Sentences with phrase «who met the president»

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On Monday he met Indonesian President - elect Joko Widodo, who used social media extensively in his campaign.

«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who also attended the meeting, said afterwards that she had urged the President to reconsider negotiating the TPP because of concerns by constituents about the tariffs.

Israel Katz, who runs both the Intelligence and Transportation ministries, spoke in a Reuters interview after North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae - in agreed to work for a «complete denuclearization» of the peninsula at a summit meeting in Seoul.

France doesn't see the need to enter into a trade round with the U.S., Le Mair said, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron — who met with Trump this week in Washington — «has been very clear with President Trump during the state visit... First of all we are waiting for an exemption for the EU from the American tariffs.»

Also, as I had done in other meetings with foreign officials, I asked Ambassador Kislyak if he would identify the best person (whether the Ambassador or someone else) with whom to have direct discussions and who had contact with his President.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

Sacca, who in a December Recode story loudly criticized leaders from tech's biggest companies for meeting with the president, tweeted that he could barely keep up with the response and continued to increase the amount he said he would donate.

Kislyak reportedly orchestrated the meeting between Kushner and Gorkov, who was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2016 as part of a restructuring of the bank's management team, Bloomberg reported last year.

Musk, who several months ago demoted Eberhard to president of technology and installed an interim CEO, argues that Tesla is a hit precisely because he hasn't sacrificed the car's performance to meet any arbitrary near - term goal.

Speaking in Sicily before the start of the G7 summit, Juncker — who had been in Brussels meeting with Trump — said reports of the President's conduct were exaggerated, Reuters reports.

Given the way the president fired Director Comey, any person who he appoints to lead the Russia investigation will be concerned that he or she will meet the same fate as Director Comey if they run afoul of the administration.

For example, it was in a SWOT meeting that the product development director of my company, who was in his late twenties at the time, suggested that one of my company's weaknesses was my messing with the software code instead of just being the president.

Rometty sits on President Donald Trump's business advisory board and was among a group of U.S. and German leaders who met with the President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday.

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear generally supportive of the...

The central bank is meeting as its board is undergoing a makeover, with a raft of new appointees by President Donald Trump who appear...

Cummings was referring to President Donald Trump's lawyer's assertion Sunday that the meeting between the president's son, top campaign staff, and a lawyer who's been described as a «Russian government attorney» was President Donald Trump's lawyer's assertion Sunday that the meeting between the president's son, top campaign staff, and a lawyer who's been described as a «Russian government attorney» was president's son, top campaign staff, and a lawyer who's been described as a «Russian government attorney» was innocent.

Trump - who has threatened to destroy the North if necessary - leaves on his first trip as president to Asia next week, including a stop in South Korea to meet President Moon president to Asia next week, including a stop in South Korea to meet President Moon President Moon Jae - in.

Amgen Executive Vice President of Research and Development Sean Harper said the study was designed to explore Kyprolis dosing regimens, noting that the the trial did not meet its goal in improving progression - free survival versus Velcade in patients who had not yet been treated for the disease.

We met at a dinner hosted by Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, who most definitely is out to change the world, by ending extreme poverty by 2030.

The president's comments were met with pushback from national security advisors, who urged that the fight against ISIS was almost finished, but that a complete withdrawal of American forces at this time would risk losing gains.

The officials included in the meeting were Turkey's minister of foreign affairs, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son - in - law.

«There is no more safe haven with regard to the federal government and marijuana, but it's also the beginning of the story and not the end,» said Kevin Sabet, president and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, who was among several anti-marijuana advocates who met with Sessions last month.

The prime minister is also scheduled to meet with Chilean President Sebastien Pinera, who took office in March and whose country is an important political and trade partner with Canada.

«Today's proposal, along with past regulatory actions, will make it challenging for banks to meet the needs of the estimated 50 million consumers who access a variety of bank and nonbank small - dollar lending products each year,» said Virginia O'Neill, senior vice president of the American Bankers Association's Center for Regulatory Compliance, in a statement.

