Former CIA Director John Brennan said that Trump couldn’t have gotten the warning that his campaign was under federal investigation in 2016, because warning Trump would have compromised the investigation.
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber that the walls are closing in on Trump as besides the Russia and Cohen investigations, the president could be facing issues with criminal tax fraud over the Trump Foundation.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that House Democrats have so many good candidates that they are capable of unleashing a blue tsunami on Donald Trump in November.
Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) said that Donald Trump is a coward who will never sit down with Robert Mueller because he is afraid.
Former Bush ethics lawyer and current Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter questioned Trump’s mental stability after the president incriminated himself for obstructing justice on Twitter.
Trump claimed that his tariffs are creating jobs, without mentioning that nearly 500,000 Americans will lose their jobs due to his trade war.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, linked Trump to the attempted Russian hacking of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that he and his children had been targeted by hackers.
It was Trump who ended a lawsuit that would have blocked terrorists from being able to download the blueprints for 3-D plastic guns, so if a terrorist ever uses these weapons against American citizens, it will be all on Trump.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) humiliated Trump after he threatened to shut down the government by calling his bluff and saying that the American people will not be bullied into paying for his wall.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) delivered the message to Michael Cohen that now is the time to cooperate with Robert Mueller. Video: Rep. Swalwell said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House: We were as thorough as you could be on the democratic side without having subpoena power and without having Republicans across the table from us on…
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that Trump’s recent tweets show that he is nervous and panicking over either Mueller or the midterms.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) just called on Robert Mueller to subpoena Trump, and if he refuses to comply, take him to court.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told MSNBC that the battle to get testimony or the notes of the translator from Trump’s private meeting with Putin isn’t over and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller may be able to get the translator’s notes.
Former US Attorney Harry Litman said that the Trump/Cohen tape discussing a payout to Karen McDougal could provide evidence of campaign finance violations, bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy crimes committed by Trump.
Katy Tur unloaded on Trump for his laughable claim that he misspoke at his press conference with Putin.
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt bluntly said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is up to his eyeballs in the Russia scandal and needs to be removed from power.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace reported that a former Trump national security adviser wondered to her if there is more to Trump’s embrace of Russia than sensitivity about his election. In other words, even people who advised Trump are wondering if he’s been compromised by the Russians.
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle asked the key question. Why is the President Of The United States bowing to Putin and letting Russia lead?
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) had a message for House Republicans and Trump. It doesn’t matter how much they try to hide information, Bob Mueller knows.
Former federal prosecutor John Flannery said that he expects that Robert Mueller’s next indictment will zero in on Donald Trump.
Former Sen. Russ Feingold laid into Trump for first stealing an election, the Supreme Court, and now turning the highest court in the land into a kangaroo court.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is beating Fox News with the exact kind of viewers that Democrats need to get to the polls to be able to take back Congress in November.
The cable news landscape has changed. MSNBC and CNN no longer give Trump and his rallies millions of dollars in free advertising.
Rachel Maddow exposed how the Trump/Putin relationship has now consumed the Republican Party, and what it looks like Putin has taken ownership of the GOP.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was stunned as he listened to EPA whistleblower, Kevin Chmielewski, detail how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is robbing the taxpayers blind. Video of the moment that stunned Chris Hayes: Hayes asked, “There were low level, and other reports today, low-level staffers, being asked to charge trips on their credit card and not…
Malcolm Nance told MSNBC that Trump’s war on anything credible in America is going to damage national security and get someone killed.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi wrecked Trump’s MS-13 immigration invasion lie by showing that what Trump calls an infestation and invasion is actually just 180 people.
Rachel Maddow stressed the red flags and the urgency that suggests that something big is coming with Michael Cohen and that something has the potential to end Trump’s world.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and CNBC’s John Harwood tear apart Trump’s trade war and explain why it is an idiotic fantasy that is going to harm consumers, workers, and the US economy.
Nicolle Wallace and her panel wrecked the big lie that Trump is too incompetent to commit crimes and collude with the Russians to win an election.
Sen. Cory Booker said that there should be no vote on any Trump Supreme Court nominee until after the criminal investigation into Donald Trump ends.
Lawrence O’Donnell laid out the precarious state of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and how it all could go down in flames.
Chris Matthews went off and told Democrats that they have to fight Trump’s Supreme Court nominee or Democratic voters, who are sick of this crap, will overthrow them.
