The political director for the white house and the top economic adviser at the white house and guy that does the personnel for the white house and Sarah Huckabee and the steven miller. Everybody you have ever heard of associated with the administration who has not already been fired or indicted, and a bunch of people you havent heard of they are all going to spend a frigid weekend together in camp david. But not Jeff Sessions. And this is not like some official event. Its not like a state of the union thing where they need a designated survivor. Where they need to to keep somebody somewhere safe in case something bad happens. Its not like that. He wasnt invited maybe you feel bad for Jeff Sessions maybe you think it might be cold up there. It is cold from weekend. He is from alabama maybe that would be hard for him. But i dont know. I mean if this is a big summit because something important is about to happen, and if it is a deliberate and important decision that Jeff Sessions is consp
Donations for rebuilding the cathedral tops 1 billion euros. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, april 18th. Im yasmin vossoughian. We start with top House Democrats calling on the Justice Department to cancel this mornings News Conference on special counsels bob muellers report. Attorney general bill barr is set to speak before reporters at 9 30 a. M. Eastern standard time. But he does not plan to release a redacted version of the report until more than an hour and a half after that. And as New York Times reporter put it yesterday unless doj releases the report between now and 6 00 a. M. Journalists will not have had time to digest what is in the report before atending this press conference and asking questions. Sorry, but this is not a press conference its an opportune for barr to put a spin on the ball or defend himself. No one can ask real questions here. The News Conference will have a notable absence while Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein is set to accompany attorney g
Very specific extra maritalmarit extra particular activity record in a hotel room. That alleged videotaped behavior by the president and Russia Holding it over him, that of usually got the most attention because of the nature of that allegation and that specific allegation has never gone anywhere in the interim couple years. But as reporter Matthew Rosenburg notes at the New York Times tonight, a lot of the other stuff in the dossier certainly the headline stuff in the dossier did ultimately pan out. Quote, parts of the dossier have proved president. Its main assertion that the russian government was working to get mr. Trump elected was partly an established fact when i was first laid out by Christopher Steele in his first memo in june 2016. But that has since been backed up by the United States own intelligence agencies and Robert Muellers investigation. The dossiers talk of russian efforts to cultivate some people in mr. Trumps or bit was similarly unknown when first detailed in one
aggressively groped her and crucially, she says he then defamed her when she melinda the allegation publicly and he publicly claimed she was a liar. her case proceeding now in state court will ultimately lead to discovery in that case. and discovery can be a very big deal. remember from where we got all the stuff on the christopher stiehl cases defamation cases are one way to get courts to prove one way or another whether nasty sounding allegations are actually true. somebody says you defamed them. they bring you to court for it. right, ultimately the court s called on, the court process used among other things to determine whether or not the supposedly did he familiarer to allegations was true. the court will effectively be used in this case going forward to prove whether or not trump sexually and aggressively groped that woman. so that case at least for now will go forward. although the president side slernl appeal.
investigation of a member of congress accused of ethics violation. they turn up evidence of criminal wrongdoing by that member of congress, wrng doing not otherwise known to or being pursued by the relevant law enforcement agency. in cases like that the ethics committee would finish their report, their ethics committee report on the member s behavior but might make a criminal referral to the appropriate law enforcement agency if they turned up something serious that law enforcement wasn t otherwise onto. that s not what happened here. in this case senator chuck grassley lindsey graham do not appear to have turned up any new information concerning former mi 6 spy christopher stiehl. the reason the so-called criminal referral to the justice department about him today is in part classified is because what these two just sent to the justice department about christopher steele is information they got from the justice department about christopher steele. they didn t turn up anything in