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The russian capital before he announced he would run for president. russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment, trump said in a 2007 deposition. we will be in moscow at some point. here to talk about it is david farenthold, washington post reporter who as luck would have it covers the president s businesses and conflicts of interest. so, david, in that vein, here is a federal court filing in your lane, and having said that, what stuck out to you? well, a couple of things. one, the dealings that michael cohen had we ve talked about this as a development president trump wanted in moscow. you know, he was trying to build a tower. they were dealing with the russian government. obviously in russia, oligarchs, developers, the government are all kind of mixed together. michael cohen reached out to dmitry peskov, the high levels of the kremlin. it wasn t they were talking to investors or possible partners in russia about this plan. they were talking to vladimir ....
This proposed russia trip from june 9 to june 14 of 2016, when cohen decided not to go. we took a closer look at what was going on just before and after that period. early june was the first e-mail exchange involving don junior about damaging information on hillary clinton. june 7, trump essentially became the republican party nominee. june 9 was the trump tower meeting with russian nationals. june 12th, julian assange says wikileaks had clinton e-mails. june 14, reporting emerges about russian hackers getting into the dnc. july 1th was the opening of the republican national convention. july 22nd of that summer, wikileaks releases a batch of dnc e-mails. july 25th, roger stone e-mails jerome corsi about contacting julian assange. the next day, july 26th, trump sends a tweet denying he has ....
And never considered asking trump to travel. he now says he, quote, agreed to travel to russia and began planning trump s possible travel to russia. cohen also originally said he, quote, did not recall any russian government response or contact about the moscow deal. that has changed. now he says he, quote, did recall that in or around january 2016 he received a response from the office of russian officials one. that would be the secretary for the president of russia, and spoke to a member of that office about the project. with regard to cohen s attempted travel to russia, the filing details communication between cohen and someone named individual two in the court document. prosecutors say that would be felix seder, the long-time business associate of trump s. seder was deeply involved in trying to get this project off the ground and get the kremlin, namely putin s help to do so. the court documents say cohen ....
Investments in russia and read, quote, for the record, i have zero investments in russia. that was a message that trump worked hard to repeat on the campaign trail. i will tell you right now, zero i have nothing to do with russia. i have no relationship to russia whatsoever. what do i know about the russians? what do i know about the russians? then they said, he borrowed money i don t borrow money from the russians. i promise you, i don t have any deals with russia. i had miss universe there a couple years ago. other than that, no. i have nothing to do michael cohen is to be sentenced in two weeks, december 12. he has already pleaded guilty to a raping nge of other charges campaign, paying mistresses for their silence before the presidential election. that guilty plea was with the southern district of new york. here is how the president reacted to today s guilty plea from michael cohen. he s a weak person and what ....
And never considered asking trump to travel. he now says he, quote, agreed to travel to russia and began planning trump s possible travel to russia. cohen also originally said he, quote, did not recall any russian government response or contact about the moscow deal. that has changed. now he says he, quote, did recall that in or around january 2016 he received a response from the office of russian officials one. that would be the press secretary for the president of russia, and spoke to a member of that office about the project. with regard to cohen s attempted travel to russia, the filing details communication between cohen and someone named individual two in the court document. prosecutors say that would be felix seder, the long-time business associate of trump s. seder was deeply involved in trying to get this project off the ground and get the kremlin, namely putin s help to do so. the court documents say cohen and seder were in talks about ....