With a seemingly hostile special counsel team, led by Robert Mueller, fishing for crimes to pin on Trump and his associates, the president’s new pick for DOJ would be politically radioactive no matter their qualifications.
Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh argued President Donald Trump’s ire was misappropriated at his Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Department of Justice’s appointment of a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between Russia
During a preview of clip of an interview set to air on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein weighed in the leaks of former FBI Director James Comey’s memos of his conversations
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has become notorious over the past several weeks for interrupting witnesses testifying on Capitol Hill — or, to her liberal fans, for being “silenced” by her white male Republican colleagues. Now she is turning those confrontation into campaign dollars.
Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has offered an odd defense of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), whose habit of interrupting Cabinet members during Senate hearings — and being rebuked by the chair — has made her a heroine on the left.
ABC News reported Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel for the Russia investigation last month, may be considering recusing himself from that investigation.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued a stern warning on Thursday, urging caution in using “anonymous ‘officials’.”
CNN cut away from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, seconds after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised concerns that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had hired a former Clinton Foundation attorney to assist with the probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Reputed Trump confidant and Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy told PBS News’s Judy Woodruff Monday that President Donald Trump is considering dismissing Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to a tweet by Woodruff.
The Washington Post has published a “blind item” White House report — where not only its sources but the subject of the article is anonymous.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Rachel Brand as associate attorney general, the third-highest position at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Viewed in isolation, the decision to appoint a special counsel is defensible, even good. But viewed in recent historical context, itl is unfair and indefensible.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told a Baltimore audience Monday that the 24-hour news cycle is “not the verdict of history,” referring to the media firestorm surrounding his role in the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
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.
Democrats would have gone at least as bonkers as they are today if Trump fired Comey as one of his first official acts.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe told senators that there has been “no effort” to impede the bureau’s investigation of Russian interference in the election and any Trump campaign collusion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emerging from the Senate chambers on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence said President Donald Trump “made the right decision at the right time” with Tuesday’s announcement that he has fired FBI Director James Comey.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for an all-senators briefing to pose questions to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and stated, “No doubt, we’ll have
Democrats’ overcaffeinated cries over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ statements on Russian contacts is an attempt to obfuscate the plain truth: Sessions’ pledge to recuse is an act of statesmanship, not a suggestion that he did anything wrong. It was also brilliant politics.
