Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
russia, but not
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. He said, any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on russia, but not for election meddling. The administration is penalizing the kremlin for using chemical weapons against an exspy and his daughter in the uk, a decision that congress had to push the white house to make. Meanwhile, republican senator rand paul is in moscow this week, of all places, apparently on his own summer Outreach Mission to the kremlin. The senator had been one of the few open defenders on capitol hill of President Trumps overtures to vladimir putin, the only defender at times. Today he wrote this about his visit. Quote, i was honored to deliver a letter from President Trump to president Vladimir Putins administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in va
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Represents what trumps lawyers expect to be their last word on muellers request for a sitdown interview. The letter from trumps lawyers leaves open the possibility of having trump answer some questions in writing. According to the two people familiar with the negotiations. Earlier today during a live radio callin show, conveniently hosted by his cocounsel jay sekulow, Rudy Giuliani called on mueller to end his investigation, but declined to get into details about these negotiations about the interview. We dont have an internal deadline. We are moving i use the phrase expeditiously through this, and understand the significant constitutional issues that are raised. But mayor, i know youve said and ive said, we want the see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yeah, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think and i hope the Special Counsel is sensitive to it as we are. We do not want to run
Born and raised in Yeppoon, Thomas Kunkel is a finalist on Channel 7âs
Holey Moley program, a mini-golf crossed with an obstacle course competition.
âI was sitting at home and Iâve seen an ad come on TV,â he said.
âI was just watching it with my family and they all saw it and thought it was a good idea for me to apply, so I said, âRightoâ.â
After sending in a video application, Mr Kunkel found himself in Brisbane alongside his competition and in front of the cameras.
âHonestly for me, growing up in Yeppoon youâre not used to anything like that,â he said.
and she would turn on you. he let her into the west wing. she had a nebulous job. no one knew what she did. if this is true, the danger of trump and omarosa is they are not in the reputation preservation business. they re unembarrassable. you sure you never really watched? i don t do reality tv. but think about think about it, though. he brought a reality television contestant into the white house as a senior adviser. in the west wing. think about this. he worked in this building and received a paycheck from this company for 14 years. eugene robinson and a.b. stoddard, our thanks. terrific conversation. i think she has been sneaking reality television. coming up, as we have reported, the trump presidency has been very good for the book publishing business. there is a new one, already up to number two in new releases in just 24 hours on amazon, and it s unambiguous. it s equally unambiguous author standing by to join us.