AUGUST 1, 2017


NEWS AND VIEWS


I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ACTING DEA CHIEF PROMOTED TO CHIEF !!

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CBS NEWS August 1, 2017, 3:34 PM
Acting DEA chief sends staff memo repudiating Trump's remarks on use of force

Acting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief Chuck Rosenberg repudiated President Trump's comments last week about how arrested individuals should be treated.

"The President, in remarks delivered yesterday in New York, condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement," Rosenberg wrote Saturday in a staff memo obtained by CBS News' Paula Reid.

The Wall Street Journal first reported Rosenberg's memo to DEA staffers.

Mr. Trump had doled out some arrest advice for police officers at a speech on Friday in Long Island.

"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in -- rough -- I said, 'Please don't be too nice.' Like when you guys put someone in the car and you're protecting their head [with your hand], ... like don't hit their head, and they've just killed somebody ... I said, 'you can take the hand away.'"

It was a comment White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed. "I believe he was making a joke at the time," she told a reporter who asked about the comments.

But Rosenberg, who is a close friend of fired FBI Director James Comey, did not take the president's comments lightly.

While he said in his memo that he didn't believe DEA agents would mistreat defendants, he nonetheless wished to reaffirm "the operating principles to which we, as law enforcement professionals, adhere."

And, he said he was writing "because we have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong. That's what law enforcement officers do. That's what you do. We fix stuff. At least, we try," he wrote.

He went on to urge staff to live up to the agency's core values, including rule of law, respect, integrity, and accountability, among other traits. "This is how we conduct ourselves," he directed. "This is how we treat those whom we encounter in our work: victims, witnesses, subjects, and defendants. This is who we are."



KELLY LOOKS LIKE A TOUGH MARINE, AND HOPEFULLY A FAIR AND HONEST ONE. MAY HE BE STRONG ENOUGH TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!

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By REBECCA SHABAD CBS NEWS August 1, 2017, 6:00 AM
Can retired Gen. John Kelly bring order to a chaotic White House?

With John Kelly now serving as White House chief of staff, President Trump is hoping that the retired Marine Corps general brings some order and discipline to his West Wing.

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Kelly appeared to already hit the ground running by asking Mr. Trump on Monday to remove Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director. A statement from press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that, "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team."

The White House had been embroiled in internal warfare for months, which culminated with a series of staff changes over the last week and a half. First, Scaramucci was picked to be communications director on July 21, then Sean Spicer resigned as press secretary and then Reince Priebus announced Friday that he had resigned as chief of staff, largely considered the most critical advisory role in the White House. On Monday, Scaramucci himself was shown the door.

Priebus, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, had become an afterthought in a White House run by a slew of strong personalities and his power was steadily in decline, CBS News' Major Garrett reports. On Friday evening, the president announced on Twitter that he had named Kelly, who up until now ran the Department of Homeland Security, to replace Priebus. Kelly was formally sworn into the position on Monday morning.

Every White House has treated the chief of staff role differently, but the person is generally supposed to be a gateway to the president. It's unclear how much control Priebus really had over other advisers to Mr. Trump.

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"Almost everything went wrong," said Chris Whipple, author of "The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency" on "CBS This Morning" on Saturday. "Donald Trump did not understand, as all of his predecessors eventually find out, that you cannot govern without empowering a White House chief of staff as first among equals to execute your agenda and to tell you what you don't want to hear."

In a primetime interview Friday with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Priebus said, "I think General Kelly, given the tools, making sure that he is the chief of staff and he's in charge, he's in charge of hiring, firing, everyone reports to General Kelly -- I think it's a good formula. That's how he will be successful."

The White House confirmed that reporting structure on Monday.

"All staff will report to [Kelly]," Sanders told reporters at the daily briefing. "The president has given full authority to Gen. Kelly."

Steve Bannon, the White House's chief strategist, was originally viewed as an "equal partner" with Priebus, and it's unclear if that situation has changed with Kelly in charge. Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser to the president, posted a photo on Instagram Monday, noting that she looks forward to serving "alongside" Kelly.

Kellyanny Conway, counselor to the president, was asked in an interview on Fox News Friday whether everyone will still have the same access to Mr. Trump or if they will go through Kelly.

"Well that's just a pecking order question," she said. "I think it's beside the point and here's why: We all serve the President and this country. And in doing so, the president and his new chief of staff will decide what the right organizational structure and protocols are."

The disorganization that has consumed the first six months of the Trump administration is reminiscent of Gerald Ford's White House, said Whipple, who said senior aides at the time would often come and out from the Oval Office and no one was empowered as "first among equals."

