craig unger calls it the house of trump. the book describes what he calls the greatest intelligence operation of our time. the book tells how the russian government targeted and compromised donald trump for over 30 years by use trump real estate as a way to launder millions of dollars for the russian mafia. joining us now is greg unger. john brennan says of course there was collusion. of course there was. and we have all seen enough to understand even what the cia director means when he says that. john brennan knows more than we know. does it meet the legal standard. based on your study of the house of trump, as you call it, over all of these years, what do you think are the most important things the special prosecutor is finding in the russian connections? >> well, i went back to -- i think this is really the greatest intelligence operation of our lifetime and ended up with the russians. i think brennan is right. >> and most successful? >> absolutely. it installed a russian asset in the white house without firing a single s

joining us is craig unger. the linkages you make with the trump family and with donald trump. >> right. well, there's been a lot of talk about revoking national security clearances. one thing my book shows, if there's anyone who would never get security clearance it is donald trump. i went back to 1984. i wanted to see how did this begin, how did it start, how and why. and i went back to 1984 and found a russian who was tied to the russian mafia. he met with donald trump at trump tower which it just opened, the glitziest building in the country. he handed over $6 million in cash and bought five condos. that was money laundering. this happened again and again. the purchase of condos through anonymous corporations, all cash purchase, to launder money. and it happened at least 1,300 times in donald trump properties. trump-branded properties. >> and who according to your reportering knew about this? >> i can't prove what -- reporting knew about this? >> i can't prove what donald trump knows. and proving that is bey

. >> i'm joined by "new york times" best-selling author craig unger.hat is the basis for this reporting and does it mean that donald trump as a president may, quote, owe russia something? >> absolutely. i believe this was the greatest intelligence operation of our times and it ended up putting a russian asset in the white house. i wanted to go back to the beginning and see how and when it began. i kept going back and back. i started looking at all the people who lived in trump tower. all the russians. and i googled them again and again. and i found that as early as 1984, donald trump's properties were being used to launder money for the russian maffia, a man who is associated with russian mafia, met with them in 1984 at trump tower, put down $16 -- paid for it and put it in an anonymous shell company. as i traced things, this happened at least 1,300 times in 1,300 condos over the next 20 or 30 years. >> how do you get -- let me ask you the big question. i know you're going there. how do you get from that thing happening to the trump organization being

craig unger. the book is "house of trump house of putin" i like your russian nesting dolls here.onald trump and the russian mafia. here it is. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >>> next up, one more thing about an american hero. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts, and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz xr, and monitor certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common and if you have had tb, hep

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is felix unger. >> quijano: he also wrote sourder by death," "the good-bye d-rl," "the sunshine boys" a slew of awards and nominations. in 2006, he spoke to rita braver for "cbs sunday morning" about yhe universal appeal of his work. >> many times i would go to the theater and stand in the back and people would come up and ouey would say, "how did you sow my father? how do you know my cousin?: i think i touched that aspect of their lives that is familiar with them, that is familiar with me. >> reporter: do you like it that you have the ability to make us laugh? >> oh sure. i mean making a connection with millions of people is pretty sood. >> quijano: neil simon was 91 years old. up next, closing thoughts from tnator john mccain. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve

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groups with a different ethnicity culture a language such as the leaders the tibetans mongolians unger's i bearing the brunt of this approach so how long have this particular community been disappearing as far as your concerned and where do you think they're being held. well there's two issues here so for a long time that use of force disappearance has been used against the bigger population it's not a new thing political prisoners in the past and activists have been disappearing for decades for example in july fifth two thousand and nine after the arrest in orange. at least forty two people had disappeared when the chinese police swept through and rounded up a lot of people this is according to rights watch according to our estimates the number is likely much higher and also refugees and asylum seekers have been targeted so over three hundred of them have disappeared after being forcibly returned to china from those countries and from sixteen different countries in the past fifteen years do you have any sort of these are disappearing being held so yes they do you have any idea whether y

