latest gentlemen, please welcome garry trudeau, farenthold of. [applause] >> those who come here, and here most authors speak, is this not on? i will speak a little louder. it is on? most of you who are regulars here are accustomed to hearing authors read from their books. that would not be a treat in my case, reading comic strips is pretty hard. what i thought i would do is read the preface from the book and explain to you how i had this peculiar relationship with mister trump. farenthold of -- "yuge!" was not my idea, and she said you have done an awful lot. might be enough over the last three decades so we scrambled and my publisher got to it very quickly. what i am going to do is read you the preface and after that, i would be happy to have a conversation with you about a 12 farenthold of -- the preface begins on the back, selected comments from donald trump, a carefully curated collection of insults he has thrown my way over the years. the one i begin with, a third rate talent trying to get publicity on my back. his message conveyed through t

david farenthold of the "washington post" has investigated trump's charity for months. >> i talked to tax experts who said they'd never seen anybody do anything like what he's done in the last few years, which is use the money in his charity to basically pay off the legal settlements of his for-profit businesses. >> reporter: trump's campaign >> reportement. at today's rally, trump said he would use other people's money to build a border wall and resettle refugees. charity, trump is already using other people's money. >> pelley: major garrett reporting for us tonight. major, thank you. well, trump and clinton will hold their first debate next monday evening in hempstead, new york. cbs news will bring it to you live beginning at 9:00 eastern time. trump's son, donald trump jr., is taking the heat this evening for a tweet in which he used skittles to represent syrian he wrote, "if i had a bowl of skittles and i told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?" among those taking issue are the makers of skittles.y said today, the wrigley company said today, "skittles are can

david farenthold of "the washington post," investigated trump's charity for months. i talked to tax experts, who say they have never seen some body use character tee to pay off legal settlements for for profit businesses. >> trump's campaign had no comment at today's rally. trump said he would use other people's money to build a border wall and resettle refugees. people's money. >> major garrett reporting for us tonight. major, thank you. >> trump and clinton will hold their first debate next monday evening. in hempstead, new york. cbs news will bring it to you live. beginning at 9:00 eastern time. trump's son, donald trump jr. is taking the heat this evening for a tweet in which he used skittles to represent syrian refugees. he wrote, "if i had a bowl of and i told you just three would kill you. would you take a handful?" and among those taking issue are the makers of skittles. the wrigley company said today, "skittles are candy. refugees are people." the refugee crisis for the most part involves millions of syrians fleeing civil war. tonight, the u.s. is blaming ru

farenthold of texas. chip the gentleman from texas, mr. farenthold and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. farenthold: the office of management and budget has imposed a need for a new start or new investment determination for project that was previously been fully thrsed and have actually begun work despite a lack of written policy or standards. many of these critical projects like one in the district i represent, the port of corpus christi channel improvement project was fully authorized by wrda in 2007 and re-authorized by wrda 2013 and they've been halted even though parts of the project have been completed. the purpose othey have project state this is a elements of a previously authorized project do not constitute a new start but are a continuation of ongoing work. the determination and advancing these separate elements of entire projects slows things down as we have to get a new start finding on every element. slowing it down deprives communities of much-needed improvemen

david farenthold of "the washington post," investigated trump's charity for months. i talked to tax experts, who say they have never seen some body use character tee to pay off legal settlements for for profit businesses. >> trump's campaign had no comment at today's rally. trump said he would use other people's money to build a border wall and resettle refugees. trump is already using other people's money. >> major garrett reporting for us tonight. major, thank you. >> trump and clinton will hold their first debate next monday evening. in hempstead, new york. cbs news will bring it to you live. beginning at 9:00 eastern time. trump's son, donald trump jr. is taking the heat this evening for a tweet in which he used skittles to represent syrian refugees. he wrote, "if i skittles. and i told you just three would kill you. would you take a handful?" and among those taking issue are the makers of skittles. the wrigley company said today, "skittles are candy. refugees are people." the refugee crisis for the most part involves millions of syrians fleeing civil war. tonigh

farenthold. all right, let's start with -- forget the foundation for a second. the beginning of this was a simple question, donald trump's a billionaire, a rich guy. rich people tend to give money to charity whether they're generous or not, just a thing that rich people do. what charities has he given to? and you've been stonewalled and been reverse engineering it by just calling charities and you got basically bupkis so far. >> he said i give millions, where did it go? and they don't give us an answer. so then we started looking. let's try to prove donald trump right. we started looking at charities that he seemed close to. people he'd given trump foundation money to, has gone to their galas, praised them on twitter. i've called those groups. that's how we started. >> you're 1 for 326 on that, am i right about that? >> yes. >> can you show us the notepad. you've been tracking this on this weirdly iconic notepad. that's the no, never. then there's the foundation that people are surprised to learn is other people's money and also right now is in a little bit of hot water over pam

