felix sater had connections with the people. there is media reports that the money went into the trump soho or company that built the trump soho, a company felix sater and donald trump were involved in together. all right. there is one last thing here and then there is the part of it that's insane that's going to make part of your day tomorrow at least partially insane. the one last thing to know about this kazakhstan stuff and trump, is what it might take to nail any of this stuff down. if say, someone were investigating him for potential criminal money laundering. if the president were going to be in trouble for any business dealings involving this sketchy money from ka szakhstan, how wod that be proven? there is one thing you need to know. the chairman fled the country and ran off to the u.k. after he left, who took control? who took control of that bank and records and files and transactions? who took control? government of kazakhstan. specifically the dictator of kazakhstan put his son-in-law in control of that bank which m

felix sater he was the one that worked with trump. during the campaign he signed a letter of intent to pursue trump tower must skoscow. >> he was the guy that was the brother of the chromium plant. bay rock was headquartered in trump tour. bay rock is the company that developed the trump soho. a former finance director brought a lawsuit last year that alleged at least $10 million of the money behind bay rock came straight out of that chromium plant in kazakhstan. around the same time of those allegedly ill gotten games smuggled out of that plant in kazakhstan and given to bay rock. bay rock at the same time was bragging publicly about being substantially funded by another medal fortune from kazakhstan from that same country. most of the medtal wealth of tht country is controlled by a trio of three billionaires. those three guys formed a holding company that tried to go kind of legit. they tried to list themselves on a stock exchange. they tried to go public >> translator: and in london in 2007, it turns out to be a terrible move. you

across some of the first information about candidate trump's business ties in russia, including felix sater. >> answer, sater, that's correct and lots of issues came up whether trump has connections with russia. among other things, paul manafort was connected. i wrote about the pro-russia party and another. i wrote a story whether he should have registered as a foreign agent. a matter that appears later in paul manafort's indictment. when he suddenly surfaced in the trump campaign, i was struck by that. this is congressman adam schiff questioning glen simpson at this point. he says quote, if you would, go through with us some of the russia related things that concerned you that you learned in the first phase of your research doing work for the free beacon. answer, the funding of bayrock was much of what we were officially clernd about and focused on. the company seemed to have some sort of funding source that was opaque. we spent a lot of time looking sends at the people around that and their backgrounds and why trump would be in business with them. that was one of the major issues. bayrock

wouldn't know what he looked like. >> okay. >> it is absolutely untrue that donald trump doesn't know felix sater. >> at one point sater worked out of an office at trump tower and held a business card for the trump organization. he was also the go-between for trump's most recent and perhaps most controversial attempt at building trump tower moscow. >> according to "the new york times," sater urged trump to come to moscow to tour this proposal, and even suggested to thame he could help him win the presidency. >> the e-mails have now come out in which you see sater actually saying that we could use this business opportunity to get donald trump elected. >> broump be so much better for u.s.-russian relations. >> there is no question during the campaign that trump was trying to get closer to russia and repair relations with russia. >> there is nothing i can think of that i'd rather do than have russia friendly. >> in one question for the mueller investigation is whether the reason trump was reaching out to russia was because he was making money or expecting to make money from relationships with putin'

very beginning of this project, one of the first things i pofocused on was his relationship with felix sater alleged to have ties to organized crime, an organized crime background. over the first phase we had information the company he was associated with was engaged in elicit financial business activity and had organized crime connections. we sort of more broadly learned that mr. trump had long-typeime associations and seemed as if during the early part of his career he had connections to italian mafia but during the '90s became associated with the mafia. that developed to the point it wasn't a speculative piece of research. it was well-established. page 35. question, so during the period of time you were working for free beacon, the initial fusion gps work was paid for by free beacon and the later stages by a law firm associated with the dnc, right? question, during the period of time you were working for the free beacon, you came across some of the first information about candidate trump's business dies ties in russia. answer s answer, satyr, that's correct and loats of issues came up whe