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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. jay sekulow on abc yesterday. would that meeting constitute a violation of the law? and what you have is a situation and i ve said this well over a year. you have to look at what laws, rules and regulation statutes are purportedly violated here. he s been saying that for well over a year. well over a year ago, he said the opposite about that meeting in trump tower. remember, it was all about adoptions. i didn t hear anybody talk about babies this weekend. and there are some potentially relevant laws. for example, u.s. code of federal regulations. quote, a foreign national shall not directly or indirectly make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation in connection with any federal, state or local election. and, quote, no person shall knowingly solicit accept or receive from a foreign national any contribut ....
That while it may be about hbiz it s an argument many administration officials are making behind the scenes. the commerce secretary ross told them in july, don t worry about the effect of steel and aluminum tariffs. because the u.s. is making $1 billion in revenue from this. so they clearly are making the connection between the general revenue that goes into the treasury s coffers from some of these tariffs and the fact that, you know, it all sort of comes out in the wash, even though it is ultimately a drop in the bucket. but are they forgetting the fact, jason that treasury coffers are suffering because of the massive corporate tax cut? they re borrowing an unusual amount of money. now we re considering tax cut 2.0 and the administration is turning to us and saying listen, we re going to grow and grow and grow. isn t this a heady argument to make, given the situation we re in? ....