anthony cormier and jason leopold reported buzzfeed news today that four days after michael cohen sent that e-mail to the kremlin, to dmitry peskov, quote, cohen received a reply. he received a letter from a russian mortgage tycoon and boxing promoter. the letter said, in furtherance of our previous conversations regarding the development of the trump tower moscow project we would like to respectfully invite you to moscow for a working visit. oh. the meeting would be to tour plots of land for the potential tower, to have round table discussions and coordinate a follow-up visit by mr. trump himself. the same day this letter was sent michael cohen s partner on the moscow project, trump associate and convicted felon and fbi informant felix sater, he asked michael cohen for travel dates for both mr. cohen and mr. trump. mr. cohen wrote back, will do. this new reporting from buzzfeed news as well as a new report from yahoo news reveals that
deal but obviously the deal was already dead and there wasn t much kremlin involvement if any. that s how it felt. now today we have new reporting which suggests that that e-mail was not the end of that project. it was actually the start of a whole new phase of that project. anthony cormier and jason leopold reported buzzfeed news today that four days after michael cohen sent that e-mail to the cremin, to dimitri peskov, cohen received a reply. he received a letter from a russian mortgage tycoon and broxing promoter. the letter said, in furtherance of our previous conversations regarding the development of the trump tower moscow project we would like to respectfully invite you to moscow for a working visit. oh. the meeting would be to tour potential plots of land for the potential tower, to have round table discussions and coordinate a follow-up visit by mr. trump himself. the same day this letter was sent michael cohen s partner on the moscow project, trump
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in contact with had knowledge of or played a role in 2016 election meddling. joining us now is anthony cormier. he s an investigative reporter for buzzfeed news, one of the authors of this new report today. mr. cormier, congratulations on this scoop. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for having us. let me ask you about that last point first. fbi agents are telling you that cohen was in contact with individuals who themselves were involved in russia s 2016 election meddling. my question there is were they in contact about election meddling or were they talking about trump tower moss sxoe these just happened to be the same people who were messing with our election? i wish i knew. i don t. clearly if we did we would have had a totally different headline. what s still unclear to us is who these individuals are and what role they played in the potential interference. we don t know whether they re the individuals we named in our story, the folks that have already sort of come to li
the narrative, so to speak, or you need someone to sort of fill a hole here and there, that s where someone like jeffrey yohai might be very useful. and especially looking from the outside in this question of why paul manafort needed all that cash that fast around time he was running, leaving running and then leaving the trump campaign, mr. yohai was right in the middle of all of that. he may bible to fill that out. nathan layne, white-collar crime reporter for reuters. thank you for helping us understand it. congratulations on the scoop. appreciate having you here. i have a bunch more questions about this case in particular and one of our great legal minds, one of our favorite people to talk about legal questions on the show is going to join us live to talk about that. we ve also still got ahead tonight the reporter with the other big scoop of the day, anthony cormier had a huge scoop today at buzzfeed involving a tie between president trump and russia during the campaign. that wa