To offer Vladimir Putin the 50 million penthouse. That is according to felix sater, a russianborn onetime business associate of trumps who worked on the project with Michael Cohen. Confronted with news of cohens plea, the president dismissed him as weak, claimed it didnt matter because he could do whatever he wanted during the campaign. But remember, all this means is that then candidate trump was trying to do business with russia in the middle of a campaign that russia interfered in to help elect him. So lets discuss now. We have lots to discuss. John dean is here. Jack quinn. Good evening. Todays developments, gentlemen, its really just when you think it cant get any more twisted, it gets i know this is not a word. Twisteder. It gets more twisted. So john, im going to start with you. Back in august sources close to Michael Cohen told me that they saw parallels to your story. Right . Yes. After what happened today, do you think there are parallels . Well, there are some. Hes an obviou
congressman raj krishna moorthi of illinois, a member of the house oversight committee and the house intelligence committee. emily jane fox, senior reporter for vanity fair and author of born trump. and david cay johnston is with us, the founder of dcreport.org and he s the author of it s even worse than you think: what the trump administration is doing in america. david cray johnston has been doing investigative reporting on the business end of donald trump for years. emily, we have to start with you. i was almost shaking reading your report that the smoking gun almost didn t make it into the hearing yesterday. tell us about how michael cohen went to work trying to find documentary evidence for his hearing. it really is a story about the importance of cable news. because michael cohen had been working on his statement for weeks. he did have a conversation with his attorneys when they read the draft saying this is very powerful, this is very clear, the lines are very clear, but
house oversight committee and the house intelligence committee. emily jane fox, senior reporter for vanity fair and author of born trump. and david cay johnston is with us, the founder of dcreport.org and he s the author of it s even worse than you think: what the trump administration is doing in america. david cray johnston has been doing investigative reporting on the business end of donald trump for years. emily, we have to start with you. i was almost shaking reading your report that the smoking gun almost didn t make it into the hearing yesterday. tell us about how michael cohen went to work trying to find documentary evidence for his hearing. it really is a story about the importance of cable news. because michael cohen had been working on his statement for weeks. he did have a conversation with his attorneys when they read the draft saying this is very powerful, this is very clear,
modern czar, actually small business move because many oligarchs might feel an obligation to buy an apartment and that would bring donald a lot of money along with his partners. interesting. so walter, you just heard what david said. you heard me mention they were considering giving putin this penthouse in the moscow trump tower. $50 million. what kind of issues does that raise for you? well, who hasn t thought about giving vladimir putin a $50 million condo? this goes to the heart of what we don t know. he s got a financial disclosure report that s about an inch thick. and each page has multiple, multiple assets on it and the only thing we know about them is their name and their value and in some cases the income they produce but not even in all the cases. what we don t know is his business partners, his customers. we don t know who he s dependent on for deals.
or netflix out of it. this is according to the washington post, david, that donald trump jr. made six trips to russia in 18 months. this is around 2008. he is seen in russia, here he is, with his sister ivanka, his brother eric. take a look at that picture. how important was a russia deal for the trump children? well, it was very important to the trump family. don jr. or eric, i forget which one at the moment, came back from one of those trips and told a real estate trade publication that we have a disproportionate share of our assets coming from i think it was eric, wasn t it? i think it was eric. it was don jr. okay. sorry. it was don jr. okay. donald couldn t borrow from american banks after his 1990 debacle. they wouldn t loan to him. deutsche bank, which has long been a money laundering operation in part for russian oligarchs, is the only place