he s the campaign is under way. sater pitches this idea for the trump tower moscow project to michael cohen. there s e-mails saying, you know, he shows, you know, this is a way to help make world peace, bring russia and the united states together, help get donald trump elected president and for us to make lots of money. that was clearly the prime motivation here. and, you know, the public story, the narrative from the trump folks, starting with michael cohen after all this emerged after the election was in january 16, michael cohen tries to get in touch with somebody in putin s office, dmitry peskov, the press spokesman. don t even know how to get in touch with him. calls up maggie haberman of the new york times for an e-mail address. she doesn t have it. he finally sends it to the public address and never gets a response. that was the public story.
that s president trump. there is also individual two, that s felix sater a russian-born one-time business associate of trumps. talk to me about who this guy is and his role as it relates to trump and that trump trump tower moscow. sure. felix sater had been on the scene with donald trump for some years. he was a real estate advisor. he had a card that identified him as such. and he had a somewhat checkered past. he was a convicted felon who had been implicated in a mobbed-up scheme on wall street and turned government informant. and in september 2015, which is after donald trump has already declared for the presidency, the campaign is underway. sater pitches this idea for the trump tower moscow project to michael cohen. there s e-mails saying he shows this is a way to help make world peace, bring russia and the united states together, help get