Jul 22 Kushner adds at least $10M in assets to revised disclosure By Garance Burke, Bernard Condon and Chad Day, Associated Press President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner "inadvertently omitted" more than 70 assets worth at least $10.6 million from his personal financial disclosure reports. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch 6:03 News Wrap: Sean Spicer steps down as press secretary By PBS News Hour In the our news wrap Friday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced he was resigning after just six months. It was widely reported that he objected to Anthony Scaramucci being named the new communications director. Also, Israeli-Palestinian tensions erupted… Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch 6:12 Resignations add to turmoil as Trump legal team weighs options By PBS News Hour It was a tumultuous day at the White House, with major personnel shakeups involving the public faces of the Trump presidency. The resignations of Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the spokesman for the president's legal team came amid reports that… Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch 5:34 The great struggle of getting anything done when partisanship reigns By PBS News Hour Congress these days has an obvious theme: more blame than legislation. Congressional Republicans have taken a sharply partisan route in their health care reform efforts, with multiple failed and contentious attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. How… Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch 13:06 Shields and Brooks on Spicer stepping down, GOP health care bill fumble By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including Republicans’ failure to pass a health care reform bill, President Trump expressing his anger at Jeff Sessions to The New… Continue watching
Jul 21 Trump names new acting government ethics chief By Stephen Braun, Associated Press The Office of Government Ethics confirmed Friday that President Trump designated the agency's general counsel, David J. Apol, to become its acting director. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch 14:12 Trump voices regret for picking Sessions, while blasting Comey and Mueller By PBS News Hour A day after President Trump's sharp rebuke of his attorney general -- for recusing himself from the Russian investigation -- in an interview with The New York Times, Jeff Sessions made it clear he's not going anywhere. But while the… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch 31:41 Will Trump's criticism have a chilling effect at the Justice Department? By PBS News Hour President Trump's broadsides aimed at top officials at the Justice Department raise questions about his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the ongoing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and possible connections with the Trump campaign. Judy… Continue watching
Jul 20 Trump administration ends Affordable Care Act assistance contracts in 18 cities By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press Community groups say the move, announced to them by contractors last week, will make it even more difficult to enroll the uninsured and help people already covered re-enroll or shop for a new policy. That's already a concern because of… Continue reading
Jul 20 Senate to vote on Christopher Wray as next FBI director By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of President Donald Trump's choice to head the FBI. Continue reading