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Organization had with alpha bank. this is all raising alarm bells with democrats because they want to know whether or not he's going recuse himself from the mueller investigation and of course he has not committed to do so nor has he committed to recusing himself to anything related to alpha group which is the parent company of alpha bank. but the bigger question is whether or not he's going be recused from anything related to alpha group swoind by mikhail freeman, peter khan who were placed on a treasury late indicating people close to the kremlin. >> just to be clear, this is to underscore h...

Course, the companies they control. but it's also interesting to look at who wasn't sanctioned. you didn't have prominent figures connected to, for example, alpha group listed on the sanctions list which a number of experts were surprised by and you had dereposkov. and another that attended trump's inauguration. his u.s. associates gave millions to trump's administration fund. in many ways this list was surprising. that doesn't make it any less effective, but it was an interesting look at how the state department or how the treasury is dealing with these new round of sanctions on russia. >> ca...

Campaign act. here you have more of the manafort following the manafort money trail but in a way that sort of brings in more of this d.c.-based lobbying that we see mueller continuing to sniff around, including subpoenaing folks that work with the podesta group and mercury public airfares through manafort, through a front group for yanacovic. >> and with mercury and the podesta group and now askskadde all being central to this current line of inquiry, is there any sense that those groups as entities are in trouble here? >> i've heard from folks from podesta and mercury that they are concerned....

One of the partners was a man named german kahn. he has an estimated fortune of $10 billion and gets a mention in the dossier specifically his company's closeness to vladimir putin. an alpha group deny any wrongdoing and are suing buzz feed. but today, german kahn found himself in the news for a different reason because he's the father in law of this guy. alex van der zwann who today pled guilty to lying to robert mueller's investigators. these new charges are interesting for a lot of reasons but what happens when you're a multibillionaire oligarch putin ally and the young man who just married...

Crumbs that lead to something that is in sort of a different bucket of the mueller investigation. that is connections to -- current connections to russian oligarchs and that is through this young man's father-in-law, who as you pointed out, mr. kahn is one of the founding oligarchs at alpha banking groups, he's closest to the russian security services and alpha group, in addition to being the subject of ongoing fbi investigations into a connection between alpha bank servers and the trump organization, there is also this tie, which is that alpha group has retained skadden arps in the past to re...