>>> SO THIS IS THE NEWS THAT WE BUMPED RIGHT FROM THE TOP OF THE
SHOW WHEN WE GOT THE BREAKING NEWS ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILL
DYING IN WASHINGTON. WE'RE CONTINUING TO KEEP AN EYE
ON THAT TONIGHT. BUT I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW
THAT "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" REPORTED THIS EVENING THAT A NEW
SUBPOENA HAS BEEN ISSUED INTO THE INVESTIGATION INTO PAUL
MANAFORT. THIS IS FROM THE JOURNAL
TONIGHT. THE SUBPOENA IS FROM THE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IN MANHATTAN, DIRECTED AT A SMALL
BANK IN CHICAGO RUN BY A MEMBER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ECONOMIC
ADVISORY PANEL. THE SUBPOENA IS REPORTEDLY
SEEKING INFORMATION ON SOME GIGANTIC MULTIMILLION DOLLAR
LOANS THAT THE TINY BANK GAVE TO PAUL MANAFORT IN NOVEMBER, THE
MONTH OF THE ELECTION AND IN JANUARY, THE MONTH OF THE
INAUGURATION. AND I SAY THESE LOANS ARE GUYIAN
APPARENTLY WHAT LOOKED NUTTY TO INVESTIGATORS ABOUT THE LOAN IS
THE $16 MILLION THAT THE BANK GAVE TO PAUL MANAFORT, THAT $16
MILLION WAS ALMOST ONE QUARTER OF THE BANK'S EQUITY CAPITAL.
I DON'T SPEAK BANKER EITHER. BUT THAT MEANS THAT THE BANK HAD
X AMOUNT OF MONEY IT COULD LOAN OUT IN TOTAL IN THE WORLD.
AND THESE LOANS THAT THEY GAVE TO PAUL MANAFORT WAS THEM
LOANING HIM ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR DOLLARS THEY COULD LOAN TO
ANYBODY IN THE WORLD. THIS ONE BANK BEBT OVER SO FAR
TO GIVE HIM MONEY. ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR DOLLARS
THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO LOAN THEY LOANED TO PAUL MANAFORT ALL AT
ONCE WHEN THE CAMPAIGN WAS -- WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING
ON THERE. BUT THE JOURNAL DOES RAISE ONE
INTERESTING PROSPECT IN A NEW REPORT THEY POSTED TONIGHT.
QUOTING FROM THE JOURNAL TONIGHT.
THE BANK'S LOANS TO MR. MANAFORT EQUALED ALMOST 24% OF THE BANK'S
REPORTED $67 MILLION OF CAPITAL. FROM THE TIME THE LOANS WERE
ISSUED, MR. CALLING, HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST IN BECOMINGI
MR. TRUMP'S SECRETARY OF THE
ARMY. HE'S GIVING THESE GIGANTIC LOANS
THAT HIS BANK CANNOT AFFORD. STEVE CALQ IS THE HEAD OF THE
LITTLE BANK IN SHI. HE DID NOT BECOME SECRETARY OF
THE ARMY. WAS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN
HIM WANTING TO BE ARMY SECRETARY AND GIVING THOSE SEEMINGLY
INEXPLICABLE GIANT LOANS? NO IDEA.
BUT THE JOURNAL IS RAISING THOSE TWO POINTS TOGETHER TONIGHT AND
REPORTING THAT THE D.A.'S OFFICE IN MANHATTAN HAS SUBPOENAED THIS
BANK IN CHICAGO FOR INFORMATION ON THOSE LOANS.
BEFORE. IT RHYMES WITH A LOT OF THE
OTHER STORIES THAT WE'VE HEARD ABOUT PAUL MANAFORT.
IN MID JUNE WE LEARNED THAT THE FBI WAS LOOKING INTO MON THAT
FORT'S REAL ESTATE DEALS IN SOUTHERN SOUTHERN.
IN APRIL WE LEARNED THAT A FEDERAL GRAND JURY SUBPOENAED
PAUL MANAFORT'S BANK RECORDS. IN MARCH, RICHARD ENGEL REPORTED
THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE NATION OF CYPRESS HAD BEEN ASKED
TO HAND OVER INFORMATION ABOUT PAUL MANAFORT'S OFFSHORE BANKING
ACTIVITIES. AND TONIGHT, NEW YORK
PROSECUTORS FROM THE D.A.'S OFFICE SUBPOENAING THIS BANK IN
CHICAGO, RUN BY A CAMPAIGN
ADVISER. AND THAT'S ALL JUST THE LAW
ENFORCEMENT STUFF. WE ALSO LEARNED LAST WEEK IN THE
"THE NEW YORK TIMES," ALMOST IN A PASSING REFERENCE, THEIR BIG
STORY ON THE TRUMP TOWER MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP JR. AND PAUL
MANAFORT AND JARED KUSHNER AND ALL OF THOSE RUSSIANS, THE PAR
REN THET KL REFERENCE, PAUL MANAFORT HAD DISR DISCUSSED THAT
MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS.
WHICH MEANS IN ADDITION TO HIM HANDLING ALL OF THESE SUBPOENAS,
PAUL MANAFORT HAS ALSO APPARENTLY BEEN DISCUSSING
THINGS WITH CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS.
I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS TALKING TO THEM.
THERE WAS A PERIOD OF A COUPLE OF MONTHS HE SAID HE WOULD
REGISTER AS A FOREIGN AGENT AND THE TIME WHEN HE FINALLY DID.
THAT MEANT IT WAS MONTHS AFTER A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD ASEEMED HE HAD
DONE IT WHEN PAUL MANAFORT FINALLY FILED AS A FOREIGN AGENT
AND DECLARED OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD HE HAD BEEN PAID $17
MILLION BY A POLITICAL PARTY IN UKRAINE.
THOSE NUMBERS MAY BE STARTING TO LOOK A LITTLE HINKY AS WELL.
ANNE CRAMER AT THE "THE NEW YORK TIMES" SAID EVEN THOUGH PAUL
MANAFORT SAID HE AND HIS FIRM
WERE PAID NEARLY $17 MILLION FROM THIS POLITICAL PARTY IN
UKRAINE, HE FOUND THAT THAT POLITICAL PARTY IN UKRAINE WHICH
SUPPOSEDLY PAID THEM, THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T SPEND $17 MILLION ON
ANYTHING. THEY DIDN'T SPEND $17 MILLION IN
TOTAL OVER THAT SAME PERIOD, NOT JUST ON HIM BUT ON EVERYTHING
THEY SPENT MONEY ON COMBINED. IN 2012 MANAFORT SAYS THIS
UKRAINIAN POLITICAL PARTY PAID HIM.
THAT SAME YEAR THIS UKRAINIAN POLITICAL PARTY SAID IT ONLY
SPENT $11 MILLION ON EVERYTHING IT SPENT MONEY ON.
THE FOLLOWING YEAR IT WAS WORSE. MANAFORT SAID HE RECEIVED $4.5
MILLION FROM THAT PARTY BUT THE POLITICAL PARTY SAYS IT DIDN'T
SPEND $4 MILLION IN TOTAL ON EVERYTHING IT SPENT ON THAT
YEAR. IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, SHOWING UP
AND -- YEAH, MY LEMONADE STAND PAID FOR IT.
IF HE DIDN'T GET THE $17 MILLION FROM THAT POLITICAL PARTY AND
THE RECORDS SAY HE DIDN'T, THEN WHERE DID HE GET THE $17 MILLION
FROM? I DON'T KNOW AND NEITHER DO YOU.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S ANOTHER THING HERE THAT
REALLY, REALLY, REALLY DOES NOT MAKE
