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May 01 2019
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Barr hearing: AG reveals tensions with Mueller team over Russia report conclusion, no-obstruction punt
Attorney General William Barr, in highly anticipated Senate testimony Wednesday, revealed tensions between the Justice Department and Robert Mueller’s team over the special counsel’s final report on the Russia investigation, pointedly saying he was surprised Mueller didn’t come to a conclusion over whether President Trump obstructed justice.
“We did not understand exactly why the
Fox News DigitalAug 13 2019
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US delaying China tariffs for some items including cellphones, removing other products from list
The United States Trade Representative office said Tuesday certain items were being removed from the new China tariff list because of “health, safety, national security and other factors” while tariffs on other items would be delayed until December 15.
The products in the group that will have tariffs delayed include “cell phones, laptop computers, video game consoles, certain toys,
CNBCApr 30 2019
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Explainer: Probes spawned by Mueller target Trump business, others
Numerous investigations spun out of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe are still alive and kicking, presenting potential ongoing legal and political risk for President Donald Trump, some of his former advisers and others.
Even though Trump avoided a knockout blow from the April 18 Mueller report, the special counsel disclosed more than a dozen active criminal inquiries that
ReutersApr 30 2019
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GOP sets up firewall for Trump on Mueller
Senate Republicans are beginning to set up a firewall for President Trump against special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, pushing back at a slew of Democratic attacks on the president’s conduct as described in the document.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Monday set the tone for his caucus’s rank and file, signaling the GOP will join the White House in casting Democratic attacks
The HillApr 29 2019
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As Trump stands by Charlottesville remarks, rise of white-nationalist violence becomes an issue in 2020 presidential race
First came Joe Biden’s campaign announcement video highlighting President Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comment about the 2017 white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville that left a counterprotester dead.
Then Trump dug in, arguing that he was referring not to the self-professed neo-Nazi marchers, but to those who had opposed the removal of a statue of the “great” Confederate
Washington PostApr 06 2015
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A Case Study On Why The Obamacare Lawsuit Is Based On Mythical History
Four years ago, Alabama’s new Republican governor, along with the state's first majority-GOP legislature since Reconstruction, faced a tough, high-stakes decision: Make the best of a federal health care reform law they hated, or stiff-arm President Barack Obama.
Even in this conservative Southern state, it wasn’t an easy call. Gov. Robert Bentley (R) had campaigned on a platform that
HuffPostApr 02 2015
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The False Hope of a Limited Government, Built on Tax Breaks
In the early years of the Reagan Revolution, Senator Robert Packwood, then the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, offered a robust — if unusual — defense of the tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance: It prevented the government from getting bigger.
“The one reason we do not have any significant demand for national health insurance in this
New York Times (News)Apr 24 2019
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Trump says he is opposed to White House aides testifying to Congress, deepening power struggle with Hill
President Trump on Tuesday said he is opposed to current and former White House aides providing testimony to congressional panels in the wake of the special counsel report, intensifying a power struggle between his administration and House Democrats.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Trump said that complying with congressional requests was unnecessary after the White House
Washington PostApr 24 2019
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Hillary: Trump would 'have been indicted' by Mueller if he wasn't president
Hillary Clinton said Tuesday the reason President Trump escaped obstruction charges following the Mueller report was because of his presidential title.
“Any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted, but because of the rule in the Justice Department that you can’t indict a sitting President, the whole matter of obstruction was very directly sent to
Washington TimesApr 24 2019
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Trump World ramps up campaign to turn tables in Russia case, target Dems who 'colluded'
As Democratic leaders tentatively took impeachment proceedings off the docket this week, the White House put payback on the front burner -- calling for closer looks into everyone from the FBI officials who investigated the Russia case to allies of Hillary Clinton's campaign who solicited foreign help during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“All those things have to be explored and more
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