A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. Through the Revolving Door down here, theres a word that became a word i never heard of until this presidency when people were sort of struggling with how to describe this government of sort of fringe characters, people with resumes that did not usually enter into government service. And that word is chacistocracy. It points in this presidency, its been an apt way to describe it. To paraphrase donald trump, theyre not sending their best. And i think the evidence that you its not a partisan point, you laid out the evidence there of an administration that is just filled with people who have either crossed ethical
lines or challenged norms that we have all upheld for decades in this country. And all being led by the president at the top who sets that tone. Lets talk more about the swamp here, Rudy Giuliani says they have responded to muellers latest proposal regarding an interview. These allegations should be ov
This country what it is. Im proud of you and your family. Dont ever forget where you came from, boy. Yes, maam, absolutely right. Amen to that. Thank you, chris. See you soon. This is cnn tonight, im don lemon, Chris Collins of new york stands indicted in an alleged Insider Trading scheme. Accused of multiple counts of fraud. It is rare for prosecutors to indict a sitting elected official, particularly in an election year. The u. S. Attorney in new york says that collins acted as if laws, well, they didnt apply to him. Donald trump has accomplished in this primary, is unprecedented. Donald trump is absolutely brilliant, and Donald Trumps a
swamp of washington, were going to have fun doing it, were all doing it together. When it comes to washington, d. C. , it is time to drain the swamp. Not only has that swamp not been drained, this administration is building all over it i know that Chris Collins is a congressman and a trump supporter, hes not a member of this administration, trump tol
that is the exact question that va officials have been asking themselves for the past years. what business do these guys have telling us what to do with veterans policy. and the answer is they have the president s ear. that s what matters. if the bureaucracy resists the trio s wishes, perlmutter has a powerful ally, the president of the united states. what s the extent of their relationship. they talk on the phone regularly, and they ll have dinner when trump is down in mar-a-lago, and whenever something veterans related comes to trump s attention the first one he s going to call is perlmutter. everyone knows that, so no one wants to pick that fight. they know they re going to lose. va officials who clashed with
telling us what to do with veterans policy. and the answer is they have the president s ear. that s what matters. if the bureaucracy resists the trio s wishes, perlmutter has a powerful ally, the president of the united states. what s the extent of their relationship. they talk on the phone regularly, and they ll have dinner when trump is down in mar-a-lago, and whenever something veterans related comes to trump s attention the first one he s going to call is perlmutter. everyone knows that, so no one wants to pick that fight. they know they re going to lose. va officials who clashed with the mar-a-lago crowd, they were pushed out. that includes a former va secretary david shulkin.
oversaw the most egregious examples of mismanagement that in a case of a legionnaire s outbreak at a va pittsburgh facility led to at least five veteran deaths. according to the house veterans affairs committee, diana rubens with, the va executive in charge of the nearly 60 offices that process disability benefits compensation claims, they collected $60,000 in bonuses while presiding over a near-sevenfold increase in back hog claims. in philadelphia, the director of the regional office received a $23,000 bonus in twfn despite doubling the backlog from 2010-2011. after a deadly legionnaire s outbreak in pittsburgh, va regional director michael moreland collected a $63,000 bonus, that s just one example of over clash 573,000 in bonus checks paid out to va officials who oversaw record highs in