Tuesday on Bloomberg, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he recommended chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Merrick Garland to President Donald Trump to replace James Comey as FBI Director. McConnell said, “I have spoken with
The White House called the Washington Post story “false.” The real story is who is leaking classified intelligence to the Post.
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified last week in Congress. While the overarching media narrative focused on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s potential compromise by Russia, there are other important facts.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.), who served as head of the CIA and the NSA said the firing of FBI Director James Comey “will chill the bureaucracy, let me call it the permanent government…the
Despite histrionics from the mainstream media and Democratic lawmakers over President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week, latest polling shows the public are greeting the “scandal” with a resounding “meh.”
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow the firing of FBI Director James Comey was a “good thing” on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” discussing President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) called that investigation “a fight for the soul of our
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that he supports a proposal by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) to block the confirmation of the next FBI director until a special prosecutor is named to investigate allegations of collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government.
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said President Donald Trump and his administration were “afraid” of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” during the panel discussion about President Donald Trump firing FBI Director James Comey, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward known for his 1972 Watergate said the Comey firing was “not yet Watergate.” Woodward said,
On Sunday’s broadcast CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said the way President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey exacerbated “the erosion of trust in our institutions.” Sasse said, “I’m not sure how this president makes lots of
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said President Donald Trump must be impeached. Tribe said, “He’s shown no respect for the rule of law. He regards himself as above the law. He thinks it’s appropriate to
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” during a panel discussion segment about President Donald Trump firing FBI Director James Comey, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan said argued that what “obsesses us in Washington” doesn’t necessarily obsess the rest of the country.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-NV) former chief of staff, Josh Holmes, said on Sunday he believes his former boss would support the nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland as FBI director.
Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” while discussing President Donald Trump firing FBI Director James Comey, host Fareed Zakaria said Trump’s rhetoric actions posed “a danger to American democracy.” Zakaria said, “As regular viewers know, I have tried to evaluate Donald
On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said President Donald Trump should “back off” and stop tweeting or comment about the investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. Partial transcript as follows: GRAHAM:
Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reacted to President Donald Trump firing FBI Director James Comey and pointed out that as president, Trump can fire whomever he wants. “The president is the
WASHINGTON, DC — The American homeland is facing “the most frequent and unpredictable” Islamic terrorist threat from Sunni “U.S.-based homegrown violent extremists (HVEs),” warns the most recent Worldwide Threat Assessment issued by the United States intelligence community (IC).
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said our institutions of government were “under assault” by President Donald Trump. Partial transcript as follows: TAPPER: Let’s take a wider view of this for one
Saturday at a town hall in her home district in Los Angeles, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who has called for impeachment several times, told President Donald Trump she is coming for him. Discussing President Trump firing FBI Director James Comey,
During this week’s “Saturday Night Live,” Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump spoke with NBC’s Lester Holt, played by Michael Che, in an interview. In the skit, Baldwin admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because he was investigating the alleged ties to
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Saturday in an interview on MSNBC that the country was in the “midst of a constitutional crisis,” and added that President Donald Trump’s decision last week to fire FBI Director James Comey was “an urgent
Calls for a special counsel to pursue a possible Russia investigation are dead wrong on the law, as are calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to advise President Trump on selecting a new FBI director. This is politics at its most cynical.
Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Bulls & Bears,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, who was also a White House aide during the Nixon administration, was skeptical of the possibility of President Donald Trump having a recording device. Many have argued he
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) used her time at the podium giving a commencement speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to slam the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions regarding President Donald’s Trump decision to fire James Comey as FBI director and the Department of Justice’s effort to replace him.
President Trump hinted that it is “possible” that the FBI’s top post will be filled by Friday, according to a White House press pool report released Saturday.
Americans watched the firing of James Comey this week through two different lenses, as Democrats, and the media, kept talking up impeachment.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to the firing of FBI Director James Comey by saying, “Would you like a little banana with your republic?” Maher said, “Trump has his people tell this story about Hillary and
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued President Trump “loves these authoritarian figures,” and is “dimming the beacon of hope for the rest of the world.” Schiff said of the Russia investigation, “If there was
Friday on “CBS This Morning,” long-time CBS News personality Bob Schieffer reacted President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey earlier this week. While many have made comparisons to Trump’s handling of Comey to Watergate, Schieffer said he saw
Every time the Washington political press freaks out and goes into full panic mode against President Trump, the blockbuster, Watergate-volume story always unfolds the same way.
Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI director James Comey did not create the social media firestorm Democrats and the mainstream media hoped it would, according to data from SocialFlow.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer stated President Trump’s tweet about former FBI Director James Comey “sounds more like a mafia boss than the president of a free republic.” Krauthammer said, “When you
Reports from Washington indicate that Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is on the short list to take over the position of FBI director following the firing of James Comey.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Democratic Whip Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) declared, “President Trump is dangerous.” Durbin said, “President Trump is dangerous. Dangerous because he may be obstructing justice in terms of the investigation that really goes
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday rebutted reports that President Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to pledge loyalty to him.
President Trump warned former FBI Director James Comey Friday morning, after accounts surfaced in the press about a dinner they had in January, attributed to Comey associates.
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley discussed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s role in appointing a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. According to Turley, the
President Donald Trump floated the idea of canceling the White House press briefings, expressing his frustration with the media for jumping on contradicting information from both himself and his press staff.
Former FBI Director James Comey is now leaking details of a private dinner with President Donald Trump to the media, through some of his close associates.