News. Robert muellers team has questioned a Russian Oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars that his company sent to Michael Cohen after the election. This is according to a source familiar with the matter. Victor is the name of the Russian Oligarch. You see him there. He has close ties to putin. He is one of two Russian Oligarchs the fbi stopped to question earlier this year when their private jets landed in new york area airports. Now this questioning was part of russias probe. Last month, the Trump Administration placed him on the list. Now according to Michael Avenatti tonight, the amount of money was roughly 500 thourk and it was paid to cohen between january and august of 2017. So all within President Trumps administration. The first payment avenatti says was within 75 days of when cohen paid Stormy Daniels 135,000 to keep quiet b about her alleged affair with the president. Avenatti speculates these may have been used to reimburse cocoa hen. Whatever they were used for,
Not be there. I want to get it finished. The prize i want is victory for the world. Harris washington correspondent rich edson has more from the state department. Rich . Good afternoon, harris. Secretary of state mike pompeo met for 90 minutes this afternoon with kim jong un. When he left that meeting the reporters traveling with him asked him if he secured the release of the three americans. Pompeo would only cross his fingers. Shortly after that, an official arrived at the hotel to inform him that kim jong un decided to grant amnesty to release tony kim, kim haksong and kim dongchul and added they should be careful not to make the same mistake again because it was a hard decision to release em. They boarded a plane and are seeing a doctor. Pompeo said when they made the announcement they were leaving the north korean air space, the three men were thrilled. They are back to the United States and President Trump expressed the appreciation for the sign of good will. President trump a sp
Im happy to take the answer from the private counsel also, but i made efforts. Ill pose it publicly. If you can address it, id appreciate it. Do you know whether mr. Cohen ever approached the white house as a representative of any of those companies, whether the president was aware of the payments, or whether he was aware that mr. Cohen was marketing himself . Im not aware. Again, i would refer you to the outside counsel. Kristen. Thank you, sarah. The president promised to drain the swamp. Does he feel its appropriate that Michael Cohen, his personal attorney, was selling access to him . Again, im not going to weigh into this. Thats a determination that individual companies have to make and i havent spoken with the president. Sarah, based on what you know youre the press secretary. Youre standing there at the podium. Based on what you know thats been revealed in the past 24 hours, does the president think it was appropriate his personal attorney given that he was to drain the swamp .
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 474 of this Trump Administration brings new allegations that President Trumps personal lawyer took half a Million Dollars from a russian oligarch. Much more on that in just about 30 seconds. But first we want to catch you up on tonights primary races across the country. If youve been watching, you know weve been keeping a close eye on that West Virginia Republican Senate primary. President trump weighed in on that contest, urging voters to choose anybody but Don Blankenship. It appears they have done just that. Nbc news has called this race for Patrick Morrisey tonight in West Virginia. Blankenship, the coal baron excon came in third. We have complete results from Steve Kornacki at the big board coming up a bit later on in our broadcast. Back to our lead story. More on this bombshell news that the Company Michael cohen used to pay 130,000 to a porn star also received massive sums of money from an Investment Fi
Discovery mechanisms that are already under way in his lawsuit for Stormy Daniels that could have obtained this information. Right. So its really striking to see, and its been confirmed by the New York Times. Yes. And that was i mean, youre to be talk to him. I do not want to delay you. But when this came out today, everybodys reaction was one, what does it say . And two, how could he possibly know this . How could he obtain this information . So thats why it became its always important to get corroborating news, right . But when the New York Times and nbc news both came out and said that both those news organizations had obtained financial documents that corroborated what avenatti was claiming, that makes this not just intriguing, that makes this really, really important. And i am dying to see what he has to say to you about it tonight. Any technique, suggestions about how i can drag out of him how he got this stuff . He is sitting right beside me. Just whisper here. Youre better at g