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For Kate McKinnon's Jeff Sessions, the skit started with a box of chocolates but ended with a much less delectable pastry. The cold open for this week's "Saturday Night Live" drew its inspiration from "Forrest Gump," with McKinnon's Sessions eating chocolates on a bench in Alabama, dropping bizarre and hammy metaphors in a thick Southern drawl, and addressing the recent controversy surrounding the nation's top prosecutor.
It's never a dull moment in the world of politics, and this past week was no exception. President Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress, and there is certainly a lot to chew on.
Eastern and cited no evidence, Trump compared the alleged wiretapping to " McCarthyism " and "Nixon/Watergate". However, as former Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes noted, presidents, sitting or otherwise, don't have the legal authority to do any such thing.
China's top leadership... . Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is displayed on huge screens as he delivers a work report at the opening session of the annual National People's Congress at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Sunday, March 5, 2017.
Mike Pence blasted The Associated Press Saturday and demanded an apology for revealing his wife's email address in a story on the vice president's use of his personal email account to conduct state business while he was Indiana governor. Pence complained that releasing the address of his wife, Karen Pence, was "violating her privacy and our security."
Alaska's governor is asking President Donald Trump to lend his support to what he termed an "ideal" megaproject - the $45 billion Alaska gas pipeline - as the president moves ahead with his $1 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. In a Feb. 7 letter addressed to Trump, Gov. Bill Walker also includes the ultimate federal wish list to help expedite the Alaska LNG project that seeks to sell huge reserves of North Slope gas to Asian utilities.
A couple arrives at the rally. Many waving American flags and holding hand-made signs expressing pleasure with the new president, supporters of Donald Trump attended a rally Saturday, March 4, 2017, on the south plaza of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City to express their solidarity with him, his administration and his policies.
President Donald Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters in the run-up to last fall's election, providing no evidence to support his explosive claim and drawing a flat denial from Obama's office. Leveling the extraordinary allegation about his predecessor in a series of four early morning tweets, Trump said Obama had been "wire tapping" his New York offices and suggested he had meddled with the "very sacred election process."
In tweeting accusations that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of his campaign, President Donald Trump potentially made public the existence of Top Secret wiretaps a move that would be a federal crime, if performed by anyone other than the commander-in-chief. Trump's stunning allegation came in an early morning tweetstorm, in which he wrote in part: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory."
He told the Senate Judiciary Committee that when he was a U.S. Attorney, he "personally" litigated four civil rights cases, which he listed as among his most significant cases. "When Senator Sessions testified under oath that 'I did not have communications with the Russians, ' his statement was demonstrably false, yet he let it stand for weeks", Cummings said .
Sen. Lindsey Graham promised South Carolina residents Saturday that he would "get to the bottom" of President Donald Trump's unverified accusation earlier in the day that former President Barack Obama wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower. "I'm very worried that our President is suggesting that the former President's done something illegally," the Republican lawmaker said at a packed town hall meeting.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday that if former President Barack Obama actually wiretapped Donald Trump 's phones, either legally or illegally, it would be the biggest scandal since Watergate. Speaking at a town hall in Clemson, South Carolina, Graham addressed Trump's baseless claims that Obama eavesdropped on him prior to the 2016 election.
A spokesman for Barack Obama rejects claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the then-president had wiretapped Trump in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, saying it was "simply false." , moved, by David Shepardson, 917 words) WASHINGTON - The White House budget director confirms that the Trump administration will propose "fairly dramatic reductions" in the U.S. foreign aid budget later this month.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday called on President Trump to release information backing up his bombshell claims that former President Barack Obama GOP senator demands more info from Trump on wiretapping claims Vicente Fox slams Trump as a 'so-called' president Trump ratchets up Obama attack with wiretapping allegation MORE "We are in the midst of a civilization-warping crisis of public trust, and the President's allegations today demand the thorough and dispassionate attention of serious patriots," Sasse said in a statement. Sasse noted that any such wiretap would have taken place with authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court , unless it took place without authorization.
From Colorado's state Capitol to Trump Tower in New York and the Washington Monument, groups of hundreds of people rallied for President Trump Saturday, waving "Deplorables for Trump," signs and even carrying a life-size cutout of the president. The March 4 Trump demonstrations were planned around the country, and supporters clashed with generally smaller groups of counter protesters.
Protestors and supporters alike gathered to voice their opinions to their representative, District 3 Rep. Ted Yoho , Saturday morning, an event that ended with one man on the ground. Yoho and Gainesville Indivisible, the local chapter of the national group Indivisible Guide aimed at resisting President Trump's agenda, hosted a town hall Saturday morning at Countryside Baptist Church in Gainesville, his first of the year .
Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea's missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds. Soon, a large number of the North's military rockets began to explode, veer off course, disintegrate in midair and plunge into the sea.
Vice President Mike Pence takes a short tour of the Blain Supply's company headquarters and warehousing facility during his visit to Janesville, Wis. on Friday, March 3, 2017.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton will spend one more day at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer. Spokesman Linden Zakula says Saturday that the governor's surgery was a success and the surgeon found no sign the cancer had spread beyond the prostate.