we should let the people see for themselves how eager and willing the trump team was willing to work with the russians. and to make sure that bob mueller has the ability to follow the evidence and subpoena the records that the republicans wouldn t do. michael, in your book you were following this closer than a lot of us, what s your reading of the transcripts today? there were some fascinating new nuggets we didn t know before. one which i found absolutely fascinating and we posted a story tonight on yahoo about it. remember, this meeting was set up at the request of aris agalarov, the billionaire oligarch who was donald trump s business partner in the ms.
assessment and just isolated from the facts. also the senate judiciary committee, they released the transcripts of the june 9th meeting, their investigation is narrow, they only focussed on that june 9th meeting, however we have learned a lot more about a lot of other awe proechs similar to what we saw the russians do on june 9th. so we should release our transcripts to. we should let the people see for themselves how eager and willing the trump team was willing to work with the russians. and to make sure that bob mueller has the ability to follow the evidence and subpoena the records that the republicans wouldn t do. michael, in your book you were following this closer than a lot of us, what s your reading of the transcripts today? there were some fascinating new nuggets we didn t know
i think people under estimate how easy it is to find things these days. i think even an average citizen realizes if you take out $10,000 from your bank account that triggers a report. and michael cohen was playing with much bigger funds than that. why did he not realize he would have been seen to have possibly suspicious activities that would be reported to the treasury and then clearly available to mueller or any other prosecutor, the southern district of new york, for example. so really i think we ve seen over and over again, he s not the smartest lawyer that s ever existed. he s not the one that donald trump should have ever had. and certainly he needs a good lawyer himself now. david, the president was in a box of his creation and rudy giuliani s creation when the president said on air force one i didn t know anything about payments, and rudy giuliani
the smartest lawyer that s ever existed. he s not the one that donald trump should have ever had. and certainly he needs a good lawyer himself now. david, the president was in a box of his creation and rudy giuliani s creation when the president said on air force one i didn t know anything about payments, and rudy giuliani comes out and said, no, he reimbursed michael cohen for the payments to stormy daniels. he has to do a financial disclosure, and he did it this week. he had to pick a story to tell. we re not saying any of this true, we re saying this is the story to tell, and that story is a footnote on page 45 saying, it s none of your business, but i reimbursed michael cohen between 100,000 to $250,000. and the office of government ethics immediately this morning said it is our business. it s not just our business, it s the justice department s
release those suspicious activity reports. the official who made the michael cohen suspicious activity report public knows the legal risks involved, the official told ronan farrow to say that i am terrified right now would be an understatement. the official added, this is a terrifying time to be an american. all of the information that michael avenatti first made public about michael cohen s bank accounts comes from one of three suspicious activity reports that banks filed on michael cohen. that suspicious activity report refers to two previous suspicious activity reports that the official who leaked the report says are now missing. the two previous reports do not appear on the treasury department s financial crimes enforcement network. the official told ronan farrow, i have never seen something