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This has never happened before," Lockhart, who served under former President Clinton, said on CNN's "Reliable Sources." "We've had great presidents, we've had terrible presidents, Republicans and Democrats, but we've never had anything like this - where we have a president who is incapable of telling the truth."
For a number of years, I've been baffled by the number of people who support political parties in contravention of their own interests. For many years, I had a colleague who expressed blind loyalty to the Republican Party.
President Trump took to Twitter Friday morning to deny that he knew about his son's meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016, following news that his CBS News' Paula Reid confirmed Friday night that Cohen is willing to tell Mueller that Mr. Trump knew of the meeting involving Donald Trump Jr., top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer in advance, although Cohen has no evidence to offer that corroborates his claim. Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and onetime-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in a meeting Trump Jr. arranged when he believed the Russian lawyer had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
"Make America Great Again!" will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be recorded among the most successful slogans in political history. Yet it raises a question: How did America first become the world's greatest economic power? In 1998, in "The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy," this writer sought to explain.
Yesterday I noted that Republicans now dominate many old blue collar manufacturing districts that used to tilt decisively Democratic as recently as Bill Clinton's time. And one of the Democrats who has made some noises about how the neglect of the working class in the heartland has been a mistake for Democrats is Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, who unsuccessfully challenged Nancy Pelosi for the leadership of the House Democratic caucus after the last election.
It's hardly a surprise that Donald Trump broke with longstanding presidential practice and publicly criticized the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates. Trump told CNBC on Thursday that he was "not thrilled" with signals from the Fed that it planned to raise interest rates.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh has a long record of judicial and executive branch service to recommend him as President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court. And that's part of the problem in getting him confirmed by the Senate.
Democrats had no issue with Russia when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did her infamous "Russian Reset" or gave the Russians 20 percent of U.S. uranium. They had no issue with Russia when former President Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic telling former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he'd have "more flexibility" after the 2012 election.
The long-awaited questioning of the FBI agent at the heart of the 2016 election probe was always expected to be one for the history books. But Congress outdid itself.
President Trump announced Monday night that he's nominating Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh, 53, has significant Washington credentials.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is asserting that President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court because Kavanaugh would protect Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Kavanaugh wrote in a 2009 Minnesota Law Review article that it would be appropriate for Congress to enact a statute that would allow civil lawsuits against a sitting president to be deferred until the president's term ends.
That's just the title -- "The President is Missing" -- of Bill Clinton's novel co-authored with best-selling mystery writer James Patterson. It is a thriller about a U.S. president who goes missing during a cyber-attack on the U.S. What also reads like fiction is Clinton's testimony about his secret meeting with then U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac in Phoenix.
President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen could be sending the White House yet another warning shot by adding a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton to his legal team. Lanny Davis confirmed his hiring Thursday, saying in a statement that he and Cohen had talked "many times in the last two weeks" and that the former Trump confidant "deserves to tell his side of the story."
A federal judge in Washington has tossed out a lawsuit claiming President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign conspired with Russian agents and WikiLeaks to publish emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee. However, Judge Ellen Huvelle wrote that her ruling was "not based on a finding that there was no collusion between defendants and Russia during the 2016 presidential election."
It all started before the 2016 election. In October 2016, the Access Hollywood audiotape showed candidate Trump bragging about how status as a "star" gave him the power to sexually assault women.
A review of Americans' ratings of President Donald Trump across a series of personal dimensions shows that at least half consider him intelligent, strong and decisive, and able to bring about change. However, much smaller proportions deem him honest, likable or admirable, or say he has appointed good advisers or works well with both parties.
With Bill Clinton back in the limelight, his family isn't done vying for our attention yet. But this time, the former president faces one of his toughest challenges - re-establishing his cultural legacy, and that of his fellow stripe of elite, on favorable grounds.
Need proof that the current controversy over children of undocumented immigrants is more political than humanitarian? Hillary Clinton said she was "adamantly against illegal immigrants" and supported a border wall until she ran for president in 2016.
Back in the United States, book publishers are reporting that Bill Clinton's new novel, "The President Is Missing," co-written with James Patterson, has sold more copies in its first week than any other fiction book in the past two years. This is despite the fact that on his highly publicized book tour Clinton has repeatedly diminished the #MeToo movement, saying that he does not owe Monica Lewinsky an apology.