kaveladze did back 20 years ago was absolutely unequivocally legal. there was never any allegation of him engaged in any criminal activity. >> was not charged. >> was certainly not charged with anything criminal or regulatory and did absolutely nothing wrong. the focal point of that report was about the banks on boarding of client accounts, account opening documents and that kind of issue, a compliance issue. he has never been implicated in any wrong doing whatsoever. >> reporter: and again, kaveladze was never criminally charged as part of this money laundering investigation involving russia but many lawmakers, including senator mark warner, they point out that the mere fact that kaveladze was in this june 2016 meeting, given his, quote, colorful past, those are senator warner's words, they say that that raises the stakes even more now to find out exactly what transpired inside that meeting and they plan to find out. >> on those raised stakes, jessica, thank you. my next guest was the head of the gao, the general accounting office, during this whole

now they're raising questions about kaveladze' past.conducted a russian probe in 2000, where according to levin, the abilityability office looked into numerous bank accounts established by kaveladze on behalf of people in russia. levin said kaveladze set up 2,000 bank accounts for those accounts and then moved some $1.4 billion through those accounts. kaveladze was never charged, claimed the wrongdoing and claimed he knew all the people who set up the accounts. senator mark warner said kaveladze's involvement with that 2000 investigation is part of a colorful past that should raise suspicion about his presence in the meeting. >> i doubt that this individual who has a history of setting up thousands of fake accounts in delaware was really there to talk about russian adoptions. >> he has never been implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. so to say he has a colorful past is quite unfair and, quite frankly, dishonest. >> reporter: kaveladze has agreed to cooperate with special counsel bob mueller for his investigation into the special elec

kaveladze did back 20 years ago was absolutely, unekw unequivocally legal. there was never any allegation of him alleged in any criminal activity. >> was not charged. >> certainly was not charged with anything criminal and regulatory and did absolutely nothing wrong. the focal point of that gao report was about the banks onboarding of client accounts, account opening documents and that kind of issue, a compliance issue. he has never been implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. >> like his attorney said there, kaveladze never criminally charged as part of that money laundering investigation but lawmakers really saying that's beside the point, including senator mark warner. he says the mere fact that kaveladze was inside that june 2016 meeting with donald trump jr., given his, quote, colorful past, senator warner says that raises the stakes even more as these investigators continue and plow forward to find out exactly what transpired in that meeting. >> jessica, thank you. jessica schneider in d.c. we're going to talk more about this eighth man, whether this

our pamela brown has spoken extensively to kaveladze's attorney and we know that kaveladze is the senior vice president of the crocus group, the real estate development firm run by emin agalarov and his father, and his lawyer confirms that kaveladze, yes, he was in fact in the room in that meeting in 2016. of course it also involved the russian attorney, also the russian-american lobbyist, and now special counsel robert mueller's investigators are looking for information from kaveladze about what exactly unfolded inside that meeting. the lawyer for kaveladze says that kaveladze is participating fully and that the russian-american attended the meeting in part because he actually thought he would be serving as the translator for the russian attorney, nailt veselnitskaya, but she ended up showing up with her own translator. kaveladze's attorney says he has never had any engagement with the russian government in any capacity. however it is noteworthy that in 2000, kaveladze was linked to a u.s. bank account that came under congressional investigation for possible links to money-laundering sc

kaveladze's name has surfaced before. in 2000, a government report said a businessman later identified as kaveladze had set up hundreds of accounts for russian brokers in two u.s. banks. the report said the accounts were used to possibly launder over $1 billion from russian and eastern european companies. kaveladze was not charged in that case. his lawyer said at the time that he did nothing illegal, and he accused the g.a.o. of a witch- hunt. anthony? >> mason: jeff pegues. thank you, jeff. the minneapolis police chief is calling for an outside investigation into the shooting death of a yoga teacher by an officer saturday night, but the department has said next to nothing about how it happened. jamie yuccas now on what she's learned. >> reporter: 40-year-old justine damond, a yoga instructor and life coach, was described by many who knew her as a bright light. >> what i wanted to do was make miracles the norm. >> reporter: today damond's father spoke from australia. >> we only ask that the light of justice shine down on

