The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. According to the paper in the spring of 2017, in the middle of a meeting, rosenstein proposed secretly recording the president in an effort apparently to expose chaos of the administration and discredit it. The times says rosenstein talked about recruiting members of the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment and remove the president from office in an internal coup. Rosenstein denied the story but almost nobody in washington seems to believe him. That is not surprising. Rosenstein is not a particularly popular person here. He is a permanent federal bureaucrat, a group working to undermine the president since the inauguration. Two strike against him. But none of it means the story is true. Before you decide whether it is, consider where it came from and why it was published now. The piece seems to be based on notes that the f. B. I. Employees lisa page and Andrew Mccabe typed up. But mccabe dont mention anything about the 25th amendment. He is t
The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. According to the paper in the spring of 2017, in the middle of a meeting, rosenstein proposed secretly recording the president in an effort apparently to expose chaos of the administration and discredit it. The times says rosenstein talked about recruiting members of the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment and remove the president from office in an internal coup. Rosenstein denied the story but almost nobody in washington seems to believe him. That is not surprising. Rosenstein is not a particularly popular person here. He is a permanent federal bureaucrat, a group working to undermine the president since the inauguration. Two strike against him. But none of it means the story is true. Before you decide whether it is, consider where it came from and why it was published now. The piece seems to be based on notes that the f. B. I. Employees lisa page and Andrew Mccabe typed up. But mccabe dont mention anything about the 25th amendment. He is t
Country. The president made those comments to reporters as he was leaving the white house this morning about ten miles from the scene where jurors are deliberating manaforts fate. Prosecutors and special counsel, Robert Mueller, say manafort ran a multimillion dollar we have breaking news. The defense attorney is speaking now. Lets listen. So the jurors have just left for the day. Theyre on their way out. The defense attorney didnt say anything to the cameras. Youll recall yesterday the jurors asked a couple questions. One was about the documents and how they pertain to the various counts. The other one they want another definite figures of reasonable doubt. At that time the Defense Attorneys came out after those questions were asked and they said it was a victory for Paul Manafort, a good day for them. They believe that boded well for their defense. You can see today there was nothing at all from the Defense Attorneys and still no word from the court. Remember, Paul Manafort ran a tax
Unprecedented for any president that preceded him. They said we couldnt renegotiate nafta, we did. We said we couldnt get the chinese to the table and admit theyre forcing all this. We did. Bill peter doocy leads our coverage on a wild friday. How is the white house reacting on the jobs number . It followed a shaky few days on wall street where the 90day break in the trade war between the u. S. And china was basically overlooked by traders when the Justice Department arrested a powerful Chinese Telecom executive. Something white house officials insist they did not know was going to happen. Regardless the president says china talks are going very well. He said last night statement from china. The teams of both sides are having smooth communications and good cooperation with each other. Were full of confidence that an agreement can be reached within the next 90 days. I agree. President trump is heading to missouri momentarily i just heard marine one land back on the south lawn. So there
Are you worried about indictments coming down . Mr. President ill tell you what, cnn should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldnt be working for cnn. Dana times have changed since when i was there. John roberts is standing by. You were there in the room. John, take it away. Reporter come on. They used to mix it up a time or two. It was one of the more, if not the most combative press conference that i have ever seen. An indication of maybe how the next two years are going to go. The president trying to make the best out of what happened last night, gaining a few seats in the senate, losing a bunch of seats in the house. The president say last night he thought was very close to complete victory. One of the Big Questions going forward, will he be able to work with democrats who have sought in the past couple of years to frustrate him at pretty much every turn . Or will this be an endless series of investigations going through nove