About the the russia investigation. Chairman nunes has wren a memo alleging fbi misconduct over a warrant to eavesdrop on former Trump Campaign adviser carter page. The doj warning the release of the memo is extraordinarily reckless but that didnt stop the gop from voting to release it, exactly what President Trump wanted, and they know that. It comes on the same day as a surprise recess leg nation of fbi Deputy Director an new mccabe, who steps down in the wake of months of criticism from the president. We have a lot to cover in this hour. Jessica snyder, first up, good evening. Two major breaking stories today. First on this controversial partisan memo alleging the fbi misconduct, the house gop voted to release it. Now its over at the white house with President Trump to review. Whats the latest . Yeah, thats right. Sol memo has made its way to the white house. And at that point it will be reviewed by the white houses counsel, the National Security council, possibly the broader National Security community. This is a fiveday review window before the president must decide whether to declassify this and distribute it publicly. We reported it last week that the president is in fact inclined to make this public. But the white house says, look, dont expect any action before tomorrow nights state of the union. So really, what is this memo . Its a fourpage politically partisan memo that was drafted by republican staffers at the behest of Committee Chair devin nunes. At the heart of it, it accuses of fbi of abusing surveillance laws when it relied on the steele do is yes in part for a warrant on Trump Campaign adviser carter page. Democrats are up in arms, top democrat of the committee, adam schiff, says the memo skews the intelligence, he tried to get his own memo released but that failed in committee. Now congressman adam schiff is speaking out about it. Sadly, we can fully expect that the president of the United States will not put the National Interest over his own personal interest. But it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee. Because today this committee voted to put the president s personal interest, perhaps their own political interest, above the National Interest. In denying themselves even the ability to hear from the department and the fbi. And that is i think a deeply regrettable state of affairs. But it does show how, in my view, when you have a deeply flawed person in the oval office, that flaw can infect the whole of government and today tragically it infected our committee. And democrats there say that this doesnt only endanger sources and methods, but democrats are saying that the president and the republicans are using this memo overall to try to cast doubt on the russia investigation. And we have learned tonight that it is possible when the president goes over this fiveday review, when talking with the National Security community, it is possible that instead of releasing the whole memo, he could choose to release it in heavily redacted form, thats one option here. Or pieces of it, release whatever he wants to declassify. So the other news is deputy fbi director Andrew Mccabe unexpectedly out. What happened . He announced his departure this morning. In a meeting of senior executives. So at the meeting we know that he said it was his choice, however, some other sources are telling us that in fact he was pushed out. Director ray wanted to get some of his own people in there. So a bit more details trickling out throughout the day. We know in an allemployee email from the fbi director, Christopher Wray, he shed more light here. In the email, Christopher Wray hinted the Inspector Generals investigation into the fbis handling of the clinton email server investigation thats been going on for many months now, that may have played a part in mccabes unexpected exit. In that email, wray did not say exactly what was in the igs report. And he only said that he was not being swayed by politics. So thats the only information were getting from director wray. Interestingly tonight, one of the first people coming to mccabes defense, fired fbi director james comey. Tonight he tweeted this. He said, special agent Andrew Mccabe stood tall over the last eight months when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on, he served with distinction for two decades, i wish andy well, i also wish continued strength for the rest of the fbi. America needs you. So very strong, powerful words there from former fbi director jim comey. And of course weve seen in recent weeks jim comey has become much more outspoken on social media, really speaking out about what he seems to view as some injustices here. Jessica snyder, much appreciated. Congressman charlie dent, a pennsylvania republican. Congressman, thank you so much. So what is going on . Lets talk about this controversial memo. What is going on with the House Intel Committee . Do they have any credibility left when it comes to the russia investigation . Well, early on this investigation seemed to get off track. Devin nunes having to recuse himself early. It seemed the senate was on a much better trajectory to produce a bipartisan report and release findings i think that were going to be more acceptable. I think this is just further evidence that the house process is just not going as planned. Does this concern you, that this memo would be released without the source documents . The Justice Department warned it would be extraordinarily reckless for the House Intelligence Committee to release this without giving the fbi and Justice Department time to review it. Well, i have a lot of reservations about releasing this fourpage document. I was chair of the house ethics committee. Like the intelligence committee, we have to deal with very sensitive had to deal with very sensitive issues. This my case, we were dealing with personnel matters, in the case of intelligence committee, dealing with National Security secrets. I can tell you, when you do these investigations, you have to do them in a bipartisan manner. Better behind