U.S. Homeland Security officials met with major U.S. airlines and a trade group to discuss the impact of possibly expanding a ban on large electronic gadgets on planes to flights from some European airports, three sources briefed on the meeting said.…
U.S. Senator John Cornyn will no longer deliver the commencement address at Texas Southern University this weekend, the school said after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed at another historically black university.…
U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies risk creating growth that mostly benefits the rich and aggravates income inequality in the United States, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton said.…
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don't deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.…
"As scandals-in-the-making go, this one may become famous for featuring the President as the principal witness against himself: he seems committed to uncovering any cover-up," Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer observed.…
U.S. Homeland Security officials met with major U.S. airlines and a trade group to discuss the impact of possibly expanding a ban on large electronic gadgets on planes to flights from some European airports, three sources briefed on the meeting said.…
U.S. Senator John Cornyn will no longer deliver the commencement address at Texas Southern University this weekend, the school said after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed at another historically black university.…
U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies risk creating growth that mostly benefits the rich and aggravates income inequality in the United States, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton said.…
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don't deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.…
"As scandals-in-the-making go, this one may become famous for featuring the President as the principal witness against himself: he seems committed to uncovering any cover-up," Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer observed.…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said what no one else is saying by slamming Republicans who are refusing to grow a spine on the Russia scandal until they get what they want out of Trump.…
After being personally attacked and smeared by the Trump administration, former FBI Director James Comey says that he will testify, but only if the hearing is in public.…
On the day that Donald Trump announced he might just cancel White House briefings and the White House just stopped answering the phone all together, a woman posted to Facebook pictures she's putting in random bushes of a cutout of the top half of Sean Spicer's head.…
The company owned by the family of senior White House aide Jared Kushner will skip roadshow events in China this weekend seeking money from local investors for a real estate project in exchange for a shot at U.S. immigrant visas, a company spokesman said.…
Only in Bizarro World — aka the Fox "News" Channel — is the firing of James Comey a reason to salivate over the Hillary Clinton email scandal being reopened.…
Republicans, both elected and appointed, are betraying their oath of office by not appointing independent investigators for the Trump Russia probe. The security of the United States is on the line. This is no time for more of their partisan party first attitudes.…
Anyone who pays attention knew a Friday morning twitter tantrum was imminent. For while Trump prides himself for his ability to use the element of surprise, there are two things for which he is so predictable it must sting his fragile ego.
Trump will obsess over media coverage of him and when the coverage isn’t favorable he’ll tweet that it’s fake news. In Trumpland, the emperor decides what is true and what isn’t. Anything that makes Trump look good is “true” anything that shows him how he really is, is not.…
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.…
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.…
"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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
"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.…
"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.…
"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?"…
"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."…
“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.…
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.…
"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."…
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.…
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.…
The Senate Democrats who successfully blocked Neil Gorsuch can hold their heads high because they refused to allow a corrupt president, and a morally bankrupt Senate Majority Leader to steal a Supreme Court seat without a fight.…
Republicans are failing to get anything close to the number of Democratic votes needed to move Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to a final vote.…
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told NBC's Meet The Press that Neil Gorsuch doesn't have the 60 votes needed to move forward, so Republicans and Trump need to pick a more mainstream Supreme Court nominee.…