the "washington post" is reporting that this eighth person, ike kaveladze -- pardon me, kaveladze, washe eyes and ears for the russian oligarch in this meeting. this is typical of the m.o. of a russian operation. >> shepard: robert mueller has told the lawyer to this eighth person in the room he wrants to interview him regarding what happened in that room. is that tantamount to an admission that that meeting is part of the russia investigation or that robert mueller is looking into that meeting? >> based on my experience, yes. >> shepard: and whatever happens with that, the mueller camp is not one that's been leaking, we don't know anything from the muller camp. this leak -- not a leak, this information came from the eighth person's lawyer. >> lawyer, that's correct. i think it's worth noting most of the information is coming from outside attorneys who are confirming they have had requests to provide information. the distinction i would make is that gathering information, casting your net wide, would be a standard practice in one of these investigations. whether it becomes a central fo

kaveladze's name has surfaced before. in 2000, a government report said a businessman later identified as kaveladze had set up hundreds of accounts for russian brokers in two u.s. banks. the report said the accounts were used to possibly launder over $1 billion from russian and eastern european companies. kaveladze was not charged in that case. his lawyer said at the time that he did nothing illegal, and he accused th hunt. anthony? >> mason: jeff pegues. thank you, jeff. as vetsometimes, we forget that the biggestuntry. challenge can be asking for support. call the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1 damond, a yoga instructor and life coach, was described by many who knew her as a bright light. >> what i wanted to do was make miracles the norm. >> reporter: today damond's father spoke from australia. >> we only ask that the light of justice shine down on the circumstances of her death. >> reporter: the officer who fired the fatal shot is mohamed noor, a second-year officer with the minneapolis police depar

kaveladze's name has surfaced before. report said a businessman later identified as kaveladze had set up hundreds of accounts for russian brokers in two u.s. banks. the report said the accounts were used to possibly launder over $1 billion from russian and eastern european companies. kaveladze was not charged in that case. his lawyer said at the time that he did nothing illegal, and he accused th

kaveladze is a u.s. citizen. according to his attorney and worked for the agalarov business since 2004, meaning with the company when it partnered with the trump administration to pull off the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. appears, wolf, he is sneen video from 2013 exclusively obtained by cnn with the agalarov family and with now president trump. so he is seen in this video we obtained exclusively and presented last week. so he apparently goes way back with the agalarovs. the special council investigators reached out to his attorney seeking information from kaveladze as part of this russia probe and his attorney says that he is fully cooperating, wolf. >> all right.

he says "as gao reported, kaveladze established some 2,000 u.s. corporations and bank accounts for a number of them. the owners of those accounts moved moved $1.4 billion through those accounts. he claims he did all this without knowing for whom he was doing it. he goes on to call kaveladze the poster child of the practice of money laundering. so more questions being raised about cape canaver about kaveladze who was the eighth person in that room. >>> joining me now on this to discuss is former u.s. attorney michael moore. great to see you. go into. >> good to see you. >> the eighth person in the room, kaveladze, from the 2016 meeting, he's being linked to the federal money laundering investigation. this was back in the 2000 when this was being investigated. is robert mueller going to look into this? >> i think bob mueller will look into a lot of it. these investigations take a long time,ing more will come out, hopefully we don't have leaks. but the problem with the explanations about the meeting is like the russian dolls that you open up and ther

kaveladze has said this is all part of a witch hunt. john and poppy, back to you. >> joe johns for us at the who's. >> joining us now is jackie cue s kucinich and april warren. april, is it unusual that this meeting between president trump and putin went on for an hour and that there was zero disclosure or information from the white house about this for more than a week? >> it depends upon what normal is now. but traditionally -- and this president says he's a new modern presidential president. so let's take it in that context. the way he does things is totally different from the way other administrations would have done. leaders meet at these meetings, at these dinners, but what you have is staff on the side or behind them. someone maybe from nsc, chief of staff, someone from the administration to make sure everything is above board, above the fray. also they typically chit-chat -- we've seen pictures of presidents chit-chatting on the sidelines. but for an hour -- for an hour or close to an hour. that's a long time. for the white hous

kaveladze was never criminally charged.denied any wrongdoing and claimed he knew all of the entities who set up the accounts. but levin called him a poster child of this practice and senator mark warner said kaveladze involvement with that 2000 congressional investigation is part of a colorful past that should raise suspicion about his presence in the meeting. >> i doubt if this individual who had a history of setting up thousands of fake accounts in delaware was really there to talk about russian adoptions. >> he was never implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. to say he has a colorful past is quite unfair and dishonest. >> reporter: kaveladze has agreed to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller as parliament of his ongoing probe with the interference in the u.s. election. he specialized in money laundering investigations. >> i think that bob has thought all along there is going to be some need to inquire of this money laundering movement and that's what i think is the beginnings of what we're seeing. >> reporter:

that man seike kaveladze seen behind the president is a senior president of a company run by alex argalav who has ties to putin. >> there was absolutely no conversation between argalav and the russian government that they had. >> reporter: they were having a conversation with a russian translator, despite the fact she

ike kaveladze was present in the trump tower meeting last june.ooking into jared kushner's involvement with the trump campaign's digital operations amid calls to have his security clearance revoked because of his failure to disclose several foreign contacts. >> jared kushner has forgotten three times to put down this information. and again we see this pattern. general flynn failed to put down information, he got fired. the attorney general failed to disclose information, he had to recuse himself. >> heather: let's bring in our legal panel, a criminal defense attorney and former county prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, thank you for joining us. bob, i will start with you. should jared kushner have his security clearance is revoked? >> we have a lot to go with respect to this information. something on the timeline impresses me, i would say no at this point. when he first built it out with the no information, the very next day his lawyers with their continuing obligation to release information say that that needs to be amended, we want to let

the lawyer for ike kaveladze, a businessman, said he was at the meeting with donald trump jr. who was promising damaging information on hillary clinton. >> what we see here is again senior levels of the trump administration and now the trump family not coming clean with information. >> reporter: kaveladze's lawyer said investigators for special counsel robert mueller are asking to speak with this client. kaveladze's attorney said he fully plans to cooperate with the russian meddling in the 2016 election. anne-marie? >> mola lenghi. thank you. >> they'll meet at the white house. they're scrambling for ideas after the plan to repeal and replace obamacare failed for the second time. the senate's majority leader has another proposal, but it, too, looks doomed. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell appeared on the senate floor monday afternoon, announcing his chamber would hold a vote on a clean repeal of obamacare even if it failed. >> we'll have a motion to proceed to repeal the obama bill early next week. >> senator mcconnell reverted to the so-called plan c after the collapsed

. >> susan glasser, you know more about ike kaveladze. i was never a candidate to be a russian spy, clearly, than i do. tell me the significance of him being in the meeting. >> it feels like minute by minute we are finding out more information about the meeting. it was the nixon presidency that gave us the phrase the modified limited hangout. it does feel like we weren't exactly getting the full story from donald trump jr. last week. the eighth man. even his lawyer, it seems, has already given a statement that is hard to believe. kaveladze's lawyer says he was a consultant to the trump kont tact who wanted the meeting to happen. the statement from the lawyer given to some media outlets was he was there and prepared to be a translator at the meeting. he showed up and found that natalia veselnitskaya had her own translator. when you find out even a little bit more of his background, you find out that back in 2000, the general accounting office did a report and linked, you know, this same guy, mr. kaveladze and his company to basically setti

as gao reported, kaveladze established some 2000 u.s. corporations and bapg account for a number of them. the owners of those accounts then moved some 1.4 billion there are through those accounts. they wanted to talk about the money that russia may get back. and you have a guy in the room who is expected to move over a billion dollars in russian money -- >> meaning laundering. >> maybe, because he didn't get convicted of anything, but that's what they looked at and it does change the guidelines of how you have change of ownership in corporations. best reading is we don't know what the relationships are or financial obligations to trump to any financial institutions in russia, but we do know that they were looking for a meeting to talk to his son about how to work on russia money matters. that's relevant, it's not sick. >> why don't we know what his business or financial ties are to russia, chris? the reason is he's the first candidate in modern presidential history not to release his tax returns. it's the longest audit i've heard of in a

"the washington post" reporting today that the eighth participant in the room was ike kaveladze, a u.s. citizen from russia who attended on behalf of trump's business partners. all of this came after donald trump jr. said he disclosed everything about that meeting last summer. a meeting he agreed upon with the promise of dirt on hillary clinton. >> i'm more than happy to cooperate with everyone. >> so as far as you know this is all of it? >> this is everything. >> according to to the post a lawyer from the aguilara family also received a the first public indication that mueller's team is investigating the meeting. finestine also said that he's given the judiciary committee the okay to have paul manafort and donald trump jr. testify in a public session. the senate committee is also interested in getting those two to testify tonight. meanwhile nbc is reporting that president trump had a second undisclosed meeting with the vladimir putin at the g20 summit. ian bremer broke the news. >> was a lot of people not in it, lasted over two hours, don't have a clear reed readout on what was said f