"It was a disaster and that's very much like the Trump model that we're seeing now," he said.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that he reports to the chief of staff.

"I answer to the chief of staff. And I will continue to do that. The Office of Management and Budget actually reports directly to the chief of staff," he said. "Obviously, we answer to the president, as everybody does in the West Wing. But, as far as I know, my reporting doesn't change, nor do I have any reason for it to change."

Every administration has grappled with how to organize the hierarchy in staff at the White House. President Nixon, for example, first named H.R. Haldeman as his chief of staff, who played a strong role in the White House and controlled access to the Oval Office.

"Every president needs a son of a b****, and I'm Nixon's," Haldeman once said.

President Reagan, meanwhile, delegated power among three people who became known as the Troika: James Baker as chief of staff, Michael Deaver as deputy chief of staff and Edwin Meese as counselor to the president, according to CQ Press Guide to The Presidency and the Executive Branch by Michael Nelson.

"Meese served as Reagan's political conscience, keeping him true to his conservative policy goals in domestic policy. Baker focused on legislative issues and foreign policy, and Deaver managed the day-to-day operations of the White House," Nelson wrote in his book.

President Clinton, meanwhile, had a much more nonhierarchical system with a weak chief of staff at first, Nelson wrote, with his wife, Hillary, as the de facto chief of staff. Then a year and a half into his first term, Clinton tapped Leon Panetta to serve in that role, who Whipple told CBS was one of the two best chiefs of staff in history.

Kelly, for his part, spent most of his career in the military, serving most recently as commander of U.S. Southern Command in the Obama administration. While his military discipline could come in handy, he doesn't have the same kind of relationships Priebus had to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, which could make achieving the president's agenda even more challenging.

In order to be successful, Whipple said he wonders if Kelly set any ground rules when taking the jobs.

"I'm curious about whether he set any conditions because if he didn't then he's really in trouble and so is the Trump White House," he said.

CBS News' Jillian Hughes, Mark Knoller and Major Garrett contributed to this report.



THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE WAITED UNTIL THE VERY LAST LINE TO SAY THIS: “WRAY HAD REPRESENTED NEW JERSEY GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE IN THE SO-CALLED BRIDGEGATE SCANDAL.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/christopher-wray-confirmed-as-fbi-director/
CBS/AP August 1, 2017, 5:26 PM
Christopher Wray confirmed as FBI director

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump's choice to replace James Comey as head of the FBI.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved Wray 92-5, concluding an afternoon of debate over his nomination that was as uneventful as Comey's departure was chaotic.

Wray is a former high-ranking official in President George W. Bush's Justice Department who oversaw investigations into corporate fraud. The 50-year-old Wray will inherit the FBI at a particularly challenging time given Trump's firing of Comey, who was admired within the bureau.

Wray won unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, with Republicans and Democrats praising his promise never to let politics get in the way of the bureau's mission.

"Beyond credentials, I believe Mr. Wray has the right view of the job," said Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

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FBI director nominee Christopher Wray prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 12, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. GETTY

Wray replaces Comey, who was abruptly fired by Trump in May amid an investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties to Trump's campaign. The Judiciary panel is also investigating Russian interference.

At his confirmation hearing, Wray told senators he "sure as heck" would not offer a pledge of loyalty to the president.

Asserting his independence, he said, "My loyalty is to the Constitution and the rule of law. Those have been my guideposts throughout my career, and I will continue to adhere to them no matter the test."

Democrats said Wray has the qualifications and independence to lead the bureau. The top Democrat on the panel, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said Wray "has the strength and fortitude to stand up and do what it is right when tested."

She added: "We need leaders with steel spines, not weak knees, and I am hopeful that Mr. Wray will be just such a leader."

Wray has worked on white-collar crime and regulatory cases as a partner at the King & Spalding law firm. From May 2001 to May 2005, he held various high-ranking positions in the Justice Department, rising to the head of the criminal division in September 2003. He also served as principal associate deputy attorney general.

He was a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of Georgia from May 1997 to May 2001.

Wray had represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the so-called Bridgegate scandal.



I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT !! HE HAS TOO MUCH FUN JERKING EVERYBODY AROUND.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/shake-smoke-clears-finally-trump-s-chance-pivot-n788501
POLITICS AUG 1 2017, 3:22 PM ET
Is Trump (Finally) Ready for a ‘Pivot’ to Presidential?
by ALI VITALI

WASHINGTON — Despite calls from many quarters, President Donald Trump hasn't shown much interest in acting "presidential."

