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tenuous relations. rell relations are worse. this is not a surprise. we anticipated that russia would respond in kind and the official twitter account for the u.s. embassy asked members which consulate should be shut down in response to president trump s decision to expel russians. and they were told that 58 diplomats in moscow, two general consulate officials and that is 60 in total have been order to leave russia by april 5th. sergey lavrov said that we warned you this would happen. america kicked out 60 russians and so the russians are kicking out 60 americans. america shut down the russian consulate in seattle and the kremlin is doing the same in st. petersburg and this is part of the fallout over the poisoning of the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter right here in the u.k. they are both recovering and we ve seen a unified
the fact is, though, that nauer could not say what in fact the president said to putin and all of the reporting has been not contradicted by the white house that the president did not raise that issue of this attack in the u.k. on the call. also today at the state department briefing was tough, the toughest language we ve heard yet from the administration on russia s role in syria. so, it s really a hard line coming against russia from the state department and she says that this may not well be the end of it. that there could be further actions because of these expulsions that have been ordered today and the closing, of course, of a very important consulate in st. petersburg. andrea mitchell joining us, chief foreign affairs correspondent host of the mitchell report on msnbc. thank you very much. the president is facing more legal woes, but this has nothing to do with the porn star or play mate. two attorneys general from washington, d.c. and maryland say president trump is viola
in terms of the finances of this hotel, of this organization? how could this case moving forward give us more insight into that? well, this case will let us know something about donald trump s finances and it will certainly let us know about the finances of the trump post office hotel. we believe it will show that donald trump is not only receiving payments from foreign governments, but also this is already a matter of public record the lease pursuant to which he has the trump post office hotel says specifically that no federal official can receive any benefit from it. trump has flouted the plain language of that lease, and this lawsuit will, i hope, force him to abide by the law. lastly here, what s the remedy you are seeking? if you were to win this case, what would that mean for marylanders for those in the district of columbia and for the
information. they want access to the trump organization s books to see whether there s other things that they ve missed, but just citing what s already been in the press they found those few examples. a great line in that from the judge there about paula page living large at the trump hotel. david farenthold, thank you very much. he s with the washington post. for more i want to bring one of the men suing the president, maryland attorney general brian frosh. let me ask you about the term emoluments. one of the big issues here is pinning down what exactly they are, what exactly this means. how big a deal is that definitional question going forward? well, it s going to be the next subject the judge takes up. we think it s very clear that president trump is violating the emoluments clauses. the foreign emoluments clause says he can t receive any present ee monument of any kind, it s very broad, from a foreign state. he s getting payments from china and india and afghanistan,