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☆ Trump's Chinese restaurant rant is an 'attack on the National Archives' says the former US Archivist who served under George H.W. Bush
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump last week said Bush stored presidential records in a former Chinese restaurant/bowling alley. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located — that it leased from the General Services Administration, which is responsible for securing buildings for government operations. He was the first archivist responsible for transferring presidential documents under the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Trump's attacks on the NARA process of preserving presidential records, Wilson said, was a "great danger" to democracy. Bush Presidential Library and Museum did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ How the White House is bracing for potential charges against Hunter Biden
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

President Joe Biden has stood by his son Hunter as he reportedly awaits possible criminal charges. But the White House faces a complicated communications challenge if federal agents move forward. But the White House faces a complicated communications challenge if federal agents investigating Hunter Biden move forward with charges against him on tax crimes and a false statement on a gun application. Experts say one thing the White House must not do is contact the Justice Department about the case. Republicans are itching to investigate Hunter Biden if they win control of Congress in the midterm elections.

☆ The Secret Service painted a damning picture of Trump to the Jan. 6 committee. It wasn't the first time agents have been called to testify.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The House Jan. 6 committee obtained hundreds of thousands of internal Secret Service emails. Before the new revelations, the Secret Service was already at the center of the committee's investigation. The panel is also looking into how the Secret Service lost countless other records from January 6, reportedly including agents' text messages. Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, has said there was no malicious intent behind the messages' deletion. Secret Service agent Larry Cockell (left) was forced to testify in an investigation into then-President Bill Clinton.

☆ National Archives rejects Trump claim on former presidents' records
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The National Archives, the federal agency responsible for preserving U.S. government records, on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessors had retained "millions" of White House documents. At a rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump accused three former presidents - Republicans George H.W. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), without naming Trump, said it took possession of all records from those three former presidents. The agency previously rejected a similar claim that Trump had made about his immediate predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, which he repeated on Sunday. The National Archives said it moved the records of those former presidents to temporary facilities located near future presidential libraries.

☆ Trump gave conflicting defenses about the Mar-a-Lago raid, claiming both that all the documents are 'mine,' and that some were planted
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump addressed the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid at an Arizona rally. Trump has baselessly sought to portray the raid as part of a plot against him. Scores of government records were recovered in the Mar-a-Lago raid, and Trump at the rally gave offered no argument for why they should be returned. Trump's lawyers have offered no evidence to back his claim that evidence was planted in the raid. Trump was campaigning Sunday for Blake Masters and Kari Lake, Republican candidates he's endorsed in Arizona's senate and governor races.

Alums include 6 judges, Big Law partners, top law school professors, Hunter Biden, and a priest. Yale Law School is one of the most prestigious law schools in the world, and arguably one of the most powerful. Graduates of Yale Law are known for going into public service and academia, but alumni have also landed top positions at elite law firms and Fortune 500 companies. But Yale Law still carries cachet in the legal community, and many top law firms, schools, judges, and agencies hire its alumni. Here's a look at the careers of some notable alumni of the Yale Law Class of 1996, more than a quarter of a century years after their graduation.

☆ The Lesson from the U.K. Budget Meltdown: Fear Currencies, Not Bond Markets
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Jon Sindreu | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.K. is a large economy with deep capital markets and a widely-owned currency, fears of an unstoppable slide in the pound seem overblown. James Carville should have wished he could be the currency market. The famous 1994 remark by Bill Clinton’s political adviser that he would like to be reincarnated as the bond market encapsulates a widespread perception among investors and officials that, when currencies are left to float freely, soaring public debt becomes the key constraint on government spending. The U.K.’s budget crisis shows why they are wrong.

Flash-forward to today, at the peak of the midterm elections’ race, and the political landscape around reproductive freedom and abortion rights has massively shifted. The Supreme Court’s stunning decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June swept away abortion rights, allowing the GOP to start making good on the draconian abortion measures they’ve long been cheerleading. And those voters are increasingly in the abortion rights camp. According to Gallup, women support abortion rights by a nearly 30-point margin. President Bill Clinton preferred to discuss abortion as “safe, legal and rare,” a catchphrase that many Democrats adopted later.

☆ Gen X is late to the leadership table in US politics, prompting the question: Will it ever produce a president?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Darren Samuelsohn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

By historical standards, Gen X should be in charge of the US by now. Think of them as the godparents of the "Xennials" — those born in the late 1970s or early 1980s who aren't fully Gen X or millennial. No matter whether you deny the 61-year-old Obama is a boomer, Gen X is starting to get up there in age. Michael Ciaglo-Pool/Getty ImagesWhat's the US missing without a Gen X president? "It's like seeing a ghost that doesn't appear," she said of any expectation the presidency would just suddenly open up for Gen X.

