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To get deeper today. mike schmidt is right, this investigation is narrowing on obstruction of justice, but related questions on international corruption. we are going to get deeper and deeper into that stuff over the months ahead. jan palmieri, let me ask you, you bring up the dossier and instantly the 33% trump base goes ding, ding, ding, salacious and discredited. as ken dilanian says, leave the sex and follow the money. this is the essence created during the campaign all about financial entanglement between trump and russia. it is proving out. it s not just him. it wasn t just about what happened in russia. it was other properties in other parts of the world they were investing in as well. so, i thought, you know, when i saw the story today ids two big take aways. one is this is you remember ....
Race which was likely dad, dad-in-law, my husband, likely we re not going to win the presidency, but this is going to be great for our business on the other side. and all of these complex financial entanglements, if you think you re not going to win the presidency, it s not complicated. all you re trying to do is get a global profile so you can make more money all over the world. mike, one thing i wondered when i read your story, who was in receipt of this subpoena? are don junior and eric trump, to the extent their wives are involved in the company, we talked about michael cohen. who is sitting over there being responsive to this subpoena and everything that it encompasses? well, they re a company and they have lawyers internally and externally that would deal with these types of things. and the interesting thing obviously about the trump organization is the role that eric and don junior play in it. they re very involved in it. eric dealing with the golf courses, don junior dealin ....
Fashion. we ve never gotten a really good explanation for why that is. perhaps he thinks it s because diplomatically it s smarter for him to keep a relationship with vladimir putin. perhaps there are other reasons, but it has of course raised suspicions about why it is he has been so reluctant for all this time. well, your story is on the web page next to maggie haberman and mike schmidt s story. mike schmidt got out of that chair. it offers a viable explanation one of the reasons might be bob mueller is now looking into the trump organization s ties to moscow. well, that s exactly right obviously. what we don t know we don t know. so, what those ties might be or what might be hidden is still obviously to come. but even if you accept his contention, the president s contention there was no collusion, you could understand he doesn t want to discuss russian meddling because he sees it as dee legitimatizing his election. from his point of view every time somebody talks about russian me ....
Committee s investigation is still bipartisan at this point. we ll see if it exists in some form going forward. let me ask this to mike the schmidt if i can. this is another one of the president as tweets. he writes, very sad that the fbi missed all the many signals sent out by the florida school shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. there is no collusion get back to the basics and make us proud. we walked through their for a litt through this for a little bit. the president is suggesting robert mueller s investigation is stealing resources away from the miami, florida field office that may have missed a tip, as awful as that is, in its investigation of a school shooter. can you help people understand how this is disconnected from the facts? yes. i mean, look, the fbi is a massive organization that has all sorts of divisions and narratives, it has thousands of agents, tens of thousands of employ ....
I would say yes. by the way, i would say i don t i can t answer that question because i don t think it s going to happen. it might be happening. joining us now, mike the schmidt, one of the times reporters on today s breaking news, jeremy bash, msnbc analyst and former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon. at the table with us rick sting l, former under secretary of state for public diplomacy now an msnbc analyst. jan palmieri former communications for the president obama white house. and john heilman is here, nbc news and msnbc national affairs analyst. mike schmidt, let me start with you and your brand-new story. let me read you a piece that caught our attention here. the subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation which mr. trump s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now will drag on for at least several more months. tell us more. well, as we all remember at the end of last year, ty cobb, ....