Over two years on the campaign trail, and now six months in office, when it comes to pivoting to presidential he's been consistent and clear: Not happening.

But now, with the appointment of Ret. Marine Gen. John Kelly as his new chief of staff, is Trump finally on the precipice of change?

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He says he could if he wanted — "with the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any President that's ever held this office!" — but chooses not to because he believes the country needs an unconventional governing style.

"Sometimes they say he doesn't act presidential. And I say, 'Hey look, Great schools, smart guy.' It's so easy to act presidential, but that's not gonna to get it done," Trump told thousands of supporters in Youngstown, Ohio, last week for a campaign-style rally.

Trump has dashed the hopes of White House advisers, outside strategists and lawmakers before, ignoring public pleas that he ditch his tweets in favor of a more measured style of governing. When some started to believe that the occasional stretches of a quiet Twitter feed or an on-message speech proved that Trump had finally, at long last, pivoted from his bombastic ways, those hopes have been soon dashed. Time and again.

Many would like to see the president stop making major policy announcements on Twitter (as he did last week banning transgender people from military service), halt criticism of members of his own party (he blasted Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for letting the nation down by opposing the GOP health care bill), and speak appropriately to audiences (the non-partisan Boy Scouts where Trump got highly political and the Suffolk County Police Department where the president said law enforcement shouldn't be "too nice" to suspects are two of the most recent examples.)

But Monday's swearing in of Kelly, paired with the dramatic fall of Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, signaled that efforts were underway, with the president's blessing, to stop the madness that had engulfed the White House and instead impose some order on a previously untamable West Wing.

"General Kelly has the full authority to operate within the White House, and all staff will report to him," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Monday as they sifted through the wreckage to find out what — or who — had felled Scaramucci.

The outspoken communications novice proudly told reporters from the podium less than two weeks earlier that he reported directly to the president with privileges to "walk in" to the Oval Office.

But Monday morning, Kelly told staff the chain of command for everyone now runs through him. Those familiar with the talks said Kelly stipulated before taking the chief of staff job that he must have the ability to make his own staffing decisions and require staff to run through him.

"He's no nonsense," a source with knowledge of the conversations told NBC News, pointing out how different this new approach was than former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus'.

A White House official told NBC "there's no doubt" Kelly is in charge right now and that the new order he's imposed will last.

Among the big choices facing Kelly will be who to replace Scaramucci with, as he begins the quest for the administration's fourth communications director in six months. But it's also the start of a careful balancing act between placating staff and stopping leaks, while allowing the president the freedom to communicate with his base but not to careen too far off message.

Kelly might get a control of a lot around the White House, but say over the president's Twitter account has eluded top Trump aides.

Those hoping for a more tempered Trump were heartened when he skipped the early-morning tweets on Tuesday, but a little later, before lunchtime, he lashed out at "the Fake News Media and Trump enemies" in defense of his social media usage.

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Trump's tweets serve as a near constant reminder of those who have tried to bridle the president in the past — and failed.

When former campaign chairman Paul Manafort tried to convince Republicans that Trump was different in private than his public persona, the president balked at suggestions he was going to pivot away from the tough talk and counter-punching that earned him his base's praise. Manafort was later fired after a summer on the job, replaced by Kellyanne Conway.

Remember, it was about letting Trump be Trump.

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Retired Gen. John Kelly gets sworn in before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Samuel Corum / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images file
And attempts to curtail the president from weighing in on news of day, especially as it pertained to allegations of collusion with Russia, were greeted repeatedly with defiant tweets.

Advisers had urged Trump not talk about Russia as he took to the stump in Iowa in June, a top White House official told NBC News at the time. He took their advice — for a few hours. By the next day, he was back tweeting — trashing the Democratic National Committee and shifting blame to the Obama administration for doing nothing to stop alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

"The thing that General Kelly should do is not try to change Donald Trump," former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday. Lewandowski has long advocated to "let Trump be Trump" and encourage advisers to embrace the president's natural political instincts.

"Anybody who thinks they're going to change Donald Trump doesn't know Donald Trump," Lewandowski said.

And current staff remain aware of the man in the Oval Office. Kelly will "professionalize the internal workings of the White House," the White House official said. "But we all know the president likes to take his message directly to the people. I think [Kelly's] job will be to get everyone in line and working towards one thing only — the president's agenda."



