set up in that michael chone was basically selling to his own clients. it s not only that he s a lob b byist, which he was not registered as and i ll let the lawyers determine whether he was legal. it s not only that he s saying i m going to provide insight and some influence, which is presumably what these companies will think, wu it was with his own client. i think it raises the ethical concerns to a whole different level from what we have seen. from previous administrations. from the rest of the swamp. which again, predates this administration and is not unique to this particular white house. thank you both so great to have you both was. thanks. coming up, a boycott of waffle house are grow iing loud after this disturbing video showing an officer choking and
stopped and requested questioned by mueller s investigators this year. it shows you they get an explanation for what these payments. reporter: were, to make sure they understand what this might have to do with russian collusion. it appears what they did, at least some of the information they had, they kicked over to the southern district of new york to the man hhattan prosecutors who are now handling the bulk of what michael chone is facing. we don t know what else mueller has, however, so there s a lot of unanswered questions as to whether or not there s part of this that are still having to do with the russians. we know what we know. we do not know what we do not know. thinking about viewers at home, hearing about these shady practices, thinking to themselves, this is what the president campaigned against. this is the stench of the swamp. it stinks in here. sx it does and he said what we see is clear ly pay to play. but today, refusing o condemn it. next, viktor vekselberg, t
there. again as we review, you re looking at $1.3 million, plus you re talking about the tens of thousands of dollars a month come frg the president himself and a retainer. this is a lot of money coming into michael cohen tlau shell company. registered in delaware. i want to bring in brian now. and i want to get to this, obviously, because this is a wig story out there with trump s opposition that he had made so public to the at&t time warner merger. obviously that involveded cnn. at&t has confirmed it made $200,000 in payments to michael chone, to his consulting company. it raises a lot of questions. what are they saying now? at least 200,000. his documents identify it say ing it was $50,000 a month. i m told by a well placed source, it was a higher total number because cohen s firm was contracted throughout much of 2017. avenatti is saying this didn t start until late 2017. at&t said it started in early 2017. that matters because when president trump was elected, 18
tonight, a notable sighting outside michael cohen s hotel in new york city. that s steve bannon and he was leaving the regency hotel. that s where michael cohen is staying. a source close to bannon says he wasn t meeting with cohen. but the reality is the legal pressure on cohen is mounting an the b crucial question is will cohen turn on trump. and a major factor that could influence this decision is cohen s finances. what do they look like? in the days since the fbi raided michael chone s home, hotel room an office, the so-called fixer has been seen lunching at barney s, sometimes
appears to be b that michael chone and his team were facing a team on friday, taken that fbi raid a couple of months ago and so the end of the review is now on friday.hurrican hundreds of thousands of pages of documents have been reviewed and that costs a lot of money. it was an opportunity to change teams going forward. now whether or not this he believes it s clear, certainly in the coming days whether that change in legal teams brings a deal or not. so you ve been reporting that this news is that he s working the phones, plotting his next move when it comes to the russia investigation and you have new reporting on that tonight. from trump s team.