cohen has nothing that could possibly implicate president trump, anything that the mueller investigation has been looking into, vis-a-vis collusion between the trump campaign and russia. cohen was involved in the campaign early on, and then he had a television interview where he said something that got him sort of booted out of the campaign. then he was just working for the trump organization after that. he might not know much about the inner workings of the campaign during the period in question anyway. but one other statement here, you had the one from michael cohen, adam schiff, also one from elijah cummings in which he says i thank michael cohen for agreeing to bef of the oversight committee voluntarily. want to make sure we have no interest in inappropriately interfering with any ongoing criminal investigations and to that end we are in the process of consulting with special counsel mueller s office. the committee will announce additional information in the coming weeks. so it may
campaign s involvement, potentially with russia. and exactly what happened vis-a-vis collusion. okay. let s get to the other big headline today. the new twist in the hush money case of your client and the president s former fixer michael cohen. i also want to remind our viewers that the president has denied having sex with stormy daniels. however, we learned last night that the shell company cohen started is now rescinding its offer, wants the $130,000 paid to stormy for her silence back. i know you re not accepting any kind of offer. and you tweeted michael cohen is back to playing games trying to protect donald trump he s now playing a legal stunt to try to fix it so that we can t. he s not a hero or a patriot, he deserves what he gets. what is behind the author, in your mind? and do you think this is the way
guilty to today. there s also the trau straw issue. what was the scheme? foreign citizens can t make political contributions in the united states, not to campaigns, not to inaugural committees. patton was working for this ukrainian politician, oligarch, who wanted to come to the inauguration but to go to the inauguration you have to give money to the inauguration. he found an american willing to do that, and he was on the paperwork for $50,000 but the money came from the ukrainian businessman. and the ukrainian businessman and patton attended the inauguration. taking aside of the question of what the trump campaign did vis-a-vis collusion, what does
and the ukrainian businessman and patton attended the inauguration. taking aside of the question of what the trump campaign did vis-a-vis collusion, what does seem clear is that there are lots of kremlin-aligned interests at various stages constantly pinging and pinging and trying to get to the trump folks. the inauguration is an interesting moment where you can see that come together. we ve done some reporting about just the unusually large number of russian businessmen, kremlin-allied folks who come together in washington to literally celebrate donald trump s inauguration and election. and when you get a firm owned by a russian oligarch, that oligarch also at the inauguration. so this is one data point in a
lobbyist for a foreign party without properly registering with the u.s. government. there s also this straw donor issue, right? what exactly was the scheme? foreign citizens can t make political contributions in the united states, not to campaigns and not to inaugural committees. so patten was working for this ukrainian politician oligarch who apparently wanted to come to the inauguration. to go to the inauguration, you have to give money to the inauguration. so basically what patten did was working with kilimnick, he found an american willing to give or act as the straw donor and that american officially was on the paperwork for $50,000 but in fact the money came from this ukrainian businessman. they got four tickets and the ukrainian businessman and patten attended the inauguration. you know, whatever if taking aside the question of what the trump campaign did vis-a-vis collusion, what does seem clear is there are lots of