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Welcome back. a new york state judge ruled that president trump must pay $2 million for improperly using his trump foundation charity to further his 2016 presidential campaign. the order appears to end the new york attorney generals lawsuit against trump and three of his children under the now closed foundation which was accused of being engaged in repeated wrongdoing, including quote unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign, and quote repeated and willful self dealing. the ori...

Three of his adult children, don jr., eric and ivanka pattern of consistent illegal conduct, abusing the charitys nonprofit status, violating state laws and campaign finance law. youll remember one of the interesting details from the self dealing part of this was the $10,000 that trump through his charity used to pay for a portrait of trump himself. that portrait, as you see there, was hanging at trumps national doral golf resort in florida. they also used $100,000 from the charity to settle a l...

A former government minister, suspected of self-dealing, granting licenses for oil and gas concessions to help his company. and allowing burisma to evade taxes. anti-corruption watchdog doreena kalenok. >> burisma has a bad reputation. in ukraine we actually appeared when we had to fight two wars. war with russia, war with corruption. >> in an attempt to improve its image and shield itself from scrutiny, in 2014 burisma assembled a new board of directors. the company brought in several high-prof...

President donald trump is now reeling from what was clearly his worst week as president, which is quite a low point for a man thats lived through a steady march of indictments of people around him. this week marked a rebuke by the majority. a full house teeing up impeachment. one reason is the evidence. unlike allegations of self-dealing or hush payments or obstruction in the mueller probe, the simple facts at the center of this ukraine bribery plot are not in dispute. trump demanded a foreign g...

>> how are you? >> good. >> so i want to start with this. >> by the way, this is way more fun than talking to a little lens. >> i like human beings. so lets start with this idea. that polling number really jumped out at me, because i do think its the case that people have a lot of cynicism. they think theres a lot of corruption and self-dealing in government. theyre not necessarily wrong about that. as someone who was there, as someone who was general counsel for department of defense, what is y...

Necessity politically was a pretty unscrupulous about following the letter of the law. helping me the former secretary of homeland security jay johnson. so i want to start with this, right -- >> by the way, this is way more fun than talking through a little lens. >> yes, i like human beings. >> so do i. >> so lets start with this idea. that polling number really jumped out at me, because i think theres a lot of corruption and self-dealing in government, and theyre not necessarily wrong about tha...

The megaphone, the president of the united states, your supporters are going to listen. so the president is hoping people wont talk about the questions of self-dealing and $400 million being held up from ukraine. >> right. speaking of self-dealing, and perhaps intentionally, the president snuck into the news cycle yesterday. a confirmation that hes moving his permanent residence from new york to florida. of course, notable, florida has no state taxes. was this about taxes? >> well, good question...

Started. >> sean: what is the crime? >> what they are going to impeach him on is self-dealing while conducting the business of the united states. you may not a crime. he will bes impeached. >> sean: what for? what is the crime? >> again -- >> sean: what is the crime. tell the crowd. i have the transcript. there is no quid pro quo. a president has the duty to faithfully execute the laws. the president was executing the laws. cant interfere in our elections. and the only ones that did was the bide...

Hispanic-americans, asian-americans, women in the workplace. we have a president who promised the biggest tax cuts and he delivered it. we a promise that promised original justice and he delivered appeared we had a president that will find a way to secure the border and he found the money. hes building the wall. james, what crime do what you want to impeach him on? for leveraging his influence for partial political gain, which is if you read "the federalist" papers or anything else, is about the...

The opposite. that he felt pressure. all the way back before he even formally took office. he knew what trump wanted. wla does that say to you? >> it says to many e hes under pressure. and was under pressure before that call. the call may not have been direct pressure. he said he wasnt pushed. trump was the one who said he wasnt pressured. i dont think theres no question this man is between a rock and a hard place and couldnt do more than say he was not pressured. or not pushed. >> obviously the...