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we'll know from the fe k fec fi what it is later. says, you know, this is another reason why he can't win. but this -- we proved that these cases just help him raise more money. >> well, look, when it comes to money, obviously you would much rather be joe biden than trump. he is paying 83 million or will pay 83 million to e. jean carroll. there would be upwards of 350 million in new york. but at the end of the day, you know, i think there's going to be -- this is inside baseball. i think at the end of the day, there will be more than enough money to go around. they're going to spend trump and biden who are going to be the nominees, are going to spend way upwards of a billion dollars on the campaign. i think the bigger challenge, especially for joe biden, is to figure out exactly what he's campaigning on. i mean, to -- i wrote an op-ed the other day arguing that he hasn't clearly defined why he's running for a second term. and i think he -- i think he needs to do two things. he has to campaign in poetry and pros. the poetry is spellin

the doj is going to figure out whether or not rules were broken and fec. it's just the hypocrisy.t soundbite where she was calling for defund the police. yes, defund the police at the same time that i am paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> carley: a lot. >> steve: working better with friends coordination. hundreds of thousands of dollars worked well right there, hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect her because she felt threatened. now she is threatened with this fbi and federal investigation. let's see. we will keep you posted on what happens. >> carley: we will, indeed. more news to get to starting with boeing. it is set to report fourth quarter results this morning in the wake of the 737 max 9 door plug blowout. the company will be answering investor questions about how that incident could impact the company's bottom line in the months and years ahead. experts say fallout from the incident will likely not show up in today's earnings report. a new jersey teen speaking out about his decision to purchase a bagel shop instead of using that money to go to college. he s

fec rules allow lawmakers to pay family members for bona fide services at a fire market value. the police. bush has been criticized for spending hundreds of thousands on private security. the representative says she needs it because there's been threats to her life and that she's using campaign funds, not taxpayer dollars. martha? >> martha: rich, thanks very much. right now president biden a live shot, as he leaves palm beach today on his way to miami. he's been holding campaign events in florida. when we saw the president leaving the white house earlier, he said a couple of things. he said that he had decided how he's going to retaliate for the death of three american service members. we have yet to learn exactly what form that will take. we will see because we know that the white house has said will happen at a time hand place of the commander-in-chief's choosing along with his leadership at the department of defense. you can see the president as he heads up the stairs to air force one right now. he also said that he's done all he can when it comes to the border. obviously a

fec rules allows lawmakers to pay family members for bone fioed service members -- bona bonafide servicessecurity and representative needs it because there's been threats to her life and that she's using campaign funds, not taxpayer dollars. liz. elizabeth: you're always so good, rich. love your journalism there. thank you so much. welcome to the show washington times opinion editor charlie hurt. this is quite a story. what do you make of it? >> it really is. you've got a couple things going on here. it's sort of comical to listen to congresswoman bush claim these are right wing groups coming after her. last i checked doj is not a right wing group but okay, she's got to make her argument. there's a couple things going on here. one is that she is as rich points out one of the loudest ring leaders of this defund the police movement. yet she's apparently using inappropriate amounts of her campaign funds and federal funds and buying her own protection and trying to cut protection for her constituents back home. for her to say she's come to washington to carry out the wisher was her voters in

you saw in the story saying the fec is going to release regulations by summer.l, let me tell you, summer's too late. so if we're waiting on legislation, we're going to have a problem. i know from sitting in meetings with a lot of the platforms, they're already working on this, they're thinking about it. but it's against a backdrop, tyler, of people saying you're taking down conservative content. you're manipulating the content. so the platforms are really sensitive to an argument that they're already editing what goes up on their platform. and so, again, i think that we have to, as we think about this, we have to educate people on what can be done, why they need to be more cynical about what they're seeing, especially if the content is particularly inflammable. so i hate to say this, but it comes down to educating the voter on what this technology can do, and then yes, making available the actual footage showing what's happened. i think when the voters sees that somebody is manipulating this, hopefully the voter will punish the manipulator and that will create -

