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Screaming overheard in Cabinet Room meeting between Spicer, Bannon and Sanders after Russia intel revelation
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Elizabeth Preza
15 May 2017 at 21:04 ET

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Steve Bannon and Sean Spicer

Reporters at the White House on Monday overheard yelling between White House press secretary Sean Spicer, chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and White House Communications Director Michael Dubke, prompting staffers to turn up TV’s to drown out the back-and-forth.

According to BuzzFeed’s Adrian Carrasquillo, the officials walked into the Cabinet Room of the White House shortly after news broke that Donald Trump revealed classified information to the Russian ambassador and Russian foreign minister during a closed-door meeting last week.

Shortly after the meeting, Sanders told the press corps that the White House would not comment on the report further. The administration has denied the Washington Post report. During an emergency press conference Monday, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster insisted, “The story that came out tonight as reported, is false.”

He added the president never revealed sources or methods, but did not address the issue of revealing classified information.

The heated exchange comes after Sanders spent last week filling in for Spicer at the daily press briefings. Trump last Friday floated cancelling those briefings “for the sake of accuracy,” arguing “it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy.”
 
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We live in an age that denigrates knowledge, dislikes expertise and demonizes experts. But now we have proof that experts are sometimes right.

Look at where we are: Last week, President Trump impulsively fired his FBI director, apparently on the grounds that he didn’t like the FBI’s investigation into his election campaign’s possible collaboration with Russia and apparently unaware that this might constitute obstruction of justice. The following day, he agreed to meet the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office, a major concession to the Russian president, though he and his staff don’t appear to have been aware that this was the case. He and his staff also allowed Russian journalists carrying cameras into the Oval Office, although the U.S. press was barred. They apparently did not think about whether the cameras might contain recording devices and were surprised when the Russian state news agency published photographs afterward.


President Trump revealed highly classified intel in Oval Office meeting with Russians During a May 10 meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, Trump began describing details about an Islamic State terror threat, according to current and former U.S. officials. (Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry/The Washington Post)
During a May 10 meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, Trump began describing details about an Islamic State terror threat, according to current and former U.S. officials. (The Washington Post)
None of those disastrous decisions was part of a deliberate plan. Each one was made because of the president’s willful ignorance, impulsiveness and inexperience. It is not at all surprising to learn that — during a conversation that shouldn’t have been happening, one that was photographed by a Russian journalist who shouldn’t have been there — the president revealed details of an ongoing intelligence operation. Once again, this was not part of a deliberate plan. Instead, it happened because the president is a braggart who wanted to show off his access to “great intel” and to impress his important guests.

All of this was not only predictable — it was also predicted. Read, again, the statement issued by 50 prominent Republican national security experts issued last August. Note that it was not “pro-Clinton” or left-wing, or even ideological at all. It simply pointed out that Trump — a man who would not, under normal circumstances, ever be given a high-level security clearance — was unfit to be president. Here is the central section:

In our experience, a President must be willing to listen to his advisers and department heads; must encourage consideration of conflicting views; and must acknowledge errors and learn from them. A President must be disciplined, control emotions, and act only after reflection and careful deliberation. A President must maintain cordial relationships with leaders of countries of different backgrounds and must have their respect and trust. In our judgment, Mr. Trump has none of these critical qualities. He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed our closest allies with his erratic behavior. All of these are dangerous qualities in an individual who aspires to be President and Commander in-Chief, with command of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

At the time, Trump dismissed this letter as “nothing more than the failed Washington elite looking to hold onto their power.” But the “elites” were right. The experts were right. Next time maybe more people will heed them.
 
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Dollar drops as Trump's latest crisis alarms investors
by Jethro Mullen and Matt Egan @CNNMoney May 17, 2017: 1:47 AM ET

The dollar has taken a hit from the latest political bombshell about President Trump.
The greenback fell against other major currencies in the aftermath of allegations that Trump in February asked James Comey to end the FBI's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The stunning reports -- denied by the White House -- deepened the political turmoil engulfing Trump's White House and intensified concerns among investors about the president's ability to push through his big economic plans.

