A state parole board in Nevada convened on Thursday morning to consider O.J. Simpson’s bid for freedom after nine years in prison for a botched armed robbery of his own sports memorabilia in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Mitch McConnell just can’t stop losing, as the CBO found that 22 million people would still lose their health insurance under his revised Obamacare repeal and replace bill.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday brushed off sharp criticism from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, saying he loved his job and planned to continue serving.
United Auto Workers president Dennis Williams said on Thursday he feels “very strongly” that if Nissan Motor Co Ltd workers at the automaker’s plant in Canton, Mississippi voted now, they would vote in favor of union representation.
Not only did Congressional Republicans not have a plan with which to replace Obamacare, but neither did Donald Trump.
About one in eight people who voted for President Donald Trump said they are not sure they would do so again after witnessing Trump’s tumultuous first six months in office, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2016 voters.
Both the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller are looking at the financial transactions between the Trump family, Trump associates, and Russians for potential money laundering.
Donald Trump trashed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not protecting him from the Russia investigation and hinted that he would fire special counsel Robert Mueller if he tries to investigate Trump or his families finances.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jackie Speer (D-CA) said that she believes meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and the Russians were the tip of the iceberg. Investigators are digging deeper and asking questions about Trump Jr.’s interactions with Russia.
Trump is so weak that a Republican Senator bluntly said that Trump doesn’t scare anyone, not even Senate pages.
The former president reminded us of that, sometimes, we should put politics aside. In doing so, Obama made the country miss him even more than we already did.
“Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned that investigators would cross a red line if they delve into Trump family finances…”
According to CNN, the cancer is the same kind the late Sen. Ted Kennedy had.
“If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”
“This affinity for Russia is a very curious thing,” Clapper said. “Bear in mind, Russia is an existential threat to this country.”
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.
A new Fox News poll has Trump losing support among Republicans (-3), white men (-9), and working class whites (-11), which means that Trump’s small base of support is continuing to shrink.
Paul Manafort and Donald Trump will be testifying next Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Russia scandal is poised to dominate another week of Trump’s presidency.
It was Trump who pushed for Senate Republicans to vote on a repeal only bill, and the CBO has released a new finding that 32 million Americans would lose their health insurance coverage under Trump’s scheme.
U.S. President Donald Trump scolded Senate Republicans on Wednesday for failing to reach agreement on repealing or overhauling Obamacare, demanding they keep their campaign promises and find a new healthcare approach.
The last three presidents, Democratic and Republican have spoken at the NAACP convention, but Donald Trump has declined the invitation to speak to an African-American audience.
The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday it was “deeply troubling” that President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany this month for talks not attended by any U.S. national security officials.
Bremmer said Trump got up from his seat halfway through dinner and spent about an hour talking “privately and animatedly” with Putin, “joined only by Putin’s own translator.”
The lack of a U.S. translator raised eyebrows among other leaders at the dinner, said Bremmer, who called it a “breach of national security protocol.”
Republicans will consider using planned tax reform to eliminate one of the biggest taxes in Obamacare, if the Senate fails to overturn the healthcare law, a senior Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday a bid by President Donald Trump to include grandparents and other relatives in his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries.
A top U.S. Republican trade lawmaker on Wednesday questioned the Trump administration’s plans to renegotiate a trade deal with U.S. ally South Korea, as well as the White House’s focus on bilateral trade deals.
As Donald Trump refuses to release his tax returns, he has accused 20 states of hiding voter fraud because they refuse to turn over any of their voter data to his election integrity commission.
As Trump literally made things up about voter fraud by claiming that people came up to him and told him things, MSNBC debunked everything that Trump was saying with a single on screen graphic.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) used an appearance on ABC’s The View to thank every American who stood up, fought back, and refused to allow Republicans to take healthcare away from 22 million Americans.
At a press conference, Democrats made it clear that their resolution of no confidence against Trump is part of a clever plan to call out, expose, and hold this president accountable.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) will introduce legislation on Wednesday detailing Trump’s unacceptable behavior as president and calling for a vote of no confidence in the President Of The United States.
Trump went into a full blown fit on social media, even breaking out his complaint about fake news, after his secret meeting with Putin at the G-20 was exposed.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called out Republicans for the unbelievable fact that Trump has been in office for six months on Thursday, and even though Republicans control Congress, they have not passed and enacted a single piece of major legislation.
Coming out at the same time as news broke that President Trump had a second, undisclosed and private hour long meeting with President Vladimir Putin to which he did not invite an English translator, the Trump White House announced that the President nominated Jon Huntsman as Ambassador to Russia. They spelled his name wrong, in case you were wondering if there was anything this White House could pull off without error or a modicum of competency.
President Trump jeopardized national security and violated protocol when he held a secret meeting with Putin and did not bring along an interpreter.
