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‘‘We will never give up our freedom. We will live free and we will die free,’’ President Trump said, as he sought to rally pro-gun voters for the 2018 congressional elections.

Rudy Giuliani, a member of told ABC News on Thursday on the possibility of a subpoena.

MORE on Thursday defended hush money paid to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, saying he reimbursed his personal attorney through a retainer that had “nothing to do with the campaign.” Trump in a series of tweets said his attorney, Michael Cohen, received a monthly retainer “from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.” The president said the Daniels agreement “was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair." Contradicting past claims that h

Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General MORE to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.  “I am waiting for the Attorney General to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,” Giuliani said.

The White House on Thursday struggled to contain the fallout from a string of damaging revelations about the criminal investigations plaguing MORE’s presidency. Washington awoke in a state of shock after Trump’s new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, disclosed that the president reimbursed his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter.  The statement was designed to reduce Trump’s legal exposure to possible campaign finance charges.

Speaker MORE (R-Wis.) has backed down on his controversial decision to dismiss the House chaplain, saying he will let Father Patrick Conroy stay on through the rest of his term.  Ryan said in a statement Thursday that he has accepted a request from Conroy to rescind his resignation letter, which Ryan had asked the chaplain to submit.  “I have accepted Father Conroy’s letter and decided that he will remain in his position as Chaplain of the House,” Ryan said. “My original decision was made in what I believed to be the best interest of this institution.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein French President Emmanuel Macron used hand-holding and tree planting to help make his case.

The TAKE with Rick Klein The Washington Post has recorded a landmark: President Donald Trump has, by the newspaper’s count, surpassed 3,000 false or misleading claims during his time in office. That mark was met before Trump tweeted that there were "No questions on Collusion" among the purported Robert Mueller