care for millions of americans. not necessarily reverse what the state legislature has just done. you are obviously a high-profile person from wisconsin. you are a democrat. there are other high-profile from wisconsin, including one with a national platform who is a republican, house speaker paul ryan. when asked by the huffington post if he had any comment on what s happening in the state that he is from and what he knows, he replied i don t have anything for you. do you think paul ryan should be stepping up and addressing this in any way, or more than he is now? i do think this is about leadership and this is he, too, was at the funeral service yesterday for president george h.w. bush. he, too, knows about the concept of when power peaceably moves from one person to another and one party to another that we ought to be supporting and rooting for that person for the success of all of us.
confidence that mohammed bin salman was complicit in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi urging the international community to hold all parties, including mbs, in the murder of jamal khashoggi responsible. saudi lobbyists paid for 500 rooms at the trump hotel in the 2016 election. this bipartisan group has come together to basically slap back at the trump administration on saud saudi. reporter: that s right, hallie. this might end up being the goldilocks option for senators to find a way to push back against saudi arabia, the crown prince but don t necessarily
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 less because they asked for a lobbyist discount i m sorry, veterans rate discount. they didn t pay the rack rate. they paid less is their argument, which is why they say they moved in december? that s right. david, thank you for coming on. katherine and aaron, stay with us a bit longer. the biggest car maker is back
lobbying work that flynn did in washington. he helped mueller with three investigations, one into russia meddling, the second its description blacked out and the third is an investigation where the nature of the investigation is completely blacked out, you can see. do we know whether this virginia investigation was part of any of that reactive memo stuff from robert mueller or can we not make that connection yet? it appears that way. we don t know for sure. got it. this investigation is continuing at the same time that flynn is you ve seen his sentencing document which references his lobbying work in turkey in 2016. and so it kind of the fact that this investigation is continuing offers us clues about potentially the breadth of
smart alecky way, that was kind of the mission here, sir. but it was a great honor. a great honor indeed. you re looking now at the train that will carry the casket of the former president to his final resting place in college station where he will be buried next to his beloved wife barbara and his daughter robin who died from leukemia at the age of 3. our special coverage of the president s funeral in texas continues here on msnbc now. good morning from msnbc headquarters in new york.