Page 577 - Pretext News Today

Fact that they were able to pass it. guy, what to think the prospects are? its getting down to the wire here in the senate. >> theres a message that needs to be sent to republican senators were on the brink. i understand this bill is not perfect in a number of respects but for the party to campaign on basically one message for seven years, repeal and replace obamacare, to have control of washington, d.c., right now and do not even allow a vote on a bill? to me, thats completely unacceptable. we ...

With this kremlin linked lawyer. he says no details or supporting information was provided or even offered about this so-called dirt that they thought they were going to get on hillary clinton. done junior continues it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. she says she then changed subjected and began discussing the adoption of russian children and mentioned the magnitsky act. it became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpf...

Meeting. but federal investigators and all the investigations are looking into possible collusion are looking at the intent. why was it in the first place that donald trump jr. met with this individual? well, kellyanne conway, senior adviser to the president as you saw in the last hour of cnn, a robust defense of the administration, of the president and also of donald trump jr. take a listen. >> don jr. has very explicitly stated he didnt even know the name of the person with whom he was meeting...

Moment. but first, sean spicer did address a tweet that president trump sent out this morning about how most politicians would have accepted a meeting like done junior did. >> and ali, he went a little bit further in that and science just moments ago here at the white house said that theres nothing out there to suggest that this meeting wasnt about adoptions. this meeting that done junior had. in some ways hes resuscitating, hes reviving the initial defense that this meeting was about adoptions ...

Pageant with an individual who i was told might have information helpful to the campaign. i was not told her name prior to the meeting. i asked jared and paul to attend. jared kushner and paul manafort and told them nothing of the substance. we had a meeting in june 2016 and after pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting miss clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguou...

Of the meeting, it took a revision to get this out, a comment was made by the president that said, "in fact, maybe it was mentioned at some point." maggie, it was unclear reading the pool report what exactly he was referring to by that one discrete comment. do you have any idea? >> right. my interpretation of what he meant by that -- and to be clear, the transcript that the white house put out, they did not include that bit in the press pool we did put that part out because it was a significant ...

They came over and wanted to set up a meeting. it was under the pretext of dirt on hillary. she didnt have it. and they said all right, later. it was a democratic firm connected to the russian dossier. that could be a set up. we dont even know that. jared and paul manafort did volunteer this contact. when they were asked about it, it was volunteered. i will tell you some other things, you know what else is a more sketchy? hillary accepting and soliciting a million dollar check from saudi tycoons...

The deputy attorney general who wrote the memo initially used as pretext for fires jals comey. the memo stops short for calling for comeys dismissal and in an interview withlesser hot the president said he planned to fire comey with or without input from rosenstein whom he praised at the time for his integrity. >> i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. he made a recommendation. hes highly respected. very good guy. very smart guy. the democrats like him. the republicans like him. he ma...

>> weve got garrett tenney live in washington on this one. garrett, why are these states refusing to provide voter information? >> well, there are ten states that have already said they wont be providing any information to the presidents commission, and many of those are led by democrats like virginia governor terry mcauliffe who believes the investigation into voter fraud is a bit of a ruse saying quote at best this commission was set up as a pretext to validate donald trumps alternative electi...

When "the washington post" reported, based on anonymous sources, special counsel robert mueller seeking interviews with three senior intelligence officials. director dan coats, nsa director rogers and deputy director leggett suggesting hes underinvestigation. trump responded blasting fbi leaks. rather than letting his lawyer speak for him, trump tweeted. "i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director! witch hunt." even though he seems to mix-...