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Generic image. NATIONAL NEWS - The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed a Pretoria High Court dismissal of former Gauteng Health MEC, Dr Bandile Masuku’s application challenging the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) investigation outcome report. The application is related to PPE procurement by the Gauteng Department of Health in April 2020. Reacting to the High Court outcome, the SIU said its investigation in the department found a number of irregularities i...

High court dismisses Masuku’s application to challenge SIU report Former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku, on Monday, failed in his bid to challenge the SIU report into PPE irregularities. The High Court, Gauteng division has dismissed former Health MEC Bandile Masuku’s application to challenge the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) report into personal protective equipment (PPE) irregularities.  The SIU’s PPE investigation in the Gauteng Department of Health found a number of irregul...

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Like from republicans who have been reluctant to stand up to the president on anything? joining the conversation now is mimi rocha, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. jeremy bash is also with us. jeremy, you and i started this conversation at 4:00. you do not think that the regulations permit for the president to fire a special counsel? >> well, the regulations make clear that the removal of the special counsel can only be accomplished by the attorney general. ...

Regulation, overturning it and issue, using his executive authorities, a new regulation that says the president and only the president can remove a special counsel. this could be litigated. this could be tossed around. ultimately i think it could go to the courts and maybe congress. >> let me ask you a broader question about the blow it right represent to our understanding of the rule of law and to the norms of the justice department. it is no secret to anyone who follows the president on twitte...

Special counsel can only be accomplished by the attorney general. in this case the attorney general is rod rosenstein acting in the shoes of jeff sessions. however, since 4:00, ive been talking with some legal colleagues -- >> you did some more homework? >> i did. >> thats why i love you. >> there is some school of thought that says because its a regulation and not a statute, the president could actually overturn a regulation. he could set in motion basically a way to deregulate that regulation,...

Of these matters after weve seen the president has had a rough go with congress, a republican-led congress, on all of those issues. so when it comes to health care, not being able to get a new bill passed, the president is using some of his executive authorities, something that certainly people have criticized president obama for using during his eight years, to try to make some changes to health care policy. alex? >> all right, kelly odonnell, thank you as always for that. joining me now, for...

Anniversaries every single day. and yet, congress still hasnt done anything to prevent what happened to them from happening to other families. >> the president will review the slate of administrative changes with attorney general loretta lynch on monday. the white house argues the actions will be within his executive authorities. broad support for tighting background checks. >> change is going to take all of uls. the gun lobby is loud effortl s effortlessly for anyone. the rest of us are going t...

I mean come on, your mouth is going to split in half you keep talking out of both sides of it like this. >> both are true. we cant get off tomorrow, but the president says go back and look at the last couple state of the union address, hes been very pro fracking. that may again, that probably annoys a lot of people on his left and his own party. but the president has vast executive authorities. he could have clamped down, had he wanted to. hes allowed permitting to go forward. he said hes an all...

Correspondent jim acosta has just gotten a segment from his speech tonight. whats it say, jim? >> reporter: i hope i dont have to respond to everything that s.e. said. >> please do. >> reporter: ill let do you that, dan, exactly. the white house in the last few minutes has released excerpts of the presidents state of the union speech. we obviously dont have the complete speech to read to you. going to what s.e. was saying a few minutes ago, the defines the president was going to use, the preside...