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Decided today was how much about the russian investigation can be mentioned. and the judge said dont say anything except with one exception, so what you mentioned in the lead to this. so apparently, paul manafort agreed to hook up somebody at a bank, as bank ceo for him to get a $16 million loan and the ceo would get some kind of plum position with the trump administration. >> but dont forget, all the details about what paul manafort did in the ukraine and what he did for the russians are releva...

Financing. he is vice president at financial integrity network. i want to get more of your action as you reported to ronan farrow, in his reporting, about what you see in these reports about michael cohens banking transactions. you said theres a lot of red flags here. like what? >> thanks, lawrence for having me. the biggest red flag really is that the account activity does not match the profile that the institution established. so when first republic one boarded michael cohen, essential consult...

>> thanks, lawrence for having me. the biggest red flag really is that the account activity does not match the profile that the institution established. so when first republic one boarded michael cohen, essential consulting, they established an idea of what the companys activity would look like through that account. the activity that actually went through the account did not look like the profile they established. thats a major red flag. and that in and of itself coconspirator cause for a financ...

Dangerous ways in this probe. >> that ukraine story is a reminder that it was a month after the inauguration, that cohen and others were so concerned about russia and ukraine as one of their first priorities. i want to ask you about michael cohen, the story reported last week about essential consulting and the money that went through that shop. it seems to me there are a couple scenarios, people who defended michael cohen and the trump administration say theres nothing illegal if they were just ...

You higher someone who is a friend in the white house because you are looking for access and somebody that can carry your message. >> there is no one that they lout or are suspicious of. the national media is more critical of lobbying than the trump administration at large. there is no surprise the press zeroed in on michael cohens lobbying firm called essential consulting. strange name. essential consults. they are a mega million dollars deals with big companies. >> that would be huge news to t...

Using to payoff hush money to stormy daniels. >> thank you to danielles lawyer we know michael cohen has used essential consulting for much more than sex hutch money deals. >> there have been quiet a few mistruths stated by michael who has brought on some of these other networks. its like an analyst. they forget hes rep celebritying a client. >> instead he says something and then the russian group runs behind it. >> they warrant this constant coverage. a media flurry over a while the house aide ...

America. >> they explained they had a good reason. essential consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration. you paid for insights into this administration? hes a horny old racist who likes cheeseburgers more than his children. $200,000, please. this payment was also confirmed by an official from novartis who said, with a new administration coming in, cohen promised access. so they paid $1.2 million for access to the sam...

Llc, this llc, essential consulting, basically looks like a giant slush fund for influence peddling, some of it from foreign sources, some of it from domestic sources, some of it corporate, some of it other, theres a big story here. and were all interested in the sources of the money. but the larger questions now are going to be, and there are things that reporters are going to chase for days and weeks to come, is what did the money get spent on? you raised this in your opening statement. the qu...

Good reason. essential consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration. you paid for insights into this administration? hes a horny old racist who likes cheeseburgers more than his children. $200,000, please. this payment was also confirmed by an official from novartis who said, with a new administration coming in, cohen promised access. so they paid $1.2 million for access to the same administration that let michael wolf...

In a tweet posted earlier this week, stormy daniels attorney, michael avenatti, claimed that michael cohen had received a half million dollars from a company controlled by a russian billionaire. that oligarch, viktor vekselberg, is alleged to have made payments to cohens shell company, essential consulting, llc. among u.s. officials who study russias elite, quote, vekselberg has a reputation as the nice oligarch, relatively free from the taint of thuggery. i thought we werent going to say taint ...