interests? this i think only underscores the importance of our brangiing mr. cohen back before the committee but looking into the issue of whether the russians possess financial leverage over the president of the united states. today cohen officially named the president in court. this is key, because it ties trump to the trump tower/moscow discussions, well past the time that the president claims those business negotiations ended. of course, the president had something to say about it. he s a weak person and what he s trying to do is get a reduced sentence. he s a weak person. and not a very smart person. he s trying to get a much lesser pris prison sentence by making up a story. here s the thing, even if he was right, it doesn t matter. because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. i was running my business, a lot of different things during the campaign. so very simply michael cohen is lying and he s trying to get a
wab post and greg bauer who also worked for the fbi s office of congressional affairs. he s been gracious enough to hang out with us for this hour and give us his sharp i sights. gr insights. i know this prague meeting with ken is something that interests you. why do you think this is a fulcrum of this investigation? it will be interesting as michael cohen now has apparently decided to open the kimono and share everything he knows with robert mueller. if he goes back to just denials about visitsing prag sitting pr don t know. we ll find out as the facts on the mueller team come to light. but the steele dossier became such a punching bag, a political punching bag for the president and his defenders in a way that i think was inaccurate. i mean, much of the dossier apparently has been corroborated, not all of it, and so it it may yet be subject
them? i mean, what are the russians how are they using this to try to getting some fr something fr everything s adouble edged sword and to create so many levers from a business deal where you re putting someone in a position where they could look like they re influenced or if it doesn t go through, you could actually turn around and say i don t know if anyone knew but we were looking at a business deal. they re masters at doing this. and the way do it is essentially to influence the system, not to topple it, but do two things. one to sow chaos could we re fighting each other rather than focusing on countering russia. that s why we saw this aggression in ukraine and we ve been slow to respond, because our alliances have been weakened over the last two years and internally we don t have agreement on whether we should support ukraine or pushback
financing. he got it from deutsche bank. and he got it from a particular office at deutsche bank, the private banking office. this is not the regular commercial lending side of deutsche bank where there s a lot of underwriting, checks and balances to make sure the loans they give out of sort of properly vetted. this was a private banking arm where there seemed to be less control but he still got commercial sized loans from them. interesting. what do we know about the investigations into deutsche bank and the president s ties? do we know anything about the mueller investigation and how it relates to the bank? like so many things with robert mueller, we don t know that much about that part of it. there has been some reporting indicating mueller was interested in something about deutsche bank. trump s ties to deutsche bank but we don t know that much more about it. no connection between trump s relationship with deutsche bank and russia. obviously, deutsche bank has got lott
are having that belief that there s a political upside to getting close to vladimir putin deep into the election. so, matt, how seriously should we take sater s claims? is this a situation where trump s representatives were responding in kind and saying, yes, this is something that we want? or is there some truth to the defense that sater was simply trying to selling some and nobody was really buying it? well, there s not a trump tower in moscow, so, i mean, we have to secede that this didn t happen. but there was certainly an interest that the president himself signed a nonbinding but certainly document that showed his interest in the deal. they sought financing. there were efforts by felix sater to try to set up meetings in russia.