deutsche bank help the trump organization finance multiple projects to the tune of more than two billion dollars that includes trump hotels and can see you know resorts in atlantic city the trump international hotel and tower in chicago a golf resort in miami almost a billion dollars for the avenue of the americas building in new york and the trump hotel in washington. the democrats want to know why trump and door to bank had such close ties. to the russian ship with no actual bacon's as usual what would they will do and billions of dollars he filed a lawsuit against him oh no whether they would legitimacy but they have done so why was this happening i think we need to ponder. that democrats are also examining whether donald trump is financially dependent on russia they believe money laundering could be involved and tortured bank may have made such transactions possible frankfurt based lender has already handed over some financial documents regarding the u.s. president to investigators and plans to continue doing so deutsche bank said it would have by by all court orders related to the p

politics germany's flagship plan to help the trump organization finance multiple projects to the tune of more than two billion dollars that includes trump hotels and casino resort in atlantic city the trump international hotel and tower in chicago a golf resort in miami almost a billion dollars for a forty three story skyscraper in new york and the trump hotel in washington d.c. the congressional committee ordered deutsche bank to hand over documents saying they're a necessary part of the probe into potential foreign influence on the u.s. political process however lawyers for the trumps and the trump organization say the subpoena has no legitimate or lawful purpose. bank has said it remains committed to providing the appropriate information to all authorized investigations indicating it will comply with a subpoena leading democrats say they won't be deterred by the blocking attempt. so as this lawsuit daughter banks their biggest nightmare well we asked our financial correspondent pandey. it's certainly a big nightmare if not the biggest nightmare coming true you can't really see what

and president trump, or the trump organization, i don't know what that's about. and this is the most interesting part to me. the most intriguing part. this subpoena specifically directs mazars to has not over all communications related to potential concerns that records, documents, or others provided by the trump organization were incomplete, inaccurate or otherwise unsatisfactory. so if this was any discussion within this accounting firm that they were getting horse pucky from donald trump or the trump organization, when it came to his assets and financial standing, the firm is being directed by subpoena. any concerns or conclusions they came to at that firm about the prospect that stuff they were getting from donald trump or the trump organization was a lot of hooey. so this demands that the communications be handed over to cummings and the committee. the subpoena is going out on mond monday, and this is a big deal in terms of what congress will have to work from and the investigations. we still don't know if anyone investigating the president, either from the

he's the chief financial officer for the trump organization. and he, i think, has the he key to the lock box. so -- his testimony will be something that will be sought. >> we have had a lot of talk about impeachment and the wake of the mueller report. and speaker pelosi had said now is not the time. i'm wondering if you think this inquiry you are conducting might possibly lead to articles of impeachment. mr. connolly: we can always speculate. i think we need to put that discussion aside. that's not what we're -- that's not what's driving this. we're deeply concerned and have been since before the president was inaugurated with issues of conflict of interest. and the emoluments claus klaus the conflict of interest clause, the conflict of interest are about entangling relationships overseas. so he has properties in the philippines. the auto contractic president of the philippines named right after donald trump was elected, donald trump's business partner in the philippines is a special envoy to the united states. what could go wrong with that? we

fronts including into the president's finances, and you saw that lawsuit filed today by the trump organization to prevent financial firm from turning over documents related to the then individual trump's allegations that he may have inflated his net worth to purchase the buffalo bills football team. those allegations were raised by michael cohen in his public testimony. the trump organization says that that subpoena by elijah cummings to get those records exceeds constitutional limits. they are trying to prevent that firm from complying with a subpoena, so a new front in this fight between the white house and house democrats over oversight and investigations, now it's up to the courts to decide what the democrats can see. john? >> new front. it's getting hard to keep track of all the legal challenges facing the administration and the question of how much power does congress have. manu, appreciate the live reporting. with me in studio to share their reporting, cnn's abby philip, abby keagle and jackie kucinich of "the daily beast and elliana johnsson with "politico." at the end of the easter eg

documents, explanations or other information provided by donald trump or other individuals from the trump organization were incomplete, inaccurate or otherwise unsatisfactory. so if there was any discussion within this accounting firm that they were getting a horse pucky from donald trump or the trump organization when it came to his assets or financial standing, the firm is now being directed by subpoena to produce any documents, any internal communications that attests to any worries they had in the firm. any concerns or conclusions they came to at that firm about the prospect that stuff they were getting from donald trump or the trump organization was a lot of hooey. so this subpoena demands those internal communications be handed over to comings and the oversight committee. the subpoena is going out on monday. and i think this is big deal in terms of what kind of information congress is going to have to work from ipits myriad investigations of the president. we still don't know if anyone investigating the president either from the mueller investigation or any of the intended investigations that ha

