steve: thank you very much, todd and carley, 6:00 in new york city on this thursday, january 18th. and it is currently 21 degrees in new york city. lawrence: from maga surveillance to maga warning. an investigation is underway after the feds ask banks to search and filter its customers transactions with terms like trump and maga. why the ceo of j.p. morgan chase shares this advice for the democrats. i wish the democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about maga. this negative talk about maga is going to hurt biden s election campaign. ainsley: but it seems vice president harris missed that memo. why she says she s scared as heck of former president trump taking back the white house. brian: and, could you ditch your cell phone for a month italics? that s the challenge that could earn you $10,000. think about that for a second while i officially start the show by saying fox & friends is ready to begin because your mornings are better because you
so involved in taking a look at the movement of money and some of the allegations of money laundering, et cetera, we re just looking. and so we thought we d better ask whether or not there was any suspicious activity that had been forwarded to fin sin. so it was not specific. it was general. are your suspicions heightened based on the news that just broke about a whistleblower fearing that something was scrubbed. absolutely, absolutely. and i think the treasury secretary is going to having to answer to this question. and i want you to know that i think that the ethics officer that directed it to mueller and said to him, this may be relevant to your investigation is absolutely correct. and he did a good thing. you re saying the office of government ethics that referred the president s payment. i have another question about that disclosure form the president signed today. which disclosed a year late that payment. it also says i think the trump hotels brought in about $40
records. . was there something specific that prompted it or just a concern you had generally because the president s finances might end up being investigated? yes, don t forget, we were also taking a look at the relationship to deutsche bank at the time. right. so because my staff has been so involved in taking a look at the movement of money and some of the allegations of money laundering, et cetera, we re just looking. and so we thought we d better ask whether or not there was any suspicious activity that had been forwarded to fin sin. so it was not specific. it was general. are your suspicions heightened based on the news that just broke about a whistleblower fearing that something was scrubbed. absolutely, absolutely. and i think the treasury secretary is going to having to answer to this question. and i want you to know that i think that the ethics officer that directed it to mueller and said to him, this may be relevant to your investigation is absolutely correct.
it s already there, katy. as we ve been report right leg for some time, this is in some ways a follow the money investigation. because don t forget, one of the main allegations in the dossier that we know fueled in part the fbi investigation was that the russian government was trying to ingreat 80 itself with donald trump and his team through sweetheart financial deals. so of course that is a matter that has to be looked into. and we already know, for example, that the senate is now pouring through thousands of documents from fin sin, the treasury department s money arm. and everyone i ve talked to believes that mueller has the same stuff. so it s an investigation i m sorry r ken. so how far back do they go in trump s finances? how many years back? so i don t have that level of clarity, but it s many years. i mean, for example, we know that back in 2008 a russian ol i guard bought a palm beach estate from donald trump for $895 million, more than twiels what he paid for it. it s
involved, it s bad news. and fin sin, the unit in the treasury that is going to turn over documents. again in this ironic way, the decision by donald trump, ivanka, and jared to not fully completely divest, right? for all of them to retain different kinds of ways that they are still enmeshed in businesses, now without the wall there, it s now open for investigation. right, and i think that there is reason to believe that jared kushner, maybe not to the extent of his father, but that he is someone who cuts corners. we see that even on his failure to disclose his art collection, which vanity fair has just reported. you see it in his failure to disclose his meetings with various russian officials when he s applying for a security clearance. there s two ways to interpret that. either it s sinister and suggestive of some sort of collusion, or it s sloppy. neither one is going to serve you very well if you re under fbi investigation. michelle goldberg and rick wilson, thank you both.