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it was 2019 and newly elected minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar responded to a tweet about the role of israel in american politics in six words. it s all about the benjamins, baby. it was a reference to a 1997 puff ddy song it s all about the benjamins and the subtext was that donor money was responsible for the outsized role that supporting israel plays in u.s. politics. the tweet played into age-old anti-celtic stereotypes about jewish people using money to control political leaders. now four years later kevin mccarthy and the republican house are using that tweet as justification for their latest act of retribution. today house republicans voted along party lines to strip congresswoman omar of her committee assignment on the house foreign affairs committee. the resolution specifically cited that 4-year-old tweet as a
lucas tomlinson live at the white house. lucas, thank you. jon: that leader of the national black lives matter nonprofit group is accused of stealing more than $10 million in donations. senior national correspondent william has that story. so this accusation that black lives matter, national foundation has been missed using donor money is now out in the open it s not coming from the media. prominent members within blm and qc parent organization blm global network foundation, and board member bowers of enriching himself on donations. according to the lawsuit, this is a case of a rogue administrator, a middleman who was hired to collect donations and account for expenditures of the blm movement. however, after siphoning more than $10 million in fees from blm donors mr. bauer decided he could not let go of his personal piggy bank.
tried to build up the somali national forces, with lots of donor money, in the tens of millions of hundreds of millions of dollars, which have gone into building the somali national army the somali police force, which has been training in multiple countries, but the western countries, including the united kingdom and the united states, turkey, there have been multiple deployments of externalforces, i have spoken about the african union security forces in their various iterations, but by and large comedy somali security forces, including the national army, remain plagued by corruption, it is a conglomeration of essentially planned malicious but often resent each other and are not necessarily aligned with mogadishu. and unfortunately we have had several years of really bad governance in somalia, which has, like in afghanistan, really weakened
990s were before it happened. something being weaponized against us that people don t know and don t care about. it is such a trip to hear the word term 990s. it s like triggering. 990 is basically how you spend your money and raise money. experts say family members should not receive donor money unless they re reviewed and independent board. that didn t happen here. accountability, they had 50,000 volunteers, one paid employee and didn t disclose donors. bill: in l.a. today. dana: secretary of homeland security mayorkas insisting the border will not be open when title 42 is lifted in five days. many in washington are not buying that especially lawmakers who represent border states. when i was on the border last about a week and a half or so ago they were capturing about stopping about half the amount of people and the