Tamara keith, White House Correspondent for npr. And ken vogel political reporter for the New York Times. Thank you all for being with us especially as part of our Leadoff Panel tonight. Ken, ill lead off with you. What do you make of this bank subpoena, if true, is it a big deal . What else does it speak of . Absolutely. We always kind of knew that this was a possibility that mueller would start looking into Donald Trumps finances and this subpoena, again, if it is accurate that Deutsche Bank has been subpoenaed, would indicate that he is fully going down that route. Deutsche bank is significant because donald trump it has at least 130 million worth of Donald Trumps debt and it sold some of that debt or could have sold some of that debt to russian banks. That could potentially give these russian banks some leverage over donald trump. And so you have the combination here potentially of Donald Trumps finances as well as his
dealings with russia and how those two things intertwine. So ev
Loot into russias meddling in the election, not as a suspect but source of information. Investigators focus on meetings with sergey kislyak, as well as a meeting with a russian bank subject to u. S. Sanctions. Kushners attorneys tells nbc news, of course, mr. Kushner volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings. He will do the same if hes convicted in connection with any other inquiry. Meanwhile reuters reported on friday that kushner had multiple undisclosed contacts with kislyak between april and november of last year and that fbi investigators are, quote, examining whether russians subjected to kushner or other trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to peopl with ties to trump. Kushners attorney said kushner has no recollection of these meetings. Joining me now nayyera haq, mr. Nantz, former cia agent jack rice and former fbi double agent. Wow, wow, and wow. Im going to start with you, nayyera, how normal or
Tuesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york, day 320 of the Trump Administration. A day in which the administration wrestled with what seems to be a new turn in the Mueller Investigation. Multiple news organizations fwha we mean bloomberg, the financial times, reuters, wall street journal report that the special council has suspected Deutsche Bank for information about Donald Trumps financial dealings. The bank is trumps biggest lender, traditionally have supplied over 300 million for a number of Real Estate Ventures over the years. Over the past two decades, in fact, the bank has played a major role in the president s businesses and has been one of the only big Financial Institutions willing to deal with donald trump at times. Today, white house lawyer jay sekulow denied the reports and while oddly word here is what said, quote, we have confirmed that the news reports that the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to t
Fact, the bank has played a major role in the president s businesses and has been one of the only big Financial Institutions willing to deal with donald trump at times. Today, white house lawyer jay sekulow denied the reports and while oddly worded, here is what he said. Quote, we have confirmed that the news reports that the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to the president are false. No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. The bank, however, had issued this statement. Deutsche bank takes its legal obligations seriously, remains committed to cooperating with authorized investigations into this matter. The Bloomberg News correspondent who cowrote their news organizations report on this spoke to our own ari melber earlier this evening. We stand by our story. We bent back to our sources. We acknowledged the denial. You may recall just five months ago the president told the New York Times that if it came to
Amendment strategy not answering Robert Muellers questions on the ground his answers would tend to incriminate him and claim that as justification for taking the fifth which trump himself associated with gangsters but also on the political ground now that the Mueller Investigation is out to get him. Indeed, President Trump is going to new extremes in his attempts to put the fbi on trial by alleging now that he, the subject of a federal investigation, is somehow the victim of fbi spying, thats his word. The president s eketively staged a crisis to convince the country that muellers not being fair to him and therefore, he donald trump has a right not to answer his questions. Its an excuse the president is setting is up to justify a number of escape routes. Pleading the fifth with special counsel mueller or in a most extreme move shutting the probe down all together. This morning trump launched his most egregious assaulted on our Law Enforcement institutions to date saying look how things