mercer political action committee for ted cruz became number two. david bossie a mercer family stalwart became number three. robert mercer's takeover had succeeded from this point on his hand-picked trio would steer the republican candidates strategy. when the merc versus decide to support a candidate they expect the candidate to be responsive to their needs both in terms of how the candidate runs their campaign it also else after if the candidate is successful and there are and they are elected as an office holder it's reasonable to presume that the mercers expect that the office holder will be responsive to the mercer's needs needs as well and their policy preference. there will be no alliance we will after the american people with it truth and nothing else. it was on the banks of the thames that the last american presidential election was partly decided in the heart of london at the headquarters of a firm unknown to the general public called s.c.l. group strategic communication laboratories. in these offices scientists compile and analyze billion

or rather political action committee and this is of been particular concern given the fact of course that hillary clinton was donald trump's opponent in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election so fur quite some time there has been pressure not just from the political right but even from the president after it was revealed just last week in the oval office that donald trump asked who he voted for in the twenty sixteen election certainly if not illegal this is something that would make many people i'm comfortable it's very similar to some of the conversations that james called me the former f.b.i. director fired by don't trump said that he had in the oval office with donald trump that were concerning so in terms of significance this is a big deal particularly with respect to the russian investigation there are many that will be celebrating this but again this comes down to just as we saw with the firing of james coldly there will be as many questions on the left about this as there are concerns in the past on the right about him still being there really essentially helping t

. >> the bay area action committee says there's no i couldn't have indication for his attack. >> we think it's disgusting what he said, it's a reflection of his mind-set, his racism and his white supremacy. >> congressman mark desaulnier is weighing in. >> it's loathsome. i'm not a supporter of the president. i'm not a fan. >> trump's twitter account has been silent about the subject although many others including dianne feinstein used media to denounce his words calling the comments disgusting. some people want at apology. charlie hinton wants more. >> he should resign from office. >> not likely. tiffany wilson, abc7 news. >>> california lieutenant governor gavin newsom is also responding tonight. he posted on facebook, you're a joke and a racist, president donald j. trump. resign. >>> republican congresswoman mia love of utah though says the president must apologize. only republican to tweet so publicly about it, she is the daughter of haitian immigrants. >>> hundreds of rescue workers continue to search for victims of the deadly mud slides in santa barbara county. the death toll remain

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. >> reporter: it happens every day, montgomery county's action committee for transit. they say catcalls on the metro are two common. >> i think everywoman has failed -- has felt endangered. >> reporter: a big issue for sexual harassment. one in five metro riders said it happened to them. the stories are being told on instagram called i was on metro when. >> i was going to work and no one said anything. >> it's important for women to feel safe taking the transit.>> reporter: there are many ways to deal with this. one idea, more lighting in the station.>> stuck in one part of the train if you feel unsafe. >> reporter: metro is trying to deal with the issue. there are posters. the public address announcements are going to be rolled out. >> we should all be safe all times -- at all times. >> reporter: trying to prove that the writers are safe from each other. >>> you want to see what change looks like? book yourself a reservation for richmond for tomorrow, lawmakers opening a new session with a dozen new female faces and in many cases, women making history like elizabeth m

. >> and she had received campaign contributions from a political action committee controlled by the clintons, is that right? >> mostly. so she -- the root of donald trump's distrust of mccabe stems from the fact that mccabe's wife had run as a democrat and received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the political action committee of terry mcauliffe. mcauliffe is a close clinton ally. >> right. your article also taublgs about how andrew mccabe talks about how mccabe felt about this interaction, about how other people within the fbi felt when they heard about it. >> right. this is pretty much unheard of to ask a civil servant or someone you're screening for a government job. it's one of the rules of government work is it's simply not done. and there have been all sorts of, you know, past instances where government officials have gotten in trouble for asking exactly this type of question. but, so, you know, there is a great deal of frustration as has been expressed to me within the fbi about the way trump talks not just about andy mccabe, but to andy mccabe

