support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in congress or serve on committee. the people of the fifth elected me to serve their interests. i m sure we agree on that. fraction in the house democratic caucus will be on full display on the house floor tomorrow. bill: thank you, mike emmanuel. sandra: william barr said he won t be recusing himself from the russia investigation. james comey urging full transparency writing an op-ed in today s washington post . a straightforward report of what facts have been learned and judgment exercised may be the only way to advance the public interest. catherine herridge is live in washington for us. good morning. the former f.b.i. director is making the case that extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary transparency. writing in the washington post james comey says the greatest degree of transparency as possible and warrants in the
went to great lengths to avoid the sunlight of disclosure. ainsley: that s the group that filed this complaint yesterday with the fec. the reason to believe for this is you have the political action committee. and he had two of those under his name. he established these two. and it was $885,000 in these pacs that was moved over to private companies, which he also controlled. steve: all about disclosure. in pacs you have to disclose money but then when it s a private company money knows where the money goes. brian: went to a brand new company called congress llc. exempt from reporting all of his expenditures over $200. this is way over $200. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez was asked about that and she diverted. we should be talking about taxes, taxes, taxes and his bank account, his bank account, his bank account. his financial statements statements statements because that s where i think
brian: nice first two months. we will see how this goes. 8 mint8 minutes after the top of the hour. news yesterday revolving around the president and democratic controlled house jerry nadler chairman of the judiciary made clear that he wants to do his own mueller probe, no longer content to wait. he has filed a blizzard of requests, 80-plus document requests. over dozens of people associated with trump. some actually related to him on areas of obstruction of justice, public corruption and abuses of power. steve: one thing but the mueller probe the scope of the investigation was focused. this is the phishing expedition because he is casting the net as wide as he possibly can targeting 81 entities and corporations and people. but he has got a really good reason and here it is. listen to this. we are simply exercising our oversight jurisdiction and he is not he doesn t understand or he is not willing to concede to congress that we have an
off the declaration. pick from the pile of money you have now. that s been done before. my understanding is president bush pulled one of these declarations. it has never been used in this way. senator paul made a point earlier i heard where congress voted for a certain amount of money and then a president coming in and saying i understand that but i want to do something differently. he has authorities to be able to use existing congressional authorized funds rather than going to the emergency. and the emergency just supplements what he is planning to use, some of the for tour funds and dod funds. let s use more of those and fund the border priorities and get moving on protecting the southern border. bill: here is the president yesterday making his case. president trump: we fight wars 6,000 miles away. we spend billions of dollars but we don t control our own border. hard working people pay the price for lack of border patrol and security. bill: let s see where the
and what the president will do today is convene a task force. i think i will being the co-chair with my partners at the department of defense and other departments of the government. and we will bring out best medicine, the best social science in addition to going to the congress and asking for grants and moneys to give to our states and locations so they can help us in this fight. ainsley: mr. secretaries, is there anything we can do? because when you hear these numbers. these are individuals that have fought or our country. sacrificed so much. these are god s children. these are lives. when you know that someone is at the depths of despair, is there anything we can do as a public? i think there is i will give you an example. i was in alaska a few months ago and i went to see the alaska federation of natives. over half of the veterans in the state of alaska are outside of the department of veterans affairs. and i asked the afn to double the number of veterans tribal