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Attorney General Jeff Sessions stands by his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation despite the barrage of criticism he has received publicly from the president this week, he said. "I talked to experts in the Department of Justice, people trained in that.

By putting himself front and center of the growing divide between the Republican White House and Republican Congress, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., sent a powerful message to the president early Friday morning: It takes allies to get anything done in this town. On Tuesday, Republicans cheered their Arizona senator when he swooped in and kept their hopes of passing an Obamacare repeal alive.

President Trump continued to express his dissatisfaction with Senate Republicans after their latest attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act failed. In a series of tweets this morning, the president encouraged the Senate to change its rules to require just a 51-vote majority to pass future legislation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell previously signaled that he would not support changing the Senate rules. "There is an overwhelming majority on a bipartisan basis, not inter

President Reince Priebus in the role. "I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security.

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Posted at 10:34 am on July 29, 2017 by Susan Wright It was Reince Priebus who cut the legs out from under the delegates at the 2016 RNC Convention in Cleveland. It was Reince Priebus, who took an already cringeworthy set-up video of Cabinet members lavishing President Trump with praise in a round table setting, to a new level of groveling toady-ism. Finding out that for selling his soul for power, his reward was to be humiliated, then kicked into the gutter is oddly satisfying. So how low did Priebus sink before Emperor Trump was through toying with him? Only days af