Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Campaign discussed Hillary Clinton but there was no meaningful information shared. A month later in Senate Testimony he says i did not tell my father about the Trump Tower Meeting. Then giuliani says today trump jr. Didnt participate in the meeting. Trump sr. , the candidate at the time. We werent alleging he was in that meeting so im puzzled by why he was going down that road. Is he saying that cohen says donald trump was in a meeting with the russians or is he just messing the spaghetti around the plate. Im not sure i heard cohen is saying that. As chris hayes posted on twitter, giuliani says donald trump did not participate in the russia transaction. Hayes says, who said anything about a transaction . Imagine a world in which a normal subject of a criminal investigation didnt talk about this at all and just went about
their business. We wouldnt be having any fun. But this meeting is consuming so much oxygen and
signing statements play a role in that. let me read something you ve written as it relates to why this is important to a discussion, different discussion on torture. mr. bush s aggressive use of presidential signing statements bad a contentious issue toward the end of judge kavanagh s tenure as staff secretary from 2003 to 2006. by then mr. bush had already challenged more provisions of new laws than all previous presidents combined, but those claims attracted little attention until he a effort issed he could bypass a december 2005 law in which congress over his objections had tightened restrictions against torture. now, is the contention here about torture or about kavanagh s view of power grabs by the president? the question is just what did he say to bush when he presented that signing statement to him. as i mentioned, often you would write a cover memo if you were the staff secretary. if there was a disagreement among the president s advisors about something that was going into