A federal judge dealt yet another blow to the Trump administration — which, other than passing an almost universally-hated tax bill, has yet to accomplish anything — on Monday.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders couldn’t answer why Trump attacks US reporters but has nothing to say about Russia spreading disinformation.
MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki breaks down where Doug Jones needs to get his votes from and what voters he must flip if he is going to win a Senate seat in Alabama.
A Bangladeshi man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack.
After cutting for the rich, Trump next move is going to be an executive order that will be nothing short of a declaration of war on poor people who depend on Medicaid, food stamps, and housing assistance.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) painted a picture of a doomed Republican Party that will be defined by Roy Moore in 2018 and beyond if he wins the Alabama Senate election.
Several of the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault held a press conference on Monday demanding an investigation of the President.
Democratic enthusiasm is powering Doug Jones to a 50%-40% lead over Republican Roy Moore in the latest Fox News poll of the Alabama Senate election.
The President Of The United States is spending his morning in a tantrum over a media report that he watches 4-8 hours of television a day.
CNN called Trump a television addict and said that despite all of his grumbling about the network, it is where he tunes in to get his breaking news.
While Colin Kaepernick has effectively been locked out of the National Football League, his kneeling protests continue to inspire controversy and comment.
Trump raged about the media putting out fake news stories, but the point of his rage is to discredit the delivery mechanism of information as the Russia investigation closes in on him.
By casting doubt on whether not the Senate Ethics Committee would investigate his candidate if he won, Roy Moore’s chief political strategist did a big favor for Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama Senate election.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacked Obama for daring to take credit for the depression that he avoided and claimed that Trump deserves all the credit for an economy that is slowing down.
On Monday in state court in Harrisburg, one of three lawsuits challenging those boundaries heads to trial. The outcome could shift several battleground districts in Pennsylvania and in turn boost the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, where they last held the majority from January 2009 to January 2011.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) what he was missing on Trump/Russia collusion evidence, and the case that Rep. Schiff made was devastating.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) if Democrats had a higher standard for sexual misconduct than Republicans. Shelby’s answer revealed that Republicans are trapped because of Trump’s Roy Moore endorsement.
A fiercely divided Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Friday to lift an order filed by San Francisco District Judge William Alsup requiring the Trump administration to produce documents outlining the decision to end theDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The documents the order sought included “emails, departmental memoranda, policy directives, meeting minutes, materials considered by…
Vice President Pence is planning on visiting Israel, occupied Palestinian territories, and other countries in the nearby region later this month, but thanks to President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, multiple religious leaders have opted not to meet with Pence. The latest is Egypt’s Coptic Church. In a statement, a…
Yuba City in California has elected the first Sikh woman mayor in United States history. Preet Didbal was sworn in on Tuesday.Â
Donald Trump couldn’t go to Mississippi and be trusted to make sense at the opening of the state’s civil right museum, so the White House had to give the President a script to read from.
As president, Trump is a sloth who is spending 4-8 hours a day laying in bed, watching TV, or tweeting.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday voiced support for Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican Senate candidate dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct, during a rally that foreshadowed themes for next year’s midterm elections.
Exhausted fire crews made little headway on Friday in containing the most troublesome of six major wildfires burning in South California as dry winds fanned flames that ravaged avocado farms, racehorse stables and a retirement community.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) said on MSNBC that House Judiciary Republicans are doing Trump’s bidding by working to undermine the FBI and the Russia investigation.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said on Friday the state would hold a special election on Nov. 6, 2018, to replace Representative John Conyers, the Democrat who resigned this week amid accusations of sexual misconduct.
Wall Street is seen as one of the major winners in the Republican effort, backed by President Donald Trump, to rework the U.S. tax code.
U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, on Friday told Fox News Channel that fellow Republican Representative Blake Farenthold should resign if an ethics investigation finds that sexual misconduct accusations against him have merit.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled a trove of documents on Friday showing what he said was “irrefutable evidence” that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort violated a court gag order by ghost-writing an opinion piece designed to improve his public image.
Rep. Trent Franks got the $5 million with which to try buy a Margaret Atwoodian Handmaid’s tale womb by deregulating the oil industry in which he’s heavily invested.
The news website Politico on Friday quoted unnamed sources that it was not clear to the women whether he was asking about impregnating them through sexual intercourse or in vitro fertilization.
Allred said the expert conducted an analysis and confirmed that Moore had signed the yearbook, thus disproving allegations from Moore supporters that it was a forgery.
In a race too close to call, former U.S. attorney Democrat Doug Jones needs to motivate black Alabama voters enough to overcome Republican voter suppression.
