torshin would be front and center in that. >> michael isikoff thanks very much. great reporting at yahoo news. appreciating you joining us. and joining us is david jones, coauthor of "russian roulettero and joining us is danny si val lis. >> lots of ties stretching back to 2013. those who have been following this and your reporting know that's the year of the moscow miss universe pageant. why is this important to the story? >> we do go into more details in the book. what we've seen over the course of the campaign, and even before, are multiple russian efforts to make contact with american conservatives and with the trump campaign. they try with george papadopoulos, with carter page, with michael flynn, and we see early here this predating the campaign but leading into the campaign, a concerted effort by aleksandr torshin, who also represents a gun rights group in russia that doesn't really exist to do anything there, making common cause with gun rights groups in in america, particularly the nra and attending things like c pac. the annual conservative gathering. h

michael isikoff, coauthor of "russian roulette." jose grinda, who is investigating spanish organized crime, how does he wind up in a story that involves alexander torsion and donald trump jr.? >> jose grinda is a legendary prosecute in spain. he spent years prosecuting russian organized crime figures in his country. and in one of his investigations in 2013, he has secret wiretaps placed on one of his targets. a guy, alexander romanoff, who was a suspected russian mobster and money launderer and they pick up 33 conversations that romanoff their target has with aleksandr torshin the deputy governor of the russian central bank, a former leader of putin's party in the duma, very tight with putin. and in these conversations, romanoff the suspected mobster refers to torshin as his godfather. the spanish police believe they have enough evidence against mr. torshin to arrest him when he was believed to be flying in for the birthday party of romanoff, the suspected mobster. torshin never showed, the suspicion was he got tipped off by russian

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and those are the people that invited me is isikoff and yahoo news who got the book i should regret it was so ironic. assim my celebrity this russia gay thing and so i was invited i went and they had these huge parties there and i'm talking to everybody adam schiff talking to adam schiff mansi pelosi i was talking to jeff weaver who is bernie sanders campaign manager bernie sanders campaign manager i did my oppression for him so we had it we had i really was having too much fun there you know i was talking to all things i was having too much fun and then i went out after meeting everybody tom styer jimmy hoffa who who i know for ever and i was actually reporting for jimmy door at the same time i had a camera in my pocket and we were doing a live stream where jimmy door show so now i go into the main room alley vashti he's talking to me everybody is talking to me and like i sit down i have dinner steak in and great they have wine everything and i felt really bad i went to the c.n.n. table and i talked to that guy mani raw who called pronounce my name like i was a russian agent like t

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mimi rocah and michael isikoff, thank you both.e president is calling members of his staff apparently traitors and cowards. a fine tuned machine of the white house next. needed to apologize to senator olympic cane. >> senator mccain apology, mr. president? >> senate republicans are reportedly furious and openly seething over the white house's treatment of john mccain. today's closed door meeting with the president was a perfect opportunity for them to bring it up to his face. that is the insult by one of his staffers in a meeting. except no one did. republicans asked two questions, neither about that comment about mccain's impending death. five days an ago an aid to trump said they didn't need to get a vote from john mccain because the senator is dying anyway. that story quickly leaked to the hill. sarah huckabee sanders blasted staffers for the leak telling them i'm sure this conversation is going to leak, too. she was right. it did. the white house has yet to issue a public apology. the president tweeted yesterday the leakers are

. >> i want to go to something michael isikoff just said at the end of the segment.d what if there was communication with stormy daniels, with stormy daniels counsel about getting this $130,000 settlement done when it was done because of the timing of the campaign. are you aware of any communication with your client or your client's counsel, in october of 2016, as they were closing this settlement agreement that involved the timing of the campaign? >> you know, our case has been pending almost two months and i made a lot of tv appearances and i've gone on a lot of shows and i've been interviewed a lot of times and a lot of people have commented on that, i've never been asked this question, and it's perhaps one of the most important questions and i'm going to answer it right now. there were extensive communications between michael cohen and keith davidson in october of 2016 relating to the timing of this payment and the need for the payment to be made prior to the election. extensive communications relating to the need for the payment to be made when it was made and a