. >> the bay area action committee says there's no i couldn't have indication for his attack. >> we think it's disgusting what he said, it's a reflection of his mind-set, his racism and his white supremacy. >> congressman mark desaulnier is weighing in. >> it's loathsome. i'm not a supporter of the president. i'm not a fan. >> trump's twitter account has been silent about the subject although many others including dianne feinstein used media to denounce his words calling the comments disgusting. some people want at apology. charlie hinton wants more. >> he should resign from office. >> not likely. tiffany wilson, abc7 news. >>> california lieutenant governor gavin newsom is also responding tonight. he posted on facebook, you're a joke and a racist, president donald j. trump. resign. >>> republican congresswoman mia love of utah though says the president must apologize. only republican to tweet so publicly about it, she is the daughter of haitian immigrants. >>> hundreds of rescue workers continue to search for victims of the deadly mud slides in santa barbara county. the death toll remain

action committee and that's why i got fired i think steve bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that became with president trump and then he became pro steve bannon he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think this is all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think he lost the thought that he was damaging trump who helped get elected in a tweet trump said he's had to put up with fake news ever since he announced his bid for the presidency and that now he was having to deal with a fake book earlier he also promised to announce a special award for a fake news the ceremony was shared to all for this monday but now it's been postponed for two days. nothing gives you more credibility than donald trump calling you a liar and of course i don't want to get. a. jump start crazy promise from guys a boring trump crazy i'm against the people that make up stories oh right who cares about trump's crazy when he says he is and like mentally insane i do believe he's mentally unstable i mean i get to give you a question you say carol you are fake do. president is potentially

here the agenda of steve bannon is to run for president right out of a large bit of political action committee and that's why i got fired i think steve bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that they came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannon he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think this is all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think he lost the thought that he was damaging trump who he helped get elected in a tweet trump said he's had to put up with fake news evidence here about announced his bid for the presidency and the now and now he was having to deal with yet a fake book he also promised to announce a special award for a fake news the ceremony was shuttled for this monday but it's now been postponed for next week. nothing gives you more credibility than donald trump calling you a life i. don't want to get. crazy the problem is. the people. previously says. that he's mentally unstable i'm not going to give you a new steak or you are fake. temperamentally. president one united states president donald trump is pushing back against alle

really doing here the agenda of steve bannon is to run for president run a large bit of political action committee and that's why i got fired i think steve bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannon he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue and eventually when john kelly the current chief of staff former general kelly took the reins see worked on getting a mouse did from from the white house and i think that's really what this is about steve bannon thinks that he's a superstar the media to their credit have built him up as that and i think he went off the rails i think it was all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think he lost the thought that he was damaging trump who he helped get elected well let's look at the ramifications i mean how could bonds were trying to affect the media frenzy about trump's alleged mental state which we've had so much about i mean you think it could cost the media to admit that not everything in fire and fury is true . well you know it's pretty much on true i think there's some trut

really doing here the agenda of steve bannon is to run for president run a large bit of political action committee and that's why i got fired i think steve bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that they came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannan he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think it was all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think you lost the thought that he was damaging trump who helped get elected. hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the korean crisis and now in science after the north agreed to hold formal talks with the south ahead of the winter olympics but it didn't take long for the u.s. president to take the credit for a possible day escalation of the crisis but of people said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and such a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right now. well this week it was confirmed that north and south korea will meet for their first official talks in two

donations that his wife a democrat received for her failed 2016 senate bid forfrom a political action committee controlled by a close friend of hillary clinton." nbc has not independently verified the "washington post" reporting. according to the paper mccabe found the conversation "disturbing." and now it's allegedly raising eyebrows with the "post" claiming the conversation could be of interest to robert mueller. all of that coming as we get reports current fbi director christopher wray threatened to resign amid pressure from the president. nbc's kristen welker has more. >> reporter: nbc news has learned james comey, the former fbi director who led the russia probe, and jeff sessions, the attorney general who was forced to recuse himself, have both been interviewed by special counsel robert mueller's team. a justice department official says sessions sat for hours of questioning just last week. comey was interviewed last year about memos he wrote about his interactions with the president, a source close to comey revealed. >> no. i'm not at all concerned. >> did you talk to him? >> no, i didn't

