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Whether there was misdeeds or whether there was a misstep by member of congress, beyond, that the fact that the american people beat headlines like that and say, of course. look at that. members of congress, self dealing. theyre trying -- their in it but theres dark purple there. it requires that we make a change. this legislation, weve been working to get this ban in place for a couple of years now. i partnered with chip roy, a republican from texas. each year, weve garnered more and more suppo...

On three words in the statute. those words are in behalf of. that means that the actions committed by weisselberg and others cant be merely for personal gain. they dont northwest necessarily have to be benefiting the trump organization financially, but they have three more than a self dealing by the defendants. the prosecutors here are saying, look, the company benefits from this. they get away from paying employees last when they are able to essentially pay them under the table with these non t...

One is going to do that like barack obama right now. he fires up the base and can connect with moderates more so than president biden and kamala harris. i wouldnt be surprised if you heard requests for him to add philadelphia to that list, cleveland to that list. because he is the democrats strongest surrogates in many respects. >> i want to ask you about arizona. the attorney general there is asking for a federal investigation of a conservative nonprofit. this is a big deal because the ag is a ...

Their partisan corners and may play to their party base. >> we earn a lot in the early 2020 days in the voting trend. a break from politics to bring you this story into cnn. new documents show that donald trump as president overcharged the secret service for stays at his properties including exorbitant hotel rates. kara spkinelle is here. >> theres significant concerns about potential self-dealing by the former president. they say the former presidents company the trump organization had charged ...

Million at least from the secret service, thats coming from taxpayers. theyre saying are the trump organization had charged rates as high as $1,180 per night. that is despite eric trump once having said that the trump organization would not charge the secret service staying at the properties, but charge them at cost. thats quite a big difference there. again, one of the big differences that came out, they say the trump organization at least 40 times had charged the secret service more than the g...

Meetings and complain. you want to talk about politicizing things? this is the corruption that needs to be investigated, that needs to be rooted out. finally, i say this. lets not forget who told fbi whistle-blowers not to come forward. it was merrick garland that sent a memo out to doj employees and say dont talk to congress. you have to go through me. thats not the law. talk about double standards, its double standards all around. thats why republicans have to make an anti corruption agenda nu...

Election 2020 but they should be getting nervous about now. thats the angle. joining me now is josh hawley. good to have you on tonight, senator. what is the solution here? i have a lot of friends that are chattering in my ear day in and day out. they say look, we want the republicans to win, but republicans, when they get into power, they tend to punt these big issues and government never gets cut. what are we going to see? >> well, i think what weve seen, laura, in the last two years, weve got...

Parentrds sending the fbi tout their doors. if they go to school boardticizi meetings and complain. i mean, you want tng about politicizing things. this is exactly the kinde corruption that needs toy, i say be investigated, that needs to be rooted out. and finally, i just say this. cm lets not forget who told fbi whistleblowers not to come forward. it was merrick garland who sentn a memo out to all doj employeess and said, dont talk. to congress, dont blow the whistle. talk aboot to go through m...

Just as he basically cared nothing about the constitution and they 12th amendment, and the peaceful transfer of power, and was concerned, basically, about his own personal well-being, he launched an attempted coup. precisely because he was, to the very last say, focused on obtaining vengeance against the fbi and people who he thinks conspire against him to produce the russia investigation. he was focused on that and not actually getting ready to prepare the office for the successor. which was hi...

I presented this is some folks in administration. they were surprised by it. we latino, were not surprised. oftentimes, there are tropes that people try to put on our community to basically create some sort of self dealing of why the latino community is more odds with the progressive movement. that is not the case. if anything, this doubles down that there is a lot of alignment. but the challenge, once again, certainly the whodunnit campaigns, theres a failure to invest properly in our communiti...