sederai sater says it is a shakedown. sater is a twice convicted felon. after his second conviction, he cooperated on cases with the justice department. >> felix had been convicted of stabbing someone in the neck with a margarita glass in 1991 and did a year in prison for that. 1998 he is convicted of a $40 million financial fraud involving penny stocks, commodity trading. >> despite his checkered past, sater's business ties to the trump organization extended well beyond the soho deal. together with bay rock that. >> explored additional trump deals in the u.s. and abroad. yet in sworn testimony in a 2013 deponent in addition, trump insisted he barely even knew sater. >> about how many times have you con virused with mr. sater? >> over the years? >> over the years if you could estimate. >> not many. >> not many? >> if he were sitting in the room right now, i really wouldn't know what he looked like. >> okay. >> it is absolutely untrue that donald trump doesn't know felix sater. >> at one point sater worked out of an office at trump tower and held a busines

felix sater had connections with the people. there is media reports that the money went into the trump soho or company that built the trump soho, a company felix sater and donald trump were involved in together. all right. there is one last thing here and then there is the part of it that's insane that's going to make part of your day tomorrow at least partially insane. the one last thing to know about this kazakhstan stuff and trump, is what it might take to nail any of this stuff down. if say, someone were investigating him for potential criminal money laundering. if the president were going to be in trouble for any business dealings involving this sketchy money from ka szakhstan, how wod that be proven? there is one thing you need to know. the chairman fled the country and ran off to the u.k. after he left, who took control? who took control of that bank and records and files and transactions? who took control? government of kazakhstan. specifically the dictator of kazakhstan put his son-in-law in control of that bank which m

felix sater he was the one that worked with trump. during the campaign he signed a letter of intent to pursue trump tower must skoscow. >> he was the guy that was the brother of the chromium plant. bay rock was headquartered in trump tour. bay rock is the company that developed the trump soho. a former finance director brought a lawsuit last year that alleged at least $10 million of the money behind bay rock came straight out of that chromium plant in kazakhstan. around the same time of those allegedly ill gotten games smuggled out of that plant in kazakhstan and given to bay rock. bay rock at the same time was bragging publicly about being substantially funded by another medal fortune from kazakhstan from that same country. most of the medtal wealth of tht country is controlled by a trio of three billionaires. those three guys formed a holding company that tried to go kind of legit. they tried to list themselves on a stock exchange. they tried to go public >> translator: and in london in 2007, it turns out to be a terrible move. you

. >> answer, sater, that's correct and lots of issues came up whether trump has connections with russia. among other things, paul manafort was connected. i wrote about the pro-russia party and another. i wrote a story whether he should have registered as a foreign agent. a matter that appears later in paul manafort's indictment. when he suddenly surfaced in the trump campaign, i was struck by that. this is congressman adam schiff questioning glen simpson at this point. he says quote, if you would, go through with us some of the russia related things that concerned you that you learned in the first phase of your research doing work for the free beacon. answer, the funding of bayrock was much of what we were officially clernd about and focused on. the company seemed to have some sort of funding source that was opaque. we spent a lot of time looking sends at the people around that and their backgrounds and why trump would be in business with them. that was one of the major issues. bayrock developed the trump soho with donald trump and his business. another issue was the amazing number of p

our meteorologist, tom sater, is tracking it for us. first of all, tom, what's the latest forecast? >> it's moving rapidly, wolf, and that's good news. that's one bright spot, that it's moving quickly. the other bright spot today, it stayed roughly off the coastline between 250 and 275 miles. that helped out tremendously keeping hurricane-force winds off the shore. we only had one location that received a hurricane gust. power outages right now at 24,000. they could increase because of the winds picking up, but for the most part we got a little bit lucky here. going back to the beginning of the satellite era, it's extremely rare to have a storm drop in pressure so rapidly as this one. the pressure is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane. you can actually see the cold air being pulled down behind this in the great lakes. that's the biggest fear right now. if you look at the windchill value. minus 8 in chicago, minus 9 in pittsburgh, it's going to get much worse in new england. by saturday a windchill of minus 15, boston minus 26, interior sections will have windchills minus 35 to min

our meteorologist, tom sater, is tracking the storm and joins us now with the latest. let's talk about this storm system moving up the coast. what do the hours ahead look like? >> well, it's going to start to intensify overnight tonight, anderson, and through the day tomorrow. the storm system, which now has a center, we can now track it, looks like it's going to be just far enough off the coast to keep the hurricane force winds away from the shoreline, which is good news. we'll still see hurricane gusts. the snow is ending, of course, after getting its first measurable snow in tallahassee in 28 years. 5 inches fell in charleston. that's the third highest one-day total they've had in history. this is when it starts to crank up. i think washington, d.c. and baltimore are just too far to the west to get into heavy snow, maybe an inch or two. but things are now changing. new york city has been evaluated to be included in the winter storm warning. boston proper is now included into the blizzard warning. when you look at the snowfall i mean, the kids of all ages were loving

