a lot of -- we've singled profilew of the highest soho is one trump and miss universe package.e coverage partly because donald trump went to moscow and played it up. vonnie: it's the 2013 miss took placegeant that in moscow. also looking at the the sale of russiana mansion to a oligarch back in 2008. >> right now, we're all aware what the president said yesterday about the investigation. russia.rays beyond all these transactions is a direct line. logical line into russian involvement or some connection derivedan business through russia. trump's lawyer just gave a response. ready some of the things we described in our story indicate that the special counsel has gone beyond the mandate that he was given in may was taken on this task. given a vague mandate. >> there will be some gamesmanship on a side. to trump's counsel, they want the narrowest interpretation possible whereas from this, mueller is not taking the narrowest interpretation. are focused on russia related money. vonnie: what might special for?el mueller be looking what will be a red flag in any of these transactions?

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el trump tower en soho, y otros edificios de compradores rusos.aÑa de hillary clinton. estamos hablando de cuentas en el exterior, de paraÍsos fiscales, estamos hablando de manejo de dinero. blanca: el asesor especial mueller aparentemente estarÍa interesado en conocer mÁs en los vÍnculos con un multimillonario ruso que pagÓ ha trump 20 millones de dÓlares para llevar al concurso de miss universo en moscÚ en el 2013. este hombre fue noticia hace poco cuando se informÓ que es su hijo arreglÓ una reunión entre una abogada rusa como el hijo mayor de trump, su yerno jared kushner y su asesor de campaÑa. el analista dice que se busca determinar quÉ tan antigua es esta relaciÓn entre trump y los rusos. >> es una persona que anteriormente ha tenido problemas en buscar financiaciÓn dentro de estados unidos, entonces lo que hizo fue acercarse a los rusos. blanca: al preguntÁrsele si habÍa vendido condominios al rusos, dijo: "es posible, quien sabe". declarÓ ademÁs que mueller cruzarÍa la línea roja si investiga sus finanzas. su abogado dijo: "estas transac

we opened our first store in soho. 80% of those customers who bought in the store first buy their second you are buying things with the frequency that our consumers are buying them, a luxury of multichannel drives to their purchase power. 50% of buyers come back and buy a second time. once they buy a second time, on average they have four purchases within a year. we are also seeing consistent 100% growth year-over-year in total sales and margin continuing to improve in each of those years. the goal is not go as fast as you can go and grow as fast as you can grow. the goal is with really good controlled growth, ensure that you can double your business for a number of years. ♪ ♪ >> bank of america and goldman sachs reporting earnings this morning. both are weaker in premarket, but the cake goes to goldman sachs. that stock down almost 1%. here is the why. take a look at the bloomberg here. this is their fixed trading revenue. it was down 40% and is the weakest since 2008. vonnie: it is a new function we have on the bloomberg. if you look up an equity and type gp tv, and then if you date it

anything involving russian money going into trump apartments, certain developments like trump soho, the3 miss universe pageant in moscow and the sale of a luxury property in palm beach almost 10 years ago. >> the legal authority that bob -- that robert mueller has that was given him by rod roden rosenstein has is very broad. the language says words to the effect of matters around the russian campaign collusion question and any other matter. i think robert mueller has decided these other matters are part of his purview. robert mueller was fbi director for a long time. i would call him a prosecutor's prosecutor. he will go to where it have to take him even if it is unpleasant. i don't think he will hesitate to bring down the hammer on donald trump, donald trump jr. -- any of the people caught up in the crosshairs of this. i think he views his mission to get to the bottom of this wherever it leads. that is what we know about robert mueller. vonnie: there is a staffing shakeup at the white house. white house press secretary sean spicer announced his resignation after president donald trump

soho, it's probably the most, the best place you can find at night in london.ng in the streets, playing music. they find friends. theyjoin in. it becomes like a street party. party on! yeah, nightlife has its own challenges. what? you do a long night shift, just on the last minute and you're just looking at the watch, like, ok, it's two minutes, one minute. three minutes to go, and then i'm free. and then the order comes in! oh, come on! really?! dammit. once you've finished a shift, sometimes it's already a sunrise. and it's a very nice and beautiful thing to see a sunrise in london. and then you see all of the people waking up, all the commuters. and for me, it's the end of the night. but i still experience the sunrise. and i can still experience the sunset. because i do both. some people don't. still to come on the travel show... we'll be showing you the first ever streetview mapping of the louvre in australia. and, we'll be on canada's cape breton island, finding out why hanging out in the kitchen is where the party's at. the travel show — your essential gu

