Michael Avenatti alleges Michael Cohen could have been reimbursed by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, for the $130K paid in hush money to Stormy Daniels (0.00). Mother Jones's David Corn tells Ari Melber that if the allegations are true, we have to consider whether Russians are trying to directly finance Trump and the RNC (16.15). A lawyer for a terror suspect who was tortured under Trump pick to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, speaks out ahead of her confirmation hearing (25.30). Nancy Erika Smith, an attorney who represented Gretchen Carlson in her case against Roger Ailes and Harvard Kennedy's Leah Wright Rigueur join The Beat to discuss the physical abuse allegations against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (37.05) and Bloomberg's Caleb Melby discusses Trump lawyer Michael Cohen putting his $9 million apartment up as collateral for bank debts (45.15).