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
with me davidian gergen, and and 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 suspicious or just stupid? or all of the above. it doesn t pass the laugh test. listen, i think there is a distinction to be made between this company lake and the companies like novartis and at&t there is a reason they need to know what s going on in the white house. i think it was in terrible taste on everybody s part. this company has no business that really is at hand at stake. and a $500,000 looks like it s a pay off or a brib or it s