fact these people went ahead and paid it themselves. they simply put it all on their government credit card so their spouses wouldn t see what they were charging. embarrassing to say the least. alisyn. it sure is barbara, thanks so much for that. let s talk more about it. we want to bring in senator tim kane democrat from virginia on the senate foreign relations and armed services committee. senator, thanks so much for being on new day. absolutely. what about these credit cards being used for gambling and, i don t know porn, prostitutes adult entertainment? what s going on? the reports are troubling and you ve got to get to the bottom of them. the thing we re focusing up here today now is today is the end of a nine-month war declared by a president that s too bad. we just lost his satellite feed. we ll get back to senator tim kane as soon as we can. let s get to michaela right now. i ll carry on with some other headlines here. voters are heading to the polls in the unit
oh we re just some people from hope arkansas just trying to make a difference in america. you are big time elite players in the political realm. you cannot act as if somehow you re a victim when people are asking legitimate questions. i think it only makes people dig deeper when they act like they re so innocent. bill clinton s not naive. he knows exactly what he was doing when he took the cash. he knows where it came from. he knows why people are asking the questions. he s like well i m just trying to make a living and make a difference and take money from rich people and give to the poor. i don t think people are going to buy it. john. yeah look i mean hypocrisy s the unforgivable sin in politics. when the clintons try to take hair high road and hillary opens the campaign talking about citizens united that sets a high bar. saying we never promised to be ethical or open or transparent about this kind of stuff. until they actually present a real contrast taking on crony
hasn t sort of coopted that the state department can speak independently about things. i m sure it will be in an ad you re right. you re about to make history with the president of these united states. president barack obama has been to 49 of the 50 he s about to touch them all. south dakota is his last one. you re on this trip. for bill clinton who we saw a moment ago i was covering the white house in those days nebraska was his last democratic president, red state the last one, democratic president this time red state last time. george w. bush skipped vermont. i did a piece on will he ever get to vermont, he didn t. is this just checking the box? or what s the point? it kind of is to some extent. president obama made clear to his team even last year as they were planning for 2015 i m getting to every state. let s make sure it happens. it s important that i m every place and see all of my constituents around the country. but south dakota is a tough one. it was already trending rep
proposal before it and there hasn t even been committee action. the only committee action taken on this was a resolution i introduced in september, did get a vote in the senate foreign relations committee in december. but then it expired when the congress adjourned. and in the new congress we haven t taken it up. we are not supposed to be at war in a declared war on the say so of a president without a congressional vote. and this is a very dangerous thing. very disrespectful of the troops we re asking to risk their lives that congress won t even do the job to debate about whether the mission is worth it. well that s a great point in terms of what it does to the troops morale. however, is this the president s fault for acting and going around congress? or is this congress s fault for not being able to stand on the convictions of this. i put blame on more shoulders but more on congress s shoulders. the president started this bombing campaign on august 8th. he had congressional leader
issue. it s going to be about the optics of the transparency right? yeah. and you don t make mistakes this big. i mean this is not some mom and pop foundation which he s trying to say, well we did it right last time and we messed up this time. we weren t hiding anything. the biggest threat to hillary clinton s campaign is people not trusting her and not feeling like she s been honest and open and transparent on these issues. and when you say, oh it was an accident we didn t mean to and people make mistakes and, you know we re fixing it. i don t think people buy it when it looks like you re trying to limit the amount of knowledge that said you ve got to find something that sticks. you can t just keep asking the questions and not like any of the answers. at some point you have to have some proof. that s right. if you ve worked in politics never underestimate the power of human error. bill clinton can attest to that i agree. exactly. but look the problem really is with the for