Prosecutors have discretion to low-ball charges as justice requires, and are ethically bound to do so. Sessions says to throw the book at suspects instead. This is bad for decent-minded prosecutors and corrodes public trust in government.
In a letter to Trump’s White House counsel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested that all tapes and correspondence between Trump and former FBI Director James Comey be turned over to congressional investigators.
Trump has gone so crazy that he is threatening to replace the White House daily briefing with twice a month press conferences run by himself.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) bluntly stated that Trump had caused a constitutional crisis and his possible ties to Russia and the Russian election interference was an act of treason.
Rep. Adam Schiff demanded that Trump turn over any secret recordings that he made in the White House to Congress, as the Russia scandal has taken another bad turn for Trump.
Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean dropped a profound truth when he stated that it is Trump, not Comey, who needs to worry about secret tapes.
Asked Friday at the White House briefing if President Trump was out of control, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer dismissed the question by calling it offensive.
The letter Trump mentioned on the air Thursday night about his interests in Russia was written by his attorney, from a firm that was recognized as “Russia Law Firm of the Year” in 2016, NBC Producer Frank Thorp noted.
The Trump lies are falling fast as former DNI James Clapper debunked Trump’s story of dinner with James Comey. According to Clapper, it was Trump who asked Comey to dinner, and Comey was reluctant to go, and this is important because it suggests that Trump’s true motive for the dinner was obstruction of justice.
Trump’s comments about and handling of James Comey’s firing has left the former director simmering as the FBI itself has resolved to get to the bottom of the Russia scandal.
There is yet another reason we need an independent special counsel to be in charge of the Trump Russia investigation.
Experts are making the case that Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice Rod Jay Rosenstein is now a witness to Donald Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice by demanding loyalty from fired FBI Director James Comey. As such, he can’t oversee the FBI investigation into Trump’s RussiaGate.
Donald Trump’s attorney made a big mistake on Friday when he claimed that the President Of The United States has no income from Russia, “with few exceptions.”
President Donald Trump tried to intimidate a witness Friday morning, tweeting, “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”
Donald Trump’s NBC interview appears to open him up to allegations listed in the charges of impeachment against Nixon, President Obama’s deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu pointed out early Friday morning. There are two specifically that Trump basically confessed to Thursday evening.
The firing appears to be the first step in Trump’s long-term goal of turning the FBI into an extension of his own political operation.
“We’re fiddling while Rome is burning. This president needs to be impeached. I believe that.”
The president admitted that “everybody” wonders why he’s president, and sometimes he is forced to look around and say, “Sorry, folks.”
“To anyone who may have been part of the plot? They’re (the FBI) going to find out and they (the people who colluded with Russia) are going to regret it,” counterterrorism analyst and intelligence expert Malcolm Nance said on MSNBC.
During his interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, President Donald Trump showed signs of mental instability when he claimed that the allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia are a made up plot by Democrats.
Sources inside the FBI are talking are they are saying that there is a lot of interfering going on with the Russia investigation.
What does a lawmaker do when a journalist asks a question they don’t like? In American, it used to be the question would be ignored or reframed, and the journalist would persist in getting an answer to the original question. It’s a dance that can, at times be frustrating for both partners, but a dance that is crucial to the America we know and most of us love. Never would asking a question result in a journalist’s arrest – no matter how many times the journalist would ask it and no matter how many times the lawmaker would dodge it.
A new NBC News/Survey Monkey poll shows that by nearly a 2 to 1 margin Americans believe that Trump fired Comey over Russia and not for any other reason.
Trump has canceled a visit to FBI headquarters after it was made clear that if the President showed up, he would not be warmly received.
According to Quinnipiac University, “Critical are big losses among white voters with no college degree, white men and independent voters.â€
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused Trump of obstructing justice by firing James Comey to interfere with the Russia investigation.
During an interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, Trump admitted that the reasoning his own White House gave for the firing of James Comey was a lie.
Things got real during a four hour long town hall for Republican Representative Tom MacArthur in New Jersey. A man whose wife had cancer but recovered from it took the microphone and refused to give it back until he told MacArthur, “You have been the single greatest threat to my family.”
Trump is signing an executive order which is designed to justify his false claims of voter fraud, but his executive order has another purpose, and that is to lay the groundwork for stealing the 2020 election.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe directly contradicted the White House when he said that Comey maintained broad support within the FBI.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had a message for those who are trying to obstruct the Russia investigation that the FBI can’t be stopped from doing the right thing and protecting the American people and the Constitution.
“Watch them start to choke like dogs,” President Trump is reported saying in a Time exclusive, speaking of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the now fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
Republicans will do anything to avoid a real Russia investigation. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has come up with a reason to get rid of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is the acting director after President Trump fired James Comey, citing “political problems.”
