I work for the people of texas and i fight for them. The most fundamental thing this fight was about. This fight. This fight. What they like is to fight. Were in the midst of battles. They dont seem to have a goal. The fight took us off message. The fiasco has been obscure. He operates on the basis of division. We elevated the National Debate. We accomplished a great deal and we need to reflect on that. Ted cruz is not backing down. The shut down should be in our rear view mirror. There will not be another government shut down. Dont do this again, ted. The architect of government shut down leading the civil war inside the Republican Party went home to texas this weekend to continue his attack against the Republican Party. And when ted cruz went to speak to the Texas Federation of republican women he got this welcome. Thank you. We love you. That is is a slightly different reception than i get in washington d. C. And having spent the past month up in dc, it is really great to be back in
Very serious legal trouble in the span of two years. How did you go about covering Jeffrey Thompson . Well, that began with i the mayor. Er i used to cover the mayors office. Mayoral ered the 2010 campaign. Assigned to ually cover the daytoday, the campaign and that was the at the time. And he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So, you know, covered the mall campaign. I was most interested in watching kind of downfalls ecause, you know, everyone saw it coming. And that was my job. Shortly after the after won, iok off, because he eard from Sulaiman Brown would run for mayor. It ended up he had a job in the odd. Istration which was and then the next thing you knew, he was fired and then he do you ing me and said want to talk . And i was like, sure. We knew, he thing described some serious orruption about being paid in the campaign to disparage on the campaign trail. Another. G led to a big investigation, a federal investigation. And, you know, the federal
The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the campaign to disparage fenty on the campaign trail. Then there is a federal investigation where they learned that there was something much bigger going on which they called the Shadow Campaign. And that was a parallel operation to the Gray Campaign that was done in secret that was not reported, and it was 650,000. Which is nothing to sneeze at. Allegedly, Jeffrey Thompson was the sole funder. You have
Jeffrey thompson. Why . Our local businessman at the center of major federal investigation and no one really knew who we was. So i basically told my editor i want to write the definitive profile of Jeffrey Thompson. When people want to know about him, they want i want them to refer back to this article. What we want to know about him . Right now, he is the center of d. C. Politics and some folks say he is actually at the center of d. C. All addiction basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 22 million year. And no one really knew who he things came to light the011 over problems with current mayors. The current Mayors Campaign in 2010. We have one former city councilmember, the son of ron brown, the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all that stuff you all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I d
President trump calling on state governors to maintain order. I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the National Guard if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deplot United States military. Steve this. Brian unbelievable. Steve as looting leaves major cities reeling. Massive crowds taking to the streets despite citywide curfews. Take a look at that even the iconic macys flagship in new york city hit by looters. That the miracle on 34th street macys. Thats the one where everybody drives their floats by on thanksgiving. We have Team Coverage this morning. Griff jenkins is live in our Nations Capital with the president s call for peace and how he is going to back that up with power. Aishah hasnie on the streets of new york city where the looting. Aishah, the sun is up. Has the looting stopped . The looting has stopped. We havent seen anyone for about an hour. We saw a couple of youn