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would that be a breach of what his actual i would say yes. i would say yes. if he was outside that lane, would that mean he d have to go? would you no, i think that s a violation. look, this is about russia. but what would you do? i can t i can t answer that question because i don t think it is going to happen. i guess at this point there s some irony in the fact he was fine with mueller looking at russia and not his businesses, but this was something that he thought he used mnuchen at treasury to help keep his taxes from congress, he used all of the levers of government to shield any transparency into his financial records. cy vance and the state attorney general s office had all of that. today they charged his company as being a criminal enterprise. do you think that they have everything he was trying to keep secret and do you think there s more to come? i don t know, but i think what we see today and what you saw in that audio that you just played has maybe b ....
What are you investigating there? rachel, would you repeat that one more time? sure. we ll give it one more try. why is it that you have been asking for documents and testimony from deutsche bank basically since president trump was sworn in? what do you want to investigate there? well, as you know, we have we have tried to get information from deutsche bank. we have tried to get the chair of the committee to hold investigations. we have tried to get information from mnuchen. i am going to kaulcall an aue here and say we should bring her back when we can fix this problem because it is unfair when she can t hear me. i apologize on behalf of our technical gremlins not able to aid in the way they should have been. we will fix this and have chairwoman waters back as soon as we can get it sorted. i will tell you while i was waiting for her to try to get her audio fixed, cnn and reuters ....
Shutdown that the president isn t backing down from. trump telling reporters in iraq that the border wall must be funded. whatever it takes. i mean we re going to have a wall. reporter: while 800,000 federal workers spend the holidays in uncertainty due to the partial government shutdown, the president complained that he was all alone in the white house after he cancelled plans to travel to florida for christmas. trump s sour mood was fuelled by steep losses on wall street this month, caused by his own trade war and his sharp criticism of federal reserve chairman jerome powell. what about the fed chair? well, we ll see. they re raising interest rates too fast, that s my opinion. reporter: a source familiar with the matter says trump has blamed treasury secretary steve mnuchen for the decision to recommend powell for the fed job and his failure to calm markets. and despite trump s praise of his treasury secretary yesterday do you still have confidence in secretary mnuchen? ....
Under the gun and his job may be in serious jeopardy, that source says. now, steve mnuchen may have received something of a christmas miracle today as stocks rebounded, more than 1,000 points after some steep losses on christmas eve. it is not clear what that means for his job, but for a president who is very sensitive to the stocks going up or down, this is good news for mnuchen and for president trump. and as it relates to that government shutdown, president trump is not backing down for his demand for a border wall. in fact, he s saying he plans to go to the border to visit parts of the wall in january just before he delivers a state of the union address. jim. okay. we will be watching that one as well. abby philip, thank you very much. let s bring in cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, cnn barbara star and elise labott. the trip to iraq comes days ....
Justice department with the sacking of jeff session, sessions is out so trump can get a much more political player in that position. i think he is looking at getting rid of john kelly, mr. nuchen, kelly, for people in those positions that will protect him. absolutely. will continue to do his bidding. thank you for that. although, they did get fixen s tax returns. so we can relive a lot of history. he may look okay after this term. he may look out all right. we will talk more about trump s military in a coming block. but how bizarre was trump s call with those military leaders on thanksgiving? on like a trump scale of one to ten, it seemed like the eight to nine range. on a sliding scale. he is not what s the proper term, context sensitive. in other words, he rails about whatever is on his mind to whomever is in his vicinity. ....