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The White House acknowledged Tuesday that President Donald Trump "weighed in as any father would" in helping draft a misleading statement for Donald Trump Jr. last month about his meeting with Russians during the presidential campaign.
Utah Senator Mike Lee, one of Donald Trump's staunchest Republican skeptics during campaign season, is pleased with the president's first six months in office. During his remarks at Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference the second-term Republican was asked to comment on any "pushback" he's received from the GOP as a result of his early criticisms of Trump.
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Donald Trump's advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump's oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign - a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril. The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story.
The Latest on a lawsuit claiming Fox News fabricated quotes implicating the murdered Democratic National Committee staffer in the WikiLeaks scandal and that President Donald Trump pressured Fox to publish the story : A Trump supporter says he was not involved as a go-between with the White House in crafting a Fox News story that implicated a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer in the WikiLeaks scandal. Ed Butowsky, who is a named defendant in a suit filed Tuesday by investigator and Fox contributor Rod Wheeler, says he's never met Trump.
The White House acknowledged Tuesday that top officials, including President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser, responded to a British-based email prankster. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the White House is investigating.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed former Justice Department lawyer Christopher Wray as FBI chief, nearly three months after the agency's previous director, James Comey, was fired by President Donald Trump. Wray, who was confirmed by vote of 92-5, will take charge of the country's top domestic law enforcement agency during a federal probe into allegations of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer, senior adviser Stephen Miller, adviser Hope Hicks and Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon. We've all seen the photos.
After Kathy Griffin was photographed in May holding a fake bloodied, severed head of Donald Trump, a ferocious backlash ensued, and the comedian lost gigs and was subject to a Secret Service investigation. "I am no longer under federal investigation," she tweeted Friday.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." The Senate's top Democrat says President Donald Trump's threats to block federal payments to insurers are "not frankly what an adult does" and would boost consumers' premiums.
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All senior staffers - including Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon - will report to the new chief of staff instead of the president. The president would be handing the industry a solid court case, while undermining his leverage to compel Democrats to negotiate "Obamacare," law professors say.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that President Donald Trump has "100 percent confidence" in all of his Cabinet members, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose performance Trump has repeatedly publicly criticized . Sanders was asked during a White House briefing about rumors that Trump could move Sessions to lead the Department of Homeland Security, where there is now a vacancy after Trump's appointment of Secretary John Kelly as his new White House chief of staff.
Raised voices could be heard through the thick door to the Oval Office as John Kelly - then secretary of Homeland Security - offered some tough talk to President Donald Trump. Kelly, a whip-cracking retired general who was sworn in as White House chief of staff on Monday, had demanded to speak to the president alone after Trump complained loudly that the U.S. was admitting travelers from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Haiti.
In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine is surrounded by reporters as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a test vote on the Republican health care bill. Collins, who was one of three Republican senators voting against the GOP health bill on Friday, July 28, said she's troubled by Trump's suggestions that the insurance payments are a "bailout."
In this July 31, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump's threat to stop billions of dollars in government payments to insurers and force the collapse of "Obamacare" could put the government in a tricky legal situation.
Former Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci has been fired from his role as White House chief of communications after just ten days in the job. He was widely criticised for a foul-mouthed tirade delivered to a reporter in which he abused two of his colleagues and threatened to sack more.
Foul-mouthed spin doctor Anthony Scaramucci was axed as White House communications director Monday, just 10 days after being named to the post and hours after Donald Trump installed a new chief of staff. The 53-year-old New Yorker - whose profanity-laden rant against colleagues gained him global notoriety - was fired as four-star general John Kelly began his quest to impose order on an administration careening out of control.
OPINION: Ten to one? Five to one? Actually, it is a lot closer than that. The bookies now rate the chance of Donald Trump being impeached at just 4/6, which means it is more likely to happen as not.
President Donald Trump personally dictated a misleading statement in which his son Donald Trump Jr said a meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 election was focused on adoptions, The Washington Post reported Monday. It later emerged that during that fateful June 2016 meeting, Trump's eldest son, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and then campaign manager Paul Manafort met with a Russian government attorney who an intermediary claimed had incriminating information about Trump's rival Hillary Clinton.
Democrats are worried President Donald Trump wants to remove the nation's top lawyer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions , during the August recess to make way for someone who would be willing to fire the special prosecutor leading the charge into the 2016 election hacking investigation without first being confirmed by the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D- New York , said Monday on the Senate floor that "if such a scenario were to pass, we would have a constitutional crisis on our hands."