Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
The Senate is expected to vote this week on a measure to punish Russia with sanctions for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, and President Donald Trump would be "betraying democracy" if he vetoes it, Senator Lindsey Graham said. Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on CBS's "Face the Nation'' on Sunday that Russia must face retribution for hacking into Democratic Party emails and other actions -- from providing arms to the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers , to colluding to allow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to keep chemical weapons and being complicit as those munitions were used against children.
President Trump tackles James Comey on Twitter as 'cowardly' The president blasts Comey on Twitter as his son on TV labels the ex-FBI director ''a liar' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2sc7xkY WASHINGTON - President Trump called James Comey "cowardly" and Donald Trump Jr. described the ousted FBI director as "a dishonest man of bad character" as the White House braced to deal with continuing fallout from the Russian investigations. The president seized not on Comey's account of his private meetings with Trump but rather on his acknowledgement before the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday that he had a friend leak his contemporaneous memo about what happened to a New York Times reporter.
Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that she does not understand why President Donald Trump has refused to give a "straight yes or no" answer to questions about whether he secretly recorded his discussions with FBI Director James Comey. The Maine Republican added that if any audio recordings do exist, she expected Trump to provide them to federal investigators looking into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election, saying if he did not, he should be legally compelled to do so.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in for sharp questioning by senators Tuesday on the extent of his contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign and of his involvement in the firing of FBI chief James Comey. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said Sunday "there's a real question of the propriety" of Sessions' involvement in Comey's dismissal, because Sessions had stepped aside from the federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign.
The Latest on President Donald Trump and the investigation into his campaign's potential ties to Russia : A Republican senator is taking President Donald Trump to task for not clearing up a burning question: whether he has tape recordings of his conversations with his then-FBI Director James Comey. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says Trump had a chance to settle the matter when he held a news conference Friday at the White House, but he didn't.
A surprising dynamic to the Senate's negotiations on a new health care bill. Questions about the President's political and legal strategy regarding the Russia investigations.
Senator Lindsey Graham is steadily growing more and more frustrated with how President Trump won't just stop talking about an ongoing investigation. A few days ago, Graham actually said "help us help you" and pleaded with the president, "Every time you tweet, it makes it harder on all of us who are trying to help you."
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a letter Saturday that he will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday to address matters former FBI Director James Comey brought up last week in testimony to the same panel. In a letter seen by Reuters, Sessions told U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, that the Intelligence Committee is the "most appropriate" place to address matters that came up during Comey's hearing on Thursday.
In this March 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price are seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. For Republicans, health care is becoming a big political gamble.
Jeff Sessions, a longtime senator until President Donald Trump picked him as U.S. Attorney General, heads to Congress next week where he could face a grilling about his Russian interactions. Sessions, among the earliest high-profile backers of Trump's election campaign, will appear before his former colleagues on June 13, days after explosive testimony by ousted FBI director James Comey, whose removal he recommended.
Mitt Romney is re-emerging as an important piece to the Republican puzzle for the 2018 midterm elections and beyond, fueling even more speculation he might be positioning himself for another run for office, according to a Politico report. "All I can tell you is that the number of requests that Mitt has gotten in the last month to come to a district or to come to a state for a sitting senator - it's like he's a presidential candidate again, which I was surprised by," Spencer Zwick, a top political aide to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Plagiarizing phrases from Obama's talking points on the Normalization Circus, some pro-Castro Republicans are asking the Trumpinator to keep that Circus alive. One would think that Republicans might want to find some arguments in favor of the Normalization Circus that haven't come straight out of the mouths of "progressives" in the Democratic Party or from the editorial staff of the major news outlets that support the Castro regime.
Trump is preparing to tighten at least some of Obama's changes, including restricting business with the Cuban military and U.S. travel that resembles tourism. Those type of revisions have been endorsed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, the only two local GOP members of Congress who backed Trump and as a result have pressured his administration on the issue.
"We're committed to participating in debates moderated by members of the metro Atlanta press corps, so unfortunately Jon will not be attending the proposed debate on June 13th", Mesner wrote. The June 20 election is still two weeks away, but Federal Election Commission reports reviewed by Bloomberg BNA showed a total of more than $20.1 million in independent campaign expenditures in the race so far.
In Washington's hyper-partisan environment, both major political parties need scandals the way pyromaniacs require fire. In the Donald Trump era, at least, the media is playing the role of gleeful arsonist.
In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Washington. Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign has sparked questions, agreed Saturday, June 10, to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election.
Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, stands at the lectern asking the House to vote to direct the committee to report HB1 as House Speaker Rep. Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, watches during the closing minutes of the last day of the regular legislative session Thursday June 8, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. During floor debate in the final week of the regular legislative session, Democratic Rep. Barbara Norton, of Shreveport, apparently had enough of Republican Rep. Valarie Hodges from Denham Springs.
Washington, June 11 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has confirmed that he will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week to testify over his dealings with Russian officials, the media reported. Sessions on Saturday said he would appear in response to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey's testimony to the panel that took place on Thursday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential campaign have sparked questions, agreed Saturday to appear before the Senate intelligence committee as it investigates alleged Russian meddling in the election. Sessions recused himself in March from a federal investigation into contacts between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump after acknowledging that he had met twice last year with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
USA Today reports that Sessions' testimony is expected to be behind closed doors and to target the Feb. 14 meeting in the oval office in which, according to former FBI Director James Comey, Sessions was asked to step out of the room to leave Comey and the president alone. In addition, he's likely to be questioned about meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and his involvement in the president's decision to fire Comey.