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Crazy week at the white house ending with the thud around the globe. what policy announcement is "the wall street journal" declaring as the biggest blunder of the presiden presidency? the gun control backed by the democrats, but the president has a surprise sit down with the nra. the group says after the meeting the president does not want gun control. get ready for a messy day in the northeast. evacuations in massachusetts, federal offices closed in d.c. we have the full and messy forecast ...

Oprah, only god can be your campaign manager. like there is nobody adequate to that. >> that is controversial. >> tucker: trust me it was and some of the reports are. question four, the department of housing and urban development secretary ben carson is accused of spending 30 grand on unnecessary furniture. what kind of furniture was it? bret baier. >> dining set. >> >> dining set. >> why we have a dining set? we will find out in the tape. is it a dining set. >> carson reportedly spent 31,000 ta...

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Budget and to be fair to mr. carson, he doesnt know anything about those matters either. >> why would the secretary of hud not give the number, the amount that youre cutting from housing vouchers, mr. carson? youre the secretary of hud. >> because we. >> youre making the cut. >> because weve already talked about the total amount of the cuts. >> well, the total amount does not help meet when it comes to the housing it vouchers. i have people who use housing vouchers and i need to be able to expla...

Under president trump. jacobsons resignation will take effect on may 5th. and among reports of a hue priced overhaul to his office, ben carson has asked to scrap the the order for the costly furniture. the white house and hud announced that the $31,000 new dining room that had been ordered for carson late last year has been canceled. however, carsons business manager said stating the order might not be possible stating that the person contracted has already spent $14,000 to make the new table....

President trump is proposing a nearly $7 billion cut to the hud budget and to be fair to mr. carson, he doesnt know anything about those matters either. >> why would the secretary of hud not give the number, the amount that youre cutting from housing vouchers, mr. carson? youre the secretary of hud. >> because we. >> youre making the cut. >> because weve already talked about the total amount of the cuts. >> well, the total amount does not help meet when it comes to the housing it vouchers. i hav...

All angles. one of his specialties is this office of american innovation. someone we talked to basically described the work they do as almost headlines from the onion. the satirical newspaper. and they also said people because of even fair or unfair, the stench of the russia probe, there are people on capitol hill and within the white house who sort of dont want to deal with him and dont want to use him as the chief interlocuter with the white house. so if you even look at foreign governments, t...

Funds to go beyond the legal limit to renovate carsons office. i have to get in though, hud continues to push back saying that the carsons did not know about this purchase and ben carson tweeting out yesterday that they plan on putting out more information to clear all of this up. >> in politics, one lesson you constantly learn, you always have to be careful of the jefferson sideboard. $31,000 of taxpayer money. thank you. $31,000 pals in comparison, new questions about jared kushners future at ...

Demoted for refusing to spend more than was legally allowed. our government regulation correspondent rene marsh joins me with the details. rene, a lot of people are wondering what a $31,000 dining set might look like. youve seen some of the first pictures. what can you tell us? >> john, on tuesday, as you said, we reported that hud purchased this $31,000 dining set. it was specifically for the secretarys dining room at the agency. the price tag really raised eyebrows. now cnn has photos of what ...

There were two additional armchairs. those were a bit more expensive, $1,000050. it was this side board, the jefferson sideboard that racked up the charges. the three pieces there totaled $13,579. you throw in the shipping and you get that grand total of more than $31,000. now, the company that hold hud the furniture says the agency, when they were talking to them, said they were looking for new dining furniture for the new secretarys office because the current furniture was old. we have images ...