Guilty on friday morning, there have been some strange utterances coming out of the white house about this investigation that threatens to engulf the trump presidency. Specifically, strange utterances coming from white house lawyers about this investigation. We should have probably seen it as the first sign that mike flynns guilty plea was really rattling the white house. When white house russia lawyer ty cobb gave his initial response to that guilty plea as if he was beaming into this news story from some other distant backwards planet where this was good news. Mike flynn plead guilty to lying to the fbi and simultaneously agreed to cooperate without limit with the special counsels investigation on all other matters and white house lawyer ty cobb greeted that news by praising quote the conclusion of this phase of the special counsels work as if mike flynn issue was done now. Its like if you went to see a movie and as soon as the opening credit started rolling, you stood up and tried to lead a big round of applause and tried to get everybody to leave the theater with you. Wow, that was awesome. I love that title. We all came to see the title, right . That was the first odd response from the president s lawyers greeting the mike flynn news as if its done. As the flynn as a cooperating witness chapter opened, the president s lawyer praised the special counsel for wrapping up that part of the investigation. Super weird and a sign they would behave strangely after that plea. Second weird set of reactions from the president s lawyers came yesterday when john doud argued and argued if the president obstructed justice in this matter or if the president colluded with russia, who cares . John doud said the president cannot be an obstructer of justice because he is justice and jay secular saying it would not be a crime to interfere in the u. S. Election because technically there is no crime called collusion. Those climaims from the president s lawyers flipped on what sounded like a laugh track in legal circles across the country but did mark an important moment in this presidency. The moment when the president s legal team stopped arguing that the president didnt obstruct justice or that he didnt collude with russia. They instead started arguing maybe the president did those things but those things are okay for a president to do. So the weird reaction to the mike flynn news over the weekend, the president cant commit a crime because hes the president news yesterday. Well, now weve got the next phase of the response also from the president s lawyers. It is also a little weird. Its a little hard to make heads or tails of but basically what the president s lawyer started arguing today is that they are not just arguing with reporters, they are not just trying to shift the narrative about how people describe what is going on in the investigation, the president s lawyers are disputing the existence of an important new news story about the progress of the scandal and investigation. They are not fighting about the importance of this news story or the legal significance of the news story, they are literally disputing whether or not this story exists. This was the story for the record. This is the original version of the story. The english language version of a german newspaper called handelsblatt. Forgive me if its an insult to german speakers. Handelsblatt. Deutsche bank has been served. Quote, Deutsche Bank served subpoena. This is a german news story about a german bank so they are understandably focused on the implications of this for germany and for this german bank but after handelsblatt initially broke that story, it was picked up and reported out and very quickly became clear in our country that this isnt just an important story for some big important german bank. This is an important story for our presidency and thats because of two important things about this particular german bank. The first important thing to know about Deutsche Bank in this story, its up to its german neck in russian Money Laundering. Im a russian crook and i grew up practicing judo with Vladimir Putin and hes given me leave to steal stuff or strip the assets out of some formally staterun company. Im a russian bad guy. Ive got ill gotten games. Ive got stolen money and i would lake to enjoy my stolen money. And so in order to do so, i have to secret those funds away somewhere where they wont get noticed by law enforcement. Where they wont get taxed. And where anybody who might prosecute me or purse cuk perser the way i got this money, they wont be able to find it and reclaim it and trace it back to me. For the sake of argument, the amount of money i crook want to get out of russia is 10 million. If i want to get 10 million out of russia, i want to convert it from rurals inbles into some ot currency. To get it out without anybody noticing, it has to look like that money is leaving the country as some part of legitimate transaction. And on the down low, slightly, i probably need it to be okay with putin im taking that money out because he tends to know these things. Thats where Deutsche Bank comes in. It went through a big legit bank, this scheme they were running was super effective at moving money not just once but lots and lots and lots of times, tons of money into russia and out of the west to keep the scheme going for years before people finally started to realize that even though this was a legit europeanlooking bank, this say huge, fairly simple criminal operation they were running with russian illegal money. And it again, it was