he was in eric schneiderman's dominion and eric schneiderman was a thorn in his side. the president had refused to settle, had been deposed, all his associates and other people in the company, executives had been. ed subpoenaed. then he won the presidency and then they won for $20 million. so it was really a pretty monumental settlement for the president-elect ten days afterwards to have to give a $25 million settlement for potential freud charges at his university. so the two men have a very checkered past to say the least. they've bickered publicly. schneiderman has disdain over his policy and some of his immigration rules. it's not two people who have love for each other to say the least. >> josh dossi, great reporting on your part. it makes things much clearer than they have been which isn't always the case as this story goes forward. thank you so much. >>> that news comes amid the other big news in the ongoing trump russia story this week which is a revolution that president trump's personal lawyer, michael cone, sent an e-mail to vladimir putin's kremlin seeking

but what if new york state attorney general eric schneiderman is also on the case?itico is reporting exactly that tonight. special counsel robert mueller's team is working with new york attorney general eric schneiderman on its investigation into paul manafort and his financial transactions according to several people familiar with the matter. the cooperation could potentially provide mueller with additional leverage to get manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into trump's campaign as trump does not have pardon power over state crimes. this is what joe biden would call a big deal. federal prosecutors normally have nothing to do with state prosecutors. federal prosecutors have a bit of a superiority complex over state and local prosecutors. but not this time. politico also reports the two teams have shared evidence and talked frequently in recent weeks about a potential case, these people said. one of the people familiar with the progress on the case said both mueller's team and schneidererman's have collected evidence on crimes including potential money

we know attorney general eric schneiderman has issued subpoenas for bank records, and other financialnsactions in new york. we know he's been pretty aggressive in recent months. and in the past recent weeks, the last couple of months or so, the two teams have started working together, to share their evidence, to talk about what they know and discuss potential, if charges come, should they be filed on the federal level, on the state level, who has the best evidence and which statutes apply the most, and let's all get on the same page. >> is there a precedent for this sort of thing? is this an unusual decision by these two law enforcement officials to be pursuing it this way? i don't know enough about how federal and state lawsuit work together to know if this is unheard of or if this is something they regularly do? >> they often work together on cases, particularly in new york. schneiderman has worked with the former fdny prosecutor on a number of cases. we're not aware of previous precedent for special counsel bob mueller consulting with local and state authorities. now, that's not to

or just an emotional desire to hurt eric schneiderman, who is now working with -- >> i think it was just reactionary thing. i don't think a, it would have affected the legal outcome. i think it was just an emotional backlash to what was happening. i think it's important to mention that at least before schneiderman went out after trump university. he had a seemingly good relationship with jared and ivanka. i went to breakfast in 2011 that jared and ivanka hosted for schneiderman. i didn't get the impression that they knew each other well, but they seemed to be on good terms. before schneiderman went after trump university. >> and jared and ivanka had a lot of good relationships with democrats as his father did. you said jared's father in law is donald trump, given the family relationship, "the observer" took great care to ensure fair, unbiased journalism throughout the reporting. >> i just think it shows how ethically slippery these characters are. which matters in regards to the bloomberg story, because this is somebody who is so deeply indebt and deeply compromised that even if he had t

josh dosie reports this about special counsel robert mueller and new york attorney general eric schneidermane two teams "have shared evidence and talked frequently in recent weeks about a potential case, according to politico's sources, it continues, one of the people familiar with the progress on the case said both mueller's and schneiderman's teams have collected evidence of financial crimes including potential money laundering. no decision has been made on where or whether to file charges. nothing is imminent, said one of the people familiar with the case. the report goes on to say, "people close to manafort say the team has pressured him by approaching family members and former business partners." a number of other firms and people who have worked with him have received subpoenas. and a reminder, to date, paul manafort has not been charged with any crime. these stories all come after news from the kremlin, a spokesman for vladimir putin, dmitry peskov could be -- today confirming that he received an e-mail from trump's long-time attorney michael cohen, about a real estate deal in moscow.

