international business deals to be part of a background check investigation. it s important to note that something with this vancouver deal has triggered the attention of the fbi which has been looking closely at the international business entanglements of both ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner to determine whether any of those deals could leave them vulnerable to pressure from foreign agents including china, russia and other foreign countries, this according to u.s. officials. now, john, it s important to note we did get a statement from an ethics lawyer for ms. trump and he says, quote, cnn is wrong that any hurdle, obstacle, concern, red flag, problem has been raised with respect to ms. trump or her clearance application. shimon prokupecz, thanks so much. we ll talk much more about ivanka trump, the ethics. the white house in a bit of
and tremendous experience. the man you see there sitting next to the president who took over as national security adviser after michael flynn was fired but before he was indicted may be leaving as soon as next month. nbc news now reporting tonight the white house is preparing to replace h. referring mcmaster, a move according to our reporting orchestrated by chief of staff john kelly and defense secretary james mattis according to five sources. if he leaves, the president would need to fill that position for a third time and mcmaster would join 37 administration officials hoshs have resigned or been fired under trump. for more on what is happening inside this white house, andrea bernstein, wmic co-host of the podcast trump, inc. doing great reporting on trump s inner circle, phillip rucker and richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. phillip, i ll start with you about the mcmaster reporting. you know, the first thing i thought when i saw the stor
adviser. he s a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. the man you see there sitting next to the president who took over as national security adviser after michael flynn was fired but before he was indicted may be leaving as soon as next month. nbc news now reporting tonight the white house is preparing to replace h. referring mcmaster, a move according to our reporting orchestrated by chief of staff john kelly and defense secretary james mattis according to five sources. if he leaves, the president would need to fill that position for a third time and mcmaster would join 37 administration officials who have resigned or been fired under trump. for more on what is happening inside this white house, andrea bernstein, wmic co-host of the podcast trump, inc. doing great reporting on trump s inner circle, phillip rucker and richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. phillip, i ll start with you
off and it won t pass. but i can t help but notice we ve been talking about this legislation on this program for several months now with no seeming urgency from mitch mcconnell to bring it up for a vote. that is very true, chris. you re right. and i m disappointed in my republican colleagues who have failed to sense the urgency of this legislation. and who have been silent over the last 24 hours after this extraordinary, chilling, stunning, deeply scary report about the president acting not just thinking about acting to fire the special counsel. i am hoping that senator grassley s statement that he is opening to considering this legislation and that and there should be to firing will prompt others to follow his lead. senator richard blumenthal thank you for your time. thank you. for more on the fallout. i m joined by richard painter. ethics lawyer and retired
in terms of what they did. there is absolutely no evidence of serious law breaking during the obama administration. there were one or two scandals that i kept my eye on during those eight years. i was the chief white house ethics lawyer under president bush. we had our scandals there. but president obama did not need protection from veinvestigation because president obama didn t break the law and have people working for him who were breaking the law and that s the problem here. is that president trump thinks that the justice department s job is to protect him from investigations into his campaign and then members of his administration and indeed of himself because he engaged in obstruction of justice when he fired james comey. that s not the role of the justice department. to cover for the president. you believe, just to be clear the constitution. well i think it s very clear in the statutes and in the