it s perfectly fine. it isn t perfectly fine. it s fine to do business in russia. it s not fine to lie to the public about it. and i ll say it again, he either lied to the public about the business he did in rushy or he lied in his written answers. one or the other is false. he cannot have it both ways. he can t say i never did business with them and then say, well, i did business with them until june. so he s caught right now. i think that this is really significant day. it is a turning point in the investigation, and we ll have to see what s going to happen next, but i m sure that robert mueller is not done yet. lawrence, can i point out one bizarre thing about donald trump s tribe today? he talked about michael cohen lying, well, the statements in his plea agreement are backed up by e-mails and documents. and i spoke to felix seder who was a partner in the trump tower deal and he says what michael cohen is now saying is accurate. so it was very strange donald
planning trump s possible travel to russia. cohen also originally said he, quote, did not recall any russian government response or contact about the moscow deal. that has changed. now he says he, quote, did recall that in or around january 2016 he received a response from the office of russian officials one. that would be the secretary for the president of russia, and spoke to a member of that office about the project. with regard to cohen s attempted travel to russia, the filing details communication between cohen and someone named individual two in the court document. prosecutors say that would be felix seder, the long-time business associate of trump s. seder was deeply involved in trying to get this project off the ground and get the kremlin, namely putin s help to do so. the court documents say cohen and seder were in talks about this proposed russia trip from june 9 to june 14 of 2016, when
emails, okay. quote, our boy can become president of the united states and we can engineer it. he went on to write, i will get all of putin s team to buy in on this. i will manage this process. and in the washington post has reported in a statement to the house intelligence committee, cohen did admit to writing to dimitry pescov in connection with felix seder s work. that s right, poppy. what we learned from the information today is that cohen s conversations with peskov s office continued. he had told congress that he never heard back. what we re learning from the information is he had at least one 20 minute conversation with one of peskov s assistance and he had told her that he wanted help to move this project forward. he wanted to talk to her about financing the project and this is the russian government and this is occurring during the campaign while trump is publicly saying he has no ties but michael cohen is working with felix seder and there s even
congress and he was negotiating with seder about traveling to moscow, he was talking with him in the lobby of the trump tower hotel according to the information in may of 2016 and june of 2016 to try to get this trip over the ground that is right before the convention, and their discussing conversations that they re having with the russian government at least in january. seder has been cooperating with the special counsel s investigation. he has said that he s turned over every text and email and he s a longtime government cooperator. he was charged in the late 1990s in a stock manipulation scheme and has been a government cooperator for decades since then, poppy. all right. so, felix seder not a house hold name but significant given his cooperation here and the naming individual two in this information. the new york times as you ll remember not long ago reported that a series of emails from felix seder to michael cohen and let me quote from one of those
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