he found the fraud while working for my next guest william browder.e the biggest foreign investor in russia but he was expelled from russia. he has much light to shed on trump junior's meeting and the players in on it. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> it seems as though this approach and this meeting was all about repealing or undermining the act. what i want you to explain is we thought the reason the russian government liked donald trump more than hillary clinton was they thought trump would be better for russia, softer in some ways, more cooperative but now we see a specific ask which is they wanted the end to the magnisky act. that specifically targets individuals and not the russian committ economy. >> we figured out there's probably 10,000 people in russia that commit very grave human rights abuses and crimes for money. they take that money and keep it in american banks and british banks and swiss wabanks. they sent their kids to boarding schools and girlfriends to milan on shopping trips. the one thing we figured is not to let them ke

from one suchhear individual -- william browder. i do not know mr. owder that it is my understanding that in july 2016, he filed a fara complaint alleging that a number of individuals failed to register their russian backed lobbying efforts against the y act. ski act --magnitsk among those names in mr. browder's campaign is the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya who met with the trump campaign in june 2016 with the understanding that she would offer incriminating information into hillary clinton. that mr.understanding browder is very familiar with another russian figure who attended the june 9 meeting. because of their work to oppose the magnet ski act -- magnet ski-magnitsky acts. his experience with these pacific individuals and his rod or understanding of how the russian government operates, may well advance the committee's understanding of what motivated that meeting. at least i hope it will. -- i look forward to hearing from our witness today and with that i yield this. >> thank you, i will first introduce mr. browder, ceo of an investment fir

william browder is an american financeer, who fell afoul of vladimir putin whose lawyer, he says, i think there's good evidence, murdered at the hands of the russian state and who named the mag it in ski act and lobbied for the act in defense of him, right? that he is the sort of driving american force behind these sanctions, which, just to be clear, the russian government hates, they really freaked out when he passed them, putin hates him, his inner circle hates them. it is a prime objective to get rid of them, correct? >> as soon as they were passed, russian/u.s. relations hit the lowest point since the cold war. putin called them outrageous and he banned americans from adopting russian children. when you hear about russia's adoption policy, it's usually just a way for them to refer to the mag it in ski act. >> it is also notable that here, even if the meeting went down the way that some of the participants have characterized, which, again, we do not know and there is no reason to believe, because we've gotten five different stories, that the two things would be placed next to each othe

children it's been revealed that mr browder has been gathering information about me so who is william browder maybe not a familiar name for most but for storage he's in russia he's a wanted man quite literally he's wanted for tax fraud on top of this leaked us state department e-mails reveal that brown it was actively gathering information about the vessel and its guy ahead of when this scandal broke and that included personal details such as where she lives so given this information in beslan it's seems quite convinced that browder has harbored a personal vendetta against her perhaps something to do with the facts that he once lost a case in court to her now this was a two thousand and thirteen case in which a vessel in its guard represented the cyberspace company previn's on holding which is owned by a russian businessman wrote to have accused the company of money laundering. the case was finally settled in may this year with no admission of guilt by a purpose on you for mr browder and his team have been gathering information about my family to try to find out whether i'm married or not whe

page fund investor william browder who years ago lobbied for the first set of unto russian sanctions known as the big act has been testifying in u.s. congress it's part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the u.s. election and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between trump and russian lawyer natalia skiable let's cross live knowledge or to using. indeed what was said after hearing. well if you were to believe everything that we just heard in two hours of bill browder testimony before the judiciary committee we would come to the conclusion that russia and vladimir putin himself are the ultimate evil in the world let's take a listen to some of what was sad. it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals the russians are liars if threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping the russians will do anything they can get away with it even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill to take people's properties away in the face of evil i don't think there's any other way to characterize black

up at the it's been revealed that mr prouder has been gathering information about me so who is william browder maybe not a familiar name for most but for thirty's in russia he's a wanted man quite literally he's wanted for tax fraud on top of this leaked us state department emails reveal that brown who was actively gathering information about wrestling at sky ahead of when this scandal broke and that included personal details such as where she lives so given this information beslan it sky seems quite convinced that browder has harbored a personal vendetta against her perhaps something to do with the facts that he once lost a case in court now this was a two thousand and thirteen case in which a vessel in its guard represented the cyberspace company previn's on holding which is owned by a russian businessman wrote to have accused the company of money laundering. the case was finally settled in may this year with no admission of guilt by a preface on you war mr browder and his team have been gathering information about my family to try to find out whether i'm married or not whether i have childr

