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March 17, 2018
Controversies and continuing through today. so maybe this is the beginning of some reckoning happening at the fbi. with this head-rolling. theres others, lisa page, peter strzok and others -- >> laura: and we have the peter strzok news that were also going to get to, his relationship with the judge who has since recused himself. lets go to alan dershowitz. this just broke minutes ago. mccabe is out. your reaction. >> i want to see the evidence. if the evidence concludes that he was less than can...
March 17, 2018
Controversies and continuing through today. so maybe this is the beginning of some reckoning happening at the fbi. with this head-rolling. theres others, lisa page, peter strzok and others -- >> laura: and we have the peter strzok news that were also going to get to, his relationship with the judge who has since recused himself. lets go to alan dershowitz. this just broke minutes ago. mccabe is out. your reaction. >> i want to see the evidence. if the evidence concludes that he was less than can...
March 17, 2018
Larry, in your job. ten years ago this week, those major cracks in the financial system broke wide open with the collapse of bear stearns. now ten years later, almost to the exact day, the senate voted to roll back regulations meant to avoid another financial meltdown. you know it as dodd frank. the law passed in the wake of the crisis that mandated banks with at least $50 billion of assets to be subject to very strict oversight from the federal reserve. the new senate bill slides that thresho...
March 16, 2018
Door. >> you mentioned senator chuck grassley, senator lindsey graham said it would blow up the committee. theyve stayed back and tried to bite their tongues about all of this. i get back to the point the presidents deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, a career prosecutor who approved the subpoenas, bob mueller came to him and put some level of threshold evidence before him that we have reason to ask for these documents. >> right. and the other thing i want to add about the senate and the hou...
March 15, 2018
President is very comfortable with truth abuse. at the end of the day, the truth is a side as well. but heres the problem, john. those who are loyal to trump will not care about what he just said that he does. they will say, well, this is deal making. his savvy. they all do it. i just dont understand what the threshold is for people in terms of wanting to is see trumps behavior anything other than acceptable. within the base. >> lets be clear, trumps base seems to be a very solid third of the co...
March 15, 2018
Institutions because the effect they could have on the economy. so for me, it is not so much that we shouldnt provide relief to smaller banks. this just goes too far and i think undermines much of what we intended in dodd frank in the first place. >> 16 senate democrats including heidi heitkamp voted for this. lets listen to what she said about it. >> they dont understand where we live. they dont understand who we are. they dont understand that we live in communities and that we support and prot...
March 15, 2018
We trust our friends in the uk that they have come to the right conclusion after all this occurred on their soil. but it is interesting that even the presidents own words would be more helpful, to hear the president speak to the camera or the american people and denounce putin, denounce the russian government for the steps that theyre taking would be, i think, far more powerful. >> i want to ask you about this financial bill before congress. it rules back some of the protections that were put in...
March 15, 2018
Dodd-frank passing 67-31. dividing democrats here. progressives oppose easing regulations. they point to a cbo report that says the bill could trigger another financial crisis. many say dodd-frank hurt community banks and regulations were stifling lending. it raises the threshold from $50 billion to $250 billion. shielding more than two dozen mid sized banks leaving wells fargo and jpmorgan chase to face the annual stress tests and providing plans to dismantle if they fail. this is not just bank...
March 15, 2018
Company quote had no involvement in the matter. this marks ten years since the collapse of bear sterns parking the financial crisis. -- sparking the financial crisis. the senate bill repeals parts of dodd-frank passing 67-31. dividing democrats sharply. progressives oppose regulations pointing to the cbo report saying this could trigger another financial crisis. many argue dodd-frank hurts community banks. the bill raises the threshold for federal overisight from $50 billion to $250 billion. t...
March 15, 2018
Try to preserve his government pension. were told the most likely scenario is at the pension will be reduced, but it will not be taken away entirely because thats a very high legal threshold to cross. based around reporting, what the inspector general found is that mccabe either misled or lied to inspector general investigators about his role in october 2016 media report about the fbis investigation into the clinton foundation. we also understand the general has looked at obstruction in the clin...