and for more on this i'm joined now by marcus mindset from the tax justice network in my book and all financial correspondent bartz in frankfurt welcome to you both marcus i'd like to begin with you another right now at deutsche bank what do we know about the details in this particular case it concerns apparently the transfer of around three hundred million euros at least to a british. company controlled by the gotcha bank relation to nine hundred clients related to that bang and it concerns the failure to report suspicious transactions related to money laundering with was within those sums that have been transferred so it is a serious allegation it's a serious concern that's might be a factor about quite a first time for. leaks that have come to light through parliament papers for example a serious allegation those shares down really bring us the latest there from the trading floor. now the share is trading at the moment at exactly eight euros and forty cents it's a little bit over the low that it reached plummeted after this news but it's still a loss of about three percent it is no

joined by marcus minds of the tax justice network market reporter. in frankfurt marcus let's start with you and the what do we know about the details in this particular case what makes it so special. but what we do know that it's in relation to the pentagon papers and this is long overdue this is a very welcome step after all and there's talk about nine hundred clients being managed from a b.v.i. subsidiary in twenty sixteen of the dacha bank which all race red flags apparently in the prosecutors or the investigators ice and that is really one of the machias tax havens in the world the british virgin islands so i'm very encouraged to hear about these news. surprised. i was somewhat surprised that. officials would take finally action because it's been now two years that they've been icing these files and we have seen in other circumstances and other situations that german prosecutors to very long to take action for example with the k'nex files these massive tax avoidance schemes they only informed foreign european counterparts many many years after we

he's advised a lot of public civic groups like the tax justice network and he was vice president of new york civil liberties union in suffolk county. he authored the investigative economics book, "the blood bankers" and his articles have appeared in "the new york times," "the wall street journal," the nation magazine, "the washington post," harper's fortune, and many other publications abroad. welcome, james henry. [ applause ] >> thanks, ralph. it's good to be with you. i was also in the '60s a veteran of ralph's $500 per summer lucrative assistance program here. i think we did a study of the v.a. and then the department of agriculture. it was a great time and it opened my eyes to this whole world of corporate crime and shenanigans and that was a fatal, sort of, infection, because try as hard as i could to become a member of the private elite in this country, i've -- i've tried to maintain an activist stance. i've been most recently in south africa working with a group of trade unions about what they should be doing with respect to economic policy there and basically trying to argue th

justice case. he has to do his job by paying attention to those things. he has access to better information than that and tax information and the financial crimes enforcement networksements and access to a lot of intelligence. >> during the time you were briefing robert mueller -- in those briefings, did you ever get a sense of bob mueller's political ideology? >> not once. it was the job that needed to be done. that's what he focussed on. honestly, it happened the same with the attorney general t. didn't affect the intelligence briefing. >> this book has a hot title. it comes in an interesting time. there is talk on the left of impeaching donald trump. he cannot be -- between now and his reelection, what measures of accountability short of impeachment can there be on a president who is out of control? >> an impeachment vote can happen. the house can impeach and not get a conviction. since the bill clinton case, that has been seen as a political failure. impeachment was meant to be a slap across the face. you can go well short of impeachment. one way is undermining the president legislatively and in other democrats controlling the house this may happen. it has happ