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Elliott broidy -- its not going to be his legal work. >> right. >> because that would go to his law account. its not going -- its most likely not going to be the legal work that he purportedly did for him. >> right. >> so there are a lot of unanswered questions here that put michael cohen under the microscope separate and apart from russia. >> am i crazy that i want know not just the inputs into essential consulting, but who were they paying? where were the outflows, right? >> thats the whole th...

Payments avenatti says call into question cohens business connecticuts. $500,000 from columbus nova. we also have $400,000 from novartis, which is a pharmaceutical company. there is also $200,000 from at&t and $150,000 from korea aerospace industries. so that is a significant inflow of money into the bank account of trumps personal lawyer that we are learning about for the first time tonight. >> has there been a response from these companies? i know there has been from some of them. >> thats rig...

Industries. korean aerospace industries is working to secure a defense contract with the u.s. air force and declined to comment to the "the new york times." at&t is currently engaged in a legal battle with the justice department over a proposed merger with time warner. cnns parent company. in a statement, at&t said, essential consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide incites into understanding the new administration. they it no legal work or lobbying for us and the ...

We have $500,000 from columbus nova, a u.s. company linked to a russian oligarch. we also have $400,000 from novartis, which is a pharmaceutical company. there is also $200,000 from at&t and $150,000 from korea aerospace industries. so that is a significant inflow of money into the bank account of trumps personal lawyer that we are learning about for the first time tonight. >> has there been a response from these companies? i know there has been from some of them. >> thats right. we are starting...

$400 from novartis. and $200,000 from at&t. and $150,000 from korea aerospace industries. >> what about response from the companies? is. >> essential consulting was one of several firms we engaged in to provide insights into understanding the new administration. they did no legal or lobbying work for us and the contract ended in december 2017. so at&t is confirming that they paid cohen for his services. and at&t is trying to acquire time warner and the justice department sued to prevent that mer...

Same llc of sorts which is michael cohen hundreds of thousands of dollars after the election. for what? john, what do they say? >> . $200,000 at least to at&t. and this was at a time when tat was seeking government approval for merger with time warner which owns cnn. $1.2 million paid to cohens company over the course of a year by kno novartis. essential consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration. they did no legal o...

Russian oligarch viktor vekselberg, the one you mentioned. and $1.2 million from novartis pharmaceuticals. at the time that at&t was paying michael cohen they were looking for government approval for merger with time warner. according to avenatti there were more than $4 million of payments made to michael cohen. a number of companies issued statements about the relationship with the presidents personal attorney. at&t saying, "essential consulting was one of several firms we engagedded in early 2...

Underhanded. it is rather unethical. it is the swamp that trump talked about. and while john is right that it is very interesting to know where this money went once it was in the slush fund, for me, the more interesting is how do they know to put it in there in the first place? this is not some well known llc. in fact it was not known at all until about a month ago. someone must have told them, hey, if you want to curry favor with us, go to essential consulting or whatever its called, llc, thats...

Neither he nor anyone else was involved in the decision to hire michael cohen or provided funding for his engagement. now, i mentioned that giant telecom company, at&t, also reportedly paid $200,000 to essential consultants llc. they released this statement tonight. quote, essential consulting was one of several firms we engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration. a couple of things interesting about that. at&t is hiring essential consult i

A couple of things are interesting about that. first of all, at&t is hiring essential consulting to provide insights to under the new administration. i dont know who they is unless they consider michael and cohen to be two people. at&t is saying they needed to hire this firm, michael cohens weird shell company that pays porn stars, they needed to hire them for hundreds of thousands of dollars to get insight. why would at&t want to put michael cohen on the freaking payroll in 2017? i mean, they h...