Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has dismissed Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s security council secretary, in a surprise reshuffle.]]>
National security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Wednesday to reaffirm U.S. support for the beleaguered country as congressional aid efforts have repeatedly floundered. During the meeting, Sullivan "stressed the urgent need for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the national security supplemental to meet Ukraine’s critical battlefield needs," National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. Sullivan acknowledged...
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan fired back Monday when a reporter asked him why President Joe Biden was 'shouting and swearing' at staff. NBC News said Biden acted up when he heard his poll numbers had dropped in the swing states of Georgia and Michigan over his handling of the war in Gaza. Sullivan denied that occurred telling Fox's Peter Doocy: 'This is the "when did you stop beating your spouse" question
RNC bosses ask potential hires if they think the 2020 election was stolen. 'If you say the election wasn't stolen, do you really think you're going to get hired?' one former RNC employee questioned. Implementation of this litmus test comes after Trump-aligned leadership was installed at the RNC – including daughter-in-law Lara as the new co-chair
KYIV, Ukraine >> President Joe Biden’s top foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan sought to reassure Ukrainians during an unannounced visit to Kyiv Wednesday that the U.S. will continue to support their efforts to fend off Russia’s two-year-old invasion.
Monday was a day of highs and lows for Donald Trump. Things started with a bang after an appellate court
Hong Kong's new national security law came into force on Saturday, putting into immediate effect tough penalties of up to life imprisonment for crimes including treason and insurrection.The law -- commonly referred to as Article 23 -- targets five categories of national security crimes and was swiftly passed by Hong Kong's opposition-free legislature on Tuesday.The United States, the European Union, Japan and Britain have been among the law's strongest critics, with UK Foreign Minister David...
Critics say the ‘Article 23' legislation will be used to target peaceful dissent and quell political opposition.
Michael Cohen, a former personal attorney for Donald Trump, said Monday on MSNBC's "Deadline" that the former president was "the single most dangerous thing in America to our national security and democracy." | Clips
Investigative journalist David Cay Johnston joins Alex Witt to discuss his reporting about how Trump’s mounting legal debts leave him susceptible to the interests of foreign governments, why the Constitution fails to protect us from these concerns, and how unprecedented the danger is for our democracy. “People are going to have leverage over him to the tune of well over half a billion dollars in the E. Jean Carroll and New York fraud cases we’ve never had a president subject to leverage by...
WASHINGTON — Peter Navarro, the Donald Trump adviser sentenced to incarceration following his conviction for defying a congressional subpoena, has asked the Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court rejected his bid to put the four-month prison sentence on hold. In an emergency application filed with the Supreme Court late Friday, Navarro's lawyers say his case marks "the first time in our nation’s history" that "a senior presidential advisor has been convicted of contempt of...
A Binance executive who had been detained in Nigeria has escaped custody, the president's adviser on national security said on Monday. Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan who is Binance's regional manager for Africa, a suspect in the ongoing criminal probe into the activities of Binance in Nigeria escaped from lawful custody on Friday, the security adviser's office said in a statement. It added that Nigeria's security agencies are working with Interpol for an international arrest warrant on...