Welcome to the overnight news, im Elaine Quijano reporting from washington, d. C. It was a busy sunday for President Trumps new Communications Director. He made the round on the morning programs threatening to take drastic action to stop leaks to the press. The president s new messenger hired friday fielded question as but mr. Trumps soninlaw and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner. He has meetings with congressional intelligence committees investigating the Trump Campaign relations with russia. Errol barnett is at the white house. If you are going to keep leaking i will fire everybody. Just very President Trumps appointed Communications Director hit the airwaves today promising to forcefully stop leaks and put the administration back on message. If the president operates off the balls of his feet. An aggressive guy, the reason why he won the presidency. And so, we are going to come up with a strategy that is going to knock peoples socks off. He also acknowledged mr. Trump has privately discu
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My case in maine. I think thats an important principal and its how i start when i approach the analysis of any nominee to any position put forward by the executive, whether the executive is donald trump, barack obama, or anybody else. Thats a kind of starting point. And thats how i started this january. And, indeed, thus far as we voted here on the floor, i have supported five of the seven nominees that have come before us, plus ive supported two additional nominees in committee, which have not yet come to the floor but who i will support on the floor. So i am not total opposition, dont vote for any nominees. I dont think thats the way our system works, and its certainly not the way i intend to approach these issues. I have a i have approached them one at a time, looking at the positions of the nominees, their views, their hearings. Ive tried to follow the hearings as closely as possible, their answers to questions. Again, i start with a bias toward approval perhaps because of my exper
Leader, Chuck Schumer. Did Obama White House officials leave a trail to make it easier for congress to investigate russia and the election . Ill ask a man who would know, the former director of National Intelligence under president obama, james clapper. And President Trumps tweet claiming president obama tapped his phones. Can the white house provide evidence, or is the president just trying to get people to stop talking about russia . Joining me for insight and analysis, tom freyiedman from t New York Times. Kim strassel. Democratic polster Cornell Belcher and Danielle Pletka from the American Enterprise institute. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning. Its a pretty good bet that the white house hoped and expected that the big story this week would be President Trumps initially well received speech to the nation on tuesday night. Instead, almost immediately the white house was back in a defensive crouch, forced to fight off a parade of new revelations linking the
That meeting. I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. That statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the Washington Post revealed sessions met twice last year with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions scrambled to clarify. In retrospect i should have slowed down and said, but i did meet one russia official a couple of times. That would be the ambassador. Sessions met with kislyak on july 18th after speaking to a group of ambassadors at the republican convention. And he met again with the Russian Ambassador at his Senate Office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hardline on russian sanctions in a g20 meeting with Vladimir Putin. Since the election mr. Trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contact between the campaign and russian officials. I am just telling you, its all phony baloney garbage. All the contact by the Trump Campaign and associates was with the American People. So youre not aware