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A former GOP congressman who voted to impeach then-President Bill Clinton in 1998 has hit out at what he labeled theDonald Trumpshow.

On Monday, former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) told CNN International host Christiane Amanpourthat the current presidents situation involving the investigations into his associates alleged ties to Russia ismuch more serious than the scandal that ended up engulfing Clintons administration.

Inglis made his comments after Amanpour played out an interview from 1998 in which he explained just why Clinton should be impeached.

There are issues around the world that require American leadership, Inglis said in the archive clip. The leader of the free world needs moral authority. And weve got a president who is sorely lacking in that regard.

Amanpour asked Inglis how he measured Clintons lack of moral authority in the run up to his impeachment with what Trump currently has or doesnt have.

Well, I guess that young guy you were just playing there apparently hadnt seen something called the Donald Trump show, said Inglis of his younger self, before adding that Trumps behavior is much more serious than anything we ever accused Bill Clinton of.

Inglis noted how Clintons impeachment involved perjury with the underlying matter being a sexual affair. Trumps situation, however, was something quite different.

Particularly when it gets into the Russia investigation and the firing of (former FBI Director) James Comey, he added. These are very serious matters.

Check out the full interview in the clip above.

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WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. would be delighted to help a terminally ill 10-month-old from the United Kingdom if we can.

His tweet was in reference to Charlie Gard, a baby who is set to be taken off life support after a battle in the courts between the hospital, which said there was nothing to be done to save him, and his parents, who want to take him to the U.S. for an experimental treatment. Gard has a rare genetic condition that has left him unable to breathe or move his arms or legs on his own, according to a United Kingdom Supreme Court decision in June.

White House spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferr said Trump offered to help after hearing about the situation.

Although the President himself has not spoken to the family, he does not want to pressure them in any way, members of the administration have spoken to the family in calls facilitated by the British government, she said in a statement Monday afternoon. The President is just trying to be helpful if at all possible.

Last Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights upheld previous court rulings to allow the hospital to discontinue life support, citing United Kingdom domestic courts conclusion that it was likely that Charlie would suffer significant harm if his present suffering was prolonged without any realistic prospect of improvement, and the experimental therapy would be of no effective benefit.

Gards parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, posted on Facebook afterward that they were utterly heartbroken and that they and Charlie had been massively let down throughout this whole process.

Pope Francis weighed in on the case on Sunday, siding with Gards parents. The Vatican issued a statement that the pope prays that their wish to accompany and treat their child until the end isnt neglected.

Gards parents are still fighting to take their son home from the hospital to die. They said last week that doctors had planned to take Gard off life support on Friday but it had been postponed.

Together with Charlies parents we are putting plans in place for his care, and to give them more time together as a family, a spokesman for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust told The Washington Post. We would ask you to give the family and our staff some space and privacy at this distressing time.

This article has been updated with a statement from a White House spokeswoman.

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Donald Trump Tweets US 'Would Be Delighted' To Help Terminally Ill UK Infant - HuffPost

The video of President Donald Trump wrestling a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head -- tweeted out by Trump over the weekend -- did not come from the website Reddit, the White House said on Monday.

The video was not pulled from Reddit, a White House official told ABC News. The official decline to respond to further requests seeking an explanation for where the president obtained the clip.

the edited Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) video on Sunday morning, which has him pummelling a person with a CNN logo superimposed over his head. That moment was originally from a 2007 WWE match in which Trump appeared at the performance and body slammed WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

While the White House denies that Trump sourced the video from Reddit, a user on the site whose handle is a Star Wars characters name interjected with an expletive -- Han-------Solo -- has repeatedly claimed credit for it.

The GIF posted on Reddit is not exactly the same as what Trump tweeted -- the video on Trump's Twitter account includes sound, and a "Fake News Network" logo at the end of the video.

The Reddit user posted on the discussion website that the video is recognizable by the way the GIF matches the movements and the original logo, but also knows someone else added sound to it. The user said on the site that he posted the original video on a popular subreddit dubbed The_Donald, where Trump supporters converge, on June 28.

Brian Stelter, the host of CNNs Reliable Sources, tweeted out CNNs official response to Trumps tweet on Sunday, saying we will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his. The response also critiqued Trump for involving himself in juvenile behavior beneath the dignity of his office rather than focusing on his overseas trips, North Korea and the health care bill.

