trump went to eat friday night with russian tycoons at nobu. and then attended a birthday party for the developer s host, agalarov. what happened after the birthday party is a mystery. the only thing we know about the night trump slept in moscow came from his bodyguard keith schiller when he turned down an offer from a russian to send women to trump s room. schiller testify head stood outside trump s hotel room future a time and then went to bed. the next time trump is seen publicly is next day before the miss universe pageant on saturday, trump sat down for an msnbc interview looking a little bleary-eyed. do you have a relationship with putin, or anything you feel you have sway or influence over his government? i do have a relationship. and i can tell you that he is very interested in what we re doing here today.
anything out there that looks untoward, he s going to look. there are a lot of things we could advise him on in terms of subpoenaing. but to explain why he would be interested in trump organization records. why do i need to add this to my bookshelf? i know there has been no proof of collusion. if there s no proof of that, it is just a political witch-hunt. if you want to understand why mueller is doing what he s doing with the subpoena, i can direct you to the chapters, starting with chapter one. at the center of the investigation, one major incident was the notorious trump tower meeting. who set up the trump tower meeting? agalarov, the russian oligarch, who is putin s partner. and building it in the plan for the trump tower project for
this is remarkable reporting, especially given the secrecy around the mueller investigation itself. does this indicate some sort of broader look or area of focus of the mueller investigation into trump s relationship with the ag agalarovs. they were reportedly involved in other business ventures with trump in moscow, whether or not those ever came to fruition. and the senior agalarov has been described as a conduit between trump and putin. the short answer is yes. we do understand that mueller and his team have asked a variety of witnesses, a whole bunch of questions about the relationship with them, about the miss universe pageant, about the financing of the miss universe pageant and, in fact, about this particular story line, donald trump s eagerness for vladimir putin to attend the pageant and how that all unfolded.
meeting in trump tower that s under scrutiny by mueller. there were a lot of shady characters also at the pageant. russian money launderers was there. the russian mafia was there. but drifrp didn t care about that. when they had meeting in las vegas for the miss universe pageant donald trump was surrounded by questionable people there too all with the same falters, the goldstein pr guy and the agalarovs. and they are associatewood the trump tower meeting in june. anybody believing that trump dnts know about this strains credulity. and the contacts with russia. alice, i want to ask you, though, as we look at this north korea story, and everyone seemed to say that the sanctions are working they re working. so if the sanctions are working then why no sanctions with russia. that s a great question. clearly he has had a long
pageant to announce that putin had dropped by he said no one will know for sure if he came or not he said. way would this be so important to him? well there is a few things. first of all, you can t build anything of significance in russia without vladimir putin s blessing and donald trump knew that, which is why he was so desperate to meet with him, because to robbie s point he had been for 30 years since the 80s obsessed with trying to build things in russia, moscow. he knew that was the key to moving forward. but something else that was person in the excerpt, also talks about the billionaire real estate developer who he befriended as a result of this. the agalarov. his son was an aspiring pop sing are and agreed to perform at the concert at the pageant. but the agalarov was key in the trump tower meeting in 2016. so their relationship which developed through this miss universe pageant in moscow led to what happened with that