kaveladze was accused of money laundering with russian banks. but on capitol hill, mounting concern. >> it's very disturbing to me that it's taken us this long for this kind of information to come out. >> reporter: and this morning, special counsel robert mueller has given the green light for the senate to hear from donald trump jr. and the president's former campaign chair, paul manafort, who was also at that meeting. >> that was kristen welker reporting there. the attorney for the eighth person at the meeting, ike kaveladze, tells nbc news that the special counsel for the russian investigation, robert mueller, wants to interview him and he plans on cooperating. so far no date has been set for that interview, nor when donald trump jr. will testify on capitol hill as he has promised. >>> u.s. and australia continue to demand answers. a new report this morning finally shedding some light on the death of a bride-to-be in minnesota. . >>> high drama deep inside a massachusetts well. a 37-year-old man was looking for his dog and fell into that aband

room then today ike calf kaveladze was also in the room where hillary clinton was supposed to be served up in a ball. all this after we heard from donald trump jr. that he told us everything about the meeting. the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. this is everything he said. this is everything. right. thanks for being with us. this is "hardball." all in with chris hayes starts now. >> i'm ari melber in for chris hayes. we have breaking news on russia tonight and a report on the speck tack lair failure of the president's health care. bernie sanders will be here on that. our breaking story there was another putin meeting. and the president attended it all by himself. the white house did not expose it when it occurred. and the meeting looks even more odd because the two leaders had already met, quite famously for two hours at the g20 summit in germany. "the washington post" breaking this rather explosive story this evening noting the second meeting unreported at the time took place at a dinner for g20 leaders. halfway through the meal trump left hi own seat to occupy a chai

kaveladze now is an executive for the russian billionaire, and friend of vladimir putin, who helped set up that trump tower meeting. yet another person left out of don junior's supposed full disclosure. >> did you ever meet with any other persons from russia that you know? >> no, i don't even know i've probably met with other people from russia. >> i mean during the campaign. >> certainly not in the context of a formalize meeting or anything like that because why would i? >> brian ross with with us now, and people will be saying, why are we hearing about yet another name that was inside that meeting? >> david, it really has been a slow drip, and it helps explain why this meeting has become such a focus of the special counsel, robert mueller. his team wants to talk with each of the eight people in the room, and tonight, we have also learned from senator dianne feinste feinstein, that mueller has given congress the okay to question don junior and former chairman paul manafort in front of the american people, and both will cooperate. >> thank you. >>> we turn to new developments and audio

irakly kaveladze was assumed to be a translator. i've seen his english link which writing.is not that good. he was not there as the capacity of a translator. it is more likely, he was a business partner -- is business partners with trump's friend and a russian oligarch. thes a middleman since 1990's. in 2000, he was implicated in the bank of new york scandal, which also had massive ties to russian money laundering. suggest,ose factors again, financial ties, whatever was discussed at the meeting, financial ties were very much at the core of it. amy: we will go now to a new article called "married to the mob: what trump owes the russian mafia." investigative reporter craig unger looks at how the russian mafia has used the presidents properties, including trump to hided the trump, assets. he writes -- amy: craig unger joins us now in our studio. welcome back to democracy now! talk about why you chose to look at this and talk about what you layout as donald's ties to russian mobsters. >> there's been a lot of terrific reporting about donald trump's relationship with russia rece

kaveladze is a u.s. citizen.ording to his attorney and worked for the agalarov business since 2004, meaning with the company when it partnered with the trump administration to pull off the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. appears, wolf, he is sneen video from 2013 exclusively obtained by cnn with the agalarov family and with now president trump. so he is seen in this video we obtained exclusively and presented last week. so he apparently goes way back with the agalarovs. the special council investigators reached out to his attorney seeking information from kaveladze as part of this russia probe and his attorney says that he is fully cooperating, wolf. >> all right. fully cooperating. see if he shows up and testifies as were el. he is a u.s. citizen. presumably not will have a choice especially if subpoenaed. pamela, thank you. manu, thanks to you as well. good reporting on both of your parts. >>> discuss all of this and more with our panel. joined by our chief political analyst gloria borger, and chch cilliz

