Times finds that months before the 2016 election, donald trump jr. Held a meeting at trump tower to field an offer to field help to win the election. That one took place in june from 2016. This newly discovered meeting took place two months later in august. According to several people with knowledge of the meeting, the emsayerry was george nader, a formal adviser to the uae with a shady past that includes a conviction on the child pornography charge in the 90s and whos now cooperating with robert mueller. Nader reportedly told donald trump jr. That the crown princes were able to help trump win the election. Also in and it attendance was joel zamel. The meeting was arranged by erik prince, the brother of betsy devos and the founder of the Security Firm blackwater. According to the times zamel had drawn up a proposal to use thousands of social media accounts to promote trump on facebook. The times source said trump responded approvingly. Joining me now clint watts. Jennifer reuben of the
Quickly pull allamerican troops out of syria leading to deet parture of pentagon chief jim mattis. The president blindsided the secretary of defense, people advising him like general jack keane, as well as his state department. He looks weak and caving in. If thats not a Foreign Policy disaster. Donald trump wags the dog and the world is less safe after the resignation of the last human guardrail. This is exactly what barack obama did. Howie why has this sparked such criticism from the conservative pundits to usually back trump. The beltway was virtually certain mike flynn will serve no jail time. Will a federal judge put the former National Security advisor behind bars. This judge who has such a reputation of Holding Prosecutors to a High Standard would suddenly decide hes a member of the prosecution. I think today was a good day for the Justice System and this judge really did his job. All over the country their heads were blown up. They love this judge when they thought he would bel
Howie trumps decision to quickly pull allamerican troops out of syria leading to deet parture of pentagon chief jim mattis. The president blindsided the secretary of defense, people advising him like general jack keane, as well as his state department. He looks weak and caving in. If thats not a Foreign Policy disaster. Donald trump wags the dog and the world is less safe after the resignation of the last human guardrail. This is exactly what barack obama did. Howie why has this sparked such criticism from the conservative pundits to usually back trump. The beltway was virtually certain mike flynn will serve no jail time. Will a federal judge put the former National Security advisor behind bars. This judge who has such a reputation of Holding Prosecutors to a High Standard would suddenly decide hes a member of the prosecution. I think today was a good day for the Justice System and this judge really did his job. All over the country their heads were blown up. They love this judge when
Im done. He said in his report and i believe barr that there was no collusion. So i am done. Were not going to retry the case. I think in the best interest of the attorney general and of the Justice Department or of the country. Bill barr will be far more transparent than i think if the shoe were on the other foot and this was a democrat a. G. Bill Catherine Herridge begins our coverage live at the Justice Department and she is awaiting like we all are. The attorney general william barr testified earlier this week he wants to make sure there was no unauthorized surveillance of the Trump Campaign and looking for a proper predicate that justified that decision. We know from our reporting at fox news, the Opposition Research funded by the dnc and Clinton Campaign was a fundamental element of the application for the surveillance warrant for the Trump Campaign aide. It was barrs use of the word spying that set off senior democrats. Let me just say how very, very dismaying and disappointing
For the death of millions of people in the middle east. A congressional source telling cnn that soleimani was in the middle of plotting specific attacks on u. S. Interests, including u. S. Personnel. The sources say those plans were maturing and described the concern as being beyond the normal chatter. Here on cnn, the u. S. Secretary of state without commenting on the specific intelligence said these strikes saved american lives. John, i cant talk too much about the nature of the threats, but the American People should know that President Trumps decision to remove Qasem Soleimani from the battlefield saved american lives, there is no doubt about that. He was actively plotting in the region to take big action, as he described it, that would have put dozens, if not hundreds, of american lives at risk. It was imminent. This was an intelligencebased assessment that drove our decisionmaking process. It was enormous. The president acted decisively last night. Secretary mike pompeo speaking