House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) warned that the Russia scandal goes way beyond Trump. He added that a lot of people might have legal problems with this scandal, but people should lose of Russia’s interference with our democracy.
At a donor dinner, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged people to pay less attention to the Trump Russia scandal, and instead focus on Islamic terrorism, youth unemployment, and the rise of China.
In a video that should turn the stomachs of everyone who cares about democracy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov can be seen laughing and joking about Donald Trump giving him classified secrets.
“I’m convinced that he’s nuts. I thought he belonged in an institution. He was crazy before he became president. Now he’s really crazy.â€
Holding the president accountable for trying to block an investigation – a criminal act – doesn’t jive well with Trump’s supporters.
James Comey will testify that Donald Trump intended to interfere with the Russia investigation. His testimony will blow up the main defense that Republicans have been using that the President wasn’t trying to interfere with the investigation when he met with former FBI Director.
“People are less worried than they were six weeks ago, less afraid,” one German official said, according to the report. “Now they see the clownish nature.â€
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) on reacted to the latest Trump bombshells by saying, “These are two seismic revelations. This is an inflection point.”
Trump told the Russians that it relieved pressure from the investigation when he fired “nut job” Comey. Norm Eisen pointed out that this sounds a lot like collusion.
The news that the criminal investigation of the Russia scandal has reached a senior Trump adviser in the West Wing of the White House is the latest crippling blow for an administration on the verge of collapse.
In 2012, the FBI warned Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) that Russian spies were trying to recruit him. This new report takes aim at the “just joking” defense made by Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in regards to the explosive report that in June of 2016 they were discussing Putin paying Donald Trump.
Rachel Maddow demonstrated why Vice President Mike Pence is not only implicated in the Russia scandal, but he is a central figure in the scandal which has publicly told many lies that will ruin his career.
James Comey almost took desperate measures to avoid being noticed by Donald Trump.
Weeks after taking office, President Trump reportedly called former FBI Director James Comey to ask when federal authorities would publicly state that he wasn’t under investigation, according to yet another Comey bomb dropped by Mike Schmidt.
Recusal means nothing to those close to this president, especially since they know the facts are increasingly pushing this presidency toward complete collapse.
People don’t just disapprove of the job he’s doing or believe his policies are bad for the country. They consider him a clear and present danger to the safety of the United States of America.
The DOJ’s decision to appoint Robert Mueller as special counsel to take over the Trump/Russia investigation was met with approval by Democrats, some Republicans.
Trump’s joint press conference with the Colombian president did severe damage to his presidency, as Trump bashed the special counsel investigation while trying to distance himself from the Russia scandal and offering delusional answers like everyone in America thinks the idea of impeaching him is ridiculous.
During a press conference, Trump denied that he personally colluded with Russia, but said that he could only speak for himself, not his campaign.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told US Senators in a briefing that Russia investigation has moved from counterintelligence into a criminal probe.
Former CIA Director Brennan will finally testify in open session before House Intel Committee next Tuesday as part of Russia probe, Rep. Adam Schiff announced.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) explained why Vice President Mike Pence, who headed the Trump transition team, may go down with Trump in the Russia scandal if he knew that Mike Flynn was under investigation in January 2017.
Now comes a suggestion of possible witness tampering by Donald Trump.
Last month, fired and under investigation Mike Flynn – who was seeking immunity to testify to Congress, was meeting with friends when he told them the president had just sent him a message to stay strong.
Republican political strategist Rick Wilson, who knows a thing or two about D.C., has some rather terrifying advice for White House staffers. It’s time to save yourselves.
President Trump was let out of his cage long enough to tweet, and it appears to be the real Donald because there’s a misspelling, that the special counsel appointed to investigate his possible collusion with Russia is the “single greatest witch hunt in American history.”
Administration officials are trying to remain calm in public, but privately, they know the train is coming off the track.
Donald Trump knows that the longer this investigation goes on, the more likely it is that he will be forced out of office.
If there is anything the past week has taught us, it’s that Trump’s campaign promises weren’t totally empty after all.
The Trump White House was given no advance notice of the special counsel appointment, and it is being reported that Trump was completely blindsided by the announcement.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein has appointed former FBI Director Robert Muller to serve as special counsel to oversee the investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia.
Spicer was asked repeatedly during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to DC about the Comey memo, why Trump won’t release the tapes to prove his side, is the president lawyering up, is he concerned about the references to Watergate, and did he discuss his leaking of Israel’s highly classified information about an ISIS plot with Netanyahu. Phew.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) announced that former FBI Director James would testify before his committee at 9:30 AM next Wednesday. Mark the date on your calendar because it could be the beginning of the end for Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s firewall within the Republican congressional majority is crumbling as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has released a statement saying that she is open to appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the President.
When NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell asked Trump Sec. of State Rex Tillerson if Russia bugged the office, he laughed, and said, “I would have no way to know that,” before walking away.
While the White House and Republicans on the Hill try to pass off President Trump’s comments to Comey as “That’s just the way he talks,” Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) made an excellent case for obstruction of justice charges against Donald Trump, if the report about Comey’s memo is accurate.
The comparisons to Nixon just won’t quit as Nixon told Halderman to tell CIA to tell the FBI to stop the investigation.
Trump did the same thing, but even more directly. Trump just cut out the middleman and talked directly to the FBI Director.
A source close to former FBI Director James Comey said that he didn’t write memos about his conversations with President Obama because the conversations were routine and Obama was truthful.
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) called on former FBI Director James Comey to testify before Congress, saying Comey needs to “share what he knows”.
Notes attributed to then FBI Director James Comey show that President Trump asked him to stop investigating General Mike Flynn the day after Flynn was fired.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked Tuesday, “Do you have concerns with the President’s ability to properly handle classified information?”
Sen. McConnell replied, “No.”
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) warned early Tuesday afternoon that President Trump is endangering U.S. national security.
The problem for Trump, legally, isn’t that he gave classified intel to Russia. The president’s bigger problem is that this could be considered a violation of his oath of office and an impeachable offense.
While trying to clean up the scandal from Trump leaking classified intelligence to Russia, national security adviser H.R. McMaster made things even worse.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded that the White House make transcripts of Trump’s meeting with Russian officials available to Congress.
Schumer added, “And if the president has nothing to hide, he should direct that the transcript of the meeting be made available.”
The President of the United States is either knowingly handing over highly classified intelligence to a foreign adversary or he isn’t smart enough to know what constitutes classified information.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is speaking out and saying that Donald Trump is in desperate need of psychological help after the President leaked classified intelligence to the Russians.
Trump isn’t just leaking classified info, but he doesn’t seem to know what is and isn’t classified to begin with. Perhaps he should read his one-page briefings.
Last summer, referencing Hillary Clinton, Ryan said: “Individuals who are ‘extremely careless’ with classified information should be denied further access to such information.”
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster issued what could only be described as a non-denial denial.
When Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was told that Trump leaked classified intel to Russia the former maverick responded by weakly stating that the President has the right to leak intel to an enemy of America.
Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi made a move to tie Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to the Russia scandal by requesting that Ryan insists that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein brief the House on the Comey firing.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) strongly signaled that Democrats wouldn’t support Trump’s pick to be FBI director unless a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate Trump and Russia.
After being personally attacked and smeared by the Trump administration, former FBI Director James Comey says that he will testify, but only if the hearing is in public.
In a letter to Trump’s White House counsel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested that all tapes and correspondence between Trump and former FBI Director James Comey be turned over to congressional investigators.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) bluntly stated that Trump had caused a constitutional crisis and his possible ties to Russia and the Russian election interference was an act of treason.
Rep. Adam Schiff demanded that Trump turn over any secret recordings that he made in the White House to Congress, as the Russia scandal has taken another bad turn for Trump.
Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean dropped a profound truth when he stated that it is Trump, not Comey, who needs to worry about secret tapes.
The letter Trump mentioned on the air Thursday night about his interests in Russia was written by his attorney, from a firm that was recognized as “Russia Law Firm of the Year” in 2016, NBC Producer Frank Thorp noted.
The Trump lies are falling fast as former DNI James Clapper debunked Trump’s story of dinner with James Comey. According to Clapper, it was Trump who asked Comey to dinner, and Comey was reluctant to go, and this is important because it suggests that Trump’s true motive for the dinner was obstruction of justice.
Trump’s comments about and handling of James Comey’s firing has left the former director simmering as the FBI itself has resolved to get to the bottom of the Russia scandal.
There is yet another reason we need an independent special counsel to be in charge of the Trump Russia investigation.
Experts are making the case that Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice Rod Jay Rosenstein is now a witness to Donald Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice by demanding loyalty from fired FBI Director James Comey. As such, he can’t oversee the FBI investigation into Trump’s RussiaGate.
Donald Trump’s attorney made a big mistake on Friday when he claimed that the President Of The United States has no income from Russia, “with few exceptions.”
President Donald Trump tried to intimidate a witness Friday morning, tweeting, “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”
Donald Trump’s NBC interview appears to open him up to allegations listed in the charges of impeachment against Nixon, President Obama’s deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu pointed out early Friday morning. There are two specifically that Trump basically confessed to Thursday evening.
