Republicans were wrong when they criticized Biden for not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon sooner. It turns out that Biden gave the order on Wednesday, and the military was waiting until it was safe.
When he was asked by reporters if the US is going to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, President Biden smiled, gave a thumbs up and said, 'We're going to take care of it.'
The Democratic presidential nomination process will no longer begin with states that do not look like many Democrats as the new primary calendar highlights diverse states.
Donald Trump Jr. thinks that Hunter Biden and his laptop are the reason why a Chinese spy balloon is drifting over the United States.
Manhattan prosecutors found that Trump made his fortune through criminal enterprise and considering bringing an organized crime-style racketeering case against him.
The Pentagon is warning that shooting down the Chinese spy balloon could endanger the lives of Americans with falling debris, but that hasn't stopped Republicans from calling for it to be shot down.
Donald Trump promised to create 25 million jobs in the next decade. Joe Biden has done almost half of that in two years.
The House Republican story that George Santos stepped down from his committee assignments was a lie according to former staffer Derek Myers.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) offered no names or actual evidence when he told reporters that Democrats are telling him that he runs the House better than Pelosi.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) angrily called out House Republican racism and Islamophobia and said she didn't get a single apology from Republicans after her life was threatened.
In an act of embarrassing petty partisan retribution, House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Hunter Biden's legal team is going straight for the heart of the GOP's laptop scandal by calling for investigations into the computer repair shop owner, Rudy Giuliani, and others involved with the potentially illegally tampered with device.
Seth Meyers reminded Republicans that Donald Trump is never going to change, and never going to drop out of the presidential race, so the GOP is screwed.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy was talking a big game about negotiations and spending cuts before he met with President Biden, but it didn't go that way.
FBI agents are investigating Rep. George Santos’ role in the alleged fraud of a disabled Navy veteran's GoFundMe for his dying service dog.
During the House Oversight Committee hearing on COVID relief fraud and abuse, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez why three blue states were targeted for letters, but not red states.
Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) offered an amendment restricting “anyone who supported Insurrection” from leading the pledge lest they make a mockery of it.
A coordinated and agreed upon search of Biden's Rehoboth, Delaware home found no classified documents.
House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sent a letter to the Secret Service demanding any documents related to people who had access to Trump and Pence's homes.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace played a round-up of investigators and prosecutors saying that beyond a reasonable doubt, Trump committed crimes.
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.@NicolleDWallace plays a round-up of prosecutors and investigators saying that beyond a reasonable doubt Trump committed crimes. pic.twitter.com/3NVcqtM9FD
Manhattan prosecutors are likely to notice that Stormy Daniels has publicly thanked Trump for posting confirmation of her story about the illegal hush money payments.
If it is proven that Trump shared these classified documents with people or entities, he jeopardized our national security on purpose for his own self interest.
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) stepping down from committees is a sign that his legal problems are growing, and his time in Congress could end soon.
The AP reported:
Republican Rep. George Santos of New York told GOP colleagues Tuesday he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees, a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Rachel Maddow showed how Trump committed a crime then had everyone bend over backward to protect him from prosecution, and the damage he has done to the DOJ and the rule of law.
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Maddow said:
So this is a crime that was committed in 2016. The last time it was in court was in 2018. The last time someone went to jail for this crime was in 2019. Federal prosecutors bobbled it and they simultaneously blocked state prosecutors from pursuing it themselves for a long time. There was also a weird interlude where one Manhattan D.A., one New York state prosecutor started an investigation into this matter, and then a new prosecutor came into office and stopped that investigation and then the new prosecutor restarted it a few months later after some of the lawyers who had been working on Trump-related investigations quit in protest and did so loudly.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appeared on MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber, where Melber was ready to for his lies about seeking a pardon.
Why is the Speaker of the House meeting with Rep. George Santos, a first-term representative under multiple investigations?
A friend of Mark Meadows, who ran for his former House seat, will plead guilty to accepting an illegal campaign contribution.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will begin presenting criminal evidence to a grand jury about Donald Trump's hush money to Stormy Daniels.
Former Pence aide Olivia Troye said that Donald Trump is so shallow that he won't pick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to be his VP because he will think she doesn't look attractive enough.
Republicans are trying to go back to 2011 on the debt limit, but Democrats changed their tactics, and President Biden is in good shape to win in 2023.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said that Rep. George Santos will be gone from the House. It is only a matter of when.
