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Hope Hicks, one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longest-serving, most trusted aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director. The White House announced she was leaving a day after Hicks, 29, spent nine hours in a closed hearing of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has an explicit mission on President Donald Trump’s legal team: Help the president lift the Russia-shaped “cloud” over his White House–and fast. But while Giuliani sounds optimistic about cutting deals with Robert Mueller, Trump's legal team has failed to deliver such deals in the past. As Trump’s newest personal attorney, Giuliani will be to resolve the question of whether the president even needs to sit for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. According to Politico, Giuliani plans to meet in the coming days with Mueller and his team of prosecutors. He's expected to press them to swiftly conclude the portion of his investigation that deals with whether the president obstructed justice during and after the 2016 presidential election.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hope Hicks, one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longest-serving and most trusted aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director, a blow to the president, whose inner circle has been depleted by firings and clouded by scandal. The White House announced Hicks, 29, was leaving a day after she spent nine hours in a closed hearing of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
President Donald Trump has landed in California at last. After 14 months of avoiding the country's most populous state, the President on Tuesday landed in the Golden State where he will visit the US-Mexico border near San Diego and raise campaign cash at a high-dollar fundraiser in Beverly Hills, near where he owns a home. His absence from the US' most populous state has been notable. The last sitting president to go this long without traveling to California was Franklin Roosevelt -- and he took a train. Trump lost the state by a wide margin in the 2016 presidential election and remains deeply unpopular there. Trump didn't try to warm relations while on the ground in California. Shortly after landing, Trump told reporters that California Gov. Jerry Brown has "done a very poor job running California," slamming the Democrat for immigration and tax policy. Trump's criticism focused on tax policy, too, with the President mentioning owning property in California. "The taxes are way, way out of whack, and people are going to start to move pretty soon," he said. Trump previously lambasted California in recent weeks, threatening to withdraw federal law enforcement agents and suing the state over its immigration rules. This weekend, he focused his weekly radio address on criticizing the state's stance toward undocumented immigrants.
President Donald Trump on Saturday belittled Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. At the same time, he raised concerns that the intense focus on the issue could sour U.S. relations with Vladimir Putin. According to Politico, Trump didn't directly say whether he personally believed Putin was involved. But he did tell reporters that he takes the Russian president at his word when he denies directing the influence campaign.
White House officials are downplaying the recent chaos in the stock market, saying its a short-term wobble and the US economy remains resilient. "Look, markets do fluctuate in the short term," said White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah. "We all know that. And they do that for number of reasons. But the fundamentals of this economy are very strong and they're headed in the right direction — for the middle class, in particular." Stocks tanked in trading Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling as much as 1,500 points. That was a continuation of a fall from Friday, which saw the Dow close down just under 666 points. Analysts cited a slew of reasons for the sell-off, ranging from increasing wage pressures to high valuations. Trump has long cited the increase in the stock market as proof of the positive effect of his presidency on the economy, even going as far as to call the stock market a good report card of his job performance. In a separate interview with CNN, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said that despite Trump taking credit for the rise, the drop should not be pinned on the president. "It's still in a very strong place, it's still exorbitantly higher than it was when he took office," Gidley said. The Dow closed at 18,589.69 the day after Trump won the 2016 election, meaning the index is still up roughly 30% since Trump's win and just over 23% since he took office. "On Friday, where you referenced, we also saw some really good news in the economy, which is wage growth rising at the fastest pace than it has in any point in eight years, since 2009," he told reporters aboard Air Force One. "Unemployment, nationally, is at 4.1 percent. That's the lowest level in almost two decades."Shah said that the positive economic news, including raising wages, are directly tied to President Donald Trump's policies. In particular, Shah touted the positive wage boosts by major companies following the passage of the GOP's tax reform bill. "And the tax cuts and reform bill, as we're already seeing, is leading to hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in the United States," Shah said. "Hundreds of companies giving additional raises, bonuses, benefits, and everything else to employees. We're very excited about the strength of the economy."
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