trump and jared kushner s accounts in 2016 and 2017. and it had to do with money moving overseas, money moving internationally, things that raised red flags. and so if we re trying to get a sense for what the president s done flikt koik conflicts of interests might be, then this is really one of the most concrete ways that congress could get a hold of that. of course trump s lawyers had argued that congress does not have any right to see this stuff because it is part of the president s personal financial history. but it does have national security implications and foreign policy implications obviously if there are certain suspicious things that the president was doing while in office in 2017 that we still don t know about. and part of it here, lynn, as natasha was bringing up, just last weekend the report that came out that the alerts that went off. deutsche bank of illicit
we got the report, we saw were totally fake. the mueller report didn t exonerate the president, even though barr said that it did. so we are going to have a real problem without having all of the information being hand-selected by someone who does have political motives. natasha, this is an intelligence ecosystem that s getting a big jolt, isn t it? as i was watching brian williams on the 11th hour last night, he brought up the idea of the five eyes nations and how four or five countries work together in their intelligence communities, and what this might mean to them. what might it mean? absolutely. this is going to have a serious chilling effect on our allies willingness to share valuable intelligence with us. we ve seen that chilling effect represent itself because as jill
different interviews that they want to be holding on capitol hill including with hope hicks and the former chief of staff to don mcgahn. so this is a battle that continues to escalate by the day. and this is just the latest twist. yeah, geetting developments week by week. kristen welker with the president there in tokyo, thank you as always with the breaking news and all the details. let s go to our panel. nancy cook, lynn sweet, jill wineback, and natasha beartran. jill, we re lucky to have you here. and today we have this development that is coming down to us, confirmed by nbc news that we re just learning here, of the staying of the subpoenas again for information related to transactions or dealings with a bank and with donald trump. what do we take away from this,
tries to go after people who stop him so that can be, you know, the court system. as lynn said, he judges who go after him as activist judges. he goes after the community when there is evidence that runs contrary to what he would like to see. he feels that it delegitimizes his election win in 2016. we ve seen him undermine congress a lot with its ability to investigate. so i think that we ve seen a pattern with this president of him trying to undermine either different branches of the government or just independent institutions. we ve seen that also with the federal reserve with him trying to meddle a exit in their debates over whether or not to raise interest rates. nancy cook, lynn sweet, thank you so much on the breaking news as well as the other news of the saturday. jill wine-banks, natasha, thank you too. bernie sanders makes the rounds in vermont. he is hoping to close the growing gap in the polls with
to form a partisan investigation and he is not required, i should add, to heed the advice of the intelligence agency heads here. it s totally unilateral, then that is going to set up a showdown. a lot to bite and chew here. jill, can the president do this give the ability to have access and declassify information. number two, what does happen if the cia and other heads of these intelligence agencies as being reported there by natasha say, no, not going to let you? here i d like to talk in two different capacities. one is as the former general counsel of the united states army, and the other is as a prosecutor. unfortunately, the constitution probably allows this power to the president because it never foresaw that a president would abuse the power. he is putting at risk sources