Clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. Jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. Its a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. The leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb banks connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. Sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. Veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian Spying Investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. At least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for
americans to give them investigation to help them with their Spying Efforts against america from their home base in new york where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really they were spies. So there was the alfa bank servers communicating with t
The first indications the winds are shifting at the state level in a way that could turn into a major storm nationally. Like early weather forecasting when you see the low pressure developing off the coast of africa. Anyway, mini canaries. Were claiming were coining this phrase. Thats all for the tonight. Well be back tomorrow. The beat starts right now. Is this butter fly theory like weather . Or baby canary . Were going mini canaries. Wait a minute. A canary is already small. But hey, theyre state legislative seats. We feel like congressional seats are the canaries. I wanted to go with finches personally but that annoyed some people. Getting darwinian. Chuck todd with the analogy and watching the races as a leading indicator. Thank you. President trumps approach to Law Enforcement is under scrutiny after he snubbed the swearing in ceremony for his own fbi director today. And we can tell you, thats
as Deputy Attorney general, of course, she was previously the boss of the fbi director
All year round. So call today. Because nows the perfect time to learn more. Go long. Im jim accoosta for wolf blitzer. Maria on the move. Churning north and gaining steam. What the storm is leaving behind and who is next. The hunt for survivors after a deadly earthquake grows more frantic and we will take you there live. Turning to trump. The Special Counsel seeks new documents about the president s actions in office including a meeting with the russians. We begin with Hurricane Marias rampage with 3. 3 million u. S. Citizens. It has been devastated and President Trump approved a
system. In san juan, what is the situation there right now . Its strange because people are beginning to move around again. You see people stopping to pause and look around and take stock of the scope of whats changed in a little over 24 hours. We were here before the rains moved in to see a perfectly functional city, but there is a Puerto Rican Flag trying to go in the breeze. Part of today has been about tak
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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This is so far looking at the reelect, they seem to have a rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. You have to be named donald trump. Did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. Two people. Junior and senior. Ivanka needs anything, uhhuh. Kushner, do you get any money . Exactly. Poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump reelection fund. Hes raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump reelection fund paying for juniors legal fees and mike pence pays for his own. The funniest part is he then has to sell the plasma to help jared and the other non donald trump Family Members pay their legal fees. Running out of blood. Yeah. You know that the president s going to volunteer him. Tap mike. Hes healthy. The paler he looks, the more hes pumping into the trump
family legal fees. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Thank you. You too. All right. I m in for launs odonnell. To rally tonight in alabama, don