The president also questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the U.S., according to people who were briefed on the conversation but were not authorized to describe the meeting publicly.

Appointed by the president, the chief of staff oversees approximately 4,000 White House staff, manages the president's schedule and decides who is allowed to meet with him.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions — who is currently under pressure to resign for failing to reveal his meetings with the Russian ambassador before President Donald Trump's inauguration — issued a memo reversing the Obama administration's decision to phase out its use of private prisons at the federal level.

Republican Sens. David Perdue of Georgia and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who also attended the meeting, initially said in a statement Friday that they «do not recall the president saying these comments specifically.»

In the week following former national security adviser Michael Flynn's guilty plea, new details have emerged about the meeting President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., attended in July 2016 with a Russian lawyer who offered him «dirt» on Hillary Clinton, among other revelations.

A decision by Foxconn to give Sharp the lead would come as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to travel to the United States to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, who in his inauguration speech vowed to put «America first.»

Papadopoulos further told the FBI that he met with a Russian woman who claimed to be a relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin — Papadopoulos described her as Putin's «niece» in one email — before he joined the campaign, but he actually met her on March 24, according to the special counsel's office.

Prince Mohammed met last week with U.S. President Donald Trump, who welcomed him to the White House.

The National Rifle Association has championed the idea of «a good guy with a gun,» but no firearms will be allowed when Vice President Pence speaks at its annual meeting — sparking criticism from Parkland students, who say schools should be afforded the same protection.

Then, President Obama went to the Group of Twenty meeting, after Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, had been on the phone with Europe, and said that if Greece didn't pay the French and German bondholders, the American banks had made huge bets and would go under — and so would big European banks who were counterparties.

He was the Progressive Conservative party president at the time, and among a group who met for breakfast once a week at the Park Plaza Hotel to advise then Premier Bill Davis.

GENEVA U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders who meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in the next few weeks must not neglect human rights, the U.N.'s North Korea human rights expert said in a statement on Wednesday.

Louise is now president of CASA (Coronado Area Social Association), an organization with hundreds of members who meet monthly for coffee socials and other events.

The veteran EU leader was speaking after a meeting with the EU's other three presidents: Donald Tusk of the European council, Martin Schulz of the European parliament and the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, who is chairing the EU's rotating presidency.

Plank also mentioned his meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss jobs in U.S. Plank described Trump as «highly passionate» and a pro-business man who is a «real asset» for U.S. companies.

He and his top lieutenant Emil Michael, who was forced to leave the company just weeks ago, belittled and ridiculed Lyft's president for an hour when the two companies met to discuss a potential deal, according to a recent New York Times profile (paywall) of Kalanick.

The president of the Brazil Steel Institute, Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, who was meeting with Brazilian officials when they got the call from Washington, said the ultimatum came as a complete surprise.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

There are eight additional Fed bank presidents who attend the policy meetings, but do not vote this year.

At a special White House event this week, members of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), along with a contingent of Road Team Captains, a group of professional drivers who act as industry «ambassadors» as part of a national outreach program, met with President Trump to discuss a range of issues affecting motor carriers, including health care.

Louise is the president of the local social organization, with hundreds of members who meet monthly for coffee socials and other events.

Kayoko Arimoto, the mother of Keiko who was abducted at age 23, said the most important meeting will be that between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, set to be held by early June.

According to testimony by Pierre - Yves Droz, who co-founded 510 Systems with Levandowski before Google acquired it in 2011, Levandowski met with Uber's vice president of mapping, Brian McClendon, around the summer of 2015.

The Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, who attends most meetings of the Compensation Committee by invitation of the Committee's chairman, assists the Committee in determining the compensation of all other executive officers by, among other things:

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin called on European leaders Friday to heal ties with his country despite sanctions after meeting with European investors who said they want to expand their businesses there.