. >> he's been identified as ike kavl kaveladze. he goes back to 199 he worked for agalarov's company. aras a business associate of donald trump. and so in fact, anderson, he appeared in a video exclusively obtained by cnn standing there in the background right next to the donald trump as well as the aglar roves from 2013. this is in las vegas, 2013. and then fast forward three years from that moment and he's been thrust into the spotlight as an attendee of that meeting at trump tower with don junior and paul manafort and jared kushner as well as rob gold stoerngs the publicist representing emin aglavrov who promised incriminating information on hillary clinton. kavelad kaveladze's attorney says his client attended that meeting as a representative of the aglavrov family and 245u9d he would be needed as a translator. he says he has never had involvement with the russian government. >> this guy was caught up in a money laundering case, is that right? >> he was. back in 2000, his actions as the head of a delaware company called interna

today "the washington post" identified the eighth person, ike kaveladze, an american based employee of a russian real estate agency. telling "the washington post" he received a phone call from a representative of the special counsel if he would agree to be interviewed. that's pretty clear and that's how we know the special counsel is looking at that meeting. i want to go to the coauthor of that piece, also joined by a former u.s. attorney for the northern district of illinois. you look at this, it's not surprising, but what does it tell you that robert mueller is not waisting any time trying to talk to people at the meeting? >> we learned about this meeting just a week ago, and by the weekend, he already had people calling asking for interviews. clearly this is of interest to them and they want to get on it as soon as possible before people lose their memories, before people have a chance to talk to each other potentially. his interest in it is obviously quite high. >> and do you infer in any way whether he knew about this previously? because it all grew initially out of jared kushner

that man ike kaveladze seen behind the president in this exclusive video obtained by cnn is a seniorresident of a company run by alex argalav who has ties to putin. >> there was absolutely no conversation between argalav and the russian government and the hillary campaign ever. it didn't happen. >> reporter: argalav believed he was attending the meeting for a russian lawyer, despite the fact they brought a translator with her. ike kaveladze was brought for charges of money laundering, on behalf of russian brokers, but he was not charged. >> this individual has had a colorful past, if not criminal. it's strange to me that this meeting that was supposed to be originally related as three or four people about russian adoptions. >> reporter: also this morning cnn has confirmed that russian lawyer who met with donald trump junior last year has offered to testify in front of the senate to clear up what she calls hysteria over the issue. senator dianne feinstein of california has told cnn that the special counsel rob buert muell has given the green light for two witnesses to testify in front

we also know that back in 2000 there is a gao report and ike kaveladze was setting up u.s.ccounts in delaware where, you know, corporations are easy to set up. some 230 bank accounts that were set up and they moved some $1.4 billion. now, at the point it was a congressionally requested report about russian laundering money in the u.s. so, we're learning more as the day continues. we've placed him at that meeting. nbc news has confirmed that and we'll try to figure out just what his role was there and what questions robert mueller might have asked him. separate from this, sarah huckabee sanders in that briefing was just asked if there are any efforts under way to repeal the act and she seems to something around the corner with sanctions on russia. have a listen. >> it's been concluded that the the meeting that mrs. veselinitskaya lifting the sanctions which targeted top officials in the kremlin. now since january secretary tillerson has said none of the sanctions will be listed. many of the russian ex-patriots and opponents of the kremlin regime have suggested that if the pr

kaveladz kaveladze's lawyer claims he thought he was there as an interpreter but wasn't needed.e did not say a single word at the meeting and left scratching his head, wondering why am i here. the meeting took place because of ag gal rauf. a u.s. report identified him as someone who had set up on behalf of russian brokers hundreds of bank accounts in two u.s. banks. the report said there was evidence this was part of a money laundering operation for russian and eastern european companies and that the amount involved exceeded $1 billion. charlie. >> thanks, major. >>> republicans have hit a dead end trying to repeal the affordable care act. president trump said yesterday that he is ready to let obamacare fail after the senate's latest health care move ran into serious trouble. republican moderates said repealing obamacare without a plan to replace it would create confusion and anxiety for many americans. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. senate leader mitch mcconnell is going to hold a vote early next week on his last-ditch offer, re

that man seike kaveladze seen behind the president is a senior president of a company run by alex argalav who has ties to putin. >> there was absolutely no conversation between argalav and the russian government that they had. >> reporter: they were having a conversation with a russian translator, despite the fact she brought a translator with her. ike kaveladze was brought for charges of money laundering, though never actually charged. >> it's amazing to me that they say this meeting was about russian adoptions. >> reporter: new this morning, reuters reports that the russian lawyer who met with donald trump last year, 2016, has offered to testify before congress, citing hysteria over the encounter. meanwhile, democratic senator diane feinstein has told cnn that special counsel robert mueller has given the green light for two people to testify before the senate judiciary committee. that would be donald trump jr. and former campaign chairman paul manafort. though it's not clear when that could actually happen. aly allison and chris, back to you. >> we have political panelists. great to see

