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What your administration regards as a governmental issue, russian representatives view as purely business. although in my experience, it s typically the opposite. reporter: the fbi is investigating if that kushner meeting was purely business and if kremlin money was offered to influence relations with the trump administration. i hope that we do have good relations with russia. reporter: khodorkovsky says putin is an effective opponent. translator: putin is a strong tactician, no doubt, and he s more experienced than trump. if they were to face off, i wouldn t bet on trump. reporter: but the u.s. has other advantages. translator: america has something putin doesn t. putin has a small criminal network behind him. a u.s. president has a huge democratic apparatus behind him. reporter: while he knows the danger of crossing putin, khodorkovsky says he will continue his opposition. translator: i could make my life safer by not getting solved ....
Goes, actually, and i m guessing that that s something the fbi is looking into it, but it s a whole host of people around trump s orbit and they re not just all, quote/unquote, satellites. paul manafort when he was the head of the campaign was hardly a zlisatellite. he may now be a sflit satellite bullet but my understanding is he still lives in the trump building in new york. the kushner meeting, i have an op-ped in today s new york times about it pointing out if you re hemeeting with the head the state-owned bank, you have a straight line to the kremlin. we don t know what kushner was talking about. it s hard to imagine they could have been talking about anything legitimate that wasn t just sort of speculative because that bank is under sanction. so jared kushner could not have been talking about doing any business short of lifting sanctions with that bank. and remember, this is december, this is while we have one president at a time and it s barack obama. if i can just make one ot ....
Wednesday night where they did briefly talk face-to-face. the official says the kushner meeting was more casual, just a continuation of progress in an important relationship that has bee repeatedly rattled. but it s not only this meeting that rex tillerson has not been a party to. diplomats say there have been other meetings with jared kushner. a former top state department says diplomats here want to see rex tillerson succeed, but many feel that is not happening right now. they feel jared kushner is essentially acting as secretary of state and they wonder why tillerson would want to take a job where he might appear sidelined. and even if that was just an appearance, it still matters in the influence you have when you do meet with world leaders. top positions at stake remain ....