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The show devoted an 8-minute sketch to the impression, which ended with McCarthy's Spicer finally meeting up with Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump. The Spicer sketch started off with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, played by "Saturday Night Live" cast member Aidy Bryant, filling in for the White House press secretary.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ambassador Kislyak, are in Fairbanks, Alaska for an Arctic summit. The U.S., Russia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway are taking part.
FBI director James Comey requested more resources to pursue his investigation into Russia's election meddling and the possible involvement of Donald Trump associates, days before he was fired by the president, US officials have said. It is unclear whether word of the Comey request, put to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, ever made its way to Mr Trump, but the news intensified pressure on the White House to explain the motives behind Mr Comey's removal.
Instead of quietly asking for Mr Comey's resignation, Mr Trump seemed to choose a course guaranteed to ruffle everyone's feathers, and not for the first time. The stream of gaffes and bad headlines can't go on forever right? Surely some consequences are just around the corner? What's important to understand is that so far, Republicans have stood by the man who was a party outsider before the election.
In this March 7, 2017, file photo, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, addresses a House Veterans' Affairs Committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a May 5 interview with the Associated Press, Shulkin said he thinks reducing the number of homeless veterans nationwide from roughly 40,000 to 10,000 or 15,000 is an "achievable goal" for the Trump administration.
The secretary of state is in Fairbanks for a meeting with the world's eight Arctic nations amid concerns about the future of the sensitive region after President Donald Trump called for more oil drilling and development. Rex Tillerson landed on Wednesday afternoon and immediately held a meeting with a congressional delegation as well as Arctic representatives from Alaska's indigenous people.
Former FBI director James Comey has said he will "be fine," and will not dwell on how he was fired by President Donald Trump. Mr Comey was fired on Tuesday by the Republican president, who said the issue was Mr Comey's inability to lead.
The normally spotlight-loving President Donald Trump has kept a rather low profile around his surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey. Leading up to the bombshell announcement, Trump had not opened an event to reporters in several days and offered few details on how he was spending his time.
After FBI Director James Comey's firing, his successor faces a tough challenge to assert independence while pursuing a politically-charged investigation into links between Donald Trump's U.S. presidential campaign and Russia. Analysts and former agents say Comey's exit gives the Federal Bureau of Investigation much-needed space to get past accusations that he botched the probe into Hillary Clinton's email server last year, helping swing the election to Trump.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters during a meeting with Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under President Richard Nixon, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Washington. less President Donald Trump talks to reporters during a meeting with Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under President Richard Nixon, in the Oval Office of the White House, ... more WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump asserted in his extraordinary letter firing James Comey that the ousted FBI director told him three times he's not under investigation, a questionable claim that if true would be a startling breach of protocol.
The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling. The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling.
A farewell letter from James Comey that has circulated among friends and colleagues says he does not plan to dwell on Donald Trump's decision to fire him or on "the way it was executed". A farewell letter from James Comey that has circulated among friends and colleagues says he does not plan to dwell on Donald Trump's decision to fire him or on "the way it was executed".
FBI agents continued to reel Wednesday from Director James Comey's unceremonious dismissal a day earlier, their surprise at the manner of his ouster coupled with questions about who will next lead the bureau. Many agents working in field offices across the country learned about their director's firing in much the same way he did: from news reports that flashed on television screens and buzzed on phones.
Former FBI Director James Comey has his share of Republican detractors, but senior GOP officials called his unceremonious firing by President Donald Trump nothing short of an optics disaster with potentially dramatic implications for the 2018 congressional contests. Comey has been leading the FBI's investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election and possible ties to Trump's campaign, and he was abruptly fired Tuesday.
A timeline of events that led up to U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly firing FBI Director James Comey in the midst of the agency's investigation into whether Trump's presidential campaign was connected to Russian meddling in the election. WASHINGTON-A series of revelations has undercut Donald Trump's implausible explanation for his firing of FBI Director James Comey, suggesting the president was more interested in ridding himself of the person investigating his campaign's ties to Russia than standing up for government policy.
FILE -- This April 30, 2017 photo provided by the Syria Democratic Forces , shows a fighter from the SDF carrying weapons as he looks toward the northern town of Tabqa, Syria. A top Syrian Kurdish official... .
CNN's Jake Tapper said on Wednesday's edition of "The Lead" that a source told him that President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey for two reasons: One was that the FBI probe was heating up and the other was the fact that Comey refused to pledge his personal loyalty to the president in the investigation. "The official White House version of what happened is that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein , fresh on the job, wrote a memo expressing concern about the way Comey had handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation," Tapper said.
In the world of political Washington, one of the most foreboding things that can happen to anyone is to have their boss say they're 100 percent behind them. President Donald Trump's peremptory firing of James Comey is a complete homemade mess enabling a long list of the usual congressional suspects of both parties, who dislike this president anyway, to strut, preen and opine on this week's hot topic while avoiding normal duties.
The anger behind Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday had been building for months, but a turning point came when Comey refused to preview for top Trump aides his planned testimony to a Senate panel, White House officials said. Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had wanted a heads-up from Comey about what he would say at a May 3 hearing about his handling of an investigation into former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
The FBI's investigation into the Trump team's possible collusion with Russia is accelerating, and it's one of the reasons President Donald Trump fired James Comey, CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on Wednesday. "That's still not only an active investigation - it's actually accelerating," Tapper said on his show "The Lead," citing a source close to the former FBI director who was abruptly fired on Tuesday.