avenatti. joining the discussion now, mimi rocah, former federal prosecutor. she is a fellow at pace university. and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and co-author of the new best-seller russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. he is also an msnbc political analyst. and let s just begin, michael avenatti, the $99,980 you show monthly payments from novartis to michael cohen s llc totalling 399,9 $399,920. we have a statement tonight from that pharmaceutical company. that s company that of everyone who has been revealed making payments to michael cohen in your report today, this is the company that seems most completely embarrassed by it. their statement is simply any agreements with essential consultants were entered before
sexual affair with donald trump around that same time. the new york times is reporting the fbi also searched for records related to mr. cohen s taxi cab business, apparently a separate line of inquiry unrelated to mr. trump. the president tweeted today attorney-client privilege is dead. that is the kind of trump tweet that is normally read as a rage tweet, short, simple, ending in an exclamation point, and completely and utterly untrue. back with us now, benjamin wittes, editor-in-chief of law fair. also harry litman, former federal prosecutor and deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. he is now a professor at the university of california san diego. and david corn, washington bureau chief of mother jones, co-author of the current best-seller, russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of trump. he is also an nbc political
for records related to mr. cohen s taxi cab business, apparently a separate line of inquiry unrelated to mr. trump. the president tweeted today attorney-client privilege is dead. that is the kind of trump tweet that is normally read as a rage tweet, short, simple, ending in an exclamation point, and completely and utterly untrue. back with us now, benjamin wittes, editor-in-chief of law fair. also harry litman, former federal prosecutor and deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. he is now a professor at the university of california san diego. and david corn, washington bureau chief of mother jones, co-author of the current best-seller, russian roulette: the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of trump. he is also an nbc political analyst. and harry litman, i want to go straight to you on the question
russian political figures with direct ties to those under scrutiny in special counsel robert mueller s investigation. among them, oleg deripaska, a former business partner of indicted trump campaign chairman paul manafort. joining us now, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news, michael isikoff, and washington bureau chief of mother jones, david corn. they are co-authors of the book russian roulette, the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. and a lot of this, michael isikoff, seems to go back to paul manafort in some way. yeah. the list the treasury department put out friday is remarkable because it has some fresh details on just how much the u.s. government knows about deripaska s background. one of the things we write about in the book is that when hillary
author of russian roulette, the inside story of putin s war on america and the election of donald trump. he s an msnbc political analyst. jill, let me start with you, the idea that the president is getting ready to sit down with donald trump as early in the planning stages as that may be, first of all, would that be donald trump and his team s decision, and if so, what does that tell you? first of all, i think it s interesting they re saying its in its infancy in preparation and it s short and informal, which is exactly what you would expect from a president who doesn t read and doesn t have a very big attention span. no it isn t his choice. he can ask anyone he wants, the president would have to invoke a fifth amendment privilege.