pretty simple. I mean, usually Money Laundering is designed to be complicated so you cant follow the money. It was simple. Here is how it worked. You cant just ship your money from russia like wire it to the Cayman Islands or cypress or new york or london. Youll get caught doing it that way if youre a russian crook. Instead, what you do is say i dont just want to send my money abroad to park it somewhere, i dont just want to open an account in a foreign country and move it there. I cant do that with money like this. Instead, i want to buy something. So you need to have something youre going to buy for a lot of money. So you have somebody abroad go to the bank and i have this highlighter and the price of this highlighter i want to sell is 10 million. Miraculously, simultaneously at that same moment you pop up in moscow with your 10 million in ill gotten rubles and say hey, office, do you know anybody selling something i might be able to buy for 10 million. I was thinking of investing in a highlighter. Do you know anybody selling one for 10 million. The bank says we can do that transaction for you. We can handle that. Think about how the money moves. Im the dude in russia. I hand 10 million in dirty rubles into the Moscow Office. They say thank you very much. You purchased a highlighter. Then over in their other Office Abroad in london or wherever, that banks office, they pay their client 10 million in euros or dollars or whatever and they, you know, collect the highlighter thats just been sold. And thats it. Thats how the money moves. 10 million goes in in moscow, 10 million pops out in london. And thanks to the fake jerry rigged sell price of that item they were supposedly buying and selling there, that 10 million highlighter, you just moved 10 million from moscow to london using the offices of the bank to do it. That 10 million is not on the books as money you stole from the old ladies. Its money you can access in the west because its the proceeds of a totally legit bigname european bank. They dont it selling highlighters but real stock trades instead but that was the principle. They used real stocks. They used a real bank. But it was all fake for the purposes of just moving money. Its a scheme they called mirror trading. Right . Its you can see how the mirror works there. I want to sell something for 10 million. I want to buy something for 10 million and poof, the money moves. Somebody selling in london or cypress or tax Shelter Island somewhere and somebody else buying in moscow. And there was Something Like 6,000 of these fake mirror trades and in most of these cases, the buyer and seller were actually the same entity. There were two different people really buying and selling anything to anyone else. These were fake sales events. Fake stock sales that were they used real stock but the whole point was a way to move tons and tons and tons of illegal russian money out of russia into the west. Tons of money. This was multiple billions of dollars. More than 6,000 trades using multiple Deutsche Bank offices over the period of years and part of the reason they got away with it for so long to such a huge extent, because this bank was involved. They count have done it without Deutsche Bank and deutsch couldnt do it without connections in russia because nobody gets multiple billions of dollars shovelled out of russia without the russian government being in on it and saying okay. In the new book collusion written by guardian reporter luke harding, he reports out some of the apparent russian government involvement in this scheme. You know how they say in american politics personnel is policy . In russian politics, personnel is is policy, its also money, its also often criminal connectio connections. A guy name the andre is somebody who Vladimir Putin installed at the very top of russian Staterun Banking. He is thought to have kgb, sfb connections of his own. Putin put him in charge of a Staterun Bank in russia called veb bank is famous in our own country for having sent their chief executive to meet with Jared Kushner during the transition. What was that about . But andre costen at one point was installed by putin as head of the tb which is another russian Staterun Bank with close ties to russian intelligence. When it came time for the bank to staff up the office in moscow, one of the people they installed was andre costens son also handedly named andre costen. Soon as docdocumented, the spect turned on. Billions of dollars in elicit russian money started getting flowing through the office and spirited out of russia through the office and this multi billiondollar criminal scheme they were operating. The bank ran that keep using the offices in the west, as well. But that whole thing happened, they did that because they could thanks apparently to their connections to the russian government and Intelligence Services close to putin. They did it because they could. The bank did it because they got paid, right . They got a cut. Youre moving multiple billions of elicit dollars . Yeah, youre taking a cut. That Moscow Office of deutche bank started clearing profits of a half billion to a billion dollars a year in profit. That one office. Thanks in large part to that very friendly relationship linked to the Intelligence Services ran by andre costens dad. So if that bank, if deutche bank is getting subpoenaed, one reason thats important, its one of the clearest windows we got into russia Money Laundering in the last 10 to 15 years but its interesting to know that muller is looking into that but its not like this