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Initially asked you to be on the show to talk about here tonight. which is a decision that you have made that you are actually going to stop the appointment of at least one senior staffer to the u.s. treasury department because you say that you haven't received information that you have requested from treasury that's related to the rather than investigation. what can you tell us about that. >> we are looking at two separate matters. i'm looking at russia. and i'm also looking at this novartis deal, because i've been concerned that as the reports came out it looked more like a corporate shakedo...

Payrolls to the tunes of tens of thousands of dollars a month. and they were quite happy to have him on the payroll up until the moment the payments got exposed because of the stormy daniels lawsuit. that exposure to the light made novartis and at&t decide that the payments had been a mistake. the public exposure of those payments led at&t to fire their chief lobbyist. led novartis to final general counsel. none of that would have happened had it not been pushed into the late. they had miebl cohen on the payroll. it wasn't a secret to them. it's only when it stopped being a secret to us that a...

Republican strategist. he courted companies saying i don't know who has been representing you but you should fire them, i'm the guy you should hire. i'm closest to the president. i'm miss herman lawyer. now it may have worked with at least several companies. who we learned paid cohen after the election. one of the companies was at&t. at least $200,000 for what it called insight into the new administration. at&t is trying to acquire cnn's parent company time warner. the justice department sued to prevent the merger in november of last year. tonight we did learn the special counsel's office cont...

Of last year. tonight we did learn the special counsel's office contacted at&t about cohen in november of 2017. the company says they cooperated fully. back now with the panel david gergen. you alluded to this before what atennessee says it was looking hoag for was insight and information in the trump kmrgs administration. novartis after being contacted by miebl cohen wanted an in on health care. what do you make of companies trying to use this type of figure to get close to the white house. >> i think this happens a lot. people do -- when they leave the white house they often set up lobbying ...

President lie, not personal to you i mean to the american people. >> have i heard the president lie? i can't -- off the top of my head i can't recall. >> not off the top of my head, no but what i will tell. >> you you believe like millions of illegal immigrants vote in california and that's why clinton clinton won the popular vote. >> i believe that hillary clinton election because she did a horrible job. >> that's what trump said. >> but. >> i think there is also a risk here we're jumbling a bunch of things together. miebl cohen clearly took out a line of credit which $750,000 whatever that i...