undefined and is already facing serious scrutiny. the shell company trump plans to merge with revealing this week that they are under investigation with the securities and exchange commission. in a social media company that the former president is creating is reportedly trying to compete with twitter and facebook and nunes is going to be leaving congress at the end of this month, erin, and that cuts his congressional term short by about a year. incredible. all right. sun sunlen, thank you for that report. you talk about devin nunes, right, beginning up a leadership position, his whole career to get paid some money for some period of time. to go work for a new social media company. donald trump s grip on his party extends far beyond washington. in wisconsin, republican state lawmakers are trying to, quote, forcefully urge the immediate resignations of members of the state s bipartisan elections commission, including my next guest. and they re threatening criminal prosecution after all
that it s time to stop playing politics and confirm loretta lynch as the attorney general. there s no reason for it. nobody can describe a reason for it. beyond political gamesmanship in the senate. on an issue that s completely unrelated to her. this is the top law enforcement job in the country. sunlen serfaty is live at the white house with the story. sun sunlen how are republicans responding to the president s words. republicans are pushing back. they re pinning the hold-up on the democrats in the senate. a big part of the hold-up over lynch s nomination and confirmation is because her nomination has been tangled into a separate unrelated issue of a bill on anti-human trafficking. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has linked the two issues. he says that they won t go on to a vote to lynch until they hold
the weekend, but he is headed for florida to stump for fellow republican rick scott who is the star of the fund-raising events, and most of them private invitation only, and you know, these campaign events are not open for the media, but from what you can see, can you see that christie s troubles are haunting him there? well, martin, first of all, michelle and sun sunlen are covering the parties and doing that, but this is covering a different situation going on here, because there is not a lot of access, as you can imagine at the fundraisers happening, and governor chris christie is here in the state of florida with three happening today. first one was in orlando, and a fund-raiser for governor rick scott, and then on to palm beach for a fund-raiser for the republican governor s association and up next is another one in fort lauderdale, and we also caught up with one woman who is inside of the event