he never recommending sistered as he should have. it s a slimy proposition. but i come back to the russian related company. interests no obvious corporate reason why they want to know what s going on. i mean, do you guys do you not think it s at least suspicious do you think it s suspicious, $507 oh that went to cohen do you think that s suspicious. i absolutely do david. i do. and i think they wasted their money because they got nothing from team trump. do we know that. it s not just corporations the reason i know is because the way donald trump has publicly taken on putin and russia appearen also it s not just corporations let not be negative. it s not just american korgss trying to buy access it s the world. global global countries try to buy access. i know this because some of them came to me okay and i said no. it s scummy i don t want to partake in that. you also think it s scummy. that s good. apparently cohen said yes come on in. but i think foreign lobbying a
an american company linked to a russian oligarch is scrubbing its website with any links to the russian investment company that he controls. as we reported mueller s team questioned the oligarch viktor vekselberg. the company nova claimed they had no role in the decision to hire cohen. with me davidian gergen, and and ann milwgrim. david i want to start with you. and there is a lot of russian this and that. this is a american company linked to a russian oligarch. pretty directly linked. and this company paid michael cohen $500,000. right. presidential hangers on, it s nothing new. but getting $500,000 from a company linked to a russian oligarch when there is a russia investigation going on, is that
investigation. you would start pulling bank records. there is always been a question as to the motivation for the relationship with russia and you know we know or we have reason to believe that there was even outreach potentially for members of the trump campaign to russia. and there is back and forth and efforts to get information. mueller is asking the question of what are the lengths? in the course of that he looks at michael cohen s bank records. the fact that there is russian that there is a connection to one of oligarchs who has been directly connected to the russian election hacking has been to be significant, has to be someone he needs to speak to. he wants to know from the oligarch who are you talking to, what are you doing, what are you will go for? there is a ton of questions. the fact that at&t and novartis happen to be art of the bank records would be a question of what else is he doing? what s happening here? i don t think it necessarily falls in the same category as ru
what one republican strategy uft describes as cohen sales pitch. telling people i don t know who you should be representing pu many i m the guy who should represent you. i m his guy. i m the president s person lawyer. not a lot of ambiguity there kirsten what david a said is right if you re an american company you are trying to get access to donald trump when he came into office a lot of people panicked because you couldn t go to the regular k street lobbyist and have access. he didn t have a lot of people and michael cohen would have been one of them this is unfortunately how washington works. i m not endorsing this. but he would need to register as a lobbyist. if he is just giving advice and not arranging meetings. he doesn t need to register. if for the money that suggests they want more than just what is donald trump like and probably wanted some access to the white house. if he arrange meetings he needs to be registered. so i think that yeah it s