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trump is already scrambling the map this year. in utah where the mormon electorate is especially unfavorable to trump his lead is down to 5.5. prompting the campaign to dispatch mike pence to salt lake city less than two weeks before the election to do damage control. he s there tomorrow. mitt romney himself a mormon won utah by 48% in 2012. given trump s polling deficit his lack of ads it came as a surprise that according to the washington post trump has stopped holding high-dollar fund-raisers and relying on online donations which tend to be much smaller. that s after campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of september. reports add to growing speculation that donald trump is not in very deep psychological sense running to be president of the united states so much as he s running to build up a fan base for donald trump. with the advent of trump tower and then i could advertise a project that i m doing. like doral or something. and spend ha ....
and economy r they right? hi, everybody, i m david asman, let s focus with mr. steve forbes, elizabeth, sabrina and bruce jackson, steve, spend more? dave, unfortunately we will have to spend more and a lot more under barack obama the budget declined, a couple of hundred billion dollars, trump is increasing it but not nearly enough, we need more ships, we need more equipment and we need to maintain what we have which we haven t done in recent years, we also need radical reform of procurement system which wastes $25 billion a year. a lot has to be done. john, look at the percent of gdp that we spend in military hardware, it has come way down. we had the peace dividend during the clinton years after the end of the soviet union, that s when the big dip happened and we built up after 9/11 and it s come down again. coming down from a very high level. even now we spend more on the military annually than the next seven largest spending countries combined. david: they re not spe ....
tries to clean up trump s tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged then-fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. the president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. here s sarah sanders late today. look, the president knew that he lied to the vice president. that was the reason for his firing. the problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. the white house has made it very clear, president trump s tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the united states. no matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. in this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a presidential tweet. trump s tweet and sarah sanders explanation simply are not the same. they contradict each other. they also don t match cnn ....
a new book. things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kiss-and-tell. it s a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prize-winning columnist. or maybe it s more than that. are you decoding my book? i am decoding it right now. like it s entirely about me. [ laughs ] but it s all written in hieroglyphics. well, it s not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. let s start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. and in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. marcel krauthammer died of cancer. he was 59. charles writes this about his older brother. he taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. he taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. and how we played. it was paradise. tell me about that. it was a paradisiacal childhood. my brother and i were inseparab ....
to deal with immigration. but first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. at one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p.o.w. and while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesn t matter, he s dying anyway. here s the white house s apology for those comments. does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments again, i m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. are you saying she didn t say this? again, i m not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other. no, no, sorry, here s the white house apology. i think the remarks are awful, but let s look at this in context. that was said in a private meeting inside the white house. that s not like you might say something really nasty about me off the air, it doesn t have Songbird-john , Insult , Senator , Pow , Votes , Reference , Arizona , One , White-house , Meghan-mccain , Doesnt-matter , Comments