Donald Trump has called all of the Senate Republicans to the White House on Wednesday for lunch because a man who knows nothing about healthcare is going to try to negotiate his own health care bill.
Republican efforts to overhaul or repeal Obamacare collapsed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, dealing a sharp setback to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s seven-year quest to kill former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
After Ian Bremmer said that Trump and Putin held a second private meeting at the G-20, the White House finally confirmed that a meeting involving just Trump, Putin, and a translator happened.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried to defend Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump, but when he was pressed by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, it showed why no one would go on television to defend Trump.
Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi offered an olive branch to Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans, promising to work with them on fixing Obamacare if they would set aside repeal, abandon cuts to Medicaid, and abandon huge tax cuts for the wealthy
Instead of letting Obamacare die as Trump suggested, Senate Republicans have defied Trump and announced that they would be holding hearings on how to stabilize the insurance marketplace.
At a White House event, President Trump declared himself no longer a civilian as he seems to believe that being president also makes him a member of the military.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son and former campaign chairman can testify publicly before U.S. Senate committees, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told CNN on Tuesday.
A group of Republican and Democratic governors released a joint statement declaring their opposition to Trump’s repeal and delay plan for Obamacare while urging that the Senate pass a bipartisan bill.
There are officially enough Republican Senators to deny the Trump/McConnell Obamacare repeal bill a vote, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has said that she will vote against moving the legislation to a final vote.
Republicans are trapped because Obamacare, for all of its lack of perfection, actually achieved the overarching goal of getting more Americans covered and forcing insurance companies to actually cover the things they promised they would cover.
As Republicans grapple with their failure to live up to their seven year promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, they are considering just repealing. The current repeal bill would be a partial repeal, one that health care expert Larry Levitt of Kaiser says would “produce an actual, real-life death spiral.”
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called out Republicans on their latest Trumpcare fail, saying, “After seven years of railing against the Affordable Care Act, the moral bankruptcy of Republicans’ agenda has been utterly exposed.”
Mitch McConnell gave the far-right and Trump what they wanted, an Obamacare repeal only bill, and in less than an hour, enough Republicans came forward to kill it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) caved to the far right and announced that he would bring to the floor a stand alone Obamacare repeal bill that will take healthcare away from 32 million Americans.
Trump is throwing a tantrum and blaming the rules of the Senate for the failure of the healthcare bill.
Trump is demonstrating that he is clueless about the country he is supposed to be running by trying to blame Democrats for the failure of the Republican health care bill.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called on Republicans to abandon their efforts to repeal Obamacare after the Senate health care bill fell apart.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) celebrated the collapse of the Republican health care bill and called it a great victory for the American people.
The White House reaction to the collapse of the healthcare bill was to spin a series of lies and tantrum at Senate Republicans for not passing the bill.
“These protests have been relentless,” Maddow said. “They’ve had a huge victory just tonight.”
The American people rate Trump’s performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.
This is a huge loss for the president and a monumental victory for the vast majority of Americans who believe health care shouldn’t be a privilege for the healthy and the wealthy, but a right for all.
“If this is the strategy that they’re going to go to … then we have got a crisis in national security going on.”
You know things are going bad in Trumpworld when the unpopular New Jersey governor tries to distance himself from the president’s team.
Trump claimed that he had signed the most bills in history, but the truth is that he is on pace to sign fewer bills than the previous six presidents have averaged.
A reporter asked Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) if she was going to the White House for a health care meeting with Trump. Collins said that she wasn’t invited and Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) cracked up laughing. Paul McLeod of Buzzfeed News tweeted the exchange: Swing votes not going to White House tonight. We just asked…
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is delivering the truth about Trump that viewers crave as the top rated MSNBC host is seeing younger viewers flock to her show.
President Trump rambled and invented his own false economic statistics as he meandered on about several unrelated topics and appeared to barely come back to the topic during a “Made In America” week event at the White House.
U.S. labor union leaders and Democratic lawmakers on Monday reminded U.S. President Donald Trump they expect him to keep election campaign promises to protect American workers in NAFTA talks, but they stopped short of demanding termination of the 1994 trade pact with Canada and Mexico.
A new Monmouth University Poll found that 41% of Americans want to impeach Donald Trump six months into his term. In contrast, only 24% of Americans supported impeaching Richard Nixon six months into his second term.
Emails show that the real purpose of Trump’s “election integrity” commission is to gather voter data and pass a new federal law that will make it more difficult for people to vote in 2020.
The outgoing head of the Office of Government Ethics is warning that Trump has created an ethics crisis and turned the United States of America into a laughingstock.
Iraq war vet Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has the perfect reply after a Fox News contributor claimed that no Democratic elected official has ever done more for America than the Trump family.
