By Patricia Zengerle and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s Republican allies tangled with one of Trump‘s most prominent Democratic critics during a chaotic congressional hearing on Thursday and the U.S. attorney general revealed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s Russia inquiry report is more than 300 pages long. Hours after Trump went on…
Maddow cited previous investigations which released their reports either to Congress or the public almost immediately after they concluded.
While MSNBC and CNN largely steered clear of Trump’s rally, Fox News devoted its airtime to the president as he threw a grade school tantrum in Michigan.
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday appeared at a closed door meeting of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee for the second time, four congressional sources said. It was not known what topics were discussed with Kushner, who is involved in developing an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan…
Donald Trump repeatedly overstated his wealth on documents to lenders. Now, these documents are the focus of multiple investigations.
Trump threw his own Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under the bus as he falsely claimed that he has funded Special Olympics.
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the op-ed column that may vault think tank analyst Stephen Moore to a spot on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, he argues the Fed could have skirted recent rate hikes and dodged a wave of criticism by tying monetary policy to commodity prices. The Fed, Moore wrote…
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said that the Mueller report contains evidence against that anyone who reads it will view as damning.
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the U.S. Department of Interior, a former energy lobbyist, faced tough questions during his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday about potential conflicts of interest and the administration’s unpopular plan to expand offshore oil drilling.
Republicans and Trump think that they can run on the economy in 2020, but the Trump economy is growing less than Obama’s.
By Tom Miles and Tim Hepher GENEVA/PARIS (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored its request to halt a subsidized tax break for Boeing in its main planemaking state of Washington as a 15-year-old transatlantic trade row edges toward tit-for-tat sanctions. The European Union said the WTO appeal…
Adam Schiff has turned the Trump attack on him into a platform to make the case that Trump colluded with the Russians.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) unloaded on Republicans after they called for him to resign as chairman of the committee. After Trump accused him of a crime, and Republicans tried to pressure him to step down from the committee, Schiff said: My colleagues may think it’s ok that the Russians offered dirt…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday overturned the Trump administration’s approval of plans by the states of Kentucky and Arkansas to impose work requirements on people seeking to obtain benefits from the Medicaid health insurance program. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ruled that the U.S. Department of Health and…
For wacky conspiracy theories you can’t beat Fox & Friends, Donald Trump’s favorite morning television show. Earlier this year they said that lower tax refunds this year were the fault of the American taxpayers instead of the Trump administration. And today they said that Former CIA Director John Brennan was behind the Mueller investigation, and…
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this morning filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that the company engages in advertising practices that facilitate housing discrimination based on racial, ethnic and religious differences. Breaking: HUD has just charged Facebook with “encouraging, enabling, and causing housing discrimination through the company’s advertising platform.†https://t.co/jglDmBIQk9 —…
CNN’s Joan Walsh has advised likely 2020 Democratic president candidate Joe Biden not to run, according to a report this morning in The Hill. According to Walsh, it would be better if Biden would support a woman candidate. She said that Biden has been saying that he wants to change what the former vice president…
Here’s an interesting question: if Donald Trump and his aides in the White House are claiming total exoneration from the Mueller report, why are they refusing to release the report that supposedly exonerates them? And here’s an equally interesting answer: because the Mueller report does NOT exonerate Donald Trump, but actually contains evidence of collusion…
A new poll shows that Donald Trump is in trouble. According to the highly respected Quinnipiac University poll, the majority of American voters have already made up their minds that they will not vote to reelect the president in next year’s election. The poll also found that in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race, with…
