Its monday. Big week ahead. Good morning, everyone. Were so glad youre here. Welcome back. Thanks for having me. How was your week . It was good. It was good. What did i miss . Lots of news. Nothing. Yeah. Therell be lots of news this well. Lets start with five things to know. This morning, twiceindicted former President Trump is bracing for potentially more charges, but its not hurting his polling. Look at this. A New York Times siena poll shows him with a dominating lead. 54 of likely Republican Voters picking trump. And a maralago Maintenance Work set to appear in court. Carlos de la vera is reported to tell another Maintenance Work that trump wanted the Security Footage deleted. Were learning that trumps Leadership Pac spent 40 million on legal fees since start of the year. An american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. They were abducted from the campus of a christian humanitarian organization. Now the state Department Says theyre in touch with the haitian authorities. And th
child have been kidnapped in haiti. alix dorsainvil was working as a nurse at a humanitarian organization in haiti, her husband founded that organization and released a statement saying that alix and her child were abducted from the child near port-au-prince. this happened saturday morning. paula newton just returned to ottawa from haiti. she joins us live. what do we know? not a lot, and that s the problem with these kinds of kidnappings. this is a very delicate situation now. they re working with authorities on the ground. the hard part is to determine exactly who took her and her child. in many cases, this is for ransom. and right now, the charity itself, not saying much other th to release this statement. i ll read it for you now. alix is a deeplyompassionate and loving person who considers haiti her home and the haitian people her friends and family. alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are
charity itself, the donald trump foundation. just take their word. we ll show you on the screen in the box here. they basically copped to it in the new tax filings. the irs tells you just check here if you engaged in self-dealing. yep. the foundation checked yes. now there s news about this foundation that donald trump apparently hoped you would miss because he used what we kind of think of as the mother of all news dump days to drop it. christmas eve. that s the evening that trump chose to make the unusual announcement that he says he will dissolve the foundation to avoid any appearance of conflict, although he s happy that the foundation has run for essentially no cost for decades with 100% of the money going to charity and we can tell you tonight that percent figure is false. it s not true as many who have covered the foundation have shown. they paid that fine for a political donation and admitted to self-dealing. all of that would have been enough to provide a poetically
note, pay the irs a penalty for violating tax law on the issue. then there are the paint also. you may remember these from the campaign. two paintings of donald trump himself, one going six feet tall that donald trump bought using, yes, money from the charitable foundation. on t of all the obvious crassness of using other people s money donated to charity to buy pictures of yourself, at least one has been found decorating a wall at one of trump s commercial properties which tax experts say, duh, you are definitely not allowed to do with a charitable purchase. you don t have to take my word. you don t have to take the washington post s word for it or all the tax experts that have been consulted, all you have to do is take the word of the charity itself, the donald trump foundation. just take their word. we ll show you on the screen in the box here. they basically copped to it in the new tax filings. the irs tells you just check here if you engaged in self-dealing.
yes, money from the charitable foundation. on top of all the obvious crassness of using other people s money donated to charity to buy pictures of yourself, at least one has been found decorating a wall at one of trump s commercial properties which tax experts say, duh, you are definitely not allowed to do with a charitable purchase. you don t have to take my word. you don t have to take the washington post s word for it or all the tax experts that have been consulted, all you have to do is take the word of the charity itself, the donald trump foundation. just take their word. we ll show you on the screen in the box here. they basically copped to it in the new tax filings. the irs tells you just check here if you engaged in self-dealing. yep. the foundation checked yes. now there s news about this foundation that donald trump apparently hoped you would miss because he used what we kind of think of as the mother of all news dump days to drop it.