"Close to pulling off the 12-month E-15 waiver," @POTUS says in #Iowa. #Ethanol
"I must have a very powerful position" because after he expressed anger about drug price hikes the pharmaceutical companies rescinded them, says @POTUS.
"Everybody likes Ivanka," says @POTUS, praising his daughter at workforce initiative event in #Iowa.
Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, passed last night, will be signed by the president, says @IvankaTrump, to which @POTUS replies jokingly, "Maybe I'll veto it."
"It's really an amazing achievement," adds @POTUS.
"We just opened up Europe for you farmers," declares @POTUS in #Iowa.
"The farmers love me, they voted for me," according to @POTUS.
"You have just gotten yourself one big market," adds @POTUS. "We agreed to a letter of intent."
"We're just doing really, really well as a country" and there's no place doing better than #Iowa, says @POTUS.
"We're taking care of your ethanol. Nobody else was going to," @POTUS tells roundtable event in #Iowa.
At #Iowa event, @POTUS says he has previously purchased "millions and millions and millions of dollars" of @JohnDeere equipment.
"If we keep this incredible phenomena going it'll only get better," predicts @POTUS, hinting at good GDP numbers to be issued tomorrow.
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Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein suggested he secretly recorded @POTUS and discussed the 25th Amendment, reports @nytimes. nyti.ms/2xxNdwl
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” Rosenstein said in a statement. “Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
My colleague @masoodfarivar relays from source who was in room (with DAG when he made the comment): “I remember this meeting and remember the wire comment. The statement was sarcastic and was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president.”
"Those who interfere with our liberties will pay a price," @SecPompeo tells reporters and specifically mentions past election interference actions by #Russia.
"What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented," says @SecPompeo about @JohnKerry and his efforts to save #Iran#JCPOA. "It is beyond inappropriate."
"Actively undermining U.S. policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of," adds @SecPompeo.
Prosecutors file new charging document against ex-@realDonaldTrump campaign chairman @PaulManafort, signaling a possible plea deal, reports @AP.
A guilty plea to charges in his second trial (which was to be held in Washington, DC) is to be entered today by @PaulManafort, according to media reports.
According to the filing, @PaulManafort will enter a guilty plea to a single count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.