closed doors where you can have honest and open dialogue. When the cameras are on, youll be more guarded in what you say. But in that setting you want to do this behind closed doors because these are sensitive issues. I would be very hesitant to release this kind of information without inviting greater context. I have not read that memo yet, im planning to read it tomorrow. When you hear people like director clapper and general hayden and others urge caution, we should. It sets a precedent. House of representatives could flip next session, democrats could take control. If the democrats decide they want to issue their own memo, i suspect the administration would go april electric tick over that. Dangerous precedent. Yes. People at home, i dont know what the bulk id think the bulk of the country is thinking, if the department of justice thinks this is dangerous and reckless, cool your jets, hold your horses. Not to say the memo shouldnt come out at some point but everyone should get a chance to review it, to get their side in. Do they have to rush . I dont know what the rush is to be honest. I dont think there is a rush here. This can be more properly vetted. Id like a full Conference Discussion about this among house reps. Do you understand why people at home would think this is to protect the president , impede the investigation that its propaganda in some way given what weve just discussed . How it was released . The president and many others, myself included, have stated that we believe, i believe, director mueller is fair, thorough, honest. We should let him do his work. The president has insisted that he has done nothing wrong. Well, then why interfere with this process . Leave it alone. If youre the president of the United States, he shouldnt be talking about this investigation, except to say hes innocent and that he looks forward to director muellers findings. Instead of seeming to use allies and others to impede whats happening. You say that but as we talk about the fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe gone, comey out, trump ordered mueller fired, backed down because white House Counsel threatened to quit. There are reports the president was angry when he found out doj was pushing back on not releasing this information. Its now directed at the towards his, his anger, toward deputy general rod rosenstein. You say the president wants this to play out but are you concerned about the lines this president continues to cross . Yeah, in fact, not only concerned, but also bewildered. This is a republican administration. Rod rosenstein is an appointee of donald trump. As is Christopher Wray. As was Jeff Sessions. It just seems that the white house and the president seems at war with his own government. I really havent seen this. Going back to watergate, you mentioned mcgann, i think don mac dan did the nation a service when he basically prevented a saturday night massacre. Archibald cox moment. He saved us from that. I think by doing so he helped the president. I think it was david ger den saying it was a slowmotion saturday night massacre . Hes basically getting rid of everyone who is investigating him. Hes at war with his own party and the people he appointed. Why wont republicans they voted on party lines today to release that. Every single one of them. Why wont republicans stand up for you heard director clapper, you heard general hayden, saying the congress is there to keep checks on the president , and they have relinquished their power and authority to the president of the United States. Sadly, were supposed to have a system of checks and balances, where we its supposed to be a separation of powers, not a separation of parties. This predates this president. Ive seen parties protecting the president , instead of providing the robust oversight. This is concerning. If i were on that committee i would have raised concerns about moving forward on information this sensitive, this quickly, and particularly knowing doj and the Intelligence Community more broadly has great reservations about releasing this document because it could potentially reveal sources or methods. I think we ought to listen to them. I am surprised that this has occurred, disappointed that its happened. Thank you for representing pennsylvania. I used to live in philadelphia. I love that city. I love pennsylvania. Thank you for coming in. Thank you, don. The white house today saying nothing improper has been done in regards to the russia investigation, yet the president has fired or wanted to fire pretty much anyone in a position of power over that investigation. So who really has what the white house calls russia fever . Whats with him . Hes happy. Your familys finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. And they only take 15 minutes to make. 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They say the threat itself is acting as a deterrent. Well, i think the first thing thats bizarre is that Congress Passed these sanctions by overwhelming majorities, Single Digits voted against them in the house and the senate. Normally the way its supposed to work, if Congress Passes something, you have to veto it if you dont want to implement it. The first thing the administration wants to do is what is the legal justification for not abiding by the will of congress . The second thing is, given this president s eventualer in will on this issue and the outstanding questions about what happened in the 2016 campaign, its sort of surprising just politically they couldnt go forward. What this is relationship with russia . Another data point that theres something off about trumps relationship with this country. Youre at the white house pretty much every day, april. Sanctions at the root of so many key points in this investigation. Don jr. s trip to trump tower. The meeting with lies and misdirections around that. Flynns communications with kislyak. He lied to the fbi. Lost his job over it. So why . Why the interest did in not sanctioning russia . The atmospherics dont look good. I mean, at