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Customers venting on twitter. when i arrived it was an extra $40 a night. i was charged in fort lauderdale weston beach resort, part of marriott. and particularly hilarious when the resort fees are at hotels that are clearly not resorts. d.c. accuses marriott of failing to disclose the fees for more than a decade. marriott declined to comment but did say we look forward to continuing our discussions with other state ags. >> reporter: now d.c. wants marriott to compensate affected customers and fully disclose all fees up front before customers book. other states could take action against marrio...

Attorney's general will you know evaluate their options in the event it occurs and decide if that's a method to move forward. i can tell you for myself and for the other state ags that signed on the the letter i think we're going to use every tool in our disposal to make certain that the public at large have the opportunity to see the report that they paid for. >> all right. michigan attorney general dana nestle, thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate your time. i want to turn to carol lam from the southern district of california and former federal prosecutor. good to have you on....

From a lot of jail time. that's huge because as you know, the looming question in the entire end game of the mueller probe is why the former chair of trump's campaign, paul manafort, kept lying after pleading guilty. it didn't seem like something you would do to protect yourself, so who was he protecting? and why did he keep parroting no collusion? if you watch this show we first reported on this back in august 2017 when we wrote and reported on the beat about the ways that state ags could investigate the cases and if they found charges that would be end run of federal charges in was 2017. >> ...

Blew through $1.2 million on lavish travel. the inspector general of the va found serious derelictions, and another trip left taxpayers on the hook for airfare and expenses for his wife. a new report from the washington post finds that virtually every organization donald trump has led over the past ten years is facing some form of investigation, at least six in total being looked into by everybody from robert mueller to multiple state ags. we know about the alleged campaign finance elections, and the trump transition team for investigation with contact with russians, and now there's the inaugu...

From the justice department. break this down for us. what is this case specifically about? >> jake, this entire case surrounds whether the foreign money flowing into the trump hotel here in washington, d.c., violates the emoluments clause, that little-known clause in the constitution that prohibits federal officials from taking a thing of value from a foreign government. the trump administration and trump's legal team has been fighting off this suit, along with a slew of others for months. but a federal judge in maryland has decided that the case can go forward and that the plaintiffs here, th...