modern infrastructure to meet the needs of american people and to fuel economic growth tochlt help make this possible, we have a very special announcement today. in keeping with his campaign pledge, the president donates his salary on a quarterly basis to further work being done on important projects. third quarter salary was donated to the department of health to combat the opioid economic. prior to that, the education department and 2017 salary to the department of transportation to support their programs to rebuild and modernize our crumbling infrastructure. secretary of transportation, elaine cho, is here to accept the check i would like to take a couple of questions on inf infrastructure and how these funds will be used and i trust %-pr your questions on the news of
the man at the center of this memo. senior fellow and former senior counsel in the whitewater investigation. ned, let me start with you. in light of what we ve seen in this memo and in light of all that surrounded the release of this memo, i wonder how worried you are about rod rosenstein s future in the government. david, i think it depends on whom you listen tochlt . if you listen to susan collins, even trey gowdy, they ve said it no way impugns the mueller probe and the ongoing probe into donald trump. but i think we re hearing a slightly different tune from the white us yesterda when he was asked if he stillad confidence i rod rosenstein, presidentrump was etty ominous. he said i lligure that one out. we have heard e have also seen a statement from his own white house saying that the
surpassing democrat shut down. my favorite is still the schumer shdown. it has a nice little ring to it. doesn t it? yes, sir. speaking of senator schumer, he left the meeting with the president thinking he had arrived with the broad outlines of a deal and that the president changed his mind, senator schumer said he relented under the pressure from the far right. i know you weren t in the room but what i was in that meeting. i talked to the chief about it this morning tochlt give you an example of how mr. schumer is mischaracterizing the discussions, according to the chief, mr. schumer told the president i ll give you all the money you want for your wall and the president said that s great. i need $20 billion and mr. schumer said no, no, no, only $1.6. that s all you asked for last year in the 2018 budget, which i happened to write. we had a $1.6 billion request in
high crime rates, alcoholic beveraging. voters need to lock how their communities have not progressed. and thou community have not turned around. john coniers is an example. has been in office too long and done nothing for his community to turn it around. how do you see it i see it differently. this next election will be a referendum on the trump administration and failure to get a lot done even if we get the tack bill. it is an unpopular tack bill there is control of the house and senate at stake. these issues are a distraction and a serious one to the parties. i was saying before as you summarized. and i want the democrats to win as a cent rift party that is inclusive tochlt do that they need people like coniers and people like al franken to go and
high crime rates, alcoholic beveraging. voters need to lock how their communities have not progressed. and thou community have not turned around. john coniers is an example. has been in office too long and done nothing for his community to turn it around. how do you see it i see it differently. this next election will be a referendum on the trump administration and failure to get a lot done even if we get the tack bill. it is an unpopular tack bill there is control of the house and senate at stake. these issues are a distraction and a serious one to the parties. i was saying before as you summarized. and i want the democrats to win as a cent rift party that is inclusive tochlt do that they need people like coniers and people like al franken to go and we need to develop a set of