the basic issue here is that the trump organization doesn't control the financial documents that may be in the hands of their old accounting firm. . what they're trying to do is have a force field around that accounting firm and prevent them from disclosing to the house oversight committee on capitol hill that they'll share all of these documents. so, it's basically defensive, even though this is an aggressive, legal move and i think we'll find out shortly here how sort of unique it is. the other thing happening about this is on the legal front, the political front the president repeating on twitter if there is no under lying crime, there cannot be impeachment. him planning for the long term. a political strategist and also a legal one. hallie. >> hans, we have a statement here that we're about to show folks that is from the trump organization from the president's attorneys. that the committee's attempt to obtain years' worth of confidential information from their accountants lacks any leg legitimate legislative purposes and is an abuse of power and is an another example of overreach

politics germany's flagship plan to help the trump organization financed multiple projects to the tune of more than two billion dollars that includes trump hotels and casino resort in atlantic city the trump international hotel and tower in chicago a golf resort in miami almost a billion dollars for a forty three story skyscraper in new york and the trump hotel in washington d.c. the congressional committee ordered daughter bank to hand over documents saying they're a necessary part of the probe into potential foreign influence on the u.s. political process however lawyers for the trumps and the trump organization say the subpoena has no legitimate or lawful purpose. bank has said it remains committed to providing the appropriate information to all authorized investigations indicating it will comply with a subpoena leading democrats say they won't be deterred by the blocking attempt. all right to talk about what might be inside the wall with the president trump i'm joined here in the big table by tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin so we've got efforts by the u.s. cong

you see the new tactsic launche by the trump organization.ry to prevent the companies from complying with congress. we'll see what the courts say, but dramatic move this morning to try to prevent these records from being turned over to house democrats. poppy. >> indeed, fascinating. manu, thanks very much. let's talk about this with asha and shan. let's begin with you, shan. is there any precedent for this? >> i'm not aware of any precedent, and i haven't had a chance to look at the complaint, but from what little i have seen of it, what's interesting is the president suing in his personal capacity, as opposed to having white house counsel do anything. and they're seeking declaratory and injunkative relieve. an injunction is something that forces an action, they're going to have to show, they have to do a preliminary injunction first, and that standard requires them to show a substantial likelihood of success. it's going to bedecided very quickly on that legal issue. i think he's going to have a tough uphill battle on that point because i thi

bernie sanders going onto trump's preferred network, sort of the state media network for the trump organization but trump state pennsylvania. it's the big industrial state trump carried in 2016, the one he feels an emotional connection to. it's the one he's determined to try and win again in 2020. and there is is bernie sanders in beth ham, pennsylvania, with fox news getting a very favorable response from the crowd assembled there. it tells us two things. it tells us bernie sanders is trying to compete with white voters who lifted trump to the top with that populous message and shows that trump is worried about it. >> i want to play for you, bill, an interview tonight with a republican in the primary race against the president. this is bill weld just tonight. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> i think a lot of permanent damage is being done to our country if nothing changes the ark of the last two years. if we have six more years of spending ourselves into bankruptcy without a thought about it and insulting our allies and eroding our military alliances abroad and cozying up to dictators

and it probably looked at investments that the trump organization or trump has had. that we need to know. that has influenced. it has an influence to him as a person. we need to know that. >> you have been in new york politics for quite some time. you have known donald trump for a very long time. what could he, what do you think he is hiding? >> he was phony baloney developer. he never really developed much in this town. he just sold his name to things. he doesn't want people to know that the eeror has no real estate clothes on. >> there you go. all right. up next, michael cohen says he has more evidence against trump as he tries to delay going to prison. and joe biden jokes about the personal space controversy and then tries to explain the joke. >> by the way, he gave me permission to touch him. >> wasn't my intent. >> we're going to talk to a state attorney general suing trump over border policy. and new reports that trump is already planning for the medimo he'll write after leaving office. you're watching "the beat." you're watching "the beat. your control. like b

