Rumors that former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn might be the next former Trump administration official to be indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller have been circulating for weeks now.
In a somewhat unsurprising decision, President Trump won a legal fight over who gets to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (at least for now).
As Bloomberg reports, Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney can remain as temporary head of the agency, a federal judge ruled in rejecting a request to block the move fromLeandra English, who was named to the role by the departing director.
There was something different about today's ballistic missile test: according to a preliminary analysis from the Pentagon, the rocket was an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, which was reported to have flown for 50 minutes, on a very high trajectory reaching 4,500 km above the earth (more than ten times higher than the orbit of Nasa’s International Space Station) before coming down nearly 1,000 km from the launch site off the west coast of Japan.
Update 1: Following the cancellation of what was supposed to be a bipartisan meeting at the White House to discuss the budget and tax reform, President Trump just wrapped up a brief press briefing that touched on everything from his spat with "Chuck and Nancy" to North Korea's latest missile launch.
On tax reform, Trump predicted that "adjustments" will be required to get a bill through the Senate:
*TRUMP SAYS NOT SURPRISED SCHUMER, PELOSI SKIPPED MEETING
*TRUMP SAYS THERE WILL BE ADJUSTMENTS TO TAX LEGISLATION
Amid efforts to liberate the Iraq region from ISIS, the local army has discovered new details about how the terrorists operated, including their logistical infrastructure in stolen oil (which as a reminder was sold to Turkey in general and Erdogan in particular). A recently emerged video shows secret underground repositories of black gold, which the terrorists were presumably forced to create to hide their stolen wealth from the anti-terrorist coalition.