oversight is about even handed application of the law, about holding anyone accountable if they don t follow the rules of our constitution. and the fact is we have hard evidence that president trump didn t. the republicans, sadly, for them, have no evidence with regard to president biden. but they re spending their time searching for evidence that may or may not be there rather than being willing to conduct the investigation and hold president trump accountable, setting the record for what we expect from our president. congresswoman, i should also note that tonight you re here as a congresswoman, but you are also running for a senate seat in california in quite a crowded race. congressman adam schiff also running. he is expecting to enter this year with $35 million cash on hand we have now learned. h how competitive are you with that right now? we are running a very competitive race, and the polling shows this. poll after poll shows a very tight race. california has a top two
qatar. but this isn t even all of president trump s major hotels. this doesn t include things like the hotel in chicago, a property in new york. it doesn t include all of his businesses. this is really, if you think about it, a tiny little slither, a tiny pie slice of what foreign governments paid to influence president trump during his presidency. and, again, the constitution this rule was put in place hundreds and hundreds of years ago by the framers of our government because they were concerned about foreign influence. so, we know this is not all of it. but it there s not a test for, oh, it s only a little bit or it s only this many millions of dollars. it s per se wrong for a president to decide to ignore an entire part of the constitution solely to line his own pockets. i think it s important for people who aren t watching capitol hill as closely as we are to know that this was provided to respond to the republican claims, which they have yet to back up or prove.
obama administration official, now cnn political commentator, van jones, and also the former communications director of the republican national committee, doug heye. van, i just wonder what it s like for you to not only have watched biden s speech earlier, but to see that back to back there of president biden s message outside of valley forge earlier and then former president trump s message responding to that. a statesman and an insult comic. that s the dynamic there. you know, biden is in political trouble. there s only so much a speech can do. the only thing bad about his speech is i don t think enough americans are going to see that speech. that was an actually strong speech. he put together a case that explains the real threat that we re in, the peril that we re in. and we, kind of, get used to trump. it s, kind of, like, yeah, whatever. he s, kind of, like an insult comic. but when you lay out all the things he did to try to
an ongoing situation, probably congress would have approved it. but the real problem here is a president, who time and time again decided that the rules didn t apply to him. and that should consider anybody, democrat or republican, regardless of your political views. we shouldn t want this kind of corruption, this kind of self-dealing, and this kind of blatant ignoring the constitution from any leader of our government. and i should note this information came about as part of a court battle that was going on. and the ability to continue that was basically shut down when republicans won control of the house. i mean, is this the totality, you believe, of the numbers and the money that they got from foreign governments? or is there more that you weren t able to get access to? we know for a fact that this isn t all of the money. now, it adds up to millions and millions of dollars from governments like china, saudi arabia, united arab emirates,
resolve what the state should do. i think that they will want to have it applicable to all states. that s why saying, for example, if congress must resolve this, then it is going to be applicable everywhere. if they just said we accept the colorado ruling, then it s chaos and they don t want that. so they re going to sort this out. i m concerned that they won t do it fast enough because we have ballots that are going out as it has been mentioned. this is going to make it very difficult for secretaries of state if they don t rule sooner rather than later, so i look for an early ruling also. john dean, thank you all very much. ahead tonight, president biden firing hard at former president trump in his first campaign event of this year. all of it on the eve of the capitol riot. trump s campaign is about him. not america. he s willing to sacrifice our democracy. he s a threat to democracy.