Does this cross a legal line . All that coming up, but lets start with the confusion, the controversy over at the white house right now with a storm cloud hanging over the west wing in the rollout of the president s promised tariffs plan. The president is apparently very upset with his press secretary, Sarah Sanders, over her response to the Stormy Daniels story, the 130,000 in hush money to the porn star. But today the president tried to get his white house back on track while meeting with his cabinet. This is gary cohns last meeting in the cabinet and of the cabinet, and hes been terrific. He may be a globalist but i still like him. He is seriously a globalist, theres no question. But you know what, in his own way, hes a nationalist because he loves our country. Where is gary . You love our country. Hes going to go out and make another couple hundred million and then hes going to maybe come back. He might come back, right . Well be here. Absolutely. Well be here another seven years,
This afternoon, surprise, a meeting slash announcement at the white house, one that had not been previously scheduled, there is loats of reporting the president would isnt announce big tariffs but in the unscheduled meetings the president did announce them and forgot to actually sign them. He does do this a lot. He did it with a coalrelated thing at one point where he had the big signing ceremony. Then he did it with an obamacare thing. He did it once last march where it looked like he was about to sign and got asked a question about mike flynn and it appeared to fluster him so much he didnt sign the documents. He walked out of the room. The Vice President mike pence said hey, do you want to sign this and went back into the room and collected unsigned documents and followed the president out of the room. Maybe the president signed them later. In any case, there was another incident today where the president convened everybody to see him sign the thing and he didnt. Then he remembered a
A lot of things coming at the white house and the president. We have examples of the president engaging with witnesses about matters that they had discussed with the special counsel. Nbc news has learned that trump Attorney Michael Cohen is trying to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels from speaking out about her, quote, intimate relationship with donald trump. President trumps lawyer obtained a secret restraining order against the porn star suing the president. The order issued by a private a arbitor bans daniels from speaking about her situation. Keeping her quiet about the alleged relationship shes alleged to have with President Trump over a decade ago. The nondisclosure agreement, daniels says, is not legal because at the time, trump didnt sign it. Did the president approve of the payment that was made in october of 2016 by his longtime lawyer and adviser Michael Cohen . The president has directed these directly, and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true.
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