now mitch mcconnell signs this stuff until the last second. it is more than just drunken slavery. i think it is treasonous. i think you should be out of there and i think -- the senate has not been responsible to the states they are supposed to represent four years. they have placed themselves in forever and they won't leave. they do not answer to anybody want they are elected. we need to come to the convention of states and set the rules that the budget goes down 5% every year and the budget has to be ready six months in advance, not at the last second. guest: thank you for your call. small good things coming out of the bipartisan budget act is this committee to figure out budget reforms. since the budget process was established in 1974, the spending bills that fund government have been done on time precisely four times various the last time was 1997. clearly we have a budget process that is broken. we need to see reforms to certain things like by annual ,udgeting, sunset conditions things that can actually have some teeth, maybe making the budget instead of a resolution where a

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midterms, this spending bill as we understand it, written by four people, the republicans of course, mitch mcconnellpaul ryan the house and of course nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. have ryan and mcconnell lost their minds? >> look, dancing chuck schumer has got to be over there popping the corks on the champagne and dancing. he got everything he wanted. republicans gave up reconciliation -- remember the one tool that we actually had to get to the 50-vote threrk hold as opposed to the 60, we gave that up with the budget cap resolution. i understand the positive things for the military and there are some other good parts of it but $1.3 trillion that members are not having enough time to read and funding things that we promised as republicans we would not do if they gave the levers of power to the republicans. and to their credit, house republicans, they passed the appropriations bill, they did it the way they were supposed to but there was no action in the senate and that's why, putting it squarely on mitch mcconnell in the senate. they never went through the proper process and that's why he gets thi

bat and the emigration stuff, the large portion of it was essentially mike pence, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell domestic policy and the tax cut bill was the ultimate example of that. once that was done, gary cohn says good-bye.

here's a question i would put to mitch mcconnell. a very simple question that i hope reporters this week will put to him. there's not a crowd eed agenda all in the senate. they're mostly holding show votes. what kind send a strong message by putting on the floor the c oro coons/tillis legislature. why not put that on the floor? it would send a clear signal to donald trump. because the bottom line, fred, our norms, our constitutional system of checks and balances can not uphold itself. if donald trump takes the step of trying to fire bob mueller, our constitutional system does not take over or kick in on auto pilot. the congress has to actually exercise its role in imposing that check and balance. so if we don't see action taken by these republican leaderships, if we see more passivity, then donald trump gets to behave like a tyrant with no blowback. >> john, is there some consensus that among republicans, particularly, there is an effort to try to insulate, protect mueller, you know, from a potential action from the president to have

in 2017, january, speak per paul ryan and senate majority leadered mitch mcconnell decided to build thatall with $15 billion. the bill they presented had $1.6 billion. sure, more than $13 billion. and they specifically precluded the money for the wall prototypes the president looked at in california. this betrayal should be no surprise. ryan and mcconnell never imaird his success seeding. two months after he was elected. the one they pulled because of the embairnlts of not having enough votes to pass the healthcare bill when they had the house, the senate and the oval. why did the president sign this bill? president trump: i looked at a veto. i was thinking about doing the veto. but because of the incredible gains that we have been able to make for the military, that overrode any of our thinking. judge jeanine: the first ordered of government is the protection of its citizens. this bill included $700 billion to shore up the military, so destroyed, devalued and diminished by barack obama. north korea was launching icbms with nuclear war tips. iran spinning centrifuges allegedly for nuclea

mitch mcconnell's reaction is someone who is a senator and looking at senate elections.ul ryan is looking at the congressional elections. ryan's big vulnerability to hold his speakership are suburban voters. suburban voters are voters that he is talking to when he goes out and criticizes the president and speaks more directly about these issues. he's willing to pick a little bit more of a fight because he's got to hold on to moderate republican voters. mcconnell on the other hand is worried about the base. he has to make sure that the base turns out. the senate elections that the republicans have a chance to pick up are in montana and north dakota and missouri. that's where you need the trump base. he doesn't want to prod anybody and get them upset. >> senator, i'm shocked to hear you say this is all about politics and not a decision about what they think is right. >> well, look, what's right and i think to suggest that both sides don't do this look at the political ramifications of the way they deal with this, i mean, i'm sure mitch mcconnell and republicans are communi

