And the white house is remaining tight lipped about scott pruitt as a new report suggests the administration s support for him may be waning. two people familiar with discussions. white house officials are cautioning republican lawmakers to temper their defense of pruitt. over the weekend congressman of new jersey became the fourth house republican to call on the epa cheefz ief to step down. pruitt was the wrong fit for the agency. meanwhile three senate republicans are calling for hearings by the environment and public works committee to look into pruitt s actions. some revealed yesterday they want pruitt to appear before the panel. the epa chief is scheduled to
President trump when he came over and just schmoozed with us at a dinner i was having with my wife and my friend. look, no one will ever know for sure whether the nsa or anybody ever tried to in any way have any kind of eefz dropping of any kind. liberals who generally distrust the nsa, they say if there was no eavesdropping, we have to belief them. the quefshtives are saying, no, no we can t belief them. if i was the white house counsel, i would tell the president to back away from these assertions and wait until the evidence comes to an absolute conclusion. we ll never know for absolute certainty but we ll know more than we now know. on the whole, your assessment of this day where we saw the fbi director, head of the nsa, knock
Sending a small reminder to donald trump. because the last tng anybody wants to talk about is that salacious part of the story by christopher steel, which asserts that donald trump may have had some prostitutes perform interesting sex acts at a hotel. why a head of state would do that 48 hours, 96 hours before we inaugurate a new president of the united states tells me that he is sending a message and that is going to be heard loud and clear ena i think you heard it. listen to what josh earnest said about this in his final press briefing. putin made a specific allegation, pretty explosive one coming from another, you know global leader. heefz accusing the obama administration of trying to delegitimize the incoming trump administration. what s your response to vladimir putin? first of all, it sounds like
i m ready. bring it. woohoo! friday night news dump time. tonight s lucky player is jacob isaac lowrie from honolulu hawaii. heefz an engineer who founded a wearable camera company. his wife is a marine biologist who works with sea turtles. he s originally from kentucky. meet jacob. nice to meet you. you too, rachel. how are you doing. i m spectacular. everything about you is more interesting than the last thing i learned about you. fracture kentucky and i heard you are from a political family in kentucky. uh-huh yeah. my mom was mayor of my hometown in lexington when i was in college. very nice. did that make you extra careful about not getting in trouble in
General dunford also explained today for the first time that an american remotely piloted vehicle, ease pas he put it, an american drone, hadn t been assigned as surveillance overwatch for the green berets operation that day but once the u.s. military was aware this firefight was under way and this patrol was in trouble an american drone that was overhead and nearby for some other purpose was retasked to go fly over the scene of this firefight. according to general dunford, that drone was there within minutes. so that was all concrete and new information from the chairman of the joint heefz of staff today, who again spent almost an hour with the pentagon press corps taking lots and lots of specific questions, and offering what seemed to be as much information as he could give, even as many of his responses basically was just him asking for patience on the part of reporters until the pentagon and the fbi investigation can get further along. in terms of fleshing out the facts of what ha