elliott broidy was reportedly given a $600 million defense contract from the united arab emirates. mr. broidy is kind of a film producer by training. so, his $600 million defense contract is intriguing. mr. broidy spent much of last year apparently in business with a man named george nader. george nader, of all things, has multiple child molestation and child pornography convictions in his past in multiple countries. but nader is the one who reportedly brokered a still mysterious meeting after the election between eric prince, who's a purported representative of our newly elected president, and the head of a russian sovereign wealth fund. a meeting set up in the seychelles islands by george nader on behalf of the united arab emirates, this meeting involving eric prince and this russian guy. what was it about? we have no idea. just this week, it's also reported erik prince met with george nader another time. eric prince, george nader, and an israeli guy who also reportedly has ties to the united arab emirates and who reportedly shut down his company in israel as soon as he was questi

what exactly does elliott broidy do? the most important answer we can give to that question right now is that we don't know. we really don't know. and us not knowing what he does and why all this money and influence seems to have flowed both ways through him, us not understanding that yet is very important. our lack of understanding about what that means actually is the most newsworthy thing about elliott broidy right now. and it's the most important thing we have to understand about the most controversial thing that happened in washington today. with elliott broidy the public reporting about him is intriguing. in some cases it's fascinating. but we really don't know how it all fits together or if it all fits together. elliott broidy was reportedly given a $600 million defense contract from the united arab emirates. mr. broidy is kind of a film producer by training. so his $600 million defense contract is intriguing. mr. broidy spent much of last year apparently in business with a man named george nader. george nader of

was that payment really about covering up an affair with elliott broidy or about something else? o help me figure out what's going on lisa green and paul campos. broidy may have been covering for trump in that play mate affair. you wrote a piece a few weeks back. you used some new evidence about the meeting. what is your theory here? >> my theory is quite straightforward. it's that elliott broidy paid the $1.6 million that bashard had. elliott did this in order to increase his influence peddling business and he was extraordinarily successful. as you noted, he got a meeting in the oval office with the president. he was able to use that piece of information to impress his clients in the united arab emirates enough to get himself a $600 million contract because he was trying to influence the u.s. policy vis-a-vis the gulf states. that's a pretty good payoff. what is most remarkable about this story is that the truth is just, i think, hidden in plain sight here. donald trump has affairs with playboy play mates and pays them off to be silent. elliott broidy bribes public officials to e

elliott broidy that originated from an account in broidy's name at bank of america. michael avenatti joins us tonight. a lot to go over. we reviewed the doms that appear to show the payments you revealed earlier today. we haven't independently verified this em. but the fact that at&t has now come out saying that the documents at least related to at&t are correct, obviously bolsters the authenticity of the documents. i know you're not going to say what your information is based on, but you are obviously very confident in the information that you released earlier. >> 100%, anderson. 100% confident. we would not have released this if we were not 100% confident in the accuracy of the information. i believe right before we went live, "the new york times" issued an article where they verified the accuracy of what we released based on their independent review of other documents. there's no question that this is accurate. it took a lot of work. we've been work on this for some time. we've been in this case for a number of months. we've been spending a lot of time on the case

but what are those payments from elliott broidy -- it's not going to be his legal work. >> right. >> because that would go to his law account. it's not going -- it's most likely not going to be the legal work that he purportedly did for him. >> right. >> so there are a lot of unanswered questions here that put michael cohen under the microscope separate and apart from russia. >> am i crazy that i want know not just the inputs into essential consulting, but who were they paying? where were the outflows, right? >> that's the whole thing. >> because he doesn't have very much money apparently. he is putting up a mortgage on his property to pay for his legal fire, that's right. who is he paying? mueller knows all of this. >> does he know that? >> he does. they have all the bank accounts. they have everything they need. the one wrinkle here is that delaware is one of the states and there are others, famously wyoming, nevada, where it's very hard to get information about corporations set up there. we have a real problem with transparency in some states in the country with that. it's hard to

money went once it made its way into the account. >> there is also this payment of $180,000 from elliott broidyoidy alleged had. he is paying cohen, i don't know if that is for services rendered. and these transactions from others. some of these seem to go back and forth and curve around themselves. this to michael cohen is very suspicious. his represented parties on both sides of settlement agreements. normally when you represent a defe defendant or potential defendant, you would be paid on an hourly basis. so you would be paid whatever your hourly rate times however many hours it is. in this case you would not expect michael cohen spent a considerable amount of time. certainly not 187,500 which is a round number. why mr. broidy over a number of months would be making regular level payments to michael cohen in connection to that. it doesn't make any sense. >> what is next for you in all of this? do you have a clear next step? i mean, you put this stuff out here, i guess the ripple effects you don't know where it ends up. >> correct. we don't know what the ripple effects are. but we have shown

