Just two months before Trump welcomed the officials into the Oval, CNN reported: “Current and former US intelligence officials have described Kislyak as a top spy and recruiter of spies.” Included in the secret, “jovial,” Oval Office meeting were Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss noted the upcoming anniversary, and that today is the anniversary of Trump firing his FBI Director:ĭay after Trump fired Comey five years ago today, then-President had his jovial secret meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak: /q05ohDu1eQįive years ago tomorrow, this charming image of Lavrov and Trump behind the Resolute Desk used by American Presidents for more than a century. No American journalists were allowed to be present, but a photographer from Russian state media was.
Image: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via FlickrĮxactly five years ago tomorrow then-President Donald Trump gave top Russian officials code word classified top secret intelligence, putting Israeli spies at risk, and celebrated his firing of FBI Director Jim Comey, all during a meeting inside the Oval Office. This is the guy who tried to pretend he doesn’t know what a burner phone is
Law Professor and former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter: The investigation is into his company, The Trump Organization’s finances, and Trump has handed over his personal cell phone, CNN reports.ĬNN adds that Trump “has authorized his attorneys to search his homes in Bedminster, New Jersey, his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, and his personal residence in Trump Tower for any documents sought by New York Attorney General Letitia James’ subpoena.” A judge has fined the former president $10,000 for every day he fails to hand over requested information, including the cell phones. For 50 years Roe has been the basis for a number of these decisions that have have impacted and change people’s lives, in our view for the better.”ĭonald Trump, under investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office, has filed an affidavit insisting he no longer owns four of the cell phones the NY AG has subpoenaed. Texas, which stops government from preventing sexual relationships between consenting adults. Hodges, which protects the right to marry. That is law now, but we are clear-eyed about this being a precedent for that and what could come next. Baird, which ensured the right to use contraception was protected. Responding to a different question Psaki warned, “when we’re talking about Roe, Roe has been the precedent for a number of other laws passed by the Supreme Court that impacts people’s fundamental lives, their basic rights, their freedoms, their privacy and their protections, including if you look back Griswold v. Jen Psaki: “I think we’re at serious risk.” /kL427C1H3l Q: “How at risk does the administration believe the U.S. So in some ways, yes, you’re seeing an outcry by the nearly two thirds of the public and many of them peacefully protesting, who are concerned about what this opinion will say, but you’re also seeing a number of Republicans in states and some in Congress double down on this potential to overturn a law that has been the law of the land for 50 years.” I’d also note that Louisiana legislators advanced a bill to classify abortion as homicide which would allow women to terminate their pregnancies to be charged with murder and potentially criminalized in vitro fertilization and forms of birth control. It’s also about what choices could be made that go beyond that. “So as the President has said, over the course of the last nearly week, his concern is about yes, a woman’s right to make choices about her own health care, about what this final opinion could be. “And we’ve seen in other places in the country,” she added, pointing to the Governor of Mississippi’s refusal to state “whether they would directly go after the right to use contraception.” “As you noted Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in Congress are talking about a national ban on a woman’s right to choose,” she continued, noting “dozens and dozens of Republicans in Congress signed on to the Mississippi court case and advocating for severe restrictions on a woman’s right to choose, and a woman’s right to make choices about her own body.
“I think we’re at serious risk,” Psaki told a reporter asking about Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s threat to enact a nationwide ban on abortion.
Wade and Republicans’ war on both abortion and contraception. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki delivered a lengthy and detailed statement when asked about the impending Supreme Court decision on Roe v.