hasnt been investigated before. Not like hes about to uncover this scheme. Part of the reason we know about the scheme and i can talk about it on tv is because the bank and Money Laundering scheme got busted a few years ago. In january they paid over a 400 million fine for that russian Money Laundering scheme to new york state, new york state is home to the headquarters of lots of domestic and International Banks so lots of financial crimes get prosecuted and pursued by new york state financial regulators. So they had to pay. One of the interesting dogs that didnt bark during the first year of the Trump Administration is that even though Deutsche Bank settled that case with new york state and paid that gigantic 400 million fine to new york state in january, a lot of people were expecting that that was the small penalty, that the big fine they were going to pay, the one that wouldnt be hundreds of millions of dollars but billions of dollars would be paid by Deutsche Bank after the feds got through with them. Its one thing to have new york state regulators come to you and one thing to have the Justice Department coming after you. People expect it would be a ginormous fine against Deutsche Bank when the Justice Deputy case about Money Laundering finally came to its conclusion either in the courts or in the settlement. Well, that russian Money Laundering case against Deutsche Bank had been run in the Justice Department by u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york quite famously he was fired by President Trump even though President Trump had previously assured him that he could keep his job. Well, since then, since the start of the Trump Administration, its possible that the Justice Departments russian Money Laundering case against Deutsche Bank has been chugging along in the background and we dont know anything about it but its moving along full steam ahead and some day well find out something dramatic is going on. Maybe thats happening and we dont know but from out ward appearanc appearances, the investigation since the Trump Administration has been in office, that investigation appears to have gone dormant. That was the phrase cnn used when they checked in on that Justice Department case against Deutsche Bank and found out that it had gone quote quiet. Gone dormant. The reason i say thats the dog that didnt bark in the Trump Administration is because while Deutsche Bank was in this years long multi billiondollar moneymaking scheme to launder money out of russia, they were also cultivating and otherwise sort of inexplicable major financial relationship with now President Trump. Let me quote luke harding again from his new book collusion. Quote a kremlin bank run by proxies of the russian Intelligence Services captured the out post. Deutsche bank were beneficiari s beneficiaries. While going on, they length hundreds of millions of dollars to the future president. Right . So this is the second reason why its very important to the american presidency right now if Deutsche Bank did get subpoenaed. There is the russia Money Laundering thing they are up to their neck in and the relationship with our president. This was the Trump International hotel and tower in chicago. To build this lovely building, the president borrowed over 600 million from Deutsche Bank. That itself is remarkable because mr. Trump as a businessman by the 2000s was very famous for minding ways not to repay loans that he had taken from banks. It became part of his business image. He bragged about that and wrote about it in his book as one of the secrets to success whenever banks loaned him money and he didnt want to pay them back or have a way, he would write how he saw that as the banks problem not his problem and would find a way to stick it to him. He had been doing that and writing about it and bragging about it for decades so by the time trump was borrowing money for this building in chicago in 2005, there were not very many banks who wanted to do business with him anymore. But Deutsche Bank for some reason were happy to. They loaned him the money in 2005. By 2008, he had already started defaulting on obligations to repay the loan. So Deutsche Bank came after him for a 40 million payment he was supposed to make and he responded by turning around and suing Deutsche Bank. He said no, im not paying the 40 million i owe you, instead, you need to pay me 3 billion because you caused the financial crash. It was there was that was insane. It was that kind of thing that had resulted in all of the other major banks who deal in major real estate loans deciding they would never again do business with the Trump Organization or donald trump but for some reason, in 2008 after trump said he couldnt pay Deutsche Bank back what he owed them and finded an insane lawsuit and tried to get out of paying them, for some reason after he pulled that in 2008, Deutsche Bank didnt cut him off but they gave him a ton more money. They doubled down and tripled down and started doing a ton more business with him and nobody quite knows why and nobody believes they have seen a complete or accurate statement of the president s financial situation but as best as we can tell from the time he became president , deutsche holds the lion share. Thats Deutsche Bank on the right side of the screen. The money they loaned him that he has outstanding in terms of loans with them includes the loan on the building in chicago after he defaulted and sued them over it. It includes loans for his golf course. It includes 170 million hi te k for a loan for his hotel in