The documents listed 10 journalists, an attorney and 47 others, some of them labeled organizers and instigators from the United States and elsewhere. The NBC affiliate in San Diego, KNSD-TV, said it received the documents from an unidentified source in the Department of Homeland Security.
Maddow asked: If the allegations of a Trump campaign conspiracy with Russia aren’t being used against Manafort, who are they being used against?Â
Paul Manafort’s lawyer’s spewed the same talking points as Donald Trump following Thursday’s sentencing, suggesting that a pardon is still on the table.
Glenn Kirschner tore into Judge T.S. Ellis III for ignoring Robert Mueller’s sentencing guidelines and giving Paul Manafort a 47-month sentence.
Judge T.S. Ellis III – appointed by Ronald Reagan – didn’t seem to care much about Manafort’s crimes or his lack of remorse.
House Democrats will force a vote next week on the releasing the Mueller report, as the battle begins to make Mueller’s findings public.
Rachel Maddow beat Fox News’s Hannity by nearly a million viewers on Wednesday night to be most popular show on cable television.
Just as Trump claims that he doesn’t watch CNN, but he does, with a single tweet, the president confirmed that he watches MSNBC. Trump tweeted: Breaking News @MSNBC: “Cohen’s lawyer contradicts Cohen’s testimony about never seeking a Presidential Pardon.†— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2019 Of course, Trump used his tweet to parse…
A House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim, and other hated failed to pass unanimously as a group of Republicans voted for hate.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that after Democrats take back the Senate and the White House, they should expand the Supreme Court to wipe out the damage that Trump and the GOP have done and restore judicial norms.
A new poll shows that two-thirds of the American people oppose Trump’s national emergency, and it is a looming disaster for Republicans.
Michael Cohen is taking the Trump Organization to court after they agreed to pay his legal bills that they agreed to pay for.
From breaking into computers to paying for a megaphone, Russian efforts to undermine the U.S. political system have been spelled out in detail by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has described an elaborate campaign of hacking and propaganda during the 2016 presidential race.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has become one of the few Democrats who has decided not to run for president in 2020.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has introduced a new bill that would stop Trump or any other president from using pardons for personal gain or to obstruct justice. According to a statement provided to PoliticusUSA by Rep. Schiff, “The legislation would require that if the President pardons someone in connection with an…
According to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Ilhan Omar needs additional security because she is receiving death threats because after her controversial comments.
U.S. embassy and security officials in Saudi Arabia say they were shocked when they learned that presidential adviser and son in law Jared Kushner cut them out of the loop completely during his recent trip to the country. The fact that Kushner kept U.S. officials totally in the dark about his trip has led to…
Donald Trump’s biographer thinks our current president is about to go through hell. Writing in Bloomberg,Tim O’Brien has predicted that the coming months will be excruciatingly painful for Trump, as House Democrats conduct a thorough probe of his personal finances. O’Brien is considered an expert on Trump’s finances after doing more than a decade of…
J.T. Smith II, executive assistant to Attorney General Elliot Richardson during the Watergate scandal, writes in this morning’s New York Times that current Attorney General William Barr must reconsider the Justice Department (DOJ) policy against indicting a sitting president. According to Smith, the current DOJ legal position was reached in 2000, but the directive against…
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was not impressed with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen‘s testimony before Congress yesterday. The Morning Joe co-host not only criticized Nielsen but also said  “she’s become the face of the Trump administration’s abuse of children at the border.†Nielsen was on Capitol Hill on to brief the House Homeland…
Nancy Pelosi’s newest battle is not against Republicans, but against forces that are tearing apart the unity of Democrats in the House. And Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are now involved as well. The three U.S. Senators all came to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar for her remarks that critics…
