Epstein Secrets

at should tell people something. The call went on for twenty-six minutes. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019954 7 RUSSIA ven before there was reason to suspect Sally Yates, they suspected her. The transition E report said Trump wouldn’t like the fifty-six-year-old Atlanta-born University of Georgia career Justice Depart

virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory. In the beginning, I sought a level of formal access to this White House, something of a fly-on- the-wall status. The president himself encouraged this idea. But, given the many fiefdoms in the Trump White House that came

heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that “this president will sign whatever is put in front of him,” while also taking advantage of the White House’s lack of political and legislative experience and outsourcing as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill. In the early weeks of the administration, P

om he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and protect him. He tried to impres

cific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy, nor a team that could reasonably unite behind him. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019969 In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement what the president wants—or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the preside

t, he would shortly be on to something else. When the meeting ended, Priebus and Bannon thought they had bought some breathing room. Later that day, Sally Yates and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Terrorism subcommittee— and wer

thirty, Ryan called the president to say he was short fifteen to twenty votes and needed to pull the vote. Bannon, backed by Mulvaney, who had become the White House’s Hill operative, continued to urge an immediate vote. A defeat here would be a major defeat for the Republican leadership. That suited Bannon just fin

ore and more seemed to be. Meanwhile, virtually everybody believed that a large measure of the fault lay in Reince Priebus, who had failed to create a White House that could protect the president from himself—or from Bannon or from his own children. At the same time, believing that the fundamental problem lay i

an Graham "said Tuesday that Obama administration officials will be called to testify before the November election." Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates has agreed "voluntarily to come in August." She will testify on Aug. 5. Graham told the Times, "1 think she will have some interesting testimony and

nation's top vaccine makers offered some credence to the President's sense of optimism." But NBC (Costello) added that some lawmakers "are concerned the White House could try to fast-track a vaccine." Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ): "I want to make sure that you will guard against any pressure that comes from the FDA

n text messages to his mistress," and prosecutor Andrew Weissman, also a member of Mueller's team, "sent an email to former acting Attorney General Sally Yates in late January praising her decision to defy Trump's travel ban executive order," have given President Trump's allies an "opportunity to push back"

ator saying the president had urged them to open up a separate probe into Fusion GPS — the firm tied to a controversial research dossier on Trump." Whitehouse tweeted, "Who is this Republican Senator 'nudged' by the White House? Is this why full Judiciary hearings have veered in this direction instead of R

l (7/27, Carney, 2.98M) reports Senate Judiciary Chairman Graham said in an interview with Fox News Radio Monday that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will testify before his panel on Aug, 5. Graham, who The Hill describes as "a close ally" of the President, "is investigating the origins of `Cross

tration got rid of the cybersecurity coordinator position on the National Security Council, and because cybersecurity needs a leadership position in the White House." LABORATORY FBI Joins Probe Of Human Remains Found In Kentucky. The Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader (7/27, 257K) reports, "The Nelson County sheriff

l (7/27, Carney, 2.98M) reports Senate Judiciary Chairman Graham said in an interview with Fox News Radio Monday that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will testify before his panel on Aug, 5. Graham, who The Hill describes as "a close ally" of the President, "is investigating the origins of 'Cross

rts, "McConnell initially indicated at a news conference Monday that he was not aware the FBI provision was in the bill but then moments later said the White House 'insisted that be included: 'I'm not sure that it is,' McConnell replied to a reporter when he was first asked why the money was in the Senate GOP pr