Attorneys had turned him down, which is unusual for a president of the United States. But that is kind of what happens when you have a wellearned reputation for ignoring legal advice and not paying your legal bills. But in march 2018, President Trump decided he wanted this lawyer, who he liked to watch on fox news, joe digenova, who had been peddling conspiracy theories in rightwing media. So trump hired him. Now, to be clear, trump had never met him h. He didnt clear it with his existing legal team. He didnt even tell them. He Just Announced that this fox news commentator was his new lawyer. His actual lawyer, by the way, in the mueller probe, one of the few quasi respectable attorneys trump had managed to retain, quit over the move. And then things went south. When President Trump finally met this new guy, turns out he didnt like him. When joe digenova and his wife and legal partner, victoria toensing, were finally invited to the white house to meet the president for the first time,
To the fbi on two occasions and thats a guilty plea that he later tried to undo and tried to get his case thrown out. And of course that ended up in that shocking twist that we saw earlier this spring where the Justice Department tried to drop its own case into flynn. And it had been tied up in this legal limbo for the last several months until of course now the president has intervened and this is how this saga is ending. But jim, its really hard to overstate the effect that mike flynn had on Donald Trumps presidency. Because of course it was those contacts that he had and that he had lied about with then Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the president ial transition. Thats what he lied about to the fbi and to the Vice President about. But of course thats also what they started investigating and thats what the president was asking at the time. The fbi director jim comey about in that Oval Office Meeting when comey later said that the president asked him to let the investigation
Term. Warnock will be georgias first black senator with black voters playing a key role in his victory. A point he alluded to when he spoke a short time ago. So i come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america could only happen here. We were told that we couldnt win this election. But tonight we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible. Nbc news has not called the other senate race between democrat jon ossoff and republican incumbent david perdue. Heres where we stand right now. 98 of the vote is in and ossoff is leading perdue 50. 1 to 49. 9. But we still are expecting upward of 40,000 votes to come in. His campaign has essentially declared victory, but the Perdue Campaign says it believes it won and in what is becoming common among republicans who do not win elections these days, they will use every Legal Recourse to ensure that all legallycast ballots are co
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Sanchez, was famously loyal and grew close to the boss both in office and later on in his retirement years. So today when we heard that the president s u. S. Navy valet had the coronavirus, we knew it had come very close to the president. Just today this country lost over 2,100 people. Thats our oneday death toll as this illness continues to grow, bringing our National Death toll tonight to 76,441 lives lost. Indeed, it was news of a positive case inside the white house residence that led the News Coverage today. The president was asked about that and precautions. Ive had very little contact, personal contact, with this gentleman, know who he is, good person, but ive had very little contact. Mike has had very little contact with him. But mike was tested, and i was tested. We were both tested. Yeah, its a little bit strange, but its one of those things. Nbc reports trump became, quote, lava level mad at his staff after learning about the valet and said he doesnt feel they are doing all