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Trump Abruptly Ends Meeting With Pelosi, Schumer

Calls it a 'total waste of time'

(Newser) - President Trump reportedly walked out of a meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Wednesday after Pelosi said she would not agree to fund his desired border wall, top Democrats tell the AP . Schumer says Trump asked the question, and when Pelosi said no, the POTUS responded, "Then we...

On Shutdown Day 19, Trump Hastens to the Capitol

He'll meet with Republicans ahead of White House meetings

(Newser) - President Trump hastened to Capitol Hill Wednesday trying to hold jittery congressional Republicans in line on the 19th day of the partial government shutdown. He suggested a deal for his border wall might be getting closer, but he also said the shutdown will last "whatever it takes." Beyond...

Trump Had Warned California. Today, Another Shot Fired

President says he's cutting off FEMA money unless state gets 'act together, which is unlikely'

(Newser) - When President Trump demanded California get its wildfires in check , he apparently meant business. "Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forrest fires that, with proper Forrest Management, would never happen," Trump said in a Wednesday tweet, ultimately replaced with one in which "...

Man Who Appointed Mueller to Lead Probe Will Leave DOJ

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein will leave if and when William Barr is confirmed, sources say

(Newser) - The man who appointed Robert Mueller to head the Russia investigation is expected to leave the Department of Justice in the coming weeks, sources tell nearly every major media outlet. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has reportedly conveyed his plans to the White House, which ABC News reports is not...

Trump Calls Speech &#39;an Interesting Experience&#39;
Reviews Mixed for
'Low Energy' Trump
REACTION ROUNDUP
Jan 9, 2019 7:10 AM CST

Reviews Mixed for 'Low Energy' Trump

He says speech was an 'interesting experience'

(Newser) - After addressing the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night, President Trump tweeted video of his speech on border security and added : "Thank you for soooo many nice comments regarding my Oval Office speech. A very interesting experience!" The comments, however, were not universally nice. Raw Story reports...

Fact-Checkers Pounce on Trump Address
Fact-Checkers Pounce
on Trump Address
the rundown
Jan 9, 2019 3:33 AM CST

Fact-Checkers Pounce on Trump Address

Post calls address 'misleading and bleak'

(Newser) - President Trump delivered an address on the "crisis" at the US-Mexico border Tuesday night—and fact-checkers started work as soon as he got to the word "crisis." The Washington Post, which calls Trump's description of the situation "misleading and bleak," reports that while the...

In Prime-Time Speech, Trump Pushes for a Wall
In Prime-Time Speech,
Trump Pushes for a Wall
national address
Jan 8, 2019 8:32 PM CST

In Prime-Time Speech, Trump Pushes for a Wall

But president does not declare an emergency in order to build the wall

(Newser) - President Trump called the situation at the US-Mexico border a "humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul" in a national address Tuesday night—but he stopped short of declaring a formal emergency in order to get a border wall built. In his brief...

Big Question Before Speech: Will Trump Declare Emergency?
Ahead of Speech, Focus Is
on a Potential Trump Move
the rundown
Jan 8, 2019 11:00 AM CST

Ahead of Speech, Focus Is on a Potential Trump Move

President has said he might declare emergency to build border wall

(Newser) - President Trump has floated the possibility of declaring a national emergency in order to bypass Congress and get a border wall built. The idea has set off all kinds of speculation ahead of the president's prime-time address Tuesday night, though the White House has given no indication he intends...

Democrats Demand Equal Time After Trump Address

All major networks set to carry immigration talk

(Newser) - Major networks are not planning to avoid running President Trump's prime-time address Tuesday on what he calls a border "crisis" the way they did with a 2014 address by former President Obama on immigration deemed "overly political." ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and Fox...

