mr. deripaska would receive massive financial benefit from this deal. this is supposed to be a sanction. massive financial benefit. nearly unprecedented for a sanctioned entity. mr. speaker, i hope our action today will force the treasury department to engage more thoroughly with congress on explaining its actions on this deal and to seek a better one. i think their intent was an honest intent. doubtful that they achieved it. i therefore urged my colleague to join me and hopefully in a bipartisan way supporting this resolution. i call on the senate to reconsider its position and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the majority -- the majority leader yields back. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: may i inquire of the gentleman from texas if he's prepared to close? mr. mccaul: i have no other speakers and yes i'm prepared to close. mr. engel: then i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves, the gentleman from texas is now recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. i was in the

mr. deripaska would receive massive financial benefit from this deal. this is supposed to be a sanction. massive financial benefit. nearly unprecedented for a sanctioned entity. mr. speaker, i hope our action today will force the treasury department to engage more thoroughly with congress on explaining its actions on this deal and to seek a better one. i think their intent was an honest intent. doubtful that they achieved it. i therefore urged my colleague to join me and hopefully in a bipartisan way supporting this resolution. i call on the senate to reconsider its position and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the majority -- the majority leader yields back. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: may i inquire of the gentleman from texas if he's prepared to close? mr. mccaul: i have no other speakers and yes i'm prepared to close. mr. engel: then i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves, the gentleman from texas is now recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. i was in the

sanctions against mr deripaska are not being lifted, and his stake in the companies has been reduced.ctions, they are both political, of course, but economic as well. and they seemed to be very divisive within the us, and then outside of it. kim gittleson, our business reporter, joins me now. first of all, explain to me why the treasury has lifted these sanctions now. so this has been an eight-month negotiation, there has been a frantic effort to get these removed, because as you mentioned rusal is such a big player and the aluminium market that it had a huge impact on the price of the metal. we saw it spike almost immediately after the sanctions were announced. so there are essentially three parts to what the treasury has said. the first is of course that mr deripaska has reduced his holdings in these companies, he is now not a majority stakeholder in any of them, he doesn't have voting rights any more. the second thing is that companies have agreed to appoint new members to their board of directors, and they are independent, perhaps more western leaning, and the third thing is they

mr. deripaska. >> evan perez is "outfront" in washington to begin our coverage. and even, you know, this filing, as you know you've been reading through all of it with all of the backup documentation brings us even closer to the trump administration. >> you know, it really does. because the filing describes that manafort is having these contacts into the administration, even while he's -- he was indicted. i mean, that's one of the things that is really stunning from this, the idea that you're having these contacts, while paul manafort is under indictment in 2018, right? he's defending himself in these two trials. and you would think that people in the administration would try to, you know, sort of keep it arm's length, given the fact that they know this investigation is ongoing. and what we learned, erin, is that as part of this investigation, paul manafort testified before the grand jury and apparently the grand jury is asking questions about the person you mentioned, constantine kilimnik, who the special counsel, who the fbi says is somebody who works with the

mr. deripaska. as we see continuing challenges coming out of the russian government, as we continue to see continued efforts of mr. deripaska being one of vladimir putin's closest allies and closest cronies, we would send absolutely the wrong signal if we in this body were to remove these sanctions. just simply want to refer to my chairman of the intelligence committee, chairman burr, who has frequently pointed out that deripaska and his associates have come up a number of times in our senate intelligence committee's russia investigation. all those facts can't be laid out right here right now, but i strongly urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this resolution that will come up later today that we don't send a significant that will that we are -- signal that we are for other purposes business with individuals of deripaska deripaska's. with that, i yield the floor to my friend, the senator from texas. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, i would say to my frie

mr. deripaska. we don't know what mr. mueller knows and the timing -- and a a time when these things are coming forward to undo the sanctions, very suspect. lastly, removing sanctions on these companies will benefit president putin's government and economy. since the export of metal such as alou number isality key revenue generator for a country that needs revenues. at a time when russia has failed to curtail its hostile actions against our nation and allies, this is is not the moment to give up a source of leverage over the russian government. tomorrow the senate will take up a motion to disapprove the treasury department's proposal. i strongly believe the senate should vote to disapprove and in a short time i'll be sending a letter to every single one of my senate colleagues -- democrat, republican, independent -- to urge them to block this misguided effort by the trump administration and keep those very needed sanctions in place. i yield the floor. mr. leahy: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ver

