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An elevator in smolletts building. the chief communications officer with the chicago pd told our matt finn they dont have any video of the osundairo brothers in the building with jussie smollett and the streeter bill high-end condos, parting buildings have tons of security. that was largely debunked. but now the attention is not turned to that report, its turned to the criminal court building to see what comes out of the grand jury. >> lawrence: thanks, mike. dana, the police have said hes no lo...

Know what russias about. what is our national security? what do we worry about? we hear a lot about china and then we sell condos to china in the next breath. we dont have a common identity about what we believe in. >> its scary, too, saying its not the american ideal. it was hike, i guess we just live in a country now where whatever american you talk to. that cant be the way we govern. >> people dont understand what american security really is. one is our alliances around the world. two, it was...

Interests. not so much political, but financial interests that drive a lot of these folks and how the families will be taken care of for their loyalty today in their future. >> can you talk about that, craig? thats a fascinating part of your book. donald trump is pursuing a quest for the tower that goes back to the 80s. what is this about? there are a lot of places you can build a trump condominium. why is he so focused and fix sated on russia? >> if you go to 1984, you can see a man name david ...

If he was willing ing to give little more. i think thats an interesting debate. about winners and losers. its going around on twitter. the folks who bought real estate in long island city because they thought they were making an investment on the future and now have to figure out what to do with those condos. >> but in fairness, this long island city is one subway stop city away from manhattan. >> can i just ask one question? >> we dont have any time left. >> i know. lets say help chose chose a ...

Especially as it relates to foreign influence efforts. and we shouldnt assume, nicolle, that this president was only faithful to russia. it looks like he also had interests with saudi arabia and, you know, whether it was them investing in him decades ago and bailing him out, buying his yachts or buying his condos, he was -- he visited them first when he became president and we saw that they invested in buying over 500 hotel rooms in the first few weeks after that inauguration. so theres a lot to...

Will go bust. thats almost 800 in the past 5 years. bad loans to the third world. bad loans to the oil industry. bad loans to real estate developers. >> one of the reasons bankers made outrageous loans was because of federal deposit insurance. if the loan went well, you rake in the profit. if the loan went poorly, then the federal government picks up the tab. >> with deregulation, the s&ls got into that commercial real estate market and lost their shirt. >> all over the united states, people wer...

Been wrapped up by bob mueller. >> ill go back to donald trumps word. the best people, not the best people. again, its just another person indicted among all the other indictments. theres people who have been sentenced to jail, people who have been sentenced to jail who are already out of jail. it all leads me to danny cevallos, a question for him about donald trump and this idea of witness tampering or obstructing justice when he is tweeting about michael cohen and his father. its been reported...

Michael cohens father-in-law when his father-in-law actually purchased three condos from donald trump and for what purpose would that be for? >> yes, both obstruction of justice and witness tampering under federal law are heavily dependent on the words used and the intent behind them. it is common in criminal defense for lawyers to stand up in court and tell the media that this witness, this cooperator is a liar, hes a criminal, hes doing this just to save his on skin, hes not doing this out of ...

Of the house intelligence committee, elliot engel for house foreign affairs. they are considering whether to issue subpoenas for the interpreters. is that something you would support? >> i think we have a responsibility to find out what he said to vladimir putin. what we do know is that the relationship with russia goes way back. it all has to do with money, money he was able to garner for condos, hundreds of condos bought by russian oligarchs, money he was able to get from banks associated with...

At various elements. but for them to -- for the fbi to start a counterintelligence investigation in the first three or four months of the trump presidency is pretty remarkable. so i think they maust have something we dont know about. >> what was your reaction when you read the times story. when you read about the whole question, the fbi agents going after trump because they thought he was part of the russian effort in 2016, trying to help them cover it up? what did you think when you read that? ...