That are being organized on facebook and read it buying the stock, bidding it up, causing those institutions to lose money here. Talking to the tune of billions of dollars over the past week or so for the sec, Securities Exchange commission is watching this and a sec regulator told me you might be hard for them to find a violation. Listen. I think when it comes to regulating the speech or regulating content, thats a huge challenge and certainly from a securities regulation perspective. I dont think the sec can regulate speech which everyone has the right to regulate in the sense charging a crime for doing it. What has lawmakers concerned is that robin hood is billed as a free Trading Platform had actually stopped or halted trades on gamestop and some of these others that were shorted which allowed the institutions to make back some of their money in those shorts yesterday. If robin hood said it needed the pause to collect collateral for its clearing house. They raised A Billion Dollars
Involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the department of justice after trump was first indicted in florida. But taveras himself has not yet been indicted, and to be clear, as of now, we do not know if taveras is formally cooperating with jack smiths office. That said, as the Washington Post reports, quote, taveras offered information implicating all three defendants in an alleged conspiracy to cover up evidence. And we also know that following trumps indictment, taveras switched lawyers. He was previously represented
Good evening from washington. I am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. Donald trump could end up behind bars next year for conspiracy to obstruct justice. And if he does, it may very well be because of a new testimony by someone identified by the justice department, only as Trump Employee 4. Now that we have had all weekend to digest the new Superseding Indictment for donald trump from doj special counsel jack smith and the classified documents case, employee number fours involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the departm
how the state is preparing and why this will be the second round of flooding for some. plus, we are on the eve of history. one day away from the launch of artemis i, nasa s next mission to the moon. how the forecast is shaping up and some of the more interesting things that are heading up to space in that rocket. plus, how extreme weather is uncovering some of the world s ancient treasures. thanks so much for waking up with us this sunday, august 28th. we hope you re having a great weekend. the start of a new week. good morning. i have a confession to make, i just gorged myself with a cupcake for breakfast, so i m beating you out on the prosciutto, much healthier. good to be with you. the sugar keeping me awake. some news to get to this morning. up first, assessing the damage to national intelligence from classified documents found at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the director of national intelligence tells congress she is conducting a damage assessment of the doc
three vaccines thanks to donald trump s operation warp speed. there were already a million vaccines being administered to peoples arms every day when biden was sworn in, 36 million doses at already been distributed. according to joe it was the biden administration that stepped in, heroically saved america from covid-19, none of this is true. where s the unity, joe? president biden: i m using every power i have as president of the united states to put us on a war footing to get the job done. it sounds like hyperbole but i mean it, war footing. and thank god we are making some real progress now. now because all the work we ve done emma we will have enough vaccine supply for all adults in america by the end of may. that s months ahead of schedule. sean: that would be moderna, pfizer, that would be johnson & johnson and that would be her predecessor, president trump, operation warp speed. all due respect to the president, he didn t have anything to do with that vaccine and ha