On MSNBC, Steve Schmidt laid it out clearly and bluntly that Donald Trump’s Muslim ban has made Osama Bin Laden’s dream of a war of civilizations come true.
MSNBC cut off coverage of a Trump lunch with members of Congress because as Craig Melvin put it listening to it all would, “bore you to tears.”
Ari Melber schools Trump on due process and the fact that he doesn’t have the power to pick the other branches of the government.
MSNBC cut off a Trump immigration event to fact check the false claims and statistics he was using to criminalize immigrants.
Nicolle Wallace hammered Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for helping Trump ruin the lives of 2,300 children
Award-winning journalist John Heilemann said that Trump and Republicans must be made to pay a price for his child separation policy by the American people voting for Democrats in November. Video: Heilemann said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House: I have found the last week or so and particularly the last 48 hours or so, some…
Ari Melber preemptively called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s BS on immigration before showing the Kentucky Senator’s claims.
MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff put a quick end to Trump’s excuse making and blaming for child separations in less than 30 seconds.
MSNBC destroyed Trump’s lie that his policy of child separation at the border was the fault of Democrats with an immediate fact check while Trump was still talking.
A witness who visited two of the immigration detention centers in Texas is reporting that 5-year-old boys are being locked in cages and not allowed out.
New reporting suggests that Michael Cohen hasn’t flipped yet, but that he is sending signals to Trump begging for a pardon before he flips.
Rachel Maddow asked why Trump gave up the joint military exercises with South Korea and she showed that the answer is Russia.
Nicolle Wallace asked the question on the minds of most Americans as they watched Trump praise a murderous dictator when she said, “What is wrong with him?”
Katy Tur went there and called Trump a liar on the air after a guest danced around the subject of Trump’s inability to tell the truth.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace crushed the right’s hypocrisy for praising Trump for kissing up to N. Korea after they called Obama weak.
Nicolle Wallace said what needed to be said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House when she told Trump’s Republican enablers that something is definitely going to happen and that they are going to get someone killed.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports debunked Trump’s outrage over tabloid rumors that he spread about his own wife on Twitter.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace delivered an ego-crushing moment to Trump when should pictures side by side of the number of New England Patriots who came to the White House for Obama versus the smaller number of players who showed up for Trump.
MSNBC gave a platform to the truth by interviewing former New York City Council President Melissa Mark-Viverito who explained the federal government’s disregard for the deaths in Puerto Rico as the racist policies of the Trump administration.
It is being reported that the D’Souza pardon was intended to send a loud message to Mueller witnesses that if they keep quiet, Trump will pardon them.
MSNBC pointed out the hypocrisy of the Trump White House saying nothing about Roseanne’s racist tweet while losing their minds over Samantha Bee’s comments about Ivanka Trump.
Dan Rather had a message for Donald Trump and every single American watching. Rather said that no president is more powerful than the entire country, as he pointed out that the people are moving in the opposite direction away from this president.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) used Paul Ryan’s words about Trump’s racism against him, and asked if Trump is racist, why are Republicans cozying up to him.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell became the latest journalist to put a disclaimer on a Trump tweet, as she told viewers before she read part of the tweet that Trump’s statement blaming Democrats for missing immigrant children was false.
Former CIA Director John Brennan explained exactly why Trump is lying when he claims that there was a spy in his presidential campaign.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) abdicated his duty to build a wall to stop Trump from reaching into the evidence locker on the Russia investigation. Instead of attending the bipartisan Gang of 8 briefing, Ryan left town to go fundraise.
On MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber, House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) put the finger on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for looking the other way and being an accomplice to Trump’s Russia crimes.
Nicolle Wallace issued a disclaimer to MSNBC viewers that Trump’s comments contained lies and smears before she showed video of the president.
Rachel Maddow put Trump’s call for an investigation into the Russia investigation into clear terms by noting that it is the second time that Trump has taken action to interfere with the Russia investigation.
On MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) put the stakes of the 2018 election in clear terms by saying that a Democratic-controlled House is needed to save the republic from Trump.
Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the Parkland shooting, called out Trump for catering to the NRA, and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for sitting on their butts and doing nothing about the issue of gun violence.
The Pennsylvania primary is huge because it could set the stage for Democrats picking up one-quarter of the seats that they need to win back the House in November.
