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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has said he is "very, very disappointed" to hear that North Korea is rebuilding a missile site that Pyongyang has said will be closed amid ongoing denuclearisation negotiations.
Earlier, the president lashed out at a number of old enemies on Twitter, including Hillary Clinton, showing his growing frustration with House Democrats and the investigations surrounding him.
In those tweets, the president accused the Democrats of “playing games” by instigating “McCarthyite” congressional investigations against him rather than getting on with the business of government, refusing to hand over files related to his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s security clearance to the House Oversight Committee and indicating he might not co-operate with the House Judiciary Committee’s abuse of power investigation into his inner circle.
As the investigations into Mr Trump have swirled, a damning new poll has emerged suggesting two-thirds of American voters believe he committed a crime before his election.
On Tuesday, Mr Trump also walked back his decision to pull all US troops out of Syria, saying he now agreed “100 per cent” with keeping a military presence there.
Meanwhile, the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will return to Capitol Hill for a fourth day of testimony.
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Representative Rashida Tlaib has announced she plans on introducing legislation to start the impeachment process against Donald Trump.
"We saw record turnout in an election year, where people wanted to elect a jury that would begin the impeachment proceedings to Donald Trump," Ms Tlaib said during a press conference.
She continued: "We want to work on these economic justice issues, racial justice issues and everything. But guess what? There is a wall there, and a constitutional crisis that is not going to [let us] do our jobs as American Congress members to push a lot of these agendas forward."
In case you missed this news earlier: A new report on the state of the US economy has dealt a blow to Donald Trump's deficit reduction plan.
The deficit between the US and the rest of the world reached a 10-year-high last year, clocking in at $621bn (£472.5bn).
The president has justified big new tariffs on foreign trading partners by saying his goal is to reduce the deficit.
The Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi was just last week, even if it feels like much longer.
We've just reported that a major security firm has found groups connected to North Korea have been hacking western sources for 18 months — and they did not stop during the summit last week.
Here's our report:
Here's more on the fallout we have seen in the wake of the failed Trump-Kim summit last week.
North Korea is rebuilding a missile site they promised to scrap, according to reports. Here's our story:
Here is some of the latest the investigation into Jared Kushner's security clearance:
Donald Trump has responded to reports that North Korea is rebuilding a nuclear weapons facility, saying his is "very, very disappointed" in the development.
Here's our report on Democrats planning to try to impeach the president.
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