reasons. rex tillerson highly praised shannon for his distinguished service and he hopes shannon leaves his phone number just in case. shannon holds the rank of career ambassador and of the five career ambassadors on the job when the trump administration began only one remains and that person is currently on sabbatical. and vice president mike pence will return to pittsburgh to stump for congressional candidate rick saccone. america first policies is a nonprofit created by former trump campaign staffers with the goal of advancing the president s agenda. he has been described as the first in a series of tax policy discussions and will focus on tax cuts. pence is partnering with a group for cross-country campaign to talk about achievements in the trump administration s the first year ahead of the midterms. a federal judge has found florida s process reviewing and restoring voting rights of
overseen by bob mueller which was, what he says, a witch-hunt. the president says he thought the release of the memo would help with build a public argument against rod rosenstein s handling of the case and suggested the memo might give him the justification to fire rosenstein or make other changes at the justice department which he complained was not sufficiently loyal to him. and the top two democrats in congress are calling on house speaker paul ryan to remove congressman devin nunes as house intel committee chair, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi both sent letters to ryan yesterday. in his own letter, senator schumer told speaker paul ryan, quote, simply, under yo ur leadership, dangerous part is anship among many house republicans seems to have taken a precedent over the oath we all take to protect our magz. adam schiff also called for
to manipulate election results yet, but that may be the next thing they try. yeah. let s switch gears here and talk about immigration reform. we have this march deadline approaching with daca. you hear from the president that they want to get daca figured out, they want to get immigration reform figured out. but we also know with daca comes the attachment to the border wall funding, which a lot of democrats obviously are not on board with. do you think we re going to see a fix on this? well, the fix that seems to be available is a fairley narrow one in which he gets some border security money. president trump can call it a wall if he wants to. and you get the daca situation resolved, the legal status, the young children who came here without legal status, that all gets resolved. but if the continues insistence, what i hear from the senate is
welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian along with louis burgdorf. the white house is expected to release the white house memo. while the security review of the memo is only a few days old, new reporting says president trump has been fighting to make it public for at least two weeks. house freedom caucus chair says he and congressman jim jordan brought his attention on january 18th during a call about the government shutdown. a presidential adviser tells the post, quote, there was never any hesitation. the president was resolved on this. he was not go to be persuaded. he wanted it out saying people familiar with his discussions, trump told aides and confidants he believes the memo would vindicate his claim early last year about the russia investigation that was being
the top democrat, democratic congressman adam schi if ff made a comment while speaking at the university of pennsylvania and warned that he s more worried about the president firing the deputy ag rod rosenstein than special counsel bob mueller. the president is looking for a reason to fire bob mueller. the president is looking for a reason to fire rod rosen sateen. the bigger concern i have right now is for rod rosenstein. why? the white house knows it would face a firestorm if it fired bob mueller. what s more effective is to fire bob mueller s boss. why is that more effective? rod rosenstein decides scope of bob mueller s investigation. the occupant of the oval office is not the least bit a