joining me now, the reporter behind that story, david farenthold of the washington post.ald trump winds up -- or his foundation winds up giving this donation to pam bondi's political action committee. can you sort that out for us? >> it's very confusing. pam bondi solicits a donation from donald trump when she's considering whether or not to investigate trump university. trump pays that donation, $25,000 out of the donald j. trump foundation, which is an odd entity. it's a charity, contains almost no money from donald j. trump himself. you might think that it does, but it doesn't. trump pays that money out of the foundation, which it's not allowed to do. foundations can't make political gifts. then when he reports that year's activity to the irs, he leaves off the prohibited donation and sends the irs a listing of a false, non-existent donation to a group with a similar sounding name, to cover up the illegal donation. >> so there's this kansas charity with a name similar to the donald j. trump foundation. they say that is who gave the money to pam bondi? >> yes. pam bondi

on top of that as farenthold has reported donald trump hasn't given any of his own money to the foundation. it's funded almost entirely from other people's money including nbc universal, our parent company, in 2012. david farenthold is investigating this along with two other reporters. coming up those two other reporters. just like that, a moment turns romantic. so why pause to take a pill? and when you're having fun why stop to find a bathroom? with cialis for daily use, you don'have to plan around either. it's the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is ght. plus ciatreats the frustrating urinary symptomsf bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialisf you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary and hypertension,d ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset

david farenthold of "the washington post," investigated trump's charity for months. i talked to tax experts, who say they have never seen some body use character tee to pay off legal settlements for for profit businesses. >> trump's campaign had no comment at today's rally. trump said he would use other people's money to build a border wall and resettle refugees. people's money. >> major garrett reporting for us tonight. major, thank you. >> trump and clinton will hold their first debate next monday evening. in hempstead, new york. cbs news will bring it to you live. beginning at 9:00 eastern time. trump's son, donald trump jr. is taking the heat this evening for a tweet in which he used skittles to represent syrian refugees. he wrote, "if i had a bowl of and i told you just three would kill you. would you take a handful?" and among those taking issue are the makers of skittles. the wrigley company said today, "skittles are candy. refugees are people." the refugee crisis for the most part involves millions of syrians fleeing civil war. tonight, the u.s. is blaming ru

on top of that as farenthold has reported donald trump hasn't given any of his own money to the foundation entirely from other people's money including n nbc universal, our parent company, in 2012. david farrenthold is investigating this along with two other reporters. coming up those two other reporters. ♪ using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework... wire... and plants needed to give my shop... a face... no one will forget. see what the power of points can do for your business. learn more at chase.com/ink see but my back pain wasints camaking it hard to sleep and open up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. now i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. to the aarp auto insurance program om the hartford? let's hear what actual customers are saying. [ hanson ] the hartford's integrity is something that's very important to us folks over 50. i get the highest levels of coverage. i get the highest levels of service, low premiums, but when it comes time to deliver, the hartford's been there.

trying to untangle the world of donald trump's money. mr. farenthold your time tonight. >> great to be here. >> in terms of the pam bondi donation, i want you to give me the chance to correct me if i'm wrong. is that basically what we understand about that thus far? >> you got it right. >> donald trump said he and pam bondi had a long-standing relationship, it's not out of character, no reason to look for a quid pro quo. my office, we can't find any evidence of them having a preexisting relationship. >> i haven't seen it either. there's also donations from ivanka trump that come in about the same time as pam bondi's office was looking at considering this lawsuit against trump university. so the timing is very coincidental. >> is the issue, part of it, one of the things you dug up, a donation of this kind, from the trump foundation to a pac supporting an attorney general running for re-election, that's improper, you can't make those kind of donations legally between those two kinds of entities. do we know if he's done that with other pacs? >> i've looke

of other people's money. as "the washington post's" david farenthold has exposed trump has used some of the foundation's moneyty but for things that seem to directly benefit donald trump himself including two portraits of himself, a signed tim tebow helmet and more than a quarter million dollars to settle lawsuits that involve trump's for-profit businesses. again, this money from trump's foundation being used not for charity but to settle lawsuits against businesses owned by trump. for obvious reasons, it's against the law for a leader of a foundation to use money the benefit his own private interests. asked about the story on this network last night mike pence claimed "the washington post" got it wrong. >> i think what we found is that there's a number of factual errors in that story as there were in previous stories about the trump foundation. i'm confident that they'll be able to address those and demonstrate that they fully complied with the law. >> to back up right quick here for just a minute, do you know what the factual errors are that the campaign is alleging in "the washington post" story? >> well,

