shadows. the president wants those much more visible. higher capital requirements so if big financial institutions take big risks, they have enough capital to back those risks up if they come acropper. those are some of the main items on the president s agenda there are some. white house press secretary robert gibbs made clear at today s briefing it s all about the big banks and making sure their behavior changes. we are not watering down financial reform on behalf of big banks: wee just not going to do that. that s if that s the price of what republicans want for them to call reform, that s not a price that the president is willing to do. now, shepard, of course big financial institutions were at the heart of the wall street crisis. but there are small and medium sized banks that have some fears that washington and wall street could be so obsessed with the big banks these new regulations might take the eyes off what s good for and what will help more is smaller banks on main str
bannon talking to the new york times back in november about collusion. let s listen. i think the collusion thing is, i said from day one is a joke. i was there. we couldn t collude. we had a tough time colluding between pennsylvania avenue and the rnc. now saying the trump tower meeting is treasonous. what do you make of the book and things steve bannon is quoted as saying? well, i mean, i think it s important to remember the kind of role that steve bannon played for president trump from the very beginning. this guy is an insurgent. he really was, as kristen said earlier, a link to the base, but steve bannon was always a character who was, frankly, going to become a cropper with the people around president trump. it was pretty obvious from the first or second week that things were going to end rancorously between bannon and the people around president trump. i think what s interesting and