before the election with no expertise in any of the spaces they needed work done. put that aside for a second. what s mostly interesting here. i m going to put that back the companies that gave money to michael cohen. money from columbus nova. that s the only group that gave money to michael cohen for real estate work. on the other hand they seem to have ties to russian oligarchs. this is all very strange. and i think when we are looking for crimes we need to look at where did the money go? it s clear that nobody hired michael cohen for his expertise. he doesn t have any. and he shouldn t have been the go-between. but that is the only explanation you can have is that people thought that he had access or that he would pass the money on to the president. so we have to once again, just like in watergate, we have to follow the money. we have to see where it went. that s going to be a key question. so the question and to tom
firing of comey, what did the president know about general flynn s conversations with the russians. the president says, wait a minute, i ve been getting bad advice. this isn t going to end any time soon, and he blows up. and john dowd and he talk over the weekend, i m told, and the president dowd ends up sending that tweet, which was clearly approved or encouraged or urged by the president, and dowd s tweet was critical of mueller. so i think what the president is trying to do now is figure out where to go. he s unhappy with everyone because it s not over. and as a result, his lawyers are also struggling with what to do next. so i think it s a big mess, to be honest about it, and john dowd, however, is the person who has been communicating with mueller all the time. if you were to remove him or he were to remove himself, and he s been the go-between, i think that looks very bad for the
sweden is trying to help negotiate the release of three americans held captive in north korea as president trump prepares to meet kim jong un face-to-face by the end of may. one source with knowledge of the talks says my movemeany movemene a huge deal for the white house. for the latest, let s bring in david mckenzie in seoul. reporter: it is making efforts to get the three americans detained in north korea free for sweden. that is not surprising because sweden is the go-between between the u.s. and north korea. there is obviously a lot more leverage open to them right now as those proposed talks between president trump and kim jong un presumably get closer. there is word of more meetings in the neighboring finland.
with the latest from seoul. reporter: it is making efforts to get the three americans detained in north korea free for sweden. that is not surprising because sweden is the go-between between the u.s. and north korea. there is obviously a lot more leverage open to them right now as those proposed talks between president trump and kim jong un presumably get closer. the foreign minister of south korea was on u.s. media yesterday. interestingly, she said everyone was taken by surprise that president trump had agreed to the talks given the fact that the americans are still in detention. this could be a moment there could be a sliver of hope for the families. in the meantime, lower level talks, but still important, are happening in neighboring finland. that is between u.s. former officials, not directly linked
collusion but they were not trying to help putin. do you accept that conclusion? i don t think that passes the tefplt start with the e-mail from goldstone, the go-between on that famous june 9th meeting with donald trump and jared kushner and don jr. and paul manafort. they said the russians want to meet with you. they have dirt on hillary. he said an amazing thing, this is part of the russian government s efforts to help your father. i mean, how much more clear can it be? the intelligence committee concluded this. trey gowdy concluded this. i think to say there wasn t evidence that they were trying to tilt the election toward mr. trump is, like i say, it doesn t make any sense in light of really overwhelming evidence. arguably the strongest point of mitigation is, well, it wasn t just to help trump.