some point we have to use common sense. And what the common sense says, with everything you listed plus other things, it doesnt look good. It makes you wonder if there is the smoke is billowing even more. Where theres smoke, theres fire. The problem is, as were hearing about the sanctions and other things, and this mccabe issue where they created the atmosphere to force him, basically, out. The problem is, we have a president who said he was a law and order president. We have a president who said he was a law and order president , and hes shifting to get the pressure off of him. So or it doesnt look good, just does not look well. Mark, when you look at everything that has happened, he fired the fbi director james comey. He wanted to ouster the Deputy Director of the fbi who was pushed out today, Andrew Mccabe. He wanted to fire the special counsel, robert mueller. He wanted to fire the assistant attorney general, rod rosenstein, who oversees muellers russia investigation. Do they have any credibility when theyre wanting to fire or firing all these people, or having them pushed out, as it relates to this russia investigati investigation . You forgot one, he wanted to fire the attorney general, Jeff Sessions. To the point Jeff Sessions tendered his resignation and it wasnt accepted. I guess the one thing, weve talked about this in the past, the one thing that really is striking to me is that ive moved beyond what President Trump does or doesnt do. Its just very chaotic. Theres no semblance of order. What i have trouble, though, understanding is his supporters who are blindly following. Not that they cant support him, but no matter what he says, even if it is a lie, if it is a falsehood, call it what you will, they blindly follow him. You pointed out several different examples that would add gasoline to a fire that people would say, whoa, now theres a fire here, theres smoke, theres something here. We dont know whats there, if anything, or if he himself is involved. But the fact of the matter is, he still has that blind loyalty, astounding to me. Its unbelievable. I heard someone on i think our air, they were talking about over the weekend, talking about the Hillary Clinton investigation to the staffer, the sexual harassment. The democrat who was on said, i cannot condone that, i cannot make excuses for that, that is absolutely wrong, i do not support her in that. Why dont treasure supporters do that . They believe that we are against the press, is against them, and theyve pledged blind loyalty. Its all or nothing. They said, okay, were going to go with you, this former reality star, this billionaire. Were going to give you our trust blindly. To marks point, not that they cant support him, it doesnt mean that they have to support every he does. They make excuses for every single thing he does. Let me add, to what aprils saying, we saw this last week from tony perkins, head of the Family Research council. A lot of social conservatives, hardcore conservatives, look at donald trump as the vessel. The vessel to get what they want done. And they will turn a blind eye to other things. We saw that happen marriage, antiabortion, no taxes, all that kind of stuff. Right. So walk us through this. The president has five days to review the nunes memo. So they repeatedly indicated they wanted the memo out. Where do we stand . This memo is probably going to be released. Likely. Whats the impact . The impact is that you have a situation, imagine as a federal prosecutor, youd be able to write a memo to the jury and tell them why you think a defendants guilty, not allow the defense to issue their side of it, not show the evidence to anybody, not review it yourself, then be able to say with a wink and a nod, trust me, believe whatever is in it. What you have here is the acceleration of hypocrisy. You have people saying, id like you to go by innuendo alone and condemn or support me, but do not do the same for the other side. Where we see this going right now is the idea that were looking to vilify one of the main organs of the executive branch, the fbi. Looking to say this is an institution you cannot trust. Lets follow to the logical conclusion. Say for the benefit of the doubt that there is no conviction, there is no indictment coming for the president of the United States. If you take all the time and energy in the world to say that you cannot trust the result of the investigation, then where do you stand if it were to exonerate the president of the United States . I mean, its the quintessential cutting off ones nose to spite your face. It doesnt make sense to the American People and should not. One of the things youre talking about, the idea of why is this blindly following . The responsibility of any democratic Voting Member of our society is to question the things that do not make sense. And to call the attention of people and rely on congress to act in a way thats responsible. What were seeing right now is a politicization of an otherwise criminal probe. It should be out of their purview. Laura, we learned Christopher Wray threatened to quit if trump tried to fire Andrew Mccabe. Yet today were learning mccabe was pressured to leave because of wray. What do we know of this Inspector Generals report thats supposed to come out . Or that they have. Are there some answers in there . Are we going to know about this . All we know so far is that may have been one of the bases on which wray used to suggest to andy mccabe he should take administrative leave and retire a little early. What i find so troubling about this, as somebody who was a career official in the department of justice, not a political appointee, is that the safety of the people who you expect to be nonpartisan, which is a career official in the department of justice, able to outlive the tenure of any president , why . Because you rely, if you are the investigating body of doj, on the consistency of Institutional Knowledge. Not this at the whim, that every person transforms into a political appointee at the whim of the president. The