soho used to be a place i would come to to get out of my head. sipping a cup of herbal tea. why is it that so many lgbt people suffer with mental health problems? in my experience, these problems are never far away. rob god was a man i worked with briefly at attitude magazine, in 2013, aged 3a, he took his own life. —— rob goddard. he was massively gregarious, he was a central part of every social situation. he had thousands of friends. with those real highs, came the very big lows, as well. he partied quite heavily, he did recreational drugs, he found a cert in utopia within that environment, he could just be himself and nobody would care. —— certain utopia. you said he was not happy being gay. he was fiercely proud of being gay, he never hid it, at all. not from anyone, did he. but i think that had a negative effect on him. i remember a time when he was sat at the back of a bus, early hours of the morning, with his boyfriend at the time, his head on his shoulder, back from a club, something like that, on the bus, on the way home, laid his head

this is still my greatest memory because it is the starbucks down broadway toward soho. i am sure you passed it many times. i occasionally pass it and start crying because i am embarrassed. i used to give friday sermons and i am a religious leader asking this girl out. half way through reciting the poem to her her boyfriend walks in and sits down. i didn't know she had a boyfriend. i asked a friend who do research and he failed. he is like you give the sermon at the mosque and i am like yeah, and he is like what are you doing here and i am like asking your girlfriend on a date. that went overwell. my third day as islamic center president was 9/11 and we were the largest muslim community in proximity to ground zero. i am a 21-year-old incredibly shy and awkward kid and didn't know how to handle myself in these settings. this life style of constantly commenting about islam and muslims and defending your identity and explaining who you are and reducing everything conversation to violence. the key word is terrorist. so, i wanted to write something that challenged them. i did

anything involving russian money apartments,rump certain individual developments soho the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. vonnie: anything that might have a monetary aspects to it. with russian. >> any kind of financial transactions involving russian oresting in or through around a trump property. vonnie: not just the president himself but also some associates including jared kushner and others. >> yes, wilbur ross and paul common fort -- manafort. members of trump circle are of interest. they are looking at transactions duringbank cypress wilbur ross was vice chairman there. trump told thent "new york times" yesterday that anything that was being investigated that went beyond campaign ties to the in hiss, anything personal business would be out of the range. a i would think, i looked that. i think what he's saying, anything beyond transactions with russia. based on what he was reported to have said yesterday, i don't think he's moved beyond that. vonnie: he said, this is about russia. he wants to go, my finances are good. successful.s actually, when i do my filing, people say, man, pe

it was founded by one of the founders of the soho house.berg businessweek is available on newsstands now. oliver: great issue, a lot of stories. what is your favorite? >> i liked the one about the responsible wildlife tourism. they are rescuing elephants from bad situations. oliver: that is so cool. >> it looks gorgeous, the pictures are amazing. they are doing things in the right way. in an idea,nvesting this is a story you will want to read. it is worth reading. >> i liked the story about the samsung cover story. i think my number one goes to the $100 million tanker. it was an incredible hijacking. lives are at stake. >> more bloomberg television starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> coming up on "bloomberg best," the stories that shaped the week and business around the world. the federal reserve holds the line. the central bank sees balance sheet normalization starting relatively soon. we hear what that will mean for markets going forward. >> that means to me is slightly higher 10 year rates, perhaps 2.5% over the balance of the year, but not much. d

. >>> i was lucky enough to be invited to david mancuzo's legendary space in soho called the loft.sn't so much about a style as it was an an aesthetic of dancing. >> there all types of people here. people who dance, people who hop up and down. you can get high. stay here all night. >> why are people dancing again? >> i wish i knew. but i'm glad it's happening. ♪ >> what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of pouring the floor with eight on the high hat. so everything is -- ♪ burn baby burn >> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn baby burn ♪ burn baby burn >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music anyway. because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> george meroudder put together technology and soulful vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest record of all time. ♪ ooh love to love you baby ♪ ooh love you love you baby "love to love you baby" was four minutes of singing. 14 minutes of -- a lot of not singing. ♪ oh love to love you baby ♪ o