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again you this hedge fund investor william browder who lobbied for the first set of russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in the us congress it's part of the investigation and moscow's alleged meddling in the us presidential election and he's given his account of the infamous meeting between team trump and the russian boy i tell you it's guy and that's cos life to ati's calabar across this force what's been said of the hearing. well we've just heard bill browder speaking before the senate judiciary committee in washington d.c. now his testimony it really kind of focused on the foreign registration act of the foreign agents registration act law in the united states which monitors the activities of people directly working for foreign governments he argued that he felt that this law was not broad enough was not sweeping enough it is important to note that bill browder is one of the main people who pushed for the magnitsky act was the primary imposition of sanctions on russia now in his testimony he certainly used some rather inflammatory rhetoric and talked abo

hedge fund investor william browder who years ago lobbied for the first sets of until russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in the us congress is part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the u.s. election last year and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between trump and the russian boy in the sky let's go live to new york awful this force the skull of open collar but good to see you again what was said of this hearing that well this was a hearing of the senate judiciary committee and there was a strong anti russian sentiment the star witness was former hedge fund investors bill browder and he testified as if he were a kind of expert on russia and many times members of congress made a point of congratulating him and commanding his courage thanking him for his work etc this is some of what we heard before the judiciary committee. it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals the russians are liars if threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping the russians will do anything they ca

the hedge fund investor william browder who years ago lobbying for the first set of until you russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in u.s. congress it's part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the us election and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between team trump and russian lawyer and italian vessel needs guy ortiz killed martin takes up the story . and if we were to believe everything we heard from bill browder in his testimony before congress we would think that russia and vladimir putin in particular were almost the source of all evil in the world let's take a listen to what was said before the senate judiciary committee it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals to threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping in the face of evil i don't think there's any other way to characterize me or putin the russians will do anything they can get away with but even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill to take people's properties away the russians are

the law was passed through a tireless effort of william browder who will testify here today. mr. magnitsky was mr. browder's lawyer and friend. in 2016, mr. browder filed a complaint with the justice department's fara enforcement unit. he alleged that a group of unregistered agents were working on behalf of the russian government to get rid of the law named after his late friend. he said these unregistered agents lobbied congress. he said they organized a screening of a propaganda video with hill staffers and state department officials. the propaganda video smeared mr. magnitsky and mr. browder. what this video represents is a pretty cute operation, the foreign agents also published propaganda to news outlets trying to get bogus stories published by respectable organizations, as we learned after this hearing was scheduled, they apparently lobbied the trump campaign and the trump family. yet the justice department didn't require any of them to register as foreign agents. one individual identified as mr. browder's complaint is glen simpson, founder of fusion gps. since march 2017 i

orchestrated story concocted by one particular manipulator and that is mr brown so who is this william browder that this is spying on her and concocting what she calls smear campaign is the businessman who are on one of the biggest investment companies in russia in the nine hundred ninety s. before being blacklisted by the russian government for allegedly running tax evasion schemes and convicted for that. since he never returned to moscow after two thousand and six he was also the boss of lawyers to the game of needs who died in russian jail in two thousand and nine after reportedly investigating tax fraud and his death prompted the act of two thousand and twelve essentially sanctioning several dozen russian officials and other individuals but according to another e-mail revealed in the league troll of which contain suggestions this only its goal was spied on by brothers men not everyone is buying into the broader narrative and he sees investigative reporter kim delaney and broader story on his as was largely false and even misled lawmakers including ben cardin with the core claim by delaney

the law was passed through a tireless effort of william browder who will testify here today. mr. magnitsky was his lawyer and friend. in 2016 -- >> you are watching a hearing from the senate judiciary committee covering largely foreign lobbying. there's a huge amount of crossover here with that issue and the current various russia investigations going on in congress, not to mention the special counsel has to do with michael flynn, with paul manafort, has to do with various groups that created the dossier. a lot of overlap here. inside this hearing we expect to hear from the inspector general at the justice department who is investigating various things that overlap with the russia investigation as well, including james comey, his firing dating back to his investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails. a lot going on right now. we are going to keep our eye on it going forward. >> let's discuss as we monitor this with our panel. paul callin, selena zeno, who was at the trump rally last night and mark preston as well as jim sciutto. to you all, where to begin. i guess, jim sciutto, wit

there is a key witness right now testifying, william browder, personally knows the russian lawyer who met with donald trump jr. in the controversial sit-down last summer. >> he's on capitol hill with more. this is part deux, part two of the hearing, what is significant about browder? >> he is an individual at one point one of the largest investors in russia and he has firsthand knowledge of alleged corruption with the russian government, about vladimir putin and instrumental in pushing the magnitsky act that became law here in the u.s. in 2012. and something that russia now wants to repeal. but in addition to all of that he has firsthand knowledge of some of the players who are in that trump tower meeting on june 2016 with donald trump jr., with paul manafort, with jared kushner, with other russians, that same meeting of course we've been reporting about how donald trump jr. was promised dirt from russians in an effort that he was told by the russian government to help his father's campaign. now, one of the key questions that investigators are looking at right now is whether or not th

we're talking about william browder, who has been declared a threat to russian's security. appreciate your time, bill. good to talk to you again. you will be testifying before the senate judiciary committee tomorrow and you are very central in their discussions. you plan on speaking about two key people, two of the key people in that room with donald trump jr. that is the russian lawyer and a russian american lobbyist who served in what was the soviet military. both deny working for the russian government. what do you know about their role? >> well, what i know for sure is that that the lawyer who represents the family of a senior member of the putin regime. she was paid for, funded and acted on behalf of this person in the united states in relation to withdrawing the magnitsky sanctions and trying to cover up for a -- or to get them released from an investigation by the justice department money laundering from the crime that magnitsky exposed. renad has paid for by her. >> that's the lobbyist. >> that's the lobbyist. that's the other guy. basically, the money from flowing