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heather: the rising political action committee responding to those comments by delivering actual red headquarters was what do you think? do you agree is it crumbs? the campaign trail on the campaign trail, donald trump promised to keep guantÁnamo bay open, now he is keeping his promise on that. >> we are going to load it up with some bad dudes, we are going to load it up. heather: the president announce plans for an executive order during his state of the union address to reverse the obama direct to close the bill the military prison. 41 detainees remain in gitmo. a former va database manager trying to sell information on veterans, their families and va workers to an undercover cop for $100,000. police recovering ava computer from the arkansas home and arresting him before he can sell that data including social security numbers. he now faces several charges and will appear in federal court in march. the post office and border patrol getting a wake-up call after senate investigation found lapses of security checks contribute to the country's opioid crisis. >> it was shockingly easy to

like a political action committee. at the heart is a legal defense fund with a $13 million war chest that will be used to litigate sexual harassment claims. donors? to fund this. meryl streep, reese witherspoon and other hillary backers. like what jesse jackson used to do with operation push. the defense fund is led by tina chest. her only previous game to fame she was chief of staff to michelle obama. the whole effort is being overseen by the national women's law centers legal network for gender quality. that's a mouthful. this legal network was just created last october according to the see. -- ceo. she said the group was founded in response to the trump presidency's all out assault on women's rights. let's be clear what this is all about. this is not an effort to protect women although the trappings are there. there is an obvious attempt by hollywood leftists to organize for 2018 and 2020. times up members include evalongeriar and others that should a hilarious challenge. at the golden globes on sunday, women are be

he told the jury, he was one of two people that controlled that firm's political action committee, a firm they used to donate to political campaigns. he told the jury the found was used for quote business development and personal reasons. he was he and a business partner who sought to get the attention of the mayor off allentown. in an effort to obtain a valuable city contract for tax collections, he said he and a partner hired lobbyists to arrange the meetings with the mayor. he said after $6,000 had been donated to ed pawlowski's campaign fund and the mayor treated to a steak dinner and eagles playoff game he was informed by a third party his proposal to take over the tax collection looked good and netted him $100,000 and then he steered $10,000 into the campaign coffers of ed pawlowski after pawlowski made the request for the money. he also told the jury when the fbi began raised in 2015 he got a lawyer and cut ties with the firm he was working with. city workers testified the bidding process was supposed to be secret, however, he told the jury after the interviews he was told he

mccabe over hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations his wife received from a political action committee run by a close friend of hillary clinton. since then, the president has repeatedly gone after mccabe. and sessions encouraged the new fbi director, christopher wray to, to replace him. threatening to quit if he moved or was reassigned. >> he's going to do a good job. >> reporter: russia's meddling case progressing. rick gates has quietly hired a prominent white collar attorney, signaling gates may be negotiating with mueller in the face of eight charges of money laundering and failing to register foreign lobbying in other businesses. despite these developments, the white house continuing to assist that mueller's probe is a witch-hunt, but trump hasn't fired mueller due to potential backlash in the press. >> i think we all know what everyone in this room would do that if the president did that, and i don't think that's helpful to the process. >> reporter: alisyn, a day of of intense drama here at the white house. the president is continuing to target the probe and the fbi, attacking th

his wife, a democrat, received for her failed 2015 virginia state senate bid for a political action committee controlled by a close friends of hillary clinton. to everyone's account, he was pretty open about that, sent e-mails. wanted protocol about it. was this an appropriate thing to do? >> no, not really. i will tell you, it worries me again, two things about this, the president is too sensitive about this. he should let the investigation go forward, if he doesn't believe he has done anything wrong, then that's what the investigation will finds. i do believe bob mueller will finds exactly where the fact leads him. i don't think he will make anything up or do anything untoward. >> that said, the optics of what the fbi was engaged in. the text messages, mccabe's driving down, meeting with the governor of virginia. why his wife was engaged if possibly a state senate campaign, two things, one there was a public investigation and two the broader hillary clinton investigation, the optics of it are not good. >> like i said to my fbi friend, the american people expect better. even if he did nothin

nevertheless, trump vented anger to mccabe over donations hi ws e wife received from a political action committee by a close friend of clinton. he found the conversation with trump disturbing aconsidercordi one officialment they . they expressed a senior agent would be asked how he voted and criticized for his wife's political leanings by the president. quote, one person said the trump mccabe conversation is of interest to special counsel robert mueller. >>> carol leaning from "the washington post" joins us next. except for these two fellows. this time next year, we're gonna be sitting on an egg. i think we're getting close! make a u-turn... u-turn? recalculating... man, we are never gonna breed. just give it a second. you will arrive in 92 days. nah, nuh-uh. nope, nope, nope. you know who i'm gonna follow? my instincts. as long as gps can still get you lost, you can count on geico saving folks money. i'm breeding, man. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you