ig report, most people do not know, although mccabe was already going to retire what were seeing is now you have career officials who were on the chopping block at the whim of the president , thats a very dangerous precedent. Forget morale, think about all the other investigations the fbi is doing that have nothing to do with this that are also on the chopping block. I want to point this out. The fbi special agent and cnn analyst tweeted this. Folks, remember that deep throat, the man who exposed nixons coverup in watergate, was the retired number two person at the fbi. And a short time later that former fbi director, james comey, tweeted this, saying special agent Andrew Mccabe stood tall when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on, he served with distinction for two decades, i wish andy wish, i also wish continued strength for the rest of the fbi, America Needs you. Is this president picking a fight that he will eventually regret . I dont know. Hi doesnt regret most of the fights. The common denominator in your comments is people with Institutional Knowledge in our government, in the Intelligence Services, the fbi, who are deeply troubled by the way that this president is politicizing the Intelligence Services and the fbi, that is the current running through all the commentators who are former government officials is that he is somehow debasing the institutions that we rely on to be nonpartisan and credible. And hes plit siding places that theres always a little bit of politics in these places, but hes taking it further than previous president s had. Were losing something in the process. Thats my takeaway from all the government officials who have spoken on this. On the memo, im a journalist, if theres a secret memo, i want to see whats in it. I think our republicans survived that memo becoming public. If its whatever vetting needs to be done. If its as politicized and b. S. As we think it is, then everyone can have that discussion. But as a journalist, i want to see whats in the memo. Its interesting, because people who have read the memo, at least on the democratic side, and i have the clapper and hayden said they didnt think that the folks who were releasing this memo, that they understand the fisa process. If they did, they wouldnt be making a mountain out of a molehill. Then that will be exposed. When we see this memo and understand it and it sees the light of day, if they look foolish by the memo, we can have that conversation. The problem is if its out there, you have an interpretation without competition that becomes fact for the American People. Nunes recused himself. Thats one thing right. Hes supposed to be recused. Thats what im saying. I appreciate it. When we come back, much more news, breaking news on the russia investigation, House Republicans released their version of the memo which is right now being reviewed by the white house. I also want to talk about the battle over immigration. 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Breaking news on the russia investigation, House Republicans voting tonight to release a partisan secret memo alleging fbi abuse of surveillance powers against the advice of the Justice Department. I want to talk to democratic congressman Luis Gutierrez about that and about the immigration battle and whether President Trump will keep his promises. You know what the big news is. Republicans in the House Intel Committee voted to release that memo. The Justice Department warned them that it would be reckless, that its dangerous, extremely reckless i believe were the words. Whats the committee trying to accomplish here . I think theyre trying to continue the chaos. In the chaos, maybe they believe they can get away with recklessness. Somehow get away with the illegality. Im a sponsor of a resolution of impeachment of the president of the United States of america. I believe that the moment that he fired comey and brought what did he do, remember, he said to the attorney general, why dont you get out of the room, ive got to talk to comey. He told his Vice President , you leave. After he told them to leave, we all know what comey has told us on the public record. Can you let us go or whatever. Let this go, and then, im firing you. Thats obstruction of justice, hes continued to do it, and since theres been the coverup. I was in college during watergate. I think we understand were seeing it all over again. Thats what theyre doing. They continue what they want to do is say that you are fake news at cnn and the Washington Post and the New York Times. So that they can debilitate a very important structure in our society, the news media, the press. A vibrant free press is whats important to maintain our democracy. So they destroy your credibility. Then theyve destroyed the underpinning of our democracy. Heres the one good thing that i have to say about that. Is that the presidency comes with term limits. Journalism does not. Cnn does not. The public will get another turn. Thats why we have to prepare for the next election. I wish the democrats had not folded in the senate. I wish they would have stood up for principle, stood up for the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, not sent that message. Because negotiating from a point of weakness now thats what i want to talk to you about immigration, as i was speaking to someone i know who as staunch progressive and democrat, which was my mother, she said, i dont understand what he did when it comes to immigration. Because we all got here some sort of way. Whether we were slaves, which is not immigrants, brought here by force. Or if you emigrated to this country. Then you had millions of people out marching that weekend. You had all those people out marching, you had the base who supported you. Why fold like a cheap suit is the question. It was because theyre going to put the prospects of a majority in the senate, by the democrats, theyre going to put the party ahead of the nation and ahead of principle. This is what the white house has released when it comes to immigration reform. Key points include a pathway to swip for 1. 