fec rules allow lawmakers to pay family members for actual services at fair market value.ush says the office of congressional ethics investigated this situation last year, found no wrongdoing and voted unanimously to dismiss the case. the progressive congresswoman has reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private security as a strong advocate of defunding police. bush has been criticized for that. >> maybe she wants to defund the police so she can steal more out of her campaign and pay her husband. >> bush justified the security expenditures saying she has been threatened and as a rank and file of the member of the house gets no government security. bush denies she used taxpayer money on private security, only campaign funds, bret. >> bret: okay. we will follow it. rich, thanks. markets today stocks were mixed as investors await tomorrow's interest rate decision by the federal reserve. the dow gaining 134. the s&p 500 finished off 3. the nasdaq lost 118. up next, my exclusive entry with the qatari prime minister. taiwan conducts spring military drills. exerc

this is evident in bipartisan opposition that the fec approach to a number of issues including the two equity market structures , swing pricing and conflicts of interest. one of the most recent examples of the blatant disregard is in response to a letter that i sent in september along with mr. gill and 19 other representatives and senators regarding the predictive data and analytics proposal. more than 30 days since we have sent that letter which posed specific questions to the fcc. questions that need timely responses. we received e-mails assuring us that the fcc would be following up with the response, but more than 30 days have passed and still nothing. finally, they hearing leading up today made it clear that they are exceeding their mandate. particularly in areas relating to policies. they adhere to their statutory authority and do not create far-reaching policies that congress never intended. today we had the opportunity to explore these concerns while shedding light on the potential consequences of the agenda and current approach to rulemaking. i look forward to hearing from our

. >> she's paid $170,000 for security services and $105,000 to her husband according to fec reports event have a private security license. republican lawmaker told us she should talk to her party leader, hakeem jeffries. >> ensure that jeffries or somebody could look into it and get with local law enforcement agency and i bet she doesn't want to talk to the police, does she? she doesn't even support the police. the idea to pay her thug money to try and help protect her. for what? maybe if she wasn't so loud all the time she wouldn't be getting threats. reporter: bush was vocal about defund the police and hypocritical for spending lavishly on private security and some democrats are not quick to defend her. >> obviously if she's broken the law, democrats have been real consist on this. if you're cori bush or donald trump, we apply the law equally. hopefully it is a misunderstanding and if not, she'll have to deal with the consequences. reporter: for a little context, $720,000 in security services is more than four times her salary as a member of congress. stu. stuart: thanks, mike. preside

>> unity 08 versus fec gives us a constitutional right to access the ballot. before then only billionaires could run as a independent or a third party. now as a non-profit, we have access, we have the right to access the ballot. next supreme court case by the way is under pin by alabama versus the naacp when alabama was trying to get the naacp to -- to attack and that's exactly what's going on. >> no labels sounds like no transparency. if donald trump and joe biden have to disclose who their donors are, why not no labels? >> jim, we're not running a campaign yet. >> say when you put together a ticket. would you pledge -- >> please let me -- >> pledge to disclose who those donors are? >> look, the ticket will have to abide by the rules. superpac will as well. we don't have a ticket. we're abiding by the rule of the law all the while people are attacking us. and i really haven't seen much coverage of that. you know how people are trying to keep my friends like dean phillips off the ballot in florida or tennessee or north carolina. democracy is being attacked now

caroline: that rubbed salt into the wound for the fec -- s.e.c.. i want to reiterate my husband is a direct threat coinbase. talking about the broader crypto sphere, what this means if we sign off for a spot bitcoin etf as soon as today. we have the founder of managing partner of future perfect ventures, a firm focusing on bitcoin -- okta technology, crypto assets, human crypto interaction. what did you alternately think of this almost test case to the price reaction to the signoff? how much is baked in? how much exuberance is there within the $48,000 price point? jalak: it's great to be with you again. it has been an amazing 24 hours for crypto. i think that if we look at the price action, it has been pretty narrow. there is a lot of pent-up energy and demand for the asset. caroline: what does this mean for crypto more broadly? there has been a lot of focus on bitcoin. perhaps dragging away some liquidity and ultimately volume from altcoins. you are thinking about business models within crypto. it is their exuberance building into other parts? eth