tonight the action committee for transit, a local advocacy group, will host a community discussion about harassment on metro. it will be at the silver spring civic center at 7:30. as for her, she is encouraged by metro's increased efforts at public awareness and hopes that one day maybe her pictures of women who have endured harassment on metro will be displayed in metro stations. mark segraves, news4. >> lawmakers in both maryland and virginia get back to work tomorrow. both sides have short legislative sessions. work for the year. we start in virginia where a flood of new democrats will pour into richmond. the gop majority and the house of delegates drop dramatically during the november elections. the incoming class of delegates includes 12 new women, among them virginia's first latina and first asian american delegates. danica roem is the state's first transgender lawmaker. when the maryland general assembly reconvenes tomorrow, lawmakers will be keenly aware it is an election year. popular republican governor larry hogan wants a second term, but democrats with strong control of both

his wife, a democrat received for her failed 2015 virginia state senate bid from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of hillary clinton. mccabe, who has spent more than two decades at the bureau found the conversation with trump disturbing. said one former u.s. official inside the fbi. officials familiar with the exchange expressed frustration that a civil servant, even a very senior agent in the number two position would be asked how he voted and criticized for his wife's political leanings by the president. one person said the trump-mccabe conversation is of interest to special counsel robert mueller. joining us now, betsy woodruff, reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor and back with us matt miller. matt, what would be the special prosecutor's interest in that exchange with andrew mccabe about how he voted in the presidential election? >> i think the interesting thing about this exchange is you have to remember the context in which it occurred. this is right after james comey was fired. and andrew mccabe was essentially there meeting the president in a job

her campaign received several hundred thousand dollars from a political action committee controlled by clinton ally and then virginia governor terry mcauliffe. that campaign happened before mick cave become comey's deputy. today sarah huckabee sanders didn't deny trump asked that question how mccabe voted. >> does the president make a habit of asking career government officials their voting habits? >> not that i'm aware of, no. >> did he ask andrew mccabe how he voted? >> look, the president and andrew mccabe have had limited and pretty nonsubstantive conversations. i can't get into the details of what was discussed. i wasn't there. there are wide spreads reports of his retirement. we're making sure we're serving on the fbi and doj serving all americans efficiently and fairly. >> talk about a spring of nonsec question tars. >> president trump's questioning fits a pattern. according to comey trump asked for his loyalty during a meeting early in his presidency. >> the dinner was an effort to build a relationship. in fact, had he asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me t

tonight, the action committee for transit, a local advocacy group, will host a community discussion aboutarassment on metro. it will be held at the silver spring civic center at 7:30. robleski will continue to document the stories of victims of harassment in the hopes that others will take action as well. >> not only report it to the metro system, but just talk about it amongst your friends, talk about it with your family. make a facebook status about it and just really start the conversation that this happens. >> reporter: mark segraves, news4. >> the video was unforgettable. the strength to survive never wave erred. tomorrow congressman steve scalise will undergo new surgery. a gunman shot him last june du in alexandria. police killed the gunman. scalise will undergo surgery for what he says is part of his continuing recovery. he returned to work last september to thunderous applause in the u.s. house. he says he plans to stay involved in work but has not said when he may return to capitol hill. >> new action from d.c. lawmakers aimed at helping residents frustrated with their water bil

virginia, and what he was talking about there is that terry mcauliffe gave his pac, his political action committee, gave over $500,000 to mccabe's wife to run as a democrat for the state senate. and what -- actually i think mccabe's mistake in that race is he appeared in political literature with his wife. now, it's his wife. and that's a response a lot of people have. other people's response is it's the fbi. so you've kind of given up your nonpartisan chops at that point and the president is taking advantage of that with mccabe. >> is he supposed toby tend -- >> when it comes to firing -- >> is he supposed to pretend that he's not her husband? >> look, there's two ways that can go but when they, as a couple, made the decision that she was going to get in that race, she decided to get in that race, it was going to have consequences for an fbi agent husband. and, but no one i think would have imagined the kind of consequences we're talking about tonight. i mean, he's in the center spotlight. it's a difficult boss to be in. and there's really no shaking that partisan flavor for him. and the presiden

when she was running for a seat in the virginia, and received nearly $500,000 from a political action committee controlled by the governor of virginia, associate of bill and hillary clinton. >> he's gone off on twitter about that a couple times. ellen, any idea of andrew mccabe took that question who he voted for as an innocent question, i am getting to know you question, or did he feel it implied a little more, loyalty in the way james comey said he was asked for loyalty? >> i suspect more the latter in the sense that i know he found these conversations disconcerting, disturbing even. and colleagues, friends within the bureau thought so as well. this conversation or exchange is also, i'm told, off peripheral interest to the mueller team, the special counsel team. >> i'm not surprised by that. certainly if they're investigating obstruction of justice, whether or not donald trump is asking his -- the people in his administration are people in the fbi for some semblance of loyalty, i'm sure that would come up. kristin walker at the white house, carol lee and ellen nakashima of "the washington pos

