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in the plate for something they call the leadership executive roundtanl, which is speak for, i paid more money so i can be in a smaller room. fife people are paying 5,000 bucks a pop to go roundtable with mike pence tonight in indiana. on top of that there s in intriguing question as to how mike pence is going to pay for his very expensive private lawyer, who he just announced the hiring of yesterday. i mean, this is the person who s going to defend mike pence and represent mike pence in anything having to do with the trump/russia scandal or obstruction of justice scandals. this lawyer gets paid a lot per hour and is probably going to be working a lot of hours is it possible this fund-raiser for mike pence s pac tonight in indianapolis, is it possible that s going to be a way for people to fund mike pence s legal defense?
look at this. this was from rt. this is russia today. it was viewed by the u.s. as a kremlin-controlled media operation and therefore it s something you ve got to report. 45,000 bucks. that s what he s paid to go there and speak for in 2015. so to see the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, jason chaffetz, and elijah cummings saying that a law may have been broken here, is a very impactful and causes real problems for flynn going forward and that s different from seeing the white house press secretary there saying it wasn t really our thing. that s a difficult argument for them to make considering how senior flynn was and it s their responsibility to bring him into the white house. the crux of this would be why would general flynn not disclose
doesn t see?e? what i see is, and what we are looking in kansas when we are going after certain forms voter fraud, you can the aclu wants us to stop requiring people to provide proof of citizenship which is a reform we introduced in 2013. we had an outside expert coming in to do sampling of our voter rolls. he estimates the total number of noncitizens, aliens on our voter rolls, is in the thousands, maybe as high as 18,000. so it s a big problem, and we only see that very tip of the iceberg. and sometimes we can prosecute. greg: the sentence, what do you think of the i think he got nonsupervisednk probation and he had to pay a a fine of $5,000. what do you think about that sentencing? i think that s appropriate, because when we gain prosecutorial authority,e, i want it to be a heavy fine, not like 200 bucks, but 5,000 bucks so people would think
he s going to do things first and foremost. still a lot of twitter? absolutely. he said on 60 minutes he was going to. when he tweets, he gets results. the administration will use every possible to spread the message, stay tuned for that. reports tonight, one of mr. trump s top advisers will attend a high-ticket fund-raiser. the buffalo news reporting kellyanne conway will speak at a luncheon in upstate new york thursday. the fund-raiser costs 5,000 bucks a pop. apparently it s to help cover the costs of the transition team s salaries, which are not paid for by campaign funds. russian diplomats hitting the dusty trail after getting the boot from president obama. what s next for them, and what s next in the investigation into the kremlin cyberattack? plus new year new laws, some of the biggest legal reforms going into effect today.