Kit Maher
@KitMaherCNN
Reporter, Writer @CNN White House | 2024 political embed on the trail
Rubio announces 10 Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way back to the U.S.
Thanks to @POTUS’s leadership, ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom. I want to thank my team at the @StateDep & especially President @nayibbukele for helping secure an agreement for the release of all of our American detainees, plus the…
President Trump walks outside the White House with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Monday night, captured by @JayMcMichaelCNN
The DC council has yet to approve the RFK Stadium deal with the @Commanders, meanwhile Trump is threatening restrictions on the deal if they don’t change their name back to the “Redskins.” cnn.com/2025/07/20/pol…
Calling Ghislaine Maxwell the "Rosetta Stone," who knows "everything," @AlanDersh says on Fox News Sunday: "I'm told that she actually would be willing to testify, and there'd be no reason for her to withhold any information."
NEWS: Trump administration completes large-scale prisoner swap w/ Venezuela. Abt 250 Venezuelans deported from US currently detained in El Salvador were sent back to home country in exchange for remaining American hostages in Venezuela, sources tell CNN. cnn.com/2025/07/18/pol…
Trump on Jerome Powell: “I think he's a total stiff. But the one thing I didn't see him as a guy that needed a palace to live in. You talk to the guy, it's like talking to nothing. It's like talking to a chair, no personality, no high intelligence, no nothing.”
Asked if he has confidence in deputy FBI director, President Trump answers, “I like Dan Bongino.”
TRUMP asked if Bondi has briefed him on Epstein and if she told him his name appears: “No, no, she’s given us just a very quick briefing, and in terms of the credibility of the different things that they’ve seen, I would say that these files were made up by Comey.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune signals that push for imminent Russia sanctions vote will wait until Trump gives go-ahead. Says bill will be ready “at a minute’s notice. And sounds like right now, the president’s going to attempt to do some of this on his own.”
A new White House statement seems to suggest Dan Bongino isn't resigning from the FBI. Officials were asking each other this morning whether he was expected to show up to work today. Reporting w/ @evanperez, @KristenhCNN and @PaulaReidCNN cnn.com/2025/07/14/pol…
A WH official tells me the president means he will impose "100% tariffs on Russia + secondary sanctions on other countries that buy oil from Russia" if a deal isn't struck in 50 days
Trump repeats again how "unhappy" he is with Russia and says his administration will impose "very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days" Says tariffs on Russia will be "at about 100%"
Via photographer @CTriballeau: President Donald Trump flashes a thumbs up to Attorney General Pam Bondi at today's FIFA Club World Cup in New Jersey.
Asked about Russia's strike on a Ukrainian maternity hospital, Trump said, "I know -- you'll be seeing things happening." In an interview in NBC yesterday, Trump teased "a major statement" Monday on Russia.
Trump tells me “no,” he’s not going to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell “I think it should be three points lower interest rate. He’s costing our country a lot of money. We should be number 1, and we’re not and that’s because of Jerome Powell.”
“If Canada works with me to stop the flow of Fentanyl, we will, perhaps, consider an adjustment to this letter. These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country,” Trump writes.
President Donald Trump threatened a 35% tariff on goods imported from Canada, a dramatic escalation in an on-again, off-again trade war with the country. cnn.it/3GDQBMT
Trump told NBC he struck a deal with NATO for the US to send weapons to Ukraine through the alliance, and that NATO will pay for those weapons “a hundred percent.” Rubio said earlier that US is “actively” talking to countries in Europe about sharing Patriot batteries w Ukraine.