Tamara keith, White House Correspondent for npr. And ken vogel political reporter for the New York Times. Thank you all for being with us especially as part of our Leadoff Panel tonight. Ken, ill lead off with you. What do you make of this bank subpoena, if true, is it a big deal . What else does it speak of . Absolutely. We always kind of knew that this was a possibility that mueller would start looking into Donald Trumps finances and this subpoena, again, if it is accurate that Deutsche Bank has been subpoenaed, would indicate that he is fully going down that route. Deutsche bank is significant because donald trump it has at least 130 million worth of Donald Trumps debt and it sold some of that debt or could have sold some of that debt to russian banks. That could potentially give these russian banks some leverage over donald trump. And so you have the combination here potentially of Donald Trumps finances as well as his
dealings with russia and how those two things intertwine. So ev
Tuesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york, day 320 of the Trump Administration. A day in which the administration wrestled with what seems to be a new turn in the Mueller Investigation. Multiple news organizations fwha we mean bloomberg, the financial times, reuters, wall street journal report that the special council has suspected Deutsche Bank for information about Donald Trumps financial dealings. The bank is trumps biggest lender, traditionally have supplied over 300 million for a number of Real Estate Ventures over the years. Over the past two decades, in fact, the bank has played a major role in the president s businesses and has been one of the only big Financial Institutions willing to deal with donald trump at times. Today, white house lawyer jay sekulow denied the reports and while oddly word here is what said, quote, we have confirmed that the news reports that the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to t
The date has yet to be determined. Steve bannon spent nearly 10 hours in a closed door hearing in the House Intelligence Committee where he was subpoenaed on the spot for a failure to answer questions saying the white house instructed him not to talk about his time in the administration or the transition. Axios reports knowledge of the hearings, bannon made one slip and admitted he had conversations with reince priebus, sean spicer and the legal spokesman about don juniors infamous meeting with the russians in trump tower in june of 2016. We are also learning that bannons attorney bill burke was in direct contact with the white house during that house intel appearance. Today the white house defended its coordination with bannon. There is a recusal put out relaying the questions he was asked by the senate in realtime to the white house. My questions are, who was he relaying the questions to . Is that something the white house specifically asked his attorney to do and if so, why did the
Russias meddling in the 2016 election. So, what did the president do to relieve all of that pressure . Well, he threatened to shutdown the government. Mr. Trump tweeting early this morning, i am considering a veto of the omnibus spending bill, the bill that would keep the government open ahead of tonights midnight deadline. This threat after his aides and advisors spent the past 24 hours assuring lawmakers mr. Trump would definitely sign the bill. His tweets sending shock waves throughout washington, but it didnt solve the issue of that 1 00 p. M. White House Press Briefing where Sarah Huckabee sanders would certainly face questions about all of that uncomfortable news. So, the president took control again, tweeting News Conference at the white house concerning the omnibus spending bill, 1 00 p. M. Well, it would have been the first solo News Conference from the president in over a year and given all that the press wanted to ask him about, it would have been a pretty big deal. Only it
Fox news deck. The fbis number 2 guy is out. We knew Andrew Mccabe was planning to retire in march when he reaches pension status. But a source said that he was removed from his post effective today. Andrew mccabe has been a frequent tart get of President Trump and republicans in congress. They accused him of political bias in Hillary Clintons email scandal. Back in 2015, mccabes wife ran for senate as a democrat in virginia. State senate. She got a donation from a group tied to the clinton family. Last month President Trump referred to what he called clintons puppets giving money to mccabes wifes campaign. The fbi confirmed mccabe had no role in the clinton email investigation while his wife ran for office. Last week the Washington Post and others reported that President Trump pressured Andrew Mccabe to reveal who he voted for in the 2016 president ial election while the two men were meeting in the oval office. According to the report, mccabe said he didnt vote at all. The white house