we also learned today the lawyers for president trump and the trump organization are suing house oversight chairman elijah cummings. in a statement another trump lawyer, jay sekulow said, quote, we would not allow congressional pressure to go unanswered. it is, by the way, highly unusual if not unprecedented for a public figure to fight to sue for a congressional subpoena. the president is clearly keeping tabs on those. in the meantime speaking out on his behalf. in the past four or five hour, look at this, he's retweeted about two dozen posts he's seen on his phone. some of them critical of the mueller report. others have to do with claims of spying on his campaign. a few others refer to the economy, and not to be outdone, today's easter egg roll. all in all what we call monday and time for our lead off discussion on a monday night. john heilemann, veteran journalist, our national affairs analyst, also happens to be coauthor of game change, co-host and cocreator of the circus on showtime. jill colvin, and chris, reporter for the los angeles times who's covering the russia investigation in

was there to defeat isis because it is a terrorist organization, even if trump belilieves that job is finisish, he stillll has not finished a jb as a wholele because the irgc is in syria and t the irgc is now designated as a terrorist organization. so i suspect that argument will thesed by those inside adadministstration in ororder to commit does convince trucking is to stay in syria and probably to escalate tensions in syria by starting to target the irgc there. if that happens, we are one giant step closer to a broader war. amy: trita parsi, thank you for being with us, founder of the national iranian american council. most recent book "losing an , enemy: obama, iran, and the triumph of diplomacy." trita parsi is an adjunct associate professor in the center for security studies at georgetown university. when we come back, the trump administration's policies around immigration. president trump is calling on border guards to break the law to stop all people from coming in to the united states and to get rid of immigration judges. we will talk about all of that and more, coming up. ♪ [

deutsche bank was one of those banks that did loan the trump organization money -- >> over the years $2 billion. >> $2 billion. and now there are questions about what those loans were, how those loans were transacted, why they decided to give donald trump the money that he wanted when no other bank would. so i think now they're going to have to open up their books to investigators to find out just why these transactions occurred with the trump organization. >> jeffrey? >> and deutsche bank is not just any old bank. >> right. >> deutsche bank has been fined repeatedly for money laundering, including money laundering in connection with russia. when i wrote a profile of adam schiff after he became intelligence committee chairman, the first thing he said he was going to do was subpoena deutsche bank to see what the relationship was financially between the president and russia. if that could be determined through the deutsche bank records. now he's doing it and we will see what the record says. >> and this does go into the larger question, as jeffrey points out, of the trump organization a

the trump organization said the company should not comply.ment just moments ago in federal district court in the district of columbia, the trump organization sued to prevent that accounting firm in moving forward with the subpoena request saying that the subpoena in the view of the trump organization exceeds constitutional limits. one passage here, poppy, says because cummings subpoenaed threatens to expose the plaintiff's confidential information and lacks legitimate legislative purpose, the court has the right to declare it invalid. real ratcheting up in the fight between house democrats and the white house on a number of these requests, including over the president's finances. >> all right. it's significant. it's fascinating. i wonder if there is any precedent for this. we'll try to get our legal minds on that. >>> this morning to illinois and a new fwitwist in the investigan of this missing 5-year-old boy. police say they're now turning their focus to the residents that andrew, known as a.j., freund, that he was living in. investigators s

trump the trust the trump organization llc, the trump corporation dj t holdings the trump foundationiary to a venture or successor, what does he want? all statements of financial condition and annual statements periodic financial reports independent auditor's reports compared compiled reviewed or audited by from the cpa firm or the predecessors. number two without regard to time all engagement agreements or contracts review or compilation of the items described in number one. number three all underlying supporting documents used in the preparation auditing of items described in number one any summaries of such documents records number for all memoranda notes and communication related to the preparatio preparation, compilation, review or auditing of those items described including but not limited to all communications between donald or any employee or representative of the trump organization. all communications related to potential concerns records documents explanations including judgments provided by donald j. trump or other individuals for incomplete or inaccurate or unsatisfactory

services committees are hoping to get information on loans the german bank gave to trump and the trump organization. according to "the new york times," deutsche bank has been the only mainstream bank consistently willing to do business with trump and his family businesses. eric trump, the president's son and executive vice president of the trump organization, called the subpoenas an unprecedented abuse of power. deutsche bank says it's cooperating with the investigations. in the meantime, the country is now just days away from getting its first look at the much anticipated mueller report. the justice department is expected to release a redacted version of the special counsel's finding on the russia investigation this thursday. now, white house sources say president trump's advisers are concerned that it will have examples of obstruction of justice but the president says he's not worried. janai. >> serena, democrats already upset over redactions in that report. thank you so much, serena marshall, in washington. >>> and president trump now has a challenger for the republican nomination in 2020. the f

