New video has emerged that seems to show a tense Oval Office meeting between Trump adviser Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump, and some of his top advisers.
The dramatic video, obtained by CNN, comes amid reports that Trump has grown extremely frustrated with his senior staff for their handling of the controversy surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions and two meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
There were several senior advisers present during the heated Oval Office meeting, including Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump.
“There were fireworks,” one source with knowledge of one of the meetings told Politico.
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Because the video was captured from outside the White House, it’s impossible to know exactly what President Trump and his advisers were discussing. However, CNN reported that Trump has accused his staff of “fumbling” the Sessions controversy.
The conservative Drudge Report described CNN’s footage as a “spy cam” on the Oval Office.
The president was reportedly very unhappy that Sessions moved to recuse himself from any potential investigation into the Trump campaign so quickly.
Sessions recused himself after he testified to Congress that he had no “communications” with Russian officials during, and regarding, the Trump presidential campaign. It soon surfaced that Sessions was in contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in 2016.
Sessions has since said he did not speak with the Russian official as a surrogate for the Trump campaign and has maintained that he did nothing wrong.
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