this is what they said, obama awarded to entertainers that are out of place to recognize excellence, blah, blah, blah. well, okay, so if that s the case, right wing washington times, where the hell is your editorial about donald trump doing exactly the same thing? this is the hypocrisy idea spice. i don t give a damn who a president awards a presidential medal of freedom to. it has no bearing on my life. it has no bearing on 328 million americans lives. are we going to sit around and use the nation s highest civilian award and reward political donors and not actually give it to people that should get it? i can think of a lot of people, living and dead, that haven t been awarded this. lots of journalists who by the way have been killed on the line of duty, things like that. right. that s the sort of thing i think it s worthy of. i m not the president. you tell me if we can play going out the door the alan page sound bite. maybe when donald trump finds out what alan page said on o
is i was trying to hang onto the microphone so i could continue to ask the president questions. obviously i didn t put my hands on her or touch her as they re alleging and it s just unfortunate that the white house is saying this. you know, we all try to be professionals over there. i think i handled myself professionally. jennifer, you wrote you think that jim acosta should sue donald trump. absolutely. you think americans should shun his press soekt. what he did is a violation of the first amendment. you do not throw reporters out based upon the content of their reporting. that is a classic case of content discrimination and a first amendment violation. there s an existing lawsuit brought by a group of writers not because they personally have experienced it but because of what he says, it acts as a chilling factor for them. it intimidates them. that is his game. this is unconstitutional. it s inappropriate. as far as sarah huckabee sanders
i d like to ask the military aide to join us on stage. for the final time as president, i am pleased to award our nation s highest civilian honor. the presidential medal of freedom. [ applause ] i think by now it s abundantly clear that president obama and his successor have literally nothing in common. obama loved awarding the presidential medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor, and bestowed it upon some of the most well-known and beloved americans from every walk of civic life. in 2016 alone he gave the medal to michael jordan, to diana ross, and to robert deniro among more than a dozen others. and who could forget the president surprised his vice president and bestest pal, joe biden, with the other. donald trump announced his first recipients yesterday.
is now being alleged of fraud including the wall street journal. he s got other issues besides the fact that he s already on the record for donald trump s exoneration. that s probably why he was given the job. i ll refer both of you. is it legal to skip over the deputy attorney general and just appoint someone else in either of your view? i think george said it best. it s not. it s not legal. it is not legal. it s not constitutional. not constitutional. he was not he did not resign so we re going to talk about the vacancies act. if we were talking about the vacancies act, you go in the line of succession unless you ve been approved for a position by the united states senate. he s none of these. there s no argument whatsoever. he essentially picked someone out of the crowd, his crowd, his political crowd. you, attorney general. you can t do that. if anyone could do that, why would you have a confirmation process for the united states senate? right. right. this was just
work we were doing and trying to understand the relationship between the president and deutsche bank. it s one of the issues we will be working on. we re not simply focused on the president. a lot of people think i will have the opportunity to subpoena his tax returns. that comes out of ways and means. we are responsible for looking at sanctions, the treasurer and his responsibility and implementing those sanctions and also again looking at money laundering and we ll do some of that along with the other big issues that we re dealing with in the financial services committee. okay. so you re clarifying that it s ways and means that would be taking a lead on the tax returns. that s right. okay. let s talk about some of your colleagues characterizations because it isn t just donald trump. this is jeff hensarling on cnbc talking about you.