what the trump administration is doing to america . david i want to start with you as a student of trump businesses, what we learned today in the russian roulette excerpt is as, i think, a clear and explanation toward trump s attitude toward russian sanctions as we ve seen yet because those sanctions came while he was in the mid lg of trying to set up the deal for a trump tower in moscow. when that collapsed because of the sanctions, rob goldstone is quoted in the book saying, rob suspected the demise of trump s project influenced trump s view of sanctions. they had interrupted a business deal that trump was keenly interested in. david that seems like a simple explanation of the trump attitude toward sanctions. and i think it s a logical and sensible explanation. it helps us also understand some of the antipathy that donald
to leave a trail of suspicious activity, this is the opposite of that procedure. curt anderson, david k. johnston, gene, thank you all for joining us tonight. the president is reportedly furious with his press secretary because she said too much about his confidentiality agreement with stormy daniels, which among other things forbids stormy daniels from revealing any video images and still images that she has of donald trump. and it also forbids her from discussing, quote, paternity information, end quote, about donald trump. corey lewandowski was back in front of the house intelligence committee today and like some of his other trump teammates including his former hope hicks, he refused to answer questions. congressman jim himes will join us. [burke] at farmers, we ve seen almost everything
that he met vladimir putin once, donald trump tweeted within do you think putin will be going to the miss universe pageant in november in moscow, if so, will he become my new best friend? my new best friend, that was donald trump s ambition for vladimir putin. that s how what he wanted vladimir putin to become in his life. his new best friend. according to russian roulette trump had for years longed to develop a glittering trump tower in moscow. trump realized he could attain none of his dreams in moscow without forging a bond with the former kgb lieutenant colonel. vladimir putin did not attend the trump miss universe pageant in moscow but shortly after he returned from moscow, a billionaire russian real estate s daughter showed up at the new york city city office bearing a gift for trump from putin. it was a black lacquered box,
trump has for the obama administration because if he thought he was about to get this deal that he longed for and lusted for for so long and it comes apart, that s going to upset him. the excerpt, i feel like if we were gold miners we realized there s a new vein off in another direction we need to dig through because there s more gold here to be mined. gene there are details about setting up the miss universe ma gent in moscow and what s involved in that. there s one quote here this is someone from the pageant saying, we all knew the event was approved by putin. an official later said you can t pull off something like this in russia unless putin says it s okay. trump would only be making money in russia because putin was permitting him to do so. gene, there we see where donald trump s first real engagement with putin world occurred. yeah we do.
inside was a sealed letter from the russian autocrat. what the letter said has never been revealed. if special prosecutor robert mueller didn t know about that letter before reading about it today in that excerpt of the new book russian roulette, the special prosecutor will surely want to get his hands on that letter now. the book reveals a meeting in trump tower in january 2015, that was a pre-cur sor to the meeting in trump tower with russian officials during the campaign. in january of 2015, nearly a year after putin s invasion in ukraine, trump had agalarov and goldstone as guests to his office in trump tower, a meeting that was never publically revealed during the investigations that followed the 2016 election. while they chatted, trump was encouraging emin, who had