amendment which is co-sponsored by representative farneholet hold and provides for the release of -- farenthold and provides for release of he'sments. this amendment was written in conjunction with the army corps of engineers and they have signed off on this language. the purpose of this release of land is to allow for economic growth at the court of brownsville. these tracks of land are the property of the port and have been under easement to the army corps for decades. these easements were orn originally granted to the army corps in the -- originally granted to the army corps in the early 1950's but have never been used. returning control of the property to the port of brownsville will not hinder army corps projects at the port. under my amendment, parts of seven tracks would be released subject to the conditions that the secretary considers appropriate and necessary to protect the interests of the united states. the port of brownsville is responsible for all reasonable and necessary costs, including real estate transaction and environmental documentation costs, making the amendment budget-ne

farenthold: i rise in support of this bill. there are a lot of good things in it for the nation. as a former computer technician there is nothing worse than a single point of failure. e-loran is a must have. we can talk about what's not in the bill as well. but i want to talk about a section that is important to the district i represent. section 202 grants the authority for the coast guard to reimburse non-federal entities for the cost of navigation. these projects can move forward in a timely fashion. we are aware of how slow the government can be especially when it comes to funding projects. so we are coming up with a way to work with non-federal partners to improve the safety of our navigation system. the nonfederal partners put in the equipment up to coast guard standards with coast guard approval and get it down now and when the coast guard gets the money and the red tape moves through the procedure, they can get reimbursed while mariners enjoy the enhanced safety and the parts enjoy the enhanced economic activity to traverse channels. it's safety and good for the economy. i

farenthold: i have no intention of doing it. i just want to say, don't get frustrated when we continue to ask these questions because we're not badgering you because we want to badger you. we're talking to you because the american people are upset about this and don't think it was handled appropriately. and that's the basis of my questioning. i thank you for appearing here. director comey: i totally understand that. i think there are lots of questions people why which is why i worked so hard to try to be transparent. there's never been this kind of transparency in a criminal case ever. but because i understand the questions and importance of it, i hope people separate two things. questions about facts and judgment from questions and accusations about integrity. as i said before, you can call us wrong. you can call me a fool. you cannot call us weasels. that is just not fair. i hope we haven't gotten to a place in american public life where everything has to be torn down on integrity basis to disagree. you can disagree with this.

joining me right now for more on this, i'm joined by the author of that article in "the washington post," david farentholdl reporter for "the washington post." david, explain this use of money, use of foundation money for business personal purposes. >> well, we looked at two cases where two businesses, one time it was a golf course in new york. both cases, they got into legal trouble. and both settlements agreed to make a donation to charity, but in both cases, the business didn't pay anything. a trump used a separate charity with other people's money to pay those -- >> so it's not trump's money in the foundation? >> as far as we can tell, he hasn't given a donation since 2008. it's other people's money. >> in other words, he's dipping into money that isn't his and using it. like going into the collection basket at church and give me a handful of money. is it any different than that? >> he's taken this money in the charity, supposed to do charitable work, and using it to pay off obligations that his businesses have already occurred? >> why did he stop giving money in '08? the trump foundation has the name

of congress. susan collins said she's always interested to hear what mike pence has to say. he may help sway her to trump's team. i'm joined by congressman blake f farentholdrom texas and a trump supporter. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for coming to my house and the people's house. >> you were meeting with governor pence when he spoke with members of the house. i want to talk about the meeting and specifically a question that was asked about trump's support among women. what struck you about that moment? >> listen, pence is very well respected and liked in the house. his comments are well received by members of the house. he's one of us. >> is that going to do anything to bring more republicans into the fold who so far have been resistant to unite behind trump? >> i was next to a fellow member of congress who has not endorsed trump. >> who was it? >> i'm not going to out her without her permission. she said she's thinking about it and the trump endorsers meet every week here. i invited her. >> later today we'll see donald trump with ivanka. she's been a weapon the campaign has deployed to appeal to women. when you look at polling some 60% of voters bel

