oleg deripaska isn't on his list of clients. but records show he is the attorney in a federal lawsuit where he represents an investment vehicle wholly owned by deripaska. one attorney with two billionaire clients? perhaps. but consider this. oleg deripaska has another shoestring connection to donald trump and it's tied to this man. donald trump's former campaign chief paul manafort. they're former business partners. republican strategist who ran trump's campaign for five months also started several offshore companies with oleg deripaska. legal filings show the russian billionaire entrusted nearly $19 million to manafort in 2018, the money to be invested in a ukrainian telecom business. it was part of a major deal to make long-term capital. the investment and relationship fell apart. for several years deripaska tried to contact manafort and get answers about the missing money. court papers showed the attorneys had not been able to reach manafort. and determined that paul manafort had simply disappeared. then, paul manafort began

. >>> oleg deripaska is close to vladimir putin. he travels with putin.and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. >>> oleg deripaska is close to vladimir putin. he travels with putin. in that associated press bombshell a few days ago that reported that former trump campaign manager paul manafort had signed a $10 million a year contract starting in 2006 to, quote, influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the united states to benefit putin's government, in that ap report from a few days ago, oleg deripaska is the man wh

. >>> oleg deripaska is close to vladimir putin. he travels with putin. that associated press bombshell a few days ago that reported that former trump campaign manager paul manafort had signed a $10 million a year contract starting in 2006 to, quote, influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the united states to benefit putin's government, in that ap report from a few days ago, oleg deripaska is the man who paid paul manafort all those millions of dollars for that work. starting in 2006 and ending who knows when. well, today that same guy, oleg deripaska took out an ad to respond to him being named in conjunction with this scandal. he took out the same quarter page ad in both papers. this is nice. i demand that any and all further dissemination of these allegations by the ap or any other media outlet must cease immediately. oh, you demand that? is that how you're used to this working? you ever spent any time here? oh, no, i'm sorry, i forgot you were reportedly barred from entering this country because of your alleged ties to organize

that's oleg deripaska and putin.terms of deripaska and m manafort, manafort was hired by deripaska, to represent his interests both inside -- both in a number of former soviet block countries and also to sort of promote chose interests in washington as well. that's coming dreirectly from a contract and memoranda connected to the contract. very explicit. the goal is to help the putin government and help oleg deripaska's interests. separating those things out in russia is hard to do. >> paul manafort said it did not involve representing russia's political interests. according to the diplomat incables the russian billionaire is among the two or three oligarchs that putin turns to on a regular basis, a more or less permanent fixture in putin's trips abroad. i was struck by the contract proposal from manafort which says aisle quoing say s i'm going to -- what's written -- what's he want from inside washington? >> the focus of the work, sort of where manafort was sort of focusing his efforts, was going to be ukraine, monte

plain and simple. >> paul manafort telling nbc news, "i worked with oleg deripaska almost a decade agog limb on business and personal matters in countries where he had investments. my work with mr. deripaska did not involve representing russian political interests." all this days after a yukrainia lawmakers released documents showing he received off the book payment from the president who's now living in russia. today i asked that lawmaker lachenko about the documents in question. >> this is the document which legalized payment from manafort and this is the document which we can prove the payment. we have handwritten transaction. it's not a transaction. saying $750,000 was paid to manafort by yanakovych. this is a payment and transactions was done to the accounts in virginia. this is a -- >> how, he -- go ahead, sir. >> this is the company, the account, and this is paul manafort's company with his signature. >> now paul manafort said the ledger is a forgery and accused lachenko of trying to blackmail him. joining me, reported with the "associated press" investigative am who broke the s

manafort confirms he did work for oleg. but he rejected that he was pushing political interests of vladimir putin. including influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the united states. i have always publicly acknowledged that i worked for mr. deripaska and his company rusal, to advantage its interests. once again manafort writes, smear and innuendo used to paint a false picture. a a spokesman for deripaska says manafort provided investment consulting services but declined additional details. manafort and russian billionaire had a falling out. he funneled nearly $19 million into a manafort business venture registered in the cayman islands in 2007. they invested in a ukrainian telecom company. but the deal went out. aaccording to a legal filing, derapaska's campaign says manafort simply disappeared. >> he's a consultant. he had ties around the world. to suggest that the president knew who his clients were from a decade ago is a bit insane. he was hired to do a job, that's it. plain and simple. >> latest

