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The russian government. it was sanctioned by the u.s. and the eu for essentially underwriting the war on ukraine. according to one observer, vladimir putin effectively runs the veb as his private slush fund, using it to bail out oligarchs and fund pet projects. the bank pumped millions of dollars into ukraine at a time when putin was seeking to move the ukrainian government closer to russia. putin appointed gorkov to lead the bank, and gorkov is a graduate of fsb academy. thats the russian schoo...

His spot by the presidents side. kushner of course under scrutiny for his attempts to set up a secret communications channel with the kremlin during the transition. "outfront" now kim kersin who has known kushner for 15 years. also editor of the new york observer which is owned by kushner. so you know him extremely well. you had a chance to speak with him in just the past few days. we saw him today where weve been accustomed to seeing him, the president. but with all this controversy right now w...

Tried to establish a back channel between the transition and russia, but its a big story. does that news jibe with the reporting youve done on this character, somebody who would go to great lengths in order to find a way to communicate with somebody, in order to propel the interests of somebody eahes working for, his own business, or t trump campaign transition. >> i think he really does. soon after he took over his fathers real estate empire, he bought a new york society "newsweenew news weekly...

States would work together as a team and so specifically that the russians would not come in and try to co-op some of the european nations. thats why, right? >> thats why it was founded. youve seen trump on a call from nato to really reorient itself towards fighting terrorism and for nato to even join in the coalition fighting i.f. we think that if that does happen, it will be more in a symbolic observer role as opposed to nato fighting isis. theres many nato countries contributing to that effor...

Government and the fact they have this straight line avenue into the oval office which is new doesnt change who they are and why its very frustrating as a person observer to this and now in congress for five years to see republicans dismiss or defend that which they would have been outraged over in another administration at another time. it begs the question, why do they bend over backwards to try to normalize outrageous behavior by the trump administration? and the question i think answers it s...

>> we all witnessed and covered theres no love lost there between those two men. but kushner would have to be extremely naive or crazy to establish a back channel with the russians. does he come across as a kind of crafty character or smart, sa y savvy, owner of the observer, married to ivanka trump? i mean, would he be that crafty and nefarious? >> i think that he -- hes definitely willing to sort of bend the rules and to take, you know, to take -- >> to ask forgiveness and not permission? >> e...

According to this piece in the observer, encouraging the national security agency director, head of the nsa, to discredit the head of the fbi, to discredit james comey. i want to play for you what richard nixon did that almost got him impeached, got republicans to walk into the office and say mr. president, you need to resign. it was him attempting to get the cia to interfere with the fbi with the investigation of watergate. listen to his chief of staff, on june 23, 1972 in one of the nixon reco...

Then you go to the fbi director, he says no, i cant do that, i cant show you any loyalty, and then you fire that director. and then, joy, after all of that, you know flynn is under investigation. you give him a call. you say words to the effect of man, i know the feds are after you, but keep your head up. the struggle is real. give me a break. ive seen obstruction of justice convictions on less evidence than this. >> matthew miller, you also have extraordinary information coming out of some of t...

Hes not, like other presidents who, the longer they stay, they listened, they learned, they adjust. hes shown no evidence of that. that means that the donald trump we have now is the donald trump were going to have as long as hes in office. and, so, hope springs eternal for republicans, even boehner, that he can turn into a different animal, but hes 70 years old and he aint changing. >> i thought something else he mentioned -- he actually has mentioned this before, jonathan allen, that republica...

Nato alliance and that keeps beekeepers where they need to be but it is supposed to be a goal of other nation members to give at least 2% of their gdp to the alliance and only five nations including the us are doing it out of 28 nations that belong to the nato alliance. i expect the president to have her on that point and this idea that nato will increase its contributions in the anti-isis effort. secretary of state rex to listen talked about that. >> nato joining the isis coalition. that would ...