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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Friday that President Trump should apologize to former President Obama ndash; and the American people ndash; for his unsubstantiated charge that Mr. Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the 2016 campaign. The Democratic leader spoke with Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson in an interview that will air Sunday.Pelosi commended Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who suggested Friday that Mr. Trump should apologize to his predecessor. Good for him. Good for him for saying that, she said.Itrsquo not just about this allegation that President Trump has made, Pelosi explained. Itrsquo about the frivoli stanley cup quencher ty of it all. I call him the Deflector-in-Chief. Hersquo;ll come up with anything to change the subject from something thatrsquo not going well for him...he comes up with these schemes, w stanley quencher hich are beneath the dignity - not only beneath the digni stanley cup ty of the office of the president, beneath the responsibility of the President of the United States to respect the office he serves in. Mr. Trump first leveled the accusation about wiretapping earlier this month: Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump March 4, 2017 In the weeks since, no evidence has emerged to back up the presidentrsquo claim. His Ovtf State Department s anti-Semitism office will soon be unstaffed
Looking to move swiftly beyond the Harriet Miers fiasco, President Bush on Monday announced his nomination of federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. With Alito at his side, Mr. Bush called him one of the most accomplished and respected judges in America, CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports. He understands that judges are to interpret the laws, not to impose their preferences or priorities on the people, said Mr. Bush, in a signal to conservatives who brought down the Mi stanley thermoskannen ers nomination. Alito himself said federal judges should always be keeping in mind the limited role the courts play in our vaso stanley judicial system. In an unspoken contrast to Miers, Mr. Bush said, Judge Alito has served with distinction on that court for 15 years, and now has more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years. Mr. Bush said he wanted Alito confirmed by year s end.Unlike Miers, stanley kubek whose nomination was derailed by Mr. Bush s conservative allies, Alito will face strong Democratic opposition. The Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people, said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada.The White House hopes the choice mends a rift in the Republican Party caused by the failed nomination of Miers, and puts Mr. Bush s embattled presidency on a path to political recovery. His approval rating in the polls has tumbled to the l |
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