welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand? they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cast himself as a winner. now he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks l
welcome to prime time week, and i am alex wagner. let s get right to the week s top stories. the banks and financial institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand, they cannot be happy right now. will any of them really want to lone donald trump any more money? could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently? well, there is actually a historical president for all of this. back in the early 1990s, trump s business empire was on the brink of insolvency. he had stretched himself thin, with casinos in atlantic city, and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company or. trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. and these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in donald trump s finances. trump had long cashed himself as a winner. now, he was looking like a loser. as quickly as the banks loved h
Were excluded from many of these opportunities with red linings and other policies designs. we have to deal with racial wealth inequalities in our country. if we don t speak to this problem, it will persist. in fact, the racial wealth gap over the last two decades has gotten wider and it has not closed. and so a lot of the policy ideas that i have don t just address poverty in general, but they also specifically get at this issue. and so when i talk about access to capital, home ownership, when i talk about entrepreneurialism, it s there. wealth in america is what helps you get ahead. so understand this. this has been my life work. since i graduate from school going to communities like my city of newark that are too often overlooked and looked down upon or cast aside. i know that there is wealth in all communities in america, and we should not have a nation
On it shouldn t really give secretary clinton a lot of comfort. yes, it s true obviously that putin has used the same defense, that he s trying to protect russian-speaking minorities that hitler used in trying to protect german speakers, but, you know, beyond that it s really inappropriate. let me ask you, david. you spoke yesterday with the former defense secretary, robert gates. i wanted to bring this up. first i wanted to play something peter king said about red lines and criticizing the president. it goes directly to the conversation you had with robert gates. if he is going to have this policy, which i think to some extent is too is not strong enough, but if he is going to have that policy then he shouldn t be laying out scenarios and laying out red linings. he has to be consistent. that was obviously criticizing the president. john mccain using the words if
Peter king just said about red linings and criticizing the president, because it goes directly to the conversation you had with robert gates. here s peter king. if he is going to have this policy, which i think to some extent is too is not strong enough. but if he is going to have that policy, he shouldn t be laying out scenarios and laying out red lines. he s got to be consistent. that was obviously criticizing the president, but john mccain using the words feckle feckless, lindsay graham being even more aggressive. robert gates, a republican, told you, urged gop senators to tone down their criticism. and try to be supportive of the president, that this is a time when you need to do that. what do you think is going to happen here? well, i called bob gates yesterday because i was troubled by the level of intense