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our first store in soho, 80% of the customers that pot in the store first bought their second online.buying things with the frequency are consumers buying them, the luxury of multichannel drives purchase power. time,hey buy a second they average four purchases within a year. we are seeing 100% growth year over year in total sales and margin continues to improve and each year. the goal is not to go as fast as you can go and grow as fast as you can go, the goal is with good, controlled growth, you can double your business for a number of years. founder and ceo, this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: it is 1:00 in washington and 1:00 a.m. in hong kong. i'm vonnie quinn. welcome to "bloomberg markets: the trump economy." here are the top stories we are watching at this hour. efforts to replace obamacare have died as the senate gop lacks votes. the chairman of aic, barry diller joins us live from boston. plus, we hear from joshua green steve new book about bannon, donald trump and the presidency. ♪ vonnie: back to our main story today, the gop's senate house health care bill -- donald trump acknowle

america pageant held in moscow, and impart and in florida he sold to a russian oligarch am of the soho in lower manhattan, so this is a dramatic expansion and creates great new legal jeopardy for the president of the united states. >> how should he respond to this or how is he responding? are we getting anything official from the white house yet? >> if you read the presidents interview with the new york times, particularly the ending portion in which he was asked repeatedly by those reporters whether he would fire special counsel robert mueller should he expand into the business transactions. the president of the questions that he did not believe he would do it. we know from this bloomberg exclusive that he is doing that. is aould note, there difference between the intelligence community versus what the investigations on capitol hill are doing. democrats on capitol hill have crested the white house, in particular deutsche bank, to provide documentation of the business dealings with president trump and deutsche bank. and so the republicans on capitol hill have not done that. counsel cle

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least three individual sort of pieces of trump world they're looking at, trump's involvement in this sohohat david cay johnston just mentioned a failed development in new york he did with russian association, some have russian mobbish ties, the 2015 miss universe pageant held in moscow and trump's sale of a florida mansion he bought and sold for almost $100 million to a russian oligarch in 2008. what would the significance of that, let's pick one of them, the pageant. >> i wrote a whole book on this. >> you did. >> these are really easy things for u.s. investigators to fall on, because one step before we go to miss universe, back to the sale of that house in palm beach, where he built it up, essentially does a flip, gets a $50 million commission off of that from an oligarch who levels the place and never sees it. that's a dangle. you are testing that person to determine whether he is good for the money, and now you have a hook in him, and once you have that hook, with the igalarov you can start working and manipulating. as we saw between 2013 and 2015 donald trump's entire foreign policy

there's an active lawsuit going on right now about the trump soho and how the prove its disappeared under the thumb of one of the oligarchs. donald has sold properties at points when he was in financial trouble for outrageously overpriced figures to russians. and i'm not the least bit surprised that the -- we're going to see a deep inquiry now into deutsche bank which was fined over $600 million just for laundering money for the russians. >> why deutsche bank? how did deutsche bank get caught up in this sort of nexus of money laundering? >> deutsche bank has been engaged in all sorts of nefarious activities. it was one of the biggest promoters of the tax shelters i was exposing in "the new york times" around the turn of the century. it's been deeply involved in helping russians and others move their money around. and it's the only major bank that would directly loan money to trump. when american banks that weren't going to loan you money anymore after he said i borrowed money knowing i wouldn't have to pay it back. so what is astonish is trump telling "the new york times" in this half-hou

cheryl: actor that plays john snow, a friend of mine stocked him in soho. show. it's crazy. i'm obsessed with weather. we have severe thunderstorms threatening part of the midwest and we want to hear about the northeast this morning. lauren: hey, janice. janice: free ice cream for you both. national ice cream month by the way. ice cream for everybody. we have the potential for showers, thunderstorms, even severe thunderstorms across ohio valley, gulf coast getting action as well. we could see watches and warnings, large hail, damaging winds, isolating tornadoes all the way to mid atlantic and northeast which is a slight risk for tornadoes across parts of pennsylvania and ohio. we are going to get a lot of rain upper midwest and even parts of the rockies and northeast over the next seven days. juicy atmosphere out there. a lot of humidity. with the heat index well over 100-degrees for many people, feeling like summer time and ice cream for everyone. forecast warm across gulf coast, scattered showers, midwest. ohio valley, hot and humid conditions and we are