thought. >> but it really has all the classic earmarks of money launder, which he did not only with oleg deripaska and others. and he actively went out, as carl said, to solicit hundreds of millions of dollars from these foreigners to bring it into american real estate with the sales pitch that this is the way to bring tainted money in, sell the apartments, keep them. it really doesn't make much difference whether you make money or not, when you sell it -- >> this is why we need credible investigation. thank you all. i appreciate it. >>> coming up president trump speaking about supporting women today. but does his policy support his words? continuous pain relief , i can box out any muscle or joint pain immediately. blue-emu continuous pain relief spray, it works fast and you won't stink. >>> president trump and first lady melania trump both talking about empowering women today. here to discuss my panel. so good to have all of you on. thank you ladies. i really appreciate and look forward to this. >> my administration will work every day to ensure our economy is place where women can work

that he starts a business relationship and manafort says it was nothing wrong, nothing improper with oleg. so, first you have the memo which manafort says he can't verify and then you have this business relationship that starts and while this is hang, you have all of these business connections in cyprus getting a lot of attention. you have to look at the sequence of events. what was the basis for their relationship. what promises were made and how were these business transactions actually taking place and where. and that's where this cyprus piece comes in. >> richard angle chasing down this branch of this story. tonight in our london bureau. richard, thank you as always. >>> coming up, forgive yourself for thinking health care reform is dead. the president tonight has revealed a new prognosis. charley siekz will be our interpr interpreter. >>> i know we're all going to make a deal on health care. we've all been promising, democrat, republican, we've all been promising that to the american people. >> president trump hosting senators from both parties tonight. that was part of his message.

what i can say is that we obtained from a number of different places memos that manafort wrote to olegderipaska, who is a russian oligarch very close to putin. for a number of years back is sort of one of putin's top business lieutenants, top allies in the business community. and in these memos, which were sort of associated with this $10 million a year contract that you referenced, paul manafort is talking about representing oleg deripaska's personal and business interests abroad and that's eastern and former russian countries. while the focus was on the post soviet countries, trying to make sure that his message was sort of channeled well and through a number of different means to washington as well. >> and in the documentation that you found manafort explicitly makes the case that this would be a promotion of putin's government that this would be good for putin's government specifically. >> right. and that is -- the language was extremely clear on that. that one of the appeals -- and it kind of was a sales pitch from manafort's firm to deripaska. one of the appeals of subsidizing hi

oleg: you are absolutely right.s of trade measures, last year has been a peak in terms of trade cases, a peak year over the last 15 years, probably. we have a lot of trade cases globally. in russia, we have probably 50 trade cases against russian producers. wethe good news for us is, tend to think of ourselves as an international company with a presence in the european and u.s. market, as we discussed. therefore, we also benefit from this presence, because protectionism protects local producers, and our subsidiaries in europe and the u.s. are benefiting from this. francine: when you look at a lot of these commodity prices, i know you have some interesting thoughts on iron ore and cold. overall, it seems like the cycle is now turning for a lot of commodity producers. stefano: such -- burkhard: certainly it is. this is a cyclical commodity driven by global growth. global growth is not very thing for also, it picked up speed. -- global growth is not very synchronized, but also it picked up speed. continuously lower yie

manafort did confirm to cnn that he did work for oleg deripaska. but rejects the associated press interpretation that he was pushing the political interest of vladimir putin. including to influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the united states. i have always publicly acknowledged that i worked for mr. deripaska he told cnn through a spokesman, adding, i did not work for the russian government, once again, manafort writes, smear and innuendo are being used to paint a false picture. a spokesman for deripaska he provided investment consulting services but declined to provide any additional details. they had a major falling out. he funneled nearly $19 million in an account registered in the kaman islands. they invested in a ukrainian telecon company. and it went south. manafort simply disappeared. sean spicer this afternoon down playing any connection this has to the president. >> he was a consultant. he had clients from around the world. there's no suggestion that he did anything improper or, but, to suggest that the president

