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Investigation. >> the right word there that i want to talk about is approve. to bring charges like this, who would have to approve them, pamela? >> our understanding is that the deputy attorney general rosenstein would have to oversee them. jeff sessions recused himself. under the regulations what would happen is robert mueller would bring the information to him, the potential charges to rosenstein to keep him apprised of what they want to do. and if rosenstein had a big issue with it, then, of ...

He would send $25,000. now, we did check in with white house officials here. they say that check was mailed recently. you may ask whats the holdup. they say, look, it has to go through a very lengthy approval process. thats part of why it takes such a long time. they also make the point that this was a gesture that was done by the president and its something he actually has checked up on regularly. again, hes really trying to shift the narrative away from some of these questions about his outrea...

From a mine with the head waters of the largest salmon estuary in the world is just ridiculous. that somebody would even think that the science existed. so, we went through a process over the last several years, eight hearings, lots of scientific input, that reached this decision. and to have him have a mining executive walk out of his office and minutes later, thats the only information he has and he makes this decision, its just appalling. >> the mining company, pebble limited partnership, arg...

Appalling. >> the mining company, pebble limited partnership, argues that theyre just looking for a fair shake at submitting a proposal for their mine and what lifting the restrictions does is gives them a shot at the approval process. i guess the argument is, why not allow them to move forward, given theres still a chance the mine proposal may be struck down. >> because this was a process. so mr. pruitt is wasting taxpayer dollars. hes wasting money that a process took place, eight hearings, lo...

Approvals, do a close examination of the item and in this case the bump stock and they have to go by the letter of the law and the law as it pertains to this is under the provision of the national firearms act. that item at the time met the definition and they had to issue the approval process. i understand the statement from the nra and punting the statement to revisit the ruling or take a second look at it and, of course, thats something that atf can be directed through the department of justi...

Mnuchin trip to kentucky during the eclipse. now trump can say we solved the plane problems, its over, done, sent him packing, the end. >> we do have some breaking news on the story. inspector probe nous tell cnn is shifting. cnn is following the story. rene, what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you from the source they say what they are looking into. and remember, just to reset, they are looking at all of steve mnuchin secretary use of all government planes. but now specifically what they ...

Number of members of the house took speaker nancy pelosi to task for using 757 to fly around the country and using private jets. how is this different? i am wondering if youre thinking, taking these charter flights, the optics of this wouldnt be great especially if hhs is cutting the budget, cutting programs, cutting staff. >> i appreciate that. the optics in some of this dont look good. that is why we have taken this criticism to heart. the whole process we undertook, each of these trips were r...

He also, the president says that hes banking on the democrats to actually come to the table, tweeting out just this week, quote, the approval process for the biggest tax cut and tax reform package in the history of our country will soon begin. move fast, congress. there havent been any specifics so far. but some of the presidents main proposals have included simplifying the tax code. as part of that, he wants to reduce the tax brackets from three down from the current seven. and probably the big...

Little regulation or too much regulation. what you meant is regulation that passes the cost benefit test and im not sure that this does. >> well keep an eye on that. we have another interesting topic about the type of regulation that you want. in the wake of two category 4 hurricanes, florida and texas are rebuilding areas damaged by the storms. but two weeks before the storms hit a common sense regulation that should have guided future rebuilds was washed away by president trump. citing the n...

South congress will come back next week to tackle numerous things, the president needs a big legislative win it, and feel at home, apparently not big fans, but its the new low shows that congressional job performance is at 15%, with 74% saying that they disapprove, and that works across party lines. >> thats right, so the president is it cheering this, his approval rating, listen, you are right, congress does not get high ratings at all, if you ask people about to their congressman or their sena...