“The president has to go overboard in appointing someone as the new FBI director that the Democrats are comfortable with so we can put this issue behind us.”
“This is what I call a Paul Revere moment. … The Russians are attacking our country and they will come again.”
If Republicans can’t put democracy first, they must step aside and let an independent commission do what they’re too cowardly to do.
An official timeline of Trump’s firing of Comey sent to PoliticusUSA from the White House left out the moment that now fired FBI Director James Comey asked for more resources for his accelerated Russia Trump investigation.
The bipartisan move by the Senate Intelligence Committee to force Flynn to hand over all records related to Russia suggests that they are unfazed by Trump’s firing of James Comey.
Republicans are openly worried that when Trump fired James Comey, he also blew up the Republican agenda for the rest of the year.
It is being reported that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey because he refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump and he accelerated the Russia investigation. If Trump fired Comey for investigating the Russia scandal, the president has committed an impeachable offense.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is trying to dodge the crisis that Trump created by refusing to answer questions about the firing of James Comey.
If firing James Comey was Trump’s big move to make the Russia scandal go away, it has horribly backfired, as Comey has been asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify next Tuesday.
A Republican close to Trump admitted that the President is isolated and avoiding public appearance because he can’t handle the reality of governing and criticism from the media.
When asked about President Trump firing the man who is investigating him for possible collusion with a hostile foreign government, Mitch McConnell said he won’t talk about Comey beyond what he said on the floor.
Trump’s move to fire James Comey could already be backfiring after some Senate Republicans are so troubled by Trump’s actions that they are now considering a special prosecutor to investigate the President Of The United States.
Three Republicans joined with Senate Democrats in voting not to move a bill forward that would have repealed an Obama regulation limiting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.
The wrath of voters was visible at the same sort of townhall meetings Republicans used to gin up anger over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
“While investigations typically continue after a FBI director steps down, a director who is sympathetic or friendly to Trump could easily drag out the FBI probe.”
The Trump administration was so desperate to fire the FBI director that they used Clinton campaign material to justify it.
“There’s nobody left in America who believes that Donald Trump fired James Comey … because James Comey was mean to Hillary Clinton.”
The calls are getting louder in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey for Democrats to block Trump’s nominee to be the next FBI Director until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate Trump and Russia.
“This investigation must be run as far away as possible from this White House and as far away as possible from anyone that President Trump has appointed.”
Schiff went on slam Trump and Sessions for their conflicts of interest in firing Comey, comparing the act to “a similarly tainted decision by President Nixon.”
In his statement on the firing of James Comey, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made the argument no Trump picked FBI Director can be trusted to objectively carry out the Russia Investigation.
Why is Sessions involved in this decision if he has supposedly recused himself from all things related to Russia?
Donald Trump blew a kiss to FBI Director James Comey on January 22, and then Comey crossed the room and the two had a bro-brace that looked like they might burst into song together. Trump loved Comey on January 22, which is long after Comey mishandled Clinton’s emails.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) called Trump’s firing of James Comey Nixonian and demanded an independent investigation into Trump and Russia to uphold our nation’s system of justice.
“THE #TRUMPRUSSIA COVER UP IS OFFICIALLY IN EFFECT,” Malcolm Nance declared over a New York Times story about Trump firing the FBI Director who was investigating Trump for his ties to Russia.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) is warning that US democracy is in danger and calling for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to appoint a bipartisan commission to investigate Trump and Russia after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
The firing of James Comey by two of the central figures in the Russia investigation smells rotten at every level as the White House may have taken desperate measures to stop the FBI investigation.
As Paul Ryan was leaving Success Academy charter school in Harlem Tuesday afternoon, he got loudly and angrily booed and people chanted, “Healthcare for all not just Paul!â€
There were also “F*ck you!” chants, and there were a lot of them.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced at his daily briefing the latest Trump scheme to try to make the Russia scandal go away, and it involves sending a certified letter to the Senate proclaiming that he has no business dealings with Russia.
Paul Ryan was greeted by protesters shouting “Shame!” and carrying signs reading, among other things, “Healthcare is a human right!”
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom wrote in the Constitution that we had to worry about foreign interference,” Schumer warned on the Senate floor. “It’s happening now in a way that it has never happened before.”
The testimony that Sally Yates and James Clapper gave to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism dealt a fatal blow to the White House’s claims that the Russia story is fake news.
“Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Ca.), facing angry constituents at town hall, calls GOP health care bill ‘bipartisan..both parties working together’,†even though not a single Democrat voted for it.
The ACLU has issued a travel alert warning Americans that they can anticipate having their constitutional rights violated if they travel to Texas.
The ad could work because it clearly lays out the Big Lie revealed in Trumpcare; Donald Trump isn’t a populist who’s going to take care of people. He’s just another greedy, selfish Republican who lied to the people in order to get what he wanted — tax cuts for the rich.
