Of silence the president sends out his first tweets. It is make it one of the longest absences from twitter. Open to the public, democrats are demanding full transparency calling for the release of the entire report and a warning from the white house not to interfere. Again, transparency is key. As we learn from the case executive privilege cannot be used to hide your own doing. Just wrapped up her Campaign Kickoff speech in new york city. The democratic senator taking the president to task calling him a bully and a coward. Here is more of what she had to say. President trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country. He demonizes the vulnerable and he punches downment. He puts his name in bold on every building. He does this because she wants you to believe he is strong. He is not. Our president is a coward. Right now we want to go to Senior Editor for politics. Lets get your take away. Democrats have been grappling with the best strategy to go after President Trump as a sort
He has missed multiple deadlines from other democrats. Hes said that the original request for these trump tax returns which are of course required under federal law in his view had no legislative purpose. All this caps a week that has been dominated for the historic contempt for Donald Trumps attorney general. And it is also ending with not only this tax fight but other democrats saying theyll fight fire with fire, warning of a separate contempt vote for don mcgahn. Weve subpoenaed mcgahn and were expecting him to show up on the 21st and if he doesnt, he will be subject to contempt. The democrats are pushing forward on a multifront strategy to both punish and try to deter Donald Trumps threats of defying all the subpoenas. You have now the prospect here on record of potentially multiple contempt votes against this administrations alleged defiance. Democrats warning theyre going to counter that defiance not only with jail time but also now with the prospect of major fines. Its far more
Dignity. He began by one account, getting teary eyed as he had a call with President Trump. Right before that, youll see it here. He had a meeting with trumps chief of staff and he tried to diffuse the volatile situation that he may have talked about wiretapping the president. He told the president , look, im on your team. This is something that we should know bob mueller never did. It is something that Jeff Sessions never did. The post reporting that rosenstein used his access to trump to try to mount his own career survival. With trumps legal liability. Saying it would be resolved and he told the president , he would make sure that trump would be treat fairly. The post quoting sources who describe this, and im reading here from the account, he said rosenstein said i give the investigation credibility, quote, and this is the quote people are talking about, i can land the plane. The bottom line is, donald trump according to the Washington Post left that meeting telling folks that he fe
Story . I red the book, i worked in government when he was making his way up the ranks of the fbi, and i said something to him that i dont think it is a compliment, but he was known as being very loyal to processes, chain of command. That is not necessarily compliment from a campaign side. But throughout his career he really sort of respected did not color outside of the lines so this narrative, and he is a lifelong republican, like me, and he is someone i think that is pained to see and ask the question is the american president an agent not just of any foreign power but an american adversary like russia. You can see it pains him to ask the questions and answer them out of a sense of duty. And the other thing that jumped out, the personalization of this by the president , and it is something i continue do it asked, what is it like when the president attacks you. He has attacked me on twitter. Were human beings, with children and people and you think i think oh, my dad saw that. You ca
Some results of it, that would have been sort of the topline findings, the conclusions, by 5 00 this afternoon, but now we are told thats not going to happen, and well likely see it sometime tomorrow at the very earliest. A white house source told me yesterday it would probably not be until sometime late sunday, now it appears overly ambitious, this idea that we would have gotten something out today. The president having a leisurely saturday, just got back to mara lag go. He certainly is taking a lot of comfort from the fact, paul, that Robert Mueller said in delivering the report he is not going to seek think more indictments which would be an indication that the president in terms of the russia investigation, collusion and obstruction of justice, is likely in the clear, prompting this response from his attorney, rudy giuliani, to fox news yesterday this marks the end of the russia investigation. We await a disclose closure of the facts, we are confident there is no finding of collusi