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Blavatnik. leonard blavatnik is a significant shareholder in rusal, which is deripaskas company. that company, once sanctions were first imposed dropped like a stone. once the sanctions were lifted, it increased by some 24% in terms of the stock price. i think very strongly that secretary mnuchin should have recused himself or certainly should have asked the ethics office whether or not he should have been involved in the negotiations on the sanctions relative to deripaska and the lifting of tho...

Mnuchin, though, said, no, they couldnt have any further time. and now apart from the democratic committee chairs raising these concerns, a member of the house intelligence committee is raising another major red flag. which will curl your hair. congresswoman jackie speier has just sent this letter to treasure secretary steven mnuchin asking about reports of his, mnuchins financial relationship with a business partner of oleg deripaska, a business partner of deripaska who owns a big stake in deri...

That unspecified witnesses from the trump organization who have testified before the house intelligence committee may have a problem legally in terms of potential liability for lying to congress. also, congresswoman speier has started a bit of a firestorm over allegations she has now made concerning treasury secretary steven mnuchin and the possibility he may have had a financial conflict of interest when it came to his decision to lift sanctions on a russian oligarch named oleg deripaska and bu...

That unspecified witnesses from the trump organization who have testified before the house intelligence committee may have a problem legally in terms of potential liability for lying to congress. also, congresswoman spear has started a bit of a fire storm over allegations she has now made concerning treasury secretary steven mnuchin and the possibility he may have had a financial conflict of interest when it came to his decision to lift sanctions on a russian oligarch named oleg deripaska and bu...

Security clearances, who were nevertheless cleared to be given access to that kind of information. as of yesterday, the trump administration has dropped sanctions on oleg deripaska. he was sanctioned and known to have extensive ties to trump campaign chairman paul manafort whose criminal case is very much ongoing at this moment. 136 republican members of the house, all the democrats in the house and senate, and 11 republicans in the senate all tried to block that lifting of sanctions on deripask...

Or not they can justify 30 people working in the trump white house who would have otherwise been turned down for security clearances who were nevertheless cleared to be given access to that kind of information. as of yesterday, the trump administration dropped sanctions on deripaska. he was sanctioned and known to have extensive ties to trump campaign chairman paul manafort whose criminal case is very much on going at this moment. 136 republican members of the hou house, all the democrats in the...

Its been reported he may benefit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by this lifting of sanctions. again, he was sanctioned with connection to the attack on our election. that matter isnt exactly settled, but hes getting hundreds of millions of dollars in breaks from the trump administration while the manafort case alone persists in the courts. one republican senator suggested that given the subsequent reporting about how well deripaska will do from the trump administration lifting sa...

There have been these general licenses that have allowed business to continue. the significance of lifting these sanctions today means that these companies can operate as normal, and the question is, has oleg deripaska really truly diminished his control in these companies so he cant benefit from them and the kremlin cant benefit from them. and there is a lot of controversy around that, ana. the secretary of the treasury wrote a letter to congress, really laying out the terms of the deal that he...

Back from april last year and now the us government targeted seven all the guards and about a dozen businesses with close ties to the russian government the russian government of course coming attached with a long line of sins including the alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen us elections and that its an extension of crime area and of course support for the syrian government during the war there now the point of these sanctions was to punish them for these so-called malign activities so these...

Democrats to compromise. >> i watched speaker pelosi sit there and would not negotiate with anything. so i give president trump a lot of credit. he put the american people before politics. what people are celebrating, saying speaker pelosi is strong because she got status quo? thats not what the country wants. country wants to find common ground. >> dana: peter doocy is live on capitol hill. do democrats sound any more likely to consider border wall money by february 15th, the new deadline? >> r...