d. C. Deutsche has been generous to mr. Trump personally and at the same time they were inexplicably generous they were laundering billions in russia in a scheme that appears to be tied at the russian government. The combination of those two dynamics led max seine waters t push it he said the Financial Services committee should examine the Money Laundering operation and assess the integrity of the u. S. Justice departments on going investigation into the scheme given the Trump Administrations conflicts of interest in the matter. Republicans running the Financial Services committee had no interest in doing any such thing. And zest jushes just a democra the republicans run the committee. Couple months later, she was like okay, ill write myself to Deutsche Bank and told them they needed to hand over to her committee, to her, the internal reviews they had done as a bank on the russian Money Laundering scandal and on their banking relationship with the president and the business and his family. Deutsche bank responded saying no, were not giving you anything. But Maxine Waters did not give up. By july this summer she was still pushing. Donald trump is clearly hiding something when it comes to his finances. There are many unanswered questions. Why does trump refuse to reveal his tax returns to the public . Why was deutsDeutsche Bank a ba thats been fined for russian Money Laundering and other violations of the law willing to lend hundreds of millions of dollars to trump after his bankruptcies when no other bank would lend to him . Congressman Maxine Waters has been on the spot on this issue from the beginning. Republicans on the various committees had no interest whatsoever in pursuing this line of inquiry but the democrats have. Donald trump has said a number of times that he has had nothing to do with russia and i want to ask you director, if youre familiar with Deutsche Bank and its 300 million loan to donald trump and his organization . Not something im going to comment on. Director, are you aware that Deutsche Bank has been investigated and fined over 400 Million Dollar to stop the corrupt transfer of more than 10 billiondollar out of russia . I think generally from press accounts. So an individuals association with a bank that has had dealings with russian Money Laundering, that would be something that would be a red flag for a Counter Intelligence investigation i would assume. Thats onehypo i dont want answer. A hypothetical he doesnt want to answer. That was back in march but now according to handelsblatt, Deutsche Bank has been served or maybe they havent. This is where this story today diverted from fascinating to huh . Two of the president s lawyers today put out identical statements claiming that this isnt real. There is no subpoena. Both jthe same statement today, we confirmed this with the bank and other sources. Okay. Then another white house lawyer ty cobb seems to have put a telling finer point on it saying today quote, previous reports of subpoenas that relating to the president and his family are false. After ty cobb and had a previously said President Trumps accounts, they changed headlines and the muller subpoena isnt about president s accounts, its about people or entities close to mr. Trump. You know what . That said, handelsblatt isnt changing reporters and routers was the first to pick up on the story. Reuterss updated the headline, neither them nor bloomberg changed the reporting despite the white house lawyers youing about it. If the Money Laundering money, Deutsche Bank is handing over records of the president and people near him, this is the next great leap in this scandal. This is where you get to when you follow the money. Which is how these things always get sold. And the president s lawyers are being a little nutty about this. Like they have been a number of things since the flynn scandal broke. Are they just being nutty . Are they only correcting part of this . Are we sure these subpoenas that have happened . Why are some news outlets changing their stories about this today and others sticking with it, sticking with their original reporting. This is really, really, really important stand stuff getting weird just as fast as its getting interesting. Greg ferrell from Bloomberg News is here next. Patrick woke up with back pain. But he has work to do. So he took aleve. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Aleve. All day strong. Sometimes i think, why did i do that. Take risks. Im gonna teach you how to make something happen. Dont rinse the pan, this is where we gonna make our sauce. Instead of using parsley, were going to use the carrot tops. Theyre gonna say, where did you learn that. 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Regardless of ways in which there is muddiness in the push back, there is a reason we should have seen this coming. Over the summer in july we got this, muller expands probe to trumps business transactions, quote, the u. S. Special counsel investigating possible ties between Donald Trumps campaign and russia is examining a broad range of transactions involving trumps businesses and associates according to a person familiar with the probe. According to that source, fbi investigatiors are looking at russian purchases and trumps involvement in a Controversial Development in new york with russian associates and the 2013 Miss Universe pageant and trump sale of a florida mansion to a russian in 2008. When that story came out from Bloomberg News in july, there was quite a lot of push back to it but bloomberg stood by their reporting