White House Brief: Things To Know About Donald Trump

“Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has repeatedly undercut the work of the very agency he is set to lead by making false statements related to its criminal and counterintelligence inquiries into the president,” the New York Times reports. “His demonstrably spurious claims, shared in podcasts and in his book, Government Gangsters, served to delegitimize the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, stoke baseless suspicions that the F.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director under President Donald Trump, 75 to 25, approving the second high-level appointment for the new administration, NBC News reports.

Frank Bruni: “Anyone who treats or talks about history as a fixed narrative knows nothing about history at all. History yields to fresh insights and new research. It’s hijacked by agendas. After being written by the victors, it sometimes allows the losers a few edits. It’s reinvestigated, relitigated, recast.” “But the makeover of Jan.

Fox News: “Some estimations indicate the average price of a dozen large eggs could be nearly $5 by the end of 2025, which would be the highest-ever recorded average price for a dozen eggs… The price of eggs in California has reached nearly $9 per dozen in some areas.” “One of the largest reasons for the increase is the recent bird flu outbreak.”

Franklin Foer: “During his first term, Trump set about dismantling the architecture of postwar internationalism by trash-talking and bullying the institutional implements of global cooperation, the likes of NATO and the World Health Organization. This assault on the old order was waged in the name of populism, an attack on elites in foreign capitals who siphoned off taxpayers’ dollars.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced that she will vote against Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, citing his past infidelity and allegations of sexual assault and excessive drinking.