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michael isikoff of yahoo! news, the headline gets straight to the point.'s son should be concerned." fbi obtained wiretaps of a putin ally who met with trump jr. isikoff reports the fbi obtained secret wiretaps collected by spanish police of conversations involving alexan

michael isikoff joins me now. michael, let me start with you and your piece here. this involves information handed over from spanish police to the fbi. what do we know about what was handed over, michael? >> these are transcripts of wiretaps made in 2013 by the spanish national police in the course of a russian money laundering investigation. the prosecutor who revealed this yesterday in response to a question i asked at the hudson institute is jose grinda. he has spearheaded multiple investigations for years into russian organized crime in spain. in 2013 he added investigation into a suspected russian mon moneylandmoney launderer. and he picks of a conversation with torshin, a close al lie of vladimir putin. and on the wiretaps he refers to torshin as his godfather. there was discussion of a hotel, suspected repository for money laundering. and potorshin was planning to ce to spain in mayorca. all during the period and following it, torshin is flying in and out of the united states, forming alliances with conservative activists and groups. he goes to the annual cp

michael isikoff of yahoo! reporting that the fbi has received transcripts of secret wiretaps collected by authorities involving alexander torshin a close ally of russian president vladimir putin and also involves money launder, a top prosecutor involving is kof saying that the wiretaps were given to the fbi some months ago. this is a first clear sign that torshin may be part of the mueller probe. one person with whom he had a meeting with is donald trump jr. the two men at a nra convention at a presidential campaign. joining us is former u.s. attorney joyce vance and seth who is the author of the book/trubook "trump/russia." so there should be some concern that donald trump jr. should have, and why might that be? >> this is another manifestation of this phenomenon that mueller is typically far ahead of the public's knowledge of what went on in the campaign and what the nature of the connections of trump and russia were. so here we have a situation where it is becoming increasingly clear that trump junior had a

michael isikoff described how russian hackers attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election, and south carolina republicans senator tim scott and representative trey gowdy talked about their friendship and their time in congress. in the coming weeks on "after words," former defense secretary donald rumsfeld will recount the presidency of gerald ford. he'll be joined by former vice president dick cheney. journalist jerome corsi will argue that there is an effort to thwart the presidency of donald trump. and this weekend facebook co-founder chris hughes argues for a guaranteed income for the working class. >> there are a lot of ways to finance a guaranteed income. my view is that the clearest way is to ask those who have done the best in the new economy to pay their fair share, and that is people like me. so specifically to bring tax rates on income above $250,000 back up to where they were historically, that's at 50%, and close some of the most egregious loopholes in our tax code like the buffett rule which enables billionaire investors like warren buffett9 to pay a lower tax

and david corn and michael isikoff described how russian hackers attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election. in the coming weeks on "after words," former defense secretary donald rumsfeld recounts the presidency of gerald ford. retired u.s. marine corps lieutenant colonel kate german know will detail gender bias in the marines, and jerome corsi will argue there's an effort to thwart the presidency of donald trump. >> for the conservatives who, you know, are patriots -- and i think, again, one of the startling points of my book, "killing the deep state," is the recognition that there's this division such the true patriots on the conservative side want to preserve the constitution. it isn't a, it isn't a racism, it isn't a xenophobia. i mean, i don't hate islam. i marched 200 miles after i wrote "atomic iran" in 2005 with the muslims, the iranians who were wanting freedom in their country, and almost everybody in that march was muslim. so, you know, i've argued that it's a complete -- as your book points out -- smear on those of us who want to have a conservative position that's duly

you have michael isikoff coming out in yahoo!ews that the fbi has obtained wiretaps of a putin ally who met with donald trump, jr., an anti-corruption investigator from spain. he was asked if he was concerned this guy alexander torshin who is connected with the nra and on the sanctions list, if that should concern the trump administration. grinda said mr. trump's son should be concerned. at the time we are getting information about more contacts with more trump people they are distracting the country with the spying ruse. >> yeah, joy. things got high this week because james clapper, former chief of national intelligence said but for russian interference donald trump would not be president. it got dangerous because rod rosenstein had a bad week. when rosenstein has a bad week the rule of law has a bad week. he and special counsel mueller are all we have now to protect our democratic institutions. so, yes. donald trump, jr., meets with this person who has been sanctioned for russian interf e interfering with the election. donald t

of the publicity you've given me a jimmy doors given me every melbourne all these others michael isikoff and those are the people and invite abuse is a cost and yahoo news who got the book russian roulette it was so ironic. so you know a similar isolating this russia gate thing and so i was invited i went and they had these huge parties there and i'm talking to everybody adam shift and talking to adam schiff mansi pelosi i was talking to jeff weaver who is bernie sanders campaign manager bernie sanders campaign manager i did my impression for him so we had it we had i really was having too much fun there you know i was talking to all things about having too much fun and then i went out after meeting everybody tom styer jimmy hoffa who who i know for ever and i was actually reporting for jimmy door at the same time i had a camera in my pocket and we were doing a live stream where jimmy door show so i go into the main room alley vashti he's talking to me everybody's talking to me and like i sit down i have dinner steak in and great they have wine and everything and i felt really bad i went