IS THIS PROBABLY FAKE NEWS STORY ONE OF TRUMP’S PERSONAL COMPOSITION FOR THE PURPOSE OF BLAMING THE DEAD IN THE DNC HACKING? OR IS IT A SMEAR AGAINST TRUMP, FOX, ET AL. BY AN ANGRY PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR? OF COURSE, IF THE KILLINGS WERE BOTH MURDERS, PERHAPS THEY ARE LINKED TO THE DNC EPISODE, AND POSSIBLY ALSO TO THE TRUMP CAMP AS THE SUIT ALLEGES. THE POLICE IN DC ARE CONSIDERING THE STREET KILLING OF SETH TO BE A ROBBERY GONE BAD. THE BOCA RATON KILLING BY A GUN SHOT TO THE HEAD ON THE BEACH THERE, TO BE EITHER MURDER OR SUICIDE. TRUMP PUSHED FOX TO RUN THE STORY IN A HURRY? MAYBE. THERE ISN’T ANY PROOF NOW, THOUGH. WE’LL SEE, PROBABLY LATER RATHER THAN SOONER. SOME RELIABLE NEWS SOURCES HAVE USED STORIES ON THE CASE, THOUGH – NEW YORK TIMES AND NPR. SEE MY SECONDARY BLOG FOR TODAY, WHICH IS ALSO POSTED AFTER THIS ONE.

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Lawyer wants Trump’s testimony in ‘fake news’ suit against Fox
Michael Isikoff and Hunter Walker Yahoo News August 1, 2017

WASHINGTON — The lawyer for a Washington private investigator who is suing Fox News over its use of allegedly invented quotes in a news story advancing a bizarre conspiracy theory said Tuesday he will seek to depose President Trump and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer to question them over their roles in the affair.

“We’re going to litigate this case as we would any other,” and that means “we’ll want to depose anyone who has information,” including the president, said attorney Douglas Wigdor, who is representing the investigator, Rod Wheeler.

The lawsuit was filed in a New York federal court on Tuesday against Fox News, one of its reporters, Malia Zimmerman, and Ed Butowsky, a Dallas-based financier who has often appeared as a commentator on Fox News and allegedly worked with Zimmerman on a story about the death of former DNC staffer Seth Rich.

According to the lawsuit, which was first reported by National Public Radio’s David Folkenflik, Butowsky on his own hired Wheeler, a former Washington, D.C., homicide detective, to investigate Rich’s murder. The 27-year-old Rich was shot on a Washington street one night last July in what police believe was a botched robbery.

The lawsuit charges Butowsky worked with Zimmerman to create a fake news story connecting Rich to the leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee, something intelligence agencies have said was orchestrated by the Russian government.

“Butowsky and Zimmerman were not simply Good Samaritans,” the lawsuit alleges. “They were interested in advancing a political agenda for the Trump Administration. Specifically, it was their aim to have Mr. Wheeler confirm that: i) Seth Rich was responsible for the leak of DNC emails to WikiLeaks; and ii) Seth Rich was murdered by a Democrat operative because he leaked the emails to WikiLeaks.”

The suit alleges that to support this narrative, Fox News manufactured quotes and attributed them to Wheeler, harming his reputation.

Wigdor told Yahoo News that Trump and Spicer are among a half dozen key witnesses he will seek to depose. The legal papers allege that Butowsky and Zimmerman met with Spicer at his White House office in April to discuss the upcoming story and that Trump himself specifically reviewed early drafts of the story and recommended editorial changes and an aggressive publishing schedule on the Fox News website.

In Rod Wheeler’s lawsuit against Fox News, Wheeler claims Fox fabricated quotes implicating DNC staffer Seth Rich in the WikiLeaks scandal and coordinated with the Trump administration on the story. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Wigdor released to Yahoo News audio recordings that he said support the lawsuit’s claim that Butowsky deliberately inserted fake quotes from Wheeler into a Fox News story that appeared on May 16 and has since been retracted. According to the complaint, the phony quotes were inserted into the story because “that is the way the President wanted the article” after he reviewed a draft.

“One day you’re going to win an award for having said those things you didn’t say,” a voice that is said to be Butowsky can be heard saying to Wheeler on the tape recording provided to Yahoo News.

The story, which ran on the Fox News website under Zimmerman’s byline, asserted that Rich, who was a data specialist at the DNC, had provided a cache of internal DNC emails to WikiLeaks, which in turn made them public. The story received widespread attention on Fox host Sean Hannity’s TV show and in other conservative, pro-Trump media for obvious reasons: If true, it would have undercut the unanimous conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that the theft of emails was perpetrated by Russian state-sponsored hackers to boost Trump’s candidacy and harm Hillary Clinton.

