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Transcripts for CNN New Day 20150318 10:11:00

congressman aaron schock who is stepping down as allegations of lavish spending come to light. showing he may have benefitted from donor projects and may have received questionable mileage reimbursements. his downton abbey inspired redesign of his office. last year the church cleared the way for ministers to preside at gay weddings with approval from their congregation in states where the unions are legal. the church s new marriage definition will take effect in june. this is a sea change. it is it sure is. major. it s a major piece of news there. all right. we have been telling you about the former airman who was an air force mechanic from new jersey who was busted trying to travel to syria through turkey becoming the first u.s. military veteran charged with trying to join isis. is this the beginning of a new

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello 20150318 13:37:00

looking forward to seeing the q and a. thanks so much for joining us. thank you so much brianna. have a great day. you, too. a once ridinges rising star in the republican party is stepping down. illinois congressman aaron schock is stepping down amid a growing scandal of questionable spending. among the accusations against schock using taxpayer money to fund lavish trips, travel that he regular documents on his instagram account. he came under fire that he decorated his office like downton abbey. that s right, the tv show. the cost was $40,000 which he says he paid back. the biggest spending issue, it has to do with mileage reimbursements for a car that was paid for by his campaign account, namely that he received reimbursements for tens of thousands of miles that it appears he didn t drive.

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20150318 03:09:00

before he resigned. explain what your reporting showed about the mileage reimbursement he got on his personal car. because it is pretty damning stuff. we ve been reporting for about six weeks about many things but specifically the mileage reimbursements. he had a high rate of getting reimbursed from the government and from his campaign accounts for miles he drove. we submitted a freedom of information act request with the state of illinois for all vehicle records and we found when he sold the car that he was driving between 2010 and 2014, it only had 80,000 mile ss on it. he claimed that he had driven about 170,000 miles on it. even if he drove it for exclusively campaign use it would be far less than he submitted. answer i got was not any explanation initially about the reimbursements but the message that he would be resigning effective march 31st. since then, have there been any explanations?

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin 20150317 19:03:00

elections last year. he decided to decorate the office in bright red colors, a downton abbey themed office. it first drew the attention of the washington post style section. they came to do a profile of his office. then i talked to him that week and i asked him, you know, is he using public money for this? he said no he s not, he plans to pay for it himself. he said haters are going to hate. that s what he told me that day. that s really what he said? he said this was not a serious thing. then it opened the door into serious questions being asked about his finances and that became a drip drip drip. politico did much of this reporting and recently was raising questions about the mileage reimbursements he was getting on his vehicle. was he double dipping? that story just came yesterday. he is resignation came today. all right, drew. jeff says the congressman said it was his personal expenses going into his office. i know you re the kind of guy who asks a lot of tough questions

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