Page 81 - Sam Clovis News Today

To whom did he countrywide about the russian confrontation? >> certainly during that couple month period of time where this whole papadopoulos has been under seal, you have to believe that papadopoulos was out there recording conversations, meeting with the various people that he had dealt with on this russian matter, and you also have to ask, did clovis get immunity? did he voluntarily go into the grand jury? its hard to believe he wasnt forced to testify and given immunity. or maybe hes even e...

Scientist of the department of agriculture. we have a statement that clovis has released. let me read it for you. the political climate inside washington has made it impossible for me to receive balance and fair consideration for this position. he continued on to say, the relentless assaults on you and your team seem to be blood sport that only increases in intensity each day. sam clovis seeming to refer to president trump and the white house administration but it is important to note that sam c...

It charges the men with conspiracy, money laundering, and other crimes. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us live from washington. good afternoon, catherine. >> will get to that in just a moment. weve had some developments this morning that relate to the russian investigation. this letter to the president was released about an hour ago and it comes from a political operative sam clovis and he has withdrawn his nomination at the agriculture department and he writes in a le...

The supervisor to whom papadopoulos confided information about meeting with a professor and a female russian national described as putins niece. not true, but this is all very early information about the russian hacking before it had been announced. >> well, papadopoulos was actively seeking collusion from the russians. i mean, the question now is what did they give him in return? but he was out there repeatedly trying to get these e-mails that had been hacked. the fact his supervisor, who autho...

New developments in the russia investigation today.ccor the former attorney back in august that his client was going to be indicted. manafort and his associate rick gates are due in federal court less than an hour from now. also today, former trump aide carter page appears before the house intelligence committee. the nomination of sam clovis will not be the department of agricultures chief scientist after withdrawing his name in a letter to the president this morning. questions had also been rai...

Welcome back to "hardball." president trump promised during the campaign that he would hire the best people for the country. here he goes. >> were going to deliver. were going to get the best people in the world. you know, we have the greatest business people in the world. we dont use them. >> we will use our smartest and our best and were not using political hacks. theyre the people that do these deals. >> we want experts and our finest people. we dont want b-level, c-level, d-level, we want ou...

It didnt cut the deficit -- it didnt raise the deficit by a pen penny. if they were making this proposal so it is deficit neutral, i would say i would give it a look. but how can you justify the fact that youre playing all these last-minute games to try to prevent middle class families from getting a tax increase as if thats an afterthought so that you can afford a 20% largely unpaid for koft tax cut. remember, even in the past republicans who wanted lower rates generally supported it not increa...

This dialogue. we think that sam clovis was one of those senior campaign officials who was overseeing papadopoulos and was encouraging him to keep going. and so the fact that hes now apparently testified before a grand jury and talking to mueller would suggest that muellers pursuing a line of inquiry of, well, how far up did the knowledge that the russians had these e-mails and were offering to cooperate with the campaign go, and had he gone before the senate for an otherwise seemingly unrelated...

As weve been reporting, president trumps nominee for the department of agriculture top scientist post, sam clovis, has now withdrawn his name today for consideration, following reports that clovis was questioned last week by special counsel robert muellers team and also testified before the grand jury. clovis was the supervisor of george papadopoulos, raising questions about just how much clovis may know about early contacts with the russians. this also as president trump called the "new york ti...

The trump administration. imagine the kinds of questions he would be asked at his confirmation hearing under oath. this would be not only a huge distraction and an opportunity for members of congress to ask him about all of the matters in those emails, who are these other people identified only by title in the emails that were revealed in the statement by the case in the george papadopoulos case. so i think that he and others in the trump administration thought there was no choice, but to withdr...