Reporter’s Notebook: How Trump’s Surprise Move on DNI Confirmation Upended Key Senate Deal on FISA

Reporter’s Notebook: How Trump’s surprise move on DNI confirmation upended key Senate deal on FISA

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! They didn’t know what to do. Just before 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, President Trump blindsided everyone in the U.S. Senate. In a post on Truth Social, the president declared he was “cancelling the Senate hearing” for his Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton. Moreover, the President said he would withhold Clayton’s nomination from “going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. …

Reporter's Notebook: How Trump's surprise move on DNI confirmation upended key Senate deal on FISA

President Trump blocked DNI nominee Jay Clayton from testifying at his Senate confirmation hearing, demanding Jamie McDonald first be approved as U.S. Attorney.