his wife a democrat received for her failed 2015 virginia state senate blid from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of hillary clinton. mccabe who has spent more than two decades at the bureau found the conversation with trump, quote, disturbing, said one former u.s. official. it's a stunning report on a conversation that one person told the post is of interest to special counsel robert mueller. >>> joining us at the table is journalist alicia menendez, now a contributing editor for the website. natasha is still with us. let me start with you. what is the significance of bob mueller being interested in the tone and tenor and substance of donald trump's conversations with andy mccabe? >> well, he's trying to establish if there is a pattern of behavior here by the president to try to influence, you know, the fbi essentially, the same fbi that is investigating his campaign for potential collusion with the russians, the same fbi that's investigating whether or not he obstructed justice when he fired james comey. so, these are, you know, these are all indications that trump,

secretary of the army was a senior lobbyist for raytheon, and even ran raytheon's political action committee. the secretary of the under secretary of the army, the number two position, was also a vice president at lockheed. the deputy chief management officer previously ran exor aerospace now a bankrupt developer of rocket engines and space launch systems. the undersecretary of defense for acquisition technology and logistics spent her career at an aerospace and defense contractor. i could go on with this list, and i don't doubt that many of these individuals are service minded. i know that many have also served honorably in government both in and out of uniform. i also believe that a strong partnership between government and industry is important to our national defense. industry experience in and of itself does not disqualify someone from public service. but there must be balance. when too many top government jobs are filled by industry insiders, we risk corporate capture of the whole policy making process. the overrepresentation of defense industry officials at the highest levels of the d

for that race because that race was in virginia she got a lot of money from political action committee mcauliffe. terry mcauliffe is a close ally of the clintons. basically when the president, then candidate trump heard that he started attacking mccabe on the stump and what's clear, you know -- what's clear from the president's tweets and what he does in private is that he has never let go of this ani mrmus mccabe. >> clint watt let's bring you in here and try to put some of this together. i've been writing down notes, because there's so much going on here. and there's so many things that are outside the norms for a president and his allies who are now at war with the fbi. you have, of course, new news donald trump goes up to the acting fbi director and says how did you vote. extraordinarily inappropriate. does violence to the constitutional norms and the rule of law. he asked comey, remember, for the loyalty. he then asked comey to drop the investigation of his national security adviser after he admits that he knows that his national security adviser committed a crime by lying to the

he vented to mccabe angry that his campaign had had received a big donation from a political action committeeton. >> that conversation is reportedly of interest to special counsel robert mueller who is seeking to question the president as part of his probe on the russia investigation, specifically about the firings of michael flynn and fbi director, james comey. it's not clear if the president will agree to an interview, although, initially, he told abc news he would. the justice department confirmed jeff sessions was questioned by mueller's team just last week. the president says he's not at all concerned about what sessions may have said. >>> a new countdown clock is ticking with the government set to run out of money again in less than three weeks. the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants remains in limbo. and the top democrat has taken back his offer for a border wall. we have the details. >> reporter: after sitting on the sidelines for much of the shutdown fight, president trump jumped back in the fray but would not promise washington will reach a deal to save the d.r.e.a.m.

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>> so the glossary definition is it's an action taken by committee when a bill is heard and there's an indication that the author and committee members want to work on -- >> may i suggest or, in fact, request that you phrase that as "held in committee." whether it's a policy committee or a fiscal committee. >> "held in committee" has a separate definition under the state legislature's glossary. it means when a bill fails to get sufficient votes to pass out of committee and it's held in committee. >> that's what i say, but we don't say that here. you don't say that under procedural -- you say held under submission. to me, that could mean -- i don't know what it means. and i will just suggest that you say, held in blank committee. >> thank you for the feedback, commissioner kopp. we can try to evolve this so the terms are simple and understandable to the layperson and we'll strive to do that at the next report. >> one more question. lastly, what will happen with this whistle-blower ordinance that mr. monet shaw commented on and has written on a 2-page analysis. will we have that on our c