rent out office, guess where, trump tower. the committee is also paying thousands more to the campaign s deputy executive director who happens to be vice president mike pence s nephew. the payments started abruptly last september just days after the rnc stopped covering trump s legal bills in the special counsel russia investigation. i want to bring in cnbc editor again john harwood and cnbc contributor ron insana. normally the word unprecedented is banned on this show. if you say it, you got to put two bucks in a pot. we re going to give that a waiver today. i want you to help me. this type of spending by a party committee while it is legal, this is far outside the rent. a week ago, we were reporting the president s former security aide keith schiller getting paid to consult on security issues 15
phil rutger is white house bureau chief for the washington post. ron insana is a cnbc contributor. and the reverend, who hosts a program at sirius xm progressive talk radio. he must have had roller skates on to get here this quickly so i thank you for that. phil, i want to talk about the president s meeting today with the governors. walk us through the politics. are they as decided down party lines as we see members of congress are? we know a lot of members of congress spent a lot of time in washington so they don t have to face the music back at home. the governors are in a different situation. back at home, students, teachers, corporations, parents, they re pushing here and it s not politics, it s safety. yes, that s exactly right, stef. the gun issue is not a clean-cut partisan issue in the states. there have actually been a number of states that have been far ahead of washington on enacting tougher background checks and other restrictions. so i think the president s going to he
before. we could spent hours going through all the specific examples. don jr. last week, you know, people in india paying to have dinner with him and he s there to send condos. ivanka trump goes on 60 minutes and hours later her team is marketing her diamond bracelet that she wears and you can buy it from the ivanka trump bracelet. we could talk about that all day. when do ethics matter? it s surely unethical. i think the rny spent 1 million bucks in the trump properties in the first months of 2018. it is a clear conflict of interest to have the president trump would smile and go there s no such thing as conflict for the president. well, i get that. that s just not accurate. it s not an accurate assessment of what happens. he would not be the first government official to behave you this manner. but from the with respect to the presidency, this is i will use that word, i think he will back me up on this, this is unprecedented, the amount of
grand a month. you know, stephanie, we haven t had a president who was in the real estate business before and who has looked at multiple ways and is experiencing multiple ways of achieving financial gain from his position. you ve got the trump hotel near the white house where you ve seen foreign governments and others, lobbyists, spend money at that hotel. now, why are they doing that? maybe they re trying to get into the good graces of president trump. you ve got mar-a-lago which increased its membership fees and people go down since the president visits regularly, they can mingle with the president. what kind of business is being transis acted there? we don t really know. now you ve got trump tower, the president s signature building in new york city, that the republican national committee is paying rent to. it is an extraordinary situation. it s something we haven t seen before. okay, we haven t seen it
teachers are interested in teaching. and not learning how to use a weapon and being trained to use a weapon. not to mention, this is the same argument that is used in the aurora theater shooting. that s why we need to talk to those cops in broward. if you show up and everybody s got a gun and you don t know who has a gun, how do you know who the assailant is and who the good guys are? how are you able to discern that in a split second? all right, gentlemen, thank you so much. phil, i love that piece this weekend about pinnieto and president trump. mexico called and got testy. no longer coming to visit washington. all right, thank you. coming up, democrats on the house intel committee release their ten-page rebuttal to the nunes memo. another trump campaign aide to plead guilty. hoax, witch-hunt, nothing