President Donald Trump’s surgeon general nominee reported investments in the tobacco company Philip Morris International as well as beverage companies Monster Beverage Corp, Coca-Cola Co. and Pepsi Co., according to financial disclosures released Thursday.
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains what Rep. Cory Mills’ primary defeat in Florida, despite Donald Trump’s endorsement, reveals about Trump’s diminishing influence with Republican voters, and what his weakening endorsements could mean for the midterms and the next Republican presidential nomination.
The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, signaled a stark reversal of the president’s earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups.
Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the attorney general nominee of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump’s suit against the agency.