With mbs alone while the president is off with kim jong-un. and there s no question raised? no issue, no information about questions about the murder of a washington post reporter and you adding there s a virginia resident right now in saudi custody that s being tortured potentially and jared kushner what exactly is he doing for the american people and for american interests with the crown prince at this time, at this moment in history? what could he be doing with them that s helpful to america and not helpful to trump s personal financial interests? you have asked the operative question. and that is part of the reason why it s so important for the united states congress and the american people to get a full picture of the president s and president s family financial picture whether through the emolument clause or through subpoenas. we can answer that question better what jared kushner is
Criminal activity. when asked by the quinnipiac university poll did president trump commit crimes before becoming president, 64% of voters say yes. yes, de. 24% say he did not. on whether trump committed crimes after becoming president, 45% say, yes. 43% say no. in the poll taken from friday through monday, voters say they are more likely to believe the president s former lawyer michael cohen. 50% over 35% who believe trump. and 58% believe congress should do more to investigate cohen s claims about president trump s unethical and illegal behavior. 35% disagree. nearly six in ten voters, 59% are against congress beginning impeachment proceedings against the president. cohen is scheduled to appear at another private session of the house intelligence committee today and david shuster or
Security secretary mcconneknee nielsen is heading to capitol hill. she s expected to face questions from democrats regarding president trump s national emergency declaration and immigration strategy, including family separations. it comes as new government figures reveal that despite the trump administration s policies, migrant border crossings have hit record highs. last month more than 76,000 undocumented immigrants crossed the southern border either at legal port of entry or apprehended between ports of entry. that s the highest total for february in 12 years. and the highest single month total since trump was elected. however, it is not an overall record as border crossings were consistently over 100,000 before 2008 and were higher than
Following that but there was a report the week before last that the southern district is looking into trump s practices. and then this question of obstruction of justice. one of the most intriguing things he said in that hearing sometime after the raid of his office and his apartment around two months later he had a conversation with the president but couldn t discuss that conversation because it s still under investigation. very intriguing. whether it was about pardons or something else. clearly investigators have an interest in. this question about pardons is one the justice department will have a hard time ignoring. they have to look into it. we know his attorney in a conversation or a series of conversations sound very similar to this conversation that rudy giuliani had with steve ryan, cohen s lawyer, dangled pardon in front of paul manafort and mike flynn back in 2017. those would unquestionably be
Continue to be felt as new figures reveal the federal budget deficit surged. 77% in just the first four months of 2019. according to the treasury department the deficit for the budget year which began back in october came in at just over $310 billion. that compared to just under $176 billion during the same period a year ago. the jump in the deficit is a result of the 2017 tax cuts by the president and the gop along with an increase in government spending. and donald trump has long since boasted about his academic prowess. but there s one thing the public has not seen and that s his school records. the washington post reports that in 2011 the private high school donald trump attended of tasked with hiding his school files. the request came after trump had openly challenged barack obama to show his own records to prove
Let s comprehend it and then move forward on impeachment. impeachment is a political process. therefore you get several members of congress on both sides of the capital, house and senate saying hey let s do impeachment now. no let s wait. these investigations are reaching all corners of president trump s life. nbc news now learned new york state regulators are investigating the trump organization s insurance practices. a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells nbc news a subpoena has been issued to the trump organization s insurance company as part of an investigation into the policies and claims tied to trump s namesake firm. the move by the new york state department of financial services adds to the growing scrutiny facing the trump organization. during michael cohen s public testimony to congress last week the president s former fixer was asked about donald trump s family business practices when it came to insurance. here what he said. to your knowledge, did the
Insurance practices, all of it being under investigation. democrats still weighing up, having to weigh up as mike of suggesting earlier the political cost that they are looking to rush to impeachment of any kind that they promised they would do for their voters is enact some oversight. this is what they are doing. then this, a new report claims president trump pressured his high ranking aides to grant a security clearance to his daughter senior white house adviser ivanka trump against their realmations. three people familiar with the matter tells cnn that the president pushed then chief of staff john kelly and white house console don mcgahn to make the decision on his daughter and son-in-law jared kushner so it did not appear as if he was intervening in the clearance process. after kelly and mcgahn allegedly refused, trump granted them their security clearances which is within his power, but countered to public denials from
Say yes the president did, only 24% say he did not. on whether trump committed crimes after becoming president, 45% say yes, 43% say no. in the poll taken from friday through monday voters say they are more likely to belief the president s former lawyer michael cohen at 50% versus 35% who believe trump. and 58% believe congress should do more to investigate cohen s claims about president trump s unethical and illegal behavior. 35% disagree. near lie six in ten voters, 59% are against congress beginning impeachment proceedings against the president. rick tyler let s start with you and some of those numbers. those are a reflex obviously from the american people about what they ve seen in the last week or so particularly from michael cohen in that open hearing on wednesday and the way they feel about his testimony.
Are saying here is that while this facility seemed to have been lying dormant for several months after the hanoi summit last week there now seems to be some new activity and while it may not necessarily show there s a test that s imminent it shows they are working in a direct, moving in a direction that could mean they are preparing, you know, to begin testing again. so, courtney, is this the facility that after the last summit in june, excuse me the first summit between the two men in singapore, is that the one president trump claimed he got kim jong-un to close. his quote was i asked him to close it up, he said he ll close it up. is this the same facility? reporter: no. this is one of the problems that came out of the singapore summit. at the time remember we kept talking about how there weren t a lot of specifics. the declaration that two leaders signed was sort of vague. what we saw after that summit in june was north korea did close
200,000 per month in 2000 under president bill clinton. the new york times reports that more than 50,000 adults are currently in i.c.e. custody, the highest number ever. meanwhile the senate has until next friday to take up a vote on a house passed declaration disapproving of president trump s emergency order to fund the border wall. and the president told senator lindsey graham he s upset with republican defections while ran paul is growing optimistic about the message opponents will send to the white house. here s what the president and i talked about for an hour and a half today. that he s disappointed that he s not able to convince republicans that this is an emergency. i think there will be about ten republicans, at least six beyond the four that are going to vote for it have told me they will. it could be higher than that. what i keep telling them if we can get to a high enough number maybe somebody can run over to