paul manafort, whom we are just beginning to learn there will be a series of revelations, i m just sure, about manafort. final point, interesting, what s the lead at the white house? that don trump jr. said my father knew nothing about this. don jr. is falling on his sword saying my father wasn t aware. and, again, i think we ll have more such statements from others. and then there s this. if you look at it this way. government officials first learned of the meeting when jared kushner revised a security clearance form that failed to disclose the controversial meeting. the third kremlin connected russian that the president s son-in-law has failed to disclose on government forms, meeting with russia. kushner did not disclose a private meeting with the russian ambassador and also failed to disclose a private meeting with the head of russian state-run
sec wasn t aware, f.b.i. wasn t aware, how would they be aware? as a banking institution you are entrusted with consumer confidence. if you settle in your eyes as a lawyer, a settlement, we read it as one thing. but the public confidence, were they settling because they were part of this activity? i don t think banking institutions the business is investigating. gregg: david, let me ask you this. one is suing against racketeering statutes, called rico. you handled rico cases. you know this allows for triple damages, so-called treble damages, won t that serve a strong incentives for the banks to settle the case because they don t want to get hit with triple damages? all you have to prove under a civil rico suit is two acts. that can be money laundering and fraud.