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Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone has agreed to provide documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee mdash; even though he says stanley termohrnek the request is approaching absurd. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Stone says that he s now happy to co-operate with a request made by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in November 2017.Feinstein requested a long list of documents as part of the committee s Russia investiga stanley flask tion, including any communications with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, Russian officials, and all Trump campaign officials. Stone says the request was founded on numerous presumptions that are, at best, specious and, at worst, outright false, if not totally fantastic, and demonstrably so. But, he says, his counsel will be in touch. Stone has denied working with Russia to influence the campaign. More from CBS News Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump s 2020 election case Trump picks Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff stanley cup Trump win boosts book sales from The Handmaid s Tale to Hillbilly Ripj GOP Looks to Courts, Polls to Repeal Health Care Bill
CBS News President Obama on Friday called the latest jobs report a sign of progress but said the marginal pace of economic growth should be a catalyst for Congress to act quickly to ensure middle-class Americans won t see their taxes go up next year.Without mentioning that the unemployment rate rose from 8.2 percent in June to 8.3 percent in July, Mr. stanley taza Obama noted that 172,000 p stanley thermos rivate sector jobs were added to the economy last month 9,000 government jobs were lost, meaning there was a net gain of 163,000 jobs . He said that amounts to 4.5 million jobs created in the last 29 months and 1.1 million so far this year.However, Mr. Obama said, We ve still got too many folks out there who are looking for work. In addition to creating more jobs, the president said the nation needs to reclaim the kind of financial security too many Americans felt was slipping away from them for too long. We are not going to get there... if we go back to the policies that helped create this mess in the first place, Mr. Obama said. The last thing we shoul stanley cups uk d be doing is asking middle class families who are still struggling to recover from this recession to pay more taxes. The president urged Congress to extend the Bush-era tax breaks for the middle class, even if it needs more time to fight over whether to extend the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. Job-creation picks up steam in JulyGOP seizes on unemployment uptick in July jobs report Frankl
Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone has agreed to provide documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee mdash; even though he says stanley termohrnek the request is approaching absurd. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Stone says that he s now happy to co-operate with a request made by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in November 2017.Feinstein requested a long list of documents as part of the committee s Russia investiga stanley flask tion, including any communications with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, Russian officials, and all Trump campaign officials. Stone says the request was founded on numerous presumptions that are, at best, specious and, at worst, outright false, if not totally fantastic, and demonstrably so. But, he says, his counsel will be in touch. Stone has denied working with Russia to influence the campaign. More from CBS News Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump s 2020 election case Trump picks Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff stanley cup Trump win boosts book sales from The Handmaid s Tale to Hillbilly Ripj GOP Looks to Courts, Polls to Repeal Health Care Bill
CBS News President Obama on Friday called the latest jobs report a sign of progress but said the marginal pace of economic growth should be a catalyst for Congress to act quickly to ensure middle-class Americans won t see their taxes go up next year.Without mentioning that the unemployment rate rose from 8.2 percent in June to 8.3 percent in July, Mr. stanley taza Obama noted that 172,000 p stanley thermos rivate sector jobs were added to the economy last month 9,000 government jobs were lost, meaning there was a net gain of 163,000 jobs . He said that amounts to 4.5 million jobs created in the last 29 months and 1.1 million so far this year.However, Mr. Obama said, We ve still got too many folks out there who are looking for work. In addition to creating more jobs, the president said the nation needs to reclaim the kind of financial security too many Americans felt was slipping away from them for too long. We are not going to get there... if we go back to the policies that helped create this mess in the first place, Mr. Obama said. The last thing we shoul stanley cups uk d be doing is asking middle class families who are still struggling to recover from this recession to pay more taxes. The president urged Congress to extend the Bush-era tax breaks for the middle class, even if it needs more time to fight over whether to extend the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. Job-creation picks up steam in JulyGOP seizes on unemployment uptick in July jobs report Frankl