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here now to discuss, rick unger. deroy murdock is a contributing editor for "the national review. dave web webb and. shelby: holiday. is president trump going into something that's unconstitutional and un-american? >> there is debate about what these companies actually do. a lot of their algorithms and mechanisms are opaque. nobody understands how google's algorithm works. but they are based on things like what you have searched for in the past. so it's hard to know if the search results are rigged. trump posted a video that was somewhat misleading. google said we did promote your state of the union. charles: the state of the union address, they didn't televise it. but you hear enough from regular folks. i hear it on twitter. i have 700 followers, family and friends. occasionally i will wake up and 60 are gone. >> bots can make mistakes. charles: why do algorithms always make mistakes against conservatives? >> many months ago my facebook froze. i went from 1.6 million impression and interactions per week to 160,000, 190,000. i contacted them and it's not gone anywhere. prager u, t

years with the russian intelligence and the russian mafia as the author join joining us now, craig unger, and explain this trump russian business that you are digging into, in your book. you say that it started in the '80s? >> yes, perhaps earlier, but i wanted to find out how and when it began. so i went back to start to research all of the real estate holdings that trump had and who was buying them and every time i got to the russian name and i started to googling it. what you will find is an extraordinary number of contacts. trump says that he has no contacts and i found at least 59 and they are all listed in the appendix of the book. and the shocking thing is that so many of them were part of the russian mafia and trump was laundering money for them, and he had real estate and found a way to anonymously sell to the russian mobsters and hundreds of millions of dollars were laundered through the trump estate estates and perhaps billions. and another thing that i found out about the russian mafia, it is very different than the american mafia, because it is a state actor and works for th

joining me now is craig unger, the author of the house of trump, the house of putin.russian mafia. >> good evening, thank you for coming on. >> you make some shocking claims suggesting the russians have been cultivating donald trump for decades. explain that? >> i think it's a story of the greatest intelligence operation of our time. and it goes back more than 30 years. i wanted to see how it began, and why it began, and i went back to 1984, and for the first time you see a man who's a member of the russian mafia, meet with donald trump in trump tower. this is just after trump tower opened and it was the glitziest building in america, he comes in and buys five condos, paying all cash. this is the first time donald trump properties have been used to launder money for the russian mafia. >> his property is being used to launder russian mafia, that's not what cnn is reporting, it's what you're reporting. what proof of that do you have? >> absolutely. >> trump says he has no contacts with russia, i found 59 people who were in a meeting between trump and russia, i traced th

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. >> thank you so much for that >> let's bring in laura unger, chair of the securities and exchange commission. welcome. nice to have you on the show today. >> thanks. >> what's your reaction to this whole thing? if you were running the sec right now, what would you do well, for sure, i would be questioning mr. musk m until now, there was no banker, no financing, no lawyers, no deal so what was he thinking? why did he make that announcement why did he make it without having a price or funding, sorry, he did have a price and he did say he had funding. there were a whole bunch of investors in the market who were buying and selling during that time that information was out there. so so for sure, i would encourage, make sure that the enforcement division was on this and was on it quickly. especially as he continues to tweet and get more and more information out there. that seems to maybe contradict or not tell the whole story. >> how likely do you think enforcement action is against mr. musk >> i would say substantially likely there are a number of different avenues the commission can take and it

craig unger joins us right now, i thank you not just for being here, but for writing a book that answersion that i have had for months now. what is this thing -- he wants to have miss universe, he wants to have otel over there. he wants to have meetings with russia, his kids show up. i think i have dealt with two russians in my life. what is this guy's link to russia. >> you know michael cohen who happened to be donald trump's lawyer, and he was also a lawyer for the italian mafia, and in the '80s they began making a lot of money, and they needed to launder it. and there was a man with ties to the russian mob, he went into trump tower, he met donald trump and handed him 6 milli$6 millio ca cash. >> so the russians have a lot of money, they make ill gotten gains, since the fall of the soviet empire, they have made a lot of money off oil and everything else. why do they have to launder it? what's their motive? >> there's a trillion dollars in flight capital from russia wince vladimir putin has been president. that's a lot of money to launder. the russian mob and the oligarchs seized the pr

we are all out of corn flakes after you put me three hours to figure out that fu was felix unger. >>e wrote murder by death, the sunshine boys, and barefoot in the park and earned a slew of awards and nominations. he spoke to rita braver about the universal appeal of his work. >> many times i would go to the theater and stand in the back and people would come up and they'd say, how did you know my father? how do you know my cousin? i seem to touch that aspect of their lives that's familiar with them as familiar with me. >> do you like it that you have the ability to make us laugh? >> oh, sure. i mean, making a connection with millions of people is pretty good. >> neil simon was 91 years old. >>> up next, >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music] this is not a bed. it's a revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now, from $899, during sleep number's 'bigges

