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🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | M-S-S-W Media. The Air Force is spending your tax dollars at a Trump resort. |
0:17.0 | The House Oversight Committee is investigating, but they still haven't received any documents. So what does this mean and what happens next? |
0:25.6 | Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news. |
0:45.0 | My name is Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst. And I'm usually joined by my friend. a here in Illinois. So I'm going to be talking to you briefly and then bringing in our |
1:05.5 | guest. So what we're going to be talking about today is a bombshell report that all |
1:11.0 | of you have probably seen on cable news or read about on your phones or on the internet. |
1:17.0 | The report by the Politico and particularly by reporter Natasha Bertrand that Air Force crews have |
1:27.4 | been staying at a Trump resort called the Turnberry Resort, Trump Turnberry, |
1:33.0 | which is 50 miles outside of Glasgow in Scotland. |
1:37.6 | It's unusual to have crews traveling that far. It's even more unusual to have them staying at a luxury resort. |
1:46.4 | And what she reported over the weekend is that since April the House Oversight Committee |
1:51.6 | has been investigating why the crew on the military |
1:56.8 | transport has been making this unusual stay, but they have not received any answers from |
2:01.8 | the Pentagon, no documents whatsoever. |
2:05.2 | The oversight panel said they have not received a single document in their investigation. |
2:10.8 | It is, and as she noted in that piece, the military has generally been landing at U.S. |
2:19.4 | Air bases, not at that private airport in Scotland, although there is, there has been a |
2:26.6 | contract out with that airport. And you know she said, for example in the story |
2:32.4 | that one crew member was so struck by the choice of |
2:35.1 | hotel, which is so markedly different than the Marriotts and Hilton's that the Squadrons accustomed |
2:40.5 | to, that quote, he texted someone close to him and told him about the stay |
2:45.2 | sending a photo and noting that the cruise per diem allowance wasn't enough to cover |
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