one has to be skeptical about this and we will have to wait and see how russia responds. >> michael weissuld like to talk about one of the individuals who was sanctioned. a name some may remember from from the mueller investigation into the 2016 presidential election. what did we learn about him today? >> for the first time the u.s. government has asserted not only did constantine, and intelligent asset, receive sensitive polling information from the trump campaign, he passed it along to the intelligence services in moscow. this establishes he is very much an active agent or officer of those services and yes, there were elements of the 2016 u.s. presidential election certainly sensitive, privileged information fed to the kremlin. this advances what the mueller report -- which focused on a nspiracy than counterintelligence. what you are seeing is as the time has gone on, the establishment has accrued more evidence about events that took place five years ago. >> when you look at the entities sanctioned, what does it tell you about russian tradecraft and intentions? >> it is extraordinary. t

and michael weiss is an investigative journalist and co- author of "the menace of unreality: how the kremlin weaponizes information, culture and money." thank you to you both for joining us tonight. angela, i would like to start with you. we have on the one hand the conciliatory words from the president that he has spoken from the white house this afternoon, after, in the morning, slapping these sanctions on russia. taken together, what is the overall message that you see the white house sending, and what does it tell us about how the new president wants to approach russia? >> well, thank you for having me on the show. i think the message is that on the one hand, the united states is willing to cooperate with russia on issues that are of common intert or particularly of national security interests to the united states. but it is going to push back on a wide variety of what it considers to be maligned actions, hence the imposition of the sanctions. now, previous administrations have also tried to pursue a compartmental relationship, but i think it is going to be very difficult to pull

michael santoli. >>> let's talk about what you guys are doing in the market relative to the conversation we just had before and with mike. steve weiss, you bought more goldman sachs, which is interesting, too, based on the conversation about rates, the fed and tech and growth and value, all wrapped into sort of one conversation tell me about goldman. >> so i had a desize position in goldman. i bought a little early. i should have waited until today instead of buying it yesterday, but they are particularly well positioned as we saw in the last quarter, doing extremely well, and i believe in a rising rate environment. so it is somewhat a hedge against my other parts of the portfolio, but it is also an overt push obviously on the goldman positioning, their global positioning, just doing extremely well growing their asset management they did restructure the company. so not to a large extent, but in terms of asset management they did. i just think it is compelling here and extremely cheap so right now it is my largest, although not by much i still over b of a, but my two financial plays. i love it. >> it is now bigger than b of a because

michael cohen's testimony as being a key player. >> weisselberg is executive 1, correct? >> yes. the bottom signature, i believe, is allen weisselberg. i was instructed by allen. in the office with me was allen weiss weisselberg. >> mr. weisselberg for sure. >> allen weisselberg. >> allen weisselberg. >> allen weisselberg. >> who would know the answer to those questions? >> allen weisselberg. >> now it's time for allen weisselberg to explain what he knows. if they don't have anything, can they force him to say where the bodies are buried? >> look. i think he's going to resist it as long as he possibly can. we have no way of knowing what if anything is there in terms of the records they're subpoenaing in terms of his personal finances. so if there is something there they can find as a pressure point, that could make it harder for him to withstand. as i said, he's been with the company for a very long time. it ooh going to take a lot and a while, i think, based on everything conversation i've had to get him to turn on trump in some way. >> but, you know, maggie, a lot of what's being looked at is stuff that the president -- the ex-president has spoken to in the past. basically a pattern that some th