Direction and control of foreign officials in the uae. as you said he inserted parts of their suggestions into a trump campaign speech. he took credit for getting uae excluded from the trump travel ban in 2017. he wrote an op-ed for a national publication with uae input, and he agreed to advocate for the appointment of individuals in the trump administration at their recommendation including a u.s. congressman. i think, brian, sometimes people dismiss charges under these statutes as mere regulatory offenses, paperwork errors, but that is not what this is at all. it is alleging that tom barrack acted as a secret agent on behalf of the uae and that he betrayed the united states and he betrayed president donald trump. to your point, we ve also had cause over the past five years to forget that there are rules governing each and every act by government employees ideally. ashley parker, i want to play
Libertarian to see there were paperwork errors. but that s incompetence, not political malice. and the president and others want to sound the alarm there was a deep state conspiracy. the inspector general said, no, easy absolutely that s not true in the is a way to distract from the big story today which is that the judiciary committee will mark up those two articles of impeachment and i predict both of them will be on the house floor next week. while we re at that time, let s hear more from the inspector general right now. michael horowitz. during your investigation, attorney general barr stated his belief that, quote, spying on the trump campaign did occur, end quote. and, as you said, your investigation found no evidence that the fbi placed any confidential source within the trump campaign or tasked any confidential source to report on the jump campaign. that s correct, right? that s correct. we have the highest law enforcement person in our entire country using a word not j
All, but once it gets into the white house, it s gone. and this is going to make the intelligence agency very reluctant to send on to the white house very secret stuff. i mean, i would be. we mentioned, we reported that the president s senior adviser, his son-in-law jared kushner, still does not have full security clearance, he has interim security clearance. that s been the case for more than a year now. the administration points to paperwork errors in filling out the forms, bureaucratic decisions. what do you make of that? i don t believe it, wolf, not for a minute. there is a problem. the fbi will bend over backwards to clear these people into the white house, and they do it very quickly. interim clearances just don t count. if you re in the federal government and you re having the same sort of problems, they will sideline you. they ll send you down to the library. you will lose access immediately if you can t clear a security, you know, background
Core of question of russia and collusion and these are sort of long standing business deals. one of the things that stands out in this indictment is this is not a couple of paperwork errors. so, you know, why did paul manafort join this campaign in the first place? this is knowingly, intentionally, those are words used throughout this indictment. gentlemen, thank you both very much. david, we know you have a lot of work to get to as our political director on this day. thank you. nice to have you, as well, garrett. we appreciate it. paul manafort and rick gates being processed by the fbi at the field office. then they will head to this building. the federal courthouse in washington d.c. there will be hearings there. we re watching every move. we ll bring you the very latest next. hi. i m the one clocking in. when you re clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. there.
Called. if the payments are improper, this is not about being nice to the states. this money belongs to the taxpayers whether it is infront right for inappropriate for whatever reason if it shouldn t go there. cracking down on people getting unemployment benefits, some of these people would get benefits any way. you could try to cut back, some of it is a paperwork error. greta: why should we pay for paperwork errors? if you want the money, do your job right i don t mean the recipients the states. the states do have an issue on their hands. i don t think it would be a surprise to find out the computer programs are not up to par. that s no surprise to anyone who has worked in state government. who had to deal with systems they have. greta: thank you.