all they did was give me a case number. two days before this happened, i was diagnosed with leukaemia. so i didn t pursue it. i should have done. ijust lived on my credit cards at the time, which are now full. you are on your own now. you lost your wife 23 years ago, is it? yes. you have got leukaemia and all of this debt hanging over you. to be honest, when this happened, i have got a big pile of pills there, i almost took them. almost. nationwide told us mike s loss wasn t refunded because, based on the information they had at the time, no error had been made by them. however, since we got in touch with nationwide, mike has been fully reimbursed. jon ironmonger, bbc news.
suckers from their wallets. if this ever gets up and running. i think the idea is that it could be competitive with twitter or facebook, and would benefit from all of trump s dexterity on social media. but the reality is, they don t have a business plan. they have no financial projections. devin nunes family ran a dairy farm. he has never run a media company. but it already has a valuation of over a billion dollars. and donald trump is deeply indebted. he has over a billion dollars in debt hanging over his current real estate and resort holdings. some of that comes due fairly soon. he s personally guaranteed it. he s feeling the squeeze. he selling off other assets. and then lo and behold, he joins up this little, i think, charade to convince people to plop money on his desk. and they have. and he will probably make out from that bookie.
its doors. the whole logic is that donald trump s political and digital mojo is so potent that a number hedge funds and investors have put a bunch of money into this on the idea that they, i think, will ultimately separate a bunch of suckers from their wallets. if this ever gets up and running, i think their idea is that it could be competitive with twitter or facebook and would benefit from all of trump s dexterity on social media. but the reality is they don t have a business plan, they have no financial projections. devin nunes family ran a dairy farm. he has never run a media company. but it already has a valuation of over $1 billion, and donald trump is deeply indebted. he has over $1 billion in debt
national security threat. and just moments ago, republican congressman and trump ally devin nunes will retire from congress in january. wait for it. to be the ceo of trump s new media company. trump media and technology group, tmtt. joining our conversation is tim o brien, senior columnist for bloomberg opinion. ben rhodes is here. so, tim, explain what you re reporting and this nexus with the national security threat and more debt on and sort of financial ties and obligations to potential foreign investors. well, you know, nicole, it s worth remembering in the context of all this that when trump left office in 2020, unwillingly, he had over probably a billion dollars or so in debt hanging over a real estate and resort portfolio that had been battered by the pandemic. and he s got a lot of debt coming due soon and he began scrambling for cash. he recently sold off his hotel
the number has gone down but it s not necessarily because we are doing a whole lot better. it s because of narcan. not quite as many are dying. there are just as many people involved with this scourge, these opioids and other drugs. our southern border is still a sieve. we have too many people coming across our southern border and that something we ought to be able to work on in a bipartisan manner and this committee to do something about that and our asylum laws which need to be reformed. we have a $22 trillion debt hanging over our head. the reason i mention these issues, the this committee has jurisdiction over these things and hasn t been doing a thing because we ve been spending all of our time on impeachment in one form or another. i have a bill, balanced budget amendment, moving in the right direction of doing something about that. those are in our jurisdiction. infrastructure, not in our jurisdiction but the united states congress ought to