it reports to three transactions that may be of interest to prosecutors one is the trump soho, the second was the 2013 ms. universe pageant in moscow, and the third was a sale of a mansion to a russian oligarch in 2008 which donald trump sold for 40 million, sold for 90 million, never livid in. are any of those relatable to the fact that is we know about russia gate? >> yes, donald is very vulnerable about his financial deeings with the russians going back to the 1980s. that's the reason he said what he did yesterday. you don't get to pick your prosecutor and you don't get to tell your prosecutor what he can and cannot do. but back in may when mueller was appointed i wrote a column warning that trump would do exactly what he's done. suggest that it's improper to look beyond into the financing the russians have put into the trump family and businesses, even though intimately connected, they are, in fact, meddling in the election. and trump has made it clear in the interview with the "new york times" he thinks that's a line that shouldn't get crossed boy i hope mueller digs deeper. i hope h

which arianna, the peace room was called the war room and you get up there at uber, it's sort of like soho where you're a little scared because you're not sure which way to turn, that's true. >> what is the difference between them? because the war room is a perfect example. when i was let in there for the first time i was like, you've got to be kidding. i said i think you are 12-year-old boys but okay. that was different. what was the mentality, the difference between those two? >> the funny thing you the way you introduce that is that zimmer wasn't even the ceo. >> also real nice. >> but we all go with what we've got. and i think lyft, that's who they are and uber is who they are. >> that's the difference of uber, the obnoxious nest that's pushing around regulators, the ugly statements that he would make and he would even talk about on the book, he would pop off thestatement that was usually somewhere between appalling and disgusting at anyone point . >> i think that this is who travis is. it's not a corporate strategy. >> but i'm curious if you think it has incentives that made them succ

found by one of the founders of the soho and founded by the group that does the nomad hotel in new york l.a., very cool, very trendy hotel. carol: bloomberg businessweek is available on newsstands now. bloombergd online at businessweek as well as through our mobile app. a lot of cool stories. carol: i like what we just heard from emaar rosenbloom about the wildlife tourism, the elephant resort. it is rescuing elephants from bad situations. oliver: so cool. carol: letting them interact with tourists. a is a five-star resort and looks gorgeous and the pictures are amazing. but to doing things in the right way. oliver: it really is cool. carol: got to say, if you're investigating a robo advisor, this is a story you want to read. you think they are completely objective but maybe not. how about you? oliver: i really liked the story about samsung. my number one goes to the freighter, the tanker. $100 million at stake. an incredible hijackings. we do not know what happened, lives at stake, money at stake. a reporter in mexico looking at oil feeds and the black market. incredible and a dangerou

securityding trade and for both our countries to fight , in the middlesm we havebya, the soho -- a surenation. the united states is extremely .nvolved in the iraq war i would like president trump to know, and i'm freely determined to act together with him in this respect. fully determined. i very much want both our countries in these matters to increase cooperation in the coming months because the threat we are facing is a global one. our enemies are trying to istabilize us by any way, and believe that this is very much at the heart of the historic alliance between our two countries, and which fully justifies the presence of president trump today in paris. thank you. trump: thank you very much, president macron. melania and i are thrilled to join you and mrs. macron. national wonderful celebration. we very much look forward to it. bastille day. we are honored to be here in your beautiful country, and it certainly is a beautiful country, with its proud history and its magnificent people, and we thank you for the tour of some of the most incredible buildings anywhere in the world. that wa

people think of soho and greensburg as these enclaves that were gentrified by artists and ballooned into these mega-metropolises but there's also these smaller urban enclaves and we're looking atthat . outside of the regional, there's this book on global needs and it's a translation from the french so those are our three lead books. >> what would you consider the university presses most specialized area? >> we are known in the humanities particularly philosophy and geology because they are interdisciplinary titles but they intermingle though that our kind of we are most known for that and also reflects the mission of the university because we have a strong philosophy and theology department and in 2010, i started the empire state addition. the press is 110 years old but matt bauer is director of the florida university press in new york. >> good evening. my name is abraham foxman. i'm currently the director of the center of study for anti-semitism at the museum d