banke sent a letter to the that did that the trump organization did business with. this is unprecedented because they are so focused on getting the president and not where we should be be. >> one question on the investigation, the news on the security clearances, the whistle plore suggesting that professional staff determinations have been overruled. even your own staff and in a report that you put out counter what chairman cummings suggested at least four, to five people were rejected because of serious concerns. regardless of whether the democrats have overblown this, what is the substance of this investigation? mr. jordan: congressman cummings said he wants to look at the process that the security personnel were using at the white house to grant security clearances. but the process he is doing and the investigation he is supposed to follow, think about what he did. ms. nubold came in and she was coming in on a sat on a week we are not even here, going against what he told us. if they were going to have depp significances, he was going to make it so members could

that is the accounting firm that the trump organization uses to do all of its financials. and the financial records of the president, bringing them before the committee to examine them, the attorneys including jay sekulow and reedy giuliani filing a lawsuit in court today to try to block that same that there was no legislative purpose in the request from elijah cummings. of the lawsuit saying that the democrat party with its newfound control of the u.s. house of representatives has declared an all-out political war against president donald j. trump, subpoenas are their weapon choice. the president's attorney stated in the lawsuit that the subpoena was based on testimony that michael cohen gave an president trump misstated his net worth when he was a private individual. the lawsuit also points out that michael cohen is a felon who has pleaded guilty to lying to congress. another quote from the lawsuit, it's goal is to expose the private financial information for the sake of exposure, talking about the subpoena with the hope that it will turn up something that the democrats

, again, yes, has to be cleaner than clean. >> the trump organization is donald trump. nd his kids. that said. not a lot of people. >> he has run a much bigger organization which is the united states government. also too, i do object to the term undocumented. it makes it sound as though paperwork is not in order. that's not the case. if you break and enter into this country. >> i object to the term illegal aliens, because a lot of the people we're talking about are refugees who are seeking legal asylum in the united states that is actually the surge on our southern border is not people who are sneaking across. it's people who are presenting themselves at ports of entry and asking for asylum. >> or undocumented workers. you could just call them trump employees. steve cortes, max boot as well. we've got to go. still ahead, wikileaks founder julian assange dragged out of the embassy where he has been hiding out for seven years after the arrest president trump claims he knows nothing about the wikileaks which is odd, because remember during the campaign, him saying how much

and it probably looked at investments that the trump organization or trump has had. that we need to know because that has influence -- we can't say it's criminal influence, but it has an influence just to him as a person, and we need to know that. >> i quickly want to ask you this, because we have to wrap. you have been in new york city politics for quite sometime. if you're a new yorker you have known donald trump for a long time. what do you think he is hiding? why doesn't he want to show his taxes? >> he's a phony baloney developer. he never sold much in this town. he sold his name to things. he doesn't want people to know the emperor has no real estate clothes on. >> he's a fake billionaire. >> thank you. christine you're going to stay with me. michael cohen tells congress he has more evidence against trump as he tries to delay going to prison. and joe biden jokes about the personal space controversy and then tries to explain the joke. >> by the way, he gave me permission to touch him. >> it wasn't my intent to make light of anyone's discomfort. >> bit cringe wor

a former executive in the trump organization says trumps anger is is typical. >> in this case where mcgahnlly saved him, it's not relevant the bigger picture makes donald look bad. >> it's general. >> the mueller report suggests trump was always suspicious of mcgahn's potential power. why do you take notes? lawyers don't take notes. he said he was a real lawyer. trump shot back. i have had a lot of great lawyers like roy cone. he didn't take notes. cone served during the campaign to root out communists and worked for trump in the 70s when the company was accused of discriminating against african americans. he had to settle and lost his license for ethic violations. >> perhaps the president had reason to think that. after all when he was trying to get his casinos up and running years ago battling politicians and regulators and more. who managed every detail no matter how small. mcgahn's uncle, pat. >> he could ask him to do anything. and he would do it for him. obviously don mcgahn had limits with donald trump. >> trump fans are facing a puzzle. what should they think of mcgahn. the preside

deutsche bank is one of the only big banks lent to the trump organization in the last decade, they have million of loans extend td. michael cohen raised the issues of whether donald trump and the trump organization inflated their assets when seeking loans from deutsche bank. also on the house financial services committee they have asked jpmorgan chase and citi group for information relating to a list of people that could be suspected money launderers to see if the bank has conducted any business with them. the issue there for the financial services committee is they are looking to see whether the u.s. has been used for any elicit money laundering, that's an area that that committee has been interested in and especially deutsche bank has been subject to numerous investigations involving money laundering. we have both committees working jointly together and digging into this issue of foreign influence in the election and suspected money laundering across a number of u.s. banks and deutsche bank. >> what arguments are president trump's lawyers making in this case to keep the taxes secret?

