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- WATCH: Trump's campaign trail love for Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 11:54 AMAs a presidential candidate, Trump touted the Arizona lawman's endorsement.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: The Note: 'The Mooch' moves out
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 07:18 AMAnthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director and sources tell ABC News President Trump personally dictated the first statement Donald Trump Jr. gave explaining his 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Scaramucci resigns as White House communications director
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 07:50 AMABC News' Cokie Roberts and Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon analyze the rise and fall of Anthony Scaramucci and discuss a new report that President Trump personally dictated the first statement about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer: Sources
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 11:00 PMSources confirm reports Trump dictated his son's statement to a NY Times piece.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - White House sets 'aggressive schedule' for tax reform
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 07:38 PMThe White House is gearing up for a battle on tax reform this fall.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Trump awards Medal of Honor to Army medic 48 years later
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 06:43 PMJames McCloughan risked his life to rescue wounded comrades during the Vietnam War.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Anthony Scaramucci resigns as White House communications director
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 04:12 PMTen days after being hired, Scaramucci has resigned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pentagon still awaiting White House guidance on transgender military ban
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 03:00 PMThe Pentagon is awaiting further direction on new transgender military ban.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Anthony Scaramucci's wife files for divorce
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 02:18 PM"The View" co-hosts discuss the news about the White House director of communications.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Anthony Scaramucci out as White House communications director
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 03:12 PMThe news comes only days after Scaramucci's hiring earlier this month. Since then, the White House has faced the resignations of press secretary Sean Spicer and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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- The Note: Plot thickens with Trump crafting son's misleading memo on Russia meeting
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 07:21 AMTrump had a hand in his son's statement on his meeting with a Russian lawyer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Sarah Sanders says Trump was joking about police brutality comment
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 07:25 AMWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday that President Trump was likely joking last week when he appeared to advise law enforcement officials not to worry about injuring suspects.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Opioid commission asks Trump to declare ‘national emergency’
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 02:27 AMSen. Joe Manchin reacted favorably to the plan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Sanders says Trump was joking about police brutality comment
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 08:50 PM“I believe he was making a joke at the time,” Sanders commented.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democrats plan to block possible Trump recess appointments
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 07:08 PMDemocrats plan to hold pro forma sessions in the August recess.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: 'The Briefing Room': Newest WH communications director resigns
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 05:26 PMABC News breaks down Anthony Scaramucci's resignation, Gen. John Kelly's new role as White House chief of staff and more.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The remarkable story of combat medic awarded Medal of Honor
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 03:59 PMJames McCloughan, 71, received the honor this afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anthony Scaramucci out as White House communications director
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 03:46 PMScaramucci, a former financier, was outspoken during his short time on the job.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Trump previously said letting Obamacare implode was 'not the right thing'
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 02:22 PMIn February he said that allowing Obamacare to fail is "not the fair thing to do for the people."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Trump names new chief of staff: Reince Priebus is out, Gen. John Kelly in
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 01:43 PM"The View" co-hosts discuss the latest shakeup in the Trump administration.
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- Kelly faces daunting task of reconnecting Trump to disillusioned GOP establishment
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 09:16 AMKelly is tasked with getting a chaotic White House back on track.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Trump dictated son's statement on Russia meeting: Sources
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 07:50 AMPresident Donald Trump personally dictated the first statement Donald Trump Jr. gave about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer, two senior level sources confirm to ABC News.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast started with a joke
Tuesday - 08/01/2017 - 05:02 AMTaz and Zahra met on a book tour, and then launched a podcast on a running joke.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Senate GOP hears, but doesn't plan to take, Trump's advice on health care
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 09:47 PMThere are no plans to scrap the 60-vote threshold in favor of a simple majority.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reactions to Anthony Scaramucci's White House departure
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 07:00 PMScaramucci’s exit comes days after Priebus and Spicer left the White House.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Aug. 6, 1965: Voting Rights Act signed by President Johnson
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 04:11 PMThe act prohibits racial discrimination in voting and was signed in the presence of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: The remarkable story of combat medic awarded Medal of Honor
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 04:12 PMJust months after James McCloughan was deployed to Vietnam, his courageous actions over two days of close-combat would earn him the nation's most prestigious military award.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump to award Medal of Honor to Vietnam combat medic
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 03:04 PMJames McCloughan, 71, will receive the honor this afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Maxine Waters: 'I'm reclaiming my time'
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 02:18 PM"The View" co-hosts discuss the tense moment during Steve Mnuchin's House Financial Services Committee hearing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: John Kelly sworn in as White House chief of staff
Monday - 07/31/2017 - 11:08 AM"He will do a spectacular job, I have no doubt, as chief of staff," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office today after Kelly's swearing-in ceremony at the White House.
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