Thank you very much for being with us. Senator roberts, let me just begin with youre also on the Ethics Committee. Well get to ag issues here in a minute, but as a member of the Ethics Committee, are you open to taxpayers, the voters knowing which members of congress have had claims made against them of Sexual Harassment and also revealing how much the taxpayers have paid for any settlements that were paid out . Sen. Roberts thats an interesting question. Im sure i could be able to respond to you, but as a member of the Ethics Committee, the longest serving member on the Ethics Committee, i dont know would have done to be on the Ethics Committee that amount of time but we cant comment. , and so ask me all you want, but basically there will be a no comment. Greta explain to our viewers why you cant comment. Sen. Roberts the Ethics Committee works in a bipartisan way. There are three each, three democrats, three republicans, but what we really talk about is highly confidential. And i jus
And. We can learn a lot then we should. But the end of the deal is the foundational document convene that reads like a Campaign Playbook. Traverse wheeler earned he is using hyperbole. In fact, it is that i play to peoples fantasies with distilled give very excited by those that do a little hyperbole never hurts. To Say Something is the biggest and the greatest and most bechtel killer i call that truthful hyperbole. That is exactly what he is doing. He is not ashamed to say what he does. That works for him his whole life. Did write to article for the wall street journal with his playbook hiding in plain sight ever see was a little taken aback but then he said it comes naturally to me so i guess you are right and he said running for office or running for president the first office he has ever sought is the biggest deal in im life so so the campaign is by a negotiation insee not all the way through and right now as he tries to get the g. O. P. Eatin donors to come to his side is more neg
President s to work with and for . On, i didnt have a favorite president. Ou they were all so dempt in some ways. The only thing they really had is similar was a large ego. Some larger than others. Jerry ford didnt but enough of an ego to cause him to run for the house of representatives ino state of michigan and he he wand to be speaker of the house but they have so many things that were different that i couldnt have picked a favorite. A favorite first lady . Theyre all favorites. [applause] hell never say it, but we know. [laughter] thank you all for being here today, and please come and peck up the book five president s will be signing it in the tent in just a little while we appreciate your time and your attention. We [applause] and starting now on booktv, a block of programs about president elect, donald trump. Transition of president ial power, and president ial history. First up, a rounds table discussion of Donald Trumps book, the art of the deal. This was taped prior to the el
Orlando massacre, but will it does but what exactly was agreed to . We will get the latest. Then to the president ial race. I am donald trump. I wrote the art of the deal. I have made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all over the world and i want to put whatever that talent is to work to this country. Amy today, we look at trump the businessman and a series of new investigative articles that expose trumps shady business dealings in Atlantic City, his failure to pay hundreds of form employees and contractors, and new evidence from a Pulitzer Prize money journals that trump did not even pay his taxes. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is slated to visit orlando, florida, today, following sundays attack on an lgbt nightclub in orlando, florida, which killed 49 people and was the deadliest mass shooting in modern u. S. History. The massacre has reignited calls for gun con
Amy Senate Democrats led by chris murphy of connecticut have wrapped up a nearly 15hour filibusterer calling for stricir gun controrol in the wake of the orlando massacre, but will it does but what exactly was agreed to . We will get t the latest. Then to the president ial race. I am donald trump. I wrote the art of the deal. I have made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all over the world and i want to put whatever that talent is to work to this country. Amy today, we look at trump the businessman and a series of new investigative articles that expose trumps shady business dealings in Atlantic City, his failure to pay hundreds of former employees and contractors, and new evidence from a Pulitzer Prize money journals that trump did not even pay his taxes. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is slated to visit orlando, florida, today, following sundays attack on an lgbt