Many that he had already escalated during a twitter tear earlier in the day. Lets start with canceling a longplanned trip to denmark. Denmark, i looked forward to going, but i thought that the Prime Ministers statement that it was an absurd idea was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to say is no, we wouldnt be interested. But we cant treat the United States of america the way they treated us under president obama. I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. Current and former officials there have called the decision deeply insulting, smug and disrespectful. But in trumps mind, hes the one being disrespected and hes doubling down on barack obama suggesting that russia got bumped from the g7 because the former president was outsmarted ignoring the fact that it was russias aggression in ukraine. But he would like the g7 to be the g8 again and welcome back russia. President putin outsmarted president obama on crimea and other things including the
Here is more from the who white house. The administration has been Briefing Congress on the issue with iran, whether the thoughts are iran. You are hearing from lindsey graham, who has heard from National Security advisor, john bolton. It is clear over last several weeks, iran attacked pipelines of other nations and created threats against American Interest in iraq. The fault is with the iranians, not the United States or other nations. Stand firm, mr. President. The u. S. Cited increase threat from iran. State Department Says no one claimed responsibility for the rocket attack that landed in baghdads green zone. We will hold iran responsible if any such attacks are conducted by proxy milita forces and will respond to iran accordingly. This is all the United States is pursuing maximum Pressure Campaign against iran, which features sanctions on irans economy and its military. Dont want them to have Nuclear Weapons and they cant be threatening us. I dont want to fight, but you do have si
Citizen and a sitting elected congresswoman ilhan omar. Omar is one of the four women the president has targeted with these racist attacks last week. And the president is honing in on his reelection rallying cry. The hate filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down, they never have anything good to say. Thats why i say, hey, if they dont like it, let them leave. Let them leave. So they dont love our country. I think in some cases they hate our country. And theyre so angry. Lauren fox on capitol hill for us this morning. So congresswoman omar is responding to the president s attacks with a quote from i think maya angelo. Thats right, poppy. Really remarkable words from the president last night and you can see why hes using this to propel his 2020 campaign. It is sort of invigorating that base. But the congresswoman ilhan omar had a response for the president. Last night she tweeted, quote, you may shoot me pwith your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may
Let me start with you, where does joe biden go today and how is he feeling . Hard to over state how much the Biden Campaign feels better about last nights performance compared to what we saw in miami earlier. He take out strong, took the fight to donald trump right away in the opening statement. As promised and stuck to the plan, made the comparison with Kamala Harris on health care. When he played the malarkey card, he has come to play. He did learn lessons. Much more receptive to krilt simple of his performance and mored interest in learning about his opponents record to use it in the debate. Not to say it was completely flawless performance by any means. What biden mss tell us, some he was able to introduce about rivals. Hes a much better known commodity among voters. Those attacks do less lasting damage to him than they might do to Kamala Harris. Where do we go from here, one indication we know biden feels better we expect to talk with joe biden today. Hes going to make a stop in d
Ukraine. Specifically mulvaney said that aid was withheld in part because of trumps concerns about a missing dnc server that according to an unproven Conspiracy Theory is in ukraine and that the Ukrainian Government tried to interfere in the 2016 campaign here. Heres what mulvaney said today. He also mentioned to me that the corruption related to the dnc server, absolutely. No question about that. But thats it, and thats why held up the money. There was a demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of it reason he wanted to with hold funding to ukraine . The look back to what happened in 2016 was certainly part of what he was worried about corruption within that nation. You just described a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well. We do that all the time with Foreign Policy. And i have news for everybody, get over it. Theres going to be political influence in Foreign Policy. What mulvaney is referring to