the plan was illegal, or said in in front and trump did not care it was illegal. i think that was one of the biggest take-aways that eastman himself knew it was illegal and put it in an email, i want you to do a minor constitutional violation. chuck, back to you, we will build our way back to donald trump if we, can and specifically about his lawyer, that lawyer, john eastman, we even saw the email that he wrote to golden globe, saying, you know, having to rudy giuliani, saying you know, having thought about it, i think i do need a pardon here that understands his mind set and understanding he had done something criminal, why else would you need a pardon, what are the legal implications to face him? good questions, peter. first on the pardon, i m not a poker player but i m told people who play poker look for tells if they have a good land or a bad hand and a tell, consciousness of guilt, as you articulated would be asking for a pardon, would be asking for a pardo
he said he was asked about the high price of gas yet again, what steps the administration is considering, and the president, as we ve seen, something of a shift in the white house lately, increasingly raising the temperature on oil companies specifically, the president making the point to reporters just now that the crude oil price is at a point at which gas prices the last time it was at the same level were actually far lower so he is making the argument here as we saw in a letter that he sent to oil companies as well, that they are essentially making a profit on the backs of struggling american consumers. he also talked about in his travel to saudi arabia that we know is coming up in just a few weeks, there has been some suggestion that that trip be about energy prices and the president trying to get the saudis to pump more oil. the president not addressing that today. but of course you remember just last week, he said this was not a trip about energy prices. he did discuss that cont
responsibility. so i tell you that from the beginning. were it the case that the houthis fraudulent claim was accurate, were that true, it s not, but were that true, it doesn t change the fingerprints of the ayatollah, as having put at risk the global energy supply. so pompeo made those remarks while traveling to saudi arabia yesterday. marking one of the strongest condemnations so far by any u.s. official about the attack. the secretary met with crown prince mohamed bin sal man as he called for the coalition of european and arab partners to deter iran from any future attack. pompeo is taking that message to the uae next, as he prepares to meet with leaders there this morning. and amid the fallout over the strikes on the saudi oil facilities, tensions between the united states and iran continue to ratchet up. in fact, president trump took to twitter yesterday, to announce that he had ordered a substantial increase in sanctions against tehran over
because of a visit from saudi crown prince mohamed bin sal mad according to a letter obtained by the washington post. in the letter the hotel s general manager wrote bin sal mad didn t stay at the hotel itself. due o our close industry relationships, we were able to accommodate many of the accompanying travelers. overall, however, little is known about the full extent of trump s business relationship with saudi arabia. we don t know really very much about his efforts to open other properties in saudi arabia. we don t know who would have financed them or if he could restart them. reporter: according to the financial disclosure, trump had 144 registered companies with dealings in more than two dozen countries, eight of them were saudi companies. all of those companies have been dissolved but tonight as cries for the president to take action against saudi arabia grow