This week a sacking in washington, a timely Election Leak in the uk, and Donald Trumps visits to the middle east and the vatican. Debating all of that are stephanie baker, from the International News Agency Bloomberg news, janet daley, Political Columnist with britains sunday telegraph newspaper, Jonathan Sacredoti from i 24 news, an israeli International News channel and Mustapha Karkouti from the dubai based newspaper, gulf news. Donald trump sacked plenty of would be Business Moguls on the Reality Tv Series the apprentice, barking youre fired to theirface. James comey received his dismissal as director of the fbi in a note. Getting rid of Tv Contestants doesnt have many consequences; sacking the head of the countrys key Crime Fighting agency when hes investigating those around you, well thats proving harder to forget. What was he thinking . He did not handle this well. He is not good at firing people. The messaging was incredibly messy. He tried it out and then various trump surroga
Did not discuss sources, methods or Military Operations. The president only discussed the common threats that both countries face. But anderson, nowhere in these statements that were released by tillerson, powell or the National Security advisor. Is there any kind of denial that the president released Classified Information to the russians, and of course thats a deeply sensitive topic because President Trump went after Hillary Clinton for having emails on her private server. H. R. Mcmaster will be briefing reporters tomorrow on the president s upcoming foreign trip. Obviously if mcmaster does not show up at that briefing, thats a telling sign that we should
circle the wagons on this. Its not clear that any of those statements almost sound word for word the same, the fact that they dont specifically say hi didnt reveal Classified Information, thats not just an oversight that the white house put out a statement that didnt directly address that. This is the sort of denial speak that you g
Claims, its always possible that a highlevel russian defector will appear sometime in the future with documents proving that Jeff Sessions is in fact a foreign agent, perhaps of a sleeper cell sent to alabama during the cold war and activated at Vladimir Putins request during the last election, that would be a game changer. Otherwise the russian conspiracy seemed to hit a culdesac this afternoon in the senate, but that doesnt mean there are no scandals for congress to investigate. Maybe the biggest one about, our Intel Services are corrupt and politicized and theyre making very hard to run u. S. Governmen government. They are running it themselves to some extent. Consider how much of American Politics now revolves around information that has been strategically, often misleadingly and illegally released for political effects. If the hearing he watched today are just one example. They took place in part because former fbi director jim comey told senators last week that sessions may have
Investigation of russian interference into the u. S. Election and other matters. Its up to mueller to decide the other matters, to include the firing of the fbi director. Michael flynn, a meeting between the fbi director and the president in the white house. Just to be clear, the fbi investigation thats been going on, that was under Director Comey, that continues and that is what mueller is overseeing . He has oversight over the entire probe as it were. Youre not going to stop any activity in the fbi anymore, youve got a whole team there, and thats something youve heard from the acting fbi director, as they search for a new director, that theyre continuing their work. I have spoke to people inside the bureau, but this is a very independentminded mueller. One other thing ill note. I have been talking to people around washington in reaction to this, yes, comeys out, if you Huge Development today. Just two days ago, White House Press secretary spicer says frankly theres no need for a Spe