didn t vet people for this type of judgment issues, which i think could have been seen very easily in a lot of these people and you cannot do this with, you know, rick dear born and steve bannon on the back of an envelope in 73 days. and the president has been ill served by this. and if mr. pruitt is going to go it s because he should have never been there in the first place. does he need to go? listen, i don t know how you survive this one. he s talking specifically will about scott pruitt, the epa administrator. the revelation there that he has a condo that he s living in a condo co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist. that s what christie is saying there. betsy woodruff, the broader point chris christie is making obviously chris christie has an axe to grind because for 48 hours he was going to be the guy running the transition for the trump administration back in 2016. so, there s more than a little see i told you so there. what he s describing is not just chris chris
well, the white house begins the week in search of a new communications director and with a nominee for the va to be the va secretary whose qualifications, not as a doctor, but a cabinet level secretary have come into question. and chris christie who if you remember this briefly headed the transition team once upon a team. he added another name to the list of who could be next. this was a brutally unprofessional transition. this was a transition that didn t vet people for this type of judgment issues, which i think could have been seen very easily in a lot of these people and you cannot do this with, you know, rick dear born and steve bannon on the back of an envelope in 73 days. and the president has been ill served by this. and if mr. pruitt is going to go it s because he should have never been there in the first place. does he need to go? listen, i don t know how you survive this one. he s talking specifically will about scott pruitt, the epa administrator. the revelation
students walked out of their classrooms, then in each successive time zone, it went on like that on the hour every hour like a giant wave washing from east coast to west coast. in boston where schools were closed because of snow, kids showed up to protest anyway. in california, they put marching bands to good use by spelling out enough. elementary students put together hand-written press packets for local reporters and marched as elementary students. in cobb county, georgia, they had things on what to say. in littleton, colorado, newtown, connecticut, parkland, florida, towns with deep and personal experiences of gun violences in school, they walked today.
walkway remains vacant today. the japanese company primarily operates in japan and has only seven u.s. properties as of september 2016. its purchase of the kushner property was the only purchase made in new york city last year. everybody involved in the story denies any political component to the deal or involvement by jared kushner. but we actually sent a producer out to this building in brooklyn, co-owned by the kushner family and the japanese government. the building is definitely still empty, even though the japanese-controlled company bought it a year ago for a 60% premium. and even though this is in one of the hottest neighborhoods for development in new york city, it remains vacant. it s just a nice investment to have. a nice thing to dump millions and millions and millions of
free beacon commissioned a firm called fusion gps, co-owned by a former wall street journal reporter named glen simpson to conduct opposition research on donald trump during the republican primaries. now, the free beacon said in a statement that this research, snars they knew, had nothing to do with the dossier that you were just talking about that was written by this former british intelligence operative, christopher steele. and in fact, i confirmed this week through my reporting that steele was not hired by fusion gps until after the democrats and hillary clinton and the dnc began picking up the tab for fusion during the general election. now, all that said, this is opposition research, brian. it s utterly unremark alk. it happens in every presidential campaign. it happens in campaigns for county commissioner. the only thing that s unusual about this is we ve never had a presidential candidate with such an international entangle wants, particularly with a foreign adversary. and s