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white house. good morning, al. this morning first response from the white house to north korea s nuclear test overnight. of course it comes in the form of presidential tweets. the president writing, quote, north korea has conduct add major nuclear test. their words and actions continue to be hostile and dangerous to the united states. north korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to china, this is trying to help but with little success. a couple of thoughts off the bat just reading these tweets. first, the first confirmation of any kind from the united states government that this was, in fact, a nuclear test of the north koreans. that s important, they have misrepresented their accomplishments along the way. second you hear the president say it s hostile and dangerous to the united states specifically. not just to allies and friends in the region. having a specific threat in the united states and viewing the action through that prism could d ....
earlier today that weinstein sexually harassed them. other actresses are telling the new york times that weinstein was making unwanted advances. heather graham is also speaking out. she told variety that weinstein said if she had with him, he would get a movie deal in the movie role. and weinstein s wife georgina chapman told people magazine she is now finally leaving her husband. according to the daily mail, weinstein is taking a page out of the clinton playbook. he s hiring a top hollywood lawyer in an attempt if you read it to discredit his victims. only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to allegations against harvey weinstein. with even more disturbing is the fact that people, many of them in hollywood knew what weinstein was doing and they knew it for decades and they did nothing about it. some in hollywood are even being accused of helping to cover this up. according to a former new york times reporter, there is a 2004 story that she was working on about wei ....
american taxpayers more than a million dollars. earlier white house tried to downplay its role. to be clear, white house doesn t have role on the front end of approving private charter flights. that s agencies and something we re looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any charter flights moving forward. white house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. approved the use of military aircraft for price s trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a million dollars. adding to the cost. price reimbursing government about $52,000. inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the travel costs were. $300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. he took a private plane at more than $17,000. at least 20 trips. including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1/2 hours or train for $72. this is just the spending that pr ....
you d actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. but it was interesting. in that senate primary, that republican senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. he called himself a former pentagon expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. he said, quote, i think a lot of people, i m not sure they understand the history of russia. you go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. it actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. this whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. that s russia s business, not anybody else s. and this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. he went on in some detail, carter page also turns up in the indict ....
fbi before he fired him last february. setting off a new round of questions about whether the president s actions amount to obstruction of justice. well, if you take the president s own statement, his tweet that he knew michael flynn was lying to the fbi when he fired him, which means that he knew michael flynn had committed a felony when he asked comey to stop the investigation. and when he fired comey when he refused to do so and when he fired sally yates and when he called michael flynn in april to tell him to stay strong. all of these acts are to impede and obstruct justice. a source close to the white house acknowledging the severity of the misstep to the washington post which writes a person close to the white house involved in the case turned the saturday tweet a screw up of historic proportions that has caused enormous consternation in to in legal circles about whether or not a lawyer would have sent a tweet or even dictated a tweet like the one that came from th ....