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President Obama Has His ‘Angry’ Translator Luther Show
First Lady Obama Was The Talk Of The Dinner For Her New Hairdo And Gown
Loretta Lynch Is Sworn In As First African American Woman Attorney General
Up At Correspondents’ Dinner
After a record delay filled by stark partisan warfare and charges of racism, Loretta Lynch was confirmed on Thursday and was sworn into office Monday. as the next U. S. Attorney General in a narrow Senate vote.
Lynch’s nomination passed 56-43, with 10 Republicans crossing party lines to support her. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, missed the vote after making a speech against Lynch on the Senate floor on Thursday morning.
Lynch, the U. S. attorney for the eastern district of New York, was nominated by Pres. Obama last November to re- place Eric Holder, who was the first African American Attorney General in U. S. history. Lynch will be the first African American woman to hold the office.
Thursday the Senate finally confirmed Loretta Lynch to be America’s next Attorney General and America will be better off for it,” Pres. Obama said in a statement after the
Senate vote.
Holder
said he was “pleased” and congratulated Lynch in a statement re- leased after the vote.
But the
congratula-
tions could
not obscure the months of par- tisan acrimony that preceded them, which began in earnest after Lynch’s confirmation hearing in January before the judiciary committee.
The Democratic Senate mi- nority leader, Harry Reid, said before the vote: “While I’m pleased that Ms Lynch will be confirmed as Attorney General, her nomination process is proof of all that is wrong with Repub- lican leadership. Senate Repub- licans made Loretta Lynch’s nomination linger more than 10 times longer than the average attorney just to spite the Presi- dent.”
President Obama and his ‘angry’ translator, Luther of Comedy Central’s series Key & Peele.
LORETTA LYNCH
At the gathering he jokingly called "a night when Washing- ton celebrates itself," Presi- dent Barack Obama took light-hearted aim on Saturday at a range of political friends and foes, including the people running to succeed him.
President Obama's com- edy routine at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner included a dig at Hillary Clin- ton. Noting that some Ameri- cans are living in a time of uncertainty, President Obama said, "For example, I have one friend just a few weeks ago, she was making millions of dollars a year and she's now liv- ing out of a van in Iowa."
The President knew he might need some help to get his points across at this year's White
House Correspondents' Dinner, so he brought in his anger translator Luther to make his message clearer.
Luther, whom fans might recognize as Keegan-Michael Key from the Comedy Central series "Key & Peele," helped President Obama speak on climate change and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Yes, Luther joined him at the podium during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. As always, Key was hilarious in the role as the energetic embod- iment of the President’s inner anger.
The president, now in office for six years, had journalists, politicians and celebrities in stitches during his speech.
President Obama may have gotten big laughs Sat- urday at the 89th annual White House Correspon- dents’ Dinner, but First Lady Michelle Obama stole the show in a shimmering silver gown and ringlets of curls.
Russian Hackers Read President’s Unclassified Emails
WASHINGTON — Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been pub- licly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation.
The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Depart- ment’s unclassified system, do not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr. Obama’s BlackBerry,
which he or an aide carries constantly.
But they ob-
tained access
to the email
archives of
people inside
the White
House, and
perhaps some
outside, with whom Mr. Obama regularly communi- cated. From those accounts, they reached emails that the President had sent and re- ceived, according to officials briefed on the investigation.
Eric Holder Says Goodbye With Handshakes And Tears
PRESIDENT OBAMA
Outgoing Attorney Gen- eral Eric Holder waves good- bye to members of the Justice department.
"Hey," the attorney general said as he walked into his final meeting with senior staffers Fri- day morning. "Let's do this one last time."
After more than six years running the Justice Depart- ment, Eric Holder took a seat and prepared to close the door his career.
Holder, the first African- American to serve as U. S. Attor- ney General, had a famously rocky relationship with Repub- licans in Congress, who held him in contempt a few years ago for refusing to turn over docu- ments in a gun trafficking scan- dal along the Southwest border. There were plenty of tears at the morning meeting — from Holder, who clutched a tissue in his hands; from the second- in-command, deputy Sally Q. Yates; and from a dozen staff
ERIC HOLDER
members who had spent years alongside the attorney general during unspecified crises of na- tional security and civil rights.
"You put your arms around me and you got me through some of that bad stuff, so on a very personal level, I want to thank you for that," Holder said.
Later, Holder retreated to his small private office, where all the cupboards had been cleared. Friday, he said, was a day for crying and shaking hands, not moving mementos including prized photos of basketball he- roes and musicians.
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