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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has failed to build a strong team around President Donald Trump and, in fact, may not even like the commander in chief, former White House communications director Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci told Newsmax TV on Friday. "One of the legacies that John Kelly is going to have is that I don't know one person that he brought into the White House that he was able to recruit during his tenure as chief of staff," Scaramucci said on Newsmax's "America Talks Live."
President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to bring up Russian election meddling during his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin, part of a wide-ranging list of topics that could include sanctions and the status of Crimea. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he planned to discuss Ukraine, Syria and Crimea as well as election interference when he meets with the Russian president in Helsinki, Finland, next month in a summit he said could help defuse tensions between Moscow and Washington.
On the issues of LGBTQ rights, abortion access, money in politics and the environment, no member of the federal judiciary has been more influential in the last 30 years than Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The announcement earlier this week of Kennedy's retirement sent political shock waves through both parties, and scrambled an already uncertain 2018 midterm landscape, as both parties gear up for what are sure to be contentious and complicated confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's pick to take Kennedy's place.
Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped by a Cincinnati barber shop Friday , but he wasn't there to get a haircut. The outspoken Democrat shook hands, cracked jokes and talked about President Donald Trump the way a future presidential candidate might, even though he continued to play coy about whether he'll run in 2020.
President Donald Trump will ultimately secure a hand-picked replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy but not before a political free-for-all among lawmakers on Capitol Hill, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told Newsmax TV on Friday. "My prediction is there will be a lot of rabblerousing, there'll be a lot of contention and screeching and on the Democratic side," Scaramucci said on "America Talks Live."
Luck - pure, dumb luck - is an underestimated advantage in politics, and Donald Trump is one lucky man. He ran for the Republican nomination against a fractured field, in which the other candidates tore each other to shreds.
With little chance of thwarting President Donald Trump's eventual Supreme Court pick, Democrats are pivoting to frame the confirmation battle as an issue in fall elections that will decide control of Congress. Speaking a day after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would retire, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump's nominee could overturn Obamacare protections for people with pre-existing conditions, an emerging issue in Democratic election bids, and abortion rights.
In the wake of Anthony Kennedy's decision to retire from the US Supreme Court, the left is doing a frantic post-mortem on how they could possibly have overlooked the notion that an 81-year-old man might want to retire. The real subject deserving of a post-mortem is why they thought they could rule indefinitely through an increasingly SJW-oriented Supreme Court instead of by winning elections, but that isn't happening and it isn't going to.
The president of a national abortion-rights organization says the Iowa Supreme Court acted "absolutely appropriately" in striking down a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion. Ilyse Hogue is president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Ken Isaacs, the U.S. nominee to lead the U.N. migration agency, was knocked out of the race on Friday after coming third behind Portugal's Antonio Vitorino and Costa Rica's Laura Thompson in a secret ballot of member states in Geneva, delegates said. Ken Isaacs, U.S. candidate for Director general of the United Nations' International Organization for Migration is pictured in this photo released by U.S. Mission Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland, June 28 2018.
A statement Friday said the three persons were detained in two towns, adding that weapons, ammunition and electronic devices were seized at their homes. It also said the operation was conducted in collaboration with German counterparts, who, on their part, had made another arrest.
"Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!," Trump tweeted at 7:25 a.m. "Where is the DNC Server, and why didn't Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isn't Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption!" A half hour later, the White House announced that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Helsinki, Finland on July 16. But coincidence or not, the twin events of Thursday morning serve as a very important reminder: Donald Trump appears to not believe that Russia not only actively interfered in the 2016 election but did so with the express goal of helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton. That is, of course, the unanimous conclusion of the intelligence community.
President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Photo Credit: AP / Evan Vucci "Sometimes, our worst enemies are our so-called friends or allies," Trump told a crowd in North Dakota Wednesday night, while blasting European trade policies.
The United States should help the natural gas industry push back against opposition by environmental groups to pipeline projects by adopting new regulations or laws that favor infrastructure, backers of the industry said at a conference this week. Suppliers in the United States, the world's biggest natural gas producer, have had a difficult time in recent years getting shipments to some regions, including fuel-hungry New England, as environmental lawsuits by states, green groups and property owners have tied up pipeline construction.
A bipartisan group of 16 mayors from across the country took a bus to the Mexican border last week to bring awareness to family separations taking place under the Trump Administration's zero-tolerance policy. It was an unusual undertaking for a group of mayors, who are typically more concerned with potholes than national policy.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet for their first summit on July 16 in Helsinki, a venue famed for its Cold War diplomacy. The Kremlin and the White House simultaneously announced the place and date a day after reaching agreement for the two leaders to meet following a visit to Moscow by U.S. national security adviser John Bolton.Trump will meet Putin after attending a July 11-12 summit of NATO leaders and a visit to Britain.
Republicans accused top federal law enforcement officials Thursday of withholding important documents from them and demanded details about surveillance tactics during the Russia investigation in a contentious congressional hearing that capped days of mounting partisan complaints. The hearing was Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's first appearance before Congress since an internal Justice Department report criticized the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and revealed new disparaging text messages among FBI officials about President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
The Latest on President Trump's trip to North Dakota and Wisconsin to attend a series of rallies and fundraising events : Trump said Thursday that what used to be a field about 30 miles south of Milwaukee in Mount Pleasant will become one of the largest developments ever built in the world at 20 million square feet . He says the decision by the Taiwan-based maker of LCD screens and assembler of Apple iPhones shows "America is open for business."
President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Fargo, N.D. . President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Fargo, N.D. .
Five people are dead and several others are "gravely injured" after a shooting at the Capital Gazette in Anne Arundel County, a paper that is owned by The Baltimore Sun, according to officials. A shooter is in custody, police said.