the exact numbers will come out tomorrow when he has to file his report with the fec. for now ought we do know i'm joined by maggie haberman, senior political correspondent for "the new york times" and trump biographer. i mean $50 million for someone who obviously has a lot of legal troubles is still a really astounding number. >> it's an eye popping number. it is eye popping in a couple of ways. number one, he is not someone who historically has liked paying legal bills. >> that was my first thought. >> well, this isn't his money. this is donor money, and so it's a lot easier to pay when you're paying with donor money, number one. number two, it's a lot of money. it's not just him but lawyers for witnesses as you know, i think lawyers for his two codefendants, at least one of them. people who are not -- one of whom is on the campaign roll, the other has worked for mar-a-lago. these numbers are not going to get smaller as we go forward because he has been indicted four times, and this number got exponentially higher last year than it was in 2022. and if any case goes t

i think you know, we'll see more later as you mentioned, john, we're going to see the filing to the fec come in later today and have a better sense of the real numbers here, but if you think about the math and numbers we have already, it doesn't seem like all of this is going to be able to be covered by his political action committee, that donald trump is going to have to foot some of the bill on his own. we know in the first trial with e. jean carroll he did put forward $5 million of his own money. i think that's something that trump team is going to have to deal with moving forward. just to quickly add, you know, i covered donald trump for many years now, he is someone who historically hates paying his lawyers, hates paying his legal fees and stiffed some of his attorneys in the past, so again, just something that i think we'll watch closely as this year progresses and we see, you know, just how much more money is going to have to go towards footing the bill for a lot of his legal fees. >>> on the subject of legal bills, any minute now, one of the rulings we have been waiting for coul

fec rules allow to pay family members at bona fide services for fair market value.ouse democratic caucus chairman refused to weigh in. >> i don't have any comments on that, that's something for the justice department. i know what you guys have put out and tweeted, that's all i have. i don't have anything more. i haven't talked to her about it, yeah. >> as a vocal advocate of the defund the police movement, bush has been criticized for spending hundreds of thousands on private security. she said she needs it because there have been threats to her life. last night the justice department sent a subpoena to the house to obtain payroll information. sergeant-at-arms read it on the house floor. constitution does shield lawmakers from certain types of legal jeopardy related to their official duties of their office, john. >> john: do we know if it's one of those cases? >> we don't know. all we know, the justice department is looking into all this. >> sandra: billionaire mark cuban has championed dei policies, questions whether it could lead to legal trouble for him. cuban po

the fec requires if you're going to use campaign funds, number one, you're going to pay family membernd it has to be necessary. and it has to be above or consistent with fair market value. now she has already spent over $765,000 on security. when i was the d.a. i never spent that kind of money and i had security all the time. in addition to her boyfriend that she needs security from, he doesn't have a license from st. louis, he doesn't have a license in d.c., and neither area is he entitled to be a security person and she also spent another $60,000 on a friend of her that she gave money to. as far as i'm concerned that his money laundering. this is taking campaign funding and putting it in your boyfriend's bank account, and then -- >> jesse: and then your boyfriend takes you out to dinner. >> jeanine: yes, or on vacation. >> dana: or on a cruise. >> jesse: dana? >> dana: that's true. she is one of the biggest proponents of defund the police but there is a pattern -- and you see this repeatedly, and the shadiness of paying the family members to do things, sometimes it is necessary to p

from the strain o horrifying fec being worsened by the astonishing amount of markets coming across thee policies of this administration have created a border crisis, a national security crisis, a humanitarian crisis. it is irresponsible and embarrassing that i almost understand why t administration refuses to take responsibility for it. but the fact is, the responsibility liesr-h secretary mayorkas, the appointed border czar, vice president harris, and with president joe biden. h.r. -- excuse me. h.res. 957 condemns the national security and public safety crisis these actors and other bide administration officials have created, denounces the biden administration's open border policies, and it urges the president to end those policies. we are also here to discuss two pieces of legislation to support expectant mothers.■8'5 h.r. 6914, the pregnant students' rights act -- pregnant students rights act, requires the department ofca provide information on the rights of and accommodation and resources for pregnant students. according to the c.d.c., nearly one third of all abortions performed i

