at this moment you are looking at the senate intel hearing room where moments from now the now director of national intelligence will testify. we re going to bring that to you live when it begins, but now i want to talk money, power, politics. our focus today is on the eric trump foundation. the foundation has raised more than $11 million for st. jude s children s research hospital over ten years, mostly through an annual golf invitational at his father s westchester golf course. for those ten years eric trump has told donors because he gets the golf course free of charge, virtually every dollar goes to children s medical research. the problem, that may not be exactly correct, according to forbes. i want to bring back my panel to unpack all of this. steve schmidt and mike lupica. mike, i want to start with you. you ve done these charity tournaments before. eric trump invites people to come, they pay money, they play golf there, and then the money
but officials point out harper rejected the package of revenue enhancement of spending cuts which would have avoided the sequester cuts which itself took a big chunk out of the funding for medical research. harper says higher taxes was not the answer to the problem. wendell goler, in beautiful hawaii. and obamacare creating new heat among critics and supporters. the wall street journal says they may establish a federal bureaucracy dedicated to the big tech projects. now, in order to avoid the disastrous results of healthcare.gov, here is the question, do we need more government? hey, jamie, how are you? good, how are you? i m well, to look at first blush, it sounds counterintuitive. tell us about this new plan.
continue to object to the path to citizenship he says is necessary to draw 13 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows. and he will focus a good deal of effort on implementing the affordable care act, trying to make sure people who enrolled in the exchanges actually find they have insurance the first time they go to see a doctor. the last thing he wants is a repeat of the disastrous rollout of the healthcare.gov website. the republicans are determined not to help him and feel the law is fatally flawed and should be repealed. there is a republican push with some democratic support to stop using money for political conventions and spend it, instead, on children s medical research. and if we do, it just might inspire us to come together and do what the american people sent us here to do. jobs, health care, energy, education, and innovation are all areas in which the house has started work that washington needs to finish this year. the white house has not taken a position on harpe