execution of january 6th in this committee will get to the bottom of that. served as associate white house counts are under president barack obama, cofounder and executive protector micro a non partisan organization, dedicated to fighting efforts to undermine democracy, we all expect the next few days this will be voted out of the full house and then go department of justice and i think there s really open question, about what happens when this, lands on a mayor garland s desk, and you ve worked as a government, lawyer you worked in the way, as you ve sort of been around the circles of people that will be making the decisions, on this i m wondering, what is your perspective on it? i think the good side, is in the letter from white house counsel dana, remiss that rejected the claims of executive, privilege and turning over, documents she made clear that this is a unique an exceptional circumstance, and i think it s important to remember with the stakes are here. which is that stev
powerful in that country. he in turn then funded pro-putin political parties in ukraine, including funding the career of trump s now-imprisoned campaign chairman paul manafort when he was working for pro-putin interests in that country. the problem is that u.s. law enforcement considers dmitry firtash to be an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime and the justice department has indicted him in a gigantic bribery scandal. they want to put him on trial in the northern district of illinois. now, he s been under house arrest. dmitry firtash has been out on bail, like $174 million, under house arrest, fighting efforts to extradite him to the united states to face felony charges. he s been fighting those efforts for years. i ve been obsessed with this guy for a long i mean, he s the reason kind of that i wrote this book. it s weird that it just came out at the same time this is happening with the president s impeachment. as interesting as this story is,
his name is dmitry firtash. for years he was the kremlin main power player in ukraine. the putin government set him up in business in ukraine as its cutout. the deals that putin set up for him made him very rich and very powerful in that country. he in turn then funded pro-putin political parties in ukraine, including funding the career of trump s now-imprisoned campaign chairman paul manafort what he was working for pro-putin interests in that country. the problem is that u.s. law enforcement considers dmitry firtash to be an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime and the justice department has indicted him in a gigantic bribery scandal. they want to put him on trial in the northern district of illinois. now, he s been under house arrest. dmitry firtash has been out on bail, under house arrest, fighting efforts to extradite him to the united states to face felony charges. he s been fighting those efforts
we ve already seen that racial bias from public statements got it. you said bolster the claim because that was my question. there s ample evidence of the president saying racially charged and insensitive things so i m just wondering why you need the tapes. you want to bolster your argument. exactly. it s our job to represent our clients to the best of our ability. if these tapes exist, you know, we need to bolster that evidence as much as he can. okay. so mgm and apprentice producer mark burnett have been fighting efforts to release outtakes of these shows for years. even releasing a joint statement, this was back in 2016, saying they don t have the right to release the footage. and there s the statement there up on the screen. it seems likely they re going to fight this. can they be compelled to do it? the tapes are relevant to our case. mgm and trump productions will likely oppose the production of those tapes. but we think we have a good case that those tapes should be p
bannon talked to wilbur ross about adding that question, but that contradicts what he said in march. let s bring in manu raju. how is secretary ross explaining this contradiction? well, this contradiction came about, jake, as the justice department issued that new filing in this court case, fighting efforts to depose wilbur ross as part of an effort to scuttle this citizenship question the trump administration wants to put on the 2020 census. and according to this filing, wilbur ross had a discussion with then white house adviser, steve bannon, who had urged him to call the kansas secretary of state, chris colback about adding the question. this contradicts what he said in repeated appearances earlier this year when he was unsure whether the white house was involved in this and also suggested the justice department initiated this question to begin