Blindsided by the speakers announcement that he was not ready to endorse him. Mister trump now refusing to rule out removing the House Speaker from his role as chairman of the Republican Convention if he doesnt come around. As trump suggests, he will be changing his tone but he may be tweaking his position on taxes and the minimum wage be one we have team fox coverage, steve ducey live with the latest on the democratic race but we start with john robert live in our new york city newsroom. Reporter good morning, good to see you. Forget the noise behind me. A prominent member of the Republican National Committee Told me late last night the next seven days will be crucial not just for donald trump but for the Republican Party. They will tell whether this is going to be the trump party, the Republican Party or whether the Republican Party will be able to break into a number of different factions under the rules that have to be brought together in the chaotic november election. A lot of wha
Go back where he came from because of how damaging he was to the republican brand. And you heard some of this from the white house even over the last few weeks with the president reminding people that he had supported Luther Strange at first and casting his support for roy moore and purely in the terms of trying to keep a republican in this seat. But i dont think the white house or any other National Republican will be sorry to see this challenge defeated and hopefully for their sake, roy moore to go away finally. But, garrett, lets talk about how roy moore is trying to contest this. Hes trying to say that there was voter fraud. Hes trying to say that there was election tampering essentially. That votes were counted that should not have been counted. This is a playbook that was laid out by the president himself during not only the 2016 election when he thought he was going to lose but also afterwards when hes talking about trying to make up for the fact that he did not win the popular
Allegations of violation, they say, of state law and federal Charities Law involving the Trump Foundation, comingling of funds. Lets look at some quotes. The petition filed today alleges a pattern of persistent illegal conduct occurring over more than a decade, that includes extensive unlawful political coordination with the trump president ial campaign, repeated and willful selfdealing transactions to benefit mr. Trumps personal and business interests, and violations of basic legal obligations for nonprofit foundations. It goes on to say, the attorney generals investigation found that the Trump Foundation raised in excess of 2. 8 million in a manner designed to influence the 2016 president ial election at the direction and under the control of Senior Leadership of the trump president ial campaign. And what they are asking for in this is that they are asking for restitution of the 2. 8 million, theyre asking for more penalties beyond that. Theyre asking that the trump be the foundation
Kristi, President Trump is facing a growing backlash to target cia director john brennan. Dozens of officials are speaking out over trump a setting a president to use a litmus test of who gets to keep their security clearances. Trump linked his decisions to the investigation while the white house so far has not provided any evidence to back up claim that brennan lost his security clearance because he abused it. Trump is tweeting about russia and raising the spector of china saying all of the fools so focused looking at russia should look in another direction, china, but in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along to everyone. We are not sure who he is directing that to. Clearly, russia is on his mind. Sarah what are you learning ability the potential timing for revoking those other security clearances . Reporter well, President Trump is weigh of removing the security clearance of nine people, or are connected in some way to the investigation. Those names inc
Free speech. Among those calling the president out is general petraeus whom you know the president has repeatedly praised. And if the white house was hoping this clearance fight would overshadow the feud with exaide omarosa manigaultnewman, they were wrong. Its believed the white house aide has as many as 200 tape recordings of her time in the white house. Also were on verdict watch. Minutes from now a jury reconvenes to deliberate in the trial of extrump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Well take you live to the courthouse in moments but lets begin at the white house on this clearance battle. Abby phillip is there. We knew a laundry list of people were at risk of losing their clearance. But now we know more about why. The reason we know more about why is that the president himself knows why. He believed all these people are involved with the russia investigation. Now were learning the president is interested in moving forward with this list of nine individuals in addition to john bren