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governmys, oleg deripaska is a close ally of t president, vladimir putin.nd, over the last two years, deripaska's name has come up in erican news reports as a figure with ties to some of the targets of special counsel robert mueller's now-concluded russia investigation. deripaska's interactions with the eventual chairman of president trump's 2016 campaign, paul manafort, go ck years. more recently, deripaska and manafort came into a financial dispute. in an e-mail to the "washington post" by an associate that the u.s. belves has ties to russian intelligence, manafort even considered on his ownet r to give deripaska private briefings about the campaign. skst year the u.s. slapped sanctions on dea and hisco mpany. at the time, treasury secretary steven mnuchin said the aim was to hite russian government. while the sanctions against deripaska remain, they have been lifted from some of his largest holdings after deripaska agreed to reduce his stake and control in the firm where are you going now? today i sat down with deripaska , me to largeest maker of commerc
governmys, oleg deripaska is a close ally of t president, vladimir putin.nd, over the last two years, deripaska's name has come up in erican news reports as a figure with ties to some of the targets of special counsel robert mueller's now-concluded russia investigation. deripaska's interactions with the eventual chairman of president trump's 2016 campaign, paul manafort, go ck years. more recently, deripaska and manafort came into a financial dispute. in an e-mail to the "washington...
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a rare conversation with oleg deripaska, the russian billionaire whose name has become closely associatedt the mueller ination. plus, the art of the flower. one of the world's m celebrated landscape architects, piet oudolf, on creating gardens that evoke more than beauty. >> what you put down in gardens isore a beginning. sometimes i say, a promise. for the futu and you have to guide it to that future. >> woodruff: all that and more,
a rare conversation with oleg deripaska, the russian billionaire whose name has become closely associatedt the mueller ination. plus, the art of the flower. one of the world's m celebrated landscape architects, piet oudolf, on creating gardens that evoke more than beauty. >> what you put down in gardens isore a beginning. sometimes i say, a promise. for the futu and you have to guide it to that future. >> woodruff: all that and more,
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oleg deripaska sat down with pbs news hour to discuss the special counsel's focus on him as a resultormer campaign compare paul manafort. he has a long history with manafort and is said to be close to russian president vladimir putin, claims that manafort owes him millions from a failed investment venture. in july of 2016 manafort reportedly offered him a private briefing on the presidential race in what may have been an effort to settle that debt. he also allegedly offered him internal campaign polling as well. for his part, deripaska says he was never worried about the mueller investigation. watch this. >> do you feel that the attorney general's summary of the mueller report has exonerated you? >> i never felt guilty. i'm not a subject, first of all, as you know, but in my view it was so bizarre to claims that russia, you know, made any important role in that election. >> if you are such a believer in mueller and the process of justice, why didn't you when the special counsel sent you written questions, why didn't you answer the request he is? >> it was advice from my lawyers. they
oleg deripaska sat down with pbs news hour to discuss the special counsel's focus on him as a resultormer campaign compare paul manafort. he has a long history with manafort and is said to be close to russian president vladimir putin, claims that manafort owes him millions from a failed investment venture. in july of 2016 manafort reportedly offered him a private briefing on the presidential race in what may have been an effort to settle that debt. he also allegedly offered him internal...
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the oligarch, oleg deripaska, "used manafort to install friendly political officials in countries where deripaska had business interests." manafort's job for more than a decade, before he started working for trump, was that he installed friendly political officials in office on behalf of a kremlin-connected oligarch. the oligarch paid him to install people in high office in foreign countries for the convenience of the kremlin. that was donald trump's campaign chair. and incidentally, that associated press story from the spring of 2017 turns out to be right. the explicit terms of manafort's arrangement with this oligarch, "referenced the need to brief the kremlin and referenced the benefits that the work could confer on the putin government." oh, the benefits for the putin government, they'd need to be kept fully apprised on manafort's work to bring about those benefits by installing friendly officials in foreign countries. that's who trump brought on to run his campaign. and we're going to be talking about this for a long while yet. there is a -- there is a ton here. but, i mean, just f
the oligarch, oleg deripaska, "used manafort to install friendly political officials in countries where deripaska had business interests." manafort's job for more than a decade, before he started working for trump, was that he installed friendly political officials in office on behalf of a kremlin-connected oligarch. the oligarch paid him to install people in high office in foreign countries for the convenience of the kremlin. that was donald trump's campaign chair. and incidentally,...