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Head of a russian central bank. hes been accused by spanish prosecutors of having ties to organized crime. he denies this, he was trying to get a meeting with a senior trump official around a rifle convention in kentucky back if may, 2016 and an e-mail chain made its way to jared kushner, he actually instructed the campaign to pass on the meeting. his lawyer says, look, its good thing for jared kushner, but they didnt disclose this approach was paid. they had these emales to congressional invest...

That will get your attention. nbc news reports that the overture and invite relate to a series of e-mails from the aforementioned russian banker who wanted then-candidate donald trump to attend an event on the sidelines of the nra convention, may 2016. our report goes on, quote, the e-mail also suggests torshin was seeking to meet with a high level trun campaign official during the convention and that he may have had a message for trump from putin, sources said. jared kushner turned down this re...

Able to verify, for now i think we decline such meetings. so kushner declines it but then somehow and its not clear how this same alexander torsion tells bloomberg news he has dinner with donald trump jr. on the sidelines of the national rifle association convention in may 2016 and congressional investigators trying to figure out what was said, what was the nature of it. and the reason kushners under fire is because he failed to disclose that this overture was made and made the way to him and in...

Joining me now nbc national security reporter. former counsel to the house judiciary committee and karen greenberg. >>. ken, start us utout here. what else around this story can you fill in for us? >> good afternoon, richard. well this is coming into context as you said of the disclosure by the senate judiciary committee that will was a russian backdoor overture. thats the term they use. that went to jared kushner and that he didnt disclose it to them. now we know because jared kushner attorney ...

Tonight nbc news reports jared kushner failed to disclose what lawmakers called a russian back door overture and dinner invite involving a banker who has been accused of links to russian organized crime. the banker is alexander torsion, a close ally of vladimir putin. e-mails that made the way to jared kushner suggest he wanted to meet with the high level trump campaign official at the national rifle association convention in may 2016 and may have had a message for donald trump from vladimir put...

Dinner invite. that will get your attention. nbc news reports that the overture and invite relate to a series of e-mails from the aforementioned russian banker who wanted then-candidate donald trump to attend an event on the sidelines of the nra convention, may 2016. our report goes on, quote, the e-mail also suggests torshin was seeking to meet with a high level trump campaign official during the convention and that he may have had a message for trump from putin, sources said. jared kushner tur...

A bit earlier today i asked nbc investigative and national security reporter ken dilanian why this is significant. >> because it represents another example of a russian with high level connections to the kremlin circling around the trump campaign. and because jared kushner failed to disclose that he was in receipt of these e-mails, this man, alexander torshin is the deputy head of the russian central bank and hes been accused by spanish investigators of having ties to organized crime. now, he de...

Tonight nbc news reports jared kushner failed to disclose what lawmakers called a russian back door overture and dinner invite involving a banker who has been accused of links to russian organized crime. the banker is alexander torsion, a close ally of vladimir putin. e-mails that made the way to jared kushner suggest he wanted to meet with the high level trump campaign official at the national rifle association convention in may 2016 and may have had a message for donald trump from vladimir put...

With a phone and e-mail account registered under a fake name. also over the past year he travelled to tokyo, shanghai, dubai, madrid, havana, grand cayman island, cancun and panama city. and both manafort and gates were frequent travelers to cyprus. manafort wrote in financial documents that his assets were worth between $19 million in april 2012 and $136 million in may 2016. but in some months, like when he was serving as trumps national campaign chairman in august 2016, manafort said his asset...

City and frequent visitors to cyprus. his assets were between $136 million in may 2016 but in some months, like when he was serving as trumps national campaign chairman in august 2016, manafort said his assets were worth 28 million but then wrote he had 63 million in assets on a different application. meanwhile, gates frequently changed banks and opened and closed bank accounts, prosecutors said. he had 55 accounts with 13 different financial institutions. some accounts were in england and cypru...