yes. it was right after when the day that president obama signed the dodd/frank bill, which was the wall street reform bill that really did we thought lock in for good some of the stronger rules and regulations to keep the large banks from bringing on more risk and making more money and ultimately until they didn t, until the banks imploded like wall street, number one, the financial lobbyists in washington that day said well, now it s halftime. norksds we may have lost the first half, but we re going to work for the next eight years. and they ve worked to weaken the rules at the agencies. but never have they come with a frontal assault like they have in congress that clearly will mean easier treatment, weaker rules on the biggest banks. and it s when you re deregulating deutsche bank, president trump s bank, when you re deregulating the swiss bank that has been playing illegal with the iranians or
he appointed them all with the exception of mueller. mueller is supervised by all of them. he is attacking them. it s not surprising that nunberg is following that lead. and thing saul about ultimately laying the groundwork for when trump refuses to comply with subpoenas. and then it looks like, well, other people have failed to comply too. so it s just part of that whole thing. yeah, but i think the lesson learned, that s going to be learned here is that if you don t comply, you re going wind up in prison. that s exactly what s going to happen to him. the only power that our federal courts have is the contempt power. if they didn t have that, it would no one would ever testify about anything. no one would ever testify. no one would ever show up to court. you have to have that power. and particularly in an investigation like this you have to have the ability to hold somebody in contempt if they snub their noses at the court. i could not agree more. and i do think maybe the mo
the lobbyists know there is buy-in which allows them to do that. of course, of course. and there are more wall street lobbyists than there have ever been. and they re getting their way. they re earning their money. more power to them. but we ve just seen there is no question from the cbo score to what these former regulators like paul volcker and tom hoenig, some of the republicans, volcker and others have said this is going to put more risk. that s why i ask people to come to sherrod brown.com and sign a petition saying no bailouts. don t do this bailout. because this is going to make it more likely that the banks will have to be build a out some time. all right, senator sherrod brown, thanks for joining me. thanks, chris. glad to. still ahead, a pretty incredible story from the new york times. a belo russian escort says she has hours of recordings that could expose russia s interference in the elections. and a big anniversary for president trump this weekend.
i was going to say there are points in that interview with katy tur in which he sounded so incriminating to president trump. it s very hard to follow. this is a guy who has more shifting stories than stormy daniels which is hard to do, but he has managed to do it. i don t know exactly, and i think we all don t know exactly what information he is referring to when he says mueller s got the goods on trump. he suspects that there is something there. but, you know, it s one marker in i think a long story that s going to unfold. the other thing about this is there is a lot of pressure being brought to bear on a lot of people right now. and you re seeing how people behave under that pressure in painful detail. nick akerman, neil, thanks for your time tonight. there is a second steele dossier describing, get this, new claims of russian intervention alleging kremlin influence over trump s cabinet selection. that story in two minutes. mattress is dangerously comfortable. when i get in, i
you have to have that power. and particularly in an investigation like this you have to have the ability to hold somebody in contempt if they snub their noses at the court. i could not agree more. and i do think maybe the most important thing about this is not just the mueller investigation, but what signal this has sent and all these trump attacks on law enforcement to all the other investigations which have nothing to do with mueller across the country. i mean, if trump can t trust his own people in the fbi, his own justice department, how are ordinary citizens going to come forward? and law enforcement depends on voluntary cooperation and people coming forward and complying with subpoenas and all sorts of things. if trump s own former campaign folks aren t complying and saying things like oh, i don t have to show up on friday, you know, just imagine what signal is sent to citizens across this country. that s why presidents don t do the kind of attacks that president trump has done