evidence and it was an appropriate use of resources. joining me msnbc legal analyst. at this point, maybe people won t complain about how much the mueller investigation is costing since, i don t know how much did we pull in from manafort, 50 million bucks. i think that covers it. rosenste rosenstein s comments contradict the narrative we have heard from the president, rudy giuliani that social security a rigged, hoax, witch hunt. how do you think trump is interpreting this? i think it s interesting that on the heels of the meeting they had a week ago. trump and rosenstein. it s very unusual for a prosecutor overseeing an investigation to speak to the media about an ongoing investigation. what we have seen in this investigation is first bob mule
it s hard to be anonymous when you re putting this this suits. he had to pay a major fine just before he took the position with the white house? his firm did. $2 pinpoint 3 million in august of 2016. this was for allegedly misleading investors and de frauding them. that s not his only issue. he has a long list of confrikli of interest. insider trading involving ross. he still owned between 10 and 50 million bucks worth of stock in the parent company. and even though the funds did divest, it s only on paper because his investments are transferred to a trust that his family benefits from. how could anyone even say he s doing nothing wrong here? and he s god ties to china in
and companies, they re the ones who are starting to challenge the nra on core issues. not lawmakers. dick s sporting goods pulled assault style weapons from shelves. walmart and krueger had stopped selling these weapons several years ago. but they both announced this week they will halt gun sales to customers under the age of 21. but delta, delta is the company that is the first to see real blowback from nra supporters. after the airline cancelled its discount program with the nra members, lawmakers in georgia voted to revoke delta s tax breaks in the state and that s worth 50 million bucks, that s real dollars. delta is a $6.5 billion a year company. it says it puts $43.5 billion of economic impact into the georgia area. it has 33,000 employees in georgia, the single biggest employer in atlanta. i m not sure it s wise that nra supported legislature members do
four tell giants spent are you ready for this number? a record 50 million bucks lobbying is united states government last year. google, amazon, facebook and apple shelled out more money than ever. it s no surprise we know corporate america has lobbyists all day every day. what s going on here though? yeah. it s fairly old school for companies to shell out lots of money to shape what s happening in washington d.c. but 2017 proved to be not only the toughest year in washington but the costliest year. really it is for two reasons. first many of these companies were battled president donald trump on a wide array of issues. second, some of these same companies were facing new scrutiny. as you just pointed out it comes
companies. let s talk about the disruptive economy and regulations. uber has the former ceo travis kalanick and his lieutenant have worn as a badge of honor that they re sort of these outlaws. they fought against the system. we know that in many cities, they ignored taxi and limousine commission rules. and people were fine with that. they thought somehow they were making a better system. correct. let s break the law. you know, let s break the status quo. but here, there are clear ftc regulations and they ignored them. what does that tell us about this company and this industry? because we know now they re going to be subject in a lot of states to fines. sure, they could pay it. they re valued at 50 million bucks. i think you look at the negative view of what this has on uber. 2016 they were getting hit hard. probably wasn t a good time for them to release this information. and that s not good. there s legitimate ways of exposing, you know, bugs and