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mr. deripaska. >> let's talk about anastasia vasakavich, the video of her being put in a wheelchair. in an airport. it's really disturbing. she appears sedated. what do you think will happen to her? >> she will be sent to some other former kgb prison to basically disappear, if not actually, just, you know, removed from the conversation. that's the way it works in russia. there is no rule of law. you know, somebody threatens an oligarch, and these types of things happen. and you were alluding earlier to whatever is happening here in the united states. i actually think that if you compare what happened to this woman when she returned after challenging essentially oleg deripaska and his connections to the kremlin to some of the stuff that happened today in the united states, you see a big difference. the russians look at what happened here today with all of the press stuff and the buzzfeed reporting, they see that as chaotic. we see that, i think, as the very basis of our democracy. it's trying to get to the bottom of things. it's sometimes an ugly path to the truth. none of that exists

mr. deripaska. we shall see. i think it would be nice if the sanctions are withdrawn.the problem may be you are known in some circles as vladimir putin's banker. the russian state obviously owns a section of vtb and that may be your problem. >> you know, it's not a problem. i don't keep mr. putin's money. i think the thing with mr. putin is very much overrated in the west. but i am his supporter and i think he does a lot of good things for the country and he's our president. so it's fine. let it be. liz: let it be. the beatles said the same thing. andrey, thank you very much. we appreciate you coming on. >> thank you, liz. thank you very much. liz: we've got more with andrey kostin. log on to lizclaman.com for the online exclusive because we also asked him about black gold, obviously oil, and how russia's biggest money maker is driving the russian economy at cheaper prices like what we have right now. >>> we need to tell you that during that interview, the senate shot down, as expected, that gop proposal to fund the government and end the shutdown. it failed 51-47. the

mr. deripaska has somehow turned over a new leaf he's a bad guy, and we should not be lifting sanctions onf his entities. >> talk to me about the gop not naming members to the house intel committee. this seems to be a stalling tactic in some fashion there is some work you can't do on that committee until all the names of themembers of the committees have been established. what's going on there? >> yeah, it's been a couple weeks now and i think chairman schiff is going to have to take action with regard to this issue. i think that it's not a surprise that they don't want to continue with the russia investigation. we saw what mr. nunes did in the last congress. but now we don't have time to wait >> all right let's talk about the shutdown. we know that the partial government shutdown is temporarily over there's less than 20 days to sort out some solution chris coons was on tv earlier today saying we need more border security we're prepared to allot more money to that. we heard the same thing from akeem jeffries over the weekend. we haven't heard from democrats -- or republicans we'll put more

mr. deripaska. committee chairmen are asking treasury to delay the implementation of this relaxation on deripaska's companies. they're asking for a full explanation how the treasury arrived at this decision and they want a meeting between steven mnuchin and, quote, all interested members on this subject and they want that meeting soon before the sanctions are withdrawn. again, the clock is ticking. congress has 30 days to object to the lifting of these sanctions. the trump administration announced just before christmas that that clock had started ticking because they announced that they'd be lifted. and then as we were absorbing that information, we got further word that the united states supreme court has weighed in for the first time today on an aspect of the mueller investigation. this is about a case that remains shrouded in secrecy, but the supreme court today declined to intervene on behalf of an unknown corporation that's owned by an unknown foreign country that's been fighting a subpoena tha

mr. deripaska as if that's an argument for lifting sanctions on him. i knowoling deripaska.e dealt with him. he was trying to get off the sanctions list in the obama era, by the way. it came up time and time again in meetings i was in. what he's done is just restru restructuring of the company slightly below. he still controls all of his companies. he got $200 million in debt relieved. that is a win forroli ole g deripaska. in return, i want to emphasize, putin didn't leave crimea. he didn't promise to not intervene in our elections in the future. he didn't do any of the things that the trump administration told us they were sanctioning him in the first place. >> so i give the final word to senator van hollen who as we have reported has been certainly banging this drum for a while. your final thoughts, sir, and should we leave, is this a bummer? do we leave downcast or do you have any other optimism or hope for the viewers? >> well, i had some optimism in the house vote, because it was a significant bipartisan vote. what this tells me is what we have known from the beginning

mr. deripaska. my remarks were aimed at the administration's proposed policy to lift sanctions on that individual, in no way did my remarks intend to reflect on the integrity of my friend from texas who is co-managing the bill to oppose that action. and as my friend from texas knows, i admire him deeply and he is a leader of integrity. nothing i said last week was meant to deflect from that and i wanted to declare that publicly on the floor and i thank my friend for yielding time. i will yield back because i'm looking forward to talk about the issue at hand. and i thank my good friend from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i now yield three minutes to the gentleman from virginia, a very respected member of the house foreign affairs committee, mr. connolly. mr. connolly: i thank my dear friend the distinguished chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and i thafpk the distinguished ranking member for h

