biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness tampering by trump world was shocking, it wasn the last week hear about it. in december, the committee released transcripts o closed-door depositions with witnesses. through those depositions we found out that former whit house aide, mark meadows, an star january six com
of tomorrow. chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous it certainly. doesn t it has for a long time it s partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question the fifth avenue school o accountability, it s one of th biggest maybe truisms he s eve spoken thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committee s sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation first, here is how on witness described phone call from people inte witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know all continue to sta in good graces, in trump world as long as i continue to be a team player. while the news of potentia witness
writes the complexity financia regulations and the dullness o balance sheet minutiae i shoul not allow misunderstanding what ha happened in the bank failed the government failed. once again, and the american people are propping up a financial system incapable o rendering itself safe. joining us now is andy lowry staff writer at the atlantic and the author of give peopl money. annie, my friend it s great to see you. thank you for being. yeah it s great to see yo too. thank you for having me. i wish we were talking abou cheery or things i do want to get your thoughts on, let s start with the regulatory rollbacks i think it was a bipartisa effort to rollback some of these dodd-frank protections i 2018, it was 13 democrat worked to repeal those parts o the dodd-frank act, thes mid-sized bags, mid size banks that had 200 billion dollar in assets my question to you as. these are people, democrats wh
2018, it was 13 democrat worked to repeal those parts o the dodd-frank act, thes mid-sized bags, mid size banks that had 200 billion dollar in assets my question to you as. these are people, democrats wh names we no michael bennett of colorado chris coons of delaware, tim kaine of virginia, kristen sinema of arizona, jon teste of montana, mark warner of virginia well was it about the politica climate in 2018, that made these democrats went across th aisle to do something like this, and how did anyone convinc them that a bank with 20 billion dollars in assets was mom and pop shop these are great questions and they re not great answers. we ve seen again, and agai that wall street and other financial firms are relentless lobby here is against thes regulations. they argue that the regulation hurt the american economy by preventing landing, by makin it such that it s only the biggest banks that can see the united states one of the guardians being made at thes regional banks, smaller bank