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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180204:21:41:00

>> steve, what would you tell the president if you could speak to him personally? >> i would encourage him to order an investigation into this product, into the actions of this federal highway administration. i would encourage him to codify the recommendations made by the general accounting office of the united states in a report that senator blumenthal and markey had requested. i'd ask him two questions, i'd ask him, mr. president, 40,200 people died on our nation's highways in 2016. what would be an acceptable reduction in that number? the second question would be, are you prepared to sacrifice any of your family members to that number? and i think the answer is, no. so i would ask him to commit the united states to the national safety council's road to zero initiative, and this is a goal to reduce highway traffic deaths

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171219:16:22:00

after he nominated judge gorsuch to the court, back in early spring, the president grew frustrated when in meetings with senators, neil gorsuch distanced himself from some of the president's comments and he began to see the judge as insufficiently grateful and began to see the judge as maybe not his perfect nominee. as he learned the judge was criticizing him and he told some of his advisors in very sharp terms maybe we should have picked someone else. i don't know if this is the best guy for the job. >> you talk in your reporting about loyalty and brings back into focus the president's concerns, something we have heard from him not just in terms of gorsuch but over the years about loyalty. for this president, what does, quote, loyalty look like in a supreme court justice? >> well, loyalty means you agree with him, that you are simpatico on the issues, that your philosophy mirrors his and that you will not be publicly critical of the president. a number of folks who we talked

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171219:16:33:00

people -- that that was the official death toll, and it sends the wrong message in terms of the truly devastation that puerto rico is facing as a result of maria. so it is important for members of congress and the trump administration to have the facts, to understand the numbers and it is important for everyone to know that there is a process in place when any natural disaster strikes, not only in puerto rico, but even here in the mainland, the same debate took place right after new orleans and katrina. so this is why it's important that we have an independent review and analysis by the general accounting office so that we could put procedures in place that will help government and local governments do a count that really reflects what happened. >> hurricane maria, of course, one of a number of disasters

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171219:16:32:00

called for yourself in a letter to the gao, to take a look at hurricane related deaths in puerto rico, the official death toll stands at 64, but yesterday, the governor saying he wants a recount here. our own investigation here at cnn found that number could be far, far higher. why is it important that there be a reaccounting here? why is it important that that number be something different? >> well, the people of puerto rico deserve to know the real facts in terms of the number of people that were killed, that died as a result of hurricane maria. you have to remember that puerto rico is an island in the caribbean and far away from the united states. here is where we take decisions and make decisions that will impact the kind of resources that will be provided. so when president donald trump went to puerto rico, he bragged about the fact that only 16

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20171122:12:36:00

ground sensor. and he was trying to determine what set it off. the fact is there are some 14,000 of these ground sensors, some of them that have been there since the vietnam war era that are corroded, that are not working and dumb. these are dumb sensors that cannot tell the difference between cows or terrorists. and wild abortio wild boars or y bombers coming across the border. the fact is the government the inspector general for the department of home racked security the general accounting office have been warning for years that this technology is risking the lives of those that are on the front lines. this isn't the first time that this has happened, guys. nicholas ivey, who was a border patrol agent in arizona had also been checking out what they thought might have been a false alarm. and it ended up being a friendly fire incident in which he was shot by another agent. steve: right. well, i'm confused because i have heard some people in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20171122:12:06:00

longest serving member of the house of representatives. brian: he actually questions j. edgar hoover in his first year in office that's how long he has been there hey, griff, thanks. meanwhile, a poll on roy moore shows that he is up by 2 after trailing by 9 about a week ago. however, the same poll says should they expel roy moore, should he arrive and win the election, 60 percent said yes, expel him. 28 percent said no. ainsley: get him in office and expel him? brian: i don't know you do that you need two thirds of the senate do that. steve: ray come poll up by two and breitbart poll where he is up by 6. that according to alabama.com. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit of basketball. ainsley: yeah. the president is up tweeting this morning. responding to that basketball dad's comments. he went on another network and he was saying he should have -- steve: i don't thank the president. ainsley: i don't thank the president for getting my son out of china after his son and two other basketball

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130603:13:07:00

the second leg to the irs scandal. first leg of course, was targeting of conservatives and president's opponents. this is the second leg. think you will be hearing a lot more about it this week. as you said earlier, martha, mr. werfel testifies today. i think he would be pressed for more details on that $4 million conference. martha: feels like the whole, you see sales conferences in private corporations for-profit organizations where they're trying to drum up the sales force. if they want to do that, if they feel that is good way to raise their bottom line, that is their prerogative. if the shareholders don't like it they can do whatever they want about it. this is, to state the obvious is public entity. it is not out there to raise profits but seem to be living on the high life as some other companies set the precedent for in the past. >> this has been done at a time when america has a trillion dollar a year deficits. i think a lot of people are reminded of the general accounting office scandals with you there was lavish conferences in las vegas.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110102:14:31:00

i got a call from vice president biden, a 45-minute or so meeting and it was a wonderful meeting because he cares about the same things i care about. he cares about the dollar going further. he has a huge government that needs help. i've got igs, the general accounting office, i've got all of government, including all of them that report to the president, i've got them wanting to do the same thing. i just have to help them do it. earl devaney with stimulus money and i note this all the time with stimulus money did some forensic work that has already shown that we can find far more waste and fraud than we ever did before. that's one of the good things that came out of stimulus is an ig, who was temporarily put in as a chairman here, has looked and said, i can do a better job. it's the first time i've been given the money for me to do this forensic work we could save tens of billions of dollars next year alone if we took the technology that he did for a song, a couple of million bucks

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110102:17:31:00

meeting because he cares about the same things i care about. he cares about the dollar going further. he has a huge government that needs help. i've got igs, the general accounting office. i've got all of government, including all of them that report to the president, i've got them wanting to do the same thing. i just have to help them do it. >> congressman darrell issa, we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you, ed. we have an explanation of how to deal with the white house and the new republican majority right up next. i'm hugh jidette.

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