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President Barack Obama put Russia's Vladimir Putin on notice Friday that the U.S. could use its offensive cybermuscle to retaliate for interference in the U.S. presidential election, his strongest suggestion to date that Putin had been well aware of the email hacking during the campaign. Caught in the middle of a post-election controversy over Russian hacking, Obama strongly defended his administration's response, including his refusal before the voting to ascribe motive to the meddling or to discuss now what effect it might have had.
President Barack Obama on Friday quietly signed and bequeathed to President-elect Donald Trump a massive infrastructure bill designed to control floods, fund dams and deliver more water to farmers in California's Central Valley. While attempting to mollify critics' concerns over potential harm to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Obama signed the $12 billion bill in a distinctly low-key act.
President Obama Friday said he is deeply frustrated by "hyper-partisan" attitudes that have left some Republicans more trusting of Moscow than Washington, calling such attitudes a greater danger to America's national security than Russian hacking of U.S. elections. Obama reiterated his contention that "the Russians were responsible for hacking" the Democratic National Committee, starting in mid-2015, and that the U.S. will retaliate against Moscow for the meddling.
During a long and rambling press conference , President Obama today blamed talk radio and other "partisan news venues" for the impact that "Russian propaganda" allegedly had on our presidential election. Trying to sound presidential , Obama argued that the real threat to America isn't Russia, but rather not being true to our own values - in other words, "los[ing] track of who we are."
President Barack Obama said on Friday it was fine for President-elect Donald Trump to review Washington's "one-China" policy towards Taiwan, but he cautioned that a shift could lead to significant consequences in the U.S. relationship with Beijing. "For China, the issue of Taiwan is as important as anything on their docket," Obama said at a news conference.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday strongly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally oversaw the computer hacks of Democratic Party emails that American intelligence officials say were aimed at helping Republican Donald Trump win the Nov. 8 election. At a pre-Christmas press conference, Obama leveled a fierce attack against Russia, calling it a smaller and weaker country than the United States that "does not produce anything that others want to buy, except oil and gas and arms."
President Barack Obama on Friday blasted conservative talk radio and partisan news organizations, which he characterized as "domestic propagandists," for supposedly making voters vulnerable to fake news disseminated by foreign governments to sew chaos into the US political system. "If fake news that is being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect," Obama said at the annual end-of-the-year press conference in the White House.
In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin talks to reporters as he arrives at Trump Tower in New York. There's growing concern among Republicans about the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings Mnuchin, the Wall Street financier Donald Trump has chosen to head the Treasury Department less FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin talks to reporters as he arrives at Trump Tower in New York.
President Obama signed a $10 billion water infrastructure bill Friday that provides $170 million to the city of Flint, Mich., and other communities suffering from lead-contaminated drinking water. "That help for Flint is a priority of this administration," President Obama said.
Earlier this month, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski claimed that during the election season, Hillary Clinton 's team had tried to have her removed from the air. It seemed really shocking - and, to some, dubious - at the time, but to The Young Turks ' Cenk Uygur , it was nothing new.
First lady Michelle Obama 'winks' and gestures to guests after after speaking following the screening for the movie 'Hidden Figures,' Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. less First lady Michelle Obama 'winks' and gestures to guests after after speaking following the screening for the movie 'Hidden Figures,' Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower ... more WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama says the White House needs a "grown-up" and the nation will come to appreciate President Barack Obama.
House intel committee chair: if top spies won't come to us, we'll vist them Chairman Devin Nunes said panel members will visit the CIA, FBI, and NSA next month. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2hXOHpp This Aug. 14, 2008, file photo shows a man crossing the CIA logo in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.
It has been well documented that Jay Z is a supporter of President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. Singer-songwriter The-Dream thinks Jay should follow their "No Child In The Wild" collaborator Kanye West and sit down with the next president.
The Federal Rail Authority today released the Tier 1 Final Environmental Impact Statement for NEC FUTURE and it is now available for download at www.necfuture.com . The preferred route includes the controversial Old Saybrook to Kenyon, R.I., by-pass which runs through Old Lyme, and a tunnel in the same area.
The 42-year-old TV personality, who admitted to being a former life-long Democrat , dropped her ties to the Democrat Party and began helping Trump court black votes on the campaign trial in July as his Director of African-American Outreach. Now, she'll join the real estate mogul in the White House.
Kellyanne Conway gave an interview on America's Newsroom today, where she blamed President Obama and his staffers for generating friction between them and President-Elect Donald Trump . As he addressed the news from the CIA during a recent briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that Trump knew that Russia was trying to help him throughout the election, and the mogul went along with it out of self-interest.
Conservative pundits and publications are charging that most of the third-party organizations recruited this week to filter fake news stories from Facebook have a track record of liberal bias. Snopes, ABC News, Politifact and FactCheck.org all "have records of left-wing partisanship - particularly throughout the 2016 election," Breitbart News reported Thursday .
President Barack Obama's chief of staff Denis McDonough will have lunch Friday with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus. McDonough has invited Priebus to dine at the White House along with former White House chiefs of staff.