This is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by Previous Administration and others. Now, the president is wrong on certain fronts here, misleading on others which we will get to. Maybe most strikingly, his own white house put out a statement in support of the same bill he just blasted. Cnns joe johns is at the white house this morning. Joe, i would ask for clarity but im not sure theres any coming. Reporter yeah, all you can say about this, john, is that its complicated. Youre absolutely right, this administration has come out strongly in support of the reauthorization of these fisa amendments. This is the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. It has long been controversial. The president s right on that point. The administration said it supports these amendments and has gone as far as to say more recently that it opposes attempts to water down these amendments which are going to be voted on
Tonight, trumps message to mueller. President trump sending a clear message to the special counsel declaring his belief that mueller will treat him fairly in the russia probe even as he insists there was no collusion. In fact, the president repeatedly drove home that point, saying the words no collusion 16 different times in the course of a 30minute interview with a reporter from the newspaper he regularly calls a failing New York Times. Now at a restaurant inside of his golf resort, the president gave this interview with remarkably without a single white house aide present. And making waves, the president did an about face from his charges that this investigation is a quote, witch hunt. Taking a much more optimistic view saying about mueller, quote, i hope hes going to be fair. I think hes going to be fair. There have been no collusion, but i think hes going to be fair. Trump also used the words fair or fairly at least eight times when talking about mueller and the russia probe. But f
Good morning, everyone. It is tuesday, september 11th. Im ayman mohyeldin. This morning it is a state of emergency from maryland to the carolinas as Hurricane Florence barrels toward the United States as a powerful category 4 storm. Governors in South Carolina, North Carolina and virginia have issued mandatory evacuation orders impacting at least 1 Million People ahead of the storms landfall. Florence is intensifying steadily. This storm is strong and its getting stronger. Florence rapidly intensified between sunday and monday with winds jumping from 75 miles an hour to about 130 Miles Per Hour. President trump has already approved emergency declarations in the carolinas, tweeting that the federal government has begun mobilizing assets to be able to respond to the storm quickly. President Trumps Campaign has also called off a rally scheduled for this friday, citing safety concerns from Hurricane Florence. The 5 00 a. M. Advisory from the hurricane center, the two new things is a storm
Hypocrisy. President trump over the course of nearly three hours spent four tweet. From the most powerful leader on earth slamming an exadviser. While that adviser Omarosa Manigault newman calling her whacky, vicious, not smart, a loser, nothing but problems, a low life, someone who missed work and meetings. Im selectively picking. He went on and on. Thats on top of saying this. Do you feel betrayed by om omarosa, sir . Low life. Shes a low life. Okay. We heard you. Low life. Okay. Never mine the president s spending his time with this sort of personal nastiness. How about this . Because this is the bottom line. He hired omarosa. He paid her with taxpayer money. The top salary level in the white house which is 179,700 a year. And when she was fired by john kelly for, quote, pretty serious integrity violations, Trumps Campaign then offered her 15,000 a month through the year 2020 according to the Washington Post. Whoa. Why was trump paying someone who is not smart, a loser and a low lif
Knack ee in for chris matthews. President trump made an unannounced trip to iraq to visit troops at a base west of baghdad today, this the first time he visited troops in a combat zone. Last week the president shocked his own allies and advisers announcing a plan to withdraw troops from syria. In iraq today, he dcefended tha decision. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price, and sometimes thats also a monetary price. So were not the suckers of the world. Were no longer the suckers, folks, and people arent looking at us as suckers, and i love you folks because most of you are nodding your head this way. The visit comes amid a growing stalemate in washington with part of the federal government still shutdown. The president spent much of the long christmas weekend alone in washington, raging against criticism of both that withdrawal from syria and his ouster of secretary of defense james mattis. Today, he defended those decisions. One year ago i gave our generals