none of the other financial institutions would do so. deutsche bank, you know, has been accused of russian money laundering. what kind of documents, if any, has your committee looked into? thank you for reminding viewers that, in fact, deutsche bank was willing to enter into lending arrangements when no other domestic american bank would touch him. we are trying to get to the why to that. from an intelligence committee standpoint, what is important is if there is a history or pattern of financial entanglement that compromises the president or candidate for president. there was a story, at first deutsche bank wouldn t. then it ended up doing so. are you satisfied with the why? no, i don t think we are to the why. an obvious question in this regard, to give you an
that s not always the outcome, but our hearts and prayers go out to all the individuals who were affected both directly and indirectly and can assure you that from an intelligence committee standpoint and the agencies they re providing as many assets to local law enforcement and to those people that are tacked with investigation of this unbelievable act. so we re here toup date you about you and the american people about the investigation into russia s meddling in the 2016 election. when we started this investigation on 23, january of this year, we had a very clear focus. we were focused on an evaluation of the ica, the intelligence community assessment of russia s involvement in our 2016 election. additionally, the investigation was to look into any collusion by either campaign during the 2016 elections. the third piece was an