the message, voters care. but the actual investigative work or much of it is supposed to be done by the house oversight committee, whose chairman, congressman jason chaffetz, republican of utah, has somewhat bewilderingly announced he may be leaving congress before his term is up and not running for re-election. he has shown little appetite for any real oversight of this administration. nevertheless, chairman chaffetz has called on the trump organization to give more details about its system for identifying and donating profits to the treasury department that come from foreign government officials who make payments to the president s businesses. that might run afoul of the constitution. guess what? remember the house intelligence investigation on russia, which congressman devin nunes appeared to essentially try to sabotage and then had to recuse himself? it s back on track. so says its ranking member, congressman adam schiff. the committee issuing letters inviting major officials like
the problem on this fight to me also is that the c.r. is the first must-pass. it s the first thing that this unified government, katherine, has to get done. it s not a matter of choice. it s not, oh, we ll pull the bill. this is the first test of can you do it? which is why it s particularly bizarre that they re making promises about repealing obamacare because, you know, like they had a lot of time before now to try to get that done, and they couldn t get their ducks in a row. so why would you think they could walk and chew gum now? right, and david jolly said this to me last night. you usually clear the decks in the run-up to a c.r. because you don t want to start beefs on other stuff that will poison the well on the c.r. this is must pass legislation. they have to keep the lights on. i guess you could imagine trump claiming it as a victory if there s a government shutdown because, hey, we hate everybody in government anyway. no. i don t think the voters are going to buy th
well on the c.r. this is must pass legislation. they have to keep the lights on. i guess you could imagine trump claiming it as a victory if there s a government shutdown because, hey, we hate everybody in government anyway. no. i don t think the voters are going to buy that. so why crowd it, you know, with these other initiatives? next week. strap in. thanks for joining us. thank you. house investigation into the trump campaign s russia ties officially back on. details next. and still to come, the mysterious shell companies putting down millions of dollars to buy trump properties since he was elected president, an incredible new report today from usa today.
that might run afoul of the constitution. guess what? remember the house intelligence investigation on russia, which congressman devin nunes appeared to essentially try to sabotage and then had to recuse himself? it s back on track. so says its ranking member, congressman adam schiff. the committee issuing letters inviting major officials like the fbi director, the national security adviser, the former acting attorney general sally yates. remember her? who was fired by the trump white house. to testify. hearings will begin as early as may 2nd. but if you re looking for potential conflicts of interest for the president of the united states, the most obvious place is in some ways hiding in plain sight. the white house is not being very forthcoming. luckily, someone did some digging. that s next. instant. but with lightning fast shifts and dynamic track-tuned suspension, what the road demands, the gs delivers. experience high performance through high technology, in the lexus gs 350 and gs