Skills, your commitment, your energy, your ambition. Ive been privileged to see the presidency up close, and i know the awesome responsibility of protecting our country and the Incredible Opportunity of working to try to make life better for all of you. I have made the cause of children and families really my lifes work. Thats what my mission will be in the presidency. I will stand up for families against powerful interests, against corporations. I will do everything that i can to make sure that you have good jobs with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college. I hope you will give me a chance to serve as your president. Secretary clinton, thank you. Mr. Trump . Shes raising the money from the people she wants to control. Doesnt work that way. But when i started this campaign, i started it very strongly. Its called make America Great again. Were going to make America Great. We have a depleted military. It has to be helped. It has to be fixed. We
Investigation. Caught off guard. With most of the country, reporters, lawmakers, james comey himself stunned by the news, the white house found itself unprepared for the blowback from democrats and republicans. The Trump Administration scrambling with an all out blitz to defend the president s decision. And just a coincidence . Hours after firing the man leading the investigation into the Trump Campaigns possibl ties to russia, the one person President Trump is meeng with today in pers, russias foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. Is the comey firing cast a sh shadow over your talks, gentlemen . Was he fired . Yes. Youre kidding. Youre kidding. Good morning, everybody. Im Chris Jansing in new york. This morning, President Trump clearly following the coverage of his sudden and dramatic decision to fire fbi director james comey, both defending the ad decision and going after his critics in a series of tweets. Crying Chuck Schumer stated recently, i do not have confidence in him, james comey,
Tensions between the white house and the fbi. Tonight axios reporter Jonathan Swann said it this way. He writes, quote, attorney general Jeff Sessions at the public urging of President Donald Trump has been pressuring fbi director Christopher Wray to fire fbi director Andrew Mccabe. But wray threatened to resign if mccabe was removed, according to three sources with direct knowledge. Wrays situation under those circumstances would have created a media firestorm. The white house decidedly gunshy so mccabe remains. Don mcgahn told sessions this issue wasnt worth losing the fbi director over, according to a source familiar with the situation. Just yesterday Jonathan Swann also reported this, quote, attorney general Jeff Sessions has adamantly urged fbi director Christopher Wray to make a fresh start with his core team, including replacing Deputy Director and trump bete noire Andrew Mccabe, according to a Senior Administration source. According to this source and two other sources briefed
Three sources with direct knowledge. Wrays situation under those circumstances would have created a media firestorm. The white house decidedly gunshy so mccabe remains. Don mcgahn told sessions this issue wasnt worth losing the fbi director over, according to a source familiar with the situation. Just yesterday Jonathan Swann also reported this, quote, attorney general Jeff Sessions has adamantly urged fbi director Christopher Wray to make a fresh start with his core team, including replacing Deputy Director and trump bete noire Andrew Mccabe, according to a Senior Administration source. According to this source and two other sources briefed on the conversations, sessions has been strongly urging wray to do this for some time. Another person sessions thought should be cleared from the core team, the fbis top lawyer james a. Baker who was reassigned in december. You may recall that fbi director wray was appointed to the job after james comey was fired. But in the months before wray took
Special counsel has interviewed the sitting attorney general, Jeff Sessions, as part of the russia investigation. Jeff sessions becomes the first trump cabinet member that we know of to be questioned. That was first reported by the New York Times Michael Schmidt and confirmed by nbc news. Nbc news is also reporting that the special counsel has interviewed former fbi director jim comey about his memos. Those memos were contemporaneous notes that he has testified under oath to have taken after every single interaction with donald trump. These twin developments are reigniting speculation in washington, d. C. , today about bob mueller focusing in on potential obstruction of justice by the president and his associates. Something jim comey was asked about under oath. I dont think its for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning. Thats the conclusion im sure the special counsel will work toward