CNNs communications team hit back on Trumps Twitter thread directly, responding to the video with a quote from Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, where she defend the presidents criticisms of Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from last week.

"The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary, the team tweeted out, adding that the quote was from Sanders on June 29.

Members of Congress were quick to slam Trump for his tweet on Sunday, while stressing the importance of press freedom.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-CA, tweeted out, The First Amendment & freedom of the press are critical to our democracy. The latest attack from the WH undermines our values.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the press the guardians of our democracy and added that Violence & violent imagery to bully the press must be rejected.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-N.E., appeared on CNN on Sunday, warning that there is an important distinction between bad stories and crappy coverage and trying to weaponize distrust.

Meanwhile, some Republican members of Congress and White House officials focused on attacking the press.

John Shimkus, R-Illinois, tweeted that headlines will always favor scandal over substance and conflict over compromise, and added that plenty of bipartisan work was being done. House Speaker Paul Ryan retweeted Shimkus tweet on Monday.

Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway, who said the president had the right to fight back amid last weeks Morning Joe controversy, remained quiet about the CNN video, but tweeted on Monday, Yet, lately role of the media has been to retract false stories & fire liars. "Truth" = patriotic vets died so you can talk nonsense.

Trump has for years had a hostile relationship with CNN, often calling the network fake news with phony stories and garbage journalism.

The president also tweeted out that he was thinking of changing Fake News CNN to Fraud News CNN on July 1.

ABC News Alexander Mallin and Arlette Saenz contributed to this report.

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Trump didn't obtain CNN wrestling video from Reddit, White House says - ABC News

As of the Fourth of July, 2017, President Trump will have been a Twitter user for nearly 12 percent of his life, joining in 2009 at the age of 62 and continuing on to this very day. For 1out of every 9days hes been alive, Trump has been on Twitter.

The net effect of this is that we have a reasonably good record of the past eight years of Trumps life, a period spanning most of President Barack Obamas two terms and intoTrumps own. Its a public record unlike that of any other president, its safe to say, and its one that can show us how Donald Trump the businessman evolved into Donald Trump, the aggressively confrontational politician.

Consider the Fourth of July. Our tool Trumphop retweets old Trump tweets on the same day and time as they were originally sent. We noticed, as the Fourth approached, that Trumps tweets related to the holiday have had a noticeably different tone in recent years than in years past.

Below, Trumps Fourth of July-related tweets from each year and a sample of the other issues he chose to highlight on the anniversary of our nations independence.

The first three years of Trumps Independence Day tweets were straightforward. The 2009 iteration included a clumsy signature, but this was while Twitter was still young and people did such things.

By 2011, Trump was already engaged in politics, having considered and then skipped a run for the presidency. This was after he challenged Obama to present a birth certificate to prove that he was born in the United States which Obama did shortly before roasting Trump at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. Yet that didnt come through inTrumps July 4 tweet.

It did the next year, when Trump decided to make a birth certificate joke.

This is the new era of Trump, recognizing and reveling in the feedback that his more outrageous Twitter behavior could provide.

As the holiday approached, Trump weighed in on the presidential election, having endorsed Republican Mitt Romney during the primary.

While not on the Fourth itself, this tweet is worth a mention: the politically motivated I predicted it tweet.

In 2013, Trump spent the Fourth celebrating a legal victory.

He also retweeted a vulgar response to the settlement.

Original tweet.

He fought back with someone who was critical of him. (That original tweet included the same vulgarity as the one above.)

He also, for some reason, decided to focus on his attitudes about sharks.

He didnt tweet anything about the holiday itself.

He did in 2014.

By 2015, he was officially a candidate for the presidency. In keeping with that, he tweeted a fairly anodyne celebration of the day, tacking on his campaign slogan.

He couldnt resist, though, digging into the political moment.

Praise for his candidacy earned a retweet.

Macys, which ended its business relationship with Trump afterhe made negative comments about immigrants from Mexico at his campaign launch, earned Trumps ire.

As did his critic Romney.

By this point last year, Trump had earned enough delegates to clinch the nomination at the Republican National Convention, a few weeks after the Fourth.

He celebrated the holiday with a professionally designed image and video.

He then quickly reverted to his campaign persona, disparaging rivalHillary Clinton and Obama as fools and the former as guilty.