and, again, you know, i think that the trump organization is going to try and fight this.d they do not want the banks to cooperate with the democrats in congress and that has to be played out. >> will this flexing of the muscles by the democrats with subpoena power be successful? >> well, it will be, after a long, litigious battle, perhaps. because they can always ask for it and compel and demand it, but someone actually has to comply with it. and if they don't, the courts will have to bintervene. they'll have to assess whether there's some sort of legislative purpose for it or if there's some partisan job of trying to infiltrate the president's finances. it so will be a battle. but remember, it would actually be improper if they did not pursue it, given michael cohen's testimony. remember, he actually said that he believed the president had inflated his salary to try to buy the buffalo bills among other things. if michael cohen knew this, then perhaps the bank who let him loan would actually know it as well. so i think they have to follow that particular line of inquiry,

this lawsuit filed on behalf of the trump organization as well as the president's business entity. e, this escalates the clash between president trump and congretion gnat democrats who say it is their role to conduct oversight over this president. steph? >> my goodness. this is a busy news morning. thank you so much. >>> more and more billionaires raising concerns over the widening income gap in this country. where were they when we created the massive tax cut? have they turned themselves into llc's? do their businesses do that much to give back? is capitalism in crisis? is the answer capitalism or socialism? money, power, politics, next. ci? money, power, politics, next i switched. we switched. i switched to chevy. i switched to chevy. we switched to chevy. we switched for value. for family. for power. it was time to upgrade. i switched from ram to chevy. see why people are switching to chevy. we love our chevy. i love my malibu. my colorado. my camaro. my traverse. why did we switch? just look at it. ♪ in your gut, you feel confident to take on anything. with benefiber, you'll fee

of the trump organization. the financial ties between the trump organization and the russian fed ration atouch upon. >> it also leaves the schiff investigation into whether or not the president was compromised. not what mueller was examining which is whether or not he was a winning conspirator but whether or not the president was compromised by all those financial ties. is that still a worthwhile open question. many of us thought it would be to look at two big issues. criminality and national security threats. the fbi, the justice department does play a role in defending our country from security threats. that's what the national security division does. they are part of the intelligence community. it seems that bob mueller looking at whether or not crimes have been committed. he did that. it leaves open the question which are the ongoing threats of national security. what leverage does russia have and that's for congress. >> jeremy, i'm reading just page 158. the end of part one. president attempted to remove b

he's also, this week, sent a did a to the bank that lot of -- the trump organization did a lot of business with, get banking records. this is unprecedented, because they are so focused on getting on president and not focused where i think we should be, which is helping the country. >> one more question. that youvestigations reference here, the news on security clearances that came week, the whistle-blower and her system suggesting -- and her testimony professionalat staff determinations have been overruled in a number of cases, staff, a report that you put out to counter what out, suggests that at least four to five people were rejected because of very serious security concerns. regardless of whether you think the democrats have overblown subjectw serious is the of this investigation? >> let me say this first. chairman comey says he wants to look at the process that the personnellearance were using at the white house to grant security clearances. is doinghe process he the investigation that he's supposed to follow, think about what he did. they announced to us that miss newbold was coming

sous trump organization elijah cummings to block a subpoena to obtain information on president trump's longtime accountant. no complaint argues there is legitimate legislative purpose and mentions the subpoena is from documents that predates the trump presidency. these are the same arguments his lawyers would likely make over his tax returns. jake: we agree on this point the president said anything about his personal business life is out of bounds and i think the trump organization people in his orbit ,an make a substantive argument congress is not the fbi. they can't democrats would say we are trying to understand what drives the president and to do that we need to understand his business. democrats realize there is political risk. host: george in new jersey, democrat stuff caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. the first thing i want to say is a quick point that it took a special prosecutor to do the job of the free press in the united states. questioning the strawman argument of sarah sanders. possiblyif this could be considered a turning point. that we will now see

