these first four, all of them are still in the cabinet which is somewhat remarkable. you mentioned zinke. $139,000 on doors. important to note the interior department says he didn t know about it. let s start to his left, insp t inspector general report showed mismanagement at the veterans administration. plus don t forget last year he used taxpayer dollars to go to europe, his wife went with him and his chief of staff doctors an e-mail trying to cover it up. ben carson, $31,000 dining set purchase for his office at hud. that order was canceled. and then we have scott pruitt, the man the epa administrator who flies first class a lot and says he must do so because people are taunting him if he flies in coach. let s go to people we
new revelations this morning in connection with the deadly warehouse fire in oakland, california which claimed the lives of 36 people. in an exclusive interview, the oakland fire chief tells cnn she does not know the last time or if the building was ever insp t inspected by her department. she says the fire inspection teams have been hampered by budget cuts. the team is still combing through the records, but the ghost ship which sat vacant for years may not have been in the city s database. the mayor announcing a task force to assess fire safety in oakland to make sure lessons are learned from the tragedy. fire ravaged gatlinburg,
actually assembled into a bomb. you can see the scene. this was in flagstaff, arizona, yesterday. this is actually about two hours away from sheriff arpaio s office. so the device, or the package never actually made it to its office. it was flagged by postal insp t inspect inspectors, who took a look at it and decided they needed to take steps to at least try to disarm it and make sure there weren t any problems with it. at this hour, i have to say, sheriff arpaio is holding a news conference at his office in arizona. and we hope to hear from him momentarily on all of these issues. his department is not opening mail at this time. they re going back through the mail, in fact, to try to make sure there is nothing suspicious that made it through. so that s the story. nothing bad happened. this is nothing new for sheriff arpaio. he s had something like nine different threats since 2011,
syria now. i m not defending radical jihadists. nor am i naive to their intentions or beliefs. sitting members of congress, people in important positions of power, who are point fingers at individuals working in the government making allegations or spreading innuendo about them without any direct evidence. they re dragging people s names through the mud. these are the five members of congress who we re talking about. michele bachmann, thomas rooney and lynn west moreland. over the weekendhey got a new and powerful ally it seems, newt gingrich. he refers to congresswoman bachmann and the others as the national security five. he blames american elites for being blinded by political correctness. the level of self-deception necessary to misunderstand the muslim brotherhood, gingrich writes, verges on psychosis. asking difficult questions designed to make america safer. asking the difficult questions. remember that phrase. he says critics of the five represent the kind of willful