there was a lot of money including $18.9 million to buy a ukrainian media company for company for oleg deripaska. according to wikileaks, state department officials described as one of two to three oligarches putin turns to on a regular basis. documents from a legal action show that some of that money from deripaska went to a manafort -linked company in cyprus. today, deripaska took out an ad in national newspapers denying he helped manafort with the government. calling it fake news. eventually, even in cyprus, manafort's accounts raised suspicions. in 2012, the internal auditing system at this bank flagged accounts for possible money laundering according to banking sources who also said when the bank asked for more information, manafort chose to close the accounts without answering the questions. late today a spokesman for paul manafort sent us a statement saying all manafort's companies were legitimate entities and established for lawful ends, adding mr. manafort has no specific personal recollection of the shutdown of his cyprus accounts which took place during a banking crisis on t

>> well, i know oleg deripaska. i dealt with him when i was in the u.s. government and as a u.s. ambassador. i think what people should understand is this distinction between the state and the private sector in russia is a lot more blurred there than it is here in the united states or in any liberal democracy. mr. deripaska coordinates very closely with the kremlin. he made his fortune because the government basically helped him make his fortune. and at least in the reporting in the ap story today, the secret document, the strategy document says very explicitly that mr. manafort will help putin and his image and the russian government in all those different arenas, the political and economic and press arenas. so even if he is paid by somebody in the private sector, although in this murky definition of a private sector, the job was to help the russian government and the image of vladimir putin. >> david, i basically just want to say go to you and tell what's you think we need to know about this story, giving everything that has been said about it today and where we stand at 10:37

the press secretary was talking about a new revelation that manafort worked for russian billionaire oleglleged to have secretly promoted russian president vladimir putin's agenda with manafort making millions. he says the money was for business consulting. manafort says the work did not involve representing russian political interest. and the white house jumped on the story at dawn. >> take paul at his word he was working on business interests for oleg and it wasn't tied to the russian government. >> reporter: but the president's team must now also prepare for manafort maybe being grilled by the senate intelligence committee over documents purporting to show he made even more money from the pro-russian former president of ukraine. cnn has no independent proof manafort did anything improper, and he denies all the allegations. but listen to senator mark warner talking to erin burnett. >> we know what russia has done to interfere in the electoral process. now we have to see what kind of combination or conversations took place between folks affiliated with the trump campaign and the russians

it says that manafort pitched the plans to oleg deripaska. it adds manafort signed a contract with deripaska in 2006. white house spokesperson sean spicer said president trump had nonot been aware of the arrangement. >> he had clients around the world. there's no suggestion he did anything improper. to suggest that the president knew who his clients were from a decade ago is a bit insane. >> the report also says that manafort is the target of an fbi investigation into possible ties between trump's campaign team and the kremlin. >>> u.s. defense officials say north korea did not launch an intercontinent intercontinental ballistic missile during its latest test. a pentagon spokesperson says wednesday's launch was a major failure, as the missile exploded seconds after taking off. and he said it was not capable of reaching the u.s. mainland. but a u.s. militaryy offfficial warns n north korea couldld use launch to step up its missile capability. >> every time we had a failure, we learned from it, right, and eventually got to the point where we ar

documents obtained by the associated press, in 2006, manafort was paid $10 million by russian billionaire oleg deripaska to, as manafort described it, to greatly benefit the putin government by lobbying for news coverage in the united states, europe and the former soviet republics. state department cables released by wikileaks describe deripaska as being a permanent fixture on putin's trips abroad and among the two or three oligarchs putin turns to on a regular basis inch a statement manafort acknowledged working for deripaska but denied any connection to the russian government, saying, "once again, smear and innuendo are being used to paint a false picture." you know them both? >> yeah. >> reporter: anders studies russia. >> if you're an oligarch in putin, you can't go against putin. >> reporter: why not? >> you lose out. your property is taken over by the kremlin. >> reporter: you can't go against putin or else you ruse it all? >> yes. what you have to do is to keep a good relationship. >> reporter: manafort has ties to other trump associates, like roger stone, who are also under scrutiny fo