have now come out in which you see sater saying that, we could use this business opportunity to get donald trump elected. >> president trump would be so much better for u.s./russian relations. >> there is no question, during the campaign, that trump was trying to get closer to russia. and repair relations with russia. >> there's nothing i can think of that i'd rather do than have russian friendly. >> in one question for the mueller investigation is whether the reason trump was reaching out to russia was because he was making money, or expecting to make money, from relationships with putin's people. of being ths winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. every great why introducing lumi glotion. glow. l'oreal's first glow-enhancing lotion. use it all over like moisturizer. in four natural shades. say "bonjour" bonjour to an effortless glow. new lumi glotion. from l'oreal paris. ♪ ♪ i'm jimmy, this is my definition of

beginning of this project, one of the first things i pofocused on was his relationship with felix sater alleged to have ties to organized crime, an organized crime background. over the first phase we had information the company he was associated with was engaged in elicit financial business activity and had organized crime connections. we sort of more broadly learned that mr. trump had long-typeime associations and seemed as if during the early part of his career he had connections to italian mafia but during the '90s became associated with the mafia. that developed to the point it wasn't a speculative piece of research. it was well-established. page 35. question, so during the period of time you were working for free beacon, the initial fusion gps work was paid for by free beacon and the later stages by a law firm associated with the dnc, right? question, during the period of time you were working for the free beacon, you came across some of the first information about candidate trump's business dies ties in russia. answer s answer, satyr, that's correct and loats of issues came up whe

. >> the e-mails have come out where you see sater saying we could use this business opportunity to get elected. >> trump was trying to get closer to russia, and repair relations with russia. >> there is nothing i can think of that i would rather do than have -- >> the question for the investigation is whether or not the reason trump was reaching out to russia is because he was making money or expecting to make money from relationships with putin's people. fl[ gasps, laughs ]c, progressive gives you options based on your budget. you ever feel like... cliché foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason? nah. so, why don't we like flo? she has the name your price tool, and we want it. but why? why don't we actually do any work? why do you only own one suit? it's just the way it is, underdeveloped office character. you're right. thanks, bill. no, you're bill. i'm tom. you know what? no one cares. why people everywhere are upgrading their water filter to zerowater. start with water that has a lot of dissolved solids. pour it through brita's two-stage filter. dissolved solids

. >> tom sater, appreciate that. thanks very much for watching "360." time to hand things over to jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> good evening and welcome to a special primetime edition of "the lead," i'm jake tapper. amidst the stormy and capricious seas that president trump is battling caused by the shocking allegations and vicious quotes in the new book "fire and fury, inside the trump white house" a book that is raising serious questions about the president's capacity to lead. a new squall of a different sort has emerged this evening, breaking news in the russia investigation. coming out a short time ago in the "new york times," part of the investigation by special counsel robert mueller focused on whether president trump obstructed justice. the "times" reported that president trump ordered don mcgahn to stop jeff sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation because the president wanted sessions to protect him. the "times" reports "mr. mcgahn was unsuccessful and the president erupted in a

. >> tom sater, thanks very much. appreciate it. thanks for watching "360." time to hand it over to jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to a special prime-time edition of "the lead." i'm jake tapper. you know, with all the fire back and forth between president trump and his former chief strategist, steve bannon, washington tonight is starting to resemble the final scene from "reservoir dogs." simmering, long-standing resentments given new life today with release of excerpts from a book offering a brutal look at the administration's first months in office, courtesy of journalist michael wolff and courtesy of the many white house officials who for whatever reason rolled out the red carpet for him and offered him a seat on their west wing couches. excerpts of wolff's new book "fire and fury," which hit number one on amazon today, even though it hasn't even been released, have been rolled out all day. the choice awards that bannon has for the president's offspring seems to have caused the most damage. but there's so much to choo

. >> tom sater, appreciate that. thanks very much for watching "360."things over to jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> good evening and welcome to a special primetime edition of "the lead," i'm jake tapper. amidst the stormy and capricious seas that president trump is battling caused by the shocking allegations and vicious quotes in the new book "fire and fury, inside the trump white house" a book that is raising serious questions about the president's capacity to lead. a new squall of a different sort has emerged this evening, breaking news in the russia investigation. coming out a short time ago in the "new york times," part of the investigation by special counsel robert mueller

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