Front of his adoring fans. The russia story is a total fabrication. He cannot lie to the fbi, to the grand jury. This is about matters of law. This culture of leaking must stop. Sessions scolded everyone today about this. I have this warning for wouldbe leakers. Dont do it. Classified leaks have played an Important Role in bringing to light, you know, really crucial public information. Are there any russians here tonight . Any russians . Hes the one who keeps bringing this up. This is what the president does when hes backed into a corner. Im not sure it can hurt him to get out of town for a while. Mueller has a grand jury, and now he wants documents. This latebreaking story from the New York Times tonight, friday. Muellers investigators bearing down on Michael Flynns financial ties abroad. Now asking the white house for documents related to flynn, and theyve questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the trump president
Director comey was very unpopular with most people. I got a very very strong prot t recommendation from rosenstein. Recently received that is simply not true. He happened to be widely respected. Keeping him honest, to sum up how the deputy described it, he wrote a memo. He read it and was persuaded to fire director comey. That is his account today, yet so is this just seven days ago. I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it. I was gieng to fire regardless. Rewind to a couple days before that to the day mr. Comey was fired. On that day according to the Vice President himself it wasnt President Trumps idea. It was all rosenstein. As you can see, all rosenstein all the time. President trump made the right decision at the right time to dep the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney general. He took the recommendation of Deputy Attorney general. He brought the recommendation to the president that he should be removed. I think when you receive a report that is so clear and a re
Trumps aides met repeatedly with russian officials and people close to the kremlin. Then as soon as trump got into office, he sought to ease sanctions on russia. Yahoo news reported that yesterday, late night in fact, unknown to the public at the time, top Trump Officials almost as soon as they took office tasked state Department Staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, including the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with moscow. Investigators are trying to figure out what that all adds up to. President trump fired e man leading that investigation, james comey. Then he proceeded to threaten, mock, and humiliate him. Next week james comey will have his chance to respond when he testifies before the Senate Intelligence committee. Its going to be a blockbuster moment. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin today is speaking out there in a brandnew interview with nbcs megyn kelly and denying russias role in the hacking. Here he goes. You
In one week from today, james comey will speak publicly for the very First Time Since the president fired him as fbi director last month. The Senate Intelligence committee announced today that comey is scheduled to testify on thursday, june 8th, beginning at 10 00 a. M. In both open and closed sessions after getting the goahead from special counsel robert mueller. Mueller, of course, was appointed to take over the russia investigation following comeys firing. The question now is whether the president may invoke executive privilege to try and block comey from even getting before the committee. The former fbi director is expected to discuss his conversations with the president in which he says the president demanded his loyalty and asked him to halt the investigation into Michael Flynn, the ousted National Security adviser. Courts have upheld a president s right to keep his communications private, but its not clear how that principle would apply to a president who frequently makes Public
I hope you enjoy your weekend in general. But just keep in mind this is one of those times. Just sort of keep eyes open. All politicians, all public figures to a certain extent have to manage the art of diverting peoples attention at times, changing the subject, creating deliberate distractions. And, you know, some politicians are better at it than others. But all good politicians have to be able to do it to a certain degree. Our current president is very, very, very good at it. He doesnt just have that skill like a normal politician. He has a peculiar nuclear version of it. Let me explain what i mean. A normal political way, a normal politicians way to change the subject, the way a normal politician does it is to stop talking about whatever that person finds inconvenient or unfavorable or uncomfortable. Stop talking about that thing that they dont want to talk about. And instead Start Talking about Something Else and hope that you bring people along to this new topic that youre happie