interests i didn t lobby. you advocated for russian interests? i did a press conference for gazprom media. i didn t lobby for russian ghochlt or lobby any government or any foreign power in this country. i ve never done it you re saying right. i don t mean to mislead. when you and i talked on the phone, they want to to talk to you talk to you because you worked for folks tied to the kremlin. that s what i was referring to. i advised the kremlin. i lived there seven years. i was sent there by the clinton administration to meddle in russian elections. not a registered lobbyist, but there is not a debate you did a lot of stuff back then for no doubt. i can understand why they wanted to talk to me. that s why they ve interviewed me three different times now. you make a point that i think a lot of people could think sounds reasonable. you re saying you ve talked to the house already. why do you have to talk again. explain? right. well, first of all, when i was invi
pattern on michael cohen s part, whether it was initiated by him or not. he is taking in money to an llc which also paid out stormy daniels and there s any number of other llcs that michael cohen maybe had started. where is this money coming from? who is it going to? this is the big question i ve had. it s a lot of money. where did it go? did it go to michael cohen s family? he doesn t he seems desperate for cash right now. nothing appears so far to be illegal. he hasn t been charged with anything. there s a lot of money coming in. he said he didn t lobby. at&t said they didn t lobby. it was consulting. give us the bottom line here. what i think we have here are several things. i think on michael cohen s part, i would say what he was doing
he is taking in money to an llc which also paid out stormy daniels and there s any number of other llcs that michael cohen maybe had started. where is this money coming from? who is it going to? this is the big question i ve had. it s a lot of money. where did it go? did it go to michael cohen s family? he doesn t he seems desperate for cash right now. nothing appears so far to be illegal. he hasn t been charged with anything. there s a lot of money coming in. he said he didn t lobby. at&t said they didn t lobby. it was consulting. give us the bottom line here. what i think we have here are several things. i think on michael cohen s part, i would say what he was doing was influence peddling. it s not an unknown occupation
him is because he is very close to putin and so it didn t seem like he was speaking in a straightforward manner. all right. so you re on a committee that s going to give you the clearance to know what s going on on the intel side. clapper coming out saying we didn t leak. what do you make of this story about what was included in the briefing to the president elect and why it was there. it s essential to alert the president elect that there is material he needs to be aware of. certainly for all the reasons that we know eventually information compiled by british company might leak into the public relationship. you want the president elect to have a heads up so it was the right thing to do to provide these briefings but instead of thanking the intel community for that he hads up he chose to attack the media to deflect attention from his own conduct.
that s the real test. what he should do is buy a public company as a shell entity and use that as the lenses through which all of trump s business can be viewed. make it a public company and in doing so, then he has to file and do all the things that public company versus to do and then everybody could see his activities. what do you make of the concept? it will certainly be more than we have now. i m not sure it would answer all the questions but it would be more than we have now. it s not a violation of the constitution. it s not a gift. he had a lawyer come out and say just that. they have never been construed to include a fair exchanges. the truth is it hasn t been litigated at all. that s as unknown as anything else. was that persuasive to you. no, imagine just a particular hotel room. maybe he charges $800 or $1,000