committee about michael corleone s mafia ties. he loses his ties after corleone shows up with frank s brother from italy. watch. i was in the olive oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago. that s all. look, the fbi guys, they promised me a deal. so i made up a lot of stuff about michael corleone because that s what they wanted. but it s all lies. everything. i kept saying michael corleone did this and michael corleone did that. okay. help us understand, why did the judge warn jurors not to watch the movie? this is pretty significant. the reason is that of course you have roger stone remember what he s charged with. not only is it the obstruction of justice for misleading congress, not only is it the lying, but it s also witness tampering. there was a witness that was going to testify before congress, and he told them to
kilimnik, the russian sharhe sh polling data with, and he lied about his $125,000 that he received for legal bills. two topics that were, quote, material to the investigation. and he lied about another criminal investigation. what can we deduce from mueller s case about all of these lies? what s going on? we know there s another criminal investigation we don t know about which we ve got. i mean, look, it really looks like they re looking at some kind of collusion, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it, between people i mean we know that, between people from trump s campaign and the russians. i mean you have to wonder why is manafort lying here? is he really the kind of moron who cuts a plea deal with federal prosecutors and keeps lying to them, or is there something else he s worried about? is, you know, the fact that he was in bed for many years with very questionable russian oligarchs, some of whom are more than reputed to have mafia ties and other kind of russian intelligence
kilimnik, the russian he shared polling data with, and he lied about his $125,000 that he received for legal bills. two topics that were, quote, material to the investigation. and he lied about another criminal investigation. what can we deduce from mueller s case about all of these lies? what s going on? we know there s another criminal investigation we don t know about which we ve got. i mean, look, it really looks like they re looking at some kind of collusion, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it, between people i mean we know that, between people from trump s campaign and the russians. i mean you have to wonder why is manafort lying here? is he really the kind of moron who cuts a plea deal with federal prosecutors and keeps lying to them, or is there something else he s worried about? is, you know, the fact that he was in bed for many years with very questionable russian oligarchs, some of whom are more than reputed to have mafia ties and other kind of russian intelligence
that ty cobb is putting out that this is going to be wrapped up by the end of the year. can you distill what s happened this week for jared kushner? you ve been doing some reporting on it. it s very convoluted but there seems to be some unhappiness with things he may or may not have provided to committees on the hill? that s the micro. but the macro here is that we ve learned about another approach by a russian with ties to vladimir putin to the trump campaign. and what we learned was that an e-mail chain reached jared kushner about this guy named alexander torshin. deputy head of the russian central bank. he s been accused of having mafia ties. also a longtime national rifle association member and trying to get a meeting with somebody in the trump orbit at an nra convention. so we know from jared kushner s lawyer that kushner recommended the campaign pass on the meeting. also donald trump jr. ended up at a private dinner with this