you can go around and cut everything and say were going to give billions for the wall. eric: do you think donald trump would have a problem finding $1.5 billion with republicans who have to go to him and say i need this in my state. dana: there is no earmarking anymore. eric: there is campaigning. juan: the promise was mexico is going to pay for the wall. that was the promise. they promise to his supporters, two trump voters was, mexico will pay for the wall. not you are going to pay for the wall, eric bolling. eric: there is many ways! can pay for the wall. greg: you are living in a parallel universe, juan. universe where the things you say before the campaign still matter.
they re having a problem finding counterparts to deal with in the state department, saying that nearly half of the management apparently has either resigned or left office in the transfer of power in washington, and now for a lot of burning issues out there, issues like the ongoing war in ukraine, the latest flap around iran and its nuclear program, and allegations that it s sponsoring terror, there is nobody there on the u.s. side for russian officials to speak with and reach out to, and that s making it difficult to do ordinary diplomacy at a time when there are so many hot issues around the world. this official saying, well, it s probably going to take time to fill those posts. but in the meantime, these crises, these flash points are not getting better any time soon. brooke? ivan watson, thank you for being on the story for us in moscow. thank you. quickly before i hand it over to d.c., let s look at live
president-elect s choice for secretary of state. rex tiller m eersotillerson, ex. thank you so much for joining me. a compelling piece you put together there. when you hear the ambassador talk about the people who regularly would meet with putin being steven sega lrl. russia is basically oil and gas economy. let s make that clear to begin with. the state company has various dealings, joint ventures with exxonmobil, not just in russia, but around the world. so it s not surprising that the two would be very, very close because their interests are so tied. exxonmobil has a problem finding reserves all over the world. it has less of a problem in
said that he relied on speculation from the case and the that the case was ruled homicide without any medical evidence. fred, let s ask you about that. the report again, obtained by the new york times, the prosecutors have not publicly released it but the times says, it says that the cause of death was drowning due to plug being removed by some other person. does that wash? right. well, actually it does wash, jon. what the defense lawyer is upset about this examiner will get on witness stand to testify about these facts and their concern that the examiner is carries imprimatur about expertise. if this, nobody would have a problem finding out if she looked at this guy and died from electrocution, that he died because his wife died by dropping a hair dryer why
with that engineer will be critical. right, and it will be a formal interview with all the parties to the investigation, including amtrak and anybody else that may be a party to that investigation. how hard is it going to be to establish a manifest of the passengers given the fact that although the train tickets i gather are computerized even on unreserved trains people could decide at the last minute not to get on. yes. that s been a problem. any passenger trains that s been the ease of tracking passengers on aircraft but not on passenger trains even on subways, always a problem finding out how many were on the train at the time of the accident. these are the old metro liner cars that preceded the acela cars on the train. did this have an automatic braking system where you have to affirmatively put your foot on accelerator to keep going, sand there any sort of, you know automatic speed control similar