that b of a, morgan stanley, and citi group have all stopped doing business with hna because the know your customer rule, when investment banks start saying they don t want to do business with a customer or a client because of the know your customer rule, you know there s something up. and this is not necessarily a done deal. i mean, maybe andrew knows something i don t, he probably does. there s a lot i don t know. i agree with you. but i think this is not as slam dunk as you might think. in theory, yes. mnuchin runs the regulatory body. trump could rubber stamp it. is trump truly going to put himself out there? who cause he he put himself out there for ever and rubber stamp it, given the scrutiny specifically around china? he s going to do that for anthony? i think he might. look, i think there s a different hna has its own issues. we all have lots of questions about hna, who funds them, how it works, what relationship they have with the government, all of that. i get that
this poster child of the issue, were you surprised to see his name in the current headlines? well, i was, but you have to understand the nature of the investigation the gao did for senator levin. we were looking at money going from eastern europe to the united states, back to eastern europe and individuals names did not appear that that report. i refamiliarized myself with the report. corporations did. bank institutions did. but the fact is, is what gao found was the know your customer rule clearly was being violated by the u.s. financial institutions. can you explain that further. just for people who may not fully understand what it was. sure, i understand that. obviously, the united states is concerned about the potential use of u.s. bank accounts for money laundering, whether it be for corruption, whether it be for drugs, whether it be for