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the way now for massive amounts of aid to begin flowing including direct payments of up to $1,400 that could land in some people's bank accounts as soon as this weekend. this comes exactly one year after the kworldworld health organization declared a coronavirus pandemic that so far has claimed more than 530,000 american lives and infected almost 30 million people in the u.s. alone. by contrast, a year ago today, there were just 1,100 known cases here in the united states, underscoring the virus's devastating spread across the country and, indeed, around the world. and the cdc has ju...

Something dana said here that is key also. it's the convergence. it's the intersection now of the stormy daniels story and of the russia investigation. remember, we'd initially learned that mueller's team referred some matters to the southern district of new york and then began the michael cohen investigation. we're now seeing those streams crossing and intersecting in a way that we had not before. >> and again, i just want to read this again. because this is what columbus nova is saying. david, i want to give this to you because you're saying this is the first time we have seen russian money ...

Back, now, david, what did you want to say? >> i was just going to say, i'd like to ask michael cohen and have him answer the question, what is the purpose of essential consultants? steve made the point before the break that, you know, yes, we live in a world where companies and entities and various individuals try and buy influence with the government what's less common is entities connected to russia making large payments to a company that also is allegedly the same company that pays off the alleged mistresses of the president of the united states. that is not typical swamp stuff even by, yo...

General counsel of columbus nova, i can confirm that the company is 100% owned and controlled by americans. any suggestion that at any point in time viktor vekselberg or any of his companies owned or exercised any control over columbus nova is patently untrue. how important is this? >> well, i don't know about that statement or really what that means. the broader picture here as david lays out is very damning for the president and michael cohen. look, we don't know what crimes were committed, who committed them. that is bob mueller's job to figure out. what we do know, as we become even more c...

Be covered by attorney-client privilege. the fbi has a team in place that's helping produce these documents to cohen as they produced eight boxes of digitized contents and over a dozen cell phones and electronic devices. so we're expecting by the end of this week the judge said that they expect to have the government provide all of the documents that they had seized, and there is a hearing set for two weeks from now where i think we'll get a better sense of just how big volume this is of information that might relate to clients. of course michael cohen said in court he had three clients that c...