of the trump foundation. >> we have yet to see his tax returns. that's another issue. thank you very much, david farenthold we look forward to your next piece in the saga. meanwhile, hillary clinton had a call with counter terrorism experts in the wake of the attacks in new jersey and new york. one of the experts, matt alisol, is next. willour business be ready when growth presentstself? our new cocktail bitters were doing well, but after one tradeshow, we took off. all i could think about was our deadlines racing towards us. a loan would take too long. we needed money, now. my amex card helped me buy the ingredients to fill the orders. opportunities don't wait around, so you have to be ready for them. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. i'm claudine and i quit smoking with chantix. find by the time i was 30,ess i said "that's it, i'm a smoker for life." i wanted to be a non-smoker and i did it thanks to chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix duced my urge to smoke some people had changes in

constitution, 229 years ago, created a republic that has withstood the test of time and proven it is destinned for greatness. mr. farenthold: to this day, the united states constitution stands as a testament to the tenacity of americans throughout history to establish justice, to ensure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty. the constitution has withstood the toves the civil war, the great depression and many other challenges. we are blessed to live in a nation where we can all pursue happiness in safety and freedom and i ask my colleagues to join me and the daughters of the american revolution in celebrating the constitution and what it has done for each and every american during constitution week. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection the gentleman s recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker. i rides in support of h.r. 558 which re-authorizes the perkins career and educational program through 2022. career education programs prov

for him not to raise this principal issue which i note is one of only seven policy positions on his website? >> i do. >> congressman farenthold, sorry. >> i think it was. when you start a negotiation, you don't ask anybody in sales. you develop the relationship first. that's what donald trump is doing. hillary clinton doesn't have the courage to go and talk to the president of mexico. >> you don't think she's talked to the president of mexico? >> she was invited. donald trump went. she hadn't gone. >> she has talked to the president of mexico. she was secretary of state of the united states. >> i'm sure she has in the past. >> right. so let me ask you this -- >> she didn't take this opportunity to go, because she would have had to answer questions from the press and she's afraid to get in front of the camera, because she doesn't want to answer questions about the clinton foundation and all the corruption associated with her. >> congressman, the donald trump plan to get mexico to pay for the wall says they can do it in three days. does that sound like the right time frame for you, three days? >> again, i don't have donald trum

of a tax law known as self-dealing. now the trump campaign is just going after the man reporting it. >> let's talk to the man. david farentholdpost" is joining us once again. thank you so much for jumping on. the statement coming from the trump campaign, let's go through some of what they put out yesterday. one of the things they point out is this is exactly what they say. in typical "washington post" fashion they have gotten their facts wrong, also saying the "post" reporting is peppered with inaccuracies and omissions. have they told you what facts they think you got wrong? >> no. before that story came out i sent them really detailed questions about basically everything in that story and got literally no response at all, not even an acknowledgment they had received the e-mail. then afterward, they put out that statement. i haven't actually seen any and i don't think any other reporter has either, any specific things they believe are wrong. if they have, i'm glad to see them. i'm glad to talk about them. i haven't actually seen one example. >> they haven't told you what the facts are although apparently they are all wrong.

first of all they would tell us how much he gives to charity and that's a question that has surfaced in this campaign. my colleague david farenthold at the "washington post" has been doing interesting work. >> he's been doing great work into trump's charitable giving. that's one thing that will come out. the other thing it would answer for us is how much does he pay in taxes. what check has he written to the u.s. treasury? and he has -- trump has bragged or said, at least, that he tries very hard to keep his tax rate as low as possible and we fight find he's paying a very, very small amount of tax. i think that's of great interest to american citizens as is is charitable giving. >> as is medical records as well as a media columnist i'm sure you'll be watching dr. oz with closer scrutiny as we know donald trump has chosen that as the medium from which to, i guess, tell the world if he's healthy or not. we'll be watching. margaret sullivan with the "washington post," thank you so much. >> thanks, brooke. >> you got it. >>> up next, the independent candidate in this whole presidential race, evan mcmullan, will join me live from utah.

