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Hostile takeover of its russian subsidiary. >> when i say hostile takeover, i actually mean a hostile takeover with machine guns, with kalashnikovs. >> so much for winner rules and standards. >> simon was there with the guys with the machine guns. and canadian workers, a number of whom i have spoken to said they were given the opportunity to stay there and to report to kukes under his control or that they could leave. >> marks's lawsuit dragged out for 13 years and was eventually dismissed. but in the process, he got his hands on an incredible piece of evidence. >> we got a document that was s...

Campaign told us simon kukes never had a role there. the person he was exchanged e-mails with, he didn't respond at all. so, how significant is what we uncovered? waiting to help us figure that out is david corn from mother jones. we'll be right back. ♪ that's confident. but it's not kayak confident. kayak searches hundreds of travel and airline sites to find the best flights for us. so i'm more than confident.

Company. and he -- he is an american citizen, so it's not illegal. >> i want to be clear, because we just put up simon kukes, he's accused no wrongdoing, he's an american citizen, it is entirely legal what he did. i don't want to tar by association because you have not been born in russia. >> absolutely, right. >> here's the question for you, seth, which i think gets to the complexity here, right? it can be hard to sort of keep track of this web, but there's a way you can view it as incorps terror or ex-corpitory. getting money from the former soviet union, maybe it doesn't look so weird in li...

Citizen. so it's not illegal. >> i want to be clear. we just put up simon kukes. he is accused of no wrongdoing. he is an american citizen. it's entirely legal that he did what he did. i don't want to tar by association because you happen to have been born in russia. >> absolutely. right. >> here the question for you, seth, which i think gets to the complexity here, right? it can be hard to sort of keep track this web. but there is a way you could you view it as incole.er to or exculpatory. which is if there are already connections then it doesn't look as weird in light of the fact there are a...

Donors that are really important. simon kukas also gets forgotten here. this is a guy who was born in russia, came to america in the 1970s, he never gave a contribution, he's been a u.s. citizen for decades, he never gave a contribution to a politician or party or anything. and then in 2016 after the truch tower meeting, he gives $283,000 to the republican party, to trump's campaign. he had given $2,700 to trump in the primaries, but all of that came late in the cycle. this is a person who was hand-picked by putin in 2003 to run a state-owned russian oil company. and he -- he is an american ci...