Attributable to his direct investigation, cost for working with him and so forth. Host as total price tag of 7 illion, how does that compare to other investigations . Guest well, some have gone up 73 million for ken some around 2 million for short, concise know, igations, you depends obviously how long it goes and how much is involved, pretty broad range looking back over the last two decades or so in terms of how spent. S been host when it comes to the cost muellers investigation, they broke it down into categories. Go through the categories and get conte. About 1. 7 for salary and go thr categories benefits. People work for him and what type of salaries were talking about . 1. Se 7 million include staff, so farpport what we know, what has been on, losed about folks hired we have 17 lawyers, plus mr. Mueller. Hasnt told ounsel us how many other folks they have brought on, who are acting staff, so take that in context, not knowing exactly people that is supporting, a portion of being s
Research out that takes a look at the interest that americans have in the special investigation by Robert Mueller over russias meddling in the 2016 campaign. Well show you those results but in our first hour we are interested in learning from you about your interest. The numbers are on the bottom of your screen. If you want to post your thoughts. Heres the cover of the latest from pew research center. It takes a look at a lot of issues but one of the issues was over questions by the public that they interviewed about their level of interest taking a look at the probe into Robert Mueller. Heres the cover. You can see that but to show you some of the findings when it comes specially to the Russian Investigation. When republicans were asked by this 19 of those republicans view the Russia Special investigation as very important, 71 of democrats viewing it as very important. Further it says that 68 of democrats versus 44 of republicans say theyre somewhat confident in the level of whats goi
Fronts. But give us a grade for the president and tell us why. Ou can call us at 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats and independents. 2027488002. If you want to post on twitter, its twitter. Com cspanwj. About seven of you this morning so far, and on our facebook, at facebook. Com cspan. Ari fleischer who served in the george w. Bush administration has an oped talking about the president s first year. Too many flags in trumps first quarter, he says. To grade his performance in football termsen he deserves credit for moving the ball down the field over several different drives but he also committed so many unnecessary roughness penalties along with giving up one huge fumble that he may have to give up 200 yards to score one touchdown. Ari fleischer goes on to say but often mr. Trump runs himself too hot to handle. Host again, thats some of the comments from Ari Fleischer this morning when it comes to the president s year in office. Were asking you to give us the same.
Nearly half of u. S. Consumers are returning a holiday gift this week. Find out why retailers are competing to make returns easier. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Were here at the scene of an unspeakable tragedy. This will rank as one of the worst losses of life to a fire in many, many years. A deadly fire stuns new york city. 12 people have died. Were shocked by this loss. I hate it. I hate it. Millions are bundling up to ring in the new year in bonechilling temperatures that are gripping wuch of the upper great lakes and the northeast. Its going get worse. In an interview President Trump tells the New York Times he thinks bob mueller will be fair and believes there was no collusion. Security is being boosted around the world on new eve. Doug jones has won the special election for the u. S. Senate. Theres a one in a billion mathematical chance that was not a fraud. Apple has admitted to cutting down connection to the iphone and wi
Theres plenty to choose from here. The folks from Huffington Post have this headline about one of the top stories of the year. International womens day was the most talked about moment on facebook this year. 2017 was quite a year for women. It kicked off with the inauguration of President Trump, who was elected despite being accused of more than a dozen women of sexual assault. Millions of people took to the streets for the womens march in cities worldwide. As the year unfolded large numbers of women indicated interest in running for office. The final months have been marked by dozens of women courageously coming forward to call out sexual abuse by powerful men. As the year unfolded large numbers of women indicated interest in running for office. Earlier this year as we saw live on cspan. Part of the story takes us to capitol hill as well. A series of Sexual Harassment charges on the hill. The household hearing earlier this year. One of the people who testified at this hearing was jack