“The president’s powers here are beyond question”.
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Partly because of Flynn’s unexplained ties to Russian Federation, the NSA and other agencies are “beginning to withhold intelligence from a White House which our spies do not trust”, former NSA analysts John R. Schindler writes in the New York Observer.
When asked if President Trump has continued confidence in his NSC pick, Miller told moderator Chuck Todd, “It’s not for me to tell you what’s in the president’s mind”.
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday”, Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, suggested that new executive orders were a possibility to take on illegal immigration.
The claims were addressed again in a Washington Post report on Thursday, in which “senior U.S. officials” interpreted Flynn’s statements to Kisalyak as “inappropriate and potentially illegal” promises of an easing in sanctions.
Transcripts of the phone call with the Russian official emerged when Flynn claimed they had only talked about setting up a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and exchanged holiday pleasantries.
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller made the rounds on Sunday’s political shows. “A man whose emails were, until recently, considered spam by many of his Republican peers is now shaping the Trump administration’s core domestic policies with his economic nationalism and hard-line positions on immigration”.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who led Mr Trump’s transition planning before the election, said Mr Flynn would have to explain his conflicting statements about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to Mr Trump and Mr Pence.
Miller, who was involved in drafting the travel ban now under legal challenge, echoed the president’s criticism of judges who have blocked enforcement of the order pending trials on the merits. “I think on paper Reince looked good as the chief of staff – and Donald trusted him – but it’s pretty clear the guy is in way over his head”.
According to Politifact, prior to Trump’s executive order, only 40-percent of refugees came from the seven countries outlined in his ban. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told “Fox News Sunday“. Why would this be a problem if 1) it was true, and if 2) regardless of whatever Flynn said to supposedly undermine the Obama sanctions, his boss would have the power to remove them immediately upon taking office in a couple of weeks? Officials from the Justice Department and White House have concluded that with certain provisions, the order would likely be passed.
He said the administration is “pursuing every single possible action to keep our country safe from terrorism”. “I don’t know about that”, Trump said.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation has netted hundreds of undocumented immigrants across the country this week in what officials called “routine” enforcement actions.
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