Malcolm Nance expressed his disgust at the White House mocking dying John McCain. Nance pointed out that the lack of decency and respect shown in those comments come straight from the top and Trump.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace dropped a bombshell. Trump is bringing in impeachment lawyer Emmett Flood to assert executive privilege and not answer any of Robert Mueller’s questions about obstruction of justice.
During an interview on MSNBC, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti said that they are looking to get Trump under oath, and he asked the critical question of how Trump would know if the man who threatened Daniels was real or not?
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi cut through the administration’s lies and rhetoric and delivered the facts on the Iran deal that Trump appears to be allergic to uttering.
MSNBC covered Trump in less than four minutes, and as the president was smearing Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and the press, the network cut him off in mid-sentence.
During an appearance on MSNBC, Rob Reiner told Democrats that the policies that Trump and his EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt are pursuing could be reversed.
“It feels like we’ve reached a level of crazy in the White House, and it’s difficult to take it anymore. Reality TV appearances, tabloid gossip, conspiracy theories, name-calling, vulgarities, and a level of egomania few have ever seen in Washington.”
“African American unemployment is at record lows. And that would not have happened had the president not … signed into law the tax cuts and jobs act.”
“This is our life now. This is our nightly news now about the American presidency.”
“I’m absolutely — stand beside Donald Trump, his policies. I think he’s moved this country in an incredibly positive direction.”
Lawrence O’Donnell perfectly captures the noose that is tightening around the neck of Trump and his family and the growing terror that the Russia investigation is causing the President.
A panel on Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC program was discussing Trump’s fitness for office when they discussed the reports that the President is showing signs of dementia.
“Corporations are swimming in money. Stocks are up 18% this year. They’re at record highs. … We are financing through the deficit a tax cut to the one sector of society that absolutely didn’t need it.”
The case for obstruction of justice against this president continues to grow, and it may have just reached a point of no return.
“At the end of the day, they walked out with a package that they could sign off on and their big donors could sign off on. And I don’t care how many sympathetic faces they make, that’s what the process was all about.”
There is no longer any excuse for members of Congress – especially the Democrats – to curb their opposition to this president and his dangerous agenda.
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) was asked by Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC to name a single specific corporate loophole that the Republican tax bill closes, and he had nothing. Video: Transcript: Ruhle: In terms of simplifying the tax code, what simplification, what loophole is being closed for corporate America? I agree, our tax rate is too…
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why Mike Flynn’s guilty plea is only the beginning of Trump’s Russia woes.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace reported that her sources tell her that Trump is increasingly delusional.
According to the right-wing pastor, it’s okay if we elect immoral leaders because “Jesus was the only perfect man who walked the earth.”
GOP Rep. Mark Walker twisted himself into a pretzel on Wednesday when he tried to defend the Republican tax plan.
Each day of this presidency is a rerun of the last, with Trump recklessly lashing out on Twitter about everything from television ratings to NFL players to his former 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.Â
Page appeared to have incriminated himself by casually admitting that, yeah, he was on email chains about Russia with George Papadopoulos.
“It doesn’t matter what right-wingers think about something else. What matters is the prosecution and the evidence they’re developing. And all your talk about distraction isn’t going to help your side.”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid put on a clinic of how to destroy a conservative conspiracy theory when the topic of the Clinton Uranium One deal came up.
“As we all know, work is hard, and the Trump administration apparently forgot about the work part of their responsibilities here and they just didn’t do it.”
Republicans want you to believe they give a hoot about the opioid crisis in America, while they continue to vote for budgets that cut crucial funding.
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) was practically begging voters not to toss the Republican majority out of office by asking people to give them until Christmas to get something done.
Either the businessman president doesn’t understand basic economics or he is intentionally misleading the American public.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow connected the dots and showed how Trump’s dysfunction and incompetence are killing people in Puerto Rico.
With gun shows nearly every weekend in Las Vegas, the city is a living and breathing example of America’s longstanding problem with firearm-related violence.
Rachel Maddow’s tireless coverage of the Russia scandal has made her MSNBC program #1 in total viewers, viewers age 25-54, and is the first MSNBC show ever to lead the rating for an entire quarter in total viewers.
Rachel Maddow asked two key questions that both illustrate how the Russia scandal is bigger than Trump and has entangled the Republican Party.
On MSNBC, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said that Americans should not have essential health benefits in their health care, which means that if people get sick, the Republican message is go die.
