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The President has said he believes Vladimir Putin when he says Russia did not meddle in the 2016 U.S. election. Two former top intelligence officials said President Trump is getting "played" by Russian President Vladimir Putin with his denials of interference in the 2016 election.
Shu-Yi Oei and Diane Ring have just posted on Tax Prof Blog The Senate Tax Bill and the Battles Over Worker Classification . Their post is extensive and detailed and well worth a full read.
As usual, Saturday Night Live opened last night's show by mocking President Donald Trump's administration and the Republican Party. But the show saved its most derisive political critique for the opposing party.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, joined by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking member, and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., offers his manager's amendment as the GOP tax bill debate enters the final stage, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, said Sunday that if bombshell allegations against Republican candidate for Senate, Roy Moore of Alabama, are true, "there's no doubt that he should step aside, and not for the party, but for the American people." "Certainly, the allegations are very, very strong.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says continued lapses in airport screening procedures are "highly concerning and a major threat we must neutralize." The New York Democrat said Sunday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's office should undertake a thorough review of the Transportation Security Administration's employee training procedures.
President Donald Trump tried to have it both ways Sunday on the issue of Russian interference in last year's presidential race, saying he believes the U.S. intelligence agencies when they say Russia meddled and Russian President Vladimir Putin's sincerity in claiming that his country did not. "I believe that he feels that he and Russia did not meddle in the election," Trump said of Putin at a news conference in Hanoi with Vietnam's president.
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Tiffany Haddish made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut this weekend - but was she ready? The Girls Trip breakout star returned to NBC on Saturday and brought with her an infectious energy that was felt throughout the broadcast. She probably gained quite a few fans with her humble, apolitical monologue, which spoke about what SNL meant to her while growing up in the foster care system.
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he believes U.S. intelligence agencies, which have concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But Trump also said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is sincere when he says Russia didn't interfere.
Following the accusations by four women that Roy Moore dated and had sexual relations with them when they were in their teens and he was a 30-year-old lawyer, Moore's supporters in Alabama are - for the moment - remaining at the side of their man while national Republicans are fleeing the scene. According to Politico , the timing of the accusations - along with fear that a Democrat may take the seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions - has local conservatives hardening their position supporting the controversial ex-judge.
New York Times : "Nearly a year later, that plan is coming to fruition. Mr. Trump has already appointed eight appellate judges, the most this early in a presidency since Richard M. Nixon, and on Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send a ninth appellate nominee - Mr. Trump's deputy White House counsel, Gregory Katsas - to the floor."
"For the last week on the road, President Trump had been measured, disciplined and studiously scripted as he picked his way through the geopolitical minefields of Asia," the New York Times reports.
By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio that's barely registered with the public suddenly has a dividing line: Roy Moore. Josh Mandel, the 40-year-old state treasurer considered the front runner, declined to state a position on whether Moore should quit the Alabama Senate race if allegations of sexual misconduct with minors prove true.
The Ohio attorney general's office has awarded nearly $1 million to veterans groups from money seized during investigation of a multi-state Navy veterans charity fraud. Republican Mike DeWine says the grants are part of efforts to spend the funds as intended, to help veterans.
Last week in the Russia investigations: More pressure on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, more details about Russia's personal outreach to Trump campaign aides and more questions about Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians last year The bad news for Attorney General Jeff Sessions: He is due back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to talk about the Russia imbroglio, this time before the House Judiciary Committee. Its chairman, retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wants to talk Russia all right - about the Russian acquisition of the Canadian mining company Uranium One in 2010, which has become the basis for a parallel narrative of "Russian collusion" that Republicans say is the real scandal here.
This image provided by LEGO shows their Women of NASA set. The set features Sally Ride, the first female astronaut, and Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel in space and goes on sale Nov. 1, 2017.
Roy Moore, speaking at an event Saturday in Alabama, once again denied the allegations in a Washington Post report that he had pursued relationships with teenage girls and initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old when he was in his thirties. "I have not provided alcoholic beverages, beer or anything else, to a minor," Moore said Saturday.