There is a wave brewing as a new PPP Poll revealed that Democrats are closing in on a double-digit in the 25 swing districts that will decide which party controls the House.
Partisan Fox News is so desperate to help Republicans keep the Alabama Senate seat that they are inventing lies to protect accused child sexual assaulter Roy Moore, who is running against Democrat Doug Jones.
Unlike other top roles with a permanent vote on policy, the New York Fed boss is nominated by the regional bank’s board of directors rather than the White House and does not require Congressional approval.
The United States is reviewing military options, including new intermediate-range cruise missile systems, in response to what it says is Russia’s ongoing violation of a Cold War-era pact banning such missiles, the State Department said on Friday.
The pressure of the Russia scandal has caused Trump to accelerate the number of lies he is telling per day to nine.
Democrats are expected to announce some big changes ahead of the 2020 primary that include cutting down the voting power of superdelegates, and new rules for primaries and caucuses to improve voter access and recordkeeping.
When a conspiracy theorist is elected President of the United States, these are the things you can expect to happen.
GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold, who’s currently under fire for his own sex scandals, said his constituents are concerned that “no one is addressing the Clinton administration.”
Franks didn’t apologize for telling his female subordinates to carry his child. Instead, the Congressman said he’s only sorry that it caused “distress” in the workplace.Â
Just when we thought the National Rifle Association couldn’t be any more repugnant, the extremist gun organization rises to the occasion to prove all of us wrong.
Ari Melber revealed that Mike Flynn’s plea agreement requires him to cooperate with state and local authorities, which means that even if Trump tries to pardon himself and everyone around him, he won’t be able to escape state and local prosecution.
Steve Curtis the former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party was found guilty of one count of voter fraud and one count of forgery after he signed and submitted his ex-wife’s mail-in ballot.
During an interview on MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) called on Roy Moore to drop out of the Alabama Senate race, and President Donald Trump to resign over the 17 allegations of sexual assault against him.
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) made a loud statement against Trump’s racism by announcing that he will not attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum because Trump will be there.
The White House Is Getting Nervous As Reporters Are Asking About Trump’s Declining Health
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) demolished the Republican hopes that Democrats will be blamed if there is a government shutdown.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced a bill that would ban agreements to keep sexual harassment and discrimination claims out of court, amid a wave of sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men.
Donald Trump Jr. has suddenly gone silent on Russia, which is why House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff is warning that if Trump Jr. doesn’t talk he will push the committee to subpoena him and make him talk.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) announced that he would resign at the end of the year, but he also pointed out the irony that he is leaving the Senate while Trump sits in the White House, and Roy Moore runs in Alabama.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin said that the network got it wrong when they believed an alt-right personality and fired Sam Seder over a 2009 tweet, and they have rehired the progressive back as a contributor.
Donald Trump showed why this White House is most definitely not run by the best people, as he managed to misquote FDR’s famous speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Pearl Harbor Day.
Trump and Congress are facing a deadline of midnight Friday to pass new spending legislation. If they cannot agree on the terms, parts of the federal government could shut down.
U.S. Senator Al Franken, facing pressure from his fellow Democrats to step down following allegations of sexual misconduct, will announce his decision at 11:45 AM ET on the Senate floor.
On CNN’s New Day, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Republicans are allowing figures in the Russia investigation like Donald Trump Jr. to avoid answering questions by invoking flimsy privilege claims.
At multiple points during the campaign, Trump-connected associates suggested they would lift the crippling Russian sanctions.
According to the CBS News survey, 43 percent Republicans feel that it’s either very or somewhat likely that Trump’s team had an inappropriate relationship with Russia.
Trump Jr. claimed client-attorney privilege to explain his refusal to divulge what he and elder Trump talked about following the secret June 9 meeting with Russian officials at Trump Tower.
It’s time for Democrats to remember that the sitting President of the United States still has paid no political or legal price for his own behavior.
The question of what Russia was supposed to get in return for helping Trump win the election was answered today as a bombshell text from Mike Flynn to a business partner promised to rip up the Obama sanctions on Russia as one of Flynn’s first orders of business.
After refusing to say that accused pedophile Roy Moore doesn’t belong in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in no position to call on Al Franken to resign.
Time magazine has named the social movement aimed at raising awareness about sexual harassment and assault, epitomized by the #MeToo social media hashtag, as the most influential “person” in 2017, the publication announced on Wednesday.
Sen. Al Franken’s office has scheduled an announcement for Thursday with all signs pointing toward the Minnesota Senator announcing his resignation.
At least six female senators have asked Minnesota Senator Al Franken to step down.
