emoluments and the d.c. hotel? very much. we will look at the emoluments and d.c. hotel. the votes were still being counted when the president began to push back on investigations. are you offering a my way or the highway to the democrats. if they start investigating you, you can play that game and investigate them? better than you. if they do that, this is a war-like posture. the president is trying to fight back calling it presidential harassment. i don t try to stop the president from doing his job. my job, as a member of the congress, is to be a check on the executive branch. you can call it whatever you want. it s me doing my job. this is america. how do you convince people the job you re doing subpoenaing various members of his organization and his orbit, by
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with that? i don t think there s any question that the foreign business interests and questions around who he s talking to and why he s talking to them have entered into why there was a lack of recommendation for jared to get a clearance. and the fact that it was overridden, the fact that career professionals had that decision taken from them and were overridden, should concern all of us. but this isn t donald trump s business that s the conflict any longer, this is one of his advisers. it s kushner s family business. why is that a problem for the president? well, for me as a counterintelligence professional, it s about access to the president. and it doesn t get much closer than the son-in-law of the president. in the weeks and months that followed the president s siding against qatar, relations between the u.s. and qatar began to mend. the two nations signed a memorandum of understanding on fighting terrorism. but the blockade continues to this day. the kushner company did ev
and so what we get to do is say, okay, let s go over to that skyscraper, let s figure out who s inside the building, then let s call up all those companies, let s figure out how much they re paying. what their secretary footage is? what their square footage is. boot over boot measure one end to the other end. did you think when you were going to start looking into trump s conflicts you would basically going to be a vagabond wandering around his properties? no, i did not imagine. it s absurd but this is the way you have to figure out who s paying the president of the united states. dan and his colleagues use their findings, along with bank records and market rates, to reconstruct the rent rules for donald trump s biggest properties. we counted up more than 80 tenants, and of those, 36 of them had very clear ties with the federal government. whether it was that they were contractors or that they were under investigation by the federal government. so right there that s three