organization and a computer server in moscow associated with a big russian bank called alfa bank. and what this slate article described is hard to put your finger on in terms of significance but the gran lar reporting was there as an unusually high volume of server to serve every communications between those two towers and there was no information about the content. there were explanations offered as to why the serves may have been communicated with each other but it was never explained in terms of what the significance of that information was. because of that, because it didn't have a clear bottom line, i think ultimately that story withered away in the public consciousne consciousness. whatever the reason was why the trump organization servers and the alfa bank servers were talking to each other during the campaign, it's interesting but there wasn't a connection between donald trump and alfa bank. so interesting story, we don't really know what it means and the whole thing went to the back of the stack in terms of things to worry about when it comes to donald trump and russia. maybe that

. michael bebeschloss, thank you. >>> moscow has retaliated big-time against u.s. sanctions and so far silence from the president of the united states. that story is next. plp blp what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley >>> it was december, 1988. the head of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, was visiting new york city and making his way to d.c. for a state dinner. and donald trump got word that mr. gorbachev had decided to stop at trump's new glittery property on fifth avenue, trump tower. >> mr. trump? >> how are you? >> just come down very briefly. we were on our way. we wanted a couple of minutes. >> a great honor. >> except that was not the real mikhail gorbachev. instead, it was a renowned gorbachev impersonator. donald trump had been duped. the following day, he did get to meet the real gorbachev at a state dinner. that was 1988. but two years earlier, things we

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loose from the trump tower-moscow story this week. the president's eldest son, don jr., will be testifying to congress soon. we've got first word about that yesterday. we got really interesting development in that story this afternoon. a little more on that coming up later on in the show. the don jr. testimony plan is apparently already getting messed with by the white house and by the president personally. again, more on that later. and as josh dawsy just referenced, about the news he broke in politico tonight, that eric schneiderman and bob mueller is working together. there's also news from the financial times that the mysterious russian fixer who turned up at that trump tower meeting last june, that has such an intriguing background in hacking attacks where documents are stolen from people's computer servers and then used for good political reasons, he apparently has been called before robert mueller's grand jury to give several hours worth of testimony. that happened on august 11th. we're just learning about it today from ft. so lots going on. but there's something else tha

because any extra money to counter russian media influence would anger moscow. the official continued, quote, hammond said the secretary is in the process of working through disagreements with russia, and this is not consistent with what we're trying to do. joining us now is the author of that scoop, nahal tusi. thank you so much for being here. what is the -- the state department is explaining they don't want to take this money, which has already been allocated by congress, for congress, because they don't want to anger moscow. is that really their reason for not taking the money? >> that's one of the reasons that people have been given as to why rex tillerson has not yet tapped this money. most of the money right now is based at the pentagon, about $60 million of it. and it expires on september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. we've also been told other reasons. tillerson wants to shrink the department and reorganize the department. there's questions if this center fits in with this vision. the russia angle is also there, too. it's very unclear what's going to happen, because if th

moscow. >> rose: what did he do in moscow. >> remember at the republican meeting when somebody quipped there are only two people in the pay of putin -- and paul ryan said just kidding don't ever say that outside this room. >> rose: here it is. full frontal. >> we turn to forty afternoon c-span to hear dana articulate the party line on collusion. apparently after a liquid lunch at the old debit grill. >> if someone says to you that they want to give you information, there is nothing wrong with that. this was a legitimate thing to ask and determined there was absolutely nothing wrong, by the way i am the chairman of the europe, asian, europe and euroasian subcommittee including emerging trusts. >> you are. jesus someone get him out of here until he starts to drool -- okay you slurred your pc. i'm sure the rest of your colleagues would like a turn. >> i would yield to my colleague. >> i appreciate so much my very good friend from california. >> hey, nice crowd you guys have there. haven't seen that many empty seats since ted cruz's birthday party. >> rose: you still happy that is

aide, then became a congressman from -- what did he do in moscow? jo: remember the republican meeting when somebody quipped there were only two people in the pay of vladimir putin, dana rohrabacher and trump? and paul ryan last and said not to repeat that. charlie: here's a clip. samantha: we turn to c-span to hear dana rohrabacher talk about collusion. apparently after a liquid lunch at the grill. >> if someone says to you they want to give you information, there's nothing wrong with that. that was a legitimate thing to ask, and determine, absolutely, there's nothing wrong with -- by the way, i am the chairman of asian and, europe and eurasian subcommittee, including emerging threats. [laughter] samantha: you are? jesus. somebody get him off. before he accidentally starts a war in -- you have slurred your piece. i'm sure the rest of your colleagues would like a turn. >> i appreciate it so much, my very good friend from california. samantha: nice crowd you guys got there. i haven't seen that many empty seats since ted cruz's birthday party. charlie: are you still happy that is a 30 mi

congress of being responsible for the damaged relationship with moscow. he attacked the intelligence community. how does an executive like that expect to engender loyalty across the administration when he is constantly pointing fingers and putting blame and criticism in all directions? >> i agree as a practical matter it is sort of the inevitability of what you are describing, constant attacks including on the intelligence community which are damaging. it is inevitable this kind of thing will happen. it does not make it right that a public servant in the intelligence community or anywhere else takes this kind of action in response. the president is allowed to criticize whoever he wants to criticize, including his own government. it does not make it ok for officials to release it. the long-term implications are extremely damaging. >> there is additional value for us at "the washington post" because when we published our story earlier in the year as characterizing the conversation with turnbull as acrimonious, trump the next date announced denounced the story as fake news. the presiden

damaged u.s. relationship with moscow. >> he attacks the intelligence community. >> right, he attacks the intelligence community. how does an executive like that expect to engender any loyalty across the administration when he's constantly pointing fingers of blame, accusations, criticism in all directions. >> i agree as a practical meter that, sort of the inevitability of these constant attacks, including on the intelligence community, which is really damaging. as a practical matter, one could argue, it's inevitable, that this happens, but it doesn't make it right, though. it doesn't make it right that a public servant within intelligence community, or anywhere else, takes this kind of action in response -- the president is allowed to criticize whoever he wants to criticize, including his own government. it doesn't make it okay for officials within u.s. government to release it. again, i think the long-term implications are extremely damaging. >> there's additional value for us here at "the washington post." when we published our story earlier this year, characterizing this conversat

how they are addressing unique challenges. we will also look at moscow's massive renewal program and how refugees are flowing into the amazon. all that ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