. >> in 2006, manafort signed a $10 million contract with russian billionaire oleg derapaska to, as manafort purportedly describe it, greatly benefit the putin government by long i didn't think and influencing news service. >> we'll offer a service that can focus internally and externally the policies of the putin government. >> trevor: the former head of donald trump's presidential campaign had been earning $10 million a year to make putin and his government look good. remember those famous pictures on putin shirtless on a horse? manafort directed that photoshoot. work it, vlad, work it! oh, but it shows my nipples! no, you are beautiful, vlad! we don't have time to cover trump's weak presidency because there's one story we have to make time for. healthcare. >> breaking news in the health care showdown. there will be no health care vote tonight. >> breaking news, the art of no deal. ( laughter ) >> trevor: are you serious? seven years? the day that the republicans have been planning for seven years arrives and all of a sudden they don't have their bleep together? you know, it's weird to be

relationship, and manafort says it was nothing wrong, nothing improper with this business relationship with olegfirst you have the memo which manafort says he can verify and which olg today completely rejected. then you have this business relationship that starts. and while this business relationship is happening you have all of these business connections in cypress that are now getting a lot of attention. so you have to look at the sequence of events. what was the -- what was the basis for their relationship? what promises were made? and then how were these business transactions actually taking place? and where they were taking place. and that's why this cypress piece comes in. >> our chief finance correspond end richard engle chasing down this branch this story tonight in our london bureau. richard, thank you as always. >> absolutely brian. >>> coming up, forgive yourself for anything health care reform is dead. the president tonight has revealed new prognosis. charlie sykes will be our interpreter when "the 11th hour" continues. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed a

election that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, whose relationship to russian oligarch oleg deripaska has come under scrutiny has volunteered to testify. and the committee will hear from f.b.i. director james comey and n.s.a. director michael rocking centers a closed session next week instead of public testimony from former obama administration officials. in a tweet, schiff accused nunes of wanting to choke off information from the public. on wednesday nunes rushed to the white house to tell the president about what he said was legal foreign surveillance that involved members of the trump transition team. >> i have seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president-elect and his team were i guess at least monitored and disseminated out in intelligence. >> reporter: but when asked about the surveillance today, he was less certain about what he had seen. >> we won't know that until we actually receive all of the documentation. it's hard to know where the information came from until you get the report and have time to go through them and see all the sourcing of the

by associated press that in 2006, manifort signed a $10 million contract with russian billionaire, olegapaska, as manifort, described it, lobbying and influencing news coverage. >> he has connections to putin. yeah. sol it connections to putin. you have about 20 big business men in russia. >> those are the ole garkies. >> yes. and he is one of them. >> manifort led the trump campaign in the leadup to the convention. this week, the trump white house zwroun played its connection. >> paul was hired, to count delegates. why he was brought in. >> reporter: that its not the impression trump's family gave at the convention. >> we couldn't be more happy with the work he is doing, the way he is tackling these things, the way he is handling the organization of everything going forward. he has done a phenomenal job. >> manifort acknowledges working with the man, but says he never worked for the russian government. he calls the allegations ate smear that is being used to paint a false picture. part of the fbi counterintelligence investigation involves skpam mining financial transactions to see wher

documents obtained by the associated press, in 2006, manafort was paid $10 million by russian billionaire oleg deripaska to, as manafort described it, greatly benefit the putin government by lobbying news coverage in the united states, europe and the former soviet republics. state department cables released by wikileaks describe deripaska as being a permanent fixture on putin's trips abroad, and among the two or three oligarchs putin turns to on a regular basis. in a statement, manafort acknowledged working for deripaska, but denied any connection to the russian government, saying, "once again, smear and innuendo are being used to paint a false picture." you know them both? >> yeah. >> reporter: anders aslund studies russia. he says manafort had to know about the connection. >> if you're an oligarch in russia, you can't go against putin. >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> you lose out. then your property is taken over by the kremlin. >> reporter: you can't go against putin or else you lose it all? >> yes. what you have to do is to keep a good relationship. >> reporter: manafort has ties to other

