could this be a national security issue? our experts will weigh in on the expulsion of russian diplomats and why president trump isn t talking about his surprisingly tough action against moscow. here you go little guy. a cockroach can survive submerged underwater for 30 minutes. wow. yeah. not getting in today. terminix. defenders of home.
embarrassing and he would like to hide? that takes us back to the infamous steel dossier that takes us back to an officer about allegations to the president s activities in mos w moscow. if that turns out to be true, i could see a national security implication for but daniels i don t know how you can blackmail somebody for something that is public knowledge. jeffrey, you went to moscow to investigate all of this. amidst this concern, as phil points out, potential blackmail by a foreign power. you know, this goes to the whole question of the mueller investigation which is why the president has been so solicitous of vladimir putin. we have this effort the campaign of the russians to help donald trump get elected. was there any connection between the two. certainly i do not establish
what these companies were spending their money on. they were paying manafort s bills in the states, from home improvement to suits. these transactions are how manafort was laundering his money and enjoy a lavish lifestyle in the united states without paying taxing on them. in total the complaint says $75 million. our investigation focussed on where the money that flowed through cyprus was coming from. we found a total of $60 million in incoming funds incoming not from ukraine, but straight from moscow. paul manafort does not strike me as anybody s fool. so it seems unlikely that he
investments. it does show the russian state had a serious interest in these social media companies as far back as 2009 in the case of facebook and 2011 in the case of twitter. we didn t know this before today? no, we didn t know this before today. it s important to understand we re looking at this through the prism of the 2016 election. there s evidence going back as far as 2011, the year they made the investment, that the kremlin was making use of twitter to crack down on protests in mos w moscow. so i think it s important we should be aware the manipulation of those networks is not a phenomenon that began a year ago, but as far back as 2011. millner sold his stakes in these companies and made money doing it. yes. any reason to believe the russians got out of the business? vtb cashed out of its twitter
saitsman like. he s in control, which is important to his supporters who will be buoyed by this, but also to keep those syrians who don t particularly like assad but see him as the least worst alternative on board and still support the regime s efforts to maintain control. for putin, i mean, this is diplomatic center stage again. he s painted this picture that all roads lead to russia. just look at who s visited russia recently. you had leaders or leading officials from turkey, israel, saudi arabia, iran. they met with syrian opposition and now assad. so the image is only that he can meet with all the stakeholds of the conflict on all sides of the conflict and bring about a solution on his terms. easier said than done, though. how symbolic is it that it was assad who traveled to mos w moscow, came to vladimir putin? well, it is symbolic. one, that assad can leave the