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Historic Royal Wedding Set For Saturday, May 19th
White House Press Sec. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Goes Street On White House
Correspondent April Ryan
If you were following Twit- ter Thursday, you may have noticed the "fireworks" that occurred between White House correspondent April Ryan and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The two have butted heads pretty much since Sanders took over the post, and had another verbal alter- cation on May 3.
Ryan asked Sanders a question about newly hired Trump lawyer, Rudy Giu- liani's revelation on Fox News. Guiliani disclosed the president's repayment of $130,000 to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels. The president previ- ously claimed on television that he didn't know anything about the payment.
Ryan questioned Sanders about the news.
Sanders previously re- peated Trump knew nothing about the payment. At the White House press conference
Twenty+ years White House Correspondent April Ryan told White House Sec. Sarah Huckebee she was ‘blindsided’.
on May 2, she said she learned it was not true while watching Fox News.
Ryan noted if Sanders had learned about the repay- ment on the news, then she had been "blindsided" by the revelation. Sanders denied specifically using that term.
"Well, I said it. But you were blindsided, from what you said," Ryan remarked.
"With all due respect, you don't know much about me in terms of what I feel and what I don't," retorted Sanders. "I think we're done.”
Ryan then replied, "I know enough," citing her 21-year ex- perience in the reporting in- dustry.
The White House corre- spondent reflected on the en- counter later on CNN, and she broke it all the way down.
"She was watching, she found out all of the informa- tion while she was watching Fox last night. So she was blindsided. This was not a per- sonal attack on her. And for her to say something like, 'You don't know me' — that was very street," said Ryan.
With just days to go before the historic wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in a fairy tale cere- mony at Windsor Castle on May 19th, here are some an- swers to your questions.
The bride and groom are: Prince Harry, 33, officially known as Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales and Rachel Meghan Markle (who goes by her middle name, Meghan), 36, an African- American actress who rose to fame as Rachel Zane on the legal drama TV series Suits.
The ceremony will begin at 12 p. m. U. K. time and is scheduled to last about an hour, so be sure to set your clocks and have your tiaras ready bright and early, that’s 7 a.m. EST/4 a.m. PST).
The ceremony will take place in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Harry’s im-
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will get married next weekend.
mediate family members, as well as his close cousins are invited. Friends from Harry’s military service will be on hand, as well as his longtime close friends. Meghan’s mother and father will be attending, as well as a handful of her closest friends.
Los Angeles Sues Drug Manufacturers Of Opioids For Addiction Crisis
Pres. Trump’s Newest Lawyer Tries To Backtrack Statements; Says President Does Not Have To Answer Subpoena
On Friday, President Donald Trump said that his newest personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani needs to "get his facts straight’, following Giuliani's comments on last Wednesday about payments to Stormy Daniels. The president sent out a series of uncharacteristically legal sounding tweets explaining the details of the transaction. Giuliani spent much of the weekend trying to clarify statements he made earlier concerning his client's legal troubles.
On Wednesday, Giuliani, in an appearance on Fox News' Sean Hannity, said a $130,000 payment to adult- film star Stormy Daniels made by former Trump at- torney Michael Cohen in the final days of the 2016 election did not violate cam- paign finance restrictions be- cause it had been "funneled" through Cohen's law firm and was repaid in install- ments by the president.
The remarks by Giuliani, the former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York, im- plied that Trump was aware of the payments at the time,
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is one of Pres. Trump’s newest lawyers. In the latest news, Giuliani told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that President Trump doesn't have to comply with a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller.
contradicting the president's statements to the contrary just last month.
In television appearances and an interview with The Washington Post over the weekend, Giuliani struggled to walk back some of his ear- lier comments and put the best spin on his remarks last week that have been widely criticized as unhelpful to the president.
Speaking with CNN, Giu- liani acknowledged that only having been on the job for a few weeks, he had not had time to properly read in on the legal intricacies.
In an interview with NBC, Giuliani said he did not think the president realized that he had paid Cohen back for the Daniels hush money until he saw the paperwork from his legal team.
Trump responded, "Oh my goodness, I guess that's what it was for.”
Giuliani huddled with Trump Sunday afternoon at his golf club in Sterling, Va., to discuss legal strategy after he appeared on Fox News Saturday night and ABC on Sunday morning. Then he spoke with several other re- porters by phone.
Bobby Lee, 45, injecting a friend inside his van in San Francisco on Jan. 30. Lee says he’s been an addict since he was 17.
The city of Los Angeles is taking legal aim at opioid drug manufacturers and distributors alleging “negligent and fraudu- lent business practices” that helped popularize addictive painkillers like oxycodone, methadone, and fentanyl.
City Attorney Mike Feuer announced last week, that his office has filed lawsuits against six drug makers includ- ing Purdue Pharma, L.P., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cephalon, Inc., Insys Thera- peutics, Inc., and Mallinckrodt LLC. The suit alleges that the companies used “false and de- ceptive” tactics to “normalize aggressive prescribing of opi- oid drugs for various kinds of pain.
Three of major opioid whole- salers, McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, Inc., and AmerisourceBergen Corpora- tion, are also included in the suit.
Though Los Angeles hasn’t been as hard hit by the opioid epidemic, Feurer vowed dur- ing a press conference that he would not let the city turn the likes of “West Virginia or Ohio when it comes to the devastat- ing effects of the opioid crisis,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
The suit demands that drug makers and wholesalers pay costs, losses and damages, and seeks to discourage the compa- nies from more “false market- ing.” Additionally, the legal complaint enjoins companies to take further action to correct the “impact of their prior con- duct.”
More than 23 million Cali- fornians were prescribed opi- oids in 2016, while 2,031 deaths have been attributed to overdoses, according to the California Department of Pub- lic Health. Los Angeles County boasts 4.6 million prescriptions and over 350 opioid related overdoses.
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