Tries to clean up trumps tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged thenfbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. The president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. Heres Sarah Sanders late today. Look, the president knew that he lied to the Vice President. That was the reason for his firing. The problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. Quote, i had to Fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. The white house has made it very clear, President Trumps tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the United States. No matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. In this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a president ial tweet. Trumps tweet and Sarah Sanders explanation simply are not the same. They contradict each other. They also dont match cnns reporting. A s
A spokesman for manafort says its 100 false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the Trump Campaign or the Republican Party. When donald trump jr. Talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. The whole contact took how long . 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. And jared left after five or ten. Yes. Like she said and paul manafort. On his phone. The whole time. Like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. It does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. Nbcs reporting says manafortses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate
think you know. Im not answering about any particular eggs vexes. I cant talk about that in a classified setting. I want to be careful in open setting. I carefully chose the words. Like look ive seen the tweet about tapes lordy, i hope there are tapes. Jeremy theyre making the
Qu quote, Deutsch Banks takes its legal obligations seriously. Heres an interview with the New York Times a couple of months ago, answering questions as to whether his businesses and finances were fair gain. If mueller was looking at your finances and your Family Finances unrelated to russia, is that a red line . I would say yes. Lets get to all of this with our reporters and guests, White House Bureau chief phil rucker, with me on set, National Security reporter ken delaney. And chuck rosenberg, a former u. S. Attorney who worked on the staff of Robert Mueller and James Comb Koecomey of the fbi. Let me start with those financial headlines. Theres a dispute about the facts, but would you surmise that Donald Trumps taxes are something that bob mueller either has or will seek to
which the president and james comey have very different accounts of what happened there. And finally to the Deutsch Bank Discussion that youre having. Jay sekulow is another one of the president s outside counsel
Pattern. Plus the president is demanding that congress do something, keep their promises for once, build of the southern border wall. Also tonight, the russia Collision Hoax continues to unravel. The house and talk house until Committee Chairman devin nunes is now saying there was never credible evidence for the fbi to even launch an investigation into drum camping associates. Also brandnew tonight, more monumental setbacks for Robert Muellers Imploding Witch Hunt and new evidence that the doj is in fact installing it stonewalling even further. Meeting with devin nunes and trey gowdy to review classified material is no longer happening tomorrow. It has been rescheduled for next week. Mara obstructionism. Another major win for the trump administration. The american hearer, gina haspel, secure the votes needed. She will become the new cia director and will call out the mainstream medias lies about what is happening between israel
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Justice sotomayor said, look, even though the commission may have made commissioners may have made disparaging comments about religion, this was assessed by other entities, by courts, and there was no need to say that the context here affected t case. That these two individuals did face discrimination and it should be read as that. So they were the only two that broke off, but as i say, Justice Kennedy, i think he wanted to caution everyone in the courtroom, and probably anyone reading this opinion, that this is a very small step in the case of these particular men. Again, Justice Ginsburg and sotomayor said otherwise, but i think it really opens the door to what would come next from the next case. I would just add one other thing, Justice Kennedy noted that in 2012, when this had happened, colorado was not
is interesting, how this is going to play out over the next six months or so. And i said, well, explain. He said, well, is going to bed by republicans as an effort for freedom, for