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Michael Cohen: Trump’s former attorney continues evidence to Congress
Having called his former boss a conman and a racist, Mr Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen was giving evidence again today – though this time behind closed doors to the House Intelligence committee.
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US Congressman behind bill opposing hard Irish border: ‘It would likely bring back bad old days’
A US Congressman has put forward a bill opposing the return of a hard Irish border. Brendan Boyle, who has Irish ancestry, said he was concerned that a hard border could threaten the Good Friday Agreement.
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Democrats to investigate claims Trump ‘told his former lawyer to lie to Congress’
The United States House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees are to investigate whether President Trump told his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress under oath. It comes after Buzzfeed News reported claims that the President instructed Mr Cohen to lie about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Russia. The President’s current lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,…
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Trump ramps up Congress fight over border wall
President Trump has ramped up his standoff with Congress over his demand for a Mexican border wall, using a bill designed to tackle human trafficking to push his case.
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Historic firsts for women and minorities in the new Congress
More women, Muslims, Latinos and African-Americans: the 116th US congress being sworn in right now is more diverse than ever before.
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Trump to discuss shutdown with Congressional leaders
In Washington, a host of new politicians are just about to take their seats as Congress begins its 116th session, but the federal Government is still locked in a partial shutdown over Donald Trump’s demand for a wall along the US/Mexican border. President Trump has invited leaders from both sides to discuss border security at…
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Cohen admits that he lied to Congress
In a Manhattan courtroom another element in the investigation into the contact between the Kremlin and the 2016 Trump Campaign team has emerged.
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Rashida Tlaib interview on Palestine, Trump’s America and becoming the first Muslim congresswoman
She says Americans are disconnected, not divided, and Israelis and Palestinians have more in common than they think. Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is now the Democratic party candidate for Michigan’s 13th district, a story hailed as the epitome of the American dream.
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The former Nazi running for Congress
From the fringes to the official US ballot paper. This year, there are white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and extremists among those attempting to run for office – as Republicans. Perhaps the most shocking among them is Arthur Jones, the former leader of the American Nazi Party, who is gunning for a seat in the suburbs…
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Macron speaks to US Congress
The American and French people have long had a “rendezvous with freedom”, the French President Emmanuel Macron declared today, as he spoke to a special joint session of the US Congress. There was frequent applause as he praised what he called the special bond between the two nations, but he also warned the United States…
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‘The Facebook apology is a good door opener to fixing the problem’: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee, who is a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, joins Kylie Morris to discuss the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Congressman Adam Schiff on Cambridge Analytica: ‘The dark arts have arrived in full force online and they need to be feretted out’
Kylie Morris speaks to the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff, one of the leading figures investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. I began by asking him about those comments from Alexander Nix that sounded so dismissive of their efforts to discover what Cambridge Analytica had been doing and how his…
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Trump and Congress discuss gun laws
In the next hour, President Trump, who favours arming teachers, will meet members of Congress to discuss the raft of laws proposed in response to the Parkland school shooting. As Marjory Stoneman Douglas High resumes its classes, the student activists demanding more gun control are adamant: they will not be ignored.
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Former Virginia congressman: ‘This is a national problem’
Former Virginia congressman Tom Perriello, who’s a Democrat, says the violence in Charlottesville is indicative of a ‘national problem’.
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Congress building set on fire in Paraguay protests
One protestor has died after crowds stormed Paraguay’s Congress building and set it on fire.