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three dozen russian nationals. then, there is the investigation into spending on trump s inaugurati inauguration, which includes whether foreigners, funneled donations into trump s inaugural committee and a super pac to buyin flubu buy influence. this puts ivanka trump in this scandal. then we have individual one, aka donald trump, has shown up in court documents as the person who directed the commission of a felony, several felonies, and happened days before the election and that helped get him elected president. trump insists michael cohen alone should shoulder the blame for making illegal hush money payments to women who say they had affairs with trump, but cohen, who has been sentenced to three years in prison, has a very different story to tell. he s saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. is that true?
the good kind. the good kind of tear gas. and he feels that something that looking tough here is going to get his base to respond. and he feels they re supporting his efforts. so alan, hardly morning in america. but if we take what jonathan said as kind of political fact, we then learn today that mike pence and ivanka are going to represent the united states at the mexican presidential inaugurati inauguration. aside from giving us an arresting visual of these traveling partners, how is that going to look on behalf of the united states? it just shows that this relationship with mexico is going to continue to be a turbulent one. december 1st is when the new president, andre manuel lopez obrador, assumes office down there in mexico, and it s already been an interesting back and forth between the two. lopez obrador, he won office in part by being the anti-trump candidate. he said that mexico would no longer do, quote, the dirty work of rounding up migrants on behalf of the united s
what the trump campaign did, collusion, what does seem clear is the kremlin aligned interest constantly pinging and pinging and trying to get to the trump folks. yeah. in fact the inauguration is an interesting moment where you can see that come together. we have done some respecting about the unusually large number of russian business men, cl kre allied folks who come to celebrate donald trump s election. that s when you start getting michael cohen s payments from a firm that is owned by russian oligarchs that is also at the inaugurati inauguration. this is one data point in a cluster of quite a few. that s right. that s a day that increasingly seems important. that s the day they all come
work for ukraine, the changes that sam patton pled guilty to working as a lobbyist for a foreign party without registering with the u.s. government. there is a straw donor issue. what exactly was the scheme as outlined in the play? yeah, so foreign citizens can t make political contributions. not to campaigns and not to inaugural committees. patton was working for the ukrainian politician oligarch who wanted to come to the inauguration. you have to give money to the inaugurati inauguration. what patton did was working with him, he found an american willing to give or act as the straw donor and that american officially was on the paperwork for $50,000, but in fact the money came from this ukrainian businessman. they got four tickets and the ukrainian businessman attended the inauguration. if taking aside the question