Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said she agreed with Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and several of her other colleagues’ assessment a “constitutional crisis” was underway given the Trump administration was not cooperating fully with congressional
Trump called McGahn on June 17, 2017, and told him to call Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and tell him to remove Mueller because of conflicts of interest. McGhan did not comply.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that it is “quite possible” that if Attorney General nominee William Barr is confirmed and Trump asks him to do something that is immoral, Barr would resign, and “you would see
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated that the DOJ’s independence has been eroding and “it certainly looks like a Saturday Night Massacre in slow motion.” Host Andrea Mitchell asked, “So, how concerned are
Legendary conservative columnist and author Pat Buchanan discussed the firing of FBI Director James Comey with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily. As Kassam humorously observed, the current media firestorm over the ostensibly “Nixonian” firing of FBI Director James Comey was excellent publicity for Buchanan’s new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” former NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw dismissed comparisons of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey a day earlier to former President Richard Nixon’s 1973 firing of Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor named
The problem goes much further than one official. Trump’s opponents are burrowed throughout the federal bureaucracy, and at senior as well as junior levels.
President Donald Trump’s firing of a politically motivated official—now-former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, for her refusal to enforce the laws of the nation and carry out the administration’s policy—harkens back to a previous president who faced a similar crisis at the beginning of his administration.
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” journalist, author, and CNN commentator Carl Bernstein argued that while it wasn’t “wise” for President Trump to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, “There’s a big difference” between Trump’s actions and Richard Nixon’s during
