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Trump says Singapore summit with Kim is back on after meeting North Korean official (Fox News)
President Trump said Friday that a high-stakes summit between him and Kim Jong Un is back on for June 12, following a lengthy meeting with a top North Korean official in the Oval Office.
“We’ll be meeting on June 12 in Singapore,” the president told reporters after the North Korean emissary left the White House.
He called Friday’s meeting with North Korea’s Kim Yong Chol a “great start.” Trump confirmed that the visiting official gave him a personal letter from dictator Kim Jong Un, though he hadn’t yet read it. [Read More]
Steve Bannon Praises ‘Excellent’ Jeff Sessions, Says Trump ‘Wrong’ on His Recusal (Mediaite)
Steve Bannon is publicly defending Attorney General Jeff Sessionsfrom the attacks he’s facing from President Trump.
Trump has––both privately and publicly––fumed about Sessions’ decision to recuse himself in the Russia case. Just this week, the President touted commentary from Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and attorney Joe diGenova saying he’s right to be frustrated at his AG.
Bannon sat down for an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria airing tonight, and at one point the CNN host asked if Trump’s expressed desire that he should’ve picked someone else for AG is correct. [Read More]
After a gunman opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, the phones started ringing at the Texas Home School Coalition, and they haven’t stopped yet.
The Lubbock-based organization has been swamped with inquiries for months from parents seeking safer options for their kids in the aftermath of this year’s deadly school massacres, first in Parkland and then in Santa Fe, Texas.
“When the Parkland shooting happened, our phone calls and emails exploded,” said coalition president Tim Lambert. “In the last couple of months, our numbers have doubled. We’re dealing with probably between 1,200 and 1,400 calls and emails per month, and prior to that it was 600 to 700.” [Read More]
Clapper: ‘Wouldn’t have been appropriate’ to warn Trump about Russians (The Washington Times)
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama appeared on The Chris Stigall Show Friday morning on WPHT in Philadelphia.
While promoting his new book, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence, Clapper explained how desperately dangerous the Russian threat is to our country and that threat had manifested itself in the supposed “meddling” in the 2016 presidential election.
“The Russians present a profound threat to this country and one of the main reasons and catalyst for writing my book is the Russian interference,” Clapper said. “That’s what most disturbs me and what i’m trying to alert the American public about.” [Read More
Although his questioners at the time didn’t know what he was talking about, Fusion GPS chief Glenn Simpson raised eyebrows on Aug. 22, 2017, when he told Senate Judiciary Committee investigators that the FBI had a “human source” inside the Trump campaign.
It’s still not clear what Simpson meant. Was he referring to Stefan Halper, now recognized as an FBI informant who tried to insinuate himself into the campaign? Or was it someone else? Congressional investigators still don’t know. But in light of the attention paid to Halper, it’s still worth going over precisely what Simpson said last year.
Simpson was talking to investigators about Christopher Steele, the former British spy Simpson retained to produce what became known as the Trump dossier. Steele had contacts within the FBI from previous work, and Simpson told interviewers that at the height of the campaign Steele met with FBI officials in Rome. [Read More]
Joy Reid under fire again over more controversial blog posts (New York Daily News)
MSNBC host Joy Reid is in hot water over newly unearthed blog posts she authored years ago.
In one resurfaced post she attacks CNN’s Wolf Blitzer for being “a former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee” and accuses him of displaying an “affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause.” [Read More]
Obit for Marine veteran: He ‘hated’ bad D.C.-area drivers (USA Today)
An accomplished Vietnam veteran, retired Marine Corps colonel, husband and father will be remembered for a host of reasons, including his hatred for Northern Virginia drivers.
In an obituary published Sunday in The Washington Post, Col. Robert F. Gibson is described as a man who might have had a few choice words driving in the Washington, D.C., area.
“A native of Northern Virginia for the last 30 years of his life, he hated how all of you were incapable of driving competently,” the obituary reads. [Read More]
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