here. it is presidents day today, february 20th. presidential historian gonna be with us tonight. she s gonna be with us here live very very much looking forward to that conversation. but it was on this date, which won february 20th in 2014 when the group they call the heavenly hundred was killed. it was actually 118 people, call them the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. the oldest of them was 83 years old. it all happened as the culmination of protests that had started the previous november, people were protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe. a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, it was definitely something that would bring ukraine closer to europe. closer to the west. people in ukraine frothy war, really looking forward to. it this is a popular thing they very much wanted it. but the president of ukraine at the time decided he was
animal feet. which was super creepy. they found his secret private car collections. they found his private restaurant on a boat that was made to look like a spanish galleon. that he used to float around on in a private lake that he had made for himself. taxpayer expenses. and at the time, what seems like just a bizarre side show american connection to all of that was the fact that it was actually a high dollar american political consultant who had been paid to be the top political adviser to that wildly corrupt pro-russian ukrainian president. the american political consultant who had been paid to get this pro-russian guy into power and had run his campaigns, who had overseen a personal makeover for the, guy who had written his speeches and political platforms, who got the guy installed in power. the american political consultant who did that is a man named paul manafort. paul manafort got paid millions
public. todd: brooke joins us with more. good morning, guys. that s right. 14 house republicans are telling the justice department that this imperative they get briefed on the federal investigation into hunter biden. the lawmakers writing, quote: congress has a constitutional obligation to conduct oversight of the executive branch and a moral obligation to examine if the president of the united states or any other senior official in his administration is ethical compromised or injured. and on the other side of the capitol, senator ron johnson is calling out the president s son over the more than $6 million malibu mansion being rented for his secret service detail costing taxpayers $30,000 a month. johnson telling the daily mail, quote: you would think with all the news coming out about how hunter biden peddled influence and profited off his father s position and family name he might try to keep a low profile and conduct himself in ways that limits taxpayer expenses because of his l
she had no relevant experience whatsoever, but she worked on the campaign so they brought her in. she looked at the table. the way she saw it, it was quite a legitimate expense. she approved it. it is nice to have people like that you can bring in when you need them, right? and, trust me, there are many instances in which you need people like that in the trump administration. behold ryan zink. ryan zinke was head of the department of interior. it s not the world s most high profile agency. one gets the feeling from m mr. zinke would like to make it as high profile as he can. he s the cabinet officer that rode a horse to work on his first day on the job. he used taxpayer expenses, taxpayer funds to stop traffic in that entire part of washington, d.c. so he could show up on a horse because he