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Company that russia owned as a state oil company and to sell 19% and generate commissions to pay off the trump people as a kwid proquo for lifting sanctions, that dossier doesn't get published until after the election, around time of the inauguration. turns out while was in couple hands the events were playing out in realtime. jump to after the election. december 2016. first of all, you got kushner and flynn troo iitrying to set secret line with the kremlin on december 1st. december 7th, qatar and another company called glen core from switzerland they go ahead and buy 19.5% of that russian com...

Joining our discussion now, jeremy stahl, senior editor at slate and back with us malcolm nance and david frum. you have been reporting on this and reporting on michael avenatti's revelations about it, and there is a connection here, isn't there, to the steele dossier? >> that's absolutely correct. the connection is that four days before this meeting at trump tower on december 12, 2016, that was confirmed today by the sports company that ahmed al rumaihi runs. there was a multibillion oil deal, a sale from a russian gas giant called rosneft to qatar for 19.5% stake in the company. and what's i...

Giant called rosneft to qatar for 19.5% stake in the company. and thatwhat's important here i the steele dossier, it's alleged in the summer of 2016 during meetings in russia, carter page set up an alleged quid pro quo deal in which trump administration officials would eventually promise to undo sanctions against russia in exchange for a stake in this future oil purchase. and the fact that all of this ultimately played out in this way offers some credence, i guess, to some of the essential claims of the steel dossier. >> and david frum, michael avenatti told us that we would soon know more abo...

Go ahead and buy 19.5% of that russian company. and then these events you're looking at happened four days later. december 12 in trump tower, what are these two owe facifficials al-rumaihi shows up. there seems to be a plan that is connecting the dots. and then one month later we get the steele dossier that shows this plan was coming together. it turns out when that purchase was made we didn't know it was qatar. it was only revealed later. so here is how this connects, i think, to the story of the basketball organization. if that timing is right that in june 2017 why is qatar back in the story...

And what they told me is there are international regulations about what has to be disclosed about a financial transaction. by keeping that number under 20%, it allowed them to move money around. so when qatar makes that purchase along with the swiss company, they immediately divide it up, spread it around, and they can create the commissions. it wasn't that they gave 19.5% to trump people like kushner, it's that they were able to under the radar create commissions that those millions of dollars could go undetected. it just turns out that there are other ways of finding out that information tha...