the business profited during the inauguration, after that, it appears the hotel s business did trail off. remember, many companies that host conferences in d.c. or have their executive visit the city may not want to book there to avoid controversy. also, the trump organization may be losing out to competitors on that specific front. and the company has to be more careful about marketing to foreigners. so the trump organization may have decided to explore how much could it make by unloading the property. the wall street journal is reporting the trump organization wants $500 million for the lease rights to the building. that s a lot of money. in fact the paper says a deal of that size would make the transaction one of the biggest hotel deals in the city s history. back to you. thank you so much. it s a rare reprimand for a cabinet secretary. a federal judge held betsy devos, the secretary of education and her department in contempt of court for violating
lease the hotel because of all of the controversy surrounding it but there is more to the story based on my reporting. eric trump the president s son who runs the company on a day-to-day basis tells us, quote-unquote, people are objecting to us making so much money on the hotel and therefore we may be willing to sell. well, first off, officials have a problem with any amount of profit the president makes from this hotel because they believe it is a conduit for corruption. two, there are open legal questions as to whether the president s company is legally allowed to accept payments from foreign and domestic governments at this property. that issue is the subject of at least three lawsuits. now, as for the claim that the hotel is making a ton of money, well, it s unclear. i ve reported on this property for years and while it s true that the business profited during the inauguration, after that it appears that the hotel s business did trail off. remember, many companies that host confere
sentence. if you re on an elevator pitch you can t trail off. you have to say something with a period at the end of a sentence. there s so many gymnastics references. stick the landing. in a prep where we re talking about the dismount from our questions. i don t know how it s going to go tomorrow. we ll be doing back flips at the end. all right, so non-verbal behavior is very important. and you pointed when we talked before to george w. bush in 2000. watch this. can you get things done? and i believe i can. i loved it. i loved it. in 2000, i was a supporter of george w. bush. i hadn t met him that. i remember thinking he didn t have to say a word. he said i can handle this. they knew that al gore was what
i think the action the president took today makes it more difficult to reach that long-term solution. yeah, so we let that trail off, because he went on for another 30 seconds. and we re still not completely sure what he said. ramesh, how big of a problem is that for mitt romney, just saying that, well, i would come up with a plan that would supersede whatever the president has done. well, i think the ad is totally inside baseball. people are going to be, oh, seven days to come up with a policy, and a sound bite that s acceptable to the press is just no actual voter i think is going to care about that. jill? i don t know. i think it kind of reinforces this idea that you re not exactly sure where mitt romney comes down on certain issues. and that s been the thing that has dogged him for years. that he s willing to say one thing and willing to say another, depending on the circumstances. and i think they re trying to underscore that notion. and one thing the romney
outfront tonight. backed into a corner. [ cat meows ] it s an awful noise, whenever you hear it. republicans are the cats today. that s the sign of the republicans hissing like an angry cat cornered by the neighborhood dog. why? the president s order. allowing eviden ining immigrant age of 30 to stay in this country with two year work visas. those workers can be renewed unlimited times. this is a temporary stop-gap measure that lets s us focus ou resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven patriotic young people. it is the it is the right thing to do. but does it add up? yes. resoundingly so. that is when it comes to politics. the order effects 1.4 million immigrants. or about 12% of the illegal immigrants in this country. that s according to the pew center. but there is one person it affects more than anyone else. and that person is the president of the united states. the national association of latino officials estimates that 12 mil