it was a double bluff. according to the government s case against her, butina was an agent of the russian federation. maria butina did not fly in out of the sky. democrat ron wyden sits on the senate intelligence committee which questioned butina for eight hours. he thinks she wasn t acting alone. she and alexander torshin, a very powerful patron, very close to vladimir putin, spent years working to worm their way into our political system. they were quite the pair, a passionate young woman from siberia and a veteran russian operator. torshin is a politician, a banker, and according to spanish officials, a money laundering crime boss. in these police surveillance recordings which were recently shared with the fbi, russian
maria butina did not fly in out of the sky. democrat ron wyden sits on the senate intelligence committee which questioned butina for eight hours. he thinks she wasn t acting alone. she and alexander torshin, a very powerful patron, very close to vladimir putin, spent years working to worm their way into our political system. they were quite the pair, a passionate young woman from siberia and a veteran russian operator. torshin is a politician, a banker, and according to spanish officials, a money laundering crime boss. in these police surveillance recordings which were recently shared with the fbi, russian criminals in spain refer to torshin as the godfather. but it was his official work for putin s government that got him sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department.
start. you don t open up an investigation into a campaign and then turn around and get a fisa warrant so you can go and grab a lot of information that had to have come from the campaign. this is, back in 13 and 14, they ran an investigation the way it was supposed to be run. and don t forget, another thing that wasn t told to the court, they did not want to tell the court that carter page had actually cooperated with the fbi in the past and the russians didn t want to recruit him because they thought he was an idiot. those with the russians words, not anybody else s. the russians said that. there were lots of reasons to believe carter page wasn t acting as a foreign agent. laura: what is next? we want the president to take care of the rest of these redactions so there is full transparency. for everyone to see. we have sent 42 names to chairman gowdy and chairman goodlatte and we believe those interviews will be starting soon. laura: thank you for stopping by. really appreciate
15? they interviewed the guy. that would ve placed this start. you don t open up an investigation into a campaign and then turn around and get a fisa warrant so you can go and grab a lot of information that had her come from the campaign. this is, back and 13 and a punishment for two, they ran an investigation the way it was supposed to be run. they did not want to tell the car at carter page actually had cooperated with the fbi in the past and that the russians didn t want to recruit him because they thought he was an idiot. those with the russians words, not anybody else s. the russians said that. there were lots of reasons to believe carter page wasn t acting as a foreign agent. laura: what is next? we want the president to take care of the rest of these redactions others full transparency. we have sent 42 names to chairman gowdy and chairman goodlatte and we believe those interviews will be starting soon. laura: thank you for stopping by. directly ahead, them a serious
documents. it s something they do well. they are looking at a huge volume of evidence. we saw of the documents seized the special master has gone through. only 250 documents out of 1.3 million they have reviewed so far are privileged and it confirms what the justice department said is that michael cohen wasn t acting as a larger. he was acting largely as a fixer. they have a lot of evidence to go through. what we have seen at every piece of this investigation, he s facing multiple, multil charges. we don t know where this the going but trey gowdy breaking with the president. here he was a participant even though he was not a member of the gang of 8. the eight members of congress who get to look at intelligence. he was at both of those meetings at doj and the second meet that devin nunes and others demanded from the republican side.