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President Donald Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act to tamp down unrest in Minnesota, but his No. 2 says that’s not necessary. Watch the clip in the video player above. “Right now, we don’t think that we need that,” Vice President JD Vance said in Minneapolis Thursday ...
... Trump would return to the Oval Office; Department of Justice policy prevents prosecution of a sitting president. WATCH: 'I stand by' my decision to prosecute Trump, Jack Smith says in House testimony Republicans and the president have accused Smith of pursuing a politically motivated case against the president. Trump has ...
... Hezbollah’s presence in Lebanon amounts to “remnants.” On Gaza, Trump said, “They’re down to little fires. We can put them out very easily.” Trump acknowledged Hezbollah remains in Lebanon, but he downplayed the group’s strength. “These are remnants. I call them remnants,” Trump said.Trump affirms global ...
Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C., questioned former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday in a hearing focused on Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and role in the Jan. 6 attack. Watch Knott and Smith's remarks in the video player above. Knott ...
... the lawsuit, Trump alleges he tried to raise the issue personally with Dimon after the bank started to close his accounts, and that Dimon assured Trump he would figure out what was happening. The lawsuit alleges Dimon failed to follow up with Trump. Further, Trump’s lawyers allege that JPMorgan ...
Former special counsel Jack Smith told a House committee Thursday that he stands by the decisions he made in that role, “including the decision to bring charges against President Trump.” Watch the clip in our video player above. In a hearing focused on Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump ...
President Donald Trump: And all we're asking for is to get Greenland, including right, title and ownership, because you need the ownership to defend it. You can't defend it on a lease. Nick Schifrin: Greenland sits in the middle of the shortest route between the U.S. and ...
... and thinking this sounds to me sort of like Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, who really didn't understand how to navigate the Trump era during the first administration and made some serious strategic errors for Germany and for Europe at large, including maintaining close relations with Russia ...
Amna Nawaz: Picking up on that idea, what does all this mean for America as a democracy? I mean, you have studied and written extensively on autocracies around the world and throughout history. You warned previously about a potential democratic decline being set into motion in President Trump's second ...
And then the Supreme Court heard oral arguments, as you said, in December, in the case of Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission whom Trump fired. And they seemed inclined to rule in favor of the Trump administration. So in one of the orders on the emergency ...
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