It. Doug is live from Reagan National airport in washington with more. Of all the troubles that have plagued the gsa since its inception after 9 11 and is likely to hit as hard as this. Is internal study found groups of testers who go through screening masked as passengers carrying contraband including fake explosives and guns got through security 67 out of 70 times announcing to a failure rate of 95 almost total failure. With an annual budget of 7 billion a Year American taxpayers can rightly consider the gsa to be wasting a lot of money. Not much better than was before 9 11 because this is meant to be a deterrent. Is not the great wall of china. It wont stop the next 911. After this was leaked to the press secretary of Homeland Security j johnson announced several changes. He is reassigning the acting administrator to a new job, to immediately confirm the psa administrative nominee, assigned to the new job. Announced a 6 point plan of changes which will be taking effect immediately i
Are now friends, they were once rivals, the president himself a former casino mogul. Just last week, he appeareds a fundraiser, the one that President Trump didnt attend. How President Trump handpicked him to be the finance chairman. To steer the party through what would likely be the mid term elections, followed up by a video recording of President Trump thanking him for his work. That is the sense of the political dynamic at work. Given the latest development. At this point, any sense that white house will comment further on this issue . We asked for a comment. Asked if a comment will be coming. We havent heard back. I suspect that briefest of statements from mcdaniel is all we hear from republicans in washington to try to minimize the damage. People to make the statement, she said nothing about the millions steve wynn has doit naed to republican causes. And nothing about the partern of abuse accounted in the wall street journal reporting. The president faced charges of sexual miscon
$150,000 in current dollar currency. so he was getting another salary from a rich friend. it was an enormous controversy at the time, as you can see from that a nightly news clip. fordyce was even on track to become chief justice on the supreme court before his career was derailed by a number of ethics scandals. most damning was when he agreed to the 20,000 legal retainer for life to provide unspecified counsel to financier lewis wilson. at the time, wilson was already under investigation for security fraud. he was ultimately convicted a year later and served nine months in prison. again, this was, correctly, a huge deal. you can t have a justice sitting on the supreme court, even though he did not violate any laws, as the report indicated, be dependent on the largess of some rich buddy.
Like this rock the court before. it is not totally unprecedented. would supreme court justice abe fordyce. it was a long time ago, we might not remember. he was appointed to the court by old bj in 1965 and he did not last long. today and fordyce was the first supreme court justice in american history to resign under attack. he insisted he had done nothing wrong, and there was no public evidence he had violated any law. but the criticism of his private financial dealings was so intense he sent president nixon a letter of resignation, and the president accepted it in a curt reply of just one sentence, 16 words. he admitted to a deal with the foundation set up by lewis wilson, a stock manipulator who is now in jail. the deal was to pay $25,000 a year for life, then to pay it to his wife if he died. he was friends with that jailed stock manipulator, this was the family foundation. at $20,000 a year was about
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