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Rate. i don't know what the rack rate is, but the federal government sets limits on how much federal employees can spend on hotel rooms. it is county by county so it goes up in rich places. in palm beach county it is $205. this is nearly double what the normal limit is but trump can get away with it because the secret service is allowed to pay whatever rate they need to to be near the people they protect. he is exploiting the loophole. >> thank you for spending time with us. next, republicans rejected the latest offer so what is next for the biden infrastructure plan? . plus, devaluing hom...

Mar-a-lago, he charged the secret service every night for the right to use a room while they protected him. again, you charging the secret service to protect him, and it seems like this could go on indefinitely. he's moved to bedminster and we're trying to figure out if he's making the same charges there. >> i'm assuming that's not a friends and family rate? >> well, mar-a-lago is an expensive place. i don't really know what the rack rate is, but the federal government sets limits on how much federal employees can spend on hotel rooms. it's county by county, so it goes up in rich places. in pa...

Started staying at the trump hotel right after he got elected. >> david, what does that say to you based on your reporting? is it just a crazy, wild coincidence that it just so happened that way? >> i can only tell you what the organizers of the trips have told me. they said we were staying across the river in virginia. we couldn't get the rooms we needed in virgina. so we called around and the trump was the only place that had availability. if you think about the prices that the trump hotel is charging in january 2017, the month of his inauguration, it was $770 a night. saudis say they paid l...

For a couple of nights and got the rack rate, which was $600 a night, and the taxpayers are paying for that. this money is going in trump's pocket. take that 63,000, that's dues for 4 1/2 members at mar-a-lago that trump is getting. >> obviously not getting the money from the whole team to stay there, what does this do to the bottom line for the trump properties or brand? >> it's hard for me to know -- the trump organization is very secretive, so it's hard to know overall are they going up or down. certainly, we've seen troubling signs. in scotland, he's in a lot of debt on both of them. he's ...

White house did not respond to requests for comment. one of the big criticisms here is the government pays the rack rate, the highest rate. a cnn investigation found one russian linked campaign used those platforms to exploit racial tensions among americans. the campaign titled don't shoot us posed as part of black lives matter. the campaign's facebook, twitter and instagram accounts are suspended. i hope people understand, your friends are sharing things on facebook, you see things on social media. you have to really scrutinize what you're watching. >> let's hope that's the take away. peopl...