"The inflammable allegations have spooked both currency and equity markets," said Stephen Innes, a senior trader at online broker Oanda. "Foreign exchange dealers are in flat out sell the dollar mode."

Related: The dollar's Trump bump has vanished

The U.S. currency dropped as much as 0.7% against the Japanese yen in morning trading in Asia on Wednesday. It also slipped as much as 0.3% against the euro.

Stock markets were also suffering, with most major indexes around Asia in negative territory. U.S. stock futures were down about 0.6%.

The dollar's decline followed an ugly trading session in the U.S. on Tuesday. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of rival currencies, dropped to territory unseen since just after Trump's election in early November.

Related: Trump rally is built on Obama-like hope

Some market analysts warned that Trump's troubles -- along with disappointing U.S. economic data and better news from Europe -- were already hurting the dollar. And that was before the dramatic revelations about Comey and Trump broke.

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Tipping point for Trump presidency?



Concerns grew after U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, responded to the news by asking the FBI to handover "all memoranda, notes, summaries and recordings referring or relating to any communications" between Comey and Trump.

"The more momentum the allegations and investigation gather, the less confidence investors have in the administration's ability to focus on anything else, such as reviving the economy," said Matt Simpson, a senior analyst at ThinkMarkets.

Related: Why Wall Street isn't freaking out over Trump's stumbles

Trump's economic proposals -- slashing taxes, cutting regulation and pumping up infrastructure spending -- lifted the US dollar after the election because many thought they could give the American economy a shot in the arm.

But some market watchers have expressed skepticism about how much the political turbulence at the White House is affecting the dollar.

"Trump's new soap opera story," isn't a main driver for the dollar, Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, wrote in a report that was published before the Comey news broke.

Boockvar said he believes the greenback has come under pressure from shifts in the global economy and central bank policy.

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published May 17, 2017: 1:41 AM ET
 
When it rains, it pours

White House PR strategy in chaos: Conway interview offered to Fox, then canceled
by Brian Stelter @brianstelter May 18, 2017: 1:18 AM ET
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Kellyanne Conway's Wednesday night interview on Fox News was going to be a big deal.
Fox promoted it ahead of time as the administration's first on-camera reaction to the news about former FBI Director Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel overseeing the federal government's Russia investigation.


But the White House abruptly canceled Conway's appearance, causing Fox host Tucker Carlson to fill the air time by discussing the cancellation.

The back-and-forth illustrated the Trump administration's ongoing struggle to keep up with the news cycle and supply guests for television news programs.

"She canceled about an hour before airtime," Carlson said.

Conway told CNNMoney that she was with the president and other administration officials "until after hit time."

White House communications director Mike Dubke's team "says he canceled it knowing I was still in there indefinitely," Conway said.

The change was notable because no members of President Trump's inner circle appeared on TV Wednesday. Conway was going to be the first.

With the White House facing a deepening crisis of credibility and questions about possible obstruction of justice, the interview was going to be highly newsworthy.

Related: Does anyone in Trump's White House have credibility?

Carlson, the host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," said it was the White House's idea to have her on his show.

"We had booked her, at their request, by the way," Carlson said on the air. "We don't often have people from the administration on, but they said, 'We want to send over Kellyanne Conway.' 'Great.' And then, not long before air, they canceled it, for reasons that weren't exactly clear."

Carlson's substitute guest was Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union.

Carlson said to Schlapp, "I think a lot of descriptions in the press about what's going on at the White House are false or they're animated by the hate that the press has for Trump, which is totally real. But it does seem a little chaotic over there, I gotta be honest with you. Is it as chaotic as it seems?"

Schlapp, who said he was at the White House earlier in the day, said the atmosphere is more "tranquil" than it seems from the outside.

Television bookings are usually arranged through the White House press shop. Late Thursday, after the cancellation dust-up, Conway said she followed up personally with Carlson.

According to a Fox spokeswoman, Conway was originally booked in the afternoon, before the Justice Department's 6 p.m. announcement about Mueller.

The White House yanked the interview around 7:15 p.m. With Carlson's show set to begin at 8 p.m., producers kept trying to convince her to honor the booking.