the associated press that in 2006 manafort signed a $10 million contract with russian billionaire oleg deripaska to, as described, greatly benefit the putin government by lobbying and influencing news coverage. deripaska has close ties to the kremlin. >> he has connections to putin, yes. >> solid connections to putin? >> well, you have about 20 big businessmen in russia. >> those are the owil egg arc. >> reporter: >> paul was required to count delegates. that's why he was brought in. >> reporter: but that is not the impression trump's family gave at the convention. >> we couldn't be more happy with the work he's doing, the way he's handling the organization of everything going forward. he's done a phenomenal job. >> manafort acknowledges working with deripaska but calls the allegations a smear used to paint a false picture. part of the fbi counterintelligence investigation involving examining financial transactions to see where they may lead. alex? >> jeff, thanks. the senate judiciary committee is hearing right now from witnesses who support and oppose president trump's supreme court

reporting 2005 memo in which paul manafort working for russian billary oleg baz pushing greatly benefitfor him but rejects that he was pushing political interests of vladimir putin. including influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the united states. i have always publicly acknowledged that i worked for mr. deripsska and his company rusal, to advantage its interests. once again manafort writes, smear and inwenuendo used to pat a false picture. provided investment consulting services but declined additional details. manafort and russian billionaire had a falling out. funneled money into manafort business venture registered in the cayman islands but deal went south. according to filing, company says manafort simply disappeared. white house spokesman sean spicer this afternoon downplaying any connection this has to the president. >> he was consultant, clients all over the world, no suggestion he did anything improper but to suggest president knew who his clients were from a decade ago is a bit insane. hired to job, he did it. that's it. plain and simple. >> latest ru

oleg deripaska telling cnbc that president trump and vladimir putin won't live happily ever after callingfairytale. he says he thinks it is unrealistic for trump and his administration to soothe relations with russia. >> we all belief in fairytales, but there's the reality. trump and his administration needs to prove they're capable and they will be capable to change economic reality in u.s., and if you judge based on facts, you know, the u.s. and russia economic ties are very small. almost, you know, not existent in terms of real numbers. yes, there is a great opportunity for u.s. and russia to build a proper partnership to fight terrorism, global warming, n not -- but economically the u.s. will focus on their own issue, and in two, three years they will be able to come and base on achievement and change previous commitment towards sank shups. >> deripaska described himself as a reasonable optimist for trump's presidency. >>> let's move on to our must read stories. my pick is in the "final timenc times." i've gone heavy on articles discussing the deficitdeficits. this one says the u.s. h

paul manafort, already working for russian billionaire oleg deripaska, was pitching a plan to greatlyworked for deripaska but rejects that he was pushing the political interests of vladimir putin, including in politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the united states. "i have always publicly acknowledged that i worked for mr. deripaska and his company to advance its interests," manafort told cnn through a spokesman, adding, "i did not work for the russian government." once again, manafort writes, "smear and unu unionizeinnuend used to paint a false picture." manafort and his russian billionaire had a major falling out. court documents show deripaska funneled nearly $19 million into a manafort business venture registered in the cayman islands in 2007. they invested in a ukrainian telecon company. but the deal went south, and according to a legal filing, deripaska's company said manafort simply disappeared. white house spokesman sean spicer downplaying any connection this has to the president. >> he was a consultant. he had clients from around the world. there is no sugges

oleg vladimirovich rykov, so if you have a fish that needs fishing, oe sleg your man. but if your issue is economic, this 'm kbasy, the russian embassy recently got a new guy put in charge of the economic section d he was broug in under some clouds of suspicion concerning the old guy. the old guy who got shipped out last summer. his name is mikhail kolugan. i'm sure i'm butchering that name but it looks like kalugin. it's important to know how his name is spelled. if you don't spell his name right, that creates a bit of a google problem around this story. because when he turned up in that sketchy dossier of alleged dirt on donald trump his name was miss spelled in the dossier. i have that flopped a couple vowels around so he was spelled kulagin instead of kalugin. so, like me, set up google alerts, that posed a problem because the name was misspelled. other than that misspelling, which screwed up my research for days, other than the misspelling, the reference in the dossier actually made sense. he was described in the dossier as a high-ranking russian diplomat in washi

