agreed to up to $75 million to settle a case involving sex offender and former financierjeffrey epstein. the wall streetjournal first reported that the lawsuit alleged that the bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further sex trafficking activity, and that the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. with me is news correspondentjessica parker to discuss this further. great to have you with us, tell us what deutsche bank is saying about all this. about all this. deutsche bank toniuht about all this. deutsche bank tonight are about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very - about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very little. | tonight are saying very little. it is officially no comment at the moment from the bank. but there have been pointed to a statement they made in 2020 where they talked about acknowledging the
against the company for faciliating financierjefrey epstein s sex trafficking ring. a woman listed anonoymously as jane doe in court papers filed the suit last year on behalf of herself and other accusers. she alleged deutsche bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further his sex trafficking activity. the lawsuit alleged the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. epstein took his own life in a federaljail in new york in 2019 while awaiting trail on sex trafficking charges. the journal reports the settlement is expected to compensate dozens of epstein s accusers. in a statement to the newspaper, a spokesman for the bank said: in recent years deutsche bank has made considerable progress inremedying a number of past issues. according to thejournal s sources, the bank did not admit any wrongdoing as part of this settlement. this information has not been verified by the bbc but we
desantis in the white house? new evidence that the governor s willing to test that theory as he gears up to announce his presidential run. if you re not worried about the potential for a catastrophic debt default two weeks from now, the white house has a message for you. right now vice president kamala harris is trying to make their case to the public with the goal of pressuring republicans into making a deal. the latest on that, plus a live report from japan and the latest remarks from top administration officials on where the talks go from here. plus, why a house vote to punish admitted liar and federal fraud suspect george santos may ultimately help the new york republican s chances of staying in office. we ll explain that coming up. but we start in florida as nbc news learns that governor ron desantis will officially announce that he s running for president next week as we watch him try to super charge his campaign by harnessing the powers of the culture wars incl
and lebron. that s more plagy making you get to watch and watch these amazing athletes continue to play. we ll be watching. we ll be rooting for seven games, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. the leader of russia s wagner group said he is pulling his troops out of bakhmut, that key ukraine cran city. these men here who died today. they re out by the middle of next week just after a very important date of the russian calendar, victory day on may the 9th. police in california have arrested a former uc davis student accused of stabbing three people, killing two of them. these crimes were horrific. we hope that the announcement provides some level of relief. dominguez could be arraigned in court as early as monday. protests in support of neely have called for answers. there could have been somebody there to help him. he should still be alive today. there have to be consequences. his family deserves justice. supposed to use intelligence and c
speaker kevin mccarthy has yet to issue a budget for the next fiscal year. but did manage to cobble together one frankenstein monster of a debt ceilin proposal this week mccarthy presented a sweeping 320-page bill tha would pair 4.5 trillion dollar in spending cuts with a 1. trillion-dollar increase in th federal dilemma that would kee the bill collectors at bay until march 24th, just in time for the campaign season to hea up the white house says thi spending cuts wish list tied t the debt ceiling is nonstarter meanwhile, golden sach economists are saying that the united states could crash th limit on borrowing for thing already purchase as early as the first week and june. mccarthy has a more immediat problem. the speaker doesn t have the votes just yet to pass his plan that snot good for a perso who only holds a four seat majority but took 15 ballots t win the gavel. still, he insists that congres won t allow the u.s. t default. sure, jan. joining me now, director shalan