That's why Fox continued to promote the interview right up until 8 p.m.

But the White House would not reconsider.

On the air, Carlson said he called up the White House before airtime to ask about the flip-flop. He said: "The explanation, I think it was sincere, was, 'We had no idea this was happening, we are trying to figure out how to respond to it.'"

Later in the hour, Fox's White House correspondent John Roberts said he surmised that the administration "just wants the president's statement to speak for itself."

CNNMoney (New York) First published May 17, 2017: 9:14 PM ET
 
Pence is a loyal solider, but situation is wearing on him - CNNPolitics.com

Washington (CNN)After a fast and furious news cycle at the White House this week, the last few days may have worn on Vice President Mike Pence.




Mike Pence's disappearing act
Though Pence will continue to be a "loyal soldier" because he is a "relentlessly positive guy, he "looks tired," a senior administration adviser observed on Thursday, outlining the vice president's schedule and trying to explain his relative absence from the public eye.
While an aide to the vice president says he spent the last few days in speech preparation, it conveniently kept him out of the firing line, missing a regular Senate lunch on Capitol Hill on Tuesday while he worked behind closed doors with President Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


The Pence team knew what they were getting themselves into when they joined the Trump ticket and team almost a year ago.
"We certainly knew we needed to be prepared for the unconventional," but, the source adds, "not to this extent."

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Pence is slated to deliver seven speeches over the next four days, including the Notre Dame commencement address this weekend. He spoke to the US Chamber of Commerce as well on Thursday in Washington.
The aide does add, though, that the Vice President spent some time Wednesday in the West Wing in meetings with staff.
Even before the Comey memo dropped, this adviser remarked to CNN on whether Pence would make any explanatory statements about the meeting between Trump and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak: "I certainly hope not."
The source added that it didn't make sense for the vice president to insert himself into the narrative -- a distancing of sorts after he reiterated seven times last week to Capitol Hill reporters that the President fired FBI Director James Comey on a recommendation from the deputy attorney general.


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The President himself contradicted that reasoning just a day later in an interview with NBC News.
Pence and his closest advisers were also quiet as the news broke by The New York Times that the President asked Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
It mirrored the way that the Pence team reacted when the "Access Hollywood" tape dropped last October: keep the media at bay while they sort through the crisis and create a plan of action.


What did Mike Pence know?
This adviser said that they are not worried about Trump bringing Pence down with the news about a Comey memo or the new special counsel.
"I actually think the special prosecutor might be a positive in that it will separate fact from rumor if all of this is more lower level," this person said, acknowledging that continuing news bombshells and doubt surrounding the administration are "obviously not helpful."
 
Trump boasted to Russians about firing ‘nut job’ Comey

President Trump told Russian officials who visited the Oval Office that ousted FBI chief James Comey “was crazy, a real nut job” and that canning him took “great pressure” off of him, a new report said Friday.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump said, according to a document that summarized the sitdown, the New York Times reported.

“I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off. I’m not under investigation,” the president said in his May 10 meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

The conversation is another indication that Trump’s primary reason for firing Comey was because of concern over the feds’ probe into Russia’s meddling in the election and possible collusion with Team Trump.

Trump spokesman Sean Spicer did not dispute the account, the paper reported.

Comey, he said in a statement, had put unwarranted pressure on the president’s ability to conduct diplomacy with Russia, Syria, Ukraine and ISIS.
 
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BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey will testify publicly before the Senate intel committee, panel leaders announced.

SOURCE: CNN
 
Person of interest is Jared Kushner Mkuu

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has reportedly been identified as a “person of interest” in the ongoing investigation into possible ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign.

The Washington Post said a senior adviser to Mr Trump was among people investigators wanted to speak to. A New York magazine reporter then said the person in question was Mr Kushner, 36, who is married to Mr Trump’s eldest daughter and who flew out of Washingtonon Friday night to accompany the President on his first official foreign trip.

The Post said the person under investigation was close to the President, but did not identify them. However, the number of people who fit such a profile would be very small.

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