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mr. kilimnik pass the data to oleg deripaska, a russian oligarch who was close to the kremlin and who has claimed that mr. manafort owed him money from a failed business venture, the person said. it is unclear whether mr. manafort was acting at the campaign's behest or independently, trying to gain favor with someone to whom he was deeply in debt. today's filing from manafort's lawyers also says he and kilimnik met in madrid and that they may have discussed something billed as a ukraine peace plan on more than one occasion, which prosecutors say manafort lied about as well. tonight "the washington post" reports, quote, jason maloni, a spokesman for manafort, said the madrid meeting took place in january or february of 2017 after the presidential campaign was completed. today's filing from manafort's legal team, mistake included, is in response -- and this gets complicated -- to the mueller team's allegation that manafort violated his cooperation deal by lying to the feds. you may recall manafort was convicted of several felonies last summer, began cooperating with the government shortly t

there's classified information about deripaska as well that mr. schiff, our chairman, talked about.ssified information but the existence of it. on the floor today. we know he's connected to vladimir putin. i think the most responsible thing to do would be if there's ever going to be a discussion about easing sanctions against russia, have that conversation, have that discussion after the mueller investigation is closed. >> congressman eric swalwell from the intelligence committee, the judiciary committee. sir, thank you very much. good to have you here. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. >> rachel, i'm missing a blue blazer in my closet upstairs. i -- yeah. yeah.

there's classified information about deripaska as well that mr. schiff, our chairman, talked about. the classified information but the existence of it. on the floor today. we know he's connected to vladimir putin. i think the most responsible thing to do would be if there's ever going to be a discussion about easing sanctions against russia have that conversation, have that discussion after the mueller investigation is closed. >> congressman eric swalwell from the intelligence committee, the judiciary committee. sir, thank you very much. good to have you here. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. e right back stay with us like my bike and my calves. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ hi susan!hs) honey? i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad... try this new robitussin honey. the real honey you love... plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? new robitussin honey. because it's never just a cough. thafrnlthsz for being with us ton

mr. kilimnik, it all went back to an oligarch, probably deripaska.t importantly it got back to putin, who then could use it as part of his influence operation. whether that's illegal, i'll defer to laura and others. but it's definitely a c.i. problem that needs to be looked into. there's all kinds of things the russians could have done with that campaign information. >> we talked to seven people who have either worked on presidential campaigns or polling in general, and we got different answers about what sort of information a campaign might have. they say things like data could show which voters to target or where your opponent is vulnerable, locations or groups. what kind of messaging hurts your opponent, right? we don't know exactly what manafort shared, but we know some came from a private polling firm. so this potentially could really help the russians, right? this could help. >> sure. imagine you're the russian intelligence officer who is involved in trying to get this operation going in the united states. so, you know, the darkest imagining th

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mr. kilimnik who has ties to putin and kilimnik who has ties to the russian oligarch deripaska. the same oligarch the trump administration now wants to try to remove the sanctions on. i think this week, i have been waiting for a long time for mueller to kind of move forward. i think we're seeing these independent actions even independent of mueller which is the leadup and some of the rationale about why this investigation started and why so many americans, like myself, have been concerned for so long. >> so senator, just very briefly, you just said a lot. you seem to confirm that as a member of the gang of eight, which is congressional leadership and the leadership of the house and senate intelligence committees you just seemed to confirm that you had been briefed when this counterintelligence investigation was launched -- >> jake, i'm not -- i'm not going to comment on any of the contents of -- >> i'm not asking for the content but you seemed to confirm that it happened, though. that there was -- you were advised as a member of the gang of eight? >> what i was saying was subseq

as campaign chairman, he offered to give deripaska private briefings on the presidential race, all while denying ties to russian oligarchs. >> so to be leer, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said. that's what i said. that's obviously what our position is. >> convincing at the time and even more so now. last year when the trump administration rolled out new sanctions in retaliation for russian election interference, the long delayed response you might remember to a sanctions bill that was passed overwhelmingly by congress, deripaska and his firms were at the top of the list. they were going to be sanctioned. then after an effort to restructure the companies and a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign carried out by none other than a former campaign aide, lo and behold, the treasury secretary announced just a few weeks ago he was taking deripaska's businesses off the sanctions list. that decision set off alarm bells on both sides of the aisle. and so over the last couple of days, a bipartisan group of senators made a push to overrule the trump administration's decision. despite a personal vi

