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Administration. and now look at this. this is brand-new. the intelligence committee is also going to investigate, quote, whether any foreign actor has sought to compromise or holds leverage, financial or otherwise, over donald trump, his family, his business or his associates. this means theyre now officially and with subpoena power investigating directly the thing that you shout out in the dark in the middle of the night when you wake up sweating and you thought it was a dream and you didnt rea...

Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." the house intelligence committee is investigating credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise involving president trump and his businesses. democratic congressman adam schiff outlined the probe wednesday, which questions whether foreign governments have leverage over president trump, who lets not forget has a long history of financial connections to places like russia. and his consistent refusal to release his tax returns does not help. joining...

But were also going to look at other countries that could have influenced him. >> to me? >> yeah. >> i think any of that goes very big and it goes into the part that may not be formally criminal or felonious. it is a thing that americans in the congress should care about countries can use or buy debt to get leverage over the president and get close to him full stop. >> speaker pelosi talked about this earlier today. she was asked about this presidential harassment kmaecom. here is what she had t...

If you are a private citizen or private businessperson to have overseas financial connections. theyre not okay if you are running the government and the president of the united states. if you dont want to give up those connections, you should not be running the government, and he was unwilling to give up those connections, so it is completely reasonable for congress to be looking into the leverage that foreign countries may have over the most senior decision maker our country has. >> you, too, h...

That now were digging into this stuff from pre20-2016. and i think people can compare it to the same hour of news coverage with all of the foreign leverage and a president that insisted on continuing to profit from a business while hiding tax returns and other financial investigation. as mr. t used to say, he kind of brought this son himself. >> they said recently were taking an mri to any russian financin financing, but he added that were not going to be so naive

Ready for, it five, five areas his committee will be looking at. the scope of u.s. influence on the u.s. political situations, and the trump administrations response and business, and whether foreign actors hold any kind of leverage over the president or associates. whether the president, his family or his associates are at risk of blackmail or coercion by foreign actors. and finally, whether anyone inside or outside the country has tried to obstruct any ongoing investigation. shifr went on to s...

Testify. prosecutors say they would rather have somebody they have leverage over to make sure they are testifying truthfully, but if they can prove a lie in that case, they can prosecute that person for perjury. so a pardon does not inoculate donald trump from having witnesses testify against him. but, look, i think we cant lose sight of the fact that its really important that the house democrats are re-opening the investigation that was closed by house republicans back in march 2018 with a host...

Are -- their policies, but more particularly with the president and his personal financial entanglements. there are things that are fine if you are a private citizen or private businessperson to have overseas financial connections. theyre not okay if you are running the government and the president of the united states. if you dont want to give up those connections, you should not be running the government, and he was unwilling to give up those connections, so it is completely reasonable for con...

Co-conspirators in the united states, in some ways the effort by the house now is a broader effort. its an effort more about our natural interests, which is what leverage does the russian federation have over american foreign policy? its much bigger, much more fundamental, much more forward looking question that i think is core to our national interest. >> it also seems to be riddle with proof points. we have donald trump at the end of the year, beginning of this year, talking about defending th...

Arms services committee. the president in his state of the union address last night said if they cant negotiate over the next six months, a new inf, intermediate nuclear force agreement with the russians, thats a key nuclear treaty thats been around back to reagan. he says we will outspend and outinnovate all others by far. how do you interpret that? >> a new nuclear arms race which we should not engage in. we need to hold to that inf treaty. we need to hold russia accountable. clearly they have...