van der zwann in an apparently lovely ceremony. mr. khan's granddaughter is now alexander van der zwann's wife and she is expecting their first child at the end of this summer. before alex van der zwann turned up as a surprise defendant, his father in law hermann khan turned up twice before in relation to the u.s. attack and intrigue surrounding it. his company alpha was the subject of mysterious reports about unexplained communications between a computer server in moscow and a computer server in trump tower. those mysterious communications during the campaign, those remain unexplained. they may have been a fluke or unrelated to everything else going on in russia and the trump campaign but that was an early mention in the scandal. he then appeared in the christopher steele memos published in january. mr. khan's name mentioned as an oligarch, one on good enough terms with putin to be done in both directions. well, now his son-in-law has just been sent to prison in this country as the first person imprisoned in congestion into interference in the election. i think one m

. >> this as a judge handed down jail time to alex van der zwann who pleaded guilty about lying to his conversations with rick gates, paul manafort and a person tied to russian intelligence services. judge jackson said it was intended to reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect for the law. and reducing sentencing disparities in a brief statement the dump born lawyer said what i did was wrong, i apologize to the court, my wife and family. >>> let's go to the trade war now. china said yesterday that it is only polite to retaliate and within the last few hours announced 25% tariffs on $50 billion worth of american exports including soybeans, airplanes and autos. this after the trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on $50 billion in chinese imports, mainly tech equipment, identifying more than 1300 goods like flat screen tvs, medical devices, aircraft parts and batteries in response to what america claims is theft of u.s. technologies. now, acting seskts state john sullivan is scheduled to meet with the chinese ambassador at the department of state this afternoon. meanw

russia scandal for a dutch lawyer who speaks flun fluent russian and in our country neither alex van der zwann, the lawyer or her father in law hermann khan are high-profile figures. the jailing of his son has to have some residence in russia. since then we've learned thanks to a fascinating cnn report from a couple days ago that mueller and his proos csecutors have be stopping russian oligarchs and searching electronic devices of an oligarch. up until today, it's kind of been the special counsel's office who has -- that's been responsible in the united states for pumpinc punching back at ru behalf of the american people. they have done so in someways that have been quite provocative. well, now today, on hr mcmaster's last day in office, today the treasury department announ announce what experts to be a subt substantive list as punishment for russia quote attempting to subvert western democraciedemoc. they got close to it. i think they are including messing with our democracy in that but couldn't explicitly say it. don't upset the president. whether or not that matters in terms of the exact ve