assessment that russia interfered in the 2016 election. he was famously caught off guard by news of a trump/putin meeting. i do want to say, we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. say that again. you vladimir putin coming did i hear new. yeah. yeah. okay. yeah. that s going to be special. special reaction there. coates resignation effective august 15th. president trump escalating his twitter campaign against a leading african-american congressman over the weekend. on saturday trump attacked maryland democrat elijah cummings calling his majority district a disgusting rat and
the administration, the context is they basically said there weren t good enough reasons to add the citizenship question to the census which of course controls everything. politics, resources in america. now, a lot of people have pointed to this story and the evidence presented and say part of the illicit goal of the administration was to basically depress participation in the census from democratic areas. now, the trump administration had initially, as i mentioned, accepted defeat. the census bureau said we won t put in any citizenship question any more, but this is the trump administration. it doesn t look all that organized because then donald trump overruled his own employees and said, we re absolutely moving forward. d.o.j. lawyers appeared caught off guard. one told the judge, quote, the tweet was the first i d heard of the president s position, and i m doing my absolute best to figure out us whawhat s going o. this week president trump insists it s full speed ahead. we could d
s.e.a.l. edward gallagher was upbeat this morning, just before a bombshell exploded in his murder trial. one of his former team members took the stand and testified that he killed the wounded teenage isis fighter, seen in this iraqi tv video, not gallagher. prosecutors have accused gallagher, a sniper and a medic, of war crimes, including the captured teen s murder. today, they called special operator first class corey scott as a witness for their case. scott told the court he saw gallagher take out his knife and plunge it into the wounded prisoner. but then scott, who is a medic, as well, and who has immunity in exchange for his testimony, said that he, not gallagher, killed the teen by plugging his airway, claiming he acted to save the prisoner from being tortured by iraqi forces. i knew he was going to die anyway, scott said. caught offguard, the lead prosecutor raised his voice, and accused the prosecution s own witness of changing his story and lying to protect his
i don t mind. frankly, i told the house, if you want let them see it. let it come out. let people see it. well, the president s change in tune may be partly due to the overwhelmingly bipartisan majority of americans who say the public should see the report. that s 87%. sarah westwood joins me live at the white house with more. was this an intentional shift in strategy or was the president caught off guard. reporter: this does seem like a shift in tone from the president who just last week said that are shouldn t even be a mueller report and who has repeatedly gone after this investigation as a witch-hunt, as a other names. now he is calling for transparency and increasingly d the country on the edge of thei sources tell barr will send to
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