8 million people. It ends a diversity lottery, extended family migration for new applicants. It allocates over 25 billion for President Trumps border wall and other security programs. I dont know why the wall is in there, mexico is supposedly going to pay for the wall, right . Whats your Biggest Issue with these points. It really isnt about the wall. If it were about the wall, the debate would have ended. Dick durbin went in with Lindsey Graham and offered 1. 6 billion as a down payment. On border security. Wall. Right . I met with the chief of staff of the president of the United States and i asked, can you define a wall for me . Heres what kelley said. He said, it could be the terrain. It could be inhospitable, they dont have to build anything. One of the things he did say, he said, ive educated the president. He made these illinformed decisions during the campaign about the wall. He said hes educated the president. I listened to that carefully. He said, it could be drones. He said, one thing its not, it isnt a 50foot cement wall from sea to shining sea. It was by a hundred thousand young kids who have a future in america. When you put their lives, you ask yourself what if theyre deported . What if theyre sent back . What if those ugly drug cartels, those human smugglers that are there, just waiting for them. And you cannot risk that this administration, they know where they live, they know where they go to school. So then where do you think daca is at this point . And is it worth making the deal to help the folks that you say . Heres what i one of the things i love about these young people is they said, if it means hurting other people in order for us to be helped, dont take the deal. I will say this. Remember, theyre coming after legal immigration. Theyre going to tell you that this is about building a wall to stop illegal immigrants. Then why are they going after the diversity visas . This is the first time black people can come to america as free men and women to this nation, right, with full dignity and full respect, and they want to stop it. Thats diversity visas. The other is chain migration. Thats about my mom and dad bringing me, bringing their brothers and sisters and family. They want to destroy the cornerstone of our democracy and our immigration system. Thank you, much appreciated. Come back more to d. C. , good to see you. Im try, thank you so much. 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Amanda, lets talk about this memo. Because the doj has said it would be extremely reckless to release it. Whats your reaction . Why jump on it . My first question is, do republicans really want to stake their credibility on the russia investigation based on something a staffer of devin nunes has written . I think thats a pretty risky proposition, given the representatives track record, he had this scandal hes trying to cover saying theres illegal activities going on by the white house, he has a secret source, lo and behold his secret source is the white house, thats why he had to recuse himself from the russia investigation. I doubt his staff is prepared to write a memo with such highlevel information. Given the fact that they also seem unwilling to fact check themselves with the proper agencies, i think should give all republicans pause before jumping on this bandwagon. Do you think he understands how the fisa process works . There are members of congress who have high degrees of credibility when it comes to National Security matters. Devin nunes is not among them. Not one of them, yeah. I want to play this, the minority leader nancy pelosi, what she told chris cuomo earlier tonight. I want to tell you something, let me say this. The Republican Party has, as i said, crossed over to coverup. Theyre deadly afraid of the russia investigation. We dont want the investigation to be anything but based on the law and the facts and let the investigation proceed. Thats the right thing to do for our country. We have to be respectful of law, we have to be respectful of intelligence absolutely. Doesnt she have a point . How is it appropriate for the House Intel Commission to operate this way on such an important issue . Well, look. I thought we were all for transparency and openness. And what i dont understand is why nancy pelosi is so nervous about this memo. I dont know whats in it but seems to me the democrats have reacted so negatively that they are worried there is some misconduct. Dont you think youre being a bit hypocritical . The democrats wanted their side of this memo released and republicans voted not to do it. Thats not transparency. Okay, so i guess what can be divulged to the American People should be. Whether its favorable or not. But lets get it out there, find out whether there was bias. You have no issue . Its not just nancy pelosi who was against this, it was the department of justice. The Republican Department of justice, a trumpappointee department of justice, who said this would be dangerously reckless to release this. Look, i would say that, look, that this speaks about the competence of the Justice Department. So you could see why people at the Justice Department might not want that information about the fbi revealed. Maybe its because they theyre not using the source documents to back it up. And to amandas point, its written by staff of the committee. If thats true, wont that come out . He hasnt read the source material, hes writing a book report on a book he hasnt read. If thats the case, you may be right about that, if thats the case, then republicans are going to look completely silly. Its not just that. This is not a republican or democrat thing. Because its a dangerous precedent to set. Because as laura said, you cannot put the genie back in the bottle. If you release this information and somehow you release sources and methods or confidential information, its already out there, you cant pull it back. Worse than that theres an Inspector General investigation going on right now which