deripaska. your reaction, congressman, to try to stop this >> this is terrible it's outrageous. it's the wrong signal to mr. putin. this oligarch is very close to president putin. the sanctions were put on for good reason. the changes that have been made in his organization does not affect the change of ownership of his organization. the sanctions should have remained the majority of congress thought sanctions should remain. and yet the president's softening his approach towards russia when he should be strengthening our hand against russia >> do you read anything into this in the context of roger stone having been indicted >> you know, i have a hard time figuring out the president's policies with russia he certainly has not been consistent we had to take action early in his term to take away certain discretions on sanctions with the president in order to make it clear that russia's interference in our elections, what russia's continuing to do, requires us to make it clear to mr. putin he can't get away with that if we don't, he will continue interfere in our system president trump did impose sanctions but

mr. deripas. the seven committee chairmen are askingrm treasury to delay the implementation of this relaxation of sanctions on deripaska's companies, asking for a full explanation of how treasury ae roo treasury arrived at this meet and want a meeting betweened stephen mnuchin and, quote, all interested members on that subject and want that meeting soon before the sanctions are withdrawn. e ticking.clock is congress has 30 t days to objec to the lifting of these sanctions. trump administration announced just before christmasra that th clock had started ticking because they announced that they'd be lifted. and then as we were absorbing that information, we got further word that the united states supreme court has weighed in for the first time today on an aspect of the mueller investigation. this is about a case that remains shrouded in secrecy. but the supreme court today declined to intervene on behalf of ane unknown corporation thas owned by an unknown foreign country that's been fighting a subpoena that we believe is from the special nacounsel's office. in a very short order today from the supreme court, and a long and

deripaska. we hope you're following along. the "times" reports those ukrainian oligarchs had "financed russian life aligned ukrainian political parties that had hired mr. manafort as a political consultant." meanwhile, president trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, for good measure told reuters today that he won't answer any more of robert mueller's questions. giuliani said "as far as we're concerned everything is over. we weren't convinced they have any questions they don't know the answer to. they could try to subpoena him if they want but they know we would fight that like hell." with us for more michael schmidt, pulitzer prize-winning continental for the "new york times." and cynthia alksne, a former federal prosecutor and veteran of the justice department ha has worked with robert mueller over the years. cynthia, nothing to see here. this is done all the time. a campaign chairman hands over polling data in a foreign country to a foreign country, i.e. russia. what do you make of manafort's lawyering, first off? and does it tell us anything about where mueller is along the way? >> well, the lawyer's terrible. i don't think there's any question about it.

deripaska. they said they did not know before this court filing that was mistakenly unredacted manafort had been providing that internal campaign data to this russian, well, to mrilimnick. >> the only reason we found out is the manafort lawyers were sloppy in refacting filing. so this information i'm not sure they wanted to come out. luckily, mueller would have it but this raises a host of questions, why was the campaign chairman of the trump campaign offering in a sense secret pro p -- polling data. did they use that with russian activities that manifested themselves in the campaign over social media that manifested itself as we've seen now in efforts to particularly suppress african american vote? did they take some knowledge? we don't know the answer to that but the basic fact of this coming to light, this was news to us on the senate intelligence committee, as well. >> senator warner, you mentioned manafort having some sort of sloppy lawyering this week with those screwed up redactions. that relates to the confirmation hearings for the attorney general. i know you called for the president to withdraw this nominee. if you can stick with us for just one more

mr. deripaska. >> he didn't give any reasons? >> he told me that we should trust the administration. >> i'm afraid this is the tip of the iceberg of the undoing of the sanctions regime. >> we are saying to the trump administration and to the russians, we are looking carefully at every transaction you're involved with. we will exercise our oversight. the end of overlook has ended and the beginning of oversight, you see right here this afternoon. >> that's democratic congressman lloyd dogget there announcing the end of overlook and the beginning of overnight. secretary mnuchin looked a little flustered, maybe even flummoxed for having to have to answer questions from the democratic congress. he complained to reporters after his testimony that he had been there for a full hour and a half, and he was therefore very surprised that he was receiving any criticism. that said, he did announce that he would consider extending the time that congress has to potentially reject this decision that he has made about these sanctions. if they do t

week terms of the deal, the senate must consider that deripaska has deep ties to president putin and his intelligence apparatus, organized crime, and mr. paul manafort come subject of the special counsel investigation. it is deeply suspect that the trump administration would propose sanctions relief for deripaska's companies before the special counsel finished its work. we should not allow any sanctions relief for president putin's trusted agents of the companies they control before the conclusion of thelu investigation. and finally and maybe most seriously of all there's one policy issue here stake. president putin's government, one of russia's largest banks in the russian economy have a direct interest in sanction relief for deripaska's companies. why is the trump administration proposing sanctions relief when president putin has not yet made any move to curtail or constrain his maligned activities around the globe? now this morning my friend from kentucky call this a political stunt and a farce. that's appalling. after all, putin has done, this is a start and a farce? the underlying -- why we doing now? he said where democrats doin