as did the fall of the money reporter who broke that news and hes here with us tonight in a full scale white house freakout over todays news that his earlier reports were correct and that part of the muller investigation involves a subpoena, one that Deutsche Bank and investigative report er. Great to view yo with u with us tonight. You blush. Sorry, i dont mean to embarrass you. You explain the importance, did i say anything that struck you as wrong or we should clarify . No, we stand by our reporting. It was interesting you noted to get this level of push back from the white house. The white house is pushing back, help me understand this because we saw a few things change today once the president s lawyers started making statements about there not being a subpoena and hard for me to parse what they are contesting. We saw routers change the headline and we saw wall street journal change the subheadline. You guys standing by reporting. Do you understand what it is they are raising an issue with . Well, needless to say after the strong push back, we went and, you know, we were confident that the original reporting was correct. We stand by that. I do think that youve got to look at a subpoena for records related to trump as whether or not it was for all records related to trump or if it was lots of business transactions that touched on trump, trump family, trump associates, et cetera. Okay. There is a lot of wiggle room. As you refer to the story in july, you look at the real estate transactions, of course, a lot of them would have been done through Deutsche Bank. To that extent i didnt find it a surprise. When we talked about Deutsche Bank and their potential interest to the muller investigation when you did that reporting, one of the things we talked about is the fact Deutsche Bank refused request from the u. S. Congress, they when they responded to max scene waters and said they would not send you anything, they were polite about it but you said at the time that as far as you understood the compliance obligations and the privacy obligations of banks in this regard, they were not allowed to respond to anything but a subpoena. Yes, they would need and want to have a subpoena to cover themselves. They cant give away sensitive client information. They can defend themselves by saying the u. S. Government issued a subpoena requiring us to turnover information, thats why were diddioing it. They had this now and not what Maxine Waters asked for it. We heard the president tell the New York Times if the muller investigation started looking for business deals, he could consider that a violation. That might be something he would consider to be out of bounds for the muller investigation. Weve seen this very strong and a little in my estimation weird reaction from the president s lawyers today now that this story about the subpoena has come out. Given the reaction and red flags that the trump side has waved about this, do you think they are right to be freaked out . Do you think this is an area of real danger in terms of this investigation . I think what happens with the muller investigation is because his its been such a black box that any small show or something about the news, i wouldnt be so hyped up. The muller team appears to be approaching months ago. We talked about they issued a subpoena for records for lots of banks regarding Paul Manafort and couple months later, a detailed indictment of manafort and gates that had a mountain of information about transactions, financial transfers from cypress to a variety of rug dealers, landscape, architects here in the u. S. They collect that information. Just doesnt appear to be a fishing expedition. Seems that the muller track record seems to go find something when they think there is something of interest there. We shouldnt assume its thproo of wrongdoing such as its necessary to make the next step to do what they will do. We can observe a freakout by the president s lawyers. No reason to assume that is warranted but this is a receiver use matter in terms of the way the muller investigation is approaching. Right. There must be a reason for him to want the information they are trying to get but having said that, i dont think we should all get hot and bothered about something happening next week or christmas. I get hot and bothered whenever they do it. Human nature. Greg, thank you. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Much more ahead, stay with us. Each day justin chooses to walk. At work. And after work. He does it all with dr. Scholls. Only dr. Scholls has massaging gel insoles that provide allday comfort. To keep him feeling more energized. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. When trying to save for the big things in life. We tend to start small. Less of this. Cut back on that. But if it feels like a lot of effort for a little gain. Change that. Start with something that makes a big difference. Your student loans. 