murder? mike pompeo met with the crown prince today, smiling and thanking him for his transparent investigation, while the president tweets, totally denying that the crown prince had any knowledge of what took place. and that is not all of what the president was tweeting today. it is no coincidence that he made sure to tweet that he has no financial interest in saudi arabia. but the fact is, he made a lot of money off of them. he told us about it himself. don t believe me? roll the tape. saudi arabia and i get along great with all of them they buy apartments from me, they spend 40 million, 50 million, am i supposed to dislike them? i like them very much. but he never said that. among the things the saudis have bought from donald trump, the 45th floor of trump world tower.
including potentially blocking arms sales. this is when the congress and people like marco rubio are critical, don. they re just critical. frank, there was this washington post story, just last week, where they had obtained a letter, was from earlier this year, by the gm of trump hotel in new york. he s crediting the saudis for boosting the first quarter. the major reason he said, a last minute advise out to new york by the crown prince of saudi arabia. i think you re asking the right question, where is money in this? where is trump s personal fortune. he s shown a lot of his cards here, i mean, he sat down with 60 minutes. he reiterated something he had said a few days prior. they re spending a lot of money on weapons, they re paying us for weapons and i don t want to do anything to stop that. he s made it very clear, when money comes up against human rights for donald trump, always money will win out.
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and this is in the same moment when the world is trying to find out what happened to this journalist, who worked for an american news operation and was an american resident, and he doesn t care. so, phil, this morning the president tweeted he had no financial interest in saudi arabia, but this is not true. and i played it earlier. the president has bragged about all of the money he s made, millions and millions from the saudis. phil? i mean, that s yeah, that s correct. but i think that the significant question here when we have a president whose declined to separate himself from his business interests is the brilliance of the construction of the american republic when you say we have checks and balances. so what does that mean, don? congress is going to step in and say, the president has simple options, he could call the europeans and say, how do we collectively, so we don t have
quote, a last-minute visit to new york by the crown prince of saudi arabia. what s your take? i think you re asking the right question, where is money in this? where is trump s personal fortune. he s shown a lot of his cards here. i mean, he sat down with 60 minutes. he reiterated something he had said a few days prior. and when asked about what had happened in the saudi consulate he said, you know, they re spending a lot of money on weapons, they re paying us for weapons and i don t want to do hig to stop that. he s made it very clear, when money comes up against human rights for donald trump, always money will win out. whether that s his own fortune or whether that s the country economic fortune. trump supporters, why do you keep harping on the taxes? isn t that what the tax returns will show? who you re doing business with? to whom you re indebted? and also, this is why we have the emoluments clause. we won t know about the purity of his decisions and we won t know which dec