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In my own view this is the least credible area for investigation because its on the record what abhe did. he fired somebody who works for him. the president has control over his executive officials. you cant charge a president for obstructing by basically doing the job that the constitution says he is responsible for doing. >> not only that, paul, but if you go and look at the comey memos, what you have is a president actually on record encouraging jim comey to get to the bottom of this russian ...

Of pennsylvania avenue, ive been on the executive side and legislative side, and our founders did not intend for congress to be able to intervene in terms of hiring and firing of executive officials. so i think thats an issue with the legislation. however, i do think the congress ought to speak, as i have spoken clearly over time, about this, saying that we ought to let the mueller investigation proceed, we ought to let him get to the bottom of this issue. the american people want to know, parti...

Since the election on november 8. a record. weve saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by bringing down the price of fantastic -- and it is a fantastic -- new f-35 jet fighter and well be saving billions more on contracts all across our government. we have placed a hiring freeze on non-military and non-essential federal workers. we have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a [ laughterlaug -- ban on lobbyi by executive officials and a lifetime ban -- [ applause...

Welcome back. hello and thanks for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. live pictures right now, gettysburg, pennsylvania where we expect republican nominee, donald trump to averge there. we are 17 days from election day and also still awaiting his arrival there. hell be delivering his closing argument out of gettysburg, pennsylvania. of course made very famous with abe lincolns gettysburg address. trump is expected to lay out his plans for the first 100 days in office, if he is elected president...

Menendez of new jersey. 14 charges of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy and making false statements. it alleges between january 2006 and january 2013, a seven-year period, senator menendez accepted almost $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a contributor who is also a longtime friend in south florida. the indictment says he took those gifts, took that money in exchange for using his power in the senate to help that mans interests. the indictment also alleges that senator ...

The indictment also alleges that senator menendez used his influence to support visa applications for several of the donors girlfriends. and one of the girlfriends sisters. the justice department said senator menendez quote, allegedly engaged in advocacy all the way up to the highest levels of the u.s. government including meeting with the u.s. cabinet secretary, meeting with the heads of executive agencies and other senior executive officials, and soliciting other u.s. senators, all in order to...

The other point i want to talk about is obstruction of justice for firing james comey. in my own view, this is the least credible area for investigation because its on the record what he did. he fired someone that worked for him. he has control over his executive officials. you cant charge a president for obstructing for doing the job the constitution says he is responsible for doing. >> not only that, if you go and look at those infamous comey memos now that theyve been released, youre the pres...

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