Sentences with phrase «access to the president»

Peter Navarro, a trade hawk who initially had his own independent office, was moved last month to Cohn's staff, with less direct access to the president.

Hon Bagbin spoke out when the Constituency Chairs of Greater Accra met him as the Majority Leader to complain bitterly of their not getting access to the President, after many attempts, to meet and put their concerns before him.

Though the White House has downplayed the severity of its breach since the fall, CNN noted that the hackers would have gained access to President Barack Obama's private itinerary — an undeniably irresistible target for foreign spies.

The American journalist Bob Woodward has been given unique access to President George W Bush and his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006 - 2008 (Simon Schuster, # 18.99), uses interviews with Bush and leading members of the administration to examine the debates over the Iraq War from 2006 to the summer of 2008.

According to Mubarak, the Trade Minister sold access to the president at US$ 100,000 during the awards held on December 8 at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra.

More fundamentally; Ghanaians know it can not be right, ethical, moral, legal nor conscionable to sell access to the President of Ghana to the highest bidder.

The Minority Chief Whip Mubarak Muntaka has accused the Trade Ministry of charging «unapproved fees» to the tune of $ 100,000 to grant access to President Akufo - Addo at an event.

The Ministry is alleged to have charged expatriates up to $ 100,000 for access to President Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo during the awards event.

«I think all the stories about replacing General Kelly are from people who are unhappy they've lost access to the president,» Mulvaney told Chris Wallace on «Fox News Sunday.»

Members of Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, a loose umbrella of faith advisers with close access to the president, celebrated the news.

Ortega's recent access to President Raul Castro, who assumed power in 2006 after illness sidelined his older brother, Fidel, have been described as virtually unprecedented for a religious official in Cuba's post-1959 era.

Donors to Donald Trump's presidential campaign are getting first - class access to the president - elect and his transition team.

What those who denied the minister of petroleum, state, Ibe kachikwu access to President Muhammadu Buhari have succeeded in doing is to force the...

Security operatives at the Presidential Villa were said to have denied Sylva access to the President who is said to be unhappy over the security failures and loss of lives during the Bayelsa Governorship election.

The APC chief added, «The emir has free access to the President and his economic team.

Maffei spokesman Marc Brumer said it wasn't «a reception, reception,» but campaign donors could get special access to the president.

Located at 401 Wynhurst Drive, Home2 Suites by Hilton Plano Richardson offers guests convenient access to the President George Bush Turnpike, US - 75 / Central Expressway, and the new CityLine mixed use development.

John currently runs the liberal think - tank Center for American Progress, which has served as a farm team for Obama administration aides and gives both Podesta brothers easy access to the president.

Robert Gibbs has traveled a long road with President Barack Obama, and his rapport and access to the President provides intimate and insightful commentaries.

He said most of the business executives who were seated on the Presidential High Table for the event «already have direct access to the President and do not need to pay monies to interact with him».

In the letter, Kachickwu who accused the NNPC GMD of awarding contracts worth over $ 26 billion without getting the approval of the Corporation's board also claimed that he was restricted from gaining access to the president.

Officials of the Ministry of Trade and Industry will later today [Friday], take their turn before Parliament's Committee probing allegations that some expatriates were made to pay huge sums to have access to the President at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards held in 2017.

He recalled what a Chinese told him about how a presidency member of staff demanded a million dollar bribe just to be granted access to the president, a charge which he said he reported to Jonathan without any action taken.

The fallout from the news has grown to encompass the planned layoff of roughly 70 employees, the exit of Senior Vice President Laura Naviaux Sturr, Columbus Nova scrubbing connections to Renova Group from its website, and the discovery of payments totaling $ 500,000 made from Columbus Nova to Trump attorney and apparent slush fund manager Michael Cohen in exchange for access to the president.

People pay billions of cedis to get access to the President and to share the same space and table with the President, you must pay US$ 100,000.

On Twitter, the CEO vowed to use his access to the president to press for amendments to the ban.

«I was there and these same people called me back to tell me that they wanted to have access to the president and they were asked to pay $ 20,000 there about before a meeting can be arranged between them and the president, why should it be so,» he said on Accra - based Oman FM on Thursday.

Corruption is defined as using public office for private gains... It's buying you access to the president and the proceeds we are not told what the thousands of dollars raised are going to be used for.

The former mayor said that Trump «wasn't aware» his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen pitched his access to the President to potential clients following the 2016 election and landed lucrative consulting deals as a result.

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told CNN on Thursday that Trump «wasn't aware» his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen pitched his access to the President to potential clients following the 2016 election and landed lucrative consulting deals as a result.

The only thing it may do for him is that he will have access to the President easily but as a governor, you should have access to the President,» he said.

«Nobody involved me in the campaign, I involved myself... no I wasn't invited... I tried to get access to the President and I didn't get access, when I noticed things were going wrong, I tried and tried and tried but I didn't get access so I mobilized myself... and did what I could do,» the 74 - year - old said Wednesday.

«It is very worrying for people who are expected to know better (especially if some happen to be leading members of the august House of Parliament) to conveniently join the streets wagon in pursuit of petty partisan parochial interests to churn out deliberate falsehood to perpetuate the fallacy that access to the President has to be secured with financial inducements»

«I was there and these same people called me back to tell me that they wanted to have access to the president and they were asked to pay $ 20,000 there about before a meeting can be arranged between them and the president, why should it be so,» he said.

Aisha who reacted via her twitter handle, wrote: «Stop saying Kachikwu has no access to the president.

He noted that since Atiku and Alhassan had access to the President, «they don't have to go to a radio house to air such views.»

It is very worrying for people who are expected to know better (especially if some happen to be leading members of the august House of Parliament) to conveniently join the streets wagon in pursuit of petty partisan parochial interests to churn out deliberate falsehood to perpetuate the fallacy that access to the President has to be secured with financial inducements,» excerpts of the statement said.

«We should get better at explaining science to laypeople, not just what we know and why it matters, but how we know it... and the imprudence of ignoring science,» said Holdren, who served as an assistant to the president for science and technology, a title that afforded him direct access to the president, during both terms of the Obama administration and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the same period.

Will that person have direct access to the president, or report through one of several emerging centers of power in the West Wing?