schmitz was a policy, foreign policy adviser, to the campaign. he s seated here at the table with then-candidate trump in march, 2016. now he met with officials at the fbi, state department, and the intelligence community about a trusted source that discovered the emails. officials briefly interviewed schmitz, but the emails were never verified. additionally, a cybersecurity expert who saw the material on the dark web told cnn that they appeared to be fake. cnn tried to contact schmitz with questions, but he declined to comment. and here to discuss all of this, political reporter and co-author of playbook, daniel lit man. and contributor and writer for the new yorker, adam intiss. fired chief strategist steve bannon said that members of the trump campaign kept getting approached by outsiders suggesting ways to get the emails. this reporting would support the
trumpers. the trump campaign was desperate to show they had foreign policy reporters and assessmembled the board to provide cover that front. at least this is somebody who comes with the credentials and background, someone who knew how to play within the government parameters. daniel, officials at the study, the inspector general, they briefly interviewed schmitz. i want to know what does this mean when it comes to the russia investigation? will mueller move to question schmitz in the near future, or is this sort of another piece of a puzzle showing how the campaign was working? schmitz might be pressed to be interviewed, but robert mueller is looking at different stands. it might be hard to interview someone on the prev periphery. this doesn t tie into russia that much. remember, trump himself said on the campaign trail, russia, if you can find the 30,000 emails,
i can tell you, $1,500 does not sound out of whack with me as respects to the market up there. that s why the ethics department of epa agreed with scott pruitt. that it was not there was not an impropriety there. jack, i there are people all over the district now throwing shoes and socks at the television thinking that if you know where there s a $1,500-a-night condo or room or a month, post it to your twitter account do. that right after. i can say this if there are other people who go to represent that and find it s $2,500, you ve got a problem. if that rents to other people for about $1,500, that s they also aren t head of the epa. brent, your reaction to what jack says there. his point is, let the inspector general deal with this. you re right obviously about that. i will announce that if that condo place is still vacant, if
that thinks that way. we have a new price tag for president trump s border wall at least according to senate democrats. releasing a report that that wall could cost nearly $70 billion to build. in february the trump administration put the cost at 21 billion. as at candidate mr. trump said it would cost 12 billion. he insisted mexico would pay for it. here s what paul ryan told me when i interviewed him in january. who is going to pay for it? first off, we re going to pay for it, front the money. your follow-up question is is mexico going to pay for the wall. there are a lot of different ways of getting mexico to contribute to doing this. daniel, i don t know whether obviously the democrats have the highest number which i would expect. even if you take the president s number it s pretty steep. yeah, the democratic number basically translates to $200 for every man, woman and child. but i think the broader question
for usa today. lynn sweet with the kaug oi sch times. and daniel lit man. do you have a problem with the trademark? it looks like as her portfolio has grown in the white house, she is edging toward the line of really delving into issues that are going to affect her businesslike china, intellectual property. how about applying for a trademark? i don t think she is directly involved. but when a foreign government receives trademark applications from ivanka trump, that company, are they going to really turn them down? so, that s a real concern about the ethics of that situation. lynn? appearance of impropriety. that is a phrase that should be applied in this case, and she has a big portfolio. it doesn t have to include even though the president is her father, having dinner with the leader of china and hob nobodying with the top chinese officials if the company she just recently left just weeks ago is doing business. you could put more effort into