Can baker succeed where johnny man sell failed . Ronny jackson withdrew his nomination to be the next va secretary will not be returning in his role as the president s personal physician. Two Senior Administration officials, nbc news has not confirmed that reporting. Jackson faced intense criticism this week after the top democrat on the Senate Veterans affairs committee, jon tester, released a document summarizing allegations against jackson by current and former colleagues. Those allegations included overprescribing pills, drinking on the job, and creating a hostile work environment. President trump responded in a tweet yesterday writing, quote, Secret Service has just informed me that senator jon testers statements on Admiral Jackson are not true. Heres what the president had to say at his rally last night in michigan. Senator jon tester of a really great place, montana, who voted, by the way, in favor of
sanctuary cities who is weak on the border, didnt vote for tax cuts, he took a
Go now until the 2020 president ial election. On the eve of the nevada caucuses, we have brandnew reporting from the Washington Post about russia and the 2020 campaign. Quote, u. S. Officials have told senator Bernie Sanders that russia is attempting to help his president ial campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the democratic contest. President trump and lawmakers on capitol hill have also been informed about the russian assistance to the vermont senator. The post adds it is not clear what form that russian assistance has taken. Late this afternoon, sanders weighed in on the reporting. Mr. Putin is a thug. He is an autocrat. Let me tell mr. Putin, the American People are sick and tired of seeing russia and other countries interfering in our elections. The Intelligence Community has been very clear about it. Whether trump recognizes it or not or acknowledges it or not, they did interfere in 2016. The Intelligence Community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign
Server investigation. Nbcs Kristen Welker covering the Clinton Campaign from our headquarters. And shes on the campaign plane. Kristen, we expect to hear from robby mook this hour. Whats this about . Reporter well, robby mook is going to be calling on fbi director, james comey, to release all of the information. Why he is looking at these additional emails. And thats really the strategy. You heard secretary clinton say that yesterday, very insistent that any probe will not change the bottom line, which is that director comey said there is no reason to move forward with a prosecution in this case. Today secretary clinton in florida. Were going to take off shortly. She is going to reclaim the narrative to get the focus back on early voting. Florida is a state where early voting is under way, where the polls are all tied up. And where our latest Analysis Shows that just as many democratic affiliated voters have turned out for early voting, as have republican affiliated voters. So it is a
Abused two exwives. The administration is trying to explain why kellys chief enforcer kept his job. This despite two sources telling nbc news kelly knew about the allegations months ago. You cannot beat the hell out of your spouse. It is illegal and it is immoral. Stepping aside in my judgment was the right decision by mr. Porter. There can be zero tolerance. Its one thing when an employee is trying to cover up some uncomfortable or disgusting facts from their background like this, but john kelly is supposed to know better. He decided the white male employee working for him couldnt possibly beat his who dont remember wives because he said he didnt. Without a security clearance, i didnt understand that and still dont. What general kelly knew and when he knew it is important. Im not going to comment about that. Im not going to second guess general kelly whos about a straight shooter as youll ever find in the government. Both women accusing porter have confirmed the account of their alleg
Should explain why the feds have gone and shredded the Cooperation Agreement they had at one time with Paul Manafort, who now faces big jail time. We now noah corresponding to our friends at the the New York Times the Manafort Team was telling the trump team what mueller investigators were most interested in and asking about. Just days ago, the mueller Team Revealed Michael Flynn had been providing what they called substantial assistance in the russia inquiry. Tonight our own Kristen Welker citing two sources is reporting that trumps lawyers have resumed discussions with team mueller in recent days. This is the first time that its been acknowledged since President Trump submitted written responses to muellers questions on november 20th. This morning, trump renewed his social media offensive against the investigation. He offered us this, quote, without the phony russia witchhunt and all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years, tax and regulation cuts, judges, military, ve