In the interim i forgot that pledge. That is why i have accidentally written this new book called blowout, constructed democracy, rogue state russia and the richest, most destructive industry on earth, cheery, right, i know. This book, blowout comes out in about three weeks on october 1st, because you cant buy it yet, you can only preorder now, because you cant buy it yet, im not going to spend time telling you what its about, and why i wrote it, i will do it some other time. The thing i need to tell you about now because its time sensitive is that im going to do a little book tour right around the time that the book comes out. I say its a little book tour because im not going to a bunch of places. Its a short book tour, mostly because i cant take time off work. I have this other job. Its hard to do these things at once, but this is the book tour. Im going to these eight places that you see on the screen right now, and i said when i first announced that i was going to do this little book tour that i would keep you apprised in terms of getting tickets and stuff, just in case you want to come to one of these events. Thats what im doing now. It has turned out that getting tickets to some of these events has been hard. Im sorry about that. I have heard it has been difficult. But here is the update, and it is it has some good news. Of the eight dates on the book tour, the venues are all sold out for tulsa on october 5th, san francisco, october 6th. Los angeles october 7th. Seattle, october 11th. Also the western massachusetts state on november 17th. Those are all sold out, and im sorry about that, but thats only five of the eight dates. There is good news, there are still Tickets Available for these other three venues and dates. You can still get tickets to come see me and hear about the new book that almost killed me on these occasions, new york city, october 3rd, chicago on october 12th, and atlanta on october 13th. Those are all bigger venues and there are still tickets. So five of the dates on the tour are sold out. Three still have tickets, if you want to come see me, those three events are live, new york, chicago and atlanta all next month, if you want to buy tickets to any of those events, everything is at msnbc. Com blowout. Can we put that on the screen for a second . Right. Msnbc. Com blowout. You can preorder the book there or you can check out the tour dates and get tickets for those last three events that have Tickets Available. Okay. I said i would keep you apprised. I am done talking about that now. Thank you very much. And its good that im done because theres a lot going on tonight. Lots to get to on tonights show. In washington today we learned about new investigations that are being launched by the oversight, and Judiciary Committees into President Trump. With the Judiciary Committee chairman saying explicitly today that this new inquiry is part of the committees impeachment investigations into President Trump. And what this is all about is this. Did you see this picture this week . Did you notice that when Vice President pence was on his overseas trip this week, even when he was having big, high level meetings, even when he was meeting as he is in this picture with the foreign minister of ireland, it was kind of a drab look for an event of that stature, right. I mean, its proper, everybodys in a suit. Theres flags and stuff, but thats like, its like a big shower curtain behind them. What is that weird room . Thats a weird, look, shot, right . Whats going on in that room. And why does it look familiar. It looks familiar because, oh, its the same location in front of the same weird shower curtain thingy where President Trump also held a big, all for the cameras ceremonial meeting with the irish Prime Minister earlier this summer back in june. Now, the reason for this hoopty, sad little setting for these big ceremonial meetings is because this is not the kind of place where meetings between heads of state or meetings between Vice President s and Foreign Ministers are supposed to happen. What this little room is the vip lounge at the Shannon Airport on the west coast of ireland. Shannon, ireland, county claire, population 9,000 something. Its an unprepossessing little town on irelands west coast. It is known mostly for, well, they have an airport there. Thats pretty much what theyve got. I mean, to be clear, the Irish Government knows what its doing, right . The Irish Government officials are not in the habit of Holding Meetings with heads of state in dowded little airport lounges. That is not something they are accustomed to doing. They have fine and picturesque facilities, castles and stuff for doing ceremonial meetings and press conferences and hosting heads of states and important discussions. They got plenty of nice official settings . But in this u. S. Administration, they have to keep meeting with the top officials in the u. S. Government including the president and Vice President in the lounge at the Shannon Airport right by the duty free station. Instead of any of those normal places that would more normal places that would make sense for a Government Official visit and the reason this keeps having it happen, the reason they keep getting these photo ops in front of like the plant and the shower curtain and stuff is because the Shannon Airport is very close to President Trumps nearby golf course in ireland. And in the Trump Administration, that is where we the taxpayers pay to have the president and Vice President , and all the staff and the secret service and the entourage and