v.e.b. declined to say whether the meetings took place or dates. but then they released maybe nothing happened at the meeting. likely nothing happened but just say the meeting happened. say the meeting happened. but the problem is it s one thing that s built on top of another thing, that s built on top of another thing on top of another thing and then there s something. that s what the problem is, is that there are too many things that very well could be not interconnected, might not even be connected at all but they all seem to come together in a jigsaw puzzle. do you know who might know something about this? the former u.s. ambassador to russia, who we re going to speak to next. that ll be fun. so thank you, everyone. and we ll be right back. let me talk to you about retirement. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let s talk asset allocation. -sure. you seem knowledgeable, professional. i m actually a deejay. -[ laughing ] no way! -that really is you? if they re not
at stony brook university school of journalism and the author of the russians emerge. i want to ask you, jonathan, about tell us about this recent case, this bank because there was a recent case in new york where one official with this bank was sentenced as a spy. well, don, what you need to know is it s been around since 1922. it had a monopoly in soviet times doing all the business of the soviet union with any foreign country. so it attracted two kinds of very interesting people. people who actually wanted to learn about capitalism and have contact with the west and spies. and so for a long time it did things like it facilitated the purchase of american ice cream technology so that all russian kids are addicted to vanilla ice cream now. but it also served as a cover for spies. and this young man in the putin era was using his cover as a
the biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ] par-tay! xfinity watchathon week starts april 3. get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. jared kushner s ties to russia. president trump s son-in-law and senior adviser will meet with senators investigating the trump campaign s connections to putin s government. let s discuss now. alexander vershbow, former u.s. ambassador to russia and former nato deputy secretary-general. so good to have you on, mr. ambassador. thank you so much. good to be here. i m going to ask this question and in the question i want to explain to you and our viewer what s going on. there s more questions now about revelations about trump, the russia ties today, jared kushner. he s the president s son-in-law, senior adviser, previously undisclosed meeting with sergei
bank official here in new york to do some not so kosher things and he got caught with his hands in the cookie jar, is in prison, and i understand his good behavior is going to get him out of prison this coming weekend. maybe we could give him a cake on the way out of jail. it s interesting because preet bharara the former u.s. attorney here in new york is the one who was in charge of that investigation. steve, i want you to listen to this. as a republican hard-liner today. listen to what the former vice president dick cheney had to say about russia. there s not any argument at this stage that somehow the election of president trump was not legitimate. but there s no question but there was a very serious effort made by mr. putin and his government, his organization to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic processes. in some quarters that would be considered an act of war.
inappropriately because they get in a lot of trouble for it. it s another piece of chaf to keep people away from the real focus, what was the nature of the russian thing? under what conditions would it be okay for members of the trump campaign or transition team to be in any type of contact, masked or unmasked with the type of russian intelligence folks that fbi is investigating and collecting evidence against? laura, i ve got 10 seconds left. if, when you were doing law, what would have happened to them? we would have prosecuted them because they would have undermined an investigation and that s not the point.