☆ Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor blames soaring corporate profits for inflation and says the US government should consider directly controlling prices
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Corporate greed, not wages, is fueling inflation, says former President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor. Some experts say government antitrust enforcement and even price controls deserve consideration. "Profit-price inflation" — caused by companies "raising their prices above their increasing costs" — is the key factor fueling inflation, Reich wrote in a Guardian op-ed Sunday. Still others, like Reich, believe cracking down on record-high corporate profits is the best way to cool prices in the US. "This is why corporate profits are close to levels not seen in over half a century," he wrote.

☆ Larry Summers blasts UK tax cuts as 'utterly irresponsible' and warns of possible contagion
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The sudden sell-off in the pound and U.K. bond markets led economists to anticipate more aggressive interest rate hikes from the Bank of England . I was surprised when the new chancellor spoke over the weekend of the need for even more tax cuts," Summers said on Twitter. U.K. inflation unexpectedly fell to 9.9% in August, and analysts recalibrated their eye-watering expectations after the government stepped in to cap annual household energy bills. 'Emerging market currency crisis'Sterling has fallen by roughly 7-8% on a trade-weighted basis in less than two months, and strategists at Dutch bank ING noted Tuesday that traded volatility levels for the pound are "those you would expect during an emerging market currency crisis." The likening of the U.K. to an emerging market economy has become more prevalent among market commentators in recent days.

☆ Biden says the election is a battle against 'MAGA Republicans.' He’s been silent about Democrats elevating them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Peter Nicholas | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Carol-Lee-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Democrats had been spending millions of dollars in Republican primaries elevating extreme candidates who falsely insist Donald Trump won the 2020 election, in hopes of facing weaker opponents in the general election. The raw political calculus that underpins the Democrats’ midterm election strategy is at odds with President Joe Biden’s core political message that democracy is in peril. Biden appears to have accepted the tradeoff involved: If boosting election-denying candidates saves even a few Democratic congressional seats, it’s worth the risk. NBC News asked the White House what Biden thinks of the practice and whether he’s ever voiced qualms about it. During the 2016 presidential campaign, many Democrats saw Trump as the weakest and, hence, most desirable opponent in the general election.

☆ Larry Summers urges the Fed to keep raising rates - and warns that hiking too slowly risks an economic disaster
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Larry Summers urged the Federal Reserve to keep hiking interest rates to beat inflation. It would be riskier for the central bank to act too slowly than too aggressively, he said. "We've got a substantial underlying inflation problem that doesn't come out without very substantial monetary policy adjustment," the economist told Bloomberg on Friday. Summers told Bloomberg that if the Fed is serious about curbing inflation, he wouldn't be surprised if rates peaked at north of 5%. Moreover, Summers flagged "enormous uncertainty" in markets exposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including oil, natural gas, diesel, and fertilizer.

Joe Biden’s presidency has been dominated by historic challenges — a resurgent Covid pandemic, an uncertain economy and the American military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. But how will these events affect his approval rating? Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, saw his approval rating stay within a narrow 9-point range during his presidency, despite all of the turbulent events and stories during his time in office. Bookmark this page to see if Biden’s approval rating will follow suit. The chart below shows his approval rating history, along with those of former Presidents Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

☆ Bill Clinton says Democrats can hold control of Congress, but warns Republicans will find ways to 'scare the living daylights out of swing voters'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Grace Panetta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Bill Clinton says Democrats have a shot of holding Congress in 2022. But Clinton warned Republicans will "scare the living daylights" out of swing voters. Clinton told CNN Republicans "made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox" in 2021. Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something. Increased polarization and partisanship since Clinton held office in the 1990s means fewer persuadable swing voters and fewer willing to cross party lines.

☆ Biden aides are quietly assembling a 2024 campaign as they await a final decision on his political future
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Carol-Lee-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Carol E. Lee | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

But, they said, if Republicans win one or both chambers, that would likely trigger a quicker pivot to a Biden re-election campaign. Relying on the party apparatus would allow the Biden campaign to forgo trying to build up its own separate campaign infrastructure in each state. But while a DNC-centric campaign might seem to be a natural fit for Biden, relying on the committee poses risks. “The Biden approach is the more traditional approach.”Far more than Obama, Biden is a creature of the Democratic Party. Biden aides say no final decisions on campaign staffing have been made, and they’re not expected to be until after the midterms.

DeSantis claimed credit for a pair of chartered flights on Wednesday that carried around 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, as part of a broader Republican effort to shift responsibility for border crossers to Democratic leaders. "There may be more flights, there may be buses," he said to cheers and applause from backers in the crowd. The state paid $615,000 to Vertol Systems Company Inc, an aviation business, on Sept. 8 as part of a "relocation program of unauthorized aliens," Florida state data showed. The flights to Martha's Vineyard follow a busing effort by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, another Republican, that has sent more than 10,000 migrants to the Democrat-controlled cities of Washington, New York and Chicago since April. The Republican governor of Arizona also has sent more than 1,800 migrants to Washington.

