On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) said the House’s party-line vote on formalizing impeachment procedures was because the Republican Party is a “personality cult” for Donald Trump. Himes said, “It is very sad that this is
On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said “all transcripts” from the House’s impeachment inquiry will be made public.
During Wednesday’s “New Day” on CNN, host Alisyn Camerota pressed Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) on impeachment, asking him what the House Democrats are waiting for when it comes to voting on articles of impeachment given that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) believes there is ample evidence of obstruction of justice against President Donald Trump.
Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) weighed in on additional so-called whistleblowers coming forward claiming to have first-hand information about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president. “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said that Trump is always
It would be an “impeachable offense” if President Trump talked about Joe Biden with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) on Monday.
In an interview Wednesday on CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) commented on former FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s forced testimony before Congress coming next month. Himes cautioned that he does not “expect to learn a lot new”
Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) on Wednesday advised that former FBI special counsel Robert Mueller will be subpoenaed, taking House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) comments from the day before that “time is running out” for Mueller to testify voluntarily a
Thursday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) if he would like to see President Donald Trump in prison, as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly said. Himes said, “This isn’t about my
During Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) revealed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “has absolutely not taken impeachment off the table.” Himes added that he does not think Pelosi “ever would” take impeachment off the table. “Nancy
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s second accuser on Monday likened the potential 2020 presidential contender to disgraced Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and suggested he not seek the White House, according to a report.
A Connecticut woman has come forward to accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate touching at a political fundraiser in Greenwich in 2009, the second allegation of its kind against the potential 2020 presidential contender in recent days.
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) reacted to the Democratic National Committee’s decision to skip over Fox News Channel for its primary debates for the 2020 presidential election cycle. Hime told co-host Alisyn Camerota he did not think
During Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) suggested there was “very credible evidence” showing President Donald Trump “committed very serious crimes.” “There are at least four or five areas where there is very credible evidence that the
Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) on Friday’s “Fox & Friends” defended the House Democrats launching a probe into possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump, saying the Republican-controlled House “abruptly stopped” the investigations. Without citing evidence of collusion, Himes pointed to
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said he doesn’t trust President Trump with America’s national security. Guest host Joy Reid asked, “[D]o you trust Donald Trump with the national security of the United States?” Himes
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said Democrats are “heading into a messy early January” due to the battle over whether House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be the speaker. Himes said, “Well, you know,
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) reacted to the firing of FBI agent Peter Strzok by stating that President Trump is “engineering a fear campaign within the FBI” against anyone who will stand up
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour” conducted before the release of the DOJ IG’s report on the Clinton email investigation, Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said that there is “a credible argument” that former FBI Director James Comey’s actions
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” host Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) if the public “would really want to go ahead with impeachment” if special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t find that President Donald Trump had committed a crime. Partial transcript
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s future in the administration appeared to hang in the balance Friday as competing predictions made the rounds in Washington.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that while it is fair to discuss whether former FBI Director James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton email matter properly, “people will rot in hell for besmirching
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) argued Congress “is in the thrall of the NRA” and “The opponents of actually doing the things that we could do, that every other country has done, to reduce
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson called out Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, for a 2013 appearance on Russia state-owned RT, which has been deemed an arm of
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) accused Republicans of engaging in a “profoundly unpatriotic” effort to sow doubt in the fairness of the FBI without any evidence. Himes stated, “[T]his [the House GOP Intel memo] is
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) slammed those pushing for the release of a three-page memo generated by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee. Host Chris Matthews postulated the release of this memo was being done to damage the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that the outcry over messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and the gap in the records of their messages is a conspiracy without any evidence “done to
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) expressed support for a ban on semi-automatic rifles. Himes said the Las Vegas shooter “appears to have had something like three dozen guns, some of which were modifiable to
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) stated President Trump “trades in” the decline of factories and “nurtures fear, paints a dark picture of the future and blames immigrants, Muslims, Democrats, and the media. He promises walls and
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) argued that if Hillary Clinton was in the White House and Chelsea Clinton had engaged in the same conduct as Donald Trump Jr., there would be impeachment proceedings and right-wing militias
Saturday on MSNBC, host Alex Witt asked Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) if he believes the gun proposals that will be voted on Monday by Congress would have stopped last week’s Orlando shooting. Himes responded by saying that question is not
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) said Saturday on MSNBC that the National Rifle Association has “spurred on” a cult that is “dedicated to the idea” that considering background checks for guns is actually opening the door to President Barack Obama taking
Addressing the shooting in Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood last Friday, Connecticut’s Democrat lawmakers said on Monday that verbalizing opposition to Planned Parenthood “can inflame someone who may want to take action.”
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) took to Twitter to brag that his state’s Obamacare online exchange, Access Health CT, received 28,000 visitors on day one–and took just 167 insurance applications. That works out to a 0.59% conversion rate of visitors to
Congressman Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Governor Rick Perry “had blood on his hands” for supporting the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
Did we just hear Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal try to blame local journalists for his ‘misspoken’ words about his Vietnam war record? When Blumenthal was asked at Tuesday’s press conference why he didn’t correct published accounts of his Vietnam
It’s common knowledge that our immigration system is broken. What follows is an example of how broken it is. A couple of years ago, I wrote about the case of 41-year-old Anatolie Vartosu. Born and raised in Moldova, Vartosu was