friend from texas who also has done a lot of work preparing this legislation and i'm honored to yield five minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. farenthold. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. farenthold: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, our taxes in this country are too high and too complicated. we need a fairer, flatter, simpler tax system. but there's a lot of work to be done on that. i know my friend, the gentleman from illinois, in the ways and means committee, chairman brady from texas, are all working to -- working on that. we do have a situation where many of our olympic athletes work hard for years, some of whom are living at or below poverty, and then when they bring home the gold, silver or bronze to our country, they're tagged by the i.r.s. with very high taxes. his bill is a small step and a small way we can say thank you to those athletes for the hard work they put in to make us all proud as americans. i do think the bill does great service to our athletes. but it should also serve as a remind that are we need to be looking at the -- reminder that we need to be looking at the bigger tax sys

of their supporters, but of trump north carolina, footer, ohio come all possible for him to do, then brooklyn has to worry. it is a race they could lose. john: david farentholdtrikes again. a washington post reporter has been giving donald trump a headache by investigating his charitable foundation has in his story out, and it is a doozy. the latest report shows donald trump spent more than $250,000 from his nonprofit to settle lawsuits from people assuming his private business by donating money to charity. instead of using his own money, he reportedly gave those individuals cash. the story suggests the trump foundation may have violated the law. that it was a slush fund. how big a deal could this be? mark: i am not minimizing it. it is another case where he may have broken the law, but the most serious thing about this is one of trump hired accountants and lawyers to deal with his foundation. he is not an expert on the laws governing foundations, but i question the judgment he has in hiring people. because the lawyers and accountants that allow this, i think should lose their jobs. this is such a bad judgment to do with this story says trump did. he should

farenthold for five minutes spent i think i understand why you make $18 million, country of the complexity of the drug pricing has me really flummoxed. of course, i won't make $18 million in 100 years serving in congress. so let me ask you, you talk about is wholesale acquisition cost of $608. who pays six or $8 for an epipen? on me, is that just like a manufacturers suggested retail price? >> it certainly was never intended for the wholesale acquisition cost, the system, we certainly didn't make the co system. >> i'm not coming after your company, all right? i'm very tempted to because i think y'all have been behaved badly and have invited government regulation. i am a free market person. i'm very much for free market, this whole drug pricing system that we have right now makes no sense to me, and a free market can offer in this is where people like me who are consumers don't understand it. i'm going to lay aside my concerned about what your company is doing and why. i think it's wrong, but that's not where i want to get to ato want to get to the pricing. you said -- i'm going to call it

of porking -- this is disgusting behavior. >> let's stick -- i want to stick to the reporting. we'll get to the other stuff. so, scotty, we have also been discussing tonight the "washington post" david farenthold, trump's foundation never obtained the certification that is required before soliciting money from the public. what's your reaction to that? >> this is coming from a very biased attorney general. other attorneys have looked at it and not found a problem. >> the attorney general did not uncover this issue. it was the reporter who uncovered it. the attorney general wouldn't comment on it. >> we are 39 days out. everything that's coming out right now has to be put in the category of politically motivated and twisted just to have a short headline to continue demonizing mr. trump and the truth later on doesn't matter whether it was true or not. let just get it out there and throw everything at the wall and demonize this man and as the poe polls get tighter you're going to see very little truth to these allegations. >> i'm not an attorney to deals with these sorts of things but he wasn't selling access through the state department through his foundation. >> but he did -- there were -- >> he

farenthold, who has been doing brilliant work, and went to the attorney general, did they file the necessary paperwork to solicit and they didn't. >> okay. so here's what farrenhold told anderson. >> if that's the biggest consequence of having not registered, is if he had to register every year he would come through the independent auditor, look at all the checks and specifically ask the question, did donald trump's foundation spend money in a way that benefit the donald trump, and we found a few allegations where that seems to have happened over the few years and if they went through these audits they would have found it. >> now we're up to nine illegal examples, illegal conduct, by just the trump foundation and what this shows is there's very good reason to revoke the charitible status of the trump foundation. self-interested status, and paying off donald trump's legal obligations, buying paintings of him in his properties and soliciting money without authorization from the state. it also raises a question about if you're such a terrific businessman, this genius businessman, how come you keep running into illegal conduct? >> so for -- i heard jeffrey tubin on earlier saying there are a number of charitable foundati

of those funds for taxpayers, cybersecurity and taxpayer service. >> thank you, commissioner. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. farenthold for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. commissioner koskinen, you testified in response to a couple of questions that as a result of the lois lerner treatment of conservative organizations, several people are no longer with the irs. were any of those people fired or did they all resign? >> i actually don't know. all of that happened before i got there. all i know is the five people in the order either resigned. there were reviews done on a personal basis. and i don't know which of those people resign and which of them resigned in the face of in some cases knowledge they were to be fired. but i don't know that. and if i did know, i wouldn't be able to tell you the details anyway. >> and you talked about these two gentlemen who degazed the tapes. and you said it was an honest mistake. so were they aware, do you know if these gentlemen were aware of the order to preserve data? >> have i not done the investigating. the ig's investigation reported that they were not aware, that they