Profiting off his ties to people in power. And companies that hired him like at t and novartis pony up for access, something that his boss railed against his candidate. I know the game. I understand it. So many people have come up, lobbyists. I said i dont want money from lobbyi lobbyists. The system we have is broken. A guy like bush, all these people are controlled by peemt who give them the money. It is time to drain the swamp in washington, d. C. Thats the best Case Scenario of what cohen has been up to. Here is the thing. There are numerous reasons to believe that scenario may not be the truth. For starters, lets start with this. Prior to taking money from corporate clients, cohens llc of central consultants was being used to pay hush money to the president s mistress and unexplainably to a former
government. Specifically focus on u. S. Tax reform, major Trump Campaign issue and the time warner merger. This had been announced by at t in october just before the election, and donald
The economic glitterati have descended on Russia's "second capital." President Dmitry Medvedev, vice premiers and ministers, CEOs of Intel, Nissan, Coca-Cola and other Forbes 500 companies, and oligarchs are rubbing shoulders with superstar pundits such as Thomas L. Friedman and Nuriel Rubini. All have flocked to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
prosecutor. it could be pardoned. to carrie s point sam patton pled guilty and is cooperating with mueller s team. we are now seeing it in new york. we see signs that mueller might be wrapping up, seeing the new york prosecutors take on more. it wasn t just sam patton. we knew mueller s team stopped some russian oligarchs including victor vexelberg and questioned him if he had donated money to the campaign. he didn t cooperate. it s something mueller s team has been poking around on for at least a year. some information was picked up with michael cohen, a vendor for the committee. we are seeing it come together but under the new york umbrella, not mueller. many of the cooperation agreements demand cooperation from the individual who is pleading with other law enforcement sources, other law enforcement agencies including other prosecutors that wouldn t have to be the special counsel s team. something to watch. thank you very much.
guy named andrew intrader who is the cousin of victor vexelberg. he s an american, but the cousin of the american victor, a tremendous russian oligarch, at the same time the inaugural fund is getting money from american russians who have business ties, a guy named votnik, his company. another fellow named alexander, they each gave a million dollars. we re seeing a lot of russian money, russian laden money pouring in often from people who never before were involved in giving big dollar donations to any political candidate. it certainly raises a lot of questions. so you re saying so you re saying this is part of a pattern. and if these e-mails we uncovered are authentic, how significant is it that kukes is reporting back to a high-ranking russian official during the campaign as these donations are being hold out? well, it could be highly
david, thank you so much for being with us. good to be with you. congratulations on a great spot you just did. well, i m very happy to hear you say that because i m curious to hear your thoughts. what do you think about what we uncovered about simon kukes? well, you know, that s just another piece in a mosaic that continues to grow, and it fits in with a pattern. it fits in with a pattern of big money, a lot of money rolling into trump s coffers during the campaign and after the campaign into the inaugural fund. you talked about the amount of money that kukes gave. in january of 2017, a few months later, now we re talking about the inauguration, trump s inaugural fund. trump is getting $250,000 from a guy named andrew intrader who is the cousin of victor vexelberg. he s an american, but the cousin of the american victor, a tremendous russian oligarch, at