well, listen, i m going to leave senator rubio s conversations with senator trump, with president trump to on the side here. fra frankly, i don t know the nature of those conversations. but you re right, i mean, president trump has done nothing to punish russia for its past actions. congress on a bipartisan basis did pass legislation early on in this presidency. the president was very reluctant to sign it. he did. but then he has really not followed through. that is why this legislation s important, because it s on a forward-looking basis. we don t have to discuss what happened in the past election, although obviously that s the subject of ongoing investigations. but we should be able to all agree that we should deter russia from interfering going forward. and that s why i have hope that this legislation will be able to get bipartisan support and if the white house opposes this, we
these interviews not as a reluctant witness, someone who conveniently doesn t recall certain facts, certain dates, certain meetings? i don t think we know the answer to that yet. i don t know, matt, i think there could be a third leg. i think he could be an aggressive witness who wants to try to save the president here. imagine if he got himself back in president trump s good graces. that could be a game changer for him. bill, i turn to you. when we were talking about this book last week, steve bannon talked about that meeting being trees n treasonous. you and i discussed this. money laundering and the trump organization is a lot more likely than getting to the russian collusion story as it relates to hacking during the election. i agree with you completely, stephanie. i m glad we re talking about the book again this week. look, follow the money. i think it goes back to what we all knew about watergate. we ve got deutsche banc being the sole lender basically to the trump organizati
bipartisan legislation those senators worked out. mitch mcconnell should let that happen. strong language. strong language is usually rooted in fact, not vulgarity. a letter you sent to powell, the man trump nominated to succeed yellen as fed chair. if you re looking at the market, tip your hat to yellen for those interest rates. you ve asked him for assurances regarding deutsche banc and president trump. among many issues, deutsch bank is the one bank that did business with president trump. we know deutsche banc had already been fined for business they did with russia. they were the only bank that did business with russia since the financial crisis. and the chairman of deutsche banc, joseph ackerman, our commerce secretary, wilbur ross, placed on the board of cyprus, with issues tied to paul manafort, and we know they sold their russian business to a
group political citizen lays out c candidates are spending big debates to spend it where else, trump properties. julia yoi jul julia joins me now. walk us through this. where we saw president trump handed over everything to his two sons. he said he was resolving any conflicts of interest and going above and beyond to separate the businesses from his presidency. but what we can see in this report is a number of different organizations, be it political or foreign governments or even religious groups, has spent a lot of money at trump properties this year. one that stood out was the saudi government spending most $270,000 at trump properties and single hit. all of this came from the public citizen watchdog group. they were able to gather this from public information that s out there. but to see it all in one place,
questioning today and suddenly try to be an ally, a savior, a lifeline for president trump? because it doesn t sound like anybody else has when they ve been questioned. what does steve bannon have to lose? i think that s one of the big questions. which is where is steve where does steve bannon s loyalty lie now? obviously he was one of the president s top aides that first six months in the white house that really formed the heart of the obstruction of justice investigation. we know the president is the subject of. he s made a lot of inflammatory comments in the book, in michael wolff s book about what happened during the campaign. not sure whether that was speculation or whether that was based on information he has. i think going into this interview today, even more importantly, if he interviews with bob mueller, is he still as loyal to the president as he once was? or did that very tough statement the president put out, you know, these kind of silly comments calling him sloppy ste