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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2017 Statement from Vice President Mike Pence Today’s article in the New York Times is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team. The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this Administration. Thanks to the President’s leadership, we are rebuilding the military, ISIS is on the run, and we’ve seen more than 1 million jobs created while the stock market hits all-time highs. The American people know that I could not be more honored to be working side by side with a president who is making America great again. Whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the President’s agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. Any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd. ### |
Pence slams Times story about 2020 bid as ‘disgraceful and offensive’
Vice President Pence on Sunday dismissed a New York Times story saying he and other top Republicans are running shadow campaigns to defeat President Trump in 2020, calling the report “disgraceful and offensive.”
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Deputy AG Rosenstein: Grand jury ‘just a tool’ in Russia investigation
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Sunday downplayed the significance of the grand jury recently impaneled to investigate, in part, President Trump administration connections with Russia, calling it “just a tool.””It’s just a tool that…
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Rosenstein: We’re after the leakers, not the journalists
Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein on Sunday said the Justice Department (DOJ) is not targeting journalists as it clamps down on leaks in the administration.”The attorney general has been very clear that we’re after the leakers, not the&…
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China urges N. Korea not to conduct missile, nuclear tests
China is reportedly urging North Korea to stop its missile and nuclear tests in the wake of a United Nations Security Council vote to increase sanctions on Pyongyang.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said while meeting with North Korea’s top…
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Jeh Johnson on leaks: ‘I’ve never seen it this bad’
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that the Trump administration has a serious problem with leaks.”The leaks right now are really bad,” Johnson said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.””I’ve never seen it this bad. There should…
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Rosenstein ready to prosecute ‘anybody who breaks the law’ in effort to stop leaks
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acknowledged Sunday that “anybody who breaks the law” — including White House staffers and members of Congress — could be prosecuted in the Justice Department’s heighted efforts to stop classified information leaks.
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Pence calls rumors he will run in 2020 ‘absurd’
Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called rumors that he is working behind the scenes to run for president in 2020 “laughable and absurd.”“The American people know that I could not be more honored to be working side by side with a president who is…
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CA Gov Brown: Voters ‘Definitely’ Swinging Back ‘Toward a Non-Republican Kind of Future’
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) said voters were “definitely already swinging back toward a non-Republican kind of future.” Brown said the Democrats had lost recently for a “Number of factors. Certainly, the Republicans had something to do with it. The barrage, the relentless drum beat of opposition that has been well-financed by the Koch brothers, by Republican activists, that’s been relentless. I think the Affordable Care Act was stigmatized. It was very large; it was very new, that became a big problem.” “And I also think just the historic turn when Lyndon Johnson won overwhelmingly to Goldwater people were writing, and I read it at the time, that the Republican Party was gone,” he continued. “And then it comes back, and the Democratic Party comes back. So the nature of our business is that swing of the pendulum, and it’s definitely already swinging back toward a non-Republican kind of future.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
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Tillis says bill to protect Mueller is response to Trump, about Justice Dept.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on Sunday defended his bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and made clear the measure was to protect Mueller from being fired by President Trump in his investigation into whether the president or his campaign collude with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 White House race.
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