i want to play something former vice president biden said about mitch mcconnell. >> mitch mcconnell wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment that we would say essentially russia is doing this, stop. bipartisan. the dye had been cast here. this was all about the political play. >> do you stand by what he said, that mitch mcconnell is the reason why everything was a lower grade? everything that you did in '16, that you couldn't be as robust in a bipartisan sense because mitch mcconnell didn't sign on? >> what i know is the intelligence committee approached -- >> the so-called gang of eight. >> approached in early august, 2016. several members of that group did not take the briefing until early september, 2016. indication number one of a lack of urgency. number two, the president asked the four leaders in a bipartisan meeting in the oval office to join him in asking the states to work with us on this question. it took over three weeks to get that statement worked out. it was dramatically watered down. you can ask harry reid and nancy pelosi, even the speaker -- >> and it was watered d

also joining us, former chief of staff to senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, josh holmes is here. he's outnumbered. good to have you here. >> great to be here. >> look at you. you wore a hankie. a week from today, voters in pennsylvania will decide which candidate to send to washington. many see the race as an early indicationer for what the two expect in the mid-terms. recent polling shows them tied. the district went overwhelming for president trump in 2016. both have military experience and high right it in their ads. >> as a father of military, i understand what it means to send young people to battle. right now america needs expert with real experience. lives are on the line. >> what is missing is a thank you to the people that serve every day in our schools, and our hospitals, on our streets and construction sites. it helps us remember who to say thank you to and it helps us remember that service is the rent we pay for living. >> to let you know this is a big deal, joe biden is headed to western pennsylvania to campaign on lamb's behalf. president trump is going saturday an

it waswatered down. >> watered down on the insistence of mitch mcconnell? >> yes. >> and nobody else? >> yes. >> now, these echo concerns that former vice president joe biden has also raised saying that mcconnell tried to undercut this statement going forward. but mcconnell's office is pushing back, they're pointing to an op-ed that mcdonough wrote last year, suggesting that that statement they put out was, actually, in the words of mcdonough, was quote ultimately successful, saying that by election date, 33 states and 36 counties and cities had used homeland security tools to scan or strengthen their systems. so this blame game, going back and forth about whether the obama administration did enough, some democrats themselves believe that the obama administration did not do enough, should have taken a more aggressive approach to point the finger at russia during the elections, but they're worried about political concerns and, overshadowing all of this, what is going to be done in 2018 to prevent the russians from doing this again? the blame game taking place

they wanted a bipartisan statement that mitch mcconnell wasn't willing to sign on to. hindsight's 2020 i think you -- but with you put it in the context of what was happening at the time. i know they were worried about with trump talking about the length being rigged, i did suspect had they given those warnings they would have fallen on deaf ears. >> ambassador burns, final thoughts to you. >> president obama sanctioned russia, he kicked 35 russian diplomats out of the country, he closed down two russian kbounds. for president trump to say this morning that president obama did nothing is entirely untrue. i think the trump administration needs tobin to defend this country because the russian operations are continuing. >> okay, ambassador and nick thank you for sharing your opinions on the show. >>> what's happening now is what's going to be the first face to face meeting with kim jong-un. >>> plus the latest twist on talks from the president himself and pyongyang's response. and this is frank's record shop. frank knowns northern soul, but how to set up a limited liabili

mitch mcconnell is holding the senate in session 2 and a half days a week.y clock in late tuesday and by thursday lunch they are gone. and they are spending those four days at home campaigning. with democrats having so many seats up, mitch mcconnell is letting them run the government and handing them a free election pass. charles: not want to go go to simple majority on key issues. i had one guest, deroy murdock, call them lazy. >> this column hit my inbox and my first thought was this is a good point and we should be talking about this. what it comes down to is the combination of the resistance and politics of an election year. when you have this level of resistance and combine it with the shortened calendar, there are a lot of conservative nominees lingering in the balance who would be great addition to the their positions, especially from leader mcconnell's perspective just hanging in the balance because you have this calendar year a mid-term cycle combined with a level of resistance from democrats. charles: obviously there has to be someone whispering th