explore the $2 billion worth of financial dealings that have untangle themselves within the trump organization as well as the trump political apparatus. i can tell you the public statements from the financial institutions, including deutsche bank, has been they will fully quaff rate. expect more hearings on this before the house financial services committee. sherwoman waters has proven is not afraid to call in the ceos and top executives to testify. david: we heard from the president sunda crying this, saying it is a terrible thing. do we have any idea what congress is looking for -- we have heard from the president's son decrying this, saying is a terrible thing. do we have any idea what congress is looking for? kevin: certain democrats say this is a fishing expedition to try to untangle some of the questions they have had. thelso comes down to president having not released those tax returns. this has led to the long drumbeat from questions from republicans and democrats as well. expect more high-profile executives having to testify. it is just the beginning. we should note the robert mueller

the friend was in business with the trump organization and i was concerned about the image of the trumprand. we know the access hollywood tapes were coming out, a lot of conversation. a friend of mine told me somebody was bragging about some tapes at the party. a friend ofy texted mine at the time, a business associate, michael cohen, and said exactly what i said. stop flow of tapes. there's nothing to the rumor of tapes overseas they are talking about. we had an exchange, and the exchange explains what i meant. david: at some point there was this dossier that was reported involved someedly tapes. did you know about that at the time you sent the text? giorgi: absolutely not. david: why did you think it was that important to go to mr. cohen? giorgi: it was important for me and the trump brand and the republicans. andad a license agreement we were attached to the trump band. the last thing you want is to have any kind of damage to the brand. that was one thing i realized i had to do that in terms of concern about the brand. i knew that michael cohen was working for the trump organization

escalation of the feud between the white house and democrat, president trump, his family and the trump organization are now suing two banks to block them from releasing any of trump's financial information to house investigators. >> he's obviously afraid that we're going to learn more about his relationships, more about his bankruptcies. more about whether there's money laundering involved.ning the ri administration administration policy. some of the proposed changes include ruling on asylum applications within 180 days. requiring fees for asylum and work permit applications and barring all migrants entering the u.s. illegally before receiving work permits before protection is granted. >> the president's memo is another tragic step in the wrong direction. >> reporter: just hours after the memo was released, agenting homeland security secretary faced questions from daems emoc at a hearing. >> it seems like the car is driving off the cliff with no one to take the wheel. although i guess, mr. secretary, you are now the driving. congratulations. >> reporter: he testified for the first time in his new r

his testimony has led to investigations of many others including the trump organization, members of thefamily. his testimony led to i think upwards of 80 people being asked for documents from different congressional committees. so i think he believed his cooperation would be considered. but as you said in 12 days he is due to report and the southern district of new york has not made a move to limit his sentence. >> emily jane fox, thank you for always sharing your reporting with us. appreciate it. >>> coming up for us, during times like these, it helps to hear from a couple of pulitzer prizewinning writers. we happen to have a pair of them standing by. we'll talk about that man when we come back. >>> we just went through the mueller witch hunt where you had really 18 angry democrats that hate president trump. they hate him with a passion. they were contributors in many cases to hillary clinton. hate him with a passion. how they picked this panel i don't know. and they came up with no collusion, and they actually also came up with no obstruction. >> president trump or as he calls himself

cnn is reporting the documents concern loans made for a variety of trump organization projects including trump international hotels in washington, d.c. and chicago. the trump national golf resort outside of miami. and his unsuccessful bid to buy the buffalo bills back in 2014. it's coming in response to a wide ranging subpoena issued after trump's former lawyer michael cohen testified before congress that the president inflated his assets to secure loans and lines of credit providing copies of financial statements to confirm his account. deutsche bank was one of the few financial institutions to approve trump's loans issuing him more than $2 billion over the years as his businesses struggled according to previous reporting by the "new york times". joining me here on set, nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. how worried should the president be about what deutsche bank has revealed so far? >> he should be worried because it's a crime to inflate your value to a bank in order to obtain a loan. even if the loan is given and you pay it back, you still put the bank at considerable risk by deceivin

