came to capitol hill seeking action on the miners pension protection act, speaking up for fellowed retired miners, some in wheelchairs with oxygen tanks. we re fighting for a pension for black lung. things don t look good at the moment. reporter: for years, senator majority leader mitch mcconnell has blocked the protection of the miners pensions, citing concerns about long-term pension costs across multiple industries. average pension, i think, for miners is like 500 bucks a month, and we need and we don t want to borrow the money. it s already there. the president did not meet with west virginia s coal miners when they were in washington last month, but the following day he flew to their state for a campaign fundraiser with coal executives, all while miners who supported him continue to wait. yeah, i voted for trump. sure did. reporter: and how do you feel about the progress?
stand by on that. a lot of news on guns and background checks and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell. that is coming up momentarily. julie: president trump heading to a campaign fundraiser on long island this morning. the event hosted by steven ross owner of the miami dolphins who has a stake in full cycle and equinox. people calling for boycotts. charles payne is here. another boycott. another boycott. another one for political purposes. i understand if you don t want to support a business for a variety of reasons that s our prerogative. it gets bogged down when celebrities try to influence us into not doing this and not going there. sometimes it can actually defeat the purpose. we should be happy for the most part these don t work. essentially what they re saying is we don t want the people
just moments ago, president trump left for new jersey where he ll kick off the weekend with a 2020 campaign fundraiser at his bedminster golf club. this is dominated by the send her back chant. now that chant was specifically directed at congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota and was fuelled by the president s racist tweets suggesting that the somali-born u.s. citizen should leave the united states. joining us now to continue that conversation texas democratic congressman mark visi. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with ilhan omar said when she returned back home to minnesota last night. let s play a clip of that. i know there are a lot of people that are trying to distract us now. but i want you all to know that
that. he may have shot himself in the foot here. biden is now losing the support of a top campaign fundraiser in the bay area after his recent remarks on segregationists. all of this continues to build around biden and race. do you think this is maybe the beginning of the end for the front runner? focusing on electability is kind of a false thing to look at.
are trapino mr. trump used foundation funds to among other things pay for por traits of himself. make political donations pay for diezing for trump hotels settle lawsuits involving his business, the trump organization, and he puce to do to improperly intervene in the 2016 election. in using the foundation s charitable assets mr. trump s conduct was willful and intentional. mr. trump was aware that directors of charities may not use charitable benefits for director benefits and it s prohibited from using assets to intervene in public elections. but he nevertheless used money donated to the foundation to benefit miss campaign. in arrangement not only violated new york state law. it also ran afoul of federal campaign finance law turning a charity fund raiser into a campaign fund raiser and campaign rallies into opportunities for the candidate to dole out money the public donated to charity. as a result of this willful and intentional conduct, the court should require mr. trump to pay