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Trump delays Clayton’s nomination for intelligence director, extending lapse of powerful US surveillance tool – live
In rare break with the US president, Republican Tom Cotton criticizes Trump’s ‘regrettable’ decision to order Jay Clayton to not appear for confirmation hearing Trump derails confirmation process for Jay Clayton Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump also ...
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In rare break with the US president, Republican Tom Cotton criticizes Trump’s ‘regrettable’ decision to order Jay Clayton to not appear for confirmation hearing Trump derails confirmation process for Jay Clayton Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump also ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Trump delays Clayton’s nomination for intelligence director, extending lapse of powerful US surveillance tool – live, In rare break with the US president, Republican Tom Cotton criticizes Trump’s ‘regrettable’ decision to order Jay Clayton to not appear for confirmation hearing Trump derails confirmation process for Jay Clayton Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump also denied (again) that the memorandum of understanding includes a $300bn fund for Iran , and denied that he had asked the Gulf states to commit funding. “It’s false,” Trump told reporters as he sat alongside Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi . “You can invest if you want. What am I going to do, say no one is ever allowed to invest? We’re not investing, we’re not putting up 10 cents and people can decide to do it. That’s up to them.” In short, what it does is it opens the strait of Hormuz immediately … It also provides a framework whereby if the Iranians give us what we need – on stopping the funding of terrorism, on no l
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