if someone rolls up with a duffle bag full of cash, you don t say look s good to me. they didn t take those steps and as a result they have become one of the preferred financial services centers for russia organized crime. that s important. you don t have to take our word for it. steve bannon said to fire and fury author that the money laundering that andrew wiseman was a money laundering guy and follow the money to andrew and jared. he would make a capable partner. deutsch bank goes way back with shady dealings with russia as well. while there is a strong theory that has been articulated that deutsch bank saw dollar signs in an american market in their eyes and wanted to do that high risk loan or loans. two billion over two decades to
this. the new york attorney general is investigating manafort s conduct and these bank and fraud charges would seem to have a state element to them if authorities chose to pursue it. it s not clear that a pardon is going to help manafort completely get out of trouble here. let me ask you one question about the mueller probe. you go back to bannon s comments where bannon basically laid out his theory of the prosecution of the trump/kushner/manafort gang if you will and said weissman, andrew weissman, he s a money laundering guy, it goes through man for the to kushner and that s how they f trump was what steve bannon said to fire and furry author michael wolf. i don t want ask you one of the little nuggets buried deep in the new york times reporting yesterday was that paul man for the s son-in-law was implicated or named or involved in one of the funky mortgage tradeoffs
crimes. it s hard to see his way out of this. now, the thing about the pardons as you know, the new york attorney general is investigating manafort s conduct and these bank and tax fraud charges would seem to have a state element to them if authorities chose to pursue it. so, it s not clear a pardon is really going to help manafort completely get out of trouble here, nicolle. let me ask you one more question about the mueller probe more broadly speaking. you go back to bannon s comments. you and i talk about this a lot of days these days. where bannon basically laid out his theory of the prosecution of the trump, kushner, manafort gang if you will. yeah. and said weissmann, andrew weissmann, he s a money laundering guy. goes straight through manafort to kushner and that s how they asked trump with what steve bannon said to fire and fury author michael wolff. i want to ask you, one of the little nuggets buried deep in the new york times writing yesterday on yesterday s indic
produce this report on behalf of the government back in 2012 so now that kind of implicates skaden which is a massive, influenti influential, international law firm. the fact they secured the cooperati cooperation, said today in a statement to reporters it is, in fact, cooperating with federal investigators, it really indicates that that could shed a lot of light on what paul manafort did with regard to this particular deal and whether or not it was illicit and that could potentially put more pressure on manafort to flip and talk about the trump campaign. and lydia, i mean, steve bannon s words are ringing in h my ears which is never a good thing, but steve bannon lays it out in fire and fury and he says andrew wiseman, who happens to be the prosecutor in today s charging documents listed, is a money laundering guy. steve bannon says in fire and fury, that s how they get to trump. this is not a direct quote. goes right through kushner, goes right through manafort.
laundering. mueller chose the money laundering guy. the path of [ bleep ]ing trump goes right through manafort, don junior. it s as plain as the hair on your face. what would you do if you were bob mueller s investigator with a witness like steve bannon? so, yeah, today we ve got the tale of two bannons. the one that s really not kooptding with congress and the one that spent two days, ten-hour days back to back talking to mueller s team. he s forecast what he thinks the investigation is about. he s publicly stated i think it s about money laundering. he s publicly stated the trump tower meeting was treasonous. obviously the mueller team is going to be asking him, mr. bannon, tell us a little more why you think that trump tower was treasonous. tell us why you think we re investigating money laundering and he s going to lay that out and apparently he has to the tune of 20 hours. the other thing bannon holds keys to, he was a direct point of contact with cambridge