☆ Exclusive: Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A former high-level FBI agent who was involved in the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 election has himself come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his ties with Russia and other foreign governments. A witness subpoena obtained by Insider indicates information that federal prosecutors were seeking about former FBI official Charles McGonigal. "It's very rare that former FBI people at all, and certainly former senior FBI people, wind up as grand-jury targets," the official said. McGonigal used his official FBI letterhead to try and arrange a business meeting with Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania. Since he left the FBI, McGonigal has continued to trade on his expertise in counterintelligence.

☆ Why Joe Biden thinks he's never too old to be your president
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

As the oldest sitting president, he's raising concerns about how long he can continue governing. Republicans — including Trump — have gleefully seized on Biden's verbal misadventures, such as when he called his vice president "President Harris." President Joe Biden drives the Ford's new all-electric F-150 Lightning in Dearborn, Michigan. Ruggerio described the idea that Joe Biden is diminished or can't remember things as "bull crap." Cox said that while he thinks Biden is "still Joe" and still capable, he worries that Biden's age is a problem.

☆ Hillary Clinton said she'd sometimes have a 'wry' exchange with Queen Elizabeth about how 'as a woman leader you always had to have your hair done'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-11 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared some of her memories with Queen Elizabeth II. Clinton said she and the late Queen had privately remarked on being women leaders. Sometimes, there would be a wry exchange about how, as a woman leader, you always had to have your hair done," Clinton said on Sunday. Clinton described the late Queen as a "symbol of a strong, stalwart woman leader." US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary talk with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London on December 14, 2000.

☆ Hillary and Chelsea Clinton know what it takes to be ‘Gutsy’
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton have teamed up with Apple TV+ for the eight-episode docuseries “Gutsy,” based on their New York Times bestseller, “The Book of Gutsy Women.”The pair talked to CNN this week about the series and heir own gutsy moments. “In my private life, as I’ve said before, staying in my marriage was really gutsy, it was a hard decision,” Hillary Clinton said. We learn that Chelsea Clinton grew up with a love of knock-knock jokes and a complicated relationship with comedy, thanks to being lampooned as a child on shows like “SNL.”Another episode includes rapper Megan Thee Stallion and talk turns to haters. Chelsea Clinton told CNN she was inspired by how the rapper refuses to let haters stop her joy. Hillary Clinton believes viewers will find inspiration in their new series.

A judge's order approving a special master to review documents the FBI took from former President Donald Trump's Florida home is a deeply flawed and unworkable mess, legal experts told NBC News on Tuesday. Rosenzweig agreed, calling it "absurd" that a special master should be searching out potential executive privilege issues. "I don't know how a special master would proceed, which means inevitable delay and dispute," he said. "I don’t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. Saltzburg, who has worked as a special master, said the reason judges generally want special masters "is they want a review to be done quickly and thoroughly, and they don’t have the time to do it themselves."

☆ Former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe looks back on the mistakes that led to the startup's collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-06 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Mitch Lowe, who has been a leader at Netflix, Redbox, and MoviePass, is releasing his book "Watch and Learn" on September 6. (L-R) MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Helios and Matheson Chief Executive Ted Farnsworth. I never tried to quiet people internally, if they said something wasn't going well I always embraced it. Like you wrote that you "didn't know jack shit" when you first started at Netflix. When I was offered to be CEO of MoviePass, I felt my whole career had led up to this moment.

The Mississippi state auditor said Favre never gave the speeches and demanded the money back, with interest. In an interview with the website Mississippi Today, Bryant said he never knew the grants came from welfare money. The former head of the state welfare agency, John Davis, has pleaded not guilty to state charges of bribery and conspiracy, and law enforcement officials say the investigations continue. Favre defended himself in a series of tweets last year against allegations from White, the state auditor, that he accepted state money for speeches he never intended to give. Marcus Dupree, a former college football star, also received $370,000 in welfare funds, which prosecutors say partly went to fund his horse ranch.

☆ Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, in a bipartisan vote
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-07 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Jackson makes history as the first Black woman to become a Supreme Court justice. The 51-year-old jurist currently serves on the second-most powerful court in the country, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, often considered a launchpad to the Supreme Court. Biden appointed her to that seat a year ago, which, at the time, sparked rumors that she would make the shortlist if a Supreme Court vacancy arose. In her opening statement, she pledged to "support and defend the Constitution" if confirmed to the Supreme Court.

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