The firing appears to be the first step in Trump’s long-term goal of turning the FBI into an extension of his own political operation.
“We’re fiddling while Rome is burning. This president needs to be impeached. I believe that.”
“To anyone who may have been part of the plot? They’re (the FBI) going to find out and they (the people who colluded with Russia) are going to regret it,” counterterrorism analyst and intelligence expert Malcolm Nance said on MSNBC.
During his interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, President Donald Trump showed signs of mental instability when he claimed that the allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia are a made up plot by Democrats.
Sources inside the FBI are talking are they are saying that there is a lot of interfering going on with the Russia investigation.
A new NBC News/Survey Monkey poll shows that by nearly a 2 to 1 margin Americans believe that Trump fired Comey over Russia and not for any other reason.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused Trump of obstructing justice by firing James Comey to interfere with the Russia investigation.
During an interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, Trump admitted that the reasoning his own White House gave for the firing of James Comey was a lie.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe directly contradicted the White House when he said that Comey maintained broad support within the FBI.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had a message for those who are trying to obstruct the Russia investigation that the FBI can’t be stopped from doing the right thing and protecting the American people and the Constitution.
Republicans will do anything to avoid a real Russia investigation. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has come up with a reason to get rid of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is the acting director after President Trump fired James Comey, citing “political problems.”
“The president has to go overboard in appointing someone as the new FBI director that the Democrats are comfortable with so we can put this issue behind us.”
“This is what I call a Paul Revere moment. … The Russians are attacking our country and they will come again.”
If Republicans can’t put democracy first, they must step aside and let an independent commission do what they’re too cowardly to do.
An official timeline of Trump’s firing of Comey sent to PoliticusUSA from the White House left out the moment that now fired FBI Director James Comey asked for more resources for his accelerated Russia Trump investigation.
The bipartisan move by the Senate Intelligence Committee to force Flynn to hand over all records related to Russia suggests that they are unfazed by Trump’s firing of James Comey.
Republicans are openly worried that when Trump fired James Comey, he also blew up the Republican agenda for the rest of the year.
It is being reported that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey because he refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump and he accelerated the Russia investigation. If Trump fired Comey for investigating the Russia scandal, the president has committed an impeachable offense.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is trying to dodge the crisis that Trump created by refusing to answer questions about the firing of James Comey.
When asked about President Trump firing the man who is investigating him for possible collusion with a hostile foreign government, Mitch McConnell said he won’t talk about Comey beyond what he said on the floor.
“While investigations typically continue after a FBI director steps down, a director who is sympathetic or friendly to Trump could easily drag out the FBI probe.”
The Trump administration was so desperate to fire the FBI director that they used Clinton campaign material to justify it.
“There’s nobody left in America who believes that Donald Trump fired James Comey … because James Comey was mean to Hillary Clinton.”
The calls are getting louder in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey for Democrats to block Trump’s nominee to be the next FBI Director until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate Trump and Russia.
“This investigation must be run as far away as possible from this White House and as far away as possible from anyone that President Trump has appointed.”
Schiff went on slam Trump and Sessions for their conflicts of interest in firing Comey, comparing the act to “a similarly tainted decision by President Nixon.”
In his statement on the firing of James Comey, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made the argument no Trump picked FBI Director can be trusted to objectively carry out the Russia Investigation.
Why is Sessions involved in this decision if he has supposedly recused himself from all things related to Russia?
Donald Trump blew a kiss to FBI Director James Comey on January 22, and then Comey crossed the room and the two had a bro-brace that looked like they might burst into song together. Trump loved Comey on January 22, which is long after Comey mishandled Clinton’s emails.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) called Trump’s firing of James Comey Nixonian and demanded an independent investigation into Trump and Russia to uphold our nation’s system of justice.
“THE #TRUMPRUSSIA COVER UP IS OFFICIALLY IN EFFECT,” Malcolm Nance declared over a New York Times story about Trump firing the FBI Director who was investigating Trump for his ties to Russia.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) is warning that US democracy is in danger and calling for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to appoint a bipartisan commission to investigate Trump and Russia after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced at his daily briefing the latest Trump scheme to try to make the Russia scandal go away, and it involves sending a certified letter to the Senate proclaiming that he has no business dealings with Russia.
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom wrote in the Constitution that we had to worry about foreign interference,” Schumer warned on the Senate floor. “It’s happening now in a way that it has never happened before.”
The testimony that Sally Yates and James Clapper gave to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism dealt a fatal blow to the White House’s claims that the Russia story is fake news.
This is how you spell personal accountability. It took 18 days for the Trump White House to get rid of retired General Mike Flynn after they were told that he was being dishonest about his conversations with Russian officials.