This is how you spell personal accountability. It took 18 days for the Trump White House to get rid of retired General Mike Flynn after they were told that he was being dishonest about his conversations with Russian officials.
The Trump White House is so worried about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) running for president in 2020 that they are monitoring Warren’s criticisms of Trump and treating her like an opposition candidate.
ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel made Republicans look even worse on health care with a sarcastic response to conservative criticism of his call for kids to have health care.
While Republicans are banking on their repeal efforts to excite the base of their party, it’s becoming clear that they are in over their heads.
It is being reported that FBI Director James Comey made inaccurate statements to Congress last week as he falsely stated the number and frequency of Clinton emails that were forwarded to Anthony Weiner.
Maddow said Trump’s move to distract from the Sally Yates hearing was the most “cynical” thing she has seen in politics in “many, many years.”
“The White House should be going through a full lifestyle polygraph to determine was Michael Flynn just an individual liar or did he have accomplices?”
Not only did Yates best the White House and its GOP allies on the facts, but she also destroyed them on the optics, which may be even more important to the former reality star president.
While the stolen seat on the Supreme Court got the most press coverage, Republicans stole over 120 seats on Federal Courts since 2015. Now Trump is set to nominate 10 people chosen by the Federalist Society to start filling those seats.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got his head handed to him by Sally Yates during the first round of questioning, so he didn’t bother to show up for round two.
During the Sally Yates hearing on Monday, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz tried to best Sally Yates with the law, only to be humiliated by her legal knowledge.
Malcolm Nance highlighted Sally Yates testifying that the Russians have their own transcript of Flynn call and can blackmail the Trump White House if they lie.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is asking whether Donald Trump committed a federal crime by engaging in witness tampering with a tweet about Sally Yates. If Trump was convicted of witness tampering, he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
Sen. Lindsey Graham came right out of the gate with a false statement at the hearing where Sally Yates is testifying about the Mike Flynn/Russia scandal. Graham said that the joint intelligence report found no collusion between Trump and Russia. This was a false statement.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told CNN that House investigators had uncovered power classified evidence of Trump, his family, his businesses, and his campaign’s deep personal, financial, and political ties to Russia.
Things are getting desperate up in the Trump White House, as the President’s official Twitter account has just accused Sally Yates of leaking classified information.
While meeting with Donald Trump after the election, President Obama warned the then president-elect not to hire Mike Flynn, which means that Trump is ultimately responsible for Flynn’s potential crimes while serving as national security adviser.
Actress Tracee Ellis Ross told Waters, “And thank you for being an extraordinary example for all of us, especially in these times.â€
All but two states already have laws on the books that ban insurer providers from discriminating against rape and sexual abuse survivors.
“Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council.”
When told he was mandating the death of people on Medicaid Labrador claimed “That line is so indefensible.’ What is indefensible is Trumpcare.
It is particularly noteworthy to mention that while then-Senator Jeff Sessions blatantly committed perjury under oath before the Senate, he did so with impunity and protection of his Republican cohorts. A woman who dared laugh faces prison time.
A continued assault on the poor and middle class…
The Trump White House is planning on running a smear campaign against Sally Yates while she testifies before Congress about the Trump/Russia scandal.
With fundraising and the number of potential candidates skyrocketing, House Democrats are vowing that no Republican seat is off the table as a fired up Democrats are preparing to cast a wide net in a nationwide 2018 challenge to Trump and the GOP.
Hillary Clinton called Macron’s victory in France a defeat for that interfering with democracy while taking a clear shot at the US media.
Sen. Bernie Sanders congratulated French voters for rejecting the xenophobia and racism of Marine Le Pen by electing Emmanuel Macron president.
CBS’s Face The Nation held a focus group of Pennsylvania voters and the message that Trumpcare is going to take away health care for people with pre-existing conditions has already penetrated the public discussions. Republicans and Trump are screwed because many voters have already linked them with taking away health care.
Trump’s thoughts on the French presidential election were just as bad and off base as his presidency has been. Trump predicted that a terror attack would help the far-right candidate in France, but Marine Le Pen lost by more than 30 points.
Donald Trump’s Budget Director Mick Mulvaney left the door open to Trump not signing a Republican-passed health care bill, as the president may try to save his own skin by dodging his own Trumpcare legislation.
Donald Trump spoke words of support the far right candidate, and Russia tried their email hacking tricks, but centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election with 65% of the vote and a 30 point victory over Marine Le Pen.
Dr. Atul Gawande a surgeon, Harvard professor, and author of more than 40 New York Times bestsellers explained why the American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) was a bad replacement for Obamacare. Dr. Gawande described Trumpcare as an Obamacare replacement that is not sane or credible.
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked a simple question on ABC’s This Week. Ryan was asked if he would guarantee that people would be better off under the Republican health care bill. His response was to never answer the question.