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Weve got six days left and the people, and the people of alabama are going to speak to the people in washington d. C. They dont want me up there. I know that. They dont want somebody up there with an independent mind, somebody that will do what they believe is right under the constitution. [ applause ] nor do they want someone that will make them answer questions about 14yearolds for the entire time youre in the United States senate. The rally that just wrapped up in alabama, great to have you with us tonight. Thank you for your time. Thank you, rachel. What was their rally like tonight . Was the mood like . I understand there was a pretty good crowd but also protesters. There were protesters out allowed to walk away. It was in a barn in South Alabama where sweet home alabama played continually for awhile but there was a crowd. When steve bannon came in, he got a lot of applause. Steve bannon obviously runs breitbart website. He was very closely associated with the president s electoral victory and trump white house. Is he considered to be a powerful figure in alabama . A lot of people have been trying to game out at the National Level whether it makes a difference the president has now explicitly endorsed roy moore. Do bannon or the president have enough way so make a difference in the vote . Well, i think they do. I think steve bannon is pretty popular and certainly here seemed honestly sometimes seemed more popular than roy moore did when the crowd was more attentive when steve bannon was speaking than roy moore was but, you know, he made it fairly clear in his bannon made it clear this is a referendum on trump and i thought that was a standout moment. What do you think people watching this race for the final week around the country is important for the balance of power in the senate and what these two parties stand for and how these allegations against moore were handled. What do you think people watching this nationwide should have an eye on for the next week. How do you think its important and how do you think it will work out . It will be really tight. I have not seen the democrats this motivated in maybe ever, honestly and obviously, roy moores people are also highly motivated. It is going to be intense, and it is going to be something, the kind of election we havent seen in alabama in my lifetime and obviously, Everybody Knows it out. And thats what is going to happen. It is a it is intense. John archibald, columnist for the birmingham news and aol. Com joining us from outside a rally tonight. Its really nice to have you here. Thanks for your time tonight. Thank you. All right. Well be right back. Stay with us. I cant believe you got us tickets. I did. I didnt pay for anything. You never do. Send me what i owe. I got it. I mean, you did find money to buy those boots. Are you serious . Is that why you dont like them . 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While simultaneously across the river in washington, d. C. , this was outside Barbara Comstocks office on capitol hill. I have spinal muscular atrophy. Have i spinal muscular atrophy. I cannot go to the bathroom. I cannot go to the bathroom or take a shower. Or take a shower. Without assistance. Without assistance. This is provided by medicaid. This is provided by medicaid. It took my godgiven right. It took my godgiven right. To work and live like everyone. To work and live like everyone. So dont send me to a filing cabinet. Dont send me to a filing cabinet. Dont kill me. Dont kill me. Kill this bill. Kill this bill. Megan anderson was one of the activists at the capitol today, along with a ton of people with disabilities and health conditions, people advocating for those folks who stage protests and sitins outside capitol hill House Republicans today pleading with members not to vote for the republican tax bill that among other things will cause 13 million americans to lose all Health Insurance coverage. This was outside Pennsylvania RepublicanRyan Costellos office today where several people were eventually arrested, including one woman with a double mastectomy was demonstrating shirtless with the word shame written on her back there was a sitin outside Darrell Issas office and outside moscow republican Dana Rohrabachers office. The crowd also descended on new york republican claudia tenneys office. Graduate students held a sitin outside paul ryans office protesting the potentially devastating cuts to Higher Education in the tax bill. Were told that nine of them were arrested. And while there was this particularly intense action on capitol hill today, it was another day of protest against this tax bill all over the country today too. This was roseville, california outside Tom Mcclintocks office. They had a couple of hundred people in roseville today. This was portland, oregon today. Demonstrators gathered in downtown charleston, South Carolina today, including one person promising free money. And then you see the asterisk, it says for millionaires only, court shi republicans in congress. Theyre still trying to gin up a final version of this tax bill before it goes to trumps desk. That means it isnt finished yet in terms of whats in it. Its not passed yet either. Thats why youre going to keep seeing this. Thats why people are not letting up. Kill the bill your brain changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. 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The ioc, however, will allow clean athletes, individual clean athletes to compete in pyeongchang, even if theyre russian, but they wont be allowed to compete for russia. These athletes will be introduced as olympic athletes from russia. Theyll be only allowed to wear generic uniforms that bear the olympic flag, not the russian flag. Russian president Vladimir Putin has said the doping scandal is purely political. Its just meant to humiliate him. He hasnt responded directly to todays announcement. But expect that when he does respond, it wont be pretty or classy. But well see. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. I know you were talking about some of the protests that are going on for the