jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. it's a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. the leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb bank's connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian spying investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. at least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for americans to give them investigation to help them with their spying efforts against america from their home base in new york where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really they were spies. so there was the alfa bank servers communicating with the trump organization for some reason. what's that russian bank got to do with anything. then in the transition there's jared kushner meeting with the head of veb bank for some reason. what

it's a very large russian bank not as big as veb bank but it is very big. vtb pabank is sanctioned by the u.s. government as punishment for crimea because this bank is seen as the russian government. it's an arm of the russian government and that's how the u.s. government views them. in fact if you go to vtb's website tonight, click on about vtb and they'll tell you in exact mathematical terms how they're controlled by the russian government. the russian government owns and controls 60.9% of the vtb bank. the majority shareholder of the vtb bank is the russian government. what that means in plain english is that putin runs vtb. putin controls the bank and what it does and what it spends on. and today we learned that up until last year, up until the middle of the presidential campaign, vtb bank was lined up and committed to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in financing to build trump tower moscow. the russian government was going to do that deal. actually, even without the knowledge that the financing for this deal was going to come from the russian go

so there's vtb bank, there's veb bank, both sanctioned by the u.s. government for their close links to the putin regime, both of those banks inexplicably tied up with the campaign issues. another u.s. sanctioned bank close to putin, which is the bank that decided to hire donald trump's top russia lawyer to work for them on a legal case in new york this spring. really, of all the guys? and before all that, there was alpha bank, another big russian bank linked with putin. but alpha bank is not sanctioned by the u.s. government. in fact, they're trying to become a big business in the west and in the u.s. to give a little brand distance from their russian origins, the western interests of alpha aren't being called alfa, they're being called letter one. letter two, beta, right? even with the new wink and a nod name change, alfa still has a problem. alfa is the bank that turned in the very strange story before the election. breaking the news about large-scale, unexplained computer server interactions between an alfa bank server in russia and a trump organiz