Jay Clayton’s nomination hearing canceled after Trump directs him not to appear – US politics live

Tom Cotton, chair of committee tasked with confirming Trump’s national intelligence pick, earlier said hearing would go ahead after Trump derailed confirmation processTrump derails confirmation process for Jay Clayton as US intelligence chiefSign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump also denied (again) that the memorandum of understanding includes a $300bn fund for Iran, and denied that he had asked the Gulf states to commit funding.“It’s false,” Trump told reporters as he sat alongside Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. “You can invest if you want. What am I going to do, say no one is ever allowed to invest? We’re not investing, we’re not putting up 10 cents and people can decide to do it. That’s up to them.”In short, what it does is it opens the strait of Hormuz immediatel