geoff spoke to the president of rusal, oleg deripaska and asked what impact that would have on his business. >> it will take away some opportunity, but in commodity sector it's more about discipline on supply side. demand will keep growing. we have such a delayed, you know, demand in european for seven years, look at u.s., latin america, south america, they need to start investment. that's why in case of interest rate going higher in the short-term, i think it will just be another push for people to consider less invest mement, an create more supply discipline. iron ore, steel, copper, aluminum t will create a more healthy environment for the future. >> but you don't think rates are going up too high? >> it would be very strange. it would contradict what u.s. needs. and i can't see much inflation based on today's economic data. let's see. >> not what the u.s. needs because what? the high debt level? >> yeah. it's very difficult to maintain such a high debt level with high interest. first it's costly. it will take away the resources from the federal and regional governments, which they provi

manafort did confirm to cnn that he did work for oleg yan pos ca.ave always publicly acknowledged that i worked for mr. deripaska he told cnn through a spokesman, adding, i did not work for the russian government, once again, manafort writes, smear and innuendo are being used to paint a false picture. a spokesman for deripaska he provided of consulting services but failed to provide any details. they had a major falling out. dare pass ca had an investment in a telecom company. and it went south. manafort simply disappeared. sean spicer this afternoon down playing any connection this has to the president. >> he was a consultant. he had clients from around the world. there's no suggestion that he did anything improper or, but, to suggest that the president knew who his clients were from a decade ago is a bit insane. he was hired to do a job. he did it. that's it. plain and simple. >> reporter: it's just the latest russian headline headache for the trump administration. the fbi's already investigating connections between trump officials and manafort an

memo in which paul manafort working or oleg daripaska, plan to greatly benefit vladimir putin.him but rejects he was pushing political influence of putin, including business dealings and news coverage inside the united states. i have always publicly acknowledged that i worked for him and his company rusal, adding i did not work for the russian government. once again manafort writes, smear and innuendo are used to paint a false picture. statement said provided consulting services but declined to provide additional details. had a falling out. funneled money into a manafort business venture in the cayman islands. ukrainian telecom company in deal that went south and said manafort simply disappeared. white house spokesman sean spicer this afternoon downplaying any connection this had a h to the president. >> consultant. clients around the world. no suggestion he did anything improper. but to suggest the president knew who his clients were from a decade ago, a bit insane. hired to do a job. he did it. that's it. plain and simple. >> reporter: latest russian headache for the trump ad

not just oleg's interests but promote interests as manafort described them were good for the "putin government" in eastern european, former soviet block nations. he was gun for hire willing to do this work and had those contacts. >> shepard: jeff horowitz from the a.p. bureau in washington. the report is up now on the associated presentation and on foxnews.com. thanks, jeff. we're continuing to cover the dramatic developments in london. a terror attack has happened. they're working to determine whether the lone knife wielding, car driving man was inspired by isis propaganda. exactly what his motive was. four are dead, 20 injured. fast approaching half passed 7:00 in london. coverage continues after this. tomorrow's the day we'll play something besides video games. every day is a gift. especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto... a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a

2006, manafort signed a $10 million a year contract with putin's close ally, russian aluminum magnate oleg deripaska, to promote putin's interests. the ap report comes only days after fbi director james comey announced the fbi is investigating whether president trump's campaign collaborated with russia to sway the 2016 election. on monday, white house press secretary sean spicer sought to distance trump's campaign from manafort. >> even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign, and then obviously, there has been discussion of all manafort who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> he was the chairman -- >> can you stop interrupting other people's questions? jonathan, summit is asking a question. please call down. >> are you saying the president is aware of the contact -- >> nothing that has not been loosely discussed. amy: the "new york times" reports that longtime republican operative and trump associate roger stone is also under investigation as part of the agency's probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. meanwhile, the state department has an