Speaker McCarthy said on Sunday that he wants to take Social Security and Medicare cuts off the table as an option for spending cuts.
Transcript via CBS News’s Face The Nation:
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to dig into what you are willing to put on the table because Republicans campaigned on fiscal responsibility. You promised you won’t spend more next year than you did last year. Are you willing to consider any reductions to Social Security and Medicare?
Speaker Kevin McCarthy's George Santos problem was put on full display as McCarthy crumbled when pressed on Face The Nation.
Chuck Todd took apart Jim Jordan's rationale for his special select committee during an interview on Meet The Press.
Trump seems to have found his issue for 2024, and it is the scourge of wind power in the United States.
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger is making sure that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is being held accountable for his lies about the Paul Pelosi attacker motivations, and Cruz doesn't like it.
Everyone from President Biden to Sens. Murphy and Booker has called for the passage of police reform after video footage of the police murder of Tyre Nichols was released.
President Biden urged Americans seeking justice after the video footage of five Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols to death was released not to use violence.
House Republicans are looking for a way out of their debt ceiling crisis and already considering suspending it until September 30.
House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has announced the addition of Rep. Adam Schiff to the committee.
House Republicans did their part to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by allowing Rep. George Santos to deliver remarks about anti-semitism on the House floor.
A former South Dakota Republican Party county chairman has been charged with three counts of possession of child pornography.
House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) made it clear in an interview with NPR that Democrats have a plan to raise the debt ceiling without the approval of Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Top Iowa Republicans from the governor on down aren't returning Donald Trump's phone calls and are not committing to support him in 2024.
The state seeks to disbar Trump attorney John Eastman, who once clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, for his work following the 2020 election.
Special Counsel John Durham tried to use Russian intelligence memos that were suspected of containing disinformation in his investigation of Russiagate.
In Mr. Durham’s case, the dubious sources were memos, whose credibility the intelligence community doubted, written by Russian intelligence analysts and discussing purported conversations involving American victims of Russian hacking, according to people familiar with the matter.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced Thursday morning that he is running for the US Senate seat in California in 2024.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned Speaker McCarthy that he will not stop Democrats from defending democracy by kicking them off of committees.
Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has responded to Trump's racist attacks against her as the rest of her party enables him with silence.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the GOP's national sales plan devastating and vowed to kill it.
Republicans have been trying to use the classified documents "scandal" that they are attempting to gin up to hurt Biden, but a new poll shows that voters don't seem to care.
The 31 Abrams tanks that the US is sending will be big on the battlefield, but the real victory for Biden is the continued unified support for Ukraine.
DirecTV has dropped Newsmax costing the conservative outlet a large chunk of its availability after the two sides could not agree on a new fee structure.
In a matter of seconds, Sen. Ted Cruz went from calling for searches of Hunter Biden's home and suggesting that President Biden committed crimes to excusing Mike Pence for being in the same situation.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis argued that the special grand jury report should not be released to the public because decisions on criminal charges are imminent.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that he would be shocked if there was anything sinister going on with Biden and classified docs. He has never made the same statement about Trump and then tried to walk it back.
Former Vice President Mike Pence had a dozen classified documents discovered at his house last week by his lawyer.
Some House Republicans are saying that they will vote against Speaker McCarthy's plan to kick Democrats like Reps. Schiff, Swalwell, and Omar off of their committees.
Rachel Maddow obtained exclusive video of Rep. George Santos claiming that he was the victim of an assassination attempt.
House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took on Speaker McCarthy by nominating Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to continue serving on the Intelligence Committee.
House Ways and Means Democrats have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the IRS for not auditing Trump.
Trump rides in a golf cart while he plays but claims he doesn't need a physical because he can hit a golf ball.
In 2016 the FBI's New York field office allegedly leaked Hillary Clinton email info. The man who ran counterintelligence in that office has been arrested for ties to a Russian oligarch.
Rep. Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) made it official. He is running against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in 2024 and he has hired staffers from the John Fetterman and Raphael Warnock campaigns.