is important for people to understand. Every single Cabinet Agency has an Inspector General who is basically appointed, but theyre independent investigators, like the internal Affairs Department of every Cabinet Agency, including the Justice Department. And the Inspector General right now, hes doing his job. Hes the reason why we know what was in those Text Messages and things like that. The Inspector General, his report is going to come out and uncover any kind of misconduct that would potentially be going on here. Why do we need this politically motivated cover for the president coming from devin nunes and the republicans . I think this is irresponsible. Can you hold your thoughts to the other side of the break . Youll be the first to speak. Promise . I want to hear what you want to hear tomorrow from the president , and also talk about the first lady and Stormy Daniels. We packed new banquet mega bowls full of majestic piles of cheddar mac n cheese, smothered in mozzarella. But it wasnt mega. So we topped it with protein packed chunks of buffalostyle chicken. Now thats mega. Stay with me, mr. Parker. When a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. Stay with me, mr. Parker. 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But the problem with that is that even if he reads from the teleprompter and doesnt slur his words and doesnt insult communities and doesnt insult countries and doesnt insult our allies and doesnt cozy up to our adversaries, hes benefitting from incredibly low expectations. If he does just that, people will say look, he will be president ial. That does not erase a year of chaos, divisiveness, cozying up to white supremacists. Insulting every community of color there is. Women, disabled people. Its going to be jobs, the economy, the improvement. Hes going to talk about companies coming back to the United States. And look, when it all comes town to it when you look at what americans were most concerned about in 2006 and 2007 and 2008, its all the economy. And hes going totalkabout that. I saw the president today at the white house he gave a little preview of what hes talking act. He didnt seem too concerned about he didnt sound like a man who felt like he was under the gun on this fbi investigation. He seemed very in a jubilant mood about what was going on. The president meeting with supporters today from around the country in the white house. I want to continue to talk about the state of the union. Jim acosta is reporting the first lady is expected to attend the state of the Union Address tomorrow night. This is after an explosive wall street journal report about Stormy Daniels being paid before the election to keep quiet about an affair with donald trump. Sources are telling the New York Times that Melania Trump was blind sided by the news of a payoff. All eyes are going to be on the first lady tomorrow night. That will make an interesting side story. About Stormy Daniels, two things are interesting. The legal threats in 2011 were successful in blocking them from publishing the story at the time. The second thing is how familiar his lawyer is with setting up Shell Companies to hide a payment to keep a woman silent. That is very interesting to me and how deftly he navigated that matter. There was another story by buzz feed over the weekend that showed that one fifth of Donald Trumps properties are owned by all cash buyers set up through Shell Companies. These are two known markers for potential money laundering. These things put together with the trump teams ability to hide payments and having such a large influx of investors and their properties who not saying they were engaged in money laundering, but the fact that theyre signifiers is interesting to me. Is that whole deal with the investigation . Of course it is. Look, weve always said follow the money. Theres a reason why donald trump would not release his tax returns. Its for reasons just like this. He has had to have foreign money prop him up since his fourth or fifth bankruptcy, including russian money. Deutsche bank which is under swiss investigation for questionable dealings and has had a lot of russian mob money, all these things are problematic for donald trump in his properties in the United States and overseas. Thats why he said finances would be a red line in the mueller investigation. I have always thought that finances were where the bulk of it was going to be. We got into an argument about this, steven. You were saying that he shouldnt be the finances shouldnt be on the table. That should not be part of 24 investigation. Thats exactly whats going to lead investigators to the nugget of why he feels beholden to russian influence. Then its a witch hunt. Its not a witch hunt. If the money is there and the connections are there and the Financial Connections are there, and its not just trump. I think it also has to do with his family. Thats why i would explain why donald trump has been reluctant to implement russian sanctions. Today theyre not doing that. Why it seems as though theyre not doing anything about the fact that russia meddled in our elections. The money has an influence on his behavior. Last word. If you look at the transcript of when gps founder testified before the house, he was practically begging investigators to look into Donald Trumps finances particularly in new york and florida. That will not be addressed tomorrow night at the state of the union, but they have invited daca kids. I spoke to some of them who said Congressional Black Caucus member who is said they wont show up. Others said they will. In their words, they want to stare racism in the face and confront it. An interesting evening. Dont miss our special coverage of the state of the Union Beginning tomorrow night at 5 eastern. Ill see you later on in the week. Good night. Og. Just making some ice in my freezer here. So check back for that followup vid. This is my cashew guy bruno. Holler at em, brun. Kicking it live and direct here at the fountain. 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