Sentences with phrase «people familiar with the conversation»

SoftBank's Vision Fund is also serious enough about China that it had been scouting last year for a new local partner to lead its investing in Chinese companies, two people familiar with the conversations tell Recode.

Trump has regularly ranted to friends and advisers about the investigation into Cohen, according to two other people familiar with the conversations.

The two have had several private conversations in recent days in which Giuliani fanned Trump's anger with Mueller's probe, according to two people familiar with their conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss them.

While there are opposing views among the advisory group members, a person familiar with the conversations says the USTR's approach is clear, «The doctrine is to create a deal that advantages the U.S. and doesn't take away more jobs.»

SoftBank has been in talks to invest as much as $ 300 million in the dog - walking app Wag, according to people familiar with the conversations.

Wag had already received a $ 100 million investment offer from a top venture capital firm before SoftBank arrived, a person familiar with the conversations told Recode last December.

Mr. Davidson then told Mr. Cohen over the phone that the deal had been completed, according to a person familiar with the conversation.

Not only did he want continuity at the Fed, but the president said he needed Summers by his side in the White House as he tried to lift the economy out of a deep recession, according to people familiar with the conversation.

In a meeting at the White House, Mr. Sessions informed Mr. Trump that he would not defend what he considered an unconstitutional order in court, according to people familiar with the conversation, and officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have made the case to the president that his administration would look foolish if it argued in favor of preserving it.

But the president kept in touch with Giuliani, sometimes calling to ask for advice, and frequently asked for the ex-mayor's take on developments in the special counsel's probe, according to three people familiar with the conversations but not authorized to publicly discuss private talks.

But, according to one person familiar with his conversations, he later boasted to a confidant that he had struck a deal that he believed would silence those critics: He was hiring «America's F — ing Mayor.»

Trump complained to associates at Mar - a-Lago over the weekend about the attention the media has given Daniels, according to people familiar with the conversations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.

Marc Kasowitz, Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

Marc Kasowitz, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

According to people familiar with the conversation, who spoke about a private meeting on the condition of anonymity, Mr. Sharpton emphasized that driving an incumbent out of City Hall is never easy — even for a young, charming and well - financed politician like Mr. Jeffries.

The stunning development comes as Mr. Cuomo has also privately urged some of those same unions to withdraw funding from liberal community groups backing Ms. Nixon, according to five people familiar with those conversations.

Clinton called British Prime Minister Tony Blair to ask him to work the Bush White House, according to a person familiar with the conversation, who recounted it on condition of anonymity.

ALBANY — State officials are considering using hundreds of millions of dollars to construct a new hospital in Brooklyn that could replace the perennially troubled Brookdale Hospital, according to a person familiar with conversations about the funding.

According to one person familiar with the conversation, the union - allied Democrats had questions about Uber's treatment of employees as contractors.

Over sandwiches and salads in a conference room, Ivanka and Rebekah bonded over parenting young children and being the daughters of hard - charging, successful fathers, according to people familiar with their conversation.