Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is expected to appear for a sealed court hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
The judge presiding over the Washington trial is set to reveal her findings on whether Manafort intentionally lied to federal investigators.
The hearing comes as Mr Trump is expected to sign a deal to avoid another government shutdown and holds meetings with Colombian president Ivan Duque Marquez, where they are slated to discuss the political unrest in Venezuela.
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Donald Trump said yesterday he would not take blame if he refuses to sign a bipartisan bill that would avert a government shutdown, instead blaming the Democratic Party for the possibility in a Cabinet meeting yesterday:
The White House has condemned violence against journalists after a Donald Trump supporter attacked a BBC cameraman at the president’s rally in Texas.
Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for supporters to behave “in a peaceful and respectful manner,” amid criticism of Mr Trump for whipping up his crowds over supposed media bias.
Congress will not support US military intervention in Venezuela despite comments made by Donald Trump, the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Wednesday.
US Representative Eliot Engel said: "I do worry about the president's saber rattling, his hints that US military intervention remains an option. I want to make clear to our witnesses and to anyone else watching: US military intervention is not an option."
In a statement before their joint-meeting, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the US and Colombian presidents “will build upon the strong partnership that exists between their nations in pursuit of a more prosperous, secure and democratic Western Hemisphere.”
Speaking of Robert Mueller…
In an interview this week, the president’s former attorney John Dowd described the Russia investigation as a “terrible waste of time” and predicted the American public wouldn’t actually see any report from the special counsel’s probe.
The comments arrived as Democrats reportedly prepared for a showdown to occur between the US House of Representatives and Mr Trump’s Justice Department over obtaining access to the final Russia report.
Drum roll please…will the president sign the bill?
Donald Trump is also expected to make a decision on a bill produced out of bipartisan meetings between Congressional lawmakers that would effectively avert a federal government shutdown just three weeks after the longest one in US history.
The bill does not appear to include the president’s demands for billions of dollars towards his campaign promise to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Still, it appears Mr Trump is reportedly intending to sign the bill.
He told his supporters at a rally in Texas on Monday the wall would somehow still get built with or without Congressional funding — possibly setting the stage for the president to declare a national emergency over the border.
Here’s the latest on that meeting between Donald Trump and Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez:
The two leaders are expected to meet for an official state visit at the White House today, where they will likely discuss the crisis in Venezuela and US support for Juan Guaido, who has declared himself the next president of the country.
Mr Trump has previously cancelled two trips to meet with Mr Marquez in Colombia.
All eyes on Paul Manafort:
He is expected to appear for a sealed court hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
The judge presiding over the Washington trial is set to reveal her findings on whether the president’s former campaign chairman intentionally lied to federal investigators.
The hearing arrives a week after prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told Judge Amy Berman Jackson that a meeting between Manafort and a Russian political operative named Konstantin Kilimnik goes “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating”.
It’s another busy and consequential day of news surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency.
We’re monitoring developments surrounding a new Congressional spending bill with bipartisan support meant to avert another government shutdown, meetings between the White House and , as well as a sealed court hearing in Washington featuring the president’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
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