those sanctions and has locked horns with some of those russian players involved in that meeting, william browder, it is great do have you with me. as we think about how much has kind of been unearthed just this month about what happened a year ago, and the talk of the magnitsky act, would it surprise you if your name came up in that meeting? >> i'm quite certain that my name did come up in the meeting. in fact, natalia veselnitskaya, the russian lawyer who was present there, has gone on various television stations to say that she had made -- provided various documents about me and magnitsky in that meeting. and so i'm quite sure that i was one of the subjects of that conversation. >> bill, why do you think that you would become such a nemesis to veselnitskaya, to vladimir putin, the kremlin as a whole? >> well, it's pretty simple. so my lawyer, sergei magnitsky, was murdered in 2009 after uncovering a $230 million government corruption scheme. putin was a beneficiary of that scheme. i then lobbied very hard to get sanctions in place in the united states which ended up in the magnitsky act in 201

william browder. his tax attorney, sergey magnitsky. he was arrested and died under mysterious circumstances, eventually in a moscow prison. browder announced the magnitsky act. it brings us back to the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya. to get the magnitsky act repealed, something browder says putin made -- >> the richest man in the world, worth $2 billion. that money is held all over the world in bank in america and all over. the purpose of putin's regime is to commit crimes to get that money. he doesn't want to lose that money by having it frozen. he, personally, is at risk of the magnitsky act. as a result, the only way he could get people to do such terrible things is if you do them, there is no consequence. you will avoid impunity. as a result, he can no longer give impunity. >> with us now, a former president and gone to war with vladimir putin. great to see you again. >> thank you for bringing me back. by the way, russia also said they wanted me dead. >> exactly. you and bill browder are similar in that form. he clearly made

i want to go to william browder.time russia krit tim has been declared a threat to authorities. he was sergey magnitsky's boss. the kremlin denies knowing veselnitskaya. you just heard she denies any links. what makes you believe that she was acting as a proxy for vladimir putin and the russian government? >> well, first of all, any time the kremlin denies something, you should always assume that they are lying because they do so on a regular basis. but in her case, we have all sorts of evidence that she was acting on behalf of the russian government. starting with the fact that the general prosecutor of russia wrote a huge long editorial in the russian newspaper specifically talking about all of the activities of veselnitskaya in the united states and talking about how important they were in terms of their policies. on top of that, when veselnitskaya was out in washington and in brussels promoting the anti-magnitsky platform, she had television crews from all of the russian government television stations following h

now when i had caught up with lindsey graham after the pretty dramatic remarks by william browder, he very clearly, that perhaps this was not the only time that the russians met with the trump campaign and it pushed dirt and also to ask for something in exchange. and he said this is something congress needs to look into further. here's what he said. >> it's also hard for me to believe that once the trump campaign expressed a desire to get help, yeah, love it, maybe later in the summer it'd be better, but that meaning it was one and done. that contact came from a person that mr. browder said should have been registered as russian agent. the russian female lawyer, the likelihood that contact needs to be looked into. >> reporter: now he also had some serious concerns about the possibility that trump may get rid of jeff sessions and bob mueller as a special council. and as a result, lindsey graham is drafting legislation, bipartisan tloegs try to insulate the special council from political pressure to say that if the special council were to be -- try to be fired by the president of the un

i am william browder, founder and ceo of hermitage capital management, once the largest foreign investment advisor in capacity, iin that discover -- we discovered massive corruption, in the companies that we invested in, to bite -- to fight the corruption. we started researching how they went about -- how the oligarchs went about the stealing and shared that research with the international media. this naming and shaming campaign, had some positive effects on the share price of the company and it was also -- it made russia a better place for some. of time. -- for some period of time. but you can imagine, exposing millions of dollars in malfeasance upset the people benefiting from it. the steeple had very close connections with the putin regime. -- november20 5 2000 five, i was expelled from the country and declared a threat to national security in response to my anticorruption activities. in june of 2007, might moscow office was raided by 25 officers from the moscow interior ministry, and 25 more officers raided the office of my american law firm. in those rates, they thought to get the sta

the law was passed to a tireless browder. william mr. ben nitschke was his lawyer and friend. complaint anded a alleged that a group of unregistered agents were working on behalf of the russian government to get rid of the law named after his late friend. he said these unregistered agents lobbied congress. he said they organize a videoing of a propaganda with hill staffers and state department officials. the video smeared mr. ben nitschke -- what this video represents is in operation, before and agents also published propaganda to news outlets trying to get bogus stories published by respectable organizations. hearingarned after this , they apparently even lobbied the trump campaign and family. the justice department do not require them to register as foreign agents. is glenn simpson, founder of using gps. -- fusion gps. i have been asking about the russians who were working with fusion gps to smear him and undermine the act. is thepson's company same firm that oversaw the creation of the unverified trump dossier. around the same time fusion helped orchestrate a campaign to --

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