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Top Obama strategist explains why Trump's tactics aren't working
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to denounce the Confederate flag during a press briefing after President Donald Trump bemoaned NASCAR's recent decision to ban it from all races and events. CNN's David Axelrod analyzes Trump's strategy of stoking racial divide in the nation to gain re-election.
[ cnn.com ]Reporters ask press secretary about Trump's Confederate flag tweet
CNN's Brianna Keilar and Kaitlan Collins discuss a Tweet made by President Trump about Nascar driver Bubba Wallace, and how White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany attempted to explain it during a White House briefing.
[ cnn.com ]White House won't denounce Confederate flag as Trump bemoans NASCAR's ban
• House panel takes steps to remove racist statues from US Capitol • An Ohio city is accepting unwanted, controversial statues from across the country
[ cnn.com ]White House chief of staff repeats Trump's baseless claim
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday reiterated President Donald Trump's baseless claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless."
[ cnn.com ]Reports a Russian military intel agency put a bounty on heads of US troops in Afghanistan launched the President's team into a cycle of confusion
President Donald Trump's White House can never, ever, get its story straight on Russia.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: White House briefing on Russia bounty reports raises more questions than it answers about Trump and US intelligence
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany addressed a flurry of questions on Monday about President Donald Trump's head-scratching response to recent news reports that the Russian government paid bounties to Afghan militants who killed American troops.
[ cnn.com ]Carl Bernstein reports: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, the President's phone calls alarm US officials
In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: This has got to be the worst of Trump's outrages
"Dignified transfer." That's what the military calls the solemn process of returning fallen heroes to the family they loved and the country they served. If you have ever witnessed it, you're never quite the same after. August 13, 1998, was by far the most difficult day I had as a senior White House aide to President Clinton. Al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden had bombed our embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, a week earlier. Twelve Americans were killed; some were State Department servants, others were Marines. All were heroes.
[ cnn.com ]White House says Trump did not hear 'white power' chant
The White House is doing damage control after President Donald Trump retweeted a video in which a man driving a golf cart with Trump campaign posters is seen chanting "white power." The retweet was deleted several hours later. In a statement, White House spokesman Judd Deere said Trump "did not hear the one statement made on the video. What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters." CNN's Jeremy Diamond has more.
[ cnn.com ]Bolton: Trump's denial of Russian bounty intelligence briefing shows his 'fundamental focus' is not on US security
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that President Donald Trump denying he was briefed on intelligence that Russians had tried to bribe Taliban fighters to kill US troops shows Trump's "fundamental focus" is not on the United States' national security.
[ cnn.com ]Four men charged for trying to bring down statue
The Justice Department has charged four men with destruction of federal property in connection with the attempt on Monday to bring down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park near the White House, the US Attorney for Washington, DC and other law enforcement officials announced Saturday.
[ cnn.com ]Analyst: Under Trump, Putin feels he can get away with murder
Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed US or UK troops there, a European intelligence official told CNN. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement that the President and Vice President Mike Pence were not briefed "on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence." CNN national security analyst Samantha Vinograd discusses the latest developments with Wolf Blitzer.
[ cnn.com ]Reporter April Ryan on report of Russian bounties for US troops: This is deadly
Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed US or UK troops there, a European intelligence official told CNN. The story was first reported by the New York Times. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement that the President and Vice President Mike Pence were not briefed "on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence."
[ cnn.com ]Doctor on Covid-19 task force briefings: 'Stop screwing around'
Dr. Peter Hotez tells CNN's Victor Blackwell that the White House coronavirus task force needs to improve their briefings or risk losing the confidence of the general public.
[ cnn.com ]See Dr. Gupta's response to Pence's false claim about virus
CNN's Sanjay Gupta breaks down the White House coronavirus task force briefing in which Vice President Mike Pence said that the reopening economy was encouraging news as cases hit an all-time record in the US.
[ cnn.com ]Fauci says task force 'seriously considering' new testing strategy
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Friday that the White House coronavirus task force is "seriously considering" pool testing for Covid-19 and acknowledged to The Washington Post that the Trump administration's current testing strategy has proven inadequate.
[ cnn.com ]Kosovo President charged with war crimes cancels White House visit
Kosovan President Hashim Thaci has been indicted for war crimes allegedly committed during the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s, leading him to cancel a planned trip to the White House this weekend for talks with Serbian leaders.
[ cnn.com ]Wall Street's nightmare: Elizabeth Warren as Treasury Secretary
Wall Street dodged a bullet when Elizabeth Warren's campaign for the White House fizzled out. But Warren, a fierce critic of big banks, could still play a forceful role in shaping policy in a potential Biden administration.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Covid-19 is increasing at warp speed in the US
The Covid-19 infection rate in the US is increasing at warp speed, alarming almost everyone outside the White House. About half of US states are in the midst of a substantial uptick compared to their number of reported cases just last week.
[ cnn.com ]Bolton says Trump turned 'blind eye' to Covid-19
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton told CNN Wednesday that he does not have confidence in President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his former boss was "turning a blind eye" at the onset of the outbreak because he did not want to hear "bad news" about his "friend," Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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