Inauguration Spending News Today

| Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/Shutterstock After questioning Don Jr. earlier this month, the attorney generals office said it has so far received "unclear and contradictory accounts of how the [inaugural committee] ended up paying for the Trump Organizations invoice." The Trump Organization did not respond to PEOPLEs request for comment on Thursday. An attorney representing the inauguratio...

Reflected in the polling. if youre joe biden or bernie sanders, you say its not so bad to be first or second and have 30% or 19%. you have to wonder with all the name i.d. across the country if youre looking at potentially a ceiling of support there at 30% or 19%. >> jonathan, i like youre going back to garfield there. jonathan, laura barron lopez. stay with us. i have questions about melanias trump latest controversy. ivanka trump and the inauguration spending. -morning. -morning. -what do we...

We have new investigations into trumps inauguration spending now with crimes like bribery, tax fraud, and misuse of non-profit status. it goes on and on. thats not even an inclusive list. this represents an avalanche of legal jeopardy for the president and the people around him. okay, to get all of these threads together, bring in former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, cnn legal analyst, honig. great people for a complicated 30,000 foot view of all the things that ...

Trump inauguration spending under criminal investigation, southern district of new yorking right? not by mueller. southern district of new york. what does this mean for president trump? >> i think it means a couple things, the fact its southern district, moeans it is an independent investigation that will go on. the second piece is we know already that gates cooperated, who is manaforts deputy on the campaign, and then he became the deputy of the inauguration, and that theres even been conversat...

Journal" report about the presidents inaugural committee currently being investigated by federal prosecutors. sarah sanders went on with martha last night and responded this way to that. >> that doesnt have anything to do with the president or the first lady. the biggest thing the president did in his engagement in the inauguration was to come here and raise his hand and take the oath of office. the president was focused on the transition during that time. and not on any of the -- >> sandra: can...

Of the maria butina statement of the offense today in court, and not in a good way. as far as we know he has not been charged. but prosecutors are spelling out a lot about him here that makes it hard not to wonder, you know, what hes up to tonight and what hes expecting for his next few days in the news. and if thats not enough, then tonight we got this new scoop from "the wall street journal." this is brand-new from "the wall street journal". and to the trump administration and the president, t...

Theyre already playing tennis against a guy who was pretty good. but then that guy got a second tennis racket in the other arm and turns out he is ambidextrous. turns out he is an octopus. each one of those arms has a racket, and hes good with all of them. and oh, god, dont say racket. thats the one thing theyre not getting charged with yet. this is the lead from "the wall street journal" tonight. "trump inauguration spending under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors. probe looking int...

Money they raised and spent. we tried to get ahold of him and ask him questions. we never, ever, ever heard back. and then we figure out he himself was a weird choice to be the president of an inaugural committee because the other thing he ever has been named in his life was an undieted conspirator in a criminal case against 17 other former tax professionals. we never found the audit. to this day that full and total accounting remains a mystery. now, however, according to a scoop in "the wall st...

That explanation is out the window because it is quite clear that pecker, according to these reports, that pecker, trump and cohen are talking about spending money to help his campaign. >> from a legal perspective, jeffry, does it make any difference if the president doesnt reimburse the "national enquirer" for the $150,000 for that hush money payment? >> makes no difference. >> why? >> because the money is spent on behalf of the campaign. and thats -- thats what the campaign laws are designed t...

The first ladys poll ratings fall and she calls the heard of the part of the job opportunists who use her name, including journalists. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were following breaking news. a source now telling cnn that donald trump was at a meeting referred to by federal prosecutors when his former fixer and lawyer michael cohen discussed illegal hush money payments with the publisher of the "national enquirer" david pecker. that would mean then candidate trump was awar...