communications between trump and hope hicks, ask ao, maloney, short, bannon, flynn, rudy giuliani, roger stone, any member of congress or congressional staff, the department of defense, theent did of justice, the department of homeland security, the department of interior, or any element of the national guard. what do you what do you think it sounds like they are looking for that that vast list? just to list the content is to condemn him, you would think. correct. mike flynn had already been guilty of essentially acting as a foreign agent while as the national security director. and then he ran around and was the point man for the most insane conspiracies about the election where he was pretty forthright, frankly, about the fact that he was supporting a coup that would keep donald trump in power when a lot of people kinds of dance around their coup support. look, i mean i think that,
hotel including how and why loan terms changed during his presidency. under the terms of the loan and prior to trump becoming president the trump hotels was scheduled to begin principal payments on the deutsche bank loan in 2018. however in 2018, one year into the trump presidency the terms of the loan were changed to allow trump to avoid any principal payments on the loan for six years. he got a sweetheart loan from deutsche bank. as other investigations have shown, deutsche bank was the banker for the kremlin, the banker for vladimir putin. there are many questions here, nicole, as to why did deutsche bank extend this sweetheart loan to donald trump despite his terrible financial record? there are at least two other red flags i see in david s reporting. first the mere fact that foreign dofts could shovel millions of dollars to the trump organization just by renting hotel rooms and catering services basically shows that the trump administration had a for sale sign around its neck
actors from deutsche bank to the hotel to foreign money. explain what we are learning. well, you are right, this throw as light on something we have wondered about for a long time. trump nixed his business in his presidency nowhere more so than in the trump. did it work out in profit? no. did it work out for him in influence he could wield on other people? deutsche bank say we think trump got basically forbearance on his loan from deutsche bank where he didn t have to pay the principal on his loan until years later. they don t have the proof on that. but i don t think that part of it is as well proven as the house would like it to be. i want to read the letter from maloney and connolly in terms whereof the investigation might go. the committee found that trump providing misleading information about the fonl situation of the
privilege. we don t know what s in those documents. they are only identified in the letter by certain numbers. but we do know that s a lot of pieces of paper that the president specifically has looked at and specifically said, no, i don t want the select committee getting these materials n. that letter, trump said that he also is going to try to make what s called a protective assertion of privilege. he s telling the national archives not to give anything else to the january 6 select committee. in a way that kinds of speeds up this legal conflict because now the national archives and the biden white house have to decide whether they are going to take seriously that further step that trump has taken to push this conflict forward. and it creates just a tense, fascinating, real high-stakes legal standoff that we have never seen before this the history of the modern presidency. yeah, i mean, look, it s such a good point. it s a good jumping off point for the specifics. i want to get into
sharing she is materials with capitol hill. of course, if he does go to court, if trump would be able to fine serious talented lawyers who would want to work for him. it has been very difficult in the past for him to find good lawyers n. part because he is notorious for not paying his lawyers. most lawyers don t like to work for free for people who purport to be billionaires. all sorts of threads to pull here. something we will be tracking at a minute level of detail. betsy has great reporting on the big and the minute. let s step back and take into account when we are learning today. i think there was an attempt to make this idea of a coup plot sound like, well, it s an argument not a fact. i think adam kinzinger put that to a rest in describing the eastman memo as incite men for a coup. it was a failed coup attempt but it was on attempt to overturn the will of the voters in our