During an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) revealed that he sent a letter to the FBI after he found out about Jeff Sessions unreported contact with Russian ambassador.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is warning that if Attorney General Jeff Sessions did have more meetings with the Russian ambassador that he didn’t disclose, then Sessions committed big time perjury.
Regardless of the motivations behind the latest Trump move, it’s clear the Russians are getting exactly what they had hoped for by helping this president win the White House in 2016.
Republicans say they are just two months away from getting enough votes to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
If he had a third meeting with Kislyak last year, as the new reporting suggests, it would be not the first or second time the attorney general lied about his meetings Russian officials – it would be the third.
The fact that there is widespread disagreement and confusion in the White House surrounding the Paris climate accord could signal that Trump may back away from his promise to “cancel” the agreement.
The House Intelligence Committee will issue subpoenas for Mike Flynn, and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen as the daily drip of Russia scandal news drowns Trump.
As the nation tries to figure out Trump meant when he tweeted covfefe, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed that it was code word understood by Trump and a few people.
Hundreds of enraged constituents showed up Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) Louisiana town hall to make their opposition to Trumpcare known in this red state.
FBI Director James Comey will testify publicly next week that Donald Trump used the presidency to try to pressure the former FBI director into ending the investigation into Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
According to a new Monmouth University poll, the American people believe that Donald Trump is his own worst spokesperson, and the President does more to hurt his own cause than anyone else. In other words, America would like Trump to shut the hell up.
The stock market slowly realizes that the tax cuts Trump promised aren’t coming anytime soon, while his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Change agreement has given stocks more reason to drop.
For the first time, The Rachel Maddow Show was the most watched program on cable news for an entire month, as Maddow beat both CNN and Fox News in total viewers in May.
A leaked draft of regulation that the Trump administration is considering would allow any employer to refuse to cover birth control for women.
The Russia scandal is big, but among the growing number of voters who favor impeaching Trump in the Politico/Morning Consult poll, the reason they want the President removed from office isn’t crimes, but that he is unfit to occupy the Oval Office.
Despite being told by his own lawyers not to tweet about the Russia scandal, Donald Trump fired off an enraged tweet about Carter Page after watching a segment on Fox and Friends, which proves that America has a president who is being guided by a news network that fakes and scripts its segments.
Trump is making a move that clearly panders to his base of voters, but it’s a move that will hurt millions of women in America and make abortion more frequent.
Not only did the Russians successfully interfere in last year’s presidential election to help Trump become president, but now they are successfully shaping U.S. policy in their favor.
Flynn needs to hand over every last shred of paperwork relevant to this probe, not hand over a few to give off the impression that he is being transparent.
House Oversight Committee Democrats have sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and a letter to National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers requesting all documents notes and conversations with Donald Trump. The Democrats are investigating whether Trump tried to obstruct the Russia investigation.
Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, has announced that he will not be participating in the congressional investigation of the Russia scandal, which means that the Trump team is pulling out all of the stops to deny investigators the information that they are looking for.
In his first daily press briefing since Trump returned from his foreign adventure, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused to the answer the question when he was asked if Donald Trump knew about Jared Kushner’s communications with Russia.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was so afraid of a group of protesters that he hid on the roof of his district office instead of listening to his constituents.
The Russia scandal is getting very personal for Trump as Congressional investigators are demanding that his lawyer Michael Cohen turn over documents related to the Russia investigation.
While giving the commencement address at Brooklyn College, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got Trump and the Republican Party booed for their plans to cut assistance programs and throw 23 million people off health care while slashing taxes for the wealthiest Americans.
Since his unpopular health care and tax cut ideas are unlikely to pass the Senate, a tantruming President Trump is demanding that Senate Republicans kill the legislative filibuster.
US intelligence has intercepted Russian communications that indicate their belief that members of Trump’s inner circle have been financially compromised. If true, this would suggest why Trump and those closest to him have refused to release tax returns and other financial information.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has called for an investigation into “potentially fraudulent statements and misrepresentations” made by companies promoting investment in a property development involving the family company of White House advisor Jared Kushner.
Years before he captained the torpedo boat PT-109, ran for office or set the United States on a path to put a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy was a troublesome teen whose hijinks nearly got him kicked out of his prestigious boarding school.
Aside from relying on fake math, the Trump budget is an assault every American who isn’t in Trump’s tax bracket.
Kellyanne Conway has not only vanished from public view, but she was also locked out of Trump’s Memorial Day motorcade.
The White House’s public claims that the Russia scandal is no big deal are completely different from what is going on behind the scenes as the West Wing is growing increasingly paranoid while Trump is getting obsessed with the Russia scandal.
French President Macron came away from his meeting with Donald Trump unimpressed as he compared his handshake with Trump to a moment of truth with authoritarian dictators.
