House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) flatly stated that Congress would get the whole Mueller report, even the redacted sections. Adam Schiff Vows To Get The Mueller Report Schiff said during an interview with MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow: We’re going to compel the release of the report. This report is all going to come…
McConnell enraged Democrats in 2016 when he refused to hold confirmation hearings or a vote on Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
At the time, McConnell said that choice should be made by the winner of the November 2016 presidential election, which turned out to be Trump.
Trump went on a Twitter tirade on Friday night where he said that Republicans should take their “victory” and refuse to release the Mueller report.
In his latest letter to Congress, Attorney General Barr said that he would not be sending the Mueller report to Trump to edit, but he will be editing the report for Trump himself.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will probably talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping about the crisis in Venezuela.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on Friday that Attorney General William Barr should send Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report to Congress without redactions. “As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access…
“I do not believe it would be in the public’s interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or release it in serial or piecemeal fashion,” he wrote.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would end the collection of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Agency in an effort to undo a widely criticized security measure passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. “The NSA’s sprawling phone records dragnet was born…
White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Friday that President Donald Trump is eager for a U.S. trade deal with Britain once it breaks away from the European Union.
Editor’s Note: Other news sources report that Trump will be allowed to assert executive privilege but hasn’t said that he will. Executive privilege is not typical with special counsel investigations. By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to issue a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s nearly 400-page…
By Jose Luis Gonzalez EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants are being held in a chain link enclosure in El Paso, Texas as the number of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the city overwhelms U.S. Border Patrol facilities, the agency said on Thursday. The enclosure holds migrants crossing the border illegally in…
Rush Limbaugh suggested that Republicans may be doomed in 2020 if Trump keeps attacking Obamacare.
Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made it clear that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn’t going anywhere as she also took out Devin Nunes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico “doesn’t immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the United States” from the region. Trump has repeatedly vowed to close the U.S. border with Mexico in the…
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday stuck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy skimpy health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act requirements – part of administration efforts to chip away at the healthcare law. Judge John Bates of the…
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told lawmakers on Thursday he did not know whether any of the approvals he authorized for U.S. companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia were made after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October last year.
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said in the document that the companies had requested that the Trump administration keep the approvals secret.
Donald Trump is really going off the rails. His crazy antics might be funny if he weren’t the most powerful man in the world, who has the codes to America’s nuclear weapons. As head of both the U.S. military and the U.S. law enforcement agencies, Trump is in a unique position to abuse his power…
For the past five days Donald Trump has continually claimed that he has been “totally exonerated†by Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. But a new poll released Friday shows that the majority of Americans are skeptical and are not buying Trump’s claims of exoneration. The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll…
Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was on CNN this morning and told host John Berman that he believes Adam Schiff has nothing to apologize for when it comes to accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia. He also said that Bill Barr’s summary of the Mueller report will not absolve Donald Trump of his…
MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch thinks Donald Trump is “repulsive†and “disgusting to look at.†Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough thinks Trump is “pathetic†and “sad.†As a result, Deutsch said this morning, the president should not be attacking or making fun of the appearance of anyone else. And Scarborough joined Deutsch as together they mocked Trump…
Donald Trump keeps trying to undo the nation’s healthcare protections, and he keeps losing in court. The latest loss came when a federal judge struck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy cheap health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requirements. The rule…