investigators are looking into trump transactions as diverse as the russian money connections to his trump soho project and trump buying properties, and his miss universe pageant. and him making millions of dollars when he sold to a russian oligarch a house in florida that he bought only a couple years earlier. >> on top of that the german bank that the president owes hundreds of millions of dollars. they are currently in contact with investigators and they are expecting to have to provide information on their dealings with trump to the special prosecutor, to bob mueller. according to the times banking re regulators are going through the bank's records. >> trump was asked if it would be a red line for him if the special prosecutor robert mueller started looking at your finances and your family finances unrelated to russia, the president responded by saying, yeah, yeah, i would say yes, i think that's a violation. if the president does want to fire robert mueller because of the russia investigation or because the russia investigation now feels differently -- feels different to him because it has

was an associate or consultant for the trump organization and helped the trump people develop trump soho here in new york. a guy who worked at bay rock consulting, former director, alleged felix is a crook and bay rock consulting was a front money laundering from russia and kazakhstan. this is one of the most notorious dictatorships and said felix is now cooperating with an international investigation into money-laundering, new york and doj taking this seriously. this is where mueller is sort of probing and keep in mind, this isn't the only money-laundering case to hit new york in a big way that came from moscow. the lawyer we've been talking about for three weeks, natalia, a defense attorney for previzon holding. a front for russian money laundered and prior to that, stolen in 2007 in the biggest tax heist, tax fraud in russian history. $230 million stolen by a mafia group that consisted at the time of russia's interior ministry, sfb or federal services, tax bureaus, et cetera. so we're beginning to get a picture here, if you really want to understand any element of possible collusion o

i think he cited their soho project and doing an interview with a golf reporter talking about saying we don't need u.s. banks, we've got the russians. how does all of that square off with the white house who has continued to say, nothing to see here? >> at the very least they are not doing themselves any favors right now. obviously this white house, these aides, these relatives at a much earlier date could have been much more transparent about these meetings that wouldn't allow for what's become the huge cloud of smoke around this russia story and this white house. now it appears in the eyes of critics there may be some flames there as well. notably the president's son and the president's outside counsel are cutting themselves off saying the president did not know about this, was not in attendance. strikingly for his tweet storm today the one thing we have not heard president trump weigh in on is this meeting and his sons putting it together after being told about it. we will have a press briefing today we're told. it will also be off camera held by deputy press secretary sarah hucka

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and when we see links between -- we've seen talk of soho development, palm beach and miss universe movingo moscow in 2013. these are all ties that need to be investigated. and i think if they have nothing to hide, which i certainly hope there is no there there, and i think that's hopefully will be the case, they should open the doors wide open and the talks about pardons i think are a little premature. open it all up. get it out there and let's get it behind us. >> you could make the argument if there are long-standing ties between donald trump and russian banks, or whomever it is in russia, that may have been kind of the preamble to anything that happened later. i assume democrats -- >> think of what he is investigating. he is investigating this russian meddling. and you have to ask yourself what incentive would russia have had to want to wade into the u.s. election in an unprecedented fashion to this extent on behalf of donald trump. what leverage does it think it has on donald trump that it went to such lengths to get him elected? and so of course it's absolutely relevant to bob muelle

lauderdale, soho in new york would also fail but i think it's really important that you don't put thisrry truman said, the buck stops here. what the aides are doing is a reflection of the leader. one of the lichtman rules of politics is the leader always knows and the leader always sets the tone. >> you were one of the few who actually predicted that donald trump would be elected president of the united states, and you got some grief at the time. but you were right. he was elected president of the united states. >> and my new book is "the case for impeachment" my next big prediction. >> we'll talk about that on another occasion. thanks very much for coming in, presidential historian, distinguished professor of history here at the american university in washington. that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." for our viewers here in north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right after a quick break. our special coverage of the president's speech out on long island. we'll have live coverage of that. stay right here. -- captions by vitac -- www.vit

we have been blocked from doing that soho finally we will get to do that and charlie gets the chancerjoining us. charlie's parents there speaking about their hopes to take charlie to america for treatment. a ceasefire backed by the united states and russia is being observed in south—western syria. early reports from the area say the truce appears to have taken hold, with local monitors saying there had been no air strikes or clashes. the us, the russians and thejordanians were all involved in brokering the agreement between the syrian government and its rebel opponents. the us secretary of state is in ukraine for a brief visit. rex tillerson is the first senior member of the trump administration improvement in relations between the us and russia. speaking alongside ukrainian president petro poroshenko, mr tillerson said russia must take the first steps to de—escalate the conflict in the east of the country. they have been very clear in my discussions on more than one occasion that it is necessary for russia to take the first steps to de—escalate the situation in the east pa rt de—esc

