washington s july 4th celebration taking shape tonight, donald trump described it as a salute to america with our meetings and the blue angels and critics say he s wasting millions of federal dollars turning the nonpartisan celebration into a campaign rally. joining me to discuss, good to have you with us. thanks for having me. i will read something from the coalition to protect america s national parks, they represent current and former parks and followed you think it is irresponsible to ask the national park service to absorbed the cost of an additional political event when there are so many unmet needs in the press, funds should be directed to the-ese like operation of the parks and maintenance backlog and should not support political objectives. is much as i like government employees suddenly discovering