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Madison guaranty savings and loan. now, in terms of total dollar amount, it was a drop in the bucket. but the self-dealing that went on there, the conflicts of interest were among the most brazen i had ever seen. >> to raise more funds, jim turned to former little rock municipal judge david hale. >> david hale ran a small business administration-backed lending company called capital management. >> if somebody invested $500,000 in mr. hales company, the sba would match that like 3-to-1. they woul...

Accounts. >> i dont think i ever saw a savings & loan as dirty as madison guaranty savings & loan. in terms of total dollar amount, it was a drop in a bucket. the self-dealing that went on there, the conflicts of interest were among the most brazen i had ever seen. >> to raise more funds, jim turned to former little rock municipal judge david hale. >> david hale ran a small business administration lending company and capital management. >> somebody invested $500,000 in mr. hales company, the sba...

They have a good noles for this stuff. lincoln once said people have a very good noles. they can smellal rotting cadaver in their basement. the rotting cadaver now is this super lib val press. its also elements of the establishment. they dont like the self-dealing or lobbyist scheme. steve bannon often talked about the swamp being a business plan. i do agree with him on that. there is no question that circuitry the president is trying to distrupt and break will be good for the american people. t...

They have a good noles for this stuff. lincoln once said people have a very good noles. they can smellal rotting cadaver in their basement. the rotting cadaver now is this super lib val press. its also elements of the establishment. they dont like the self-dealing or lobbyist scheme. steve bannon often talked about the swamp being a business plan. i do agree with him on that. there is no question that circuitry the president is trying to distrupt and break will be good for the american people. t...

They have a good noles for this stuff. lincoln once said people have a very good noles. they can smellal rotting cadaver in their basement. the rotting cadaver now is this super lib val press. its also elements of the establishment. they dont like the self-dealing or lobbyist scheme. steve bannon often talked about the swamp being a business plan. i do agree with him on that. there is no question that circuitry the president is trying to distrupt and break will be good for the american people. t...

Looking at 2018. joe mansion, heidi hide camp, sherrod brown, these senators in these red states, they want the photo ownershp with the preside they are beholden to chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. when the constituents go to the ballot box they are going to ask what did my senator do? especially on middle class tax cuts and infrastructure. >> thanks, ronna. great to see you, have a merry christmas. you have worked very hard in the first part of this term. good luck. have a great christmas. you d...

Was fully baked. so people voted on a bill they didnt have a score on, they didnt know what it was. number two, it wasnt representative. we saw polling all the way through that showed that americans didnt want this. to make a tax bill unpopular is kind of -- a tax cut unpopular is remarkable. and number three is it wasnt virtuous. meaning it was not for the general good. they numerically applied the tax cut to a lot of people, but from a percentage basis it really does reward a very small slice,...

Office. not like the notion we needed to know because we needed to prevent against blatent acts of self-enrichment. now what i would have put as fifth on my list of why we wanted to see his tax returns is now the main reason we want to see them because this looks like, without being able to prove it, it looks like one of the most grotesque cases of self-dealing, of self-interested legislating that weve ever seen in our lifetimes on the part of a president. >> philip bump? >> i dont disagree. don...

So there is a good way to do this, a commonsense way. that is not what republicans chose to pursuit. >> how do you think -- whenever i watch this, i remind myself that hillary clinton got 3 million more votes, the president is sort of governing from a minority of voters, and the party is governing from a minority of voters. yet they have unified control of government. those things really feel explosion out of a night like tonight. >> right. because they are essentially stealing from the rest of ...

This point in vox, were used to thinking of corruption in terms of congresspeople doing stuff for friend in their districts, doing things to benefit particular constituencies. the extent of actual straight-up self-dealing in this bill, the extent that this is just a bill to give more money to bob corker and donald trump and ivanka trump and john cornyn, is really something new and astonishing and sort of more i think in common with a post-soviet kleptocracy than what were used to seeing in ameri...