We talked about gun controls and a chance to meet with administrator of the Small Business administration and talked about job creation and what can be done. She was in walnut creek so we had an opportunity to do that as well well. Have great conversations today z ill share them with you as the evening progress autos dan, well see xh v you later on in e newscast. You can see the interview conducted with the president today just go to our web site abc 7 news com. Some well known high tech billionaires handed out 3 million to 11 winners of the new Life Sciences break through prize this morning at mission bay campus. Abc 7 news joins us how with a presentation and one of those 11 winners. Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, 2k, a russian entrepreneur, these are the big names behind the break this morning Mark Zuckerberg says its about rewarding scientists. All of the work youre doing to cure diseases to, expand our understanding of humanity and to improve live in these dayway autos both zuckerberg
Adviser, pled guilt toy lying to the fbi on friday. The president tweeted saturday, quote, this. I had to fire general flynn because he had lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has pled guilty to those lies. Its a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide the president s outside lawyer first said the tweet simply paraphrases what white House Counsel ty cobb said that the false statements made to the fbi mirrored those he made to the administration officials. Dowd later said he wrote the tweet and that all the president knew about flynn and the fbi at the time was that the department was not accusing him of lying. Asked for the email for the tweet, he said he dictated it to dan scavino. Dowd said it was the first and last tweet he wrote for the president. Theres a lot of possible lying going on here. I guess we could start with somebody explaining how damaging that tweet was by the president. Clint, this is your specialty. Yeah. Damagin
Thing, a naked power grab. Thats the big news tonight. Trump has handed the reins of the special counsels investigation to an unabashed trump loyalist. A personal loyalist to insure that the president will be protected, not investigated. Trumps choice of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general is raising alarm among those who consider the equal administration of justice a bedrock principle of american government. Thats because by elevating whitaker, the president of the United States is effectively hijacking the independence of the department of justice itself. Nbc news today reports that in the justice department, whitaker was viewed as an agent of the white house. As one Administration Official said, its no secret where his loyalties lie. Theyre with the white house. More than with the department. As an out spoken trump advocate, whitaker has expressed disdain for the special counsels investigation itself. In 2017, he tweeted an article calling muellers prosecutors a lynch mob. He a
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