Walter Shaubâ€, who specializes in government ethics and is a former Director of the US Office of Government Ethics, blasted Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act (again) by spending almost a quarter hour defending Roy Moore on Wednesday.
The senator of Connecticut, says that there is a “credible case” against Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.
Lawmakers said they want to question him about a meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 at Trump Tower in New York at which he had said he hoped to get information about the “fitness, character and qualifications” of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat his father defeated in last year’s race for the White House.
“What is needed, very bluntly, is protection for the special counsel, because what we see more and more of is the threats and intimidation from the White House that has to be stopped through legislation I’ve offered,” he said in a CNN interview.
Trump, Bannon said, “understands where Roy Moore stands.” He called the Alabama Senate race “a referendum on the Trump program.”
In the final stretch of a bruising U.S. Senate race in Alabama, Democrat Doug Jones has cranked up his attacks on Republican Roy Moore over allegations of sexual misconduct and made those charges central to his argument that Moore is an unsuitable choice.
In a normal administration, the question of whether or not the president thinks Muslims should be banned from serving in Congress would be an easy one for the White House press secretary to answer, but since it’s Donald Trump in office, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has no idea what the answer is. On Monday, Trump officially…
Rachel Maddow explains why the Deutsche Bank subpoena is the great investigative leap forward that should terrify Trump.
K.T. McFarland, Trump’s nominee for the Singapore ambassador position, lied when she claimed to have no knowledge of contact with Russians.
With new polls showing that accused sexual predator Judge Roy Moore has regained the lead in the Alabama senatorial race, some Republicans are scrambling to avoid having their party remembered as the one who put an alleged pedophile in office. One of them is Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, who tweeted a photo of a $100…
MSNBC’s Ari Melber highlighted the case of Summer Zervos who is suing Trump for defamation after he called her a liar when accused him of sexual assault.
Deutsche Bank didn’t just get subpoenaed by Robert Mueller. They’ve been sending records of Trump’s financial dealings to the Special Counsel for weeks.
Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics after evidence emerged of widespread doping but some of its athletes will be allowed to compete under the tag of “Olympic Athlete of Russia”, the IOC said on Tuesday.
A new Quinnipiac University Poll suggests that a Democratic wave is building in 2018, as voters overwhelmingly want Democrats in control of Congress.
Donald Trump celebrated the Republican tax cut bill that will raise taxes on the middle class while cutting them for the wealthy and corporations fantastic.
“It’s death to Democrats” is how Trump campaign tax policy adviser Stephen Moore described the Republican tax bill in an interview.
Republican strategist Rick Tyler is warning his party that they have made a deal with the devil (Trump) and that they lose badly in 2018 if they follow the devil’s lead and support Roy Moore.
Trump was dealt a body blow as Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed his financial records from Deutsche Bank.
John Conyers, the longest serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, will announce on Tuesday he does not plan to run for re-election, U.S. media said following accusations of sexual harassment against the Michigan Democrat.
It’s not a good place for the White House to be when their only remaining argument in defense of Donald Trump is that he is above the law.
According to the Republican senator, alleged child molestation is A-okay so long as a sufficient number of years pass before you’re caught.
Trump’s move will pave the way for this cherished land to be used for mining, oil drilling and other energy industry projects.Â
Mueller wants to make sure Manafort remains under house arrest after it was revealed that the former Trump campaign manager recently ghostwrote an op-ed with a Russian operative.
The case against Trump for obstruction of justice is getting even stronger after CNN reported that the President knew that Mike Flynn lied to the FBI weeks before he fired him.
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…
According to the New York Times, Trump has claimed that the tape is fake in separate talks with a senator and an adviser this year.Â
New polls show Moore regaining ground in the Alabama senatorial race and give him an overall lead of 3.2 points.
Trump stuck to his script as he was leaving the White House for Utah, but when he was asked about Mike Flynn, it all fell apart.
Trump’s lawyers are preemptively making the argument that the president can’t obstruct justice, which means that they are laying out a legal defense in the expectation that charges are coming concerning the Russia scandal.
With just a little over a week to go until Alabama votes a new senator into office, President Trump officially endorsed Republican candidate Roy Moore on Monday.
136 women leaders who are current and former elected officials, non-profit board members, community leaders and members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party have released a statement of support for Sen. Al Franken (D-MN).
Special counsel Robert Mueller removed an FBI agent, Peter Strzok, from the Russia investigation team for expressing anti-Trump sentiments.
The FBI Agents Association blasted Donald Trump for attacking the credibility of FBI agents as part of his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) suggested that rich people deserve tax cuts more than working class people because working class people spend all of their money on booze, women, or movies.
