Sentences with phrase «campaign advisers said»

Last November one of his senior campaign advisers said Trump was likely to eliminate all climate change research conducted by NASA as part of a crackdown on «politicised science».

(CNN)- A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates.

When pressed by CNN on his position, however, a campaign adviser said Cain follows the same policy used by the George W. Bush administration, which said abortions should be allowed in the instances of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is at stake.

The campaign adviser said Page participated in three dinners held for the campaign's volunteer foreign policy advisers in the spring and summer of 2016, coming from New York to Washington to meet with the group.

Not exact matches

Sessions told Jackson Lee he had been instructed by Justice Department ethics advisers to remain uninvolved in the Senate campaign, and he said the department «will evaluate every case as to whether or not it should be investigated.»

After a «gut check» conversation with Moore and subsequent talks with policy advisers Jake Sullivan and Maya Harris, Schwerin says in the email that the campaign hierarchy is «mostly persuaded» by Moore's concerns.

Mueller's detailed charges against Russian nationals and companies for election meddling aimed in part at trying to boost Trump's candidacy said they cooperated with «unwitting» campaign staffers and outside advisers.

A report from The New York Times published Thursday night said the counterintelligence inquiry focused on at least three advisers associated with Trump — former campaign manager Paul Manafort, close Trump confidant Roger Stone, and former Trump adviser Carter Page.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

While lawyers and advisers say it's common to hire investigators to do opposition research in the context of a proxy campaign, executives» kids — of any age — are typically considered off - limits.

Thiel stated during the campaign that Trump offered a better hope of peace than Hillary Clinton, but Trump's closest adviser has said he expects to go to war with nuclear - armed China within a decade and envisions a civilizational clash with the entire Muslim world as well.

«Barack Obama believes in options: «Maintain my options,» «said Jeh C. Johnson, a campaign adviser and now general counsel of the Defense Department.

... The expert said that based on his conversations with Mr. Smith, he understood the elder Mr. Flynn to be coordinating with Mr. Smith's group in his capacity as a Trump campaign adviser.

«They aren't going to bully him into backing down,» said Stephen Moore, a former Trump campaign adviser who is now a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

«It is not unusual for staffers to hear him bluster about things,» said Barry Bennett, a former campaign adviser.

Politico: «Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, said Tuesday night his «memory has been refreshed» regarding his email exchange with Carter Page in which the former foreign policy adviser requested Lewandowski's permission to travel to Moscow.

One of the architects of that Kansas plan, Stephen Moore, who was an economic adviser to Trump's presidential campaign, said the tax change would create «near immediate» growth in Kansas.

But this week, Facebook said it would bring in advisers to investigate whether it suppresses conservative voices, the latest in a post-Cambridge Analytica goodwill campaign to rebuild trust with its 2.2 billion users.

According to the New York Times, the memo says that shortly after being sworn in as deputy attorney general last spring, Rosenstein re-approved an existing wiretap on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

«Their theft costs us over $ 350 billion per year, so the bigger the better,» said Daniel DiMicco, a steel executive and trade adviser to the Trump campaign, referring to the forced transfer of intellectual property and other unfair practices alleged by the administration.

«We are well under way in developing and implementing marketing and business campaigns — via corporate super, advisers, direct and to employees — so that we can make the most of this once - a-decade opportunity and help customers retire right down the track,» he said.

«For Catholic outreach, a defining moment in this campaign has been (Mitt) Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate,» said Broderick Johnson, a senior adviser with Barack Obama's campaign who spearheads Catholic outreach efforts.

Mark DeMoss, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign helping with outreach to evangelicals, says he has been discouraging Republican voters from making too big a deal of the candidates» religious faith.

Two sources familiar with the memo said it accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of abusing their authority in asking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge to approve a request to extend an eavesdropping operation on Carter Page, an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he believes former President Obama's foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes was aware of a dossier about Trump that circulated during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump's lawyer, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said there was nothing illegal about Trump campaign advisers meeting with a Russian lawyer purportedly offering dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

@Ame The legality will be decided by the investigating attorneys and judges, but I think it is safe to say that a campaign adviser agreeing to meet with someone alleged to be the representative of a hostile government who wants to help a candidate win a presidential election is HIGHLY unusual, if not unprecedented.

The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

«This is a high - needs district and, with our thousands of supporters, we are going to help John Sampson utter his second on - the - record word this year in Albany: «Goodbye,»» said Smitherman campaign adviser Nathan Smith.

UPDATED: Senior campaign adviser Bay Buchanan said last week that the candidate supports states» choices.

A black woman,» said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic consultant and former Cuomo campaign adviser.

«If the polls had reflected reality, it would have been a totally different campaign,» one of Miliband's close advisers said.

Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.

«Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign,» Trump tweeted at 8:04 a.m.

«If the Democrats are so desperate to motivate their base that they have to resort to the issue of gun control, then they are in for a long 2016 election cycle,» said Chris LaCivita, a GOP strategist and adviser to Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign.

Sam Nunberg, a former Trump adviser who now supports Ted Cruz, said he doubts the billionaire will be inviting Paladino to join him on the campaign trail outside of New York, where his network of conservative activists in the state was valuable enough to keep him around.

«We had an astonishingly good first two weeks of the campaign,» said one close adviser.

In a tweet, de Blasio's 2011 campaign adviser Bill Hyers knocked Cuomo's statement at the news conference, saying the governor should «concentrate» on his own issues, such as the Hoosick Falls water contamination.

ALBANY — Harry Wilson, a business adviser who was considered by many Republicans as their best candidate against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has said he will not launch a campaign this year.

Asked how she felt when she heard Huhne was having an affair with Carina Trimingham, a media adviser on his leadership campaign, she said: «I knew her as a lesbian.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

Republican presidential front - runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE says he has no regrets about his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

«I would say Cuomo is the one I am most nervous about,» said Michael Caputo, a longtime adviser to Trump who helped put together an aborted Trump gubernatorial run against Cuomo in 2014, and helped lead the campaign for Carl Paladino, Cuomo's 2010 Republican opponent.

What makes Trump's case unique, experts say, is her involvement as a senior adviser and key fundraiser to the president's re-election campaign committee.

«If Secretary Clinton runs, she'll be the nominee — the first female nominee of either party,» said Stephanie Cutter, a former top adviser to the Obama White House and campaign.

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE said his immigration policies would have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks from taking place.

A group of prominent tech leaders on Thursday said that a Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE presidency would be bad for innovation in America.

Hillary Clinton has said she was «dismayed» by sexual harassment accusations against a senior «faith» adviser to her 2008 presidential campaign, but said the case was «taken seriously and addressed.»

The answer is 100 precent yes,» de Blasio senior campaign adviser Phil Walzak said.

While their public posture is to shrug off Teachout's challenge — «It's a free country,» said Hank Sheinkopf, a Cuomo campaign adviser — it apparently caused enough agita for an immediate smear push.