later, september 17 when pam bon bondi s re-election pac got one of the biggest donation it received that cycle, that check for $25,000 from donald j. trump s chair rity. and then what do you know, a few weeks after that pam bondi s office in florida decided that they had looked into it, but they wouldn t pursue a lawsuit against trump university after all. ta da. and i mean, where do you want to start with that one, right? first of all, charities like the trump foundation can t give money to political campaigns and pacs and candidates so that donation itself, no matter the timing was not allowed under law, and the timing was super suspicious, and in terms of that charity, it wasn t a one-off in terms of something that looked a little hingky. donald trump turned out to use his foundation for years to improper further his own political interests and business interests. last year the attorney general in new york filed a lawsuit accusing the president of
international entities. with that investigation firm fusion gps or did the dnc hire another firm to pedal information to obama s fbi? i don t know which it was but i can follow up and get back to you on that. but it is a question you can answer. i don t know, i would have to double check with our folks on that. and if you couldn t would that be a case of privacy? i don t know if we ve ultimately figured out the answer to that question. it was in a different field office with different people to interview. i don t know how much we gone down that road. thank you. i ve been asking questions about since september 17 about what kind of defensive briefings the fbi provided to the trump campaign. the fbi told me its briefings to both campaigns were similar and that it wasn t aware of action that it took as a result. chairman johnson and i wrote
his ukrainian counterpart. again, that is th before the whistle-blower complaint and call was made public appeared later that day, september 9th, the inspector general sends a letter to schiff and others reporting that he whistle-blower complaint has been received. the letter revealed nothing regarding the substance of the complaint or who it involved. september 15th, the intel chairman implies he does not know the subject of the complaint, only that he assumes that involves the president or vice president, and at this. at the end of the day, if the director of national intelligence is going to undermine the whistle-blower protections, it means that people are going to end up taking the law into their own hands. and going directly to the press instead of the mechanism that congress set to protect classified information. shannon: september 17 interview television interview schiff says we have not spoken directly with the whistle-blower, we would like to you re not clear who he
i would love to do whatever i want to do. i would love to do it. but you have to be a little bit shy about doing that. it s a perfect everything we said on that call was perfect. it s his pattern to first deny something and then go through the process of trying to normalize it and treat it as if it s okay. whatever he says he can do something and didn t do it that means he absolutely did whatever that might be. this is his pattern. and it s it s pretty frightening. i think people need to keep in mind, it was a trump appointed inspector general. still is. that is raising this issue. he says it s of urgent concern. wrote to the intelligence committee on september 9, wrote again on september 17, reiterating the point and taking issue with the position that the dni and obviously the justice department and those around trump are taking. this is a real crisis because you have some of trump s own appointed officials fighting with one another as to whether or not the president
4, 1776. all right for extra credit, what year was the constitution written? that answer is 1787. each of these is a question on the naturalization test which must be passed, along with a rudimentary english exam in order for someone to become a naturalized citizen of the united states. if you were born here, you got a pass. show of hands at home, how many had all five correct? aha. all the more reason that this tuesday public schools across the nation will recognize constitution day and citizenship day. the day commemorates the september 17 signing of the constitution. since 2004 educational institutions that receive federal funds are required to educate their students on the u.s. constitution on this day. the suggestions from the u.s. department of education range from visit the constitution in person. to make a quill pen. to create your own bill of