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in perspective, if you took george w. bush and barack obama in their combined terms they built 684 miles of wall. barack obama actually completed 130 miles of wall in his first year of his first term. right. and donald trump is on mile zero. zero. he has nothing to show for this promise of building a wall regardless of who pays for it. the reason why is, elise, he couldn t get the republicans to give him a dime. he turned $21 billion down. including moscow mitch. by the way, our crack staff has figured out how many rubles were taken away from moscow mitch and he stands to lose 4 billion 90
and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. this russia thing, well then the day after comey s firing, the president hosted russian diplomats in the oval office and told the russian visitors, quote, i faced great pressure because of russia. that s taken off. so why did trump want the world, including moscow, to go he was trying to kill the probe into russia s 2016 mischief? i want to follow up with you, michael, in this. that s what grabbed me in the story, the constant effort by trump to tell the world, anybody listening, hey, i wanted to stop the russia investigation. why did he want anybody did he want russia to know he was stopping the russia investigation? that s what it smells like. that was part of the investigation. we learned of this is that why the fbi jumped on him? they think why is he blasting out the news that this was for russia? correct. was the president trying to
he spearheaded the prosecution of the first ceo to be tried under the oxley. they lied, they cooked the books and filed false financial statements with the sec. he has brought experience in private practice and department of justice but no experience in the f.b.i., which some might consider to be a liability. his law firm of king and spalding has law offices all over the world, including moscow, which will no doubt come up in the confirmation hearing yet to be set. bill: thank you, the ground work from the white house. thank you, doug. shannon. shannon: ahead of that hearing tomorrow with comey senate intelligence committee will hear other folks here today on the hill. set to begin in under an hour.
united states abroad, including moscow. because the more the ambassador talks to people in his country of residence, the better job he does. did he have similar meetings with clinton campaign officials? because i don t know of any. well, if you look at some people connected with hillary clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind, but there were no meetings about electoral process. there was in no way it should be perceived as interference in the electoral process. do you believe him when he says there was no interference in the electoral process or the election process? there s 17 american intelligence agencies. they rarely agree on anything. they did not agree, for example, on whether iraq had weapons of