to gain the power to have hearings and demand testimony and subpoena documents. the question you just raised about did russia launder money, that s been one of the things that s been speculated about. that s a specific issue that adam schiff the new chairman of the house intelligence committee said today he is going to start pursuing as soon as he is able. we don t start with saying here is the person find me the crime, we look at the crime and determine what should be done about it. there s been so much crazy speculation without any evidence of a crime and we had actually have evidence of all sorts of things, criminal licking of classified information, lying to a fisa court, they aren t being worried about by people who think if we just keep digging, maybe we can finally get trump. how about we deal with actual crimes? bret: i m going to play this protection of special counsel molar, first for minority leader chuck schumer.
laundering. it became this perfect vehicle for laundering money and then in the 2000s, 2004 and really actually starting in the early 90s but going up to 2004, trump starts having a series of bankruptcies and he finds it incredibly difficult to get money for seat capital and that s where the russian mafia sees an opportunity and that s where they actually enter the trump organization and leasing space in trump tower and actually working directly for trump. it s opportunistic. i want to bring you in on this. you have written a book in the circumstances and a review of active measures in which he writes this about the film. russia has shown a willingness and ability to involve itself in the politics of other nations not only with the view to promoting interests directly, something plenty of countries lobby for but to fracturing their societies and weakening their political systems, spreading animosity with the groups, keeping from posing a
let s just talk about the inaugural committee. that s what trump put together with his biggest money men. names we have heard before like elbright elliott broidy, sam garrett. rick gates runs the operation and they take in record amounts of money and don t seem to have spent it on very much at all. that s a whole problem. but in general, we are now zeroing in on the money people who are closest to trump. so that s big in itself. guys, thanks very much for your company tonight. your analysis. harry litman. david, stick around because i have another comment to talk to get your analysis on after this break. trade negotiations between the united states and canada have broken off after inflammatory off the record-remarks made by president trump emerged in a canadian newspaper. digging into the complex trump/russia relationship. a new documentary out today lays out all of the decks between
perhaps taking in foreign money, which it s not supposed to, it s illegal to do that. and here is the first evidence that it happened. we at mother jones reported a long time ago that the cousin, american cousin but a cousin of russian oligarch vexelberg gave $100,000 to the inauguration too. so there is a lot of things to examine. the other key thing is, and it hasn t gotten a lot of attention, sam patton as part of his agreement admitted to lying when he testified privately to the senate intelligence committee. why is that a big deal? for one, it is against the law to lie to congress. right. but if we re now going to start investigating witnesses who lie to congress, there have been questions raised about the testimony of donald trump jr. right. that list could be long. cohen and others. that could be a whole new horizon for mueller. so, harry, as expected, rudy giuliani was asked to comment on this. by our own garrett hake.
donald trump s campaign in the 2016 presidential election. that s not really up for dispute. and donald trump still never criticizes russian president vladimir putin, which has surely left special prosecutor robert mueller wondering whether vladimir putin has something on donald trump. it looked that way in helsinki, didn t it. it s a question the entire world has been wondering about, especially after helsinki. now all of this, not helsinki, everything that came before it, years before it, decades before it, is explored in jack bryan s new documentary called active measures. which takes viewers through a multidecade plot to get donald trump under the kremlin s control as a conduit for money and influence at the highest levels of american authority. it outlines russian efforts to manipulate american events. particularly in the 2016 american election. here is a clip from active measures how about russians interfered in the election that