This time with members of the House Oversight and judiciary committees. Republicans on the hill have been focusing on whether there is political bias against the president within the fbi. Its a kind of loyalty test, and theyve been targeting mccabe, whos been involved in several recent investigations, including the one into Hillary Clintons private email server. Earlier tonight, california congressman adam schiff, the lead democrat on house intel talked about what he views as the republicans obsession with mccabe. I think theyre focused on mr. Mccabe because they see him as an opportunity to try to tear at the fbi. Tear at the investigation, tear at bob mueller. If they can just discredit the fbi then maybe they can get the country to ignore what bob mueller finds or worse, they can get the country to go along with the firing of bob mueller. The House Oversight top democrat Elijah Cummings of maryland said this on his way into todays Committee Interviews with andrew mccabe. To the pres
President called democrats treasonous for not standing up and applauding during the state of the union. Report also comes a month after nbc news reported that the president s legal team is looking at options other than in person testimony. For instance, submitting answers. To written questions. Reaction, as you might imagine, on the hill today, split, along party lines. Should the president sit down with mueller for an interview if he asks for one . I would say that the president ought to listen to his lawyers on that point. To me, this is a pretty low ethical bar. For the president of the United States, to meet with bob mueller and respond to questions. If he chooses not to, i think the American People are going to ask what is he hiding. Obviously, that was ron wyden, not chuck grassley. Lets start with our white house reporters. Jeff, my friend, at the white house, tell us more about the president s teams thinking on this right now. Hey, peter. To be clear, the fact that the presiden
American news. Listen, im going to cut to the bottom line right now and tell you that i do not know why secretary of state Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired today and neither do you and anybody who says they do know, well, were going to get as close as we can to that tonight. Right now, it is still a mystery. Nevertheless, he is out and so im going to do that awkward camera turn right now. So we can add the name of the secretary of state to the list of departures of senior officials from the Trump White House and the senior ranks of the trump administration. Just in the past couple weeks we have had to move my Camera Position so that we can show you this bigger wall so we could make room to add a third column here on this wall. We were two columns before. We had to add hope hicks as she resigned and josh raphael as he resigned from deputies communications director, the one that worked for jared and ivanka and jared and ivankas other friend, the guy trump put in charge as the office of i
That decision. Its a dramatic end for a man reportedly considered in recent times to be a candidate for chief of staff. As trump spoke this afternoon, a joint press conference with the swedish prime minister, there was an ominous sign in the room, gary cohns seat, there it is, was empty. Nbc news reported friday donald trump became unglued over the stories about hope hicks, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner. According to two officials he was angry and gunning for a fight. He chose a trade war. Well, early this morning, donald trump tweeted the new fake news narrative is that there is chaos in the white house. Wrong. People will always come and go. I want strong dialogue before making a final decision. I still have some people that i want to change. Always seeking perfection. There is no chaos, only great energy. That was the president s tweet this morning. Trump was asked about that tweet today, specifically who he wants to change next. Lets watch. Does that include your attorney general
Then there is scott pruett. They are asking about his security profile. The companys owner is a wellknown friend and supporter of donald trump. And of course there is there is white house physician dr. Reasony jackson. He is President Trumps pick to lead the Veterans Affairs department. The white house continues to support jackson who is facing allegation ranging from drinking on the job to overprescribing medication that got him the nickname mr. Candyman among subordinates. Number one is improper doling out of prescription drugs. The second bucket is intoxication on the job. Being drunk. He has actually passed out in a room that there were some fix that needed some help. And another person got what they needed out of the medical kit and took care of the problem because he was too intoxicated. The third resolves around a toxic work environment, belittling those around him, screaming hollering. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was pushed on the matter multiple time during the briefing last hour.