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In his first response to George Papadopoulos' guilty plea, President Donald Trump today attempted to distance himself from the foreign policy adviser who joined his 2016 campaign and later served on a presidential international business advisory council. "Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar," Trump tweeted this morning. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty this month to lying to FBI officials about his

nuclear program during his upcoming Asia trip, a senior administration official told reporters during a background briefing on Tuesday morning. The official cited time constraints and said visiting the demilitarized zone is "becoming a bit of a cliche," as Rex Tillerson have all visited recently. "The president is not going to visit the DMZ. There is not enough time in the schedule.

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The White House on Monday said it had no plans to dismiss special counsel Robert Mueller after he delivered the first indictments in his investigation of Russia’s meddling in last year’s election that has shadowed the first year of MORE’s presidency. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the charges brought against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other ex-aides have “nothing to do with the president,” adding that most of the alleged crimes took place before the 2016 campaign. “The real collusion scandal, as we've said several times before,