Eps 386: White House announces
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This is something the Trump administration wants to do to reduce the number of people coming into this country and reshape the way people come into this country. On Friday, President Trump announced new federal guidelines that encourage Americans to use homemade fabric face coverings to slow the spread of a novel coronavirus.
The guidelines reflect growing concern that people who do not show symptoms of coronavirus may still be unconsciously transmitting the disease to the public.
President Trump announced via Twitter that the US and Canada will close the border to all non-essential traffic to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump's announcement follows a draft recommendation made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday that urged Americans to use fabric face coverings. There was no new information from the White House today about a CO VID-21 or COID-20 pandemic from Canada or the United States.
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus in the USA and Canada, the CoID-20 pandemic in Canada.
On Friday, the White House announced that President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone. The president's move comes after the president and his allies complained for months that prosecutors mistreated Stone and others. Last year, a jury convicted Stone of one count each of making false statements to the FBI and congressional investigators.
A federal judge earlier this year sentenced Stone to 40 months in prison and a $250,000 fine. President Donald Trump has released Roger Stone from prison and commuted the sentence of the former Trump campaign adviser who is scheduled to begin his 40-month term in federal prison on Friday. Stone had testified at trial that contradicted his written answers to questions from the FBI and congressional investigations into his involvement in the 2016 campaign.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, released a sweeping statement Friday night from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Schiff's comments came after eight House Democrats were briefed by the White House on the matter.
As the administration struggled to play down the shocking report, Democrats piled on the president, accusing him of dereliction of duty after the presumptive nominee spoke in Wilmington last week. If he hasn't read the order, it doesn't work to give him a written product and not tell him what it is, "Schiff said. He wrote on Twitter after last week's briefing that Donald Trump was unaware of the report and that it was clear the intelligence community did not fully agree. I know that because I am a member of the House Intelligence Committee, not the White House.
Biden criticized Trump for not reading his daily briefing, noting that both he and President Barack Obama read the briefing every day while they were still in office. Former Vice President Joe Biden and former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch have criticised the president for knowing "nothing" about the intelligence agencies.
Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced that he would be briefed the morning before he entered the White House, according to a statement from his office.
The policy directs 20 federal agencies to consider the impact of climate change on national security and to establish a working group that will develop a national strategy to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the effects of global warming. The new policy was released by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which investigated ways in which climate change could affect national security. While the intelligence assessment is only a small part of a much larger and more complex picture, "the White House memo continues, conveying a sense of urgency about the need for a broader and more comprehensive national policy on the issue.
The Russian government paid the Taliban to kill US soldiers, and the White House reacted with fury when the Times first revealed this.
The White House is seeking to limit damage and contain the fallout from the intelligence leak to the New York Times. It's not the first time the White House has been on the lookout for leaks, but it's not the only time.
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the clemency petition that commuted Roger Stone Jr.'s wrongful death sentence and commuted his sentence at a federal prison in Georgia. Just hours before Stone was due to appear at a federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia, for his hearing in the case of his former campaign manager, Donald Trump is commuting the sentence on behalf of the United States of America and the US Constitution.