the russians want something from them. they want something from the russians. there are all these entanglements, and the big deal, of course, is the election. it s one thing to have a conflict of interest with a business, but the other thing is if the trumps really want this business deal, then they re willing to get to give the russians what they want, and vice versa, and, you know, at the time it wasn t clear that the president even thought he was going to win the election.
how tough will bumper-to-bumppr be when he talks to putin. the south lawn a short time ago with regards to his business dealings in russia and what he has said in the past about his business dealings with russia and tweeted as well, we ve got this tweet from the president. this is from it would appear as if july 26 of 2016, for the record i have zero investments in russia. the president reiterated something to that effect in that interview with lester. he said at one point, quote, i will tell you right now zero, i have nothing to do with russia. yes, when asked about his specific financial interests in russia. nothing. it would seem as if he changed his tune a bit there on the south lawn? reporter: right, and what he s essentially trying to say is, look, yes, i was looking into this as a candidate, wasn t clear i was going to win, and so there s nothing illegal or wrong about that, but to your point, craig, it certainly does raise
white house as to why exactly jim acosta s press pass was revoked. there was that initial tweet the night jim acosta showed ipat the white house gates and was refused entry. in that tweet, the judge referenced this. sarah sanders said in part it was because jim acosta had placed his hands on the intern when she had tried to get the microphone back from jim acosta at the press conference the day after the midterm elections. the judge noted, a, it wasn t clear who made the decision to revoke jim acosta s hard pass, and b, he noted the shifting explanations in that after that initial tweet from sarah sanders, the other statement that came out from the white house on the day cnn filed its lawsuit mentioned nothing about jim acosta playing his hands on the intern. in addition, it s important to note that the judge really did talk about the irreparable harm jim acosta faced. he said the white house s argument that 50 other journalists from cnn with hard passes could still go to the
were very successful, it worked, until e-cigarettes came along, and now all that progress seems at risk. yeah. i think that s a very fair characterization, jake. i mean, i think we re still talking about a relatively new phenomenon with the e-cigarettes and in the beginning it wasn t clear. what s the trend going to be? are young people going to start using the e-cigarettes and start using real cigarettes as a result? i think the statistic that got everybody fired up about this, jake, is that 78% increase in use of these e-cigs among high schoolers. 78%. 48% increase in use among middle schoolers. that s the real concern, that they are starting to useth e-cigarettes. might they go on to smoke combustible or real cigarettes? here s how the fda commissioner scott gotlieb put it the. all the recent gains we ve made getting smoking rates down among kids, there s a threat that will be reverse federal we don t do something about this.
some recently located ftc data has emerged to show that his wife has in the past donated to some of bill nelson s campaigns. neil? just to be clear, in the recounting they were doing there, adding up the numbers, rick scott extended his lead. did i hear that right? or clarify that. well, here in broward county, heavily democratic. bill nelson had 100,000 more votes. he did lose twice as many here in broward as rick scott did. neil: i m sorry i wasn t clear. in getting the final ballots here, did the numbers change? i know it s heavily democratic. nelson had a bigger lead there. substantial lead. did the final numbers then favor rick scott? in other words, rick scott has