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Conglomerate. for anyone to say this is a separate company, it's not don mifflin in scranton. this is a company clearly running the operations and the money of a russian oligarch worth $13 billion very close to putin. >> if michael cohen was just, you know, promising access, promising insights, there is nothing illegal about that, is there? >> there are lobbying laws that could be triggered. >> if he actually did take something, you know, on their behest to the president of the united states, he would need to have registered under the foreign -- what is it? >> the foreign agency -- >> registra...

Fired, basically, he was fired, the president made an effort to sort of pat him on the back, keep in touch, publicly supportive, trying to keep the ties open between the two of them. >> yeah. and the white house has been signaling for some time here that no matter whats with paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, no matter whathappens with flynn, the president is not concerned that they have anything they can offer against the president. and frankly, michael flynn's exposure here includes matters that aren't directly related to the president. undisclosed lobbying related to turkey. so th...

>> martha: breaking tonight, new headlines in the probe into russian meddling in the 2016 election. but this time it is the democrats that are in the spotlight. special counsel robert mueller reportedly opened a criminal investigation into tony podesta. have you heard his name for quite some time related to all of these issues. he is the brother of obama and clinton confidante john podesta who was hillary clinton's campaign manager. accusations that tony podesta may have violated the fara act by failing to properly disclose work that they were doing on behalf of the pro-putin ukrainian think t...

Peter schweizer, president of the government accountability institute and author of clinton cash, the untold story of how and why foreign businesses and governments helped make bill and hillary rich. peter, welcome back. good to see you tonight on "the story." first of all, you believe that tony podesta, this is a real issue? >> yeah, it's a huge issue. the foreign agents registration act was launched in the 1930s in the wake of nazi aitems to politics. if you are doing work for foreign entity like this so-called think tank, you are required to register with the justice department. and they do...

Received thousands of dollars from russian businesses and from speeches that he gave and whether he did or did not register as a lobbyist under the fara act. those are the questions that are going to be brought up. he is trying to protect himself if he is granted immunity. >> chris: again, you do wonder why the president would touch this with a 10-foot pole? >> why we do it since the president disconnected himself from michael flynn when michael flynn mislead the vice president. make not sense. >> chris: okay, tim, let's move to another subject we don't know. >> nice specialty by the way. >> c...