million dollars after cohen brokered a separatate hush money payment for major republican donor elliott broidy, who paid off a former playboy model to keep quiet about their affair, which resulted in her having an abortion. other companies that contributed to essential consultants are korea aerospace industries, which was competing for a multibillion dollar contract to provide trainer r jets foror the u.s. air force, and at&t who is proposed urge with time warner's currently pending before the justice dedepartment. novartis pharmaceuticals also paid in. deputy cia director gina haspel is testifying in froront of the senate intelligence committee for her confirmation hearing as cia director today. haspel was responsible for running a secret cia black site in thailand in 2002, where one prprisoner wasas waterboarded 83 times anand tortured in other ways the former actcting direrector f the cia has s also confifirmed t inin 2005, h haspel personallyly oversaw w the deststruction of videotapapes showing torturere t the e black site. todaday's hearg wiwillark k the first timeme hasl willlle forcrd

michael cohen said in court he had three clients that could be covered by this -- president trump, elliott broidynd sean hannity. >> all right. interesting. thank you, kara. thank you, shimon. there a lot going on. the story is a little complicated. i want to bring in dana bash and david shallion. good evening to both of you. the question about a huge payment made by a u.s. company linked to michael cohen, president trump's long-time fixer after the election, this is explosive reporting. >> without a doubt. it's not welcome news for michael cohen, clearly. and it's not welcome news for the president's legal team here. i mean, let's just acknowledge what it is at its very base. we are now seeing reporting of some russian money making its way in some form or another to the person who was identified as donald trump's fixer, one of his closest confidantes, and who the president was just touting as his attorney less than a month ago while standing on air force one. >> dana, what are your thoughting on this? what do you think we're going to hear from the president about any of this? >> you know, unclea

the pay stormy daniels llc, it's the pay i think get payment for arranging for a payment for elliott broidy, a fund-raiser for his affair and a woman who became pregnant by him and terminated that pregnancy. it's the pay, the receivables for novartis and at&t and a korean jetmaker and also victor veksalburg. why is there one llc doing all there. >> i think the answer to that is is that you know, michael cohen was lazy at the time and he wanted to establish this single llc. when he established the llc for the purpose of making the payment to my client, there's no question that's at least the initial purpose. >> that is when it's created. >> because of the timing, yes, it's creates within a couple weeks of making that payment in late october of 2016. what's amazing to me is, or it's not that amazing to me because i have some insight now into michael cohen's ability as a lawyer which i don't have any respect for. he actually signed the llc incorporation papers in the state of delaware and that's what tied essential consultants llc to michael cohen and that's what "the wall street journal" reli

the pay stormy daniels llc, it's the pay, get payment for arranging for a payment for elliott broidy, an rnc fund-raiser for his affair and a woman who became pregnant by him and terminated that pregnancy. it's the pay, the receivables for novartis and at&t and a korean jet maker and also viktor vekselberg. why is there one llc doing all this? >> i think the answer to that is is that, you know, michael cohen was lazy at the time and he wanted to establish this single llc. when he established the llc for the purpose of making the payment to my client, there's no question that's at least the initial purpose. >> that is when it's created. >> because of the timing, yes, it's created within a couple weeks of making that payment in late october of 2016. what's amazing to me is, or it's not that amazing to me because i have some insight now into michael cohen's ability as a lawyer, which i don't have any respect for. he actually signed the llc incorporation papers in the state of delaware and that's what tied essential consultants llc to michael cohen and that's what "the wall street journal

>> elliott broidy paid into this fund.ry intriguing, highly speculative piece yesterday i believe about his own payments to a play mate for an affair and whether, in fact, it was him who was covering up the affair. i'm curious if you are looking in an investigative capacity into the role that he played and why he was depositing money into this fund and his relationship with michael cohen. is that part of your overall investigative work? >> most certainly. that's one of the things we're looking at. what i find to be highly unusual about that, attorney on the plaintiff and defense side when it comes to settlements, it's unusual to me why you would have a potential defendant, if it was it was mr. broidy, and i raised that with mika, in my mind there's a big question about this, but i don't want to digress quite yet. it's very unusual to have a defendant pay his or her attorney a flat rate for negotiating a settlement. normally you'll pay an attorney on an hourly basis, a defendant, a potential defendant. it's not like a plain