The country and how bannon fits into the picture. John and christine. Thank you. Questions about the lines of the nations business and Family Business. Word that donald trump is considering asking for top security clearance for his three grown children and soninlaw. Kushner was the force behind the scenes for the campaign. According to a source, the president elect has not formally made the request and none of the children have filled out the paper work. Granting clearance raises conflict of interest as the children will run the trump corporation. And at the top of the short list fortre treasury secretary steve mnuchin. He was off to hollywood where he became an investor and movie producer. His recent hits suicide squad and the lego movie. In may, he became the finance chairman of the trump campaign. He has already vetting and recruiting deputies. The treasury secretary oversees banking and government debt. He was sued by the trustee trying to recover money for victims of Bernie Madoff
Morning argued that such a move would betray kurdish allies who have fought alongside american troops in syria and who could find themselves under attack in a military offensive. If you need any more proof that trump made todays decision unilater unilaterally, the Washington Post writes this. The decision signals a halt to an extended american Ground Campaign against the islaj state and upends plans across the u. S. Government articulated by senior officials as recently as this week. For an Ongoing Mission to stabilize areas once controlled by the militants. But donald trump disagreed. This morning he tweeted this. Weve defeated isis in syria. My only reason for being there during the trump presidency. The whiplash was best described by josh rogen who writes for the Washington Post, on a piece entitled trump undermines his entire National Security team. On monday, the u. S. Special representative for syria engagement publicly pledged that the u. S. Commitment to syria would not waver.
Suspenseful. Michael flynn was supposed to walk into federal court today with that rarest of things, a get out of jail free card from bob mueller. Thanks to flynns extensive cooperation on multiple investigations, mueller spared flynn from other potential charges, recommend nothing jail. But something important happened on the way to the courthouse. Michael flynn and his lawyers got fresh, brash. They started playing with the facts. As the judge showed them today, they ended up playing themselves. Flynns final filing in this case tried to walk back his guilty plea, tapping the trump playbook to complain the fbi didnt warn him it was a crime to lie to them, which was of course embraced by trump and some flynn defenders. Maybe this is all the fbis fault, not flynns. Maybe the man who pled guilty to a felony isnt guilty of a felony. Its going on right now with general flynn. The fbi said he didnt lie. I saw your tweet on that. Mueller said he did lie. So they took a man whos a general and