Reputation for ignoring legal advice and not paying your legal bills. But in march 2018, President Trump decided he wanted this lawyer, who he liked to watch on fox news, joe digenova, who had been peddling conspiracy theories in rightwing media since the clinton administration. Joe digenova told fox news that trump had been framed by the Justice Department and the fbi. Now, that was what donald trump wanted to hear, and so trump hired him. Now, to be clear, trump had never met him. He didnt clear it with his existing legal team. He didnt even tell them. He Just Announced that this fox news commentator was his new lawyer. His actual lawyer, by the way, in the mueller probe, one of the few quasirespectable attorneys trump had managed to retain, quit over the move. And then things went south. When President Trump finally met this new guy, turns out he didnt like him. When joe digenova and his wife and legal partner, victoria toensing, were finally invited to the white house to meet the p
Attorneys had turned him down, which is unusual for a president of the United States. But that is kind of what happens when you have a wellearned reputation for ignoring legal advice and not paying your legal bills. But in march 2018, President Trump decided he wanted this lawyer, who he liked to watch on fox news, joe digenova, who had been peddling conspiracy theories in rightwing media. So trump hired him. Now, to be clear, trump had never met him h. He didnt clear it with his existing legal team. He didnt even tell them. He Just Announced that this fox news commentator was his new lawyer. His actual lawyer, by the way, in the mueller probe, one of the few quasi respectable attorneys trump had managed to retain, quit over the move. And then things went south. When President Trump finally met this new guy, turns out he didnt like him. When joe digenova and his wife and legal partner, victoria toensing, were finally invited to the white house to meet the president for the first time,
Of problems. A frantic attempt to save a couple and an 8yearold boy swallowed up by an avalanche. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. Live in new york city. A tug of war in ukraine where russian soldiers arrived in caimia crimmia. Reasons troops were videoed. It was called a provocation. Russia says its part of a military arrangements. The Prime Minister of crimea claiming he is in control of the military and the police. President obama is concerned about the situation. We have Team Coverage of the price. With a tense diplomatic situation. We begin with jennifer glasses where the show of force in russia was under way. Is in evidence of a russian presence . There is, actually. We hear overnight less than 100 miles east of here a small Ukrainian Naval base was taken over by Russian Forces. 350 Russian Forces wearing russian insignias, with their badges and cars of licence plates, in contrast to what we have seen. In sevastapol, an hours drive away, home
Good afternoon, everyone, thank you for being here. As you know, today we have the presentation of the president s budget. For todays briefing, as part of the presentation, i have the director of the office of budget, Sylvia Burwell and jason furman, and Cecilia Munoz, the director of the policy and gene sperling, the director of the economic council. Each guest has an Opening Statement and we will take questions related to budget matters. I will try to direct traffic in that question and answer section. I will have time for a few questions at the end on other subjects, ukraine obviously included, but if you could hold questions on those subjects not related to the budget until after we are down. I turn it over to Sylvia Burwell now. The president s budget that released is a fiscal road map for excel growth, opportunity and ensure fiscal responsibility. Fully paid for investments in infrastructu infrastructures and preschools. The budget shows the president s funding priority at the 20
Thursday at thought House Armed Services committee. The secretary looks forward to discussing our updated Defense Strategy and budget as we grapple with tough fiscal and strategic realities. With that i will turn it over to brief the details of the quadrennial. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming. You know that we do that quadrennial defense review every four years and deliver it with the president s budget. I am happy to have the opportunity to doctors of the highlights with you law and take your questions before we also go and talk about the defense part of the budget. Before i start i want to take a minute to think the leaders here in the apartment and a staff of 0s t, the joint staff, services, combatant commanders. This was a team effort and the entire department but in a tremendous amount of work. I just wanted thank everyone in the building who participated with the very collaborative things as a process. We also work closely with the National Security council and our