well, alex van der zwaan no longer works at skadden arps. gregory craig is no longer a partner at the firm, he left in april. but today, surprise, the justice department revealed a multimillion dollar civil settlement between the justice department and that very fancy law firm, skadden arps. the firm agrees to retroactively register as an unregistered foreign agent working on behalf of ukraine, the pro-russian government of ukraine that paul manafort represented. the firm has also agreed to pay back to the u.s. government the more than $4 million paul manafort allegedly secretly shovelled to them so they would do work that looked like the independent work product of this very prestigious western law firm while what they were really doing was just whyitewash work for manafort's pro-russian clients. there are a few things that are interesting about this. number one, this is a surprise. i didn't know this was coming. also, big prestigious rich connected american law firms like this one don't usually get in trouble for anything. let alone for gr

the presidential limo drove past the press and into an underground garage in the basement of the skaddenlaw firm, they did not know that paula's lawyers had just been briefed by linda tripp. >> he was so excited, and i said, "what's going on?" "i can't tell you until after the deposition." the lawyers kept that even from me. >> for six hours, the president was hit with questions about specifics that he thought nobody knew. >> the jones people had incredible detail. >> at any time, were you and monica lewinsky together alone in the oval office? >> i don't recall, but as i said -- >> blindsided by the questions, president clinton was evasive with his answers. >> but you have no specific recollection of it ever happening? >> yeah. that's right. it's possible that she, while she was working there, brought something to me, and at the time she brought it to me, she was the only person there. that's possible. >> he basically says, "oh, gosh. i can't remember. i don't think i was ever alone with her. might have been alone when we had pizza," but he clearly states he doesn't think he was alone wi

trouble for, he was a relatively junior lawyer at a super fancy american white shoe law firm called skadden arps. the senior partner that over saw his work including at the time he was doing the stuff he got in trouble for, his supervisor, the senior partner over him was a very famous, very well-connected american lawyer named gregory craig who was a former obama white house official. greg craig worked in the ocho boll -- ocbama white house. he was ocho bama's first white e counsel. alex van der zwann no longer work there is. gregory craig is no long aeropaaerer a partner. he left the firm in april. today surprise, the justice department revealed a multi million dollar civil settlement between the justice department and that very fancy law firm. the firm in this settlement agrees to retroactively register as having been an unregistered foreign agent working on behalf of the government of ukraine that paul manafort represented. the firm also agreed to pay back to the u.s. government the more than $4 million paul manafort allegedly secretly shovelled to them so they would do work that looked