“We’re having very substantive talks with North Korea”, Trump said, including discussions of release of three Americans still imprisoned by Kim’s government.
In an interview with NBC News, the newest addition to Trump’s legal team explained that when the president denied knowing anything about Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels-“no”, he answered last month when a reporter asked whether he was aware the cash had changed hands-it was because he’d only recently learned that the funds he sent to Cohen were meant to reimburse him for the hush money. “He’ll get his facts straight“.
One of Mr Trump’s lawyers announced Giuliani’s addition to the team on April 19.
“Some people have talked about a possible 12-hour interview. That’s what he knows”, Trump added.
“He knows it’s a witch hunt”, Trump continued.
McCarthy was comparing the treatment of the Obama campaign’s Federal Election Commission violations with what is being done to the Trump campaign.
Virtually no one could answer these questions with any certainty of detail.
The list of four dozen questions, which covered a range of topics, including Russian meddling in the US election and whether Trump tried to obstruct justice to protect his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, was published by the New York Times earlier this week. When asked to testify in Mueller’s Russian Federation probe, Trump should “just say no”.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on the subject, the answer appears to be yes. “Unfortunately, it has become the basis of the investigation”.
The president told reporters that “if you fight back because you people say something wrong or they … something wrong, or they leak, which they’ve been doing, if you fight back, they say, ‘Oh, that’s obstruction of justice.’ Somebody says something wrong, you fight back, they say, ‘That’s obstruction of justice.’ It’s nonsense”.
“He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn’t a target of the investigation”, Giuliani told Fox News’s Sean Hannity.
“It’s a different Rudy”. “We would be inclined to do it”, Giuliani said, according to Bloomberg. By 2001, Giuliani’s final year in office, the number had shrunk to 649.
Interestingly, back in July 2017, the New York Times thought it had uncovered a bombshell document from the Ken Starr investigation of Bill Clinton. A possible Senate run was abandoned after a cancer diagnosis. (Giuliani actually started two weeks ago).
– “The questions are an intrusion into the President’s Article 2 powers under the Constitution to fire any Executive Branch Employee.what the President was thinking is an outrageous.as to the Presiden ” s unfettered power to fire anyone”.
Although his future electoral prospects vanished, Giuliani remained a conservative darling, a frequent guest on Fox News and a sought-after member of the political speaking circuit. In modern times, it’s become known for describing enemy infantrymen in the “Star Wars” universe.
Flood’s selection came in part because the investigation had reached a pivotal moment, said one person familiar with his recruitment for the job.