that will case that elliott broidy and his wife were reportedly offering to make go away for those very large sums, that case that they said they could get quashed, settled, ended, that case that they were offering that contract about is one of the largest alleged financial frauds in human history. it is a multibillion dollar heist from the government of malaysia. and now today, "the wall street journal" reports that the department of justice is looking into whether or not not just elliott broidy but lots of other people in trump's orbit have been getting laundered money stole in that giant heist from malaysia "the u.s. justice department is investigating whether a fugitive financier laundered tens of millions of dollars and used the funds to pay a u.s. legal team that includes former new jersey governor chris christie, oh, and also a lawyer who represents president trump. the team of lawyers and consultants working for him includes mr. crist of christie, mr. trump's long time lawyer mark kasowitz and bobby birchfield, a lawyer who serves as the trump organization's outside ethics advis

his name is elliott broidy. he has been named in conjunction with some of the same sort of payoff dynamics with women that have now turned so toxic for the president and michael cohen's criminal case. but in addition he has been named in a gigantic mud puddle of stories involving shady connections to different middle eastern countries and different middle eastern entities what appears to be lobbying for those countries and entities, also a still obscure business relationship he appears to have been involved in with a convicted pedophile pictured here with donald trump who has apparently been granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation with the special counsel's office and who with elliott broidy was apparently involved in some sort of complex operation to influence the white house on behalf of the uae and saudi arabia. all the best people. right? that got a little bit swamped but the "washington post" reported this past weekend elliott broidy is now the subject of an ongoing justice department investigation

. >> i want to go to another story we've been following a bit about elliott broidy, former deputy finance department is investigating whether or not he sought to influence, to sell his ins flurinfluence of the trump campaign in exchange for millions of dollars. three people are familiar with this probe and going on record with this. what do you make of that? >> he resigned from the rnc in chairwoman made sure of that. there's no wrongdoing on the part of the administration or the rnc. these are personal charges to elliot brodie. i have questions as why keith elson remains for under the domestic abuse allegations. he should have been long ago when it was revealed he had several ties. our chairwoman asked for resignations. dnc keeps people friends of anti-semimites in their presenc >> i'm certainly not to defend keith. elliot brodie is a classic swamp creature. deeply connected to trump administration on many levels. had a lot of problems with the law before this. this is more influence appellatiappellate i pedaling this time. involves russians and ukrainians and with russian support. we do