everyone, thats where we the taxpayers pay to have them stay when they go to ireland, they stay in President Trumps property there. So the my uncle spent by u. S. Taxpayers on that trip is money that goes into the pocket of the president and his family and goes to the bottom line of their family business. Now, when mike pence was staying in ireland this week, the problematic nature of the taxpayers paying for this was made Crystal Clear by virtue of the fact that in order to have the taxpayers pay the president s company to have mike pence and his entourage stay at the president s golf hotel thing, pence had to commute back and forth 180 miles each way to the place in ireland where his actual official meetings were held, which was dublin, the capital of the country, which is clear on the other side of the ireland. He didnt stay in dublin, he stayed on the other side of the country, all so taxpayer funds would go to the president. Logistically, this would be the equivalent of me deciding to stay in worst, massachusetts, if i had pressing business to attend to in new york city. And trust me, all hail worst, massachusetts, i have nothing against you. I love you deeply. But honestly, if i personally, if i owned a Rachel Rachel hotel in worcester, massachusetts, and i told somebody on the staff of the show while they were having meetings for the show, that they should stay at my hotel in worst, massachusetts and commute back and forth and charge the commute to the company and have the company pay for their freight, if i did that, i would be fired. Any of us in any job in the private or Public Sector would be fired for doing that. But that is what President Trump and Vice President pence are doing with the president s property in ireland. And instead of them being fired for it, we have, a, elections and b, we have a congress that now says they may try to impeach the president for it. Heres todays New York Times report on this new investigation. Quote, two Committee Chairmen acting in tandem sent letters to the white house, the secret service and the Trump Organization asking for documents and Communications Related to Vice President mike pences decision to stay this week at mr. Trumps resort in ireland during an official visit, as well as mr. Trumps recent statements promoting Trump National dural as the possible site for the g7 summit of World Leaders next year. In both cases, the democrats argued mr. Trump stands to benefit financially from american taxpayer dollars, and in the case of the potential summit in doral from foreign funds as well. The constitutions emoluments clauses prohibit president s from accepting payment from federal, state and local governments, does not believe it should be used to personally enrich President Trump and his companies, wrote congressman elijah cummings, chairman off the oversight committee. Jerry nadler raised what could be an even more troubling outcome for the president. He said his committee was considering potential violations of the ban on profiting from the presidency as part of its impeachment investigation. Quote, potential violations of the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses of the constitution are of grave concern to the committee as it considers whether to recommend articles of impeachment. So the president saying in the last week, wasnt that like a week ago, right, a week or so ago, when the u. S. Hosts the g7 summit next year, helmets the g7 summit to be held at his own trump property in florida, so foreign governments would be forced to pay money to the president and his family in order to participate in official diplomatic engagements with the u. S. Government. I mean, theres that. Theres also the Vice President diverting his official business by hundreds of miles to make sure the taxpayer money expended on his trip would go into the president s own pocket. I mean, these things have just happened backtoback within the course of a week. This is a kind of neon sign for what counts as an impeachable offense, right . But i think an underappreciated part of this is that this is also kind of a cash for Clunkers Program because that Doral Program because that doral place where the president is trying to make the u. S. Government put the g7 summit, that is a property that used to be the president s largest source of revenue in his whole Business World and that property is now tanking. Quote, trump has listed doral in federal disclosures as his biggest moneymaker. But bank rates and overall revenue are down. In two years the president s Net Operating Income fell by 69 , even in a vigorous economy, the property was missing the Trump Organizations internal business targets, the tax consultant telling county officials that the doral resort is, quote, severely underperforming other resorts in the area. There was negative coptation that is associated with the brand now. Oh, the brand. Same situation apparently in the ireland property which they have been diverting taxpayer resources, the ireland property is also tanking, as you see in the headline there. Doonbeg, trumps moneylosing golf course. He bought this thing in 2014. It has lost at least seven figures every year since, which we can see from public records filed in ireland. So, i mean, cash for clunkers, right, this president gig might not last all that long, but if you can make it work while youve got the job, if you can literally take millions of dollars from u. S. Taxpayers to stuff into the coffers of your failing business, if you can force foreign governments to pay millions of dollars to your