says this morning the white house is now drawing up demands to have germany, japan and eventually any other country hosting u.s. troops to pay the full price of american soldiers deployed on their soil plus 50 pk50% or more for hosting them. the report says that in some cases, nations hosting american forces could be asked to pay up to 6 times as much as they do now under the formula. dav david, this is once again just shows the complete ignorance and shortsightedness, i hate to say this, of donald trump just not understanding that we want the troops there, not for their benefit. i hate i hate to reveal this secret, we want the the troops there for our benefit. president trump seems to have this idea that we should have user fees for our military and as you say, they re deployed to
sentencing white collar criminals. paul manafort got 20 years less than he potentially could have received yesterday from a federal judge. we ve got new reaction as we do hit the top of the hour here. to that first bout of prison time for paul manafort, less than four years for president trump s former campaign trarm, who wass if who wass iffin and a and a half to 27 years but t.s. ellis called that excessive and declined the 69-year-old manafort has lived an otherwise blameless life. manafort did not apologize, nor did he express remorse and said, quote, i have felt punishment in these proceedings. the judge also ordered him to pay $25 million in restitution
could have made a banner and held it up that said, mr. trump, please pardon my client. i talked about the lying of the special counsel that was bizarre. that scene was bizarre. what do you make of this politically? it want jusn t just manafort lawyer to said he wasn t guilty of collusion, it was the judge himself. i thought one of the unusual el m elements about the way stated it that he was not being sentenced onning in having any do with collusion. the judge said i think you re trying to turn the screws on
trump promised to reverse trade policies that he said allowed the rest of the world to play americans for suckers. result, the commerce department announced wednesday that the overall u.s. trade def sis. trum promised on twitter that there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. result, it is unlikely to have and sometimes we forget the policies that he pushed for the hardest, the things that he promised. on health care he said people were going to get better health care, cheaper health care, more accessible health care. hasn t done a thing but make it harder for americans to get health care. he said he was going to balance a budget. we ve got the largest debt ever. and then you go down the lawn
that s part of the reason why he wouldn t be here if it weren t for the trump campaign and the swoun s probably. you write in part this i ve got the perfect slogan for president trump s reelection came pain, promises made, promises not kept, but i m voters my voters are too stupid to notice. let s take stock. trump promised to build a wall along the 2,000-mile southern border. result, not a single mile of trump s wall has been built.