Partner in crime writing, quote, not withstanding that rick gates pled today, i continue to maintain my innocence. I had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to innocence. For reasons yet to surface he chose do otherwise. This does not alter my commitment to defend myself in the charges piled up against me. Gates becomes the Third Trump Campaign official to join what one ally describes as team america. Gates, along with former National Security adviser mike flin and former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos are now cooperating with the investigation and providing special counsel bob mueller with any and all information including testimony, documents, electronic files, or anything else it requests in return for leniency. As this news was breaking, donald trump addressed a wildly enthusiastic crowd at the annual cpac conference just outside washington, d. C. I saved you, cried the woman, and youve bitten me. Heavens why . You
The topic of his future agenda. During the meeting with the president pruitt laid out his case for why he should continue in his job. Pruitt spent millions of dollars for a 20 member fulltime security detail that is three times the size of his predecessors. Its urged trump to fire pruitt but trump has been resistance. The morning the president sent out a tweet of support and said he was doing a great job while being totally under siege. The white house backed that up at todays briefing. No one other than the president has the authority to hire and fire members of his cabinet. He feels the administrator has done a good job. Hes restored it back to its original purpose. Its got unnecessary regulations out of way. Were continuing to review any of the concerns that we have. The white house is closing out with new and growing concerns with the future of the economy. Markets took a tumble. The sell off largely triggered by concerns of the president s latest threat to impose tariffs on an add
Thanks for joining us, well get to that but we begin keeping them honest with the unraveling of a Conspiracy Theory not created and promoted by a fringe radio huckster, no, this was created and promoted by elected officials on capitol hill and part of it by the president of the United States himself. There were two aspects to the theory, one revolving around a phrase in a single text message some republican lawmakers claimed was evidence of a dangerous secret society in the fbi and the other revolved that high level officials in the fbi were trying to undermine President Trump, today both parts of this Conspiracy Theory crumbled as they often do in the bright light of facts. Lets take a look at what happened because it tell as story of lawmakers attempting to undermine the premiere Law Enforcement agency in the country, the fbi. The secret society text message was part of an exchange between two fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page. They were romantically involved and sent a varie
The political director for the white house and the top economic adviser at the white house and guy that does the personnel for the white house and Sarah Huckabee and the steven miller. Everybody you have ever heard of associated with the administration who has not already been fired or indicted, and a bunch of people you havent heard of they are all going to spend a frigid weekend together in camp david. But not Jeff Sessions. And this is not like some official event. Its not like a state of the union thing where they need a designated survivor. Where they need to to keep somebody somewhere safe in case something bad happens. Its not like that. He wasnt invited maybe you feel bad for Jeff Sessions maybe you think it might be cold up there. It is cold from weekend. He is from alabama maybe that would be hard for him. But i dont know. I mean if this is a big summit because something important is about to happen, and if it is a deliberate and important decision that Jeff Sessions is consp