failing business, then maybe at least you can squeeze some personal profit out of the gig before you lose the gig. And you know, democrats have made noise about a lot of things this president has done. We will see if they actually try to go the distance on this one. They are formally making inquiries into this diversion of taxpayer resources to the president s own businesses as it pertains to the request to hold doral at g7 and the sending of mike pence to the west coast of ireland, instead of to dublin. Well see what the democrats do with it. This one has the benefit of 100 clarity in terms of the unconstitutional nature of the president s behavior. I will also say because the ireland part of this inquiry also puts Vice President pence on the block, in terms of his active and knowing participation in this trump grift against the american taxpayer, this investigation has the chance to sort of find the seam, find any potential friction between the president and the Vice President who at this point in their political careers might be thinking very differently about how their futures might be going out, and how in fact they might diverge. But now, as i was prepping to talk about something totally different on tonights show, another story broke along these same lines, which, i mean, this is the part of the evening where i get to the thing thats just truly bonkers. This story just came out within the last hour. If you have not seen it yet, you are going to want to sit down. You are going to want to spend a little bit of time with this. This is the headline from politico, air force crew made an odd stop on a routine trump, trip, trumps scottish resort. Quote in early spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the u. S. To kuwait to deliver supplies. What wasnt routine was where the crew stopped along the way. They stopped at President Trumps turnbury resort. Is a 15 miles outside of glass glow, scotland. Since april, the House Oversight committee has been investigating why the crew on the c 17 transport plane made the stay on en route to the middle east and on the way back at the president s scottish resort. They stopped at turnberry both ways. The Congressional Committee is investigating this. This is something being looked into by congress, since they have been looking into it since april, they have yet to receive any answers from the pentagon. Quote, on previous trips to the middle east the c 17 had landed at u. S. Air bases such the ramstein in germany. Or the Naval Air Station in spain to refuel. Occasionally, the same c17 would also stop at military bases in the azors or italy. But stopping in scotland . A Senior Air Force official said choosing to refuel at the airport nearest to the president s scotland resort and choosing for the airmen to stay at the president s scotland resort a half an hour away from that airport, that would be unusual for such a mission. Again, their mission is flying supplies to and from kuwait. Typically, the official said, air crews stay on a military base while in transit or at nearby lodgings. The congressional inquiry is part of a broader previously unreported probe into u. S. Military expenditures at or around the trump property in scotland. According to the letter the panel sent in june, the military has spent 11 million on fuel at specifically the prestwick airport, spent 11 million on fuel there just since october 2015. Yes, it would be cheaper to the military if that fuel had been purchased at a u. S. Military base. Again, a u. S. Military base is where the c17s have always previously stopped before donald trump became president and suddenly they started stopping at his golf course and its nearby airport, which turns out has fallen on hard times and might need the money. Prestwick airport has been debt ridden. The Scottish Government bought it in 2013, for one pound, but the airport has continued to lose money in the years since. In june, the Scottish Government announced its intent to sell the airport, which the panels letter described as integral to the success of the turnberry property 30 miles away. Taken together, the incidents raise the possibility that the military has helped keep Donald Trumps turn berry resort afloat. The property lost 4. 5 million in 2015. But in 2018, revenue went up by 3 million. I mean, this is just i mean, the implication in the brand new reporting from politico is that trumps, you know, got this money losing resort in florida to which he now wants to direct the g7. Hes got this money losing golf resort in ireland, which he has already directed Vice President pence and his entourage, now in addition he has a money losing resort in scotland that was about to lose the money losing airport that serviced it. I mean, the golf course is already having really tough times. If they lose the nearest airport, too. But now, miraculously, now that donald trump is president , American Military cargo planes have started refuelling at that airport, at a significant price markup. Right . Its much cheaper for them to get their fuel at military bases. Thats part of the reason they always stop at military bases. Also theyre the military. Theyre no longer stopping at military bases. Instead theyre stopping at the airport that trump needs to prop up to keep his scottish golf resort going, and paying full freight commercial airport rates for that fuel. And then theyre sending the air crews to go stay at the president s resort. I mean, there is a u. S. Military base in the uk. They need to stop in the uk, they could go to the u. S. Base in the uk