As part of ongoing litigation related to making Trump’s visitor logs public, the Department of Homeland Security will be releasing the visitor logs to Trump’s private Florida club on September 8.
A group representing major technology firms including Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Monday to abandon plans to reverse the landmark 2015 rules barring internet service providers from blocking or slowing consumer access to web content.
After three tranquil rounds at Trump National Golf Club, things heated up outside the ropes during Sunday’s final round of the U.S. Women’s Open as activist groups staged protests against U.S. President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president’s son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.
Wally Wingnut returns to remind all that ‘alternative facts’ are real to the devout believers…
After Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow had claimed that the Secret Service should have stopped the Russians from meeting with the Trump campaign, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called Sekulow dumb as a rock.
The Secret rejected Trump’s lawyer’s argument that they should have vetted the Russians that Trump Jr. was meeting, but made it clear that they were in the building to protect Trump, which means that President Trump knew about the meeting.
A White House spokesperson was touting Trump’s upcoming “Made In America” week, but when a reporter asked about Ivanka Trump’s made overseas clothing line, the White House clammed up and said, “We’ll get back to you on that.”
Things are so bad for Donald Trump that he has set the record for having the lowest approval rating of any president during their first six months in office in US history.
New financial disclosure forms reveal that the Trump campaign used donor money to pay the retainer for Trump Jr.’s lawyer before The New York Times published their big story.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called Donald Trump Jr.’s emails clear evidence of the Trump campaign’s desire to collude with Russia during an interview on ABC’s This Week. Video: Schiff said: The question that we’ve had, among others, is, was the campaign doing privately what the president was urging publicly? And here you have now evidence…
Eight to 10 Republican senators have serious concerns about Republican healthcare legislation to dismantle and replace Obamacare, moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins, who opposes the bill, said on Sunday.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) pointed to a canceled Trump speech during the campaign that was supposed to be about Clinton at around the time Trump Jr. was meeting with Russians as a possible indication that Trump knew about Russia collusion.
If Republicans in Congress wanted to demonstrate that indeed all lives mattered to them they would not be making drastic cuts to Medicaid, the largest insurance provider in the country.
The Republican Party owes a debt to the public which it serves, however, nothing is owed to the Republican president who has proven that he is intent on serving only himself and his financial interests.
Kellyanne Conway equated criticism of her – the woman standing by the man who is taking away women’s medical rights even though he himself took full advantage of the sexual revolution- with undercutting modern feminism.
There is lying, and then there is what Fox News’s Eric Bolling did when he reversed the facts of the Russia story to claim that it was really Hillary Clinton who was colluding with Russia to get dirt on Trump.
Donald Trump is now taking unrelated information like the stock market and jobs numbers and trying to use it as proof that the Russia scandal is not real.
The best way to get under Donald Trump’s very thin skin is to mock and ridicule him, and it appears Democrats have no problem doing just that.
Unable to defend the content of the actual meeting, the analyst just repeatedly held up funny pictures of Rob Goldstone, the man who arranged the meeting.
The lawyer at the heart of the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. got her front row seat at a recent congressional hearing through a Republican lobbyist who is close to President Donald Trump.
Republicans are finding it increasingly hard to defend the Trump team’s conduct with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
After his Muslim ban twice denied visas to an all girls robotics team from competing in the US, Trump reversed himself and let the girls in. Kellyanne Conway then tried to give Trump credit for the decision.
Even Fox News is starting to flee Trump, as Shep Smith and Chris Wallace told Fox News viewers that Trump is lying to them about the Russia scandal.
When Trump, or a member of his administration, or his family claim that there is nothing else to the Russia meeting story, keep in mind that according to Trump’s own lawyers they still don’t know the names of everyone who attended the meeting.
The Trump Russia scandal has spread to Congress as Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu (California) and Ruben Gallego (Arizona) read Donald Trump Jr.’s emails on the House floor and made a case for why the emails are a Trump/Russia criminal conspiracy smoking gun.
Former Ambassador Rep. Don Beyer†shared a security clearance form containing directions that you must fill out a declaration of all foreign contacts by the clearance holder “or your spouse.”
Ivanka Trump’s spouse is Jared Kushner.
President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Friday on fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate to pass a bill dismantling the Obamacare law, but with their retooled healthcare plan drawing fire within the party even one more defection would doom it.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was discharged on Friday from a hospital in Canada where he received treatment after becoming dehydrated while working at a charity house-building project, the Carter Center said. Carter, 92, became unsteady while working on Thursday on the steps of a home at a building project for…
The Republican health care bill will cause at least 22 million people to lose their insurance, and others will have to pay more while getting less, but according to the Americans For Tax Fairness, the top 8 insurance corporations will get a $72 billion tax cut.
Trump sought public feedback on his voter fraud commission, but what he got was a humiliating earful from Americans who understand exactly what he is up to.