Rep. Nancy Mace tried to claim that everyone knew where Trump's stolen classified documents were, but Chuck Todd stopped her and delivered the facts.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) reminded ABC's Martha Raddatz that the one big difference between Biden and Trump is that Trump thought he was above the law and made the DOJ get a warrant to search his home and recover stolen classified documents.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is calling for the House to investigate the FBI’s refusal to investigate the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, as a new documentary reveals smoking gun evidence of Kavanaugh sexual assault.
House Republicans have been planning since before they won the majority to take the economy hostage, but they are facing strong opposition from the White House.
Republicans in the House and Senate helped Trump add trillions in debt that will weigh down the economy for years without asking for spending cuts.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) the DOJ made it clear that he is not getting their criminal evidence against Trump.
President Biden can talk about policies and accomplishments, but it is faith in and optimism about America that will likely win him a second term.
It is not a coincidence that Trump withdrew his lawsuit against New York AG Letitia James less than a day after being hit with almost a million dollars in sanctions in Florida for his frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.
Iowa Republicans are putting forward a bill that would discourage the people who need help the most from applying for food assistance.
Federal Judge Middlebrooks sanctioned Trump and his lawyers nearly $1 million for abusing the legal system with a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.
The White House is calling out the hypocrisy of Kevin McCarthy and House Republican hypocrites who voted to raise the debt ceiling with no spending cuts three times under Trump.
The media really wants President Biden's handling of classified documents to become a scandal, but Biden's response on Thursday was a strong and definitive statement.
After numerous reports that the draft of the overturn of Roe v. Wade was leaked by a conservative, the Supreme Court claims that it can't find the leaker.
While trying to blame the media for political violence, Trump appeared to admit that his lies about stolen elections lead to violence.
The Republican attacks on voting are a year-round effort, which is why it is important that a court in Arizona rejected a GOP challenge to the state's no excuse mail-in voting.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that the lies and smears against him that are being spread about him by Kevin McCarthy are inciting death threats.
The data behind Gov. Ron DeSantis's reelection win doesn't show a politician with national appeal, but a governor who suppressed and discouraged the Democratic vote in Florida.
New Mexico law enforcement has confirmed that the man behind the shooting of homes of Democratic officials was motivated by Trump's election lies.
Republicans demanded that a special counsel be appointed to investigate Biden's handling of classified docs, but now House Republicans are blocked from getting info by the special counsel investigation.
President Biden is already reaching out to moderate House Republicans to get a deal on raising the debt ceiling, but if the far right doesn’t get the standoff that they crave it could be curtains for Kevin McCarthy.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called Rep. George Santos (R-NY) a danger to democracy and national security.
a href=”https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/george-santos-new-york-colleague-congress-danger-rcna65794″>Rep. Torres wrote in an NBC News piece:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has defended and advocated for the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol on 1/6. Now she will serve on the Homeland Security Committee.
The Biden White House is calling on Kevin McCarthy to reveal the secret deals that he made to get the votes to become Speaker of the House.
Reporters asked Speaker Kevin McCarthy about George Santos, and instead, he ranted about how Eric Swalwell doesn't belong on committees.
New reporting reveals that Twitter employees were not allowed to see Trump's tweets for content moderation and that Twitter did not follow its own rules concerning Trump.
The failed New Mexico state House Republican candidate, Solomon Pena who was behind the shootings of Democratic politicians' homes was fueled by election denial and support for Donald Trump.
Conservative evangelicals exposed their values fraud when they supported Trump, and now the ex-president is paying them back with attacks.
A Proud Boy got stabbed in the nose in a prison fight that broke out while inmates were watching Tucker Carlson.
House Republicans want the visitor logs for President Biden's private home, but the Secret Service doesn't keep such records.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is declaring that House Republicans will deliver God's vengeance to the nation.
During his MLK Day address, President Biden laid into House Republicans for their plan to pass a bill imposing a national sales tax.
A new report connects Rep. George Santos to a Russian oligarch who gave the congressman at least hundreds of thousands of dollars.
We need to flip the script so expert economists’ first instinct isn’t to attack workers, where the pain will be felt the most, but rather to legislate limitations on corporations
Senate Republicans have been complaining about problems with the nation's air travel system, but they have been blocking Biden's nominee to run the FAA since March of 2022.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wrecked the GOP argument on Biden and classified documents by pointing out that President Biden isn't an insurrectionist who tried to overthrow the government.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that House Republicans are hypocrites for wanting to investigate the Biden classified docs while ignoring Trump's potential classified docs crimes.
