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Specifically by one source who has knowledge of this investigation. there are suspicions as you raised. concerns that he was sanctioned by the united states for interfering in the u.s. election and linked to this company in new york that was paying michael cohen money. so certainly those are questions that investigators are going to have. that is why they stopped viktor vekselberg on a plane when he came to the new york area. also why they have questioned the man behind columbus nova. to see if ...

Received approximately $500,000 from a u.s. company linged to a russian oligarch, viktor vekselberg. what do you make of this? >> michael cohen hadnt been charged or indicted yet and nothing reported provers that the president or people close to him did anything illegal. but -- >> or michael cohen. >> right. but were at a situation now where if you look at this reporting youve got to come to this cheollection that this narrative the white house has been pushing that theres nothing to see here, t...

Election. hes now linked to this company in new york that was paying michael cohen money. certainly those are questions that investigators are going to have. thats why they stopped viktor vekselberg on a plane when he came to the new york area. its also why they questioned andrew intrater. these are questions theyve been trying to look a at to see if this was any financial influence into the presidents circle. so certainly these questions, these coincidences here would be something investigators...

Southern district attorney of new york. phil rucker is with "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. hallie, i want to start with you. were going to get to the other news in that briefing in a moment, but what did she have to say on stormy daniels? >> reporter: sarah sanders didnt say much about stormy daniels. it didnt come up. as you noted, i think, at the top of your remarks, katy, much of the briefing focused, in fact, on russia and about sanders comments or lack thereof about w...

Just crushing sorts of diatribes from folks in the presidents circle. but their veracity and the process that they have used and the clarity with which they have proceeded will hold up when the end of the day, when they present this evidence, the evidence that theyre beginning to compile is overwhelming at this point. and this sort of attack on them as law enforcement officers wont work. >> right now the positive approval of mueller is 28%. negative is 19. so a lot of people havent weighed in ye...

So, if that goes up by 25%, thats about 6/10 of one cent on the price of a can of campbells soup. who in the world is going to be too bothered by 6/10 of a cent? >> wilbur ross is my guest. im going to talk to him in a moment. first, the facts. the tariff sent the dow plunging. almost everyone in the presidents circle thinks its a bad idea. what is the deal? >> the deal is, you have to look at the numbers to see if you can figure out what it means. its confusing. the u.s. imports a third of the ...

Right, they cant tell you who knew what when because they havent investigate today yet. even when they do investigate it theyll probably never tell us the details because if theres an indication that anybody in the presidents circle did anything wrong they will not admit it. thats part of the overall premise of the administration of presidential infallibility. >> you know, kimberly, with regard to the response of the message coming out of the white house today are, we early playe some sments e c...

>> right. >> dana: on july 20, 2017, mark coralo, the spokes person for president trumps legal team outside of the white house resigned. no one ever talked about it. now a lawyer wants to talk to him. does he have an obligation to come forward to mueller? >> i believe he does. you and i know mark and respect him. he was the former spokes person for the justice department in the year when you worked for president bush. mark carolo was a spokes person for president. he advised the president and hi...

China that have to be fixed. there may be things with nafta and tpp that need fixed, too. when youre talking tough with china, by definition, transpacific partnership was meant to strengthen trade that didnt include china. nafta is trade that doesnt include china. the president, i think, might be learning that you cant swipe everybody with the same brush. some trade is really, really important. all trade deficits are not necessarily bad when you are the biggest consumer country in the world. you...

Dysfunction. we did have that special election in wisconsin this week. ive been on the phone all morning with republicans. theres a very high leavel freakout about that. because there is the sense that even though donald trump might not be on the ballot, he is the mood music. he is setting the mood music for the year. if, in fact, you continue to have this kind of chaos and this dysfunction and it results in the shutdown of the federal government, the republicans are going to pay a huge price fo...