Insisted on it in all of her hotels and thats why you should come and stay at her hotel. Sort of a familiar stick, i know. But it worked for her in the 19 eighties. Until it didnt. Turns out, despite being a billionaire, despite not only the image of immense wealth, but the actuality of it, leona and her husband had engaged in a number of chiselling text cheats, including, having a whole bunch of renovations done at a Vacation Home in connecticut her private home it was renovations on that home including by putting it a dance floor, but she built the renovations to the Hotel Company she had the helmsley Hotel Company paid to do the renovation on her private home that had for her the double benefit of her not having to pay for those renovations herself and, also, her Hotel Company got to deduct the payments as a business expense. Even though they werent. It was just stuff she wanted personally. She went to prison. The trial where she got convicted, probably made her even more famous tha
earlier this week, those texts were read into the record by members of the committee before they voted. i today, one of those anonymous lawmakers came forward himself. what jim jordan from ohio. of course one of donald trump s top allies in the house. sent a text to mark meadows the day before the insurrection about how the white house could attempted coup on january 6th. quote, on january six 2021, vice president mike pence, as president of the senate, should call on all of the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. in accordance with guidance from founding father alexander hamilton in judicial precedents. i think he means precedent. it goes on to include a lengthy citation from the federals paper like they do and text messages. now, nbc is reporting that that text was reportedly sent to jordan from a conservative lawyer and former adviser on donald trump s 2016 campaign and then jordan looked at the text and thought good idea. so
quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another quote, they have breached the capitol. in the third, mark protesters are literally storming the capitol breaking windows on doors, rushing in. is trump going to say something? there is an arm standoff on the house chamber of doors. and another from inside the capitol. we are all helpless. , dozens of, techs in colluding trump officials, urged immediate action. he has to come out firmly until the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. in another mark, he needs to stop this now. a third in all caps, tell them to go home. a fourth, and i quote, he needs to calm this shit down. indeed, according to the records. multiple fox news host knew the president needed to act immediately. they texted mr. meadows, and he has turned over those texts. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capital to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on
greed and money. very diabolical, isn t it? yes. i thought to myself, did we just get ourselves into? they are basically murdering anything and anybody they can. outside of game of thrones, it s not what you really expected. how many murders can you have in one family? she just had to come here. had to see it. had to feel. what happened in this dark, empty parking lot? so far from home. i feel somewhat numb. just so senseless. i m angry. i m very angry. her name is sherrie jackson. she has been looking, searching. she s come half a world away. to this one moment. [noise] well, this is our last hope. to finally solve the mystery that has haunted her. what happened to her big brother? what did they do too larry? larry risken? he loved life. just being around him and in his presence, you too would feel carefree. larry risken with a navy man. joined the service after high school and rose through the ranks to become a commander. a leader of men. went to the gul
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s prepping for a hard day s night. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, october 12th. we ll start with the news. almost a year after america led joe biden out of covid t president may have hit a wall, troubling scenes at the southern border and a delta variant surge. the president s ratings have tumbled from the low 50s in february to the high 30s in a recent quinnipiac poll. strategists are reporting a common trend to politico. they write in part, quote, reports from leading party operatives all point to biden needing to get a handle on the virus to claw his way out of the muddle. in a focus last week, pennsylvania democrats one after another articulated the issue vexing top white house officials. all nine participants gave bide an c-minus grade or lower. it circled back to the pandemic and the many ways it continues to hinder normal life, souring their views on biden. to be clear, many of the setbacks from biden ste