Including from a company lechged to a Russian Oligarch, with close ties to the kremlin. All of this raises questions about his business dealings. Were not getting any answers tonight from the white house. Dont you think the public has a right to get the answers . There are payments coming from a russianconnected entity, or russian individuals connected with the kremlin through a Shell Company controlled by mr. Cohen to pay off whoever . Doesnt the American People have the right to have information about that . I think there are appropriate venues and channels to do that. Ive encouraged you to do exactly what you outlined . As the white house dodges inconvenient questions about the man last month told us was still his personal attorney. Remember what candidate trump said charging Hillary Clinton with, wait for it, pay for play. The s have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves. Theyve made hundreds of magazine of dollars selling access, selling faces.
Account. The ceo of at t saying hiring cohen was a mistake and a serious misjudgment. I want to tell you something right off the top. Whatever you think of donald trump or Michael Cohen, this is now also a story about corporate influence peddeling and wall street deception. The Washington Post has obtained what it says are the internal at t documents. At t hasnt confirmed this. They appear to show that the leadership of at t has known about all of this from the start n writing, with the numbers that cohens role and his scope was defined and that he was working on literally the companys biggest priority of the year, a giant Merger Acquisition of time warner. So at t knew. And now tonight they claim this is a mistake after getting busted by of all people Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti what dropped this proverbial dime. This new evidence doesnt state how much donald trump knew but anyone who covered trump knows outside his family members his most trusted aide long before politics
Culprit. We have to get our drug industry coming back, our drug industry has been disastrous. Theyre leaving left and right. The other thing we have to do is create new bidding procedures for the drug industry because theyre getting away with murder. Pharma, pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists, a lot of power. The thing is, the rest of washington is only talking about one drug company, novartis. A company that paid the president s personal attorney 1. 2 million. A senior official at novartis telling nbc that cohen promised access to the administration. Also today, news that the million plus amount is almost four times what the company paid any outside lobbyist at the time. Well, a novartis spokesperson telling the Health Care News site stat, quote, mr. Cohen was hired as a consultant and not as a lobbyist, the consulting fees were in line with market terms for consultancy and advisory. Quick math, thats 100 grand a month he was being paid. Were also hearing from another com