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Botox. >> not yet. i don't need it. not every woman. >> don't put your money in a car, put your money on yourself and leave the car at the curve. in california, the women look extraordinary beautiful and that is because it's been pulled so tight sometimes, they go to the bathroom through their ears but it doesn't matter. they look good. they look good. >> oh, my gosh. well, you're right, everyone does look good in l.a. you also write, you know, really about these interviews that you're constantly on junkets whether you're talking about your books or your tv shows, all of your enterprises and y...

Is not rising to the level of people stealing money. >> right? these trips, most of them, some are junkets, but most are worthwhile doing. what this rises to is the issue of how out of touch people are. they spend their money on paperwork and whether they should fill out this or that for their trip instead of doing anything jobs, anything about the economy, anything about education, anything about climate change. it is just -- it's in some ways you throw up your hands in despair at our representation. >> i also think it speaks to anyone with a little bit of memory to remember kind of where thi...

People, voters, they don't get trips paid for when they want to go somewhere, that these look like special handouts, that these lawmakers are getting with little value. that's the perception, and sometimes they bring along their spouses. sometimes they bring along their children. >> right. >> are these all expense paid trips worth it? >> well, some of them are, yesterday. the congressional delegations, the codels, as they are called. they really do educate congress people about what's going on in the rest of the world and so forth. i don't begrudge them going on the trip. some are junkets but ...

Committee quietly, behind closed doors said that lawmakers no longer have to disclose these junkets on the financial disclosure form. it's definitely a step towards less disclosure and the chairman of the house transparency caucus and minority leader nancy pelosi has come out and said that this is the wrong move. >> so even though they have made this one change on this one form, does this fully, permanently go into effect or is this something that would about have to go to the senate and amount to nothing? >> the house makes its own rules. this is just the house. already lawmakers are saying t...

Children in milwaukee cannot read? that's a priority. unemployment needs to be a pirate. he needs to talk about what to do so we don't lead in disparities for people of color and we don't lead in incarcerati incarcerations. he needs to do his job instead of doing the junkets around the nation and all this, you know, frankly right close to criminal activity if not kl are activity. >> all right. a lot of big money. we have a big spotlight here on "politicsnation." we'll keep looking at this. >> thank you. >> state senator lena taylor and david corn, have a good weekend. >> thank you. coming up...