In the case of our country’s budget, the allocation of funds into particular policies and programs reflects the priorities and principles of the people who propose and defend it.
This Memorial Day weekend is about paying tribute to the men and women who fought our wars. They deserve honor and respect that shouldn’t be limited to one day.
Jared Kushner seems to think that the spotlight on his potential crimes will go away if he goes back home to New York.
Former Fox News contributor Tobin Smith is exposing Fox News as a scam that is designed to manipulate and fool viewers through panel discussions that are rigged and scripted so that conservatives always win.
Merkel’s warning that the US can no longer be depended on is evidence that Trump’s first foreign trip was a complete disaster for the United States.
Trump lost the most from his strong approval ratings due to the Republican health care bill, falling considerably when Republicans introduced Trumpcare V 1 and again in May after Trumpcare V 2 and the firing of Comey.
Chuck Todd interviewed former DNI James Clapper on Meet The Press, and the picture that was painted did major damage to the Trump White House’s version of the Russia scandal.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, put the pieces together and ripped apart the White House’s defense Jared Kushner’s secret communications with Russia during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
The embattled President of the United States is back in town, and just as angry and resentful as before he lost his phone privileges.
The suit, filed by Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, sought damages from Hillary Clinton for claims that resemble the talking points Republicans used to keep the fake Benghazi scandal alive.
A man fatally stabbed two people aboard a Portland, Oregon, commuter train when they tried to stop him from harassing two women who appeared to be Muslim, police said.
White House officials Gary Cohn and H.R. McMaster refused to comment on reports that Jared Kushner had unreported meetings with the Russians and tried to establish a back channel to Putin that couldn’t be detected by US intelligence.
Here is a picture of just how much Trump is weakening the image of the United States. While the leaders of Italy, Japan, Canada, France, Germany and the UK walked together down the streets of Taormina, Trump led from behind in a golf cart.
If the Russians wanted to influence Trump, Kushner would be one of the top people they would use – and it appears Kushner had no problem offering his assistance.
Trump administration officials all but admitted that the President was too tired to hold a press conference, by offering up a series of lame excuses for why he has taken no questions from the press during his first foreign trip.
Deciding whether to protect the environment or uphold some empty campaign rhetoric is a no-brainer for everybody but Donald Trump.
“What did he intend to transmit through Russia’s secure cryptographic systems to communicate with Vladimir Putin? The presidential daily briefing? The nuclear codes?”
The White House appears to have gone into full bunker mentality mode over the Russia scandal by canceling a scheduled Trump rally in Iowa next week.
Jared Kushner’s lawyer issued a statement that didn’t deny that the President’s son in law and senior adviser may have committed treason by engaging in unreported contacts with Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.
The news continues to be bad for Fox: ratings keep sliding into the porcelain dumper with each Nielsen score. Are people tired of the lies?
Conservatives are putting their “law and order” bumper stickers in grave jeopardy by praising the violence of Greg Gianforte, who won a seat in the U.S. Congress after assaulting a reporter. They have made “body-slam” into their new “reload”, and elevated this alleged violent assault into a Clint Eastwood type of vigilante justice well deserved.
The Senate Intelligence Committee appears to be closing in on Donald Trump as they have requested all communications documents going back to the launch of his presidential campaign.
It is being reported that Jared Kushner requested a secret communications channel with the Kremlin. If this report is true, it would be the most direct proof of Trump collusion with Russia.
Here is a video of a moment where a vacant-eyed Trump wandered off from a meeting with Netanyahu and had to be brought back by staff. The President Of The United States looks like the lights are on, but no one is home.
The White House is worried that Trump’s tweeting could put the president in legal jeopardy so they are creating a plan to run all of his tweets through a team of lawyers before they can be published.
By establishing a war room to fight the Russia collusion investigation, the Trump White House is all but admitting their guilt.
President Donald Trump’s White House is preparing to establish a ‘war room’ to combat mounting questions about ties between Russia and his presidential campaign, administration officials and persons close to Trump said, addressing a scandal that has threatened to consume his young presidency.
While giving the commencement address at Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton compared her time as Wellesley student to 2017 and in the process brought up impeachment by bringing up Nixon and talking about life in the era of Trump.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is still in charge of the House Intelligence Committee’s ability to issue subpoenas in the Russia investigation, which means that the White House still someone in a position to interfere with the investigation.
Some Republicans can see the reality behind the rhetoric and are blaming Trump Greg Gianforte’s violent assault of a reporter.
The White House’s real position on bringing back coal jobs was revealed after Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn made it clear in a meeting with reporters that coal isn’t even good feedstock anymore, and the future of American energy is in natural gas, solar, and wind.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said that his friend Donald Trump’s time in office so far has been a complete disaster.
In a disgraceful message to the Muslims of the world, Donald Trump marked Ramadan by fear mongering about terrorism.