But no evidence has surfaced that Rich had any connection to WikiLeaks or the theft of the emails. The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department believes that Rich died as a result of a botched street robbery, although there have been no arrests.

Zimmerman’s story was retracted on May 23, one week after it was published. Fox News released a statement about the article’s removal on the network’s website.

“The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed,” the statement said.

Wheeler’s complaint includes evidence, in the form of text messages and emails, to support its claims that Trump and Spicer were involved in crafting and promoting the May 16 story. But the emails and text messages are from Butowsky, attributing comments and actions to the president, not directly from the president or anybody at the White House.

“Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article,” Butowsky texted Wheeler on May 14, 2017, two days before the story ran on Fox’s website. “He wants the article out immediately. It’s now all up to you. But don’t feel the pressure.”
Moments earlier, according to the complaint, Butowsky left a voicemail on Wheeler’s phone, saying: “A couple of minutes ago I got a note that we have the full, uh, attention of the White House, on this. And tomorrow, let’s close this deal, whatever we’ve got to do. But you can feel free to say that the White House is onto this.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the daily briefing at the White House on Aug. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

At a White House press briefing today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied the lawsuit’s claim about a White House role in crafting the Fox News story. “The president had no knowledge of the story and it is completely untrue that there was White House involvement in the story,” said Sanders. “Beyond that, this is ongoing litigation and I refer you to the actual parties involved, which aren’t the White House.”

Sanders did not respond to an email asking whether Trump would be willing to give a deposition in the lawsuit. Spicer also did not respond to a request for comment from Yahoo News. However, Spicer had earlier told NPR that he did agree to meet with Wheeler and Butowsky at the White House as a “courtesy” to Butowsky.

Butowsky did not respond to a call and email request for comment from Yahoo News. But the National Law Journal quoted him Tuesday as saying, “The whole thing is bulls***,” before hanging up. He had previously told NPR that he was “obviously joking” in his references to the president.

Zimmerman could not be reached despite multiple attempts on Tuesday. At one phone number associated with her name, a man answered and identified himself as “a family member.” The man said he had been “harassed by the media all day.”

“If you call me again I am going to send you a lawsuit so don’t call me again,” the man said before hanging up.

In a statement, Fox News’ President of News Jay Wallace said, “The accusation that FoxNews.com published Malia Zimmerman’s story to help detract from coverage of the Russia collusion issue is completely erroneous.” Wallace further claimed the story’s retraction is “still being investigated internally and we have no evidence that Rod Wheeler was misquoted by Zimmerman.”

The quotes attributed to Wheeler in the retracted story portray him as supporting the unfounded conspiracy theories about Rich. “My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” was one of the quotes attributed to Wheeler. Another has him saying: “My investigation shows someone within the DC government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward. That is unfortunate. Seth Rich’s murder is unsolved as a result of that.”

The claim that the White House had a role in crafting the Fox News story brought a quick comment Tuesday from the DNC.

“If these allegations are true, it is beyond vile that the White House — and possibly even Trump himself — would use the murder of a young man to distract the public’s attention from their chaotic administration and Trump’s ties to Russia,” DNC spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement. “The Rich family has begged those responsible for these conspiracies to stop. And yet, Trump’s allies have ignored their pain and their pleas, degrading the office of the president by spreading repulsive lies.”

Hinojosa further suggested the allegations “should outrage any decent human being” and accused “Trump’s associates and their conspirators at FOX” of adding to the Rich family’s pain.

Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the Rich family, said the conspiracy theories were painful for the Rich family. While he would not address the merits of the allegations in the suit, Bauman said he hoped it would put an end to the questions surrounding Rich’s death.

“While we can’t speak to the evidence that you have, we are hopeful that this brings an end to what has been the most emotionally difficult time in our lives and an end to conspiracy theories surrounding our beloved Seth,” said Bauman.

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Trump White House’s Misleading Statements
Given today’s acknowledgement that President Trump helped draft the Don Jr. statement, Chuck is obsessed with the Trump Administration’s “apparent inability or refusal to tell the truth.” Duration: 2:39


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Panetta: Trump Has to Be Willing to Back up John Kelly
Leon Panetta, Bill Clinton’s former White House chief of staff, joins MTP Daily to discuss how the role of the chief of staff should work in the Trump White House. Duration: 8:37



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Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Firing Sessions Is a 'Red Zone' for Trump
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issues a sharp warning to President Trump on removing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to impede the Russia Investigation. Duration: 1:03