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Specifically by one source who has knowledge of this investigation. there are suspicions as you raised. concerns that he was sanctioned by the united states for interfering in the u.s. election and linked to this company in new york that was paying michael cohen money. so certainly those are questions that investigators are going to have. that is why they stopped viktor vekselberg on a plane when he came to the new york area. also why they have questioned the man behind columbus nova. to see if there is any way, any kind of financial influence into the president's circle. so certainly these qu...

Received approximately $500,000 from a u.s. company linged to a russian oligarch, viktor vekselberg. what do you make of this? >> michael cohen hadn't been charged or indicted yet and nothing reported provers that the president or people close to him did anything illegal. but -- >> or michael cohen. >> right. but we're at a situation now where if you look at this reporting you've got to come to this cheollection that this narrative the white house has been pushing that there's nothing to see here, this investigation is a witch hunt, let's move on, no russians near the president's circle. that ...

Election. he's now linked to this company in new york that was paying michael cohen money. certainly those are questions that investigators are going to have. that's why they stopped viktor vekselberg on a plane when he came to the new york area. it's also why they questioned andrew intrater. these are questions they've been trying to look a at to see if this was any financial influence into the president's circle. so certainly these questions, these coincidences here would be something investigators want to look at. >> and it's his cousin running the business? >> that's correct. this was a co...

Southern district attorney of new york. phil rucker is with "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. hallie, i want to start with you. we're going to get to the other news in that briefing in a moment, but what did she have to say on stormy daniels? >> reporter: sarah sanders didn't say much about stormy daniels. it didn't come up. as you noted, i think, at the top of your remarks, katy, much of the briefing focused, in fact, on russia and about sanders' comments or lack thereof about whether or not that was a free and fair election. it obviously was not. she is loathe to say so. ...

Just crushing sorts of diatribes from folks in the president's circle. but their veracity and the process that they have used and the clarity with which they have proceeded will hold up when the end of the day, when they present this evidence, the evidence that they're beginning to compile is overwhelming at this point. and this sort of attack on them as law enforcement officers won't work. >> right now the positive approval of mueller is 28%. negative is 19. so a lot of people haven't weighed in yet because they haven't seen the evidence. thank you so much, shannon pettypiece and natasha bert...