using more aggressive tactics to calm protests in ottawa over covid-19 mandates. besides making hundreds of arrests over the weekend, canadian authorities have now frozen the finances of key people and companies believed to be helping the protesters. paula newton is in ottawa. how is this legal? and do we know how long this will be enforced? yeah. two important questions. it s legal because there is an emergency act in place right now in canada. and it means that what you were describing there about freezing accounts, its unprecedented and apparently police say it is effective. if you were one of these protesters that brought a semi down to ottawa, they traced your company and maybe froze your company s accounts or even your personal accounts which meant you couldn t get money out of the atm. you couldn t pay your mortgage. police say more than 200 such accounts have been frozen.
talk to. first, what are the theories where the money came from to buy the scottish course? there is one theory and it is russian money. we said many times he couldn t get money from banks and deutsche bank was the only one to lend him money. he would have had to get rid of all available cash and there s no logic to do it. the money doesn t add up. when you go back to trump tower and the apartments there and so many other dealings and, you know, his complete bromance love for vladimir putin which we could never understand, it all comes back to one thing, russian money laundering. i m curious what tim has to say about this. tim, same question to you but let me talk more from the times reporting. unexplained wealth orders were introduced in 2018 to strengthen the government s armory against organized crime. those subject to them can ultimately be forced to for fit their assets if they re unable
back to the 80s. had three bankruptcies, couldn t get money from any bank, black balled by every bank in the united states and the world, and the only place he could get money was from the russians. a long history of getting money from russian oligarchs, all of whom report directly to vladimir putin. you ve got the fact during the 2016 campaign he was welcoming russian help during the campaign and sam time trying to negotiate a deal for a trump tower in moscow in which vladimir putin would have a penthouse apartment. so the question is, you know, was this an instruction frb pom putin? a suggestion from putin? what is going on between donald trump and putin where when they have private meetings donald trump takes back the notes from the interpreter so nobody can actually see them. as you know, putin was on tv this week with his very long press conference as he does every year and was defending president trump and the
controlled the white house and donald trump s own administration is saying they didn t extend the wall one foot? couldn t get money for it. wow. it s almost like the entire thing has been a farce from the first time he mentioned it on the campaign trail in 2015. i can t believe it. just a retor cal devihetoric? yes. originally we thought the farce was mexico was going to pay for it. that was a farce. it turns out that the wall was going to be constructed at all. remember when donald trump then during the 2016 campaign he made that promise that mexico would pay for the wall? president trump claimed mexico was paying with its decision to police the border with soldiers. well, they re paying for 27,000 soldiers, as you know. and i am so we re all thrilled, you know, mexico has never done anything to impede people from pouring into our country. if i took 5%, 5% tariff for six months be, that pays for the
about money and nothing about anything else that mueller is looking into? well, we know that he s had business dealings and was trying to get trump tower off the ground in 2016. there was one specific business negotiation with the russians that was going on. investigations are also looking into reports of whether he had money that was lent him by the russians at a time when he couldn t get money from other u.s. bangs ks in order to fund businesses. that s all under investigation. the key is why in august of 2016 did paul manafort and rk gatick santorum rick gates sit down with kilimnik? and that would start to fit the pieces of a quid pro quo. we don t know exactly what was discussed at that august meeting. you ve just come out of the convention, the republican convention has softened the platform when it came to russia