american ike kaveladze was linked to a money laundering scream. >> cnn has learned ike kaveladze was the eighth person in the meeting at trump tower last summer with donald trump jr., jared kushner, and paul manafort. at first, we were only told that it was those three and the russian lawyer but now this man's attorney has confirmed to us that he was there in the meeting, they said he went to the meeting thinking he was going to be a translator for the russian attorney who was meeting with trump jr. now, that's the russian attorney who trump jr. believed to be a russian government lawyer who had incriminating information on hillary clinton. now we've learned this man was also in the meeting. this is a person who former senator levin says was involved in a money laundering scheme back in the early 2000s, though he was never charged or accused of wrong doing and says he didn't do anything wrong, he was under investigation for this at that time so that's what we've learned about him. this is a man who's a naturalized american citizen that worked for a russian real estate company. we'll

. >> ike kaveladze moved to the united states for the republic of georgia back in 1991. nine years later of series of shell companies and fake accounts that he set up came under suspicion by the government accountability office. the gao was looking into suspected russian laundering. ike kaveladze was never accused of any wrongdoing and in an interview in the year 2,000 he called the whole gao investigation eight, "witch hunt." a familiar language. >> john roberts. thank you. senate republicans are on quite a losing streak with health care as an issue. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. but what happen this time? >> to senate republican pan's to scrap obamacare have failed in the past 24 hours. the latest one, boating on a repeal plan with two years to transition, which republicans passed in 2015. >> it's pretty clear that there are not 50 republicans at the moment to vote for a replacement for obamacare. >> democrats insisted repeal without replacement would be a disaster. >> it's like if our health care system was a patient who ca

ike kaveladze, a soviet-born u.s. citizen, attended as a representative of the father-and-son russian developers who asked for the meeting. in 2000, the u.s. government accused kaveladze of helping launder $1.4 billion of russian and eastern european money through u.s. banks, though he was never charged with a crime. the meeting in june of last year was organized after president trump's oldest son, donald trump junior -- donald trump jr., embraced an apparent effort by the russian government to peddle information incriminating hillary clinton in an attempt to help trump win the presidency. secretary of state rex tillerson has moved to close the state department's office tasked with holding war criminals accountable. this week, the head of the office of global criminal justice told his staff he was being reassigned elsewhere and that the office's work would be rolled into another part of the state department. david scheffer, who was the first u.s. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, said -- "this sends a strong

we know the identity now of the eighth person in that meeting, a man known as ike kaveladze.here were several russians who were there, the president's son, the president's son-in-law and the campaign chairman at the time. >> look, i want to suggest to you that we're going to know the truth because people will come out and speak, but we know in 13 months, the participants won't. donald trump jr. and the "new york times" that came out with the report didn't tell the truth. i can tell you as someone who worked in the intel business what i think about this. one more person means nor data. that means more interviews, more cell phones, more e-mails. that's another person that i can see matches up with the story of jared kushner, paul manafort. i look at this and simply say that individual might offer a story that's different than the others, and i will step back and say, okay, that's helpful for an investigator but i don't believe we'll ever get the truth of the people in the meeting. sdplz this >> this is a u.s. citizen, too. the fbi, if they want to question him, will certainly h

ike kaveladze confirmed he was in a meeting through an attorney.t on foreign money laundrying through u.s. banks. he was asked to attend the meeting as a translators but, quote, he didn't even know what the topic of the meeting was about but nal he ned with natalia veselnitskaya an hour before ahead. he had been offered official documents about hillary clinton on bafr of the russian government. the top democrat on the house intelligence dht said the alleged background of those involved could shape the investigation. >> you've got a russian lobbyist who has a history in lit zbags of dealing with people, russian hackers, who hacked derogatory information to achieve a litigation. and you now have another person in this, who has a history of opening bank accounts that the o auditor general thought might be used for money laundering. what the russians have not necessarily salacious stuff but the issue of money laundering with the trump organization, that is something that we need to determine. >> there are indications that robert mueller is investigatin

