The House Intelligence Committee hired a former White House national security aide as it prepares to investigate Russian interference.
The Trump administration is said to favor a late February summit in the resort city of Danang, but Kim Jong Un’s team is eyeing the capital city of Hanoi.
With newly empowered House Democrats in front of him, Trump inflated the threat of immigrants entering the country unlawfully and sought to make an emotional appeal to the public.
In State of the Union speech, Trump claims diplomatic success in averting war in Asia and predicts progress from a second face-to-face meeting
Trump to call for ‘comity’ in State of the Union, but rivals scoff amid heightened political warfare
Aides said the president will make a sincere appeal to broaden his coalition even as critics cast such rhetoric from Trump as “inauthentic and unpersuasive.”
After Ji’s emotional cameo at the State of the Union, the president has shunted human rights issues to the sidelines in his nuclear negotiations with Kim Jong Un.
Trump appeal for bipartisan support, aides said, despite the heightened acrimony as the White House has engaged in a fierce standoff with Democrats over the border wall.
John Bolton’s exposed notepad follows in the path of a president who has regularly made his handwritten stage notes and talking points visible.
The findings in a new survey illustrate the political damage the president and his party have suffered in the fight for partial border wall funding.
The president said responding to damage in Puerto Rico was “by far the most difficult” compared with storms in Texas and Florida last year.