Ocasio-Cortez&#39;s Comments on Trump Cause a Ruckus
Ocasio-Cortez's Comments
on Trump Cause a Ruckus
the rundown
Jan 7, 2019 2:12 PM CST

Ocasio-Cortez's Comments on Trump Cause a Ruckus

Congresswoman says there's 'no question' president is a racist

(Newser) - The highest-profile member of the new Congress continues to make headlines, the latest coming in a Sunday interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes . In the interview, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embraces the description of herself as a "radical" on issues including the environment and income inequality, but much of the...

Trump Plans Prime-Time Speech, Trip to the Border

President adds two big items to this week's schedule

(Newser) - President Trump appears poised to ramp up his arguments for a border wall with a prime-time address to the nation and a visit to the US-Mexico border. Trump tweeted that he will speak at 9pm Tuesday "on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border." And...

Trump 'Can Relate' to Plight of Unpaid Government Workers

He says Sunday shutdown talks were 'productive'

(Newser) - President Trump said Sunday that he can "relate" to the plight of hundreds of thousands of federal workers worried about having to get by without paychecks if the shutdown continues, though critics wondered if the president really had any comparable life experiences. "I'm sure the people that...

'You'd Be at War Right Now' if Not for Me: Trump

Trump also says another North Korea summit is coming up

(Newser) - Round two, coming up? President Trump said Sunday that Washington is negotiating a location for another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, CNN reports. Trump said his administration has a "very good dialogue" with Pyongyang, adding: "Now I say this, North Korea, we're doing very...

Trump Confirms: USS Cole Mastermind Is Dead

Tweets salute to 'GREAT MILITARY' who took out Jamal al-Badawi in Yemen strike

(Newser) - President Trump is confirming reports that the US has killed the mastermind behind the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, reports Fox News . "Our GREAT MILITARY has delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded in the cowardly attack on the USS Cole," tweeted the president on Sunday....

Ex-NYT Editor: Trump Took Words 'Out of Context'

Jill Abramson praises paper's 'superb coverage' after excerpt of her coming book leaks

(Newser) - Jill Abramson and President Trump appeared to be in unlikely agreement that the New York Times was running stories that "were unmistakably anti-Trump" —but very briefly, and now the former NYT executive editor is hitting back at coverage of her upcoming book, saying it was taken "totally...

Sunday Brings Another Round of Shutdown Talks

Saturday's session wasn't very effective

(Newser) - White House officials and congressional aides are returning to discussions Sunday to find a way to reopen the government after emerging from the first round of weekend talks without a breakthrough. President Trump tweeted Saturday: "Not much headway made today." The president later tweeted that he planned to...

Trump: I May Call a National Emergency

The president spoke in the White House Rose Garden

(Newser) - President Trump opened a meeting with Congressional leaders Friday by launching into a 15-minute profanity-laced tirade and saying the federal shutdown is really a "strike," sources tell CNN . Trump also turned to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and touched on the issue of impeachment, prompting her to remind him...

New Rep. Who Called Trump a Vulgarity Digs Her Heels In

Rep. Rashida Tlaib doesn't back down

(Newser) - Rep. Rashida Tlaib's second day on the job ended up being ... interesting. That's thanks to a widely reported comment she made at a Thursday night event: "We're gonna impeach the motherf---er," the obscenity being a reference to the president. On Friday, the Michigan Democrat was...

HBO Warned Trump Not to Mess With Trademark. Here We Go Again

He won't stop making 'Game of Thrones' memes, and this time fans are snickering

(Newser) - We know President Obama is a Game of Thrones fan ; we're pretty sure President Trump isn't, or at least he hasn't seen the end of the seventh season yet. As part of what the Week calls Trump's "fixation" with memes from the hit HBO show,...

Trump Hits Back on Impeachment Talk

Claims 'most successful first two years of any president'

(Newser) - "[I've] done nothing wrong," was President Trump's response to impeachment talk that made headlines on the first day of a new Congress Thursday. Calling himself "the most popular Republican in party history," Trump brushed off the idea of impeachment as ridiculous in Friday tweets,...

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