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President Donald Trump Accepts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Invitation To Deliver State Of The Union On February 5th
President Donald Trump accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's in- vitation to deliver the State of the Union address next Tues- day – bringing to a likely close a tense chapter be- tween the two leaders.
"It is my great honor to accept," Trump wrote Pelosi. "We have a great story to tell and yet, great goals to achieve."
In her invitation to Trump, Pelosi wrote that she had previously hoped the two leaders would "work to- gether to find a mutually agreeable date when govern- ment has reopened to sched- ule this year’s State of the Union address."
After extending an initial invitation on Jan. 3 asking
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
Trump’s State of the Union address next week.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said on Tuesday that he invited Ms. Abrams to make the televised response three weeks ago. She publicly agreed to the often-thankless task on Tuesday.
“She is just a great spokesperson,” Mr. Schumer told reporters. “She’s an incredible leader. She has led the charge for voting rights, which is at the root of just about everything else.”
The designation provides Ms. Abrams, 45, with a na- tionally televised platform to burnish her profile at a time when she is said to be con- sidering her next political
STACEY ABRAMS
steps, including a possible run for Senate in 2020 against Senator David Per- due, Republican of Georgia. But it also carries substantial risks: A notoriously awkward format, State of the Union re- sponses have been more memorable in recent years for the memes they have pro- duced than persuasive ora- tory.
the president to deliver the State of the Union on Jan. 29, Pelosi eventually re- scinded the invitation amid the government shutdown, urging Trump to delay his annual address until the par- tial government shutdown ended.
A source told ABC News that Trump and Pelosi
spoke at 3:55 p.m.
Stacey Abrams To
Deliver State Of The Union
Response For Democrats
Stacey Abrams, a rising political star from Georgia
who narrowly lost a race for governor there last year, will deliver the Democrats’ offi- cial response to President
Roger Stone Warns Trump's Presidency Is In Peril
Roger Stone is known for hyperbole, but his latest graphic warning should worry Donald Trump.
The political trickster said Tuesday, a day he pleaded not guilty to seven charges laid by special counsel Robert Mueller, that Trump's presidency is in mortal peril because the Rus- sia investigation amounts to a "speeding bullet heading for his head."
Stone's comment, to "Breitbart News Daily" on Sirius XM radio, added to soaring anticipation, fueled
ROGER STONE
by a remark by acting Attor- ney General Matt Whitaker on Monday, that
the probe could soon end with Mueller's final report. And it raised the question of whether Trump's re- peated claim of "no collu- sion" fired off in scores of tweets and comments to the press, is a sufficiently broad defense to the existential threat that Stone perceives
from Mueller's work.
The indictment of Stone, Trump's longest serving po- litical adviser, refocused at- tention on whether Trump and his team crossed legal and ethical lines during an effort to defeat Hillary
Clinton in an election that featured a simultaneous Russian meddling operation. The key question for Mueller has always been whether there was a criminal conspiracy by members of Trump's team to cooperate with Moscow's bid to make him President.
So far, he has offered no proof of such a bombshell finding, in a forest of indict- ments, court filings, one trial and convictions of people around the President in a probe that appears to be get- ting ever closer to the Oval
Office.
If Mueller does estab-
lish such behavior, it would answer the puzzling ques- tion: Why have so many peo- ple around Trump -- at great costs to themselves -- repeatedly lied about ties to Russians?
Or, it's conceivable -- if the special counsel could conclude that though there was evidence of a cover-up -- it was not motivated by a de- sire to hide a crime, but was meant to spare Trump the political embarrassment of noncriminal links to Russia?
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