 2017. the first payment, you re correct, was within about 75 days. so just in a layman s way, what do you think what light do you think this sheds on the enduring questions about the president and his relationship with russia and russians? well, michael cohen, the personal attorney to the president, at the right hand of the president, who by the way if you go on his linkedin page this