The U.S. special counsel investigating possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles in January 2017 was an attempt to set up a back-channel between the incoming Trump administration and the Kremlin.
“If this is what is leaking out from Don McGahn, what else is he telling Mueller about Donald Trump in private?”
According to the MSNBC host, the president’s brain either isn’t fully functioning, or he is trying to intimidate key witnesses in Mueller’s probe.
Florida state lawmakers gave final passage on Wednesday to a gun-safety bill that would raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all firearms sales, and allow the arming of some public school employees.
Even before Wednesday’s news, Robert Mueller appeared to have more than enough evidence to go after Trump for obstructing justice. The fact that the president has also been probing key witnesses for information about what they discussed with investigators is just icing on the cake.
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) tried to say that Republicans were for limited government interference when NBC’s Chuck Todd called the Trump tariff a lot of government interference. Video: "Small government" Republican Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) can't defend Trump's government interference tariffs. https://t.co/hTt2NlZmC7 pic.twitter.com/6kWRIBAYbN — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March…
A nerve agent was used to deliberately poison a former Russian double agent and his daughter, Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer said on Wednesday, in a case that threatens to further damage London’s ties with Moscow.
Texas appears poised to send the first Latinas from the heavily Hispanic state to the U.S. Congress after two women won Democratic primary elections for congressional seats considered safe for the party in November, results on Wednesday showed.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump’s administration of declaring war on the most populous U.S. state, after the Justice Department sued to stop policies that protect illegal immigrants against deportation.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was reduced to talked point babble as a reporter pushed her on the chaos in Trump’s White House. Video: Sarah Huckabee Sanders can't handle the question when asked about White House chaos. https://t.co/3HCFsz6rkV pic.twitter.com/AwemKAhYEu — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 7, 2018 Here was the exchange between ABC’s Cecilia Vega and Sanders:…
Brent Bozell is set to attend a White House meeting that is following the NRA’s script by pinning the blame for the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida on video games.
Two Democratic senators on Wednesday asked major vendors of U.S. voting equipment whether they have allowed Russian entities to scrutinize their software, saying the practice could allow Moscow to hack into American elections infrastructure.
MSNBC dumps a Trump speech to the Latino Coalition Legislative Summit as he was rambling and delivering his usual misleading and false statements. Video: MSNBC dumps Trump's rambling speech to Latino group after 4 minutes. #MSNBC https://t.co/gMZJAtV5yd pic.twitter.com/yhYj4n4gR0 — PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) March 7, 2018 MSNBC cut into the speech at 12:04 PM ET, and by…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) how the bill to weaken Dodd-Frank regulations that is poised for Senate passage is setting up the US for another bank bailout disaster. Video: Elizabeth Warren perfectly explains why the banking bill poised for Senate passage is a disaster. https://t.co/nYqDClgkjR pic.twitter.com/hoyjsGyzHA — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 7, 2018 Warren said,…
State figures show that more than 1 million Democrats cast votes in primary races across the state on Tuesday, almost twice as many as in 2014, the last time primaries were held for a midterm election.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is running for re-election and, after winning his primary race on Tuesday, he immediately released a radio ad attacking Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O’Rourke. The ad is a 60-second country jingle with lyrics insisting that a liberal man can’t represent Texas, that O’Rourke wants to take away firearms away from gun…
Yet another sign that a Democratic blue wave is coming manifested on Tuesday after voters of the party in Texas went out in droves to cast their ballots for the primary elections. Roughly 1.5 million Democrats had voted by Wednesday morning, a dramatic increase from the one million who voted in the previous primary. Whereas…
With the departure of Gary Cohn, an unsettling power vacuum is taking hold of the Trump White House, making it even more vulnerable to the president’s lost-in-the-dark stumbles and wild, random shifts that send the entire government careening after his latest whim.
Matt Furie, the artist behind the internet famous cartoon Pepe the Frog, is suing Alex Jones, founder of the alt-right conspiracy theory website InfoWars. While Pepe had long been a popular meme online, the character was co-opted by the alt-right during the 2016 election and images of him quickly became some of the most frequently…
A majority of Republican lawmakers in the tightest congressional races are changing their message on guns, expressing new support for restrictions after last month’s high school shooting in Florida, according to a Reuters review of the candidates’ public statements.
The following is a partial list of officials who have been fired or have left the administration since Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017, as well as people who were nominated by him for a position but did not take the job:
