keep had brand and erlichman in line. he says to haldeman is i love you like a brother, keep the faith and what he meant by that was shut up and don t get me into trouble. so there s a clinton legal defense fund around whitewater though they handled it by giving the money back, there s the nixon example then there s iran-cont iran-contra. with oliver north who was one of the highest profile figures, there was a gigantic amount of money. richard sicort, wasn t there a donation that we don t know? richard sicord was involved in the illicit arm sales to iran and he did it through a swiss bank and in the same swiss bank used to transfer the money back and forth to iran suddenly appears half a million dollars supposedly no one knows where that money came from. the same bank from the
we got the new financial reports from the trump campaign last week. the headline was about the outsized amount that had been going to pay lawyers. some of that trump campaign legal spending is going to a firm that also happens to represent the president s long-time personal lawyer in the russia investigation, michael cohen, the president s lawyer, he has the president s lawyer has a lawyer to represent him for the russia matter. that law firm got $214,000 from the trump campaign last year. now, this pile of money from the trump campaign stands out for a couple of reasons. first is that michael cohen was never a part of the trump campaign so why is the trump campaign paying his russia legal bills? he is the president s personal lawyer and he does have a lawyer for himself in the russia investigation. now trump campaign money is going to this firm that happens to represent the president s personal lawyer, they re called mcdermott, will and emery. they have about $214,000 in all from tr
they had wrapped up and more importantly no evidence of what happened to what we believe are their leftover tens of millions of dollars. they keep saying information is coming, there will be a full accounting, there will be dispersements to charity. they admitted they have lots of extra money. it s been more than a year and everything they said would happen hasn t happened. despite what they ve said and what they ve promised over months and months and months, as far as we know the committee is still open and they industrial a ton of money they re sitting on. their previous public statements about it have not borne out. there is something going on with the trump inaugural committee and it involves a ton of money. here s the thing to watch, though. if you are looking for a place for the leftover tens of millions of dollars from the trump inauguration to end up, we now know one place that money could go is to the brand new not yet announced russia scandal legal defense fund that they just
nbc news has learned many of them were told to by cult leaders here in the u.s., according to investigators. $640,000 much of it cult money, was brought to the clinton defense fund by charlie tri, a democratic fund-raiser and friend of the presidents. it s not clear where the money came from, ching hai followers in america donated thousands. she says they acted on their own. they asked me if they can help clinton, if it s political motivation or not, i say okay, just help quietly, don t blow trumpet about it. just help quietly, don t blow trumpet about it. the clintons ultimately returned the $640,000 of used sock money from the religious cult. they worried the money didn t come voluntarily from the followers who wanted to help president clinton pay their legal bills, there was worry that the cult was a money laundering scheme so president
left over money, of which there appears to be a giant pile, whether that could be shuttled in that direction. the reason i want to talk to about this is because it is my general sense that when there are presidential scandals, legal defense funds around those scandals are like a magnet for troub trouble. is that true? you were talking about charlie tri with the clinton legal defense fund. that s an example because often people give to legal defense funds for reasons that are not just charitable and a wonderful feeling that people help out the president. but the other thing is maybe the two words of the night should be hush money because ah. and it takes us right back to richard nixon because 1973 when nixon was faced with some of the watergate culprits threatthreat to go to the feds and blow this