you can t disconnect your private business interests, don t take the job. here s the thing, if jared kushner was going to take a position in the white house, why did he choose to work on things that were so tied to lenders and ceos? yeah. get out of the business. the ceo business. dirty. gary cohn didn t want to create the groups. jared did. jared wanted to create those groups. he then wasn t completely divided from his family. now that we look closer at the loans, are they good loans? did they make economic success? the kushner company wants you to believe, we always did business with citi and apollo. what are the terms of the loans? if they stink, it ll seem strange. 666 fifth avenue is sitting on a mountain of debt. it is a nasty deal. who is going to finance it? what do the companies get in exchange for it? nobody ever writes in a loan form. what do they get? i m sorry. if we had huge infrastructure programs here, public/private
conflicts anyway, but you can make the same money being a relative of the president than being in the white house. it is an stephanie said, it is unforced errors. added layer of scrutiny and possible violation that didn t need to be there. the country wasn t hankering for ivanka and jared to be in the white house. there is a reason why we have nepotism laws which, on a very sort of technical basis, don t seem to apply here because they don t apply to the white house necessarily, the way they apply elsewhere, but you have it so you know the people in these key jobs are there because they re the best people for the job. they re going to be judged under the same standards as everybody else. you have relatives of the president that came into the positions. they didn t divest themselves from their businesses. you don t know if they re now getting a pass for things that anybody else would have been kicked out for. jared kushner trying to do a very sensitive job now without maximum securi
this data needs to be remembered. most gun deaths in america are suicides. nobody else in the world has numbers like american suicide deaths because of the number of guns we have. we ll come back to that another time. a more recent analysis, in 2015, based on more than a dozen different studies, and there has been a lot of research, while the cdc doesn t do it, lots of people do, it found that people with access to guns at home were almost twice as likely to be murdered compared to those without guns in their home. some states use shall issue rules, meaning, they must grant permits after requirements are completed. other states use a the shall issue are the red states. others use discretionary issue. that is the well, says they re blue, but it is really only here. they can be selective but grant concealed carry permits. some states like new york and california, for instance, well, some states like arizona don t require a permit to be carried at all. this is a mess, this color
we should not be making fundamental changes in a vital safety net program that s been on the books for 50 yoerz. the medicaid program. without having a single hearing to evaluate what the consequences are going to be. i think the longer the bill is out there, the more conservative republicans are going to discover that it s not repeal, and the more that everybody is going to discover that it keeps the fundamental flaw of obama care. for all republicans complaints about the death spiral of obama care, they don t fix it. they simply subsidyize it with taxpayer money, which i don t agree with at all. meanwhile, many had expected the congressional budget office to release a score on the revised bill today, but that too has been delayed. it s unclear right now when that score will actually be released. and president donald trump s approval ratings have plummeted to the lowest ever recorded for a president in his first six months in office. a bloomberg national poll out this morning h
wildfires are facing a more difficult job of being fought. 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the blazes have ripped through several communities and forced as many as 37,000 people to evacuate. it s unclear at this point how many homes and businesses have been destroyed. with that let s get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. some relief out there, hopefully, bill. sometimes thunderstorms can also have lightning, and that causes new fires. they can t win with the peak of the heat in the peak of the season. the thunderstorms in arizona don t get a lot of big heavy rain events, and when they do, they get a lot of flash flooding where, that happened again overnight. flash flood watch for six million people for one more day. especially through northern