why hasn't mitch mcconnell said anything? two bruising editorials calling on congress to pass legislation to protect the counsel from being fired. >>> cambridge an lit ka -- facebook data was misused by the trump-linked firm. now korcongress wants to speak h mark zuckerberg. >> reporter: good morning, erica. sources tell cnn that the president could be scheduling interview with robert mueller's lawyers in the next few weeks. amid these delicate negotiations, the president is shaking up his own legal team. >> reporter: cnn has learned that president trump's lawyers and robert mueller's investigators sat down for a rare face-to-face meeting last week. the two sides hashing out the details about the topics mueller's team wishes to discuss with the president, including the role attorney general jeff sessions played in the firing of fbi director james comey and what trump knew about michael flynn's phone calls with sergey kislyak in december, 2016. president trump's legal team provided the special counsel with written descriptions

i've got to say it was a lot of fun to see the look of panic in mitch mcconnell's eyes when i told him i was being named a judge. by the way, do you think mike pence is allowed to dine alone with a man in drag? [ laughter ] i hear there's a new favorite pastry in the white house nest. it's a nutty white filling stuffed into dough. they call it a staff turnover. how about gary cohn? you know he threatened to resign after charlottesville but backed down. i guess he finally got some steele in his spine. hey, i warned them. some of you may have been at last year's grid iron dinner. and i said at that time to anyone who wants to be in the trump administration know your blood type. things are tough over there, in an administration riddled by scandal. in one poll last week one white woman from the midwest responded she had never heard of donald trump. that makes sense. in a few years a lot of white house staff members are going to tell grand juries just the same thing. [ laughter ] all joking aside i want to express my deepest gratitude for the work of the men and women in this room and my co

back up the moment after he says a new problem low mation. >> i don't want to be a cynic but mitch mcconnell is not going to bring anything to the floor and these kids are amazing and motivated but they don't have a specific ask or really anyone to ask it to. >> that's mitch mcconnell's choice. it's also the choice of the american people. whether some of these guys get their ass kicked in november. because until this happens, this issue will never move. until there is a political price to pay. what i'm telling you is when you put it together with everything else, i believe there's a significant part of the american electorate right now that is going to look really, really negatively on someone who says i got nothing after all these school shootings. by the way, we're all really reasonable. they're asking for raising the age. they're asking for raising background checks. for closing the charleston loophole. this is not, you know, earth shattering stuff. doesn't have anything to do with the second amendment. really all we need to do in the area of gun safety is think of the semiautomatic weapo

you would think mitch mcconnell, paul ryan would have the untechnology right and the interest of theation at heart and would stand shoulder to shoulder with the president and say enough is enough. it is time to end this madness. it's a farce being played out before the american people who are watching a congress that seems congressional leadership, and i'm talking about the republican establishment here. your bosses, they seem utterly contemptuous of the american people, the constitution, and this president. >> my bosses are not here in washington. my wife, my two kid and my 725,000 constituents back home are the ones i report to. i took an oath to our constitution. there are different sources of what i'm beholding to and it's not anything here in washington. lou: if you defy speaker ryan i am sure you will nonetheless have some interesting committee assignments. do i infer correctly? >> i am here to represent my district. i love my country. i'm here for all the reasons. lou: the speaker of the house is also elected by you and 434 other folks. so why don't we get to the point. you ha

we only heard mitch mcconnell speak the nail. he said don't touch him.aul ryan walked up and said i've been told he will let him do his job. we hope that's true. with president trump, he could fire him. he is more likely to fire him yesterday. >> or rosenstein. >> i think the president has been given a great deal of latitude on capitol hill. he's been emboldened to test waters, put owl the trial balloons about considering firing mueller to see if republicans would take any kind of action. it is note panel even as mitch mcconnell was force envelop expressing the integrity of the special counsel, he also said there's no need to frequent special counsel. both of them, they only speak about it when they're asked. they don't go out and aggressively make a statement. let me talk about the president saying why are you congratulating? this was a sham election. what are your thoughts? >> one quick thought. we had five weeks ago, the department of justice indict 15 russians. and saying the russians tried to murder someone in the u.k. and the president can't stand

