Jerry Nadler says Mueller report presents 'very substantial evidence' Donald Trump guilty of 'high crimes and misdemeanors'
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Donald Trump's “high crimes and misdemeanours” will be made public when Robert Mueller gives testimony before Congress later this week, says House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Mr Nadler said the former FBI special counsel has “substantial evidence” that the president violated the law “six ways from Sunday”, which will be made clear to the American people when Mr Mueller discusses the evidence contained in his 448-page report into the administration before his panel and the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
In a new embarrassment for the administration, US Customs and Border Protection has been forced to admit that no new stretches of Mr Trump's much-promised border wall have actually been built since he took office in January 2017 - all the work ongoing so far has been to repair pre-existing barriers.
Donald Trump said officials in Iran “lie a lot” while refuting Tehran’s insinuations the US did not take down one of its unmanned drones.
“We took down one of their drones. Instead of saying 'yeah that happened,' they lied. They say it didn't happen,” he said. “So there's a lot of proof. It's called, take a look at it on the ocean floor."
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Mr Trump meanwhile said on Monday he could win the war in Afghanistan in a week, but that he doesn’t want to kill millions of people and wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the earth.”
The president met with the prime minister of Pakistan at the White House to start the week, while trying to persuade Pakistan to help get a deal with the Taliban that would end America’s longest war.
“I could win that war in a week” but “I don’t want to kill millions of people,” he said.
Afghanistan is high on Mr Trump’s agenda as he meets with Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan. Their testy relationship may be improving. Mr Trump says Pakistan can use its influence with the Taliban to help the US “extricate” from Afghanistan.
Pakistan, which is suffering economically, wants to reset relations with the US in hopes of securing more investment, trade and possibly a restoration of American aid that Mr Trump cut.
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Mr Khan said he’s never believed that there was a military solution to the war. He said he thinks the US and the Taliban are closer to a peace deal than ever before.
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Here's a fairly complete debunking of that first attack on The Washington Post in which Trump denies having "reams of paper" containing attack notes on the Squad handed to him by advisers.
He is seen in the image below brandishing one such sheet on Ilhan Omar at a cabinet meeting last Tuesday.
Donald Trump has suggested Robert Mueller should not be allowed to testify to congress about his investigation into the president's obstruction of justice and links to Russia, saying "in the end it will be bad for him".
"Highly conflicted Robert Mueller should not be given another bite at the apple," the president said on Twitter.
"In the end it will be bad for him and the phony Democrats in Congress who have done nothing but waste time on this ridiculous Witch Hunt. Result of the Mueller Report, NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION!"
Donald Trump has just referred to the group of Democratic congresswomen of colour who he hurled racist insults at last week a "very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart."
Donald Trump has once again attacked the four Democratic congresswomen of colour he hurled racist insults at last week, claiming in a tweet on Monday the freshmen politicians are “a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart.”
“The ‘Squad’ is a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced, and not very smart,” the president wrote, referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. “They are pulling the once great Democrat Party far left, and were against humanitarian aid at the Border...And are now against ICE and Homeland Security.”
2020 hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has hit back at Donald Trump over his racism row with four Democratic congresswomen of colour, saying the president “is seeing himself as America rather than recognising the fundamental values of our country are based on our freedom of speech.” -
New York’s attorney general has vowed to continue legal challenges against the Trump administration for “deciding to continue to allow the deadly pesticide Chlorpyrifos to contaminate the food we eat.” -
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