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The White House's Contradictory Message on Kushner
Soon after, Spicer abruptly ended the press conference. But other Republican operatives regret that he didn't get much of chance to inject some discipline into a White House messaging operation that has careened from crisis to crisis amid unvetted tweets from the commander in chief. [Full Article...]
White House communications shakeup coming?
And West Wing aides became freshly tense amid reports Trump is considering firing some of them. There, Dubke is unlikely to have to work the 18-hour days and weekend shifts that are common for top White House staffers no matter who is president. [Full Article...]
New Ad Targets Kathy Griffin's Support for Jon Ossoff
Griffin has apologized for the picture , but the controversy has nonetheless cost her endorsements and a job co-hosting CNN's coverage of New Year's Eve . The election takes place on June 20th, with three weeks and several debates still to go. The CLF has spent months trying to weaken Ossoff's appeal to swing voters by tying him to left-wing activism and California donors. [Full Article...]
Portland's Mayor Is Pleading With Alt-Right Members To Cancel Planned Protests
Indeed. Yet while the incident has been painful and has highlighted the tense divide in this country, any suggestion that certain groups must be quieted because we disagree with what they have to say should be regarded as anathema. The suspect in Friday's stabbing, Jeremy Joseph Christian, "attended a similar far-right rally on April 29 called a "March for Free Speech" in East Portland", member s... [Full Article...]
Trump very pleased with his communication team: WH
Dubke, an experienced Republican strategist, resigned on May 18 but his decision was kept quiet until Trump returned from his foreign trip overseas last week. The White House official who confirmed the departure had not responded to an inquiry about whether a search is already underway for a new communications director. [Full Article...]
China vows to work with European Union to uphold Paris pact
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left), UNFCCC's Christiana Figueres (left), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), and President François Hollande of France (right), celebrate historic adoption of Paris Agreement. [Full Article...]
NC House gives tentative approval to budget
The Republican-led Senate voted 14-9 along party lines Wednesday afternoon to accept the plan crafted by its Finance Committee, opening the door to further amendments from the floor. He hoped negotiations between the two chambers would take only a couple of weeks. Thursday's vote marks the next step toward House and Senate Republicans passing a final budget before July 1. [Full Article...]
Comey expected to testify that Trump pressured him to end Flynn probe
He began his career with Justice in 1991 at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of NY. Weissmann oversaw the investigations and prosecutions of more than 30 people on the Enron Task Force, including CEOs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. [Full Article...]