CBS News March 15, 2018, 2:35 PM
How to watch today’s White House press briefing live:
- Date: Thursday, March 15, 2018
- Time: 2:30 p.m. ET
- Who: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Online: Watch live stream on CBSN, or in the player above
Potential briefing topics:
- Staffing shakeups: White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, and and up to three Cabinet secretaries could be on the brink of the end to their White House careers, CBS News’ Major Garrett reports;
- Andrew McCabe: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose firing has been recommended and is under review by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is meeting with Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools on Thursday, as a part of Sessions’ review, CBS News’ Paula Reid reports;
- New Russia sanctions: The Treasury Department announced new sanctions against Russian persons and entities the U.S. government believes helped interfere in 2016 U.S. elections Thursday;
- Irish visit: Mr. Trump met with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Thursday. In that meeting, the president said that “It looks like the Russians were behind” a recent chemical attack on Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter;
- Military space force: Mr. Trump suggested Thursday that creating a military space force would be a positive move for U.S. defense strategy.
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