i asked sergei lavrov in the interview whether in fact russia had kind of changed the story to try to help president trump and he denied that but you know, these things are of course, incredibly important. let me show you another point from that interview which illustrates just the importance of it. we moved on to talk about russia, talk also about russia and syria and there, sergei lavrov said that no one really should be allowed to intervene in syria unless they have the acquiescence of president assad. i said to him, on that basis what you re really saying is only russia, iran and perhaps hezbollah should be allowed to be engaged in syria. he said, well, really yes to that. russia has some extremely self-interested strategic interests around the world. at the same time, they want to
they have 76 of these job postings for these type of workers and cooks and bartenders and all of these jobs that so many of us have done. i just spoke to a florida based immigration attorney who tells me these visas cost employers thousands of dollars. in other words, this is not an easy process. you need reciruiters here and abroad and prove no americans are wanting these jobs. but the benefit for american companies like mar-a-lago, you can pay these foreign workers much less than you would an american worker. the salary for the job postings in these two trump resorts is $11.88 per hour. we did reach out to the trump organization, so far no comment xbl not like the trump organization or other hotels are any different. this is what they do season after season. just ironic. in direct opposition to what president trump and hard core trump supporters would say we need to do, we need to hire
probe. one of trump s attorneys calls the post story not true, adding it is nonsense. the president s lawyers are cooperating with special counsel robert mueller on behalf of the president. now, lots of work to break down here and the best guy to do it with is nbc news legal analyst ari melber, the host of the beat with ari melber. how does this work? the president has very broad unilateral pardon powers, we ll read you the constitution. has the pouder to grant repri e reprieves and pardons for offenses against the u.s. except in cases of impeachment. as to what does it mean and how broad does it go? the supreme court ruled in this in the infamous case, many didn t like but upheld, the broad pardon of richard nixon but his successor gerald ford absent any prosecution. and the court said the pardoning power extends to every offense
on the agenda, sir. the president isn t. listen, there s an unhealthy obsession wit all things russia and last electionylentof people sir, with all due respect, it is not an unhealthy obsession. do you believe russia interfered in the 2016 election? i think russia attempted to interfere in several elections in several countries and several decades. how is that an unhealthy obsession? when 90% of the newscast is focused on that when there are plenty of other things going on have you watched what we do? we talk about tax reform. we talk about health care. you re iuing republican talking points right now. can we have a conversation just from a legislator to journalists right now? can we do that. sure, we can. in fairness to you, i don t see a lot of tv in the afternoon. i do watch morning joe in the morning. there are a lot of good things going on. you re right, the president focused on the other issues the other day.
system. the cost sharing by the way, some people know those as subsidies to insurance companies and that s not something that congress has to deal with because the the health and human services department, president trump himself continues to threaten that he might cancel those and that s resulted in these insurance companies pulling out of some exchanges. but when you say you re unified and we love the technical discussion, some of your colleagues in the senate have started talking about if the republican plan fails, we should move toward a single payer system. are you unified on that? i don t think there s a total consensus in the democratic caucus. i m in favor of moving in that direction but beginning by including a single payer, a medicare for all option within the exchanges. let s see how it works. then you can begin the much the larger conversation about how you transform or overhaul health care system. but the immediate challenge is to stabilize the exchanges this fall