He also spent part of the day rebutting the controversy of the moment. On July 2 precisely one year before he stirred up controversy by plucking an animation from theInternet that showed him wrestling with CNN Trump tweeted an image his team had found online picturingClinton over a pile of dollar bills, with Most Corrupt Candidate printed over a six-pointed star. The image, quickly altered to replace the star with a circle, was widely criticized for being tacitly anti-Semitic.

So at 9:42 a.m. on Independence Day, candidate Trump defended his previous tweet by disparaging the media.

Its a far cry from the simple message he offered in 2009. But, since then, Trumps public persona is similarly a far cry from what it was then.

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The evolution of Donald Trump, as seen in his Fourth of July tweets - Washington Post

This story was updated on Monday, July 3 at 12:53pm.

Charlie Gard was born with a rare genetic condition and has suffered from brain damage and loss of muscle function. After British doctors advised his parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, that they should end life support for the terminally ill 10-month-old, they raised nearly 2 million dollars to transfer Charlie to the U.S. for experimental treatment. But three separate British courts intervened, siding with medical specialists who said that further prolonging treatment would cause the baby significant harm. In June, the European Court of Human Rights weighed in on the parents final appeal. They lost. Charlie would be taken off of life support.

Since then, the global reaction has been chaotic, with leaders from the pope to the president of the United States weighing in on the case.

First, the Vaticans Pontifical Academy for Life issued a statement, seeming to side with the European courts. We must also accept the limits of medicine and avoid aggressive medical procedures that are disproportionate to any expected results or excessively burdensome to the patient or the family, wrote Vincenzo Paglia, the bodys president. While people should never deliberately end a human life, he added, sometimes we ... have to recognize the limitations of what can be done.

Then the pope weighed inand said almost exactly the opposite. Francis is following with affection and sadness the case of little Charlie Gard and expresses his closeness to his parents, a Vatican press office statement said. For this he prays that their wish to accompany and treat their child until the end is not neglected.

On Monday, President Trump added his support with a tweet supporting Charlie and his family.

Charlies case touches on some of the most sensitive moral and political questions about the role of the state at the end of life. The decisions of the European courts represented the final word on whether Charlies parents could pursue treatment in the U.S., and after the ruling, Yates and Gard claimed the hospital had denied permission for them to take Charlie back to their home to die. Yates and Gard have framed the medical dispute as Charlies fight, developing a large social-media following as they chronicled their effort to pursue further treatment for their son. The case also has religious dimensions: On their instagram page, Yates and Gard documented their celebration of their sons baptism and showed him clutching a pendant of St. Jude, the Catholic figure most often associated with hospitals and medical care. Media in the U.K. have followed the Gard familys case closely and the court orders to end Charlies life have been fiercely criticized by conservatives in the U.S. and abroad.

With the Church weighing in, the case took on a whole new dimension. The competing statements seemed to reveal an internal dispute over end-of-life issues within the Vatican. But they also teed up Trumps intervention. Religious conservatives in the U.S. were outraged over the Pontifical Academy for Lifes original statement: Besides being patronizing, the Vaticans statement is a gross distortion of the situation, wrote Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review. It portrays the Gards as acting alongside the doctors, but subject to outside manipulation. The Gards are resisting the doctors. The Gards are not facing their decisions. They are facing authorities that have overridden them.

Trump, who has consistently expressed his verbal support for religious freedom, has now stepped in, cementing the issue as an international cause for conservatives. Upon learning of baby Charlie Gard's situation, President Trump has offered to help the family in this heartbreaking situation, the White House said in a statement issued on Monday afternoon. Although the President himself has not spoken to the family, he does not want to pressure them in any way, members of the administration have spoken to the family in calls facilitated by the British government. The President is just trying to be helpful if at all possible.

Its not clear how the presidents statement would change the Gard familys situation: They already had the money for Charlies treatment and had sought to bring him to the U.S. The American president cant change the way European courts work, or annul their authority. But Trump has marked a difference in orientation between at least one part of Europe and the United States. While the high courts of Europe have asserted their authority and doctors right to decide when and how Charlie dies, the president of the United States has decided he will champion the familys choice to decideno matter whether or not he actually has the ability to intervene in one British babys life.

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Donald Trump Offers to Help Charlie Gard - The Atlantic