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MORE, who is facing calls to step down following a series of controversies related to his travel, staff and accommodations in Washington. Trump called Pruitt on Monday night, the White House said, telling him to “keep your head up,” “keep fighting,” and that “we have your back.” White House chief of staff MORE gave Pruitt a similar call Tuesday, according to reports. “I hope he’s going to be great,” Trump told reporters later in response to a question about Pruitt as media were being escorted out of a White House meeting. Two GOP lawmakers s

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Democrats on a congressional oversight committee are raising new concerns about a fund set up to help past and present Trump aides pay any legal expenses related to investigations into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, ABC News has learned. Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a letter to the chief ethics agency in the executive branch suggesting that the Patriot Legal Expense Fund may be set up in a way that it could keep the identities of donors secret and could allow the Trump campaign to control who gets disbursements from the fund and t

The Trump administration is considering the White House as the setting for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin, the White House said Monday. “A number of potential venues, including the White House” are under consideration, press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Monday, adding that the White House has “nothing further to add at this time.” Sanders confirmation that a White House invite is under consideration for the Russia president comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries and in resp

President Shinzo Abe to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida later this month for a summit meeting, the White House announced Monday. The visit comes as President Trump prepares for an eventual face-to-face meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and amid concerns on the part of Japan of being sidelined in the fast-developing diplomacy with Pyongyang.

The White House has launched a formal inquiry into Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's living situation last year at a Capitol Hill townhouse co-owned by the wife of a top lobbyist. As ABC News first reported last week, Pruitt rented a bedroom in a Capitol Hill condo in 2017 that was partially owned by Vicki Hart, the wife of lobbyist J. Steven Hart, who was registered to lobby for several environmental and energy concerns.

The TAKE with Rick Klein Washington has grown to expect occasional presidential tweet storms by now. Yet even by the new standards set by President post-Easter rants on immigration stand out.

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Capital Source State Senator Joseph Boncore will not run for Suffolk district attorney. Neither will City Councilor Michael Flaherty.  Capital Source Alex Goldstein was press secretary for Deval Patrick during his 2010 gubernatorial campaign.  Herbie Ziskend’s baseball glove won’t make it into Barack Obama’s presidential library.

President Trump has been deeply frustrated about the lack of progress building a signature promise of his campaign: a wall along the Mexican border.   Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explicitly authorized an investigation into whether President Trump’s former campaign chairman colluded with the Russian government.   President Trump spoke a day after the White House dangled the prospect of extending a White House welcome to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  President Donald Trump won’t let up on Amazon.