the man we're talking about, as you know, is ike kaveladze. he's a russian businessman who set up 200 bank accounts for people in russia. it's a practice that conventional investigators believe may have been a shell game to hide money laundering. we have to note, of course, tlch tlchls. what's your concern now knowing the identity of this person? >> my concern, brianna, was. the press reporting this over the last 10 days have we learned anything about the identities of these individuals. again, no american campaign should be meeting with a foreign adversary or their representatives during a presidential election. the intelligence committee, we certainly want to learn the identities of these individuals, if they're u.s. citizens and were able to obtain their testimony, i think that would be preferred, and then hopefully special counsel mueller would be able to get this in his probe. >> come back as soon as you're done and we'll pick up where we left off. of course, we have a lot more to talk about today. we'll have much more with the congressma

challenges of dealing with the russians and dealing with sort of shady characters like this guy kaveladze who was in the meeting with donald trump jr. >> shady characters a lot of. and anita, while you're not one of them, talk to us about the status of the trump agenda and a reminder this is made in america week. >> it is made in america week. somehow, no one seems to be talking about it. it the publicity on made in america has not been great because as you've probably seen, people have been talking about. >> the trump product. >> right, ivanka trump products and trump products are many of them not made in america. they've been getting a lot of questions about that. they've been doing events. these theme weeks and they have been doing them. i haven't heard a lot of publicity about them except for the trump organization products. it's interesting because they say they can't talk about that. here they are promoting that, but they say they can't speak to the president's businesses. >> with great thanks to all three of our guests in our official panel and great congratulations to our friend k

"the washington post" and others identify the person as ike kaveladze. he works for the russian real estate developer whose son suggested the meeting. the president's son acknowledges that he accepted because damaging information was promised on hillary clinton. reports this evening say president trump and russian president vladimir putin had a second meeting at the g20 summit in paris earlier this month. that is in addition to the more than two-hour session they held that was widely publicized. the second meeting had not been disclosed previously. the u.s. treasury department slapped new sanctions today on 18 individuals and groups tied to iran's ballistic missile program. it came hours after the state department again certified iran is complying with the letter of its nuclear deal, but not with the "spirit." we will have a full report, later in the program. in eastern ukraine, russian-backed separatists have proclaimed the formation of a new state. rebel leaders said today the new state will include areas they already control and, ultimately, the rest

russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin, russian-american lobbyist and ex-soviet army officer, ike kaveladzetranslator, a british music publicist. is it possible that this promise of damaging info on hillary clinton was just a ruse but then the main objective was to lobby against u.s. sanctions against russia? >> so, i don't buy the theory that donald trump jr. is unsophisticated or just a kid or that even this entire investigation can be explained away if, you know, because the trumps were new to politics. i mean, just look at the subject heading of the e-mail regarding, you know, clinton, that donald trump jr. was a willing recipient of this, right? so that -- >> but could that have been -- i guess my point is, it does seem, yes, he was, but is it possible that he thought he was getting something and really it was, on the end, coming from whether it's russians or folks in that meeting who had ties to russians, that they were thinking, we're going to sort of worm our way in, dangling this idea of information about hillary clinton, but really, we're here to talk about sanctions. >> well, i w

he's a russian american named ike kaveladze, who is, reportedly, a money launderer, accused of laundering more than $1.4 billion. yeah, well, listen -- makes sense that trump would need a russian guy who's good at laundering, just to get the stains out of the mattress. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) allegedly. thank you. and this new guy just adds intrigue to a group that's been described as a "varied cast of characters." wait a minute! wait a minute! a vair yesterday cast of characters? i just realized what this meeting is. it's a heist movie! they got the whole rag-tag team. there's the money launderer. the fixer. the master of disguise. the one woman. the bumbling rich kid trying to prove himself to his dad. his mute brother-in-law. and a couple guys who aren't going to make it to the end of the movie. they just need the blonde bombshell and the bumbling look-out who gets distracted by a sandwich. it all goes down in "collusion's 11." coming this summer to a federal investigation near you. ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. kenneth branagh is here,

our own john roberts has confirmed that the name of that person in the trump tower meeting, ike kaveladzeorked for a russian billionaire real estate development developer with ties to both president trump and vladimir putin. >> the level of credibility from the senior levels of this administration is suspect. >> jon: president trump calling the russian meeting politics as investigators are raising more questions. >> i think it is one of the worst deals i have ever seen. we are looking at it very strongly. to make that deal is insane. >> jon: the u.s. re-certifies