tim o'bryan from bloomberg news is just reporting that tonight. we got an exclusive first look at the reporting. he will be joining us in just a moment. but if his reporting proves out and between the racketeering lawsuit going ahead and the senate investigation and the financial documents as of today and the investigation robert mueller is leading as special counsel whose staff i should tell you includes the former fraud chief at the justice department who was involved in the prosecution of felix satyr for that pump and dump mob stock scheme all those years ago, if this new reporting from tim o'bryan proves out about russian money pouring into trump properties and coming from sources close to putin through people known for their mob and money laundering ties, if that reporting proves out, we're left with the question of why that happened. why was money connected to putin pouring into trump prok jeblts? why did they do that? and if it did happen, is it likely now all these years later that that sort of thing is going to get somebody in trouble? re

tim o'bryan from bloomberg news is just reporting that tonight.an exclusive first look at the reporting. he will be joining us in just a moment. but if his reporting proves out and between the racketeering lawsuit going ahead and the senate investigation and the financial documents as of today and the investigation robert mueller is leading as special counsel whose staff i should tell you includes the former fraud chief at the justice department who was involved in the prosecution of felix satyr for that pump and dump mob stock scheme all those years ago, if this new reporting from tim o'bryan proves out about russian money pouring into trump properties and coming from sources close to putin through people known for their mob and money laundering ties, if that reporting proves out, we're left with the question of why that happened. why was money connected to putin pouring into trump prok jeblts? why did they do that? and if it did happen, is it likely now all these years later that that sort of thing is going to get somebody in trouble? reporter t

another one of my colleagues, tim o'bryan was threatened by the president, but when it came to a legal case, he wasn't able to produce those. >> he was bluffing. >> right. a bluff. you know, a posturing. so that's the theory going around right now around the white house and around those, that it was a bluff and it was a way to either some may say intimidate, some may say threaten but to send a message directly to james comey. >> david, just with your intelligence background, what's your reaction to all of this? >> with today's tweets, he's actually send ago different message because he did not just tweet out, i did not make and i do not have the tapes. he had that whole first tweet, which was a disclaimer, a caveat, saying, well, there's all this surveillance going on and all this leaking going on and i really don't know if something's out there. i just know that i don't have them now. that's hard to read as anything other than another ball of yarn thrown out for people to chase, or some kind of an attack on the intelligence community or the secret service who surely would not let any