there is current litigation going on over an alleged tax fraud involving the trump soho hotel. donald owned 18% of the profits to that project. the profits disappeared. it turned out to be under the thumb of one of the russian oligarchs. this is troublesome for donald and the reason he has taking the extraordinary position of trying to tell his prosecutor what he can and cannot do. you don't get too big or prosecutor and you suddenly don't did you tell your prosecutor what he can and cannot investigate. , beforeid cay johnston we let you go, today is the six , the six months of each rob administration. you are his unofficial or i should say unauthorized biographer. what has surprised you most? you have covered donald trump for decades. >> actually, very little. he has behaved as i predicted and said publicly before the election. he is unfit to hold a job on the city council. as the pressures of this job have come upon him, you have seen him behave in increasingly erratic ways. they are going to get worse. you will notice he trashes people one day, praises than the next, then tr

condos that were seized after the russian owner pleaded guilty to mob-related charges and this trump sohot was reported by the new republic to be financed by someone from the former soviet union. so is it fair to look into mr. trump's financial history? >> absolutely. and here is how russian influence operations work. they rely on a panoply of different types of efforts and tactics, but the three basic elements that we've seen time and again in ukraine, in georgia, in moldova and montenegro and the united states, france, germany, they involve a disinformation campaign, they usually involve some sort of cyber hack and release of information and they also involve the weaponization of corruption, the use of corrupt business ties to be able to gain entree into political circles in a foreign country so they can then impact policy. and talking about the repeal of the magnitsky act is a great example of how once you enter into one of these high-level political circles you can start to have that type of conversation. so of course looking at finances is crucial. it's a key element of this investig

property where there are allegations of purchases by russian oligarchs and, in fact, in the new york sohoroperty the, there are allegations and properties have been seized and forfeited because the source of funds are illegal. this is a bigger issue. i think mueller will look the a it -- when i was chief of the money laundering section in the justice department and mueller's special money laundering counsel, we would look at what motivates people to behave as they behave? these financial ties are motivations potentially and that's why you look at it so say, why did a person behave this way? why did they resist so much? well maybe they resist so much because they have big financial debt to these people and, therefore, they feel exposed. and so you look at that stuff because it's relevant to why they're doing what they're doing now. it's, you know, it's basic money laundering investigation 101. the lawyers that work for me in the money laundering section of the justice department, if they didn't do this, they'd be disciplined. >> michael matt, thank you as usual. >>> when we come back much

they partnered with trump on a number of projects including the trump soho.principal partner in bay rock was felix seder, a career criminal, a russian immigrant to the united states who had organized crime ties in russia and the united states. trump did business with him for years and he remains in the trump orbit. he showed up earlier this year with trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, proposing a peace plan for the ukraine to michael flynn in the white house. >> ana marie cox, you were talking about the childish nature of donald trump, which seems to be an absolutely flawless analytical mode for looking at donald trump. and we now have reporting from politico that ty cobb, the new lawyer on the case for donald trump, one of the more experienced ones, convened a meeting of all of the trump defense counsel and the client, the president himself in which he tried to impose a new kind of discipline in dealing with this matter, including not talking about it publicly. and so 24 hours later, the president invites three reporters from "the new york times" into

we've seen talk of soho development, palm beach, ms. universe moving to moscow in 2013. these are all ties that need to be investigated. if they had nothing to hide which i certainly hope there is no there, there, and hopefully that will be the case they should open the doors wide open and the talks about pardons are a little premature. but open it all up, get it out there and get it behind us. >> you could make the argument if there are loanngstanding tie between donald trump and russian banks that might have been the preamble to what happened -- >> think about what he is investigating, he is investigating this russian meddling. and you have to say, what incentive would russia have had to weigh in on the american election to this extent, on behalf of donald trump, what leverage would it have to get donald trump elected? so of course it's absolutely relevant to bob mueller, very much in his purview, to look at this problem of real estate sales where you have properties in palm beach that are selling for double the market value with respect to money laundering. you have t