that facility serving as a backdrop for biden s broader message. that robust u.s. alliances with its asian allies is key to a thriving global economy and security. so much of the future of the world is going to be written here in the indo-pacific over the next several decades. we re standing at an inflection point in history where the decisions we made today will have far reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. the five-day trip through south korea, then next japan, also aimed at trying to counter china s growing influence in the region. we think putting that on display over four days bilaterally with the rok and japan through the quad, through the indo-pacific economic framework, it will send a powerful message. we think that message will be heard everywhere. we think it will be heard in beijing. even in asia, vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine remaining top of mind for president biden. putin s brutal and unprovoked war in ukraine has f
To leak this to a reporter. first, it went to a slate reporter. they were also trying to talk to a new york times reporter at the time, jake. what also came out in court, though, was that according to robby mook, they did not know that sussmann went to the fbi because in the end, that became a problem. it ended up stopping some of the stories. today, we also heard from cia officials who also got this trump alpha bank tip from sussmann. it seems again there are varying recollections of whether sussmann was up front about the fact that he represented the clinton campaign. right, exactly. this is one of the things i think jurors are going to have to wrestle with at the end of this trial, jake. the question of did he tell the people he was meeting with in the government that he was representing the clinton campaign, or did he not? and today, we heard from two separate cia officials who said that, you know, they had varying recollections of what he said. and so i think that s become a
After writing a best-selling memoir called hillbilly ellergy, he feared donald trump, and j.d. vance told a slate reporter that donald trump was, quote, leading the white working class to a very dark place. again, those are direct quotes from a man named jd vance. now jd vance is now after last night the republican candidate for senate in ohio thanks almost entirely to an endorsement from the ex-president that propelled him from also-ran third place in some polls to the top of of a very crowded field as the bull work told me in the ohio times, at this time, there s no moving past trump. he s re-made the republican party in his image and many republican voters now crave his particular brand of combative
In case you missed it, the internet can be a dark and shadowy place full of secrets, and who do we have to thank for reminding us of that? utah senator mitt romney. the former presidential candidate s overt twitter account has just been found after romney revealed to the atlantic that he has a secret twitter account, a slate reporter promptly found it and made it a secret no more. since 2011, romney has been tweeting with a pseudonym pierre delecto. so we know romney is pierre delecto, but what we don t know is why romney is pierre delecto. what does it possibly mean? is it a clever reference? a harry potter spell of some sort? then it hit us. what if we rearranged the letters? maybe it s the secret message. so we pulled out the state-of-the-art an gram machine we keep in the basement here at 30 rock, and it spit out some
Mollie: why are they so certain given both parties deny and everybody quoted on the record deny it. howie: we have the times interviewing jake wiseberg saying he got pre-election daniels, according to these text messages she had an affair with donald trump in 2006, and he was late in paying her. now she denies it. no the editor said the reason they didn t run with the story was because she couldn t verify it. that s not the best sourcing for the original claim. howie: the text messages seem like evidence to me. but the slate reporter says she was demanding money.