Sentences with phrase «white house firings»

In typical fashion, the song then turned into a singalong about President Donald Trump's White House firings, with Aidy Bryant as Sarah Huckabee Sanders taking the first verse.

For more on Tillerson's disastrous legacy, what comes next, and what his expulsion means in the greater context of White House firings, listen to Ezra Klein and Zack Beauchamp on the latest episode of Today, Explained:

The White House fired a top State Department official after he contradicted the White House's account of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's ouster on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

In announcing the firing, the White House circulates a scathing memo, written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, criticizing Comey's handling of the Clinton probe.

Jan. 27, 2017: At one - on - one dinner at the White House, Trump asks Comey to pledge his loyalty to the president and Comey declines, according to a person close to Comey, speaking after the FBI director was fired.

The conversation was described as light - hearted and short, but vigorous — with White House officials pointing to a broader strategy behind the thinking of not firing the director.

Trump fired Comey unexpectedly, one day after Yates — who was fired by Trump in January after refusing to enforce his first immigration order — testified before Congress that she had warned the White House about former national security adviser Michael Flynn's contact with Russia's ambassador to the US during the transition.

In addition to serving as an intermediary between Trump and the DOJ, the White House counsel was also instrumental in convincing Trump not to send a draft letter laying out his reasons for firing Comey to the FBI director last May.

The line of questioning came under fire, in part, due to the fact that Stephanopoulos is a former campaign advisor and White House Communications Director under Bill Clinton.

Buried amidst all the latest unprecedented news from the White House yesterday, from the Twitter firing of the Secretary of State to the blocking of the largest proposed tech deal ever, was the quiet release of the annual Harris Poll Reputation Quotient ranking.

«Kelly is now just another staffer who could get fired any day of the week by Donald J. Trump,» said one person close to the White House.

The latest upheaval came Tuesday with the sudden firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was dismissed with few details provided by the White House.

A new book on Trump's White House by author Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury, asserts that almost all of his top staff and advisers believe he is mentally unwell.

Sebastian Gorka, a controversial Trump supporter who used to work in the White House, suggested that Trump should fire Mueller after the news broke.

«When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,» Trump said of Bannon in a statement the White House issued.

First, on Jan. 31, 2017, Trump fired Sally Yates, acting attorney general, after she informed the White House several times that then National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had lied about his contacts with Russians.

The White House said Flynn was fired for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

The memoir details the fired FBI chief's personal experiences with Trump, and spends ample time criticizing Trump's behavior in the White House and his relationship to the truth.

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was at the airport at the time of the shooting and tweeted that shots had been fired.

Calling Comey a «showboat» and a «grandstander,» the president made clear that firing the former FBI director was his decision — despite statements from White House officials that called Trump's move a result of recommendations from the Justice Department.

On Capitol Hill, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe strongly disputed the White House's assertion that Comey had been fired in part because he had lost the confidence of the FBI's rank - and - file.

The move drew fire from Democrats and other critics, who said it showed the Republican White House was aligned with Wall Street, not middle - income Americans.

The White House has called the former FBI director, whom Trump fired in May, «a liar and a leaker» who will «be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack.»

That's far different that the White House's initial account in the hours after Comey's firing.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

While Hannity's unwavering support for Trump yielded him access on the campaign trail and in the White House, Trump often tunes in to «Morning Joe,» and occasionally fires off tweets about the show's topics.

What is clear is that the White House was caught off guard by the reaction to the firing.

The White House announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump had fired James Comey on the basis of recommendations of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In the letter, Cummings called for all documents and communications related to Flynn's and Kushner's security clearances; Kushner's application; White House officials who have had to resign or were fired; policies related to how the White House handles the suspension of security clearances; and contacts between Yates and White House counsel Donald McGahn about Flynn.

The White House initially claimed the firing was due to Comey's controversial handling last summer and fall of the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Trump last May, and the White House says it was because he mishandled the probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

He follows other current and former senior White House officials who have already met with the special counsel's office as he examines the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and misleading statements about the Trump Tower meeting.

The Maryland Democrat highlighted that Flynn still held an authorized security clearance during the 18 - day period from when acting Attorney General Sally Yates informed the White House that he could possibly be blackmailed by Russia until he was fired last February, while Kushner maintains his security clearance even as he has had to amend the application form on several occassions for omitting contacts with foreign sources.

The White House initially said Comey was fired because of the way he handled the Clinton investigation.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

Chief of staff John Kelly, and others in the White House, have come under fire for their handling of the Porter case and for reportedly knowing about elements of the allegations against him in the months before his resignation.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- With fired FBI Director James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony just a day away, the White House and its allies are scrambling for ways to offset potential damage.

The questioning about whether the White House was seeking to oust Mueller came as top conservative boosters of Trump sought to delegitimize Mueller, a former FBI director who took the special counsel job after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

The president asserted that Comey told him three times that he was not personally under investigation, while the former director's associates allege Trump asked Comey if he could back off an investigation into Michael Flynn, who was fired as national security adviser because he misled the White House about his ties to Russia.

In a tweet days after the firing, he appeared to warn Comey that he might have recordings of their private discussions, something the White House has neither confirmed nor denied.

He was one of several tech titans who courted Trump early on, according to an excerpt from the revealing book, «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,» by journalist Michael Wolff.

When President Donald Trump reportedly ordered the firing of the special counsel Robert Mueller, White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.

McCabe became acting director after Comey was fired, but has shown a repeated willingness to break from White House explanations of the ouster and its characterizations of the Russia investigation.

Fallon's rendition touched on the #MeToo movement («Come women and men who hashtag #MeToo / And believe me when I say that we believe you»), NFL players kneeling in protest of the national anthem, and Michael Wolff's controversial book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House» — with several jabs at Trump thrown in.

President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert has reportedly been fired by Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, adding to a series of high - profile exits from the White House.

At first, the White House said he was fired because of his handling of the Clinton email investigation.

Now that Dr. Evil is out of the White House, he said he'll be promoting a new book: «Fire and Fury and Also Evil and More Fire and Also Magma Too» — a spoof on the book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House» by Michael Wolff.

Earlier this month, author Michael Wolff claimed in his controversial book, «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,» that Corallo resigned because he viewed Trump's interference as possible obstruction of justice.

By contrast, firing an FBI Director who is investigating the White House, for reasons that are transparently political and self - protective, is an outrageous breach of faith with the American people and with the Bureau itself.

In a memo obtained by Business Insider, BuzzFeed said the Capitol Hill reporter Tarini Parti would take over the White House beat in place of Adrian Carrasquillo, who was fired last month.