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mitch mcconnell's actions i thought were really, really inappropriate and unfortunate. time, as harry. is truman said, the buck stops here. there's only one commander-in-chief, only one president of the united states and if there's a foreign power interfering in democracy and you need to get that information out to the american people you don't have to ask permission from the majority leader to do that, do you? >> short answer is no. the obama administration the obama administration should have and could have been much more assertive on this. it lies with the executive branch, they could have run with it. the fact that they weren't willing to and this is something vice president biden talked about is they were looking for political cover. they were worried they were going to be charged with politicizing intelligence if they put this out because it looked like something designed to help hillary clinton and to hurt donald trump and they basically balked or they blinked and they -- but the answer is yeah, they should have done it and the senate leader also ought to have go

mitch mcconnell wants to work three gays a week from 9:00 to 5:00.o make dinners and do whatever else he does. >> shannon: charlie, both sides to blame? >> to some degree. certainly i think democrats have sort of invented lot of this stuff especially with judicial nominations. i have a hard time listening to democrats complain about trump not being as active in the world as he should be while they're holding up nominations. >> shannon: we'll watch this. everybody got eye on this nomination. thank you gentlemen. we told you last week about the isis inspired terrorist who went on a killing three after taking hostages at a french supermarket. that police officer who traded places willingly made the ultimate sacrifice. he died over the weekend. well wishers are leaving notes and flowers for the colonel at france's national police headquarters. he is a true national hero. some of the biggest names in hollywood answering a call for a sick child. we'll warm your heart for the wonderful response i got from a single tweet that went viral single tweet that wen

. >> next, wise and majority leader mitch mcconnell is pushing to legalize hemp. >>> coming up later in this broadcast, the greatest women high school player in the history of san francisco, sierra rogers from sacred heart, you are the greatest. >> when i said it means something. >> we will come back with that great story from the highs and lows, and she is back on her feet number one in a few minutes. struck look forward to that, here's what we are tracking new, tonight at 9:00, a driver cornered by an angry woman armed with a bat. that is just the beginning of a bizarre and frightening road rage attack all caught on camera. we will hear from the victim who says she was in the fight of her life. that is tonight. >>> new tonight 8:00, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell thinks that farmers could benefit from the legalization of industrial hemp, and he was to make that happen. alexander lamont reports from washington on the details of a bill that the senator wants to introduce. however, as she explained, it does not include protection for marijuana. >> hemp could be the next mega c

i wouldn't be surprised if that also stays the same when it comes to speaker ryan and leader mitch mcconnell. luckily, we have parkland students who are more courageous than the politicians, certainly more than the president and the leadership of the republican party, willing to step out and fight the nra. right now these adults are not doing anything. >> before i let you go, i want to ask about the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. nbc exclusive report is saying today that he was angry, unglued when he made that decision. three things that were bothering him. white lies on it of hope hicks and her testimony there. a few with jeff sessions, which is ongoing given whatever day it is. and the kushner/kelly battles. do you agree with the president that a trade war is he easy to win? >> no. anything you that has the title war in it is not going to be easy. we need to adjust our trade policies and do it in a very thoughtful manner. back to the point that you are trying to make, he is becoming unglued, why are we all of a sudden discovering this man is unglued? for four years he was pushing c

especially mitch mcconnell.promised to us, leadership promised to us we would stick with 218 votes would only republican vote on the budget. that was the play call all year, they promised us that but epithelia between 9 democrat senators, got compromise a little to get something but at the end mitch mcconnell wouldn't do a budget at all and in the last budget document i mentioned on your show last time, rush limbaugh, hannity and laura ingram they don't want to do a budget in 2019. that means they can do reconciliation, we can't pass anything without having to get 60 votes in the senate. with reconciliation we are tax cuts through and to get another round of tax cuts through the senate has to do a budget so the president needs to get on the bully pulpit and say senate, one by one by one, do your job, your first duty is to do a budget, you got to do reconciliation, taxes, get people back to work, workforce, welfare reform, help people out of poverty traps into the country rolling. it is already rolling but i want

louisville, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he will try to bring hemp production back into the mainstream. the kentucky senator said he will introduce legislation to legalize him as an agricultural commodity. kentucky is one of several states using hemp for research. this is a live look at orlando from fox 35. the big story there tonight, lawyers for the wife of the pulse nightclub shooter asked for a mistrial after learning her husband's father was an informant for the fbi for 11 years. the judge denied the ruling late this afternoon. she is accused of aiding her husband in the attack that killed 49 people in june of 2016. her attorney say the information about her father-in-law should have been disclosed earlier. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. non-drowsy claritin 24 hour relief when allergies occur. day after day, after day. because life should have more wishes and less worries. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. ♪ come to my window ♪ ohh ♪ crawl inside

