3000dollar dinner. Saw legal as long as we stand up at the reception in eat we are legal. I can have meals. I can still use alice fisher and thats the other thing. She said the congressman used low just for fundraisers. No kidding. Everybody listening to this program and everyone on my film today i was charged. I pled guilty and i did a lot of from things but using a loge for a fundraiser collects the entire congress would be a loge is a private box. You go to them and you watch the game and you have a fundraiser. This done today. Nothing is changed on that. Those are the types of things were they said he used the private lounge. Its done constantly. Cspan heres some video. Tom rogers you mentioned and i want you to look at it and tell us what role you played. My role was very small. Also what happened was i had people who trusted me that came to me and they came to me in the year 2002. I walked into the bar and i looked for somebody who looked like they were looking for somebody and u
Expensive gifts like clothing and vacation outings. This is about the mcdonnells lining their pockets with secret gifts and cash. The daughter of bob and maureen mcdonnell. It is the catering bill for her wedding in 2011. Jonnie williams potential ties to it are a major piece of evidence for the prosecution. When she was shown pictures, Kaitlyn Mcdonnell young began to cry on the stand. She then was questioned about Stock Transfer from maureen to her daughter and siblings. Coming up well have details about the mcdonnells struggling marriage. Jeff goldberg. We are only at the beginning of th. Well have more details in the Opening Statement from Bob Mcdonnells attorney. John brantly is the attorney and claims that government investigators interviewed many people up to the case including mitt romney and his wife ann. His Attorney Says that investigators were hoping to find someone who had something bad to say about Bob Mcdonnell but didnt find a thing. Our coverage of the trial continues
Former Ohio Republican congressman bob ney discusses his newlyreleased memoir titled sideswiped subfour. Cspan former congressman bob ney in a chapter headlined pretty alice, you called pretty alice the most covert manipulative cunning stealth vicious cold hearted instrumented evil that karl rove and the bush administrative head guest i must have left out a couple of things but alice fisher. Alice fisher is a very interesting person that received attention from senator levin and particular and that basically kind of went away as i explained in the book but alice fisher had really never particulaparticula rly tried cases and was criticized for that. She was in the criminal visit division went over to work for chertoff. She was basically by the white house directly placed here and there is they needed her. An extreme political operative and a business where there is politics and in the bushcheney Reelection Campaign etc. I dont want to say she was a political hack and i dont want to be u
Putin. Well see about today. Were looking for the United States to improve this computer glitch. That does it for us. Well see you right back here tomorrow. In the meantime, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Good morning, everyone. Im Stephanie Ruhle with a lot to cover today. Starting with answers, emails and calls. Some of President Trumps response to Robert Muellers questions now revealed has new details on the investigation emerged. Latenight phone calls between donald trump and his associate roger stone and the president dangling a pardon for, guess who, Paul Manafort. Emission failure. The va says it will not reimburse all veterans who were paid less due to a technical glitch. Taking stock. Markets surge after the fed chair suggests interest rate
increases might slow down. Now an expected meeting between trump and the leader xi jinping over the weekend. Theres a possibility a deal can be made. Having said that, some caveats as always. We begin with some of the very fest deta
Just cant get over it. Good morning, everyone. A lot going on this morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im Christine Romans. Its may 29th, 5 00 a. M. On the nose. The white house says Veterans Affairs secretary Eric Shinseki is on thin ice, and many more lawmakers, including democrats, are calling for his resignation after the vas own inquiry substantiated what we first discovered in a cnn investigation, that waiting lists were manipulated at va facilities in phoenix, delays cnn found could possibly have led to dozens of deaths. The va now says some 1,700 veterans in phoenix were never scheduled for appointments. Seemingly, this was all an attempt to make the medical centers wait times look better. At a latenight hearing, members of Congress Went after top va officials who insisted, if they knew the extent of the problem, they would have acted sooner. Were told that the scheduling system was challenged, but we discounted the oig reports and patient concerns as exceptions, n