raised about impropriety, one of the commissioners released a report and she made the point that the fec is really at an internal bypass where they don't seem to be able to move on any of these issues. she pointed out that there had opinion 28 complaints involving the former president, his family, pacts related to him where the bipartisan committee staff wanted to investigate and not a single republicanvoted to move any of those investigations forward. that would seem to foreclose that as an option. >> david, i want to play some of what the january 6th committee uncovered about trump's fund raising efforts. >> the claims that the election was stolen were so successful, president trump and his allies raised $250 million. nearly $100 million in the first week after the election. on november 9th, 2020, president trump created a separate entity called the save america pact. most of the money raised went to this newly created pac. the select committee discovered the save america pac made millions of contributions to pro trump organizations including $1 million to trump chief of staff mark mea

i'd be remiss if i didn't thank members of the committee for their work with the fec and the conflict of interest rule. we greatly appreciate your engagement on this issue. to close mi inc. urges policymakers to contue recognize the important role private mi place and the protection affords to lenders and the stability of the overall nance. thank you. >> thank your. appel tempered dr. hamilton you are recognized for five minutes for your full remarks. >> thank you chair davis and ranking member pressley emirs of subcommittee i emily hamilton a research fellow at george mason codirector of beer project that local governments have imposed numerousimits on whatinds of housing can be built where. zoning rules including bans on multifamily housing restrictions on manufactured housing and requirements for minimum lot size can limit how much housing the market can provide and drives up the price of housing. these rules are contributing to -- securing affordability. while the share of households that rent has held steady since the 1950s the share of income of median renter has increased by 25

to sec filings, that far exceeds the $32 billion in outside spending iowa republicans report to the fec in 2016. this makes it the most expensive caucus in iowa it comes as florida governor ron desantis and nikki haley scribble for the second place behind donald trump's commanding lead in the polls. on this i caucus day, again your thoughts on the caucus process as it plays out and the people involved in it, the candidates involved in it. we will hear from patrick in pennsylvania, republican line. caller: i have never seen a process like the american political process that has been so profoundly compromised. when i hear people talking about nikki haley, i began to monitor all of a sudden her poll numbers began to be manufactured up. and sure enough, i hit paydirt over and over and over again. you go to cnn, what are you hearing? they are all in on nikki haley. and the reason is twofold. one, she is a shill for the military-industrial cartel. and two, she worked in the state department and is all about war and the intent of the united states to engage in nonstop military confrontations.

to sec filings, that far exceeds the $32 billion in outside spending iowa republicans report to the fec2016. this makes it the most expensive caucus in iowa it comes as florida governor ron desantis and nikki haley scribble for the second place behind donald trump's commanding lead in the polls. on this i caucus day, again your thoughts on the caucus process as it plays out and the people involved in it, the candidates involved in it. we will hear from patrick in pennsylvania, republican line. caller: i have never seen a process like the american political process that has been so profoundly compromised. when i hear people talking about nikki haley, i began to monitor all of a sudden her poll numbers began to be manufactured up. and sure enough, i hit paydirt over and over and over again. you go to cnn, what are you hearing? they are all in on nikki haley. and the reason is twofold. one, she is a shill for the military-industrial cartel. and two, she worked in the state department and is all about war and the intent of the united states to engage in nonstop military confrontations. all

so she pushes this fec ruling through.all women. since 2018, 60% of the state candidates who have run are women. of that number, 32% are women of color. at the federal level, it's 56% of all women. of the 56%, it's 50% women of color. so we have a lot more work to do, but it's an incredible organization. it's incredible that it's available to candidates and look forward to seeing more candidates and particularly women of color using it. >> absolutely. obviously we cover women on the campaign trail all the time and their events in the evening, morning, weekends. child care could make or break a decision to run, but we need moms in political office, don't we? >> we absolutely do. right now, less than 7% of the current congress is a mother of a child under the age of 18. when you add in fathers, parent representation in the house tops out at 24%. i would note that in this country 40% of all households have a child under the age of 18. you could argue congress is not as representative as it could be. we know from data that has