of his sons judgment which is a interesting thing to lay across what hunter biden said this morning which is that he may have had poor judgment at one point, but another layer to thi would be a few minutes later, cory booker butted into the conversation to say thattt he didn t think that it was appropriate for democrats to be attacking joe biden a statesman and part of the reason that is so interesting is because one o the only democrats on the stagec and previous debates who has attacked joe biden is cookie cory booker. the democrat seemed to mostly rally around joe biden. we will have a chance to ask them why once they get over here . peter, we know you are cruising the room rate that s one of the reasons we are so excited that you re extra tall. we know you will get them in th next couple of hours. we will get back to you, just ahead,d, softball, hardball, something in between. what about l,the moderators and
regard to numbers, statistically all of the other competing resorts in the area showed, competing resorts in the area, same region there, still outperformed the trump resort in key metrics of room, occupancy and average room rate. that s right, and in chicago where supposedly gun violence is driving people away from the entire city, that s why the trump hotel had gone down in the trump organization s opinion. where is it going on, the gun violence? right in the downtown beautiful location. and trump s competitors in miami and chicago, that should have borne the same costs, suffer the same trends, didn t. they outperformed trump. so maybe something else is at work there. i m curious, how is this different from what congress wu wants to learn from the president s tax returns. it s a lot different. the information we have from trump doral is good, better than
$40 million. but that s not a big jump for someone who devoted so much attention to it and for the republican party having sent lobbyists or lobbyists wanting to be there and curry favor going there. it s not a huge jump but 1% is a substantial amount of money. what do you think the room rate i asked the congressman about. $695. if you book it online versus 50 oh at the four seasons which is obviously an incredibly nice hotel in washington, d.c. there a trump premium? it s hard to say. i don t know the rates on these things. it doesn t seem to be they are outperforming competitors very much. our reporters spoke is to industry analysts saying their hotels in chicago and hawaii are underperforming. so if it s in the mix in washington, d.c. the it s not clear. you have the lobbyists and diplomats and a whole another set of interests perhaps than people saying in other hotels. you were part of a team that obviously reported the most information we have seen on the president s taxes
calling in what rates should be. people too high. reduce the room rate. yeah. it s clear that this which is what the white house is right now. this was just another pool of money, and an opportunity for them to manipulate things to get more money into their personal finances. of course it s the president s line in the sand. that s where a lot of the facts about how corrupt this administration really is are hidden and they re in there. i think this investigation is going to really yield something that shows the true underbelly of the president and his family. i want to turn to you because we re seeing this investigation opening up. refer to it casually as the russia probe and investigation, but now the focus seems to shift in part to the middle east, with tom barrack, knows a lot of business people in the middle east. saudi arabia certainly something front and center over the last few week woulds and months as well. your reaction to that? the way this signifies where this inve
night offers that i don t know if that s a standard room rate perhaps if it s a large delegation we did get still better deals but we d come up with anything from as low as $75 a night to right now tops at 470 , you know i don t have time to do all of this for you but you re welcome, america. [laughter] neil: i ll keep you on top of that. all right in the meantime, we have a great economy, but we also have a potential trade war coming and some republicans are getting nervous take a look. these tariffs, i believe, hit the wrong target. europe, canada, mexico, are not the problem. china and its ship ams and unfair practices are. neil: that was house ways and means committee kevin brady and what he s bemoaning is the fact that the president is quite serious about slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum products that largely skew the chinese for now but are considered to be an opening via our friends, of course the germans are upset