A new Quinnipiac University poll revealed that passing a bill that raised the cost of health care and took away coverage from millions has made Speaker Paul Ryan the most disliked leader in Congress.
Rob Quist didn’t win, but here are five big reasons for Democrats to be happy after the Montana special House election.
Yes, the Republicans have yet another problem with their budget. That two trillion dollar error of counting it twice? It probably doesn’t even exist in the first place.
Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders of the world’s rich nations at the G7 summit on Friday were expected to be “robust” and “challenging” after he had lambasted NATO allies and condemned German trade policies a day earlier.
Republican Greg Gianfonte has been declared the projected winner of the special House election in Montana.
There are still many unanswered questions, but one thing is clear: Russia’s attempt to turn Trump into their puppet has been a wild success.
Under the GOP health care plan, millions of low-income children would be at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage.
In a 10-3 ruling the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling to block a key feature of Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban. The judges questions and comments when it heard the case made it clear this day was coming. The government tried to persuade the court that it shouldn’t consider Trump’s campaign statements at all….
The investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia continues to move closer to the president as Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is now under new scrutiny by the FBI.
During a meeting with the EU in Brussels, Donald Trump threw a tantrum and began complaining about Germany, during which he was quoted as calling the Germans, “very very bad.”
After a closer than expected special election for a House seat in Kansas, and the Democrat in a tight special election race in Georgia, Republicans are warning that their party will begin to panic if Democrat Rob Quist wins the special election in Montana.
French President Emmanuel Macron blew off Donald Trump and greeted Angela Merkel first. This resulted in Trump trying to separate the French president’s arm from his body.
Trump has turned the US presidency into such a joke that NATO leaders were laughing at him during his speech.
A new report confirms that Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Thursday morning the DCCC’s Independent Expenditure released a new round of digital ads with audio from Republican Greg Gianforte’s violent assault on a Guardian reporter.
Republican Representative Mark Sanford (of the Appalachian Trail) (R-SC) was the first elected Republican to my knowledge who had the courage to call out Gianforte’s assault of a reporter as part of the Age of Trump.
President Donald Trump shoved Dusko Markovic, the prime minister of Montenegro out of the way as he moved to the front of the group while visiting NATO headquarters.
The Republican Party is showing its true face after Montana House special election candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said it is not appropriate for reporters to attack public officials unless the reporter deserved it.
The Republican justification for assaulting Ben Jacobs included the dog whistle words, “liberal reporter” for a reason. The reason is that if the reporter was a liberal, it was okay. Not just okay, but justified.
This is why Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made Sen. Bernie Sanders the ranking member of the Budget Committee. Sanders took over the hearing with his first question and destroyed Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for criticized the CBO Director that a member of the administration hand picked.
Reporter assaulting Republican Montana House special election candidate Greg Gianforte canceled an interview scheduled for 5 PM today with NBC’s Chuck Todd as he is too much of a coward to face the press and answer for his actions.
The Missoulian and Billings Gazette both rescinded their endorsement of Republican candidate Greg Gianforte after he allegedly assaulted Ben Jacobs, a Guardian reporter who was asking him about the bad CBO score of Trumpcare Version 2.0.
Republican Montana House special election candidate was driven to assault Ben Jacobs because the reporter asked him a question about the CBO score for Trumpcare. The American Health Care Act is already such a burden to Republicans that it is driving them to acts of physical violence.
Praise may be in shorter supply in Brussels.
Trump questioned the relevance of the NATO military alliance as a presidential candidate, and is considering pulling the United States out of the Paris agreement on climate change – a huge concern in Europe.
Activist group MoveOn.org has announced a five-figure ad buy that will run through Election Day reminding voters that Republican Montana House special election candidate Greg Gianforte is unfit to serve after he assaulted a reporter.
Republican House special election Greg Gianforte isn’t in a Montana jail for assaulting a reporter tonight because the sheriff is a donor to his campaign.
Fox News reporters were filming a piece for the House special election in Montana when they witnessed Greg Gianforte assault journalist Ben Jacobs of The Guardian.
The case can already be made that Trump obstructed justice when he fired James Comey and when, according to several reports, he tried to persuade people in the intelligence community to tell the media there’s no collusion with Russia. As we know, obstruction of justice was the first of several charges leading to Nixon’s impeachment….
The Democrat said people shouldn’t be afraid to call out Trump for his contributions to this type of behavior.
Jeff Sessions can’t stop lying about his contacts with Russian officials during last year’s campaign.
The GOP candidate decided that assaulting a reporter was a smarter strategy than defending his support of the Republican health care plan.
The Russians tried to take advantage of the fact that Trump is easily influenced by those around him and has no core convictions.
Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out that if the American Health Care Act does not meet the requirement for the Senate HELP committee to save $1 billion, reconciliation can’t be used to pass the bill, and it will require 60 votes to get through the Senate.
