people just to make himself look good yep hmm who are you really talking about? is there someone else that we know like that i m just asking. maybe if he had a restaurant he would put up classified folders in his restaurant or show where the nuclear map is. maybe those nuclear maps, man, nobody gets you prom king like a nuclear map. that s exactly right. chris, thank you always, my friend and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. donald trump s questionable fund-raising tactics are not exactly a new thing. and i mean if it ain t broke after all he s turned his manhattan indictment into a money making juggernaut to the tune of $12 million. plus just like he turned his last days in office into a cash bonanza while at the same time trying to subvert democracy, which was pretty ambitious some people might try to steal an election and leave it there, but not donald trump at the second january 6th hearing in congress back in june representative zoe lofgren
it comes to presidential politics. on trump s first day in office he started raising money for his reelection campaign, and some of that donor money poured right into his businesses. in 2018, you would say today said washington hotel taken $351,000 during his first year in office. about 60% of that came from the republican national committee to host events at the hotel. trump also has a history of using charitable donations for his own benefit. in 2019 new york times, excuse, me new york judge find trump $2 million after the trump foundation misused donations meant 4chan charity. the npr reported at the time, quote, the case is tied to a televised fund-raiser for veterans held by trump in iowa when he was running for president. trump said the funds raised would beach distributed to charities, but according to two court documents, the trump foundation improperly use nearly $3 million it received from that fund-raiser and now a year and a half after trump s 2020 election defeat
gallon nationally. what an lists are saying about where those prices are headed ass we move into the summer travel season. are headsed as we move into the summer travel season. good morning, welcome to this monday morning on monday, january 13th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. following the massive spate of shootings across the united states, a bipartisan group of senators says it has reached a deal for the framework on a new set of gun violence prevention laws. after weeks of negotiation, the ten democrats and ten republicans announced a break through yesterday writing in part this. families are scared. and it is our duty to come together and get something done that will help restore the sense of safety, and security in their communities. while sources say the final bill has not yet been done, the agreed-upon proposal would provide democrats with many of the gun safety measures they have long sought fof, those include significant funding for states to implemen
we will ask him. a shocking arrest in idaho. a u-haul truck filled with members of the extremist group, patriot front. one witness said looked like was heading toward. pastured right near a pride event. we are looking ahead to a busy week in the january six investigation. three public hearing scheduled tomorrow. the first heard last thursday though, aimed directly at his big lie from donald trump. i will speak with mark taylor the former trump administration official once known as anonymous. that is all coming up for you back to the breaking news where we start this hour. it is on capitol hill the u.s. senate issuing a statement saying they have struck a bipartisan deal over gun safety and it comes one month at the massacre in uvalde, texas. president biden issuing a statement just a short time ago praising the deal as potentially, quote, the most significant gun safety legislation in decades he also knows it does not include everything he would like to see. let s go up to ab
which was pretty ambitious some people might try to steal an election and leave it there, but not donald trump at the second january 6th hearing in congress back in june representative zoe lofgren made it a point to highlight trump s strategy she called it the big ripoff president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars through the american people throughout the investigation we found evidence the trump campaign and its surrogates misled donors as to where their funds would go and what they would be used for. so not only was there the big lie, there was the big ripoff. well, now, according to the washington post, mr. trump s cash calls have caught the attention of special counsel jack smith the post reports that smith has fired off a slew of subpoenas in recent weeks, all as part of his january 6th investigation looking to determine if former president