it s clear that the trump tower deal in moscow was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the president, and that the russian president would have been looped into that as well. then we have a moesh for why people are lying. the third is that we know that people within the current trump administration has been have been communicating with manafort, with cohen since they have been talking to prosecutors. that creates some questions about obstruction and other issues. also, we saw on the manafort filing we saw there are other unindicted people. on so many levels this is a blockbust irseries of filings. i just think the american public is a little tired and it s hard to make sense of why all of this matters, but in the cohen filing, in particular, the southern district actually filed. they do a really great job, i think, of laying out why
her story from influencing the election. it was to manipulate voters. to manipulate the campaign. and because of this, and because of the other crimes cohen committed, the southern district of new york came down pretty hard on him and they said that he deserved a substantial term of imprisonment, so they only suggested slightly less than what the guidelines, the sentencing guidelines would have stated. there is no great deal that the southern district of new york thinks that michael cohen deserves. and what more is really being revealed about this trump tower project in moscow? well, obviously, we learned that michael cohen lied when he went before congress. he lied that when he said that trump tower deal in moscow, you know, fell apart much sooner than it actually did. and the reason that this is so interesting is because the fact that mueller s team has focused on this, tells you that they re interested in it, as part of their collusion investigation. they re interested in this b
breaking news, yahoo news reporting tonight that special counsel bob mueller is asking questions about ivanka trump and donald trump jr. s role in pursuing the trump tower deal in moscow. outfront now, hunter walker, white house correspondent for yahoo news. he broke the story. and by the way, he reported earlier this year that cohen s discussions, you know, lasted longer than he was claiming, right, this whole january, june thing, hunter, obviously, you had this a long time ago, and what have you learned tonight about ivanka and don junior? right, so, all the focus today has been on michael cohen s work with felix to build a trump skyscraper in moscow and what i ve learned is that don junior and ivanka trump were separately pursuing efforts to make a trump branded skyscraper in moscow. they also both did have involvement with michael cohen s work. ivanka was recommending architects and as a source familiar with the trump organization put it to me, don junior was, quote, peripheral
had hacked the dnc servers and so the point that he started to talk about it, he did not have a development there, but he does convenient conveniently omit, and a talking about the closest ties to russia were this palm beach mansion that he sold, and he conveniently omits that from early 2017 until june 2016, where he was in talks with this trump tower deal, and by the way, we were told that the only reason that trump tower deal in moscow ended up fall iing throu and michael cohen pulled out there at the end was because of all of the news about the russian hacking of the dnc and otherwise, they could have potentially carried through and had this business dealing going through, but they realized the political repercussions would have been so bad after this dnc hack by the russians became
sure. what we will find out after michael cohen was sentenced and perhaps after a mueller report comes out or further indictment comes out, we will learn the extent to which the family knew about this trump tower deal in moscow, and what else they were doing in russia or what other real estate deals they were doing, and cohen had a front row seat to a lot of what the family was doing in the trump organization. it is a very small office and mom and pop shop, and the building where all of the adult children grew up as children. their offices were all right next to each other. so it is very difficult for me to believe that if the trump children were involved in some sort of real ess state deal that michael cohen didn t know, and what is harder for me to believe is that if michael cohen was involved in real estate deals that the trump family didn t know what he was doing. and pete, the president went out of the way to say there is nothing illegal about this, and he was a candidate and