the senate is completely broken and i blame mitch mcconnell.sh: you do you think democrats make a shift? >> no, please dear god. do not dethrone the queen of san francisco. she is great for us. she is writing attack ads. crumbs, deplorablables, backward trump voters, in all seriousness, trish, these are problems in 10 red states where democrats are running for re-election. hillary and nancy pelosi and are running republican attack ads in the midterms. >> claire mccaskill incredibly outspoken about hillary clinton's comments, you shouldn't insult anyone in my state, a deep red state. we have 10 up for re-election. i would ask this on the paul ryan side of things there are two sides to this coin. you condition ask him point-blank what he is going to do, there has been a lot of resign resignations. jason chaffetz. trey gowdy. a lot of committee heads on republican side not running again. we're forgetting as well, paul ryan didn't want this job. trish: that's right. >> you remember begrudgingly took it to i can spend time with me family. under thes

what about mitch mcconnell.itch mcconnell have a higher or lower rating than nancy pelosi? >> dana: really, the democrats do run ads against paul ryan. but, don't put it past her to do something very interesting, i think it's possible. i'm not making a prediction. i'm saying it is possible and i think she would be willing to do it. come july, if it looks like she is really a big weight around the democrats' ankles and they can't finish the race with her. i think i would not be surprised if she made an announcement around july 4th resays she said if we win, i will not run for speaker again. and then basically clear the way for them. >> jesse: stay in there, nancy. >> kimberly: hang in there. >> juan: we want mitch mcconnell stay in there come on, mitch. >> kimberly: did you go cheerleaders on the five. fastest seven coming your way next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ does this map show the peninsula trail? you won't find that on a map. i'll take you there. take this left. if you listen real hard you can hear the whales. oop.

bat and the emigration stuff, the large portion of it was essentially mike pence, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell domestic policy and the tax cut bill was the ultimate example of that. once that was done, gary cohn says good-bye. and there's really a question of what the shared project between the donald trump white house and the republican party is and that gives trump kind of leeway to just follow his instincts wherever they take him. >> that's a good point. one of the interesting things we're seeing on the congressional side of this whole story is that mitch mcconnell is telegraphing that the single thing he caress about for the indefinite future is confirming judges which obviously, that takes nominations from the white house but we're not talking about complex legislative negotiating. we're not talking about anything where the president's art of the deal background is going to come in handy. mcconnell is just pushing through these district and circuit court level federal judges that will have extraordinary power for the rest of their lives deciding what laws actually mean. that in and of its

i'm talking about mitch mcconnell and speaker rieb and the leadership of both houses.he has the deep state, the national left-wing media trying to tear him to pieces. and he stand as strong as you can imagine anyone possibly doing given the circumstances and the 360 degree assault on his presidency. >> the president is a business guy just like me. he comes from the real world where you have to be accountable for what you do and you have to take your share of beatings. i would show the public what we are spending and i would say how long is it going to take for to you prove something you were hired to do. getting a conviction on 13 bad russians is nothing, they are everywhere. lou: it' an intriguing idea. but i'm so disgusted with robert mueller and the partisan -- the hardened democrats on that legal team it's a partisan operation four square against the presidency. to me it's apauling. do you think he should put up with the special counsel? >> i think he ought to disclose what mueller's spending and sessions needs to give mueller a deadline to put up or shut up. lou:

paul ryan and mitch mcconnell doing nothing to stop that evident.chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has our report. >> tariffs are awful. tariffs married to uncertainty are even worse. reporter: jeff flake is one of several senators preparing legislation to undo the president's tariffs. >> it injects uncertainty in the economy that's doing quite well. reporter: the president is acting ubilityd authority for national security reasons and dock so without congressional approval. that's assuming congress can even get a majority for blocking the president. >> i don't think that would pass. you would have to have committees from both houses to pass it. reporter: overriding a presidential veto would require the support of 267 senators and house members. elizabeth warren supports mr. trump's tariffs. >> i was glad to see what the president has done. we have negotiated one deal after another that has been great for big multi-national corporations and lousy for american workers. reporter: it would seem highly unlikely mitch mcconnell or paul ryan