he's coordinating with eric schneiderman in the investigation of paul manafort.d pursue state charges against manafort which would not be pardonable by the president. what do you make of this move and this report by politico * of schneiderman? >> it seems it's further confirmation mueller, probe is out of control and on a fishing expedition. he was appointed presumably to investigate issues of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. i guess related matters. all of a sudden we have the new york state attorney general who is pretty much an enemy of the president getting involved in the investigation? what does he bring to the table in the foreign intelligence-related investigation? i don't think much. there is a new report today just breaking that he was also working with the i.r.s. what else are they doing? i think the justice department needs to figure out what exactly in smaller is doing. is he investigating crimes or just throwing anything out there, sending his investigators all over the place in the hopes he find a crime to get donald trump. th

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. >> here's what sticks out to me, election related hacking, that's not eric schneiderman's bag. money laundering and look into trump businesses beforehand. president trump had said if the russia investigation starts to look into his own family business -- >> that's his red line. >> you're putting your finger on something important. prosecutors have two big reasons they pursue cases, one the obvious, you want to prosecute a crime, period. two, you want leverage to prosecute a different and more important crime. so the question here is not only what is the exposure as you say, much more an international issue, but does bob mueller have in the back of his mind -- i'm not saying he does, but our reporting shows the law supports the idea if you're worried about pardons or you want extra leverage, you want to gather every possible way to put the pressure on and for say paul manafort. what that means, our investigative unit of nbc news, looking at the special counsel probe federal reviewed by state attorney general and local prosecutors. >> he has not been accused of anything at this p

a coalition of 16 state attorneys general led by eric schneiderman of new york has filed a lawsuit chargingironment protection agency with illegally stalling the designation of areas impacted by unhealthy levels of ground-level ozone. the coalition is challenging epa administrator scott pruitt's one-year delay, saying it violates the requirements of the clean air act. secretary of state rex tillerson says he will meet this weekend with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of southeast asian foreign ministers. relations between washington and moscow have been strained after revelations that russia meddled in last year's presidential election and more recently with both countries imposing sanctions on one another. >> i think the american people want the two most powerful nuclear nations in the world to have a better relationship. i don't think the american people want us to have a bad relationship with a huge nuclear power. mark: secretary tillerson added that russia "must take some steps to improve relations." meantime, the white house says president trump has

reporting originally in politico that mueller's working with the state attorney general in new york eric schneidermanof course schneiderman a long-time trump adversary on the investigation into paul manafort, the former campaign chairman. according to the report state and federal prosecutors believe the prospect of a presidential pardon could affect whether manafort decides to cooperate with investigators. the involvement of new york's attorney general "could potentially provide mueller with additional leverage as trump does not have pardon power over state crimes." manafort, we should note, has not been accused of and has denied any wrongdoing. so josh, take us through this. this is a very unusual situation as far as i know. you have a special counsel. you have the state attorney general -- >> studying financial transactions. both of them are studying whether mr. manafort committed any sort of financial crimes, offshore accounts, you know, various bank transactions. they've subpoenaed business partners, family members. and about six weeks or so they've been meeting pretty frequently to talk about th

know about all of this politico reporting last night that the new york stated attorney general, eric schneidermans working with the investigative team for the special counsel, robert mueller, that seems to ab message sent by mruler mueller' even if the president offers federal level pardons, there could sdil be still be state level issues a lot for the president to focus on today >> the other huge issue is tax reform, where that will be something like 63 working days left in congress this year that shortens the time frame the president saying he's ready to work with congress but also saying don't disappoint me how contention is the relationship going to be >> was a fascinating moment yesterday. the president saying he doesn't want to be disappointed by congress again this is a president who feels burned by congress from the healthcare problems. he doesn't want a repeated of that he's out on the campaign trail, so to speak, pushing for this. that's something allies wished he had done more of during the healthcare effort. he was out there yesterday he talked about the corporate tax rate he said ide