and what the guardian did was pate connections between yuri milner and jared cushion or in a companyhat gerrard added vested in as some kind of nefarious evidence of collusion when in fact yuri milner has close ties to the clinton family he did a panel at davos with eric schmidt the c.e.o. of google and chelsea clinton he is given an award to morgan freeman who's become one of the kind of spokesman for russia gate through a neo con front group i mean yuri milner is a friend of mark zuckerberg so he's pretty much what we're talking about is oligarchs doing business with each other and it's framed in terms of anyone who does business with anyone who is a russian national being scandalous that's mccarthyism i mean even in the mccarthy era people who were not were drummed up at least for communist suspicions not on the basis of simply coming from a country that we don't like and so this is what we're seeing in the past few days but if you look at any of the things that rachel maddow or any of these figures have been covering for example that russia tempted to hack voting systems in twent

and what the guardian did was pate connections between yuri milner and jared cushion or in a companythat gerrard vested in as some kind of nefarious evidence of collusion when in fact yuri milner has close ties to the clinton family he did a panel at davos with eric schmidt the c.e.o. of google and chelsea clinton he is given an award to morgan freeman who's become one of the kind of spokesman for russia gate through a neo con front group i mean yuri milner is a friend of mark zuckerberg so he's pretty much what we're talking about is oligarchs doing business with each other and it's framed in terms of i mean even in the mccarthy era people who were not were drummed up at least for communist suspicions when these stories fall apart and when the secretary of states of california texas and what was constant say you know the russians actually didn't try to go in there are people getting killed the helicopters are crashing there's was a big story here and the woman government yeah you know that so the risk is not only to journalism but they're not expose covering stuff that's actually im

yuri milner.vise forms about his assets including a tech company called cadre. >> this weekend kushner revised financial disclosures yet again, having inadvertently omitted 77 assets. >> turns out he found more than 75 different assets his lawyer said he plumb forgot to reveal before. >> two stood out, among most valuable assets, first a tech company called cadre. >> tech company called cadre, founded by kushner family, apparently forgot to list. oops. we founded this company but forgot it exists and didn't list it. that was exposed in july. before he was busted, kushner's lawyers made a big show how many assets he disclosed and divested. lot of trump supporters saying media is always slamming mistakes around russia but we filed freedom of information act to report on kushner. i reported it looked like he was doing things by the book. >> by the book, credit from the media, that was in our report in february. but it didn't last because by july this cadre problem surfaced with kushner reporting he h

investment vehicles to buy stakes in some of the world's biggest companies russian tech investor yuri milner who owns a company called digital sky technologies or d.s.t. is a key link in these operations now milner also invested in card or a startup founded by jared cushion or donald trump's son in law actually there's the smoking gun on russian meddling here's how some of the biggest players responded. we announced via an aug twenty eighth that the s two global led a round of investments in twitter they have since divested their interest from twitter in may twenty fourteen it is worth noting that as a passive investor d.s.t. themselves had no voting rights or board seat the investment was made eight years ago and d.s.t. global has since sold all their holdings in facebook their stake ended five years ago when we went public this to global divested its position in facebook in twenty thirteen and into it in twenty fourteen shortly after each of those companies initial public offerings and well before the twenty sixteen u.s. elections. donald trump says that north korea will be front and cente

public face book of turned against russia and are recently but now we find out that this guy named yuri milner who invested big time in twitter during that he used a russian bank. bank that was under u.s. sanctions at the time so all those shares that were bought came from a bank under u.s. sanctions and also he has another bank to invest in facebook i wonder what twitter and facebook are going to do now and get what they're going to say about that i know are you anticipating any backtracking on this i've got and we've heard a lot of backtracking. you know playing the victim and things like that do you think we're going to see some public backtracking on the part of his to media companies. i don't know i just think i think most people will ignore it and let it go away that's usually what happens to news stories these days because tomorrow will be on to the next big story but i just again i just want to stress there's nothing illegal in any of the stories i've seen and not about the paris papers maybe there was some and yet for the highest yeah yeah well well what you're talking about here is y

wilbur ross with a pound links to russian businesses and revelations about the russian tech tycoon yuri milner documents examined by the new york times suggests that kremlin control . entity's bank and energy giant gazprom partnered with milner to acquire sizable chunks of facebook twitter the disclosure is likely to increase concerns over russia's use of social media to apparently interfere in last year's u.s. election. also in the spotlight of revelations around the investments of queen elizabeth the british monarch around thirteen million dollars from the queen's private estate the duchy of lancaster were invested in funds in the cayman islands and bermuda it's not illegal for the queen to have done that but given that she is the head of state and that her duties are paid for out of the public purse can she really afford to be secretive about her finances. some politicians are calling for a public inquiry into the findings anyone is. putting money into tax havens in order to avoid taxation in britain obviously investigations have to take place should do things not just apologize for it but