aboutthis call him talks -- he says mitch mcconnell, the republican senate leader, needs to keep the senate in session longer so more nominees can be confirmed. he should also consider modifying the culture rules. talk about that in light of what you are seeing with other judicial nominees in the work of the senate. guest: every time the senate starts to make progress -- if you go back to 2013 or 2015 -- whenever the senate starts to move ahead because the senators know what they're supposed to on then they bog down nominations, executive and judicial. my view is they should have sat this isg ago and said how we are going to handle these nominations. this is going to be our process two to four years from now, because we do not know who will be president. democraticr to the president, the republican president, the country. they have not done that. they have just lurched from crisis to crisis. host: from georgia, republican line. question have a quick and comment. as to schapiro, how do you feel shapiro,neral -- mr. how do you feel on the general stance of the democrats being pro-pakis

you saw mitch mcconnell being silenced over the issues with robert mueller and his future as the leaderhe actually spoke. >> leader mcconnell says that he believes president trump will not ultimately decide to fire bob mueller but if you did it be a problem. he would be against that. he thinks the investigation should reach its natural conclusion but be the talk to gt into the weeds is whether or not congress would pass any bobslation to prevent mueller being fired. itsident trump split about they think they should be legislation. chuck schumer praise mitch mcconnell, saying it agreed that it is -- he agreed that it is the right thing to do to not have president trump fire bob mueller. that is bubbling below the surface and that has been the issue every senator has been asked about. julia: it would be the democrats who would push for this if they wanted a bill that would require legislation to be changed. kevin: to bring it to the floor, leader mcconnell would have to do it but even if they lost a key part to republicans, the democrats would be the main avenue to get that accomplished.

we want mitch mcconnell to stand up for us, and he can vote out those rules and you need 60 votes in the senate to pass bills. >> carla, thanks. >> marry, thank you for calling and i suppose you're alarm at the bill mirrors my pleasant surprise when i was able to read through it early this morning. planned parenthood, we're going to disagree about it. more than 2 million women and men access the services every year for general health services and for reproductive health care. so i'm glad that we were able to defeat the poison pill that was planted in the original budget to try to defund planned parenthood. for the wall, i don't know what to say. most people recognize this as a 14th century answer to a 21st century problem. in if the president campaigned on it, the idea that mexico was going to pay for it. if you can get mexico to pay for it, that's a better argument. but it's a bait and switch to say we need a wall, mexico is going to pay for it and everybody jump this and yells a the the rally and say, no, the american people have to put up 30 to $35 billion to bill the wall. when w

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mitch mcconnell could put this on the floor tomorrow if he wanted to.hrough the weekend to confirm him and some of the other nominees who are being held up. i agree, look, it's time to have an ambassador to germany. >> sandra: you are shaking your head, why? >> ric grenell is not a racist and sexist. >> he has made plenty of comments on twitter and in public statements that would contradict what you just said. >> i would disagree. i think he sometimes gets testy on twitter. i don't think it's fair to call him a sexist or racist. >> sandra: he has broad support from republicans, right, guy? >> he has broad support from republicans and also three democrats voted for his nomination out of committee. as well. and one other point. we have had democrats complaining that president trump is -- sort of dealing a blow to diplomacy because he hasn't put enough ambassadors in there complaining about south korea not having an ambassador. chris murphy a democrat from connecticut today was on twitter saying there is no ambassador to the eu or to brussels. and then the

it includes mitch mcconnell. >> right. you've got mitch mcconnell, his wife, elaine chao.y to the chinese government. chinese states building a corporation, largest military contractor in china. you've got close commercial there. and mcconnell,llnn senator mcconnell and elainebe chao got a gift from her father for between five and $25 million. it is a result of that chinese government money. >> sean: we will bring you back on obama. his deals were a little different in the little shady too. you have on the cover of the book, you have kerry, your crazy uncle joe. you've got mcconnell, obama, and jared kushner. i read the jared kushner part and i'm thinking he's inba trouble. but it was a lot different -- this isn't the same. why did you put him on the cover if he's not guilty of these same issues? >> sean, we deep scrub everybody. republicans, democrats. we've always done that. >> sean: mcconnell should be nervous. >> i think he should be very nervous. in the case of jared kushner, there's no deals that have been consummated. we didn't find any foreign deals. what we did fi