American taxpayers more than a Million Dollars. Earlier white house tried to downplay its role. To be clear, white house doesnt have role on the front end of approving private Charter Flights. Thats agencies and something were looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any Charter Flights moving forward. White house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. Approved the use of Military Aircraft for prices trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a Million Dollars. Adding to the cost. Price reimbursing government about 52,000. Inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the
travel costs were. 300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. He took a private plane at more than 17,000. At least 20 trips. Including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1 2 hours or train for 72. This is just the spending that price railed against un
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. If there were any lingering doubts today, the Republican Party officially became the party of roy moore. Party elites rallied around the antigay birther after he handily beat their preferred candidate in alabamas gop primary this week. Today from the podium the White House Press secretary declined to condemn some of moores inflammatory views. Judge moore says homosexuality should be illegal, he said sandy hook was some sort of divine retribution, he said Keith Ellison should not be permitted to serve in congress because hes a muslim. So without asking about the specifics of the race, does President Trump share any of those views that i just mentioned . And if not, why does he think this person is fit to be a u. S. Senator . Not that im aware of. I have not, uh, taken a deep dive on every comment that the senator or the Senate Nominee has made. But i certainly know where the president stand on this those issues and wouldnt see any parallel bet
Every relevant document to the committee including those from his quote, personal email account describinged in the news media as well as all over accounts, messaging apps, or Similar Communications channels you may have used or that may contain information relevant to our inquiry, unquote, in the statement to cnn, kushners Attorney Says it is perfectly normal that the committees would want to make sure they received all pertinent records. We did review this account at the time and there were no responsive or relevant documents there. The committee was informed when documents were produced and there is no issue here, unquote. However this issue could become even more serious if it turns out kushner famed to turn over any private communications about the Ongoing Investigation into Russian Election interference, and if, if, he was actively trying to hide any information. You may recall that kushner has come under scrutiny for not disclosing contact with 104 officials during the campaign.
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Against the company of amazon and led a new somewhat baffling allegation against president obama. A side of himself that we and many others is going to be coming out. Today, and on twitter we got a big dose of President Trump uncut. Here he was speaking about the u. S. Military presence in syria which he announced last week that he wants to end. I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home and start rebuilding our nation. We will have as of three months ago, 7 trillion in the middle east over the last 17 years. We get nothing, nothing out of it. And as you remember, in civilian
life for years, i said keep the oil. We didnt keep the oil. Who got the oil . Isis. That is what funded their campaign. They took a lot of the oil. And we should have kept the oil then. We didnt keep the oil. The United States didnt keep the oil or take the oil which is the word mr. Trump used to use on the campaign trail. Didnt take the oil because among other reasons that is called plunder and prett