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Ben Rhodes worked in the Obama White House throughout all eight years of the administration. In the wake of President Donald Trump's election victory in 2016, former President Barack Obama admitted pangs of self-doubt and framed Trump as a "cartoon" indulgence, according to a book by Obama adviser Ben Rhodes.
Rudy Giuliani, a member of President Donald Trump 's personal legal team, told reporters Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller would be "doing a Comey" - in other words, he suggested, meddling in an election - if he does not file a report on his special counsel investigation by September. Add Russia Investigation as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Russia Investigation news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
The reality TV star met with President Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform Wednesday. During the meeting, she was expected to advocate for the release of 62-year-old Alice Marie Johnson.
President Donald Trump's lawyer has repeatedly counseled him not to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions despite the president's ongoing anger at the attorney general's decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe. Rudy Giuliani told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Trump has asked him multiple times, before and after the former New York City mayor joined the president's legal team last month, about whether Sessions should have been fired.
Trump-Kim summit! President shares photo of 'great meeting' with Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office to discuss prison reform and the pardon of a first-time drug offender Former Trump adviser says 'two and perhaps more' FBI spies approached him during campaign: 'These guys were going at us from all different angles' A government contractor met a friend of Caputo's at a Kentucky Derby party and mentioned hearing of emails from Clinton's private email server 'I made no offer. I did not entice these people.
President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday aimed at helping people with deadly diseases try experimental treatments, calling it a "fundamental freedom" that will offer hope and save lives. Joined by families dealing with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, and other diseases, Trump signed the so-called Right to Try bill and said he never understood why the issue had lagged for years and Congress hadn't acted sooner.
Peter O'Rourke, the chief of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs, will step in and lead the agency while President Donald Trump's pick for a new VA head is confirmed by the Senate. Robert Wilkie, whose nomination to lead VA was unexpectedly announced by Trump in an offhand manner at a White House on May 18, has been temporary head of the veterans' agency since former chief David Shulkin was fired in March.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the day after President Donald Trump traveled to Nashville to support her campaign for Senate, said Wednesday she wants to continue taking Tennessee values, as she has done throughout her career. "That is what Tennesseans want to see," the Republican candidate told Fox News' "Fox and Friends ."
Trump on Wednesday tweeted a quote from Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, who said Sessions should have told Trump before accepting the job that he planned to recuse himself from the investigation. President Donald Trump, still nursing resentment against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, says he wishes he'd picked a different leader of the Justice Department.
There is no evidence that the FBI planted a "spy" on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, a senior House Republican said Wednesday, directly contradicting Trump's repeated insistence that the agency inserted a "spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win."
President Donald Trump, still nursing resentment against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, says he wishes he'd picked a different leader of the Justice Department. Trump on Wednesday tweeted a quote from Republican congressman Trey Gowdy, who said Sessions should have told Trump before accepting the job that he planned to recuse himself from the investigation.
Donald John Trump House GOP prepares to consider Trump's billion clawback Mexico's president fires back at Trump: We will never pay for your wall Trump in Nashville claims people were 'infiltrating' his campaign MORE to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, calling him the current "greatest threat to our democracy" in a new campaign ad.
When Hillary Clinton was running against Donald Trump in 2016, she boiled down concerns about his temperament to a central question: "Imagine Donald Trump sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the United States," she said. The attack was centered on national security, but the argument went beyond the role of commander in chief to broader questions about Trump's ability to handle any number of potential crises.
T.S. Eliot famously wrote that April is the cruelest month, but when it comes to America's fiscal picture, nothing could be further from the truth about this April. The latest government numbers confirm that last month was a blockbuster for growth, federal revenues and deficit reduction.
Congress's last chance to tell Americans - in a bipartisan way - how Russia interfered in the 2016 election rests with 15 senators who meet twice a week behind closed doors. The Senate Intelligence Committee has become a rare symbol of unity on the divisive issue of Russia's role in the presidential race - quite a feat for a panel with members ranging from conservative Trump ally Tom Cotton, R-Ark., to liberal Trump critic Kamala Harris, D-Calif.
Romney parried the criticism from his opponent, state Rep. Mike Kennedy, and praised the president's handling of several issues including China on trade. Mr. Trump has endorsed Romney, which the former governor of Massachusetts said shows the president "respects people who call them like they see them."
Kim Kardashian West is reportedly planning to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss her quest to free great-grandmother Alice Marie Johnson from prison. The 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' star has been trying to find a way to get Alice - who was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1997 on money laundering and drug conspiracy charges - released from behind bars since last year with the help her of her lawyer Shawn Holley and now she's hoping to get the president on board.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of being an "MS-13 lover" and dismissed a Democratic Senate candidate as a "tool" of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a line of attack likely to become familiar as he boosts Republican congressional candidates ahead of midterm elections. Trump's visit to Nashville, Tennessee, promoted the Senate candidacy of Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who was expected to face former Gov. Phil Bredesen in the race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
The Federal Reserve is preparing to ease a rule aimed at defusing the kind of risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial meltdown. The Volcker Rule, crafted by regulators 4 1/2 years ago, changed the way the biggest U.S. banks do business.
Comedian Roseanne Barr has apologised to a former Barack Obama aide for a tweet comparing her to an ape and to her colleagues who lost their jobs following the cancellation of her sitcom. US TV network ABC cancelled Barr's show, Roseanne, after she sent a tweet referring to Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes.