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Wednesday confirmed to reporters that the kremlin had received the e-mail, but he said he did not respond to it and that his office did not get involved in such matters. joining us now, the co-author of that new york times article, investigative reporter matt arpuso. also with us, jed sugarman, professor of law at fordham, university. matt, your article about michael cohn touched a lot of bases including his very direct attempt to make contact with vladimir putin through a spokesman. right. and what we know because michael cohn has turned over a lot of e-mails to congress what we know is that there was obviously a great outreach by people around donald trump in an effort in 2015 to try to build a trump tower moscow. and as that deal fizzled, michael cohn sort of in this last-ditch effort sent an e-mail to the general mailbox of the ....
and, matt, the coordination with schneiderman has to be an extreme irritant to the president. it was eric schneiderman who fought the president to a $25 million settlement on the trump university case. that was $25 million that president trump vowed he would never pay but was forced to pay as a result of attorney general schneiderman s pursuit of that case. so schneiderman has been on the trump case before. sure. i mean, look, if you are bob mueller, of course you re going to want to make sure you know who is in what lane in new york. when you re looking at banking stuff, new york is the center of the universe. but the long and the short of it, at least the political reality in the short term is none of these guys, whether it s manafort or flynn can be playing in the short term for pardons. i mean they ve got to be playing to win. you know, they ve got powerful lawyers, and you don t want to hold out your hope for a pardon. that frankly opens up a whole host of problems for the pre ....
This is a very important point to make. the president cannot affect state prosecutions and state crimes through the pardon power. there are some complicated procedures, but let s say the question is if trump then tells manafort or flynn, hold on. just toe the party line, and i ll make sure to pardon you, if there are new york or other attorneys general and other state prosecutors stepping forward, they cannot count on that pardon to save them. they will have to face the pressure and will face state pressure to cooperate and turn state s witness. so it s important for schneiderman and mueller to coordinate to figure out what s going on behind the scenes. and, matt, the coordination with schneiderman has to be an extreme irritant to the president. it was eric schneiderman who fought the president to a $25 million settlement on the trump university case. that was $25 million that president trump vowed he would ....
Of several russians who are present at a june 9th, 2016 meeting with donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort at trump tower. and the new york times is reporting that president trump s longtime lawyer, michael cohn, sent an e-mail to a spokesman for the russian president, vladimir putin. that spokesman, mr. peskoff, on wednesday confirmed to reporters that the kremlin had received the e-mail, but he said he did not respond to it and that his office did not get involved in such matters. joining us now, the co-author of that new york times article, investigative reporter matt arpuso. also with us, jed sugarman, professor of law at fordham, university. matt, your article about michael cohn touched a lot of bases including his very direct attempt to make contact with vladimir putin through a spokesman. right. and what we know because michael cohn has turned over a lot of e-mails to congress what we ....