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President Donald Trump's attorney said Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election should itself be the subject of a Justice Department examination. "We want the Mueller probe to be investigated the way the Trump administration has been investigated, and we'd like to see a report with the conclusions," Rudy Giuliani said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone - the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump - slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent. The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton , Trump 's presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election, according to Stone, who spoke about the previously unreported incident in interviews with The Washington Post.
It took the publicity brought by Sen. Jeff Merkley, among others, to finally make Americans aware of the horrendous policy of housing children ripped away from their parents who have come through border points to seek asylum. ICE made detention centers available for the media to tour to show that the children are not being housed in cages, have beds to sleep on and activities to do.
In his effort to bring down prescription drug prices, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of a law that prohibits the government from interfering in negotiations between drug manufacturers and the insurance companies that provide drug coverage to more than 42 million people on Medicare. The prohibition was adopted 15 years ago when a Republican-controlled Congress added drug benefits to Medicare, and since then Republicans have repeatedly invoked it to quash Democratic demands for the government to rein in drug costs.
The world's largest commodities consumer said on Friday that it would levy a first round of tariffs on US$34 billion worth of US agriculture products, as well as cars, starting on July 6. Another US$16 billion in goods, including coal and oil, will be subject to tariffs later. The escalating dispute sent the prices of everything from soybeans to copper lower and hit the shares of US coal producers while boosting the prospects for alternative suppliers like Brazil.
For a president who normally adheres to his own doctrine of infallibility, Donald Trump displayed a few flickering moments of uncertainty in the aftermath of the Singapore summit. Asked by George Stephanopoulos in an ABC interview whether he trusts Kim Jong-un to dismantle his nuclear program, Trump replied, "I do trust him, yeah.
How Trump Diverged From Other Presidents and Embraced a Policy of Separating Migrant Families - WASHINGTON - Almost immediately after President Trump took office, his administration began weighing what for years had been regarded as the nuclear option in the effort to discourage immigrants from unlawfully entering the United States.
This artwork by M. Ryder refers to how the election of Donald Trump has led to a division in the country. This artwork by M. Ryder refers to how the election of Donald Trump has led to a division in the country.
The push toward immigration votes in the House is intensifying the divide among Republicans on one of the party's most animating issues and fueling concerns that a voter backlash could cost the GOP control of the House in November. To many conservatives, the compromise immigration proposal released this past week by House Speaker Paul Ryan , R-Wis., is little more than "amnesty."
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Kathy Kraninger, associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which seeks to prevent financial abuses to consumers. In a statement Saturday, the White House said Kraninger would continue the efforts of the current CFPB chief, Mick Mulvaney, to scale back the agency's regulatory ambitions while continuing efforts to keep financial fraud in check.
Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother? The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border - Last month, U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of charging migrants in federal criminal court How Trump Diverged From Other Presidents and Embraced a Policy of Separating Migrant Families - WASHINGTON - Almost immediately after President Trump took office, his administration began weighing what for years had been regarded as the nuclear option in the effort to discourage immigrants from unlawfully entering the United States.
In this June 21, 2017, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting in Washington. In this June 21, 2017, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting in Washington.
With summer bearing down on us , it seemed like a good idea to take one quick snap shot of the local political scene before moving into our summer hiatus , sensing something of a politics overload for you, the reader). As this could well be the final edition of PAU until - gasp - August, it's a good time to take inventory of the local political situation before everyone bails for the beach .
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters on the White House lawn Friday morning and answered questions on topics ranging from his former campaign aide Paul Manafort to the detention of immigrant children at the southern border. AP reporter Chad Day explains that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is headed to jail after a federal judge revoked his house arrest, citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges.
Sen. Chuck Grassley is encouraged by President Donald Trump's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but said it's too soon to declare success. "I would be very cautious," Grassley told reporters Wednesday, adding later that despite the historic nature of the summit, it's also premature to talk about a Nobel Peace Prize for the president.
Donald John Trump Trump announces North Dakota rally for June 27 Kim Kardashian on running for office: 'Never say never' State Dept. warns Americans of terrorist threat at World Cup MORE 's reality show presidency took a new twist on Friday morning, as he held an impromptu question-and-answer session with reporters in the White House driveway for the first time.
President Donald Trump came out swinging Friday, lodging a remarkable series of claims and accusations about a new watchdog report about the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of emails. In an impromptu press conference on the White House driveway, the president used the report to revive his complaints about the FBI and to declare himself exonerated in the ongoing Russia probe.
The release of the Inspector General's report on the FBI's investigation into the Clinton email scandal has raised many eyebrows. Many wonder why former FBI Director James Comey wasn't fired earlier as well as many other topics including how former agent Peter Strzok could've been complicit in getting Donald Trump elected president.
President Donald Trump credits his accord with North Korea's Kim Jong Un with saving tens of millions of people from nuclear war. Now he just has to get everyone else on board.
The White House says President Donald Trump does indeed support an immigration bill crafted by House leadership that he said he wouldn't sign in a morning interview. Trump had said in the interview with "Fox & Friends" Friday that he was looking at two House immigration bills, but that he "certainly wouldn't sign the more moderate one."