stop vekselberg at the airport when he was flying on a private airplane, and interviewed him twice about his dealings with the mr. cohen. it seems that as more comes out, this is a bigger part of the russian collusion probe than initially understood. yes, that is right. what we need for the conspiracy which is what we would be talking about is an agreement between more than one person. trump would have to have some knowledge and connection to it, but he would not have had to take any direct action personally or necessarily if he knew about it, he knew about the criminal intent if there was criminal intent, and so this is some of the things that put us much more closely in that circle of potential con spespiracy, wh is really the brass ring for mueller. that is really the law, and the politics, howard dean, which is the extraordinary way that the republican national committee is keeping cohen on
showing the government official linked to the oligarch meeting with michael cohen. and you are seeing it on tape, and no denials on this part of the story tonight. instead vex vekselberg is talking about that with the administration and whether or not michael cohen going to get an administration job or not. michael cohen is a very good friend of mine, and my attorney, and i have no deals in rush sharks and i have no deals that could happen in russia those statements were happening at this press conference during the transition, and in the key time that we know that the meeting toob place, and trump arguing that he had stayed away from russia since the last trip in 2013, and this is what is big
vek se vekselberg is considered to be something more important, a supremely russian government fixer who does things for putin like spending millions on faberge eggs that were supposed to come back to russia for a kremlin display case. so keep that in mind when you recall that michael cohen has not only disclaimed any outreach to russia, but he has said that he does not talk to russian government people. i am telling you that i was not in prague. and they claim to have photos with me of some russian personnel, and i said show me. have you been with hookers in prague? i have never been to russia, and so is release the photos. and release the photos. you string enough together, and you will have photos. this is the video, and airing on msnbc for the first time tonight
pretty ugly and exactly what mr. trump said he was going to eliminate. harry, what does this mean for michael cohen, who is of course under criminal investigation? i think this was a reckless thing for him to do, to have any russian-related business at this moment in time, january 2017, when the whole story about russian involvement in our election was a big story. and as i agree with john, we don t know whether anything el little happened. it s a little premature to say. but this puts a target further on cohen s back. we have been talking about will cohen cooperate. next week he goes back to judge wood in the search warrant case. this is just another log on the fire of that. frank, here s the thing, this is video. there s no disputing that vekselberg came to trump tower. he came with his cousin. which makes it hard for
are looking at, was there some sort of quid quo pro with russia, help us win the lebs eln and we ll do some things to benefit russia and putin. michael cohen also participated in pushing this peace plan, pitched as a ukrainian peace plan, controversial and would help russia at the end of the day. that is a big question. was there any connection to that peace plan. legally speaking how does that reflect on him? they were very close in time together. what is particularly interesting about this new vekselberg story is that a lot of the information has come from his cousin, who is the ceo of columbus nova which admitted it entered into a $1 million contract with michael cohen. columbus nova is trying to distance itself from vekselberg, even though vekselberg is the