trump campaign is today aggressively pushing back against the new report in propublica. one, it says nine potential witnesses and donald trump s criminal cases are getting big financial benefits from trump s companies and his campaign committees, propublica says that the pay of trump campaign adviser and lawyer boris epstein more than doubled trump organization executive allen weisselberg got a $2 million severance package that bars him from voluntarily cooperating with law enforcement. the daughter of top trump campaign official, susie wiles was hired as the fourth highest paid employee. and another trump aide dance kadena was given a good seat on trump s social media board. after we he was subpoenaed, but before he testified to trump campaign official denies any form of witness tampering, saying that benefits provided two witnesses were the result of them taking on more work due to the campaign or his legal cases, heating up with this. now, a robert, if no, reggie, one of the propubl
something light for the president to have to discuss. well, i think you probably agree he doesn t want to talk about it, so thanks. one and all to our panel. i appreciate it, politics intersecting with another law and justice lead, and that is the bribery trial of democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey. menendez officially filed to run for reelection to the senate as an independent. today. and then does announced in march he would not run as a democrat, but he left open the possibility of an independent run if he is acquitted and has not been acquitted, he d the trial is ongoing. cnn s jason carroll is with us now jason, the bribery case rolling on today, a key witness back on the stand. who is this witness? and what does he have to say? well, the key witness that you re talking about, of course, is ted makueni. he s a former official with the us department of agriculture. and what happened here? jake is mckinney over a period of time had raised a number of concerns about on
ads called prosecution, literally about the idea that trump would want to prosecute women for health care decision making. a prosecutions we just saw hunter biden leaving court at the end of the first day of his trial now on felony gun charges, first lady jill biden, was in attendance today for jury selection. i think it s her birthday also, by the way, president biden also released a statement of support for his son this morning politically how do you think the shakes out for four?a biden also released a statement of support for his son this morning politically how do you think the shakes out for four? the bidens i don t think this is going to move voters un for the former president somehow equals a current president s son also being in court. thanks. we ll go ahead and quite certainly something that the president doesn t want to be asked on the campaign trail. what about your son in this gun trial? also, you have the california case coming up, jake with a tax evasion that s n
the president has made clear he is backing the man accused of molesting a child he met outside her custody hearing. stressing to reporters last week that moore has been accused of misconduct by nine women, quote totally denies it. yesterday tweeting a long attack on moore s opponent jones that ended with the claim, quote, jones would be a disaster. the president himself of course has been accused of unwanted physical attack by 15 women, all of whom he says are liars. he has reportedly told multiple people he also doubts moore s accusers. and sees parallels from the calls for moore to step aside and the infamous access hollywood tape. now he is amazingly suggesting he never said them in the first place. the times reporting that trump suggested to senator earlier this year the access hollywood tape was not authentic and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. meanwhile, nancy pelosi is facing criticism for her comments about congressman john conyers, who has been accused of
absolutely hated it from the start. at one point republicans hated it so much they said they would refuse to confirm anyone to run it, whoever it was, despite the fact the agency s very existence had been made into law. so there was always this question about what a republican president might do with that agency the republicans have hated so much. and what president trump did today was install an acting director of the cfpb who said he wanted to destroy the bureau when he was still a congressman. . it s a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. it turns up being a joke. and that s what the cfpb really has been in a sick, sad kind of way. because you have an institution that has tremendous authority over what y all do for a living. some of us would like to get rid of it. talking to a representative of the banking industry there. and now that man, that guy who wants to get rid of it is running that very agency. or is he? because to