Headline Roundup • July 29th, 2019
Trump's Nominee For DNI: John Ratcliffe
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NPR (Online News)
Rep. John Ratcliffe is President Trump's choice to become the next top leader of the U.S. intelligence community.
The Texas Republican thanked Trump on Twitter following the president's earlier announcement, also on Twitter, that Ratcliffe was his nominee to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
Coats and Trump haven't been sympatico from the beginning and the White House has been telling journalists for weeks that the president wanted somebody else.
If the transition isn't a surprise, however, the choice of Ratcliffe might have been — and some key...
Politico
Sen. Chris Murphy on Monday dismissed Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next director of national intelligence, as a “television character” who is an “inappropriate choice” for the historically nonpartisan post.
“I don't know this guy,” Murphy (D-Conn.) said on MSNBC. “I think he's a television character that the president has watched on TV, and he wants to put somebody in this position who's going to agree with his political take on intelligence.”
Senate Republicans plan to move quickly to consider the nomination of Rep. John Ratcliffe to succeed outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr on Monday said he talked to Ratcliffe Sunday to congratulate on President Trump’s decision to nominate him to the post.
Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, sits on the Homeland Security and Judiciary Committee and is relatively unknown to senators.