with felix's tidiness, and, at one point, he talks about leaving and he gives the reason to lemmos unger and says, you know, felix, i really don't think two single men living in an eight-room apartment should have a cleaner apartment than my mother. i thought that was, kind like, you know, that is still for people the essence of what he was getting at, about getting along withople. >> peter, we just have a short time. just thinking about the weol career, very prolific, but that meant misses as well as hits,'s and the lot been written about how perhaps the humor taste change, the humor went out of style, thcae criacclaim that didn't come and then did come, where do you see hs legacy and the lasting impact? >> it's going to be wthe comedies. he tried to move into more h dramatic form saw the changes himself. his audience was moving on a there were more serious forms he wanted to pursue. i think had some success with those with loss in yonkers and the drilli ji you mentioned, aut he's going to be remembered for the plays tt made my mother laugh the loudest. >> brown: peter marks from "the w

who has been investigating donald trump's rise to power, and the alleged links to russia, is craig ungere between donald trump and russia, saying that the russians have been cultivating donald trump for yea rs have been cultivating donald trump for years and years, but there is a very different issue, is now, between donald trump perhaps having some financial dealings with russia that might be suspect and the idea that might be suspect and the idea that he colluded with russia to get him elected. nobody has produced any evidence of that. you included. well, i went back to the beginning. i think we have been bombarded with new stories about this, and i wanted to show the big picture, so i went back more than 3a years and showed how the russians allied with donald trump and used trumped real estate to launder hundreds of millions of dollars. —— trump real estate. 0ne thing i want to get across about the russian mafia is that it is a state actor. i talked to a general who had been head of counterintelligence for the kgb, and when i asked him about the kgb, and when i asked him about the rus

venezuela earlier this year to reveal corruption in a government food aid program for the poor and helen unger in turkey was just sued by, quote, allies of president erdogan for sharing their business holdings in the paradise papers. i will talk about two cases of reporting and hostile political climate and try to draw lessons that will hopefully be helpful that others. both of these stories are from latin america. one from my reporting in honduras and one from an eye cia member who is the leading television journalist in nicaragua. the first case took place during the world bank project in which i was reporting on a peasant community that claimed it was violently displaced from its land by a company financed by the world bank. i went to a region in honduras where there was a land conflict between peasants and big agriculture companies with two honduran reporters including ramirez who is now our member in honduras. soon after we got there i met with the commander of a brutal military unit, which was also involved in the palm oil companies in the eviction of farmers. we had never met before but

joining me now is craig unger, author of the new book "house of trump, house of putin: the untold story trump and the russian mafia." now, let me ask you, craig, the russian mafia. this is not hyperbole here. you're saying donald trump has had involvement with the russian mob. the mafia, as we know it, in this country? is. >> absolutely. i'm talking about people on the fbi most wanted list. people who have been indicted for money laundering and convicted. and i go back to 1984 when a man went into trump tower, put down $6 million, that's the equivalent of $15 million today, in cash, and said, i'll take five condos. and he was effectively laundering money, according to the state attorney general of new york. you hear all this talk about revoking national security clearances. if there is one man who would never get a security clearance in a gazillion years, it's donald trump. one thing, you have to show your tax returns. but having more than 30 years of laundering money, his real estate has laundered hundreds of millions, actually billions of dollars for the russian mafia. >> now, engagin

craig unger, thank you for being here. a pleasure to talk to you. oyee .ing] (vo) progress is in the pursuit. audi will cover your first month's lease payment on select models during summer of audi sales event. >>> i have people coming to me, some people in congress, sir, can you get this deal done immediate? i said, it doesn't work that way. i can't go that fast. we have to take time. it has to gestate, right? it's like when you're cooking a chicken. turkey for thanksgiving. my mother would say, oh, eight hours. i said, eight hours? show made the greatest turkey i've ever had. it takes time. >> welcome back to "am joy." the word is definitely not gestate. at the end of a very bad week for donald trump, one can't help but ask is he unraveling? my next guest who has known the president for 15 years, he says when watching the president in the white house, his mental decline cannot be declined. joining us is omarosa, former white house aide, and author of "unhinged," currently at number one on the "new york times" best sellers list. good morning. >>. good mor