cashing in on the relationship it sounds like he was reaching out to ford. we know for at&t he made the call. seemed to be selling his services around town. if that s the american droem, the american dream is in a lot of trouble. speaking of the swamp, these guys are creatures from the black lagoon. they define swampish behave. you can t blame atennessee. they have a $108 billion merger on the lynn. and they were paying michael cohen one one hundred thousandth of that merger for influence that might help the merger go threw. so you can understand which they wanted to hire opheim. and you can understand why michael cohen wanted to take that lobbying money. but he didn t register as a lobbyist. there might be other ways he violated campaign finance rules. now that s not the biggest thing in the world. but it gives mueller leverage
cohen one one hundred thousandth of that merger for influence that might help the merger go threw. so you can understand which they wanted to hire opheim. and you can understand why michael cohen wanted to take that lobbying money. but he didn t register as a lobbyist. there might be other ways he violated campaign finance rules. now that s not the biggest thing in the world. but it gives mueller leverage more loench him. it gives mueller something else to push him for information on other parts of his relationship with trump. so even though this is not necessarily on its face criminal behavior it stinks a lot. and it might indicate that mueller has other information. so jill, take novartis out of it and novartis worried about health care reform abat&t
continue to make their voices heard. i thought after sandy hook we could get close the loopholes on background checks. if anything would allow that to happen, sandy hook would? i thought sandy hook because you had six-year-olds, 20 six-year-olds. but now we ve seen this rash, las vegas, now this. i was a co-sponsor of dianne feinstein s assault weapons ban. what does it takes to have something change? is it a question of nra lobbying money? the beliefs of the gun culture in america? i would ask my colleagues to just, you know, take a moment to think about this and think about closing loopholes. that s not going to stop every
sugar subsidies. want to play that for you. i mentioned the 25 programs that i put out today that i would eliminate them. among them are corporate welfare like sugar subsidies. let s take that as an example. sugar subsidies. sugar farmers farm under roughly 0.2% of the farmland in america, and yet they give 40% of the lobbying money. that sort of corporate welfare is why we re bankrupting our kids and grandkids. i would end those subsidies to pay for defending this nation. jon: when he first brought that up, i thought it was curious. you know, why out of all of the government programs and maybe waste that s out there, why pick on sugar subsidies? it really is a shot at marco rubio, isn t it? that s exactly it, jon. look, ted cruz is thinking ahead. now, he s hoping, obviously, that trump and carson fade, because he s in a good position to inherit some or maybe a lot of that support. who will be his main opponent?
vote or you line up the conservatives are a little bit more difficult. so anything cruz can do to rip into rubio s support there will help him. jon: there was another moment on stage the other night when he did that without mentioning senator rubio by name. want to play that for you here. you know, i mentioned the 25 programs that i put out today, that i would eliminate them. among them are corporate welfare like sugar subsidies. let s take that for example. sugar farmers farm roughly 0.2% of farmland in america, and yet they give 40% of the lobbying money. that sort of corporate welfare is why we re bankrupting our kids and grandkids. i would end those subsidies to pay for defending this nation. jon: lynn, if you are a florida senator and you have voted for sugar subsidies in the past, does that make you a target? well, it makes you those sugar subsidies are more than just helping florida.