government to expung saemd records. he did terrible things, when we was 18, everything was expunged. we have to get rid of that. others say this is a crucial political issue. here s my message to republicans f you don t on something you ll get annihilated in the suburbs in 2019. the president says his base is onboard. president trump: background checks, we have tremendous support for really common sense, sensible, important weak background checks. where heading to rj in, the president stopped at fundraisers in the ham tons. one of the hosts, steven ross the real estate developer whose company owns equinox and sole cycle. some celebrities are boycotting the fitness change. the president appreciate s ross effort. he likes me, he respects me, we re doing a fundraiser this and doing a fundraiser with another friend of mine. i understand the fundraiser was
private companies controlled. correspondence doug mckelway has those specifics tonight. returning to washington this morning, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez denied violating campaign finance laws, the alleged violation is laid out in a complaint to the fec by the conservative nonprofit national legal and policy center. it states they congresswoman, her chief of staff, and others orchestrated in extensive off the books operation through two political action committees. three years ago, the staffer for bernie sanders, explained his hopes for a new model to bundle small contributions into a one-stop shop for ten progressive candidates experienced in fund-raising. we are trying to find people who aren t career politicians and part of the advantage of having this unified campaign for campaign infrastructure and fund-raising aside from the candidates is you can get
i mean they are crazy. they are hedging. they are blaming. i mean the potential trouble that members of this administration are in, the people who already have been indicted, the president himself are at the highest level of the worst potential for this country s national security and also this president s legal future, and the tone of these tweets show a man sitting in front of a television unraveling. well, mika, look, it s important in that tweet he now calls it a simple private transaction. of course it s a transaction he denied knowing about in past months. we ve gone from a transaction that didn t happen to a transaction that wasn t important. but in terms of the seriousness, mika, this kind of transaction and what happened with cohen and stormy daniels, was, in fact what our country s finance laws were laid down after watergate to prevent, this kind of off the books transaction to aid a campaign and people forget that
books payments saying, quote, i have never received a single off the books payment, neither have i ever done work for the governments of ukraine and russia. he said that reported was silly and nonsensical. during the campaign, he said that members of the trump team didn t push to change the republicans party platform on supporting ukraine, tilting it in a more pro-russia platform. and manafort also lied about this. are there any ties between mr. trump, you and your campaign and putin and his regime. no, there are not. it is absurd and there is no basis to it. of course, it wasn t absurd. despite all the denials, we now know of multiple contacts between team trump and russia. after the election, he lied about his business dealings to reporters while being interviewed by investigators. mueller dropped the hammer on
military power at the time. the u.s. was not at war against japan, at the end of that year we were about to be. and in mid-1941 fdr authorized this quiet, unofficial, off the books u.s. air support campaign for china in its war against japan. and those american volunteer group fighters, those pilots would soon be crucially important to china in their own war. but they would also be crucially important and what would soon be america s war against japan and against the axis powers. those quietly recruited, quietly authorized, american volunteer group fighters, they soon became very famous, authorized in secret, but they very soon became internationally known. they became internationally known as the flying tigers. in that theater of operations, in that point in the world conflict, the flying tigers, ended up being militarily important.