Updates of the days news. Theres a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet, and mueller is going to have a lot to answer for and in ohios congressional Special Election the race is tighter after a late addition to voting tallies. Officials in Franklin County announced yesterday an additional 588 previously uncounted votes had been found in a columbus suburb. The result has given Democrat Danny Oconnor a net gain of 190 votes. He and republican Troy Balder S son are separated down from yesterday. Balderson declared victory tuesday night, but oconnor is waiting for all votes to be counted. Whatever the outcome, these two will go headtohead again in november when they compete for a full term in congress. The Trump Administration is hitting russia with new sanctions, punishing Vladimir Putins government for the poisoning of a former russian
russia has denied any involvement in the uk poisonings. The president , facing political pressure, to unleash the penalties. All of it co
what could be behind this latest twitter tirade? my gosh, who didn t it s probably easier to read a list of who he didn t talk about. but go on. so don, first of all, i ve said it before and i ll say it again. i m glad to work for two news organizations, the washington post and cnn, that are bearing the brunt of president trump s ire. i would not want to work for news organizations that the president says, oh, they re great, they say nice things about me. they never challenge me. i get great reviews. that would not be journalism. the purpose of us in the media, in the press, is to challenge authority and that s what s going on. in terms of all these different tweets and all these different directions, our colleague, maggie haberman, alluded to this in a tweet earlier today, about the new phrase, fake books. seems like it s timed in advance of the bob woodward book that s coming out. my washington post colleague. there are a lot of good books about president trump before and a
political. absolutely. and i think we see that when we look further down that list. we re talking about john brennan, who is obviously the most high profile person. but the other people are not only people who are not as high profile, some of them still work for the government and are only in the public s attention because they have been the subject of president trump s ire. bruce ohr. he was in devin nunes memo, he had this relationship with fusion gps. that s why he is targeted and that is the bigger issue. yes, this brennan issue has potential repercussions but we re talking about donald trump picking out particular people that he doesn t like for particular reason its and saying they may be subject to punishment because they were involved in a thing that makes me look bad. so this is as john brennan said, this is banana republic stuff or banana republican stuff since so many republicans are acting like they re living in a banana republic. it s gross abuse of power.
house chief of staff john kelly. he has regular lunch with white house general counsel don mcgahn. when asked for a quote about his rapport with rosenstein trump said, quote, it is fantastic, we have great relationship. the deputy attorney general is an integral part of the ongoing russia investigation, a source of president trump s ire. there is also a mounting effort by some gop lawmakers to impeach rosenstein. one of the first republican lawmakers to back donald trump in his bid for the white house is now facing a major legal battle after being charged with insider trading. congressman chris collins of new york is vowing to fight the charges and continue his campaign for reelection. nbc news stephanie goss has more. reporter: the u.s. attorney laid out timelines and phone records, proof he says that republican congressman christopher collins of new york is guilty of insider trading and lying to the fbi. congressman collins acted as
country s economy can sustain a u.s. attack. harley-davidson s stock took a dive. but it changed. yeah, it s off the lows, but harley-davidson does not want to be the target of president trump s ire. they have come a long way from being iconic, the visit to the white house. but it s a business. they would have paid like a 31% tariff on every shipment of these bikes to europe. the company says it s going to cost us between 90 and $100 million a year, just the cost that we ll have to eat, if we pass it along to you if you wanted to buy a motorcycle in europe. it would be another $2,200. they said yes, we are going to move some manufacturing from kansas city to parts of thailand. we did see the president s reaction. but listen, this is what happens when you begin to talk about