ackerman, former assistant special watergreat partner, it is also a partner. and of course an msnbc legal analyst. walk us through what was told to investigators. last week when we saw the senate judiciary committee release the transcript, some of the most interesting exchanges there was how it came to be that the time line where the dossier, some of the findings of the opposition research being done by fusion gps went from the opposition research firm to the fbi. and whether or not the fbi was taking those claims seriously. what we saw in the transcripts that read almost 200 pages of interview here is a real effort, especially by the democrats to drill down on what they saw as a potential pattern of behavior, between trump properties, his organization and real estate and russian figures. we can put two things on screen here. first what simpson described as what he calls a pattern of transactions where there was
quick sales, russian figures coming in to buy properties at an inflated rate and then selling them at a real loss. he says there s this effort to disguise the identity of those properties and then separately we can look at what simpson describes as a real effort. there s been some new reporting that suggests mueller s team is looking into this. of russian figures to really infiltrate conservative organizations like the nra. they targeted these various conservative organizations, religious or otherwise, he says. and why is this important. this is because as some of the democrats on the committee asked simpson, is this really enough evidence to say there s a link between the president and potential financial leverage that vladimir putin has on him and what simpson tells them is that basically all these oligarchs, are agents of the state now, everyone works for putin, he says. a pattern of off market real estate sales. those sales to foreign investors with shell companies. that sure sou