international business entanglements, these concerns are getting bigger not smaller with each passing day in the news as we get closer to him being sworn in. because this stuff keeps coming up, when it comes up, the more you look at it, the worse it is. for example, we now know that the daughter of the president-elect, she apparently got a big business deal greenlighted by a government-controlled bank in japan right after that bizarre and otherwise inexplicable spectacle where the president-elect invited his daughter to sit in on his in-person meeting with the japanese prime minister. if that deal in fact only got greenlit because of the new political position of the trump family, well, then that action by that government-controlled bank in japan, that s pretty clearly a foreign government s gift to the president s family. that s just one. with each passing day there s another one of these now. they are getting bigger and worse over time.
those things by trump s business? if the fam
i say to him, be like john mccain, the way he behaves, the way he serves his country, the way he conducts himself in public service. i want my boy to be like him. i don t want him to be like president trump. senator bob kerrey, i know we are talking about john mccain and the country should be talking about him. but thank you as well for your heroism and the work you did in protecting this country both overseas and in congress. middle east tensions are rapidly escalating. palestinian protesters continue to clash with israelis for the seventh consecutive we can at the border of the gaza strip. may 15th is the day after israel s declaration of independence and subsequent war in 1948 in which hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their lands. fuelling more of the unrest is the of mo of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, which is scheduled for monday, the same day as
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the book, so maybe the president could be right about that. something that the president knows he s got some backup on when pushing this issue, trish, of immigration and his national security, he was standing there with guiseppe conte, the new prime minister of italy that won office based on wanting to reform italy s immigration laws and tighten border security there. angela merkel, who is not exactly a huge fan of the president, has recently said that germany is going to tighten up its borders as well. so perhaps public sentiment is moving in a direction that the president believes if he were to pull the trigger on a government shut down, might be one that he could benefit from politically. that really would be bucking history, trish. trish: thanks, john. the president pushing ahead with his shut down threat despine warnings from gop leaders, especially with the mid-terms coming up around the corner. here with me right now, u.s.a. today congressional r
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manafort into paying his american express bill and may have fraudulently submitted personal expenses to be paid by the trump inaugural committee. the defense team says they exposed him as unreliable. after all the laws you ve told you expect this jury to believe you? gates said i m here to tell the truth and take responsibility for my actions. mr. manafort had the same path. i am trying to change. he says if there are charges of financial funny businessman fort always knew where the money was. the judge jumped in to say manafort wasn t that great knowing where his money was if gates was able to steal as much as he was admitted to stealing. gates was told that the manafort defense team will have at least another hour s worth of questioning for him this morning starting at 9:30 local
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when the public trial for the drug was about to be announced as a failure. want to read a little from the complaint. mis 416 had the potential to be an enormously profitable if the drug trial was successful. the drug, however, failed the drug trial. public announcement of these results caused the stock price to drop by 92%. in or about june of 2017, christopher collins violated the duties he owed to innate by passing material nonpublic information regarding the drug trial results to his son the defendant so that cameron collins could use that information to make timely trades in innate stock and tip others. in detail, it was stunning from the actual complaint itself, those phone calls or the initial ones from the congressman to his sn, they took place on the grounds of the white house, during the white house congressional picnic. anybody who has been paying attention to chris collins on capitol hill the last couple of yea
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That is the worst case scenario. for the moment the question is how far these bailouts go. martha: let s let bob answer that. you said it could go further. deposits are safe. this was not a bail out in the sense like 2008 where you protected the stockholder, protected the bond holders. this was clearly they used different tools. i think we should be clear what happened with these banks. it was right in front of us, a lot of us didn t just look. when their capital market goes from worth $40 billion to $13 billion and their balance sheet goes from $100 billion to $200 billion, they stretch to make profits. so they went out on the curve and a rising rate environment. when you go out on the curve of mortgages, two things happen. the duration lengthens and the prices go down and you lose money. martha: the question is what to do now and why hasn t the government sold the bank yet?
well, it was palpable from the panic at the white house. they are trying to make the depositors whole and not the big stockholder, and they won t quote, unquote bail them out like 2008, but making depositors whole. so this shock and awe campaign was successful. will it stem other bankruptcies in the industry, well, i have been talking to people today, and the sheer magnitude of the interest rates will cause some cracks, and more trouble ahead, but at least for now, what the excite house has done, and the fed is doing, is that it is going to be prevented from a
Proactively preemptively? i have been on the budget committee. now we are talking about issues that have nothing to do with regular order like joe is talking about. run it through back in our home states, we would bring every stockholder in, do you need more? build the case. if not, you re going to get less. you do those kinds of tradeoffs. and our economy only grows when we re knocking it out of the park 3%. so you should never have government growing more than 3%. here s the thing real quick, we know that we have accumulated a lot of debt because of covid. we were scared to death. we didn t want a financial crisis and we had a health crisis. we know that both presidents, so both parties under republican and democrat, we know that. but there s an awful lot of debt that was incurred because we chose. to say can t we at least look and see can we go back to precovid? just base things in until we raise the nondiscretionary which means you can t even debate it? bret: that takes negot
This? they put a nice face on the green new deal. everything is clean. not a single carbon emission anywhere. look at that look at that. well, it should be the business of everybody up the chain. every stockholder up the chain. every corporation, every consumer facing tech and ev company. er policymaker, it should be their business to know what is happening in the heart of africa because you and i have become unwitting participants as consumers of smart phones and evs, unwitting participants in an utterly unacceptable level of violence perpetrated against some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world. jesse: people eat their food farm-to-table they want to know where everything comes from. they want to source it all. but they buy these electric cars with african slave labor. child slave labor and they don t care. thank you very much. amazing footage that you