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Trump's Washington woes wear on, there's risk-off in China, and it's another big weekend for Angela Merkel. Here are some of the things people in markets are talking about today. President Donald Trump did little to quell the controversy over the sacking of FBI director James Comey when he said in an interview with NBC News that he would have fired him no matter the recommendation of the Justice Department. Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Comey "enjoyed broad support in the FBI and still does to this day," contradicting White House claims that the sacked director had lost the confidence of the organization.
The mainstream media got burned over the last several days on anonymously sourced stories that turned out not to be true. One of them was the allegation that days before his firing, Comey requested additional resources for the Russian counterintelligence investigation.
Contradicting previous White House explanations, President Donald Trump has declared he had planned to fire FBI Director James Comey all along, regardless of whether top Justice Department officials recommended the stunning step. His assertions came as Comey's temporary replacement joined in, contradicting other administration statements on the snowballing controversy.
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it," Edmund Burke famously said. With his comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War, President Donald Trump showed he doesn't know history.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression, building upon his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. The White House said the president's "Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" would examine allegations of improper voting and fraudulent voter registration in states and across the nation.
Donald Trump has insisted there was "no collusion between me and my campaign and the Russians" amid the continuing dispute over his firing of the FBI director. The president was speaking in an interview with NBC News, days after he sacked James Comey amid a bureau investigation into Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign's possible ties to election meddling by Moscow.
Donald Trump has sparked a Twitter row with comedian Rosie O'Donnell over his sacking of FBI director James Comey. In a busy day for the US president, in which he signed two executive orders and had his daily intelligence briefing, he found time to return to the decade-long row.
In an exclusive interview with NBC's Lester Holt, President Donald Trump claims that he was going to fire former FBI director James Comey regardless of recommendations to do so, claiming responsibility for an action that sparked instant outrage with most Democratic and some Republican lawmakers. Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe says the Russia probe is still ongoing.
Jeff Merkley 2020? According to a CNN profile, the junior U.S. senator from Oregon could be considering a bid for the presidency, albeit quietly. Merkley didn't confirm to the television network that he's considering a run for president.
US President Donald Trump points to members of the media as he answers questions in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York in mid-August. Photo / AP file But with the daily intrigue and drama from the White House, the winter also feels as though it stretched across years.
Images of President Donald Trump meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov in the Oval Office were issued by the Russian state news agency TASS, and subsequently published by much of the global media. Photo: AFP Donald Trump's administration was left red-faced Thursday after the Moscow surprised it by releasing pictures of a closed-door meeting between the US president and Russia's top diplomat.
Before Tuesday, most Americans would have been hard pressed to name the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, but now, even those who don't snack daily on a diet of politics can tell you his name is Rod Rosenstein, the man who is rumored to have taken down FBI Director James Comey. But who is Rod Rosenstein, and is Rod Rosenstein Donald Trump's latest fall guy? And perhaps the most asked question is whether FBI Director James Comey got the ax from President Trump because of Rod Rosenstein.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate home loans rose to 4.05 percent from 4.02 percent last week. The benchmark rate stood at 3.57 percent a year ago and averaged 3.65 percent in 2016, the lowest level in records dating to 1971.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats have reached agreement on a long-stalled bill to make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire its employees, part of an accountability effort touted by President Donald Trump. The deal announced Thursday could smooth the way for final passage on an issue that had been in limbo since the 2014 wait-time scandal at the Phoenix VA medical center.
President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that there was ``no collusion'' between his winning campaign and the Russian government, in his first extended remarks since he roiled Washington with his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. In an interview with NBC's Lester Holt, Trump slammed Comey as a ``showboat'' attention-seeker who had lost the confidence of the president and the agency he led.
There's plenty of heat in Washington, D.C. this week over president Donald Trump 's decision to fire Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey . Which is interesting because the last time we checked Trump had the right to hire or fire anyone he pleases within the executive branch of government - for any reason he pleases.
President Donald Trump demanded loyalty from James Comey over dinner in January but the former FBI director, whom Trump fired Tuesday, only promised "that he would be honest with him always," according to news reports Thursday. Trump said Thursday he fired Comey, 56, who was nominated in 2013 by President Barack Obama, because he was a "showboat" and "grandstander."
Democrats in Congress are questioning the timing of Donald Trump's Tuesday night firing of FBI Director James Comey and many say they suspect the president may be trying to obstruct the bureau's investigation into possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government. But less than a year ago, some of the same Democratic politicians who are now attacking Trump for firing Comey called for the former FBI director's resignation or questioned his credibility.
By year's end, the Department of Defense expects to launch its 13th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, which will assess the pros and cons of converting service members from traditional basic pay and tax-free allowances to a single, civilian-like salary system. That's a slower pace of study than Congress wanted last December when it ordered the department to prepare a plan to begin to transition to a salary system no later than Jan. 1, 2018, and in the interim to provide "an initial assessment and progress report" on the effort by March 1 this year.
President Donald Trump fired Comey on Tuesday, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation ... Graphic shows key dates in tenure of FBI Director James Comey; 4c x 4 inches; 195.7 mm x 101 mm; . 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,... .