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As Blinken heads to Ukraine, Zelensky undercuts Western support with surprise sacking of energy executive Jamie McIntyre BLINKEN’S UKRAINE MISSION: Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his meetings with G-7 foreign ministers in London today and heads to Ukraine, where tomorrow he meets with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Blinken’s primary mission is to show solid support for Zelenesky’s government in the face of Russia’s recent military buildup along the country’s eastern border and the implicit threat of aggression. But as Zelensky has lobbied for faster admi...

‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.”

Hard-fought thing when it comes to both accusing him and defending him. if the stakes are as high as i believe they are in terms of this investigation, there can be no question as to whether or not he's well represented, that he gets the best defense possible and that all of the truth comes out. you have to have faith in the adversarial nature of our justice system in order to hope for an outcome everybody can abide by and believe in. if you're against this president, don't root for him to have a bad lawyer. root for us all to be on the same page when this is all over, come hell or high water....

Concern about reputational risk to their firms. would the -- would taking on the representation of donald trump, such a polarizing figure, kill recruitment of top notch lawyers coming out of law school. or how would it play with their existi existing clients and that is extraordinary when talking about representing the president of the united states. >> he does have an outside lawyer. he has brought on a lawyer who represented him in some of his atlantic city casino business. it's a lawyer who, i know, has threatened "the new york times" when they've reported things about president trump that ...

But for most other modern presidents, there is somebody. president nixon went through not one, but two outside private lawyers. his first was a man names charles alan wright, the preeminent constitutional lawyer of his time. wright, however, was unsuccessful in his efforts to prevent nixon from having to hand over the white house tapes. and so nixon canned him. replaced him with another prominent lawyer names james st. clair. st. clair defended the decision to withhold the tapes all the way up to the supreme court before they lost that case. during iran/contra, president reagan retained republ...