investments in twitter and facebook yuri milner received money from russian government backed entitiesestor in milner's facebook received money from gas prom we'll have statements from facebook and twitter later in the hour here. it's clear that there's a lot of tentacles in this as investigators start to go through the documents. which rulers and politicians are involved and in business with each other in ways you didn't expect. >> in secretary ross's rebuff there, he listed three forms he disclosed. does that, therefore, absolve him if there was any relationship between navigator and sibur given he did declare that stake he has and puts up to the next round of scrutiny for someone else to investigate that or does it not >> reporter: i think this is a complicated story. i haven't had a chance to dive into the documents myself yet. i think during the course of the day today people will match up the reporting that was done, the documents themselves and what we just heard moments ago from wilbur ross and see if all of that is in harmony or not. >> yeah. i still think any of these members

one is yuri milner and his stake linked back to kremlin funding.gn links under new scrutiny because of facebook responses to russian meddling. but issue here is broader than russia. ongoing reporting about facebook's pourl and sometimes hidden role in geopolitics. look beyond russia to another authoritarian governments abroad. turkey, erdogan government condemned by human rights groups. attacks protesters on american soil in trip to washington, d.c. same government under investigation potentially offering mike flynn a bribe to kidnap one of its enemies out of pennsylvania. at times facebook suggested would stand up to censorship in countries like turkey. after the horrific charlie heb def in, silence voices of everyone around the world, won't leave that happen on facebook. committed to creating a space to speak freely without fear of violence. sounded good. in turkey facebook began censors images of mohamed himself. zuckerberg laws limiting certain expression, content that defames ataturk is illegal in turkey. during that period in 2014, turkey had

at the heart of this story is a russian-born american educated tech investor named yuri milner. he's a venture capitalist and billionaire. youry through his company was an early and major investor in both facebook and twitter. it turns out that millions of dollars of the money that he was investing came from two sources. a subsidiary of russia's largest state-run corporation and the country's second largest bank. both are controlled by the kremlin. now, milner has sold his holdings after facebook and twitter went public. and by the way, he made quite a bit of money from those deals. >> interesting. so again, that relates to money that does, in your view, whatever the paper tail tied back to kremlin controlled entities. >> this is a separate story. obviously, we have the issue of wilber rur ross, who was holdin these holding companies and inside these holding companies were the connections through business to sanctioned individuals. and putin's son-in-law. and this is another thing revealed in the documents, which talk about early investments from -- into facebook and twitter and

start-up business he created with his brother received $850,000 in funding from russian billionaire yuri milneraked documents of the paradise papers reveal that milner invested in facebook and twitter with the help of money of state-run banks in russia. this revelation comes as investigators try to figure out the role of social media played in spreading russian generated fake information during the 2016 election and the company said the investments in facebook and twitter occurred in 2009 and 2011. when u.s./russia relations were better and said it die vested its position in facebook in 2013 and twitter in 2014 well before the 2016 u.s. elections. in an interview with bloomberg, natalia, the russian lawyer who met with jared kushner, donald trump jr. and paul manafort at trump tower in june of 2016 says that donald trump jr. indicated that a law targeting russia could be reexamined if his father won the election and asked for her written evidence that illegal proceeds went to hillary clinton's campaign. this is similar to what she told nbc news this summer in response to the report of white hou

wilbur ross with a pound links to russian businesses and revelations about the russian tech tycoon yuri milner documents examined by the new york times suggest that kremlin controlled entities bank and energy giant gazprom partnered with milner to acquire sizable chunks of facebook and twitter the disclosure is likely to increase concerns over russia's use of social media to apparently interfere in last year's u.s. election. also in the spotlight of revelations around the investments of queen elizabeth the british monarch around thirteen million dollars from the queen's private estate the duchy of lancaster were invested in funds in the cayman islands and bermuda it's not illegal for the queen to have done that but given that she is the head of state and that her duties are paid for out of the public purse can she really afford to be secretive about her finances. some politicians are calling for a public inquiry into the findings anyone is. putting money into tax havens in order to avoid taxation in britain obviously investigations have to take place should do two things not just apologize for

"the new york times" is reporting that russian billionaire yuri milner received money from russian government backed entities. milner's twitter was backed by vte. investor in milner's facebook deal received money from gasprom holdings more complexity between all of these entities we'll wait and see what the fallout is in silicon valley from this and of course the big mystery in all of this is who leaked these documents to the german newspaper in the first place. how did they get them? what were they intending to do when they put this out there for the public to see. >> you know, eamon, thinking about how all of this looks and what we hear ow, things do change in terms of what's acceptable and what's not. we've been to davos a lot. there's oligarchs everywhere we knew about ukraine, we knew about putin's adventures and we still knew that they were global players in a lot of different businesses with tentacles everywhere, with a lot of business interests with people in the united states, people in europe not until this whole collusion narrative came along did it suddenly become almost like you'