the kremlin. i will get putin on this project and we will get donald elected. seder went on. buddy, our boy can become president of the usa and we keng near it. i will get all of putin s team to buy in on this. there is no evidence that seder fulfilled that promise and cohen released a statement in 2017 saying seder was where are quote, prone to salesmanship. our own ken dilanian spoke with seder this morning asking him you must have known cohen was lying. he responded saying, quote, i don t know anything, all i know is i always told the truth. joining me now is new york times pulitzer price reporting matt. he s also an msnbc contributor, former colleague of mine. it s good to see you. in august of 2017, you and your colleagues at the time published some of those e-mail exchanges we red through between sator and cohen. can you give us a better sense of who this guy is, what kind of character is he and how important is he in trump world?
and individual two discussed efforts to obtain russian governmental approval for the moscow project. individual two is presumed to be this man, felix seder. seder is a russian born brooklyn bred real estate investor once connected to a russian mafia stock fraud. he was a significant player in the trump s so he hho tour proj. to attract internationals in a zoning, skirting scheme. seder spearheaded this trump tower project with michael cohen. in twist, seder promised to engineer the moscow deal with the help of russian president vladimir putin. in the summer of last year, the new york times published portions of e-mail exchanges between coen and seder, including this one dated november 3rd, 2015. seder wrote to cohen in part, quote, michael, i arranged for ivanka to sit in putin s private chair at his desk and office in
but this is why he became a valued member of the trump organization. over the next few years, cohen would take his loyalty to a whole new level. he s a someone who is a pit bull. he never shies away from a fight. someone who never hesitates to defend donald trump and the trump family. and we will make america great again. michael cohen wasn t just helping with politics, while donald trump s 2016 presidential campaign gained momentum cohen sought real estate deals for his boss. during several efforts to develop a coveted trump megatower in moscow, trump turned to his friend, felix seder. michael cohen and felix seder jointly tried to propose a construction of a new trump tower in moscow during the presidential campaign and donald trump was aware of that effort.
trump. does michael curse, i m going to go after you, i m going to take you down. that s what people do in business. this is not the way that most attorneys operate. but this is why he became a valued member of the trump organization. over the next few years, cohen would take his loyalty to a whole new level. he s a someone who is a pit bull. he never shies away from a fight. someone who never hesitates to defend donald trump and the trump family. and we will make america great again. michael cohen wasn t just helping with politics, while donald trump s 2016 presidential campaign gained momentum cohen sought real estate deals for his boss. during several efforts to develop a coveted trump megatower in moscow, trump turned to his friend, felix seder. michael cohen and felix seder jointly tried to propose a
you can charge everybody involved. this is how we took down the mob, so the dnc is literally coming after trump the way that a federal prosecutor would come after the mafia. if it survives a motion to dismiss, things get real ugly real quick for everyone involved. we can t fadably find out more things with the decision about this dnc lawsuit. there s a lot of talk with regards to the fact the president should be more worried about the cohen raid than with regards to the mueller investigation. terry, you want to weigh in on that? michael cohen has a history himself absence donald trump. he has a history of financial broke prity, of all kinds of rule breaks and violations. he has all these ties to these various money laundering, felix seder, and michael cohen used to