the beat with ari melber starts now. you were speaking to donald trump s former lawyer, now grand jury witness last night i spoke to his current lawyer, who blames everything just about on the former lawyer. i m curious what you think of it all, including your skills as an established political communicator what we re hearing coming out of this team? well, first of all, i m so glad to get to talk to you i described you behind your back as masterful it was a brilliant interview i watched it when i got home i think that what he is doing is what you said. he was engaged in political communications his defense as he described it to you was that he would have paid it either way because melania would be mad well, the federal crime isn t being charged by sdny. this is a state investigation. it doesn t seem like an apples to apples kind of comment. what i think is about to happen in this country is a giant debate about whether this was just a foot foul, sort of a b.s. kind of t
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agenda now, trump i signed into law a bill rolling this back let me be very clear with you tonight. i showed you senator dorgan. many other democrats then and now have been a part of the wall street right wing push so, yes, it is politically more conservative to deregulate the banks, but a lot of democrats in congress have gotten onboard here was what it looked like take a look. this is truly a great day for america. the legislation i m signing rolls back the crippling dodd-frank regulation has are crushing community banks and credit unions nationwide. now those rules were not what were crushing community banks. two community banks, the more regional banks, basically just crushed themselves because there was so much deregulation along with risk which is a choice they made but some of that could have been completely avoided when he talks about dodd-frank, that was the post-2009 financial
pretty negative. you catch someone in hypocrisy, catch someone being wrong. maybe it s old-fashioned, senator, but we think if we found someone who was right where that might be useful we wanted to highlight that as i run out of time, can i hit you with a lyric yes. the evangelical rapper lecrae, he says the reason why i sound the same is the truth don t change and on deregulation, i think that might apply to you, sir. it s probably true. let me make one final point. too big to fail, the too big to fail banks are bigger now, much bigger than they were a decade ago. you talk about moving down the road the wrong direction we need to change it. exactly that goes to what you sapd it keeps moving. when it moves the other direction a lot of people s deposits, sometimes life savings could be at risk senator dorgan, thank you, sir. nice to be with you.