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Believes, crosses the line into criminal territory. that bodes very badly for the president. if you remember, there was this whole episode on board air force one to fashion a story, a not true story about what exactly was going on in the trump tower meeting. i ll be more blunt, to fashion a lie as to what happened in the trump tower meeting. right. i was covering the clinton white house in those days, does the law support those, that people on campaign payrolls, is that obstruction? it can be. if you are trying to interfere with the efforts of law enforcement to find you, putting pepper on the trail so the dogs can t catch you, those sorts of things can amount to obstruction. and in the document, in the cohen document, he says by publicly presenting this false narrative, cohen, he interfered with the investigation. so if cohen interfered with the investigation by presenting a false narrative, anyone who ....
That s a lot of money if you look at campaign payrolls to pay someone who is not managing the campaign, running the day to day operations on the campaign but essentially going out there and maybe getting a surrogate, whatever the role was they were talking about. and i think the great irony of this is we don t know what omarosa has. yes, she s trickled out things like this where they don t look great, but it s not the same as having a tape of the president saying the n. word. she s learned if you dangt out, ok , let me just throw allegations out there and maybe i ll provide proof or maybe i won t. that is exactly what the president does every single day and she learned it from him. and this is classic they say there s a tweet for everything. this is then businessman donald trump, omarosa always promises and delivers high drama, honest omarosa. she won t back stab, she ll come ....
The last time around, spending by candidates reached nearly $16 million. democrats spent $10 million compared to the republicans $6 million. with just the republicans competing this time, that number may shrink. what are they spending that cash on? ? 2008, campaign payrolls were the number one item at 35% of total spending. travel costs came in at 14% and printing costst at 13%. another slight boost to the economies, the number of media visitors. they were estimated at 2500 in 2008. but a mere 1500 this year. overall, the caucuses are estimated to have a $100 million impact on the state. but with the nearly $150 billion economy control over which is being wrestled in that particular state, anyway, that s an impact of less than .1% if you put it in those terms. of course, there are plenty of iowans who still like to make a song and dance about their stint ....
the government of south sue dan gained control of a remote village that was attacked over the weekend. some 4,000 army and police reinforcements have reportedly been sent to aville raj. they re fighting over grazing land. the u.s. republican party presidential race is about to get ready over iowa. candidates have been campaigning for weeks and tuesday night voters will take part in what is being called caucuses. they are a few hundred in formal get-togethers where people take the candidate they want to face president barack obama in november s general election. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. much more coming up on the iowa caucuses just ahead. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens and welcome to the first edition of world business today of 2012. this is tuesday, january 3rd. it is a new year. but one report already suggests ....