with veterans there. he will head to tokyo tomorrow to begin the asia trip. anderson. the white house in the past has seemed to be pleased by the president s past foreign trips, they feel he s benefitted from that. in that sense, in some ways it could possibly distract from a domestic news cycle. is there expectation that will happen this time? obviously this is a very important trip for this president. reporter: you would think, anderson, and the president has performed very well in the past. but leading up to this particular trip he hasn t spent a lot of time talking about it, instead talking about the democrats and hillary clinton and talking about an election that s already taken place, and spent very little time talking about this trip. that could change now he s actually on the trip and meeting with many so of these very important foreign leaders, particularly when it comes to issue of north korea. this is something that the administration ranks as one of
this is what he said in multiple interviews, including with me, is that he s never met president trump. he claimed in a press conference, why he had a press conference in moscow, i m not clear, but reporters were asking him questions, because he was a campaign adviser, that he had been in meetings with donald trump. he then now claims he was using the term meetings in the russian definition of the term meeting meaning he went to i think a rally that the president spoke at. so he was in an auditorium with tens of thousands of other people and calling that being in a meeting with the candidate. that s what i call a meeting too. i went to a meeting with the new york mets this morning, during the game but i was like in the audience. it is equivalent. that s right. well, evidently you a meeting at the gym. i think what s important is we ll speculate who he communicated with, but what we do know from the testimony it appears he s telling the truth.
integrity monitor act of 2013. it was passed by the new jersey legislature and signed by chris christie in march of last year. the idea behind it was simple. congress had just approved an enormous aid package for sandy recovery in billions of dollars of federal money were about to start flowing into all sorts of projects. the fight to get congress to approve that money was hard, very hard. maybe you remember the show that christie himself put on when tea party republicans initially blocked it. there is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims, the house majority and their speaker, john boehner. when congress finally gave in, he gave new jersey a priceless opportunity to rebuild itself the right way. the money had been approved but with, just like any other massive federal spending program, that directs money from washington through state capitals and all the way down to the county and municipal level, just like any of those projects, there was t
wanted to live up to the constitution, to have their freedom and have it protected by our country. so last year we received troubling complaints by groups across the country who were receiving what appear to be inappropriate and unnecessary questions in many cases after more than a year, sometimes two years of inaction about it i.r.s., we went to the inspector general who was here with us today in march of last year point request of our staff and later in a formal letter from mr. jordan, the subcommittee chairman and myself, the i.g. launched a form pal investigation. we knew then that something seemed to be wrong. we knew then that there was smoke. we knew then that in fact
yet this was clearly a calculated decision. mindful that the current president has a solid record on foreign policy. so, romney couldn t resist the chance to score some cheap and tawdry political points, and on 9/11, no less. what makes matters worse is that mitt romney has had no less than four, yes, four, different positions on libya in less than six months. position one was spelled out in march of last year when he said this. i support military action in libya. i support our troops there. so, from position one, romney attacks the president for not being aggressive enough. then less than three weeks later came position two. the president is being too aggressive. in a short op-ed romney said he now supported a specific limited mission as humanitarian. so, he shifts from military actions to humanitarian aid in