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They then paid about $1.35 million owned by a llc when her chief of staff. what was done, he said he didnt take any salaries or profits. the question is what it did they do? they spent the money probably to subsidize a number of different candidate campaigns. we dont know all of the facts yet. there could be an explanation that you dont know. ive been in the business for 25 years. i look at it. it looks like the shell game. it certainly merits the major investigation by the fcc. >> sean: whats t...

Company. and that seems like it was designed to create confusion. but its money going back and forth. plus, potentially the big problem for tracker is the coordination issue because he was the agent for both her campaign committee and other pacs involved in this transfer of money. steve: you know, he worked on the bernie sanders campaign. i mean, hes the guy who has been around the block. he has made millions of dollars on the online world and whatnot. you would think he would know the rules. bu...

A pretty robust line. ainsley: reporters said that why are you taking a plane and not taking the train? she said because that would be wasting my constituents time. [laughter] pete: now she is a capitalist with her own time. steve: she has been a champion of high speed rail there is high speed rail between washington and new york. oftentimes its faster to take the train than the plane. pete: a group filed fec complaint what her diverting campaign cash controlled by her campaign manager. shell ga...

Ainsley: if you are getting all your news from those networks you dont even know about this story. pete: you are ignoring im the miss of the people. been being in this that world you know what you are doing moving money to different places its doing something paying taxes or disclosure. something is going on there. steve: this chief of staff worked for bernie sanders was on his campaign. knows the law according to mark fitzgibbons an attorney who is an expert in this area of law. >> it appears t...

Mark, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: the headline yesterday was that aocs chief of staff ran a 1-million-dollar slush fund by diverting campaign cash to a couple of companies that he controlled. thats the story as we understand it. is that the problem? >> thats part of the problem. and, let me also start out by saying its no irony that ms. ocasio-cortez roll played the bad guy in hearings last month about regulating campaign finance even more. the issue is there were politic...

Clear there has got to be transparency in the elections and now its just so ironic. watch this. >> this really speaks to the corrupting force of money in politics in general. this problem is not going to go away until we tighten the rains of the role of money in politics. i really hope we really pass, introduce and pass very strong legislation that is going to put much stronger limits on how special interest and how money can be moved, especially when they interface with campaigns. steve: okay. ...

Shell game. but the issue again is the potential accurately of this coordination since he was agent for her campaign and these other pacs. steve: the hypocrisy, because she was, you know, when she was running, she was all about transparency and then when you pull the curtain back and you see wait a minute, your words, it looks like a shell game was going on here, there is not the kind of transparency people were thinking they were getting. >> she a socialist crusader. she doesnt know the rules. ...

Whats frustrating you think they would have learned a listen. listen im a republican, im a conservative. we can agree the impeachment effort against bill clinton viewed now through a more historical lens failed. steve: back fired. >> back fired badly. you would think the democrats would have learned something from this. they have nothing. this is a big shell game. there is nothing there they continue to double down. brian: do you know what theyre not doing. they are not talking about impeachment...

From trump tariffs, mostly from american businesses, and they pulled out rusal, this deripaska company, and they granted it an exemption. after they got caught at that, treasury blamed commerce. commerce blamed treasury, and they backed down. the whole purpose of the sanctions is to deter russian misconduct. i dont see any evidence theyve done this. >> i was looking down because theres a response to rusal that you mentioned. mnuchin says that they forced deripaska to give up substantial control ...

Businesses and pulled out this deripaska company and granted it an exception. after they got caught at that, the treasury blamed commerce, commerce blamed treasury and backed down. the whole purpose is detour russian must conduct. i dont see the evidence they did that. >> i was looking down because there is a response that you mentioned. mnuchin says that they forced deripaska to give up substantial control of the company you mentioned but this is what the new york times reports outlining the de...