stay with us. >>> adam davidson is known for maing financial crime and intrigue readable. in the new yorker today, he has unfolded a very dark story about the trump organization in the former state. the top democrat in the banking committee wants ab investigation. congress and the trump administration have a duty to examine whether the president or his family is exposed to terrorist financing, sanctions, money laundering and other associations through their business holdings and connections. senator brown has written to the treasury department, which has jurisdictions over sanctions. he's asking the treasury department to look into the president's business ties. quote, unlike previous presidents, trump has elected to not divest himlff investments that pose potential conflicts of interest. the lack of transparency with respect to those interests raises questions about whether they pose potential conflicts with existing federal laws and regulations related to terrorist financing, sanctions, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption rules, and the like. senator brown is asking t

reporter adam davidson has a new piece out in the new yorker today about what may end up being the next major line of inquiry into our new president. and it is starting to me to look like one of the best explanations we have had yet about why the white house is so dramatically freaked out about the prospect there prospects and foreign contacts. and this story basically has just basically three steps. the first one is what explains that thing? what doi namic is at work there. . why would this country turn down to do this work because of their $6 million price tag. instead give it to another company who charged triple that. the company that charged triple that. the company that got that gig, the company that did the work and tripled the price, that's a company believed to be iran's revolutionary guard. iranian revolutionary guard is basically the second military in iran. it's charged with preserving internal order in this country. and that's meant to be a scary thing to say. the guard also wages war ob behalf of iranian interests and the supreme loader around the globe. it's one of the wo

"outfront" now, the article -- the author of that article, staff writer for the new yorker, adam davidsonazerbaijan to do this reporting. we see that big five-star tower. you were there many times. how involved was the trump family with that tower? >> so, of the trump family, ivanka was extremely involved. and what the folks in azerbaijan told me, she went over every detail. not just design things, but how many elevators would be in the building, what the business plan of the hotel would be, how big the banquet halls are. every detail. and at least -- >> we see pictures of her there. she posted pictures of herself on facebook. >> she traveled there once. her staff traveled constantly, once to twice a month, traveled to turkey to look at furniture. they were extremely zerbaijazer york to get their plans approved by the trumps. >> so extremely involved, not all that common in projects like this. so you can't do business in a corrupt country like azerbaijan without a partner. there was a billionaire family called the corleones of the caspian. how corrupt was this family, the mammadov family?

an article written by adam davidson, i don't have it with me but at some point i'll ask to have it -- ask unanimous consent to enter it into the record, mr. chairman. there is an interesting story about the trump tower in baku, azerbaijan. i think it is pertinent as it relates to the president's taxes. azerbaijan is a former soviet state, it is determined as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. their transportation minister ziya mammadov earns a salary of $12,000 a year. but he's a billionaire. he's one of the wealthiest oligarchs in azerbaijan, probably one of the most wealthy oligarchs in the former soviet union. his family were the main sponsors and builders of the trump tower in baku, in azerbaijan. the original n original build was supposed to be $195 million, built in the middle of nowhere, nowhere near the resort areas or water front properties. in the middle of nowhere, in train yards. in may of 2012, prior to mr. trump running for president, the trump organization joined in cooperation with mr. mammadov and his family in the construction, lending his name to that b

my colleague, adam davidson published this week in the new yorker, a piece about, a business deal thathe trump organization did in which they were dealing with within of the most corrupt families in the nation of azerbaijan, a hotel deal. and it seems that -- one of their other business parters then this, was a business front for the iranian revolutionary guard. an organization that this administration wants to declare a terrorist organization. so i think the level of investigation that's needed is, is manifest. >> on the azerbaijan article, which i read, fascinating because. the trump organization was saying initially, well, we didn't really, this was just one of the licensing deals. they just put the trump name. as the you discovered. >> nonsense. that's the trump organization. and by the way ivanka trump want to baku to look into the deal. >> and was directly involved in the landscaping. >> interior decorating the rest. >> you have a responsibility, as an american business, to do due diligence because of foreign corrupt practices. if you, and, as adam discovered. the most cursory, m

my colleague, adam davidson just published this week in "the new yorker" a piece about a business dealthe trump organization did in which they were dealing with one of the most corrupt families in the nation of azerbaijan. this is a hotel deal. and it seems that one of their other business partners in this was a business front for the iranian revolutionary guard. an organization that this administration wants to declare a terrorist organization. so i think the level of investigation that's needed is manifest. >> on the azerbaijan article which i read, it's fascinating, because the trump organization was saying initially, we didn't really, this was one of those licensing deals. they just put the name, the trump name. >> it's nonsense. >> as you discovered, that's not the case. >> that's the trump organization. and by the way, ivanka trump went to look into this deal. >> it wasn't like the landscaping. >> you know, you have a responsibility as an american business to do due diligence because of foreign, corrupt practices. and if you, and as adam discovered, the most cursory, the most cur

. >>> joining us now, staff writer for the new yorker, adam davidson.ties to iran's revolutionary iran. >> i want to make clear, it's not that the country has ties to the guard, the trump organization chose to do business with people that are the most corrupt family in the most corrupt country of the world with ties to the iranian guard. there's evidence that suggests the $5 million plus that the trump administration received might have come from the guard. how do diligence and oversight work in the trump organization. they have no idea even though i had several agents tell me two days and a $10,000 contract to find out. they refuse to do it even though they know it's possible. >> it's the family they call notoriously corrupt. >> who meets? >> ivanka led the deal. she was the person overseeing the deal. it was a large group of people. i don't want to name the lower level staffers, although i know their names. ivanka was the lead person on the deal. >> i haven't yet read the piece. did you reach out to the white house? did you reach out to the trumps for

adam and the gang on the "view" -- or the "voice" -- i don't know what happened there. >> i'm not on the "view." >> check them out on the >>> 8:26 good morning. i'm tracy davidsonconditions across north philadelphia where people are digging out if the are the snow and ice from yesterday's storm and frozen solid. the colder testimomperatures me that it will be sticking around for a while. we go to bill henley for the most accurate neighborhood forecast. >> tracy, it is cold and sunny in wilmington, but the clouds return than tks to the gusty winds. and strongest this afternoon when they could top 40 miles per hour, and could blow some snow showers back into the area, and not like the snow yesterday, but we could see a quick dusting of the snow that you can see moving into northeastern pennsylvania. >> and now, let es check the roads across the area with the first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. >> from the secondary roads to the major highways are the biggest problems. that is why we have accidents involving the closure, and this is out around creek road and still closed in both drirection due to the stent, and these two vehicles were involve and close