deutsche bank currently has about $300 million in loans extended to the trump organization.lauren fox with the latest. >> we know that the house intelligence committee and the house financial services committee issued subpoenas yesterday to three financial institutions. citigroup, jpmorgan, and deutsche bank. as you mentioned, deutsche bank, the only major financial institution that has given money to the trump organization over about the last decade, but this is all an effort by democrats to get information about the president's financial history. in a statement yesterday, adam schiff said, quote, as part of our oversight authority and authorized investigation into allegations of potential foreign influence on the u.s. political process, the house intelligence committee today issued subpoenas to multiple financial institutions. and this all comes as democrats issued subpoenas yesterday as well. the house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings issued a subpoena to an accounting firm that put together financial disclosure statements for the president in the past. and of

his testimony has led to investigations of many others including the trump organization, members of therump family. his testimony led to i think upwards of 80 people being asked for documents from different congressional committees. so i think he believed his cooperation would be considered. but as you said in 12 days he is due to report and the southern district of new york has not made a move to limit his sentence. >> emily jane fox, thank you for always sharing your reporting with us. on this broadcast. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >>> coming up for us, during times like these, it helps to hear from a couple of pulitzer prizewinning writers. we happen to have a pair of them standing by. we'll talk about that man when we come back. metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relentless too. mbc doesn't take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verzenio is a cdk4 & 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer, approved, with hormonal therapy, as an

now attorney general bill barr and that this is someone who actually had done work for the trump organization the president trump became president. what you do think about that and the potential implications of politicizing the process through this move? >> i worked with michael desmond. he was at the treasury department when i was the commissioner, and there's a rivalry if you will as a constructed tension between treasury text policy and the irs. i have the highest regard for december mind i think he was an outstanding nomination for president. what i read is there was a small matter, limited amount of work he did. i'm sure if he fell it was somehow -- would compel him to recuse himself, he would do that. he has the utmost integrity. the fact of the matter is this job needed to be fulfilled. the landmark designation came in in the end of 2017. the chief official is the one charged with riding out all the regulars in terms of the law. he needed to get in there. he was held up by a single senator for well over half a year. that's a problem. now, any call between the pr d president and the lea

his testimony has led to investigations of many others including the trump organization, members of themp family. his testimony led to i think upwards of 80 people being asked for documents from different congressional committees. so i think he believed his cooperation would be considered. but as you said in 12 days he is due to report and the southern district of new york has not made a move to limit his sentence. >> emily jane fox, thank you for always sharing your reporting with us. appreciate it. >>> coming up for us, during times like these, it helps to hear from a couple of pulitzer prizewinning writers. we happen to have a pair of them standing by. we'll talk about that man when we come back. l talk about that n we come back safe drivers have to pay as much for insurance... as not safe drivers! ah! that was a stunt driver. that's why esurance has this drivesense® app. the safer you drive, the more you save. don't worry, i'm not using my phone and talking to a camera while driving... i'm being towed. by the way, i'm actually a safe driver. i'm just pretending to be a not safe driv

eli was talking about the other investigations and news out today about how the trump organization is suing elijah cummings over those subpoenas and nancy pelosi is is lewd ini to the fact that the investigations might be where they focus their energy. how much in your view can congress dig out of this administration if they are determined to resist at absolutely every turn? >> yeah, i mean it's a great question. they can get witnesses to come to the hill and to testify in hearings. people like perhaps corey lewandowski, people who were witnesses to the kind of obstruction of justice that was laid out in the report. maybe the hill won't necessarily need all of the documents that it's been requesting from the white house if it has those witnesses as kind of a bolstering force during the hearings. but it's a really delicate dance they are playing because ultimately the impeachment proceedings launched in the nixon era did not have a lot of public support at the beginning. it was like 20% of people supported launching the impeachment proceedings. but over the course of the proceedings, o

the treasury secretary ignored a deadline to hand over the president's tax records and the trump organization congressional committee from getting the company's financial records and the white house says it will fight a subpoena from the house judiciary committee to get former white house counselor don mcbegan to testify. >> we have a report that speaks in great detail toward potential criminal activity on behalf of the president himself so we need to continue the investigation. >> one person that agreed to testify about the mueller report is attorney general william barr, scheduled to appear before the senate judiciary committee next wednesday. >>> president trump is promising more funding to help end is nation's opioid conflict. public health officials say multiple factors created america's opioid crisis and multiple approachs will be required to end it. >> we will work, we will pray and we will fight for the day when every familive in a drug-f america >> there were more than 70,000 fatal drug overdoses in the u.s. >>> the body of a 5-year-old boy in illinois whose parents reported him miss