michael cohen, felix sater were involved in that. hen, felix sat involved in that paul manafort had publicly denied in 2017 he had anything to do with the supposed peace plan that would have resulted in the dropping of russian sanctions. but today manafort's defense team filed this document in d.c. in which they apparently didn't redact things properly.he you can see there are a bunch of things behind black boxes. but they screwed up when they tried to redact the document. and you can read what is behind those blacked boxes. and so because of that mistake, by accident part of what we learned today is that president's campaign chair, paul manafort has told plan took shape after trump was elected. if that's the same plan manafort told prosecutors he involved with the timing of this thing is unusual. right? manafort got fired from the campaign months before the election. did they bring back the fired campaign chairman with links to russia to do work on this effort to drop russian sanctions along with thess guys from trump's business who

felix sater had an office in trump tower two floors beneath the president. he routinely debriefed ivanka and donald on all the deals that trump was doing with bayrak and in russia. this wasn't just a lighthearted thing. the trump organization was deeply involved in this transaction. >> i think ivanka actually suggested the name of a star architect. >> that's true. >> for the project. at one point. >> so it's a family -- family operation. >> family operation. >> jeremy bash, i want to ask you something. it's not just -- donald junior was disparaging michael cohen as a deal maker. i've got no opinion on that. what we know is like mike flynn, like jeff sessions, like george papadopoulos, he lied about his conversations about doing business in -- it's not that they took place, it's not that they briefed the family, it's not that they were negotiating a real estate deal throughout the presidential campaign, and if you believe rudy, never know if we should or shouldn't, through election day. it's that he lied about it. what is all the lying about? why is this lie

michael cohen, felix sater were involved in that. this peace plan, its terms were ridiculous.e point was to drop sanctions on russia. that, of course, would have had the effect of dropping sanctions on the bank slighted to finance this giant real estate deal they were working on for trump that was going to make them all hundreds of millions of dollars. we'd known about that heading into today. trump tower moscow thing, president's lying about it. due to be financed by a russian bank. the guys working on trump tower moscow working on a plan to drop russian sanctions. today we learned that the president's campaign chairman may have worked on that, too. paul manafort publicly denied in 2017 that he had anything to do with that supposed peace plan that would have resulted in the dropping of russian sanctions, but today manafort's defense team filed this new document in federal court in d.c. in which they apparently didn't redact things properly. you can see from the filing there are a bunch of things that are behind black boxes. you're nod supposed to be able to read those things

it wasn't a minor matter and felix sater, a russian-born business associate said they considered gifting putin a gift house in moscow that would be worth $50 million, that was a marketing thing discussed and i'm using this to make the point not only putin being relevant but this was not a small amount of money. minor matter? >> no, it definitely was not minor matter and when it comes to collusion or corruption, you're not a little bit pregnant. either the trump team and the trump children who are implicated in this one were negotiating to make a good deal for trump and remember, trump is assuming he's going to lose so on the other side of this he's riching and consistently lied about it. whether it's january, june or november, they have lied about it the whole time, and this idea, the last thing is this idea that giuliani has a hypothetical conversation with donald trump, like, i have hypothetical conversations with oprah winfrey and george clooney but i'm not their clear. this is his lawyer. you don't have hypothetical conversations with your lawyer. i believe giuliani spoke the truth a

negotiating the trump tower moscow, along with russian fixer, and bert and ernie's love child, felix sater laug as part of this deal, the trump tower deal, cohen handing his emails from sater over to mueller, including this one from 2015, saying: ( audience booing ) >> jon: oh my, wow, that's bad. >> stephen: that's pretty bad. that's pretty damning. it didn't help that he sent it from obviouscolluder@treason.ru. ( laughter and applause ) i want to point something out. i want to point something out about the verbiage there: "buddy, our boy"?! our democracy's being undermined by a community theater production of "guys and dolls." "i know how to play it. see, you release the dame's emails, then buddy, our boy, will be sitting in the catbird's seat, and those chumps will be none the wiser. ♪ his name is donald trump he's got a big fat rump ♪ and he'll win after the email dump ♪ can do, can do i don't know the-- ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: it's a musical! >> stephen: i believe that song is called "fugue for douchebags." ( laughter and applause ) trump's business isn't the only area of poss

know or we think we know that mueller asked trump, did you talk with cohen about your testimony or felix sater about the trump tower deal? and who else were you discussing this with? and he asked him that in his written testimony, his take-home testimony, take-home test, and that will also come out in the next couple weeks. everything has to do with this trump tower. >> cynthia alksine and jill wine-banks, thank you for being with us. >>> coming up, president trump promising a major announcement on the shutdown tomorrow. will it be enough to end the stalemate and get thousands of furloughed workers much-needed paychecks? what our reporters are hearing from inside the white house tonight when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> we are now less than 24 hours from what the president says will be a, quote, major announcement concerning the southern border and the government shutdown. the longest ever shutdown is now minutes away from entering its 29th day and hundreds of thousands of federal workers are still not being paid. on thursday trump grounded house speaker nancy pelosi's military flight to afg

cohen, felix sater, and others including foreign nationals about russian real estate developments during the campaign?" key phrase, "during the campaign." and the answer is, a lot. according to president trump's tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, and that is a new public answer for rudy giuliani and donald trump. and it is an answer that actually does confirm part of what buzzfeed reported last week about donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, about what he will say when he testifies next month in a congressional hearing. buzzfeed reported that michael cohen will testify that he was actively engaged in discussions with russians about a trump tower project through much of the presidential campaign. and yesterday, rudy giuliani not only confirmed that aspect of the buzzfeed story, but he took it a step further and included the possibility of discussions of a trump tower in moscow right up until the returns were coming in on election night and that those discussions at any moment could have involved donald trump, himself. rudy giuliani, of course, has no doubt read the answer that presiden

felix sater and michael cohen discuss the two banks mentioned, but the sanctions prohibited americanzens and companies from doing business with either of them, according to reporting from "the new york times." what does that tell you about what mueller is doing? is he following the way the money flowed to the banks? what does that tell us about the mueller probe? >> when you say ukrainian peace plan, it's clear they're not from the ukrainian government. this is one of two pro-russian ukrainian peace plans that hand to make its way into the trump administration early on. what that means, it's like when you see russian adoptions, it's about sanctions of the russians. in some ways that is the original sin the special counsel is investigating, whether the trump administration was promising or putting feelers out to russians, probably through mike flynn, the incoming national security adviser, potentially to others, to release sanctions in exchange for something else. that something else could be business dealings for donald trump. that something else can be help in the election. it could