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Customers venting on twitter. when i arrived it was an extra $40 a night. i was charged in fort lauderdale weston beach resort, part of marriott. and particularly hilarious when the resort fees are at hotels that are clearly not resorts. d.c. accuses marriott of failing to disclose the fees for more than a decade. marriott declined to comment but did say we look forward to continuing our discussions with other state ags. >> reporter: now d.c. wants marriott to compensate affected customers and f...

Attorneys general will you know evaluate their options in the event it occurs and decide if thats a method to move forward. i can tell you for myself and for the other state ags that signed on the the letter i think were going to use every tool in our disposal to make certain that the public at large have the opportunity to see the report that they paid for. >> all right. michigan attorney general dana nestle, thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate your time. i want to turn to carol...

From a lot of jail time. thats huge because as you know, the looming question in the entire end game of the mueller probe is why the former chair of trumps campaign, paul manafort, kept lying after pleading guilty. it didnt seem like something you would do to protect yourself, so who was he protecting? and why did he keep parroting no collusion? if you watch this show we first reported on this back in august 2017 when we wrote and reported on the beat about the ways that state ags could investig...

Blew through $1.2 million on lavish travel. the inspector general of the va found serious derelictions, and another trip left taxpayers on the hook for airfare and expenses for his wife. a new report from the washington post finds that virtually every organization donald trump has led over the past ten years is facing some form of investigation, at least six in total being looked into by everybody from robert mueller to multiple state ags. we know about the alleged campaign finance elections, an...

From the justice department. break this down for us. what is this case specifically about? >> jake, this entire case surrounds whether the foreign money flowing into the trump hotel here in washington, d.c., violates the emoluments clause, that little-known clause in the constitution that prohibits federal officials from taking a thing of value from a foreign government. the trump administration and trumps legal team has been fighting off this suit, along with a slew of others for months. but a ...

>> i want to play evidence of that. one of them is the health care -- two things that have gone after preexisting conditions, the bill they passed. >> thats right. >> and a lawsuit thats currently working its way through court that state ags and state governors have signed onto. these are a bunch of people who support either the bill or the lawsuit saying i support preexisting conditions. take a listen. >> earlier this year we learned our oldest has a rare chronic disease, preexisting condition....

Very or wellian in the magnitude of the lie. >> i want to play evidence of that. one of them is the health care -- two things that have gone after preexisting conditions, the bill they passed. >> thats right. >> and a lawsuit thats currently working its way through court that state ags and state governors have signed onto. these are a bunch of people who support either the bill or the lawsuit saying i support preexisting conditions. take a listen. >> earlier this year we learned our oldest has a...

Down, whats down is up, its very or wellian in the magnitude of the lie. >> i want to play evidence of that. one of them is the health care -- two things that have gone after preexisting conditions, the bill they passed. >> thats right. >> and a lawsuit thats currently working its way through court that state ags and state governors have signed onto. these are a bunch of people who support either the bill or the lawsuit saying i support preexisting conditions. take a listen. >> earlier this year...

Exactly why we are in court and why courts are so important, and the role of lawyers like kate and state ags like ourselves. you cannot take this administration at its word. when it makes a representation that it then misrepresents later and now here as changed the rules. in about a half hour, well be back in court. last week we got relief from a judge who ordered an expedited action on this case, also ordered the trump administration to turn over documents and information about these children. ...

Their power in the states to fight trump administration policies wherever they can. on the environment, on immigration, you name it. and some of these state ags are more high-profile than others. by the end of last year, for example, the democratic ag in the state of new york has taken some form of action against president trump and the trump administration at least 100 times. new york attorney general eric schneiderman has taken on the trump administration over all sorts of policy matters, the ...