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'The president's new at this': Other views A roundup of what people are saying about James Comey's testimony. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2sZG4QO Rep. Paul Ryan , R-Wis., House speaker: "Of course there needs to be a degree of independence between , FBI and the White House and a line of communications established.
Greg Gianforte - the Republican U.S. representative-elect who won a Montana congressional seat 24 hours after allegedly "body-slamming" Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs - sent a letter to Jacobs Wednesday apologizing for his actions. Gianforte also agreed to donate $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit organization that promotes press freedom and protects the rights of journalists, according to both his office and The Guardian .
With television networks setting aside regular programming to mark the moment Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before Congress on the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election will be hard for most Americans to miss. CNN has already kept a "countdown clock" to the start of Comey's appearance before the Senate intelligence committee on its screen for days.
Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. President Donald Trump, center, gestures during a meeting with House and Senate Leadership in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 6, 2017.
An extraordinary stream of tweets Monday morning by President Donald Trump attacked his own Justice Department's revised travel ban as "watered down, politically correct," and pushed for expedited handling of the ban by the U.S. Supreme Court. "The courts are slow and political!" Trump wrote before 7 a.m. Eastern Time, also stating that "In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe."
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy slammed opponent J.B. Pritzker Sunday, saying that the billionaire businessman doesn't "deserve" to be governor. Kennedy's comments came in response to a Tribune report that Pritzker expressed interest in the post of state treasurer in response to then-governor Rod Blagojevich's efforts to get him to bite on the Senate seat made available by the election of Barack Obama.
Any such requests undergo rigorous legal reviews, and USA officials have said all such requests under Obama , a Democrat, were conducted properly. Flynn had previously invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in declining an earlier subpoena from the committee, which sought a wide array of documents and information related to his contacts with Russian Federation.
Bill Maher finally apologizes for saying 'house n*****' on his HBO show and claims he got caught up in the 'banter of a live moment' - while network says his comments were 'inexcusable and tasteless' Kathy Griffin says she feels betrayed by Anderson Cooper after she was axed from CNN over Trump severed head scandal - while top Hollywood PR exec says she should have 'shut the f*** up' and not responded Kathy Griffin loses remainder of her tour gigs in wake of Donald Trump severed head scandal after dramatic press conference Nikki Haley claims Trump DOES believe in climate change: UN Ambassador says president thinks humans have a role in global warming How the cookie crumbles: The simple recipe for Subway's sweet biscuit so you can bake the melt-in-your-mouth snack at home - using just THREE ingredients 50-pound pit bull mauls 90-year-old woman to death just hours after her daughter paid ... (more)
"No 1 believes u meant 2 threaten Trump," tweets Baldwin, who also resurrects his insane Henry Hyde rant from the '90s Alec Baldwin, a survivor of public scorn and a notorious liberal, has shared some encouraging words with embattled comedian Kathy Griffin. Because Alec Baldwin.
Joy Reid's panel this morning looked at the many angles of the story about Jared Kushner's meeting with Russian banker and alleged spy Sergey Gorkov. "If there's an innocent explanation for all of this, one wonders why the stories keep shifting," Joy Reid said.
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The director of the Office of Management and Budget said Wednesday during a House hearing on the president's proposed budget that Sesame Street 's Big Bird "makes more money than anybody in this room." Mick Mulvaney was discussing the phasing out of support for public broadcasting, which President Trump proposed in the draft budget released Tuesday .
The U.S. Senate has voted to name Nashville's new federal courthouse after former Sen. Fred Thompson , the late actor who appeared in at least 20 movies and in the TV series "Law & Order." Sen. Lamar Alexander announced the Senate vote Wednesday on a resolution already passed by the House, leaving the final decision to President Donald Trump .
Nashville courthouse to be named after former senator, actor Fred Thompson The federal courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., will be named after Fred Thompson, a former senator, presidential candidate and actor. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2rVsUno WASHINGTON - A bill to name the new federal courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., after former Sen. Fred Thompson has cleared its final hurdle in Congress and is awaiting President Trump's signature.
The story of the murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich captured the conservative media zeitgeist anew this month, thanks in part to news coverage from a Washington, DC, Fox affiliate and heavy rotation on the Fox News Channel by way of host, Sean Hannity. Critics have excoriated Hannity over his days-long cable-news deliberation on Rich's murder, which he continued despite calls for him to retract the story.
How One Pro-Trump Site Keeps A Debunked Conspiracy Theory Alive - The top story on pro-Trump media last week was a conspiracy about a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer and his alleged connection to WikiLeaks. - A typical Gateway Pundit headline.
Instead, he spent the bulk of his show tackling a subject he calls, "Stupid Watergate"-the investigation into whether influenced the U.S. presidential election and whether Donald Trump and the White House obstructed the investigation. Oliver seems to believe it's possible, because he also believes that the Trump administration always makes the worst choice possible.
John Dickerson asked Senator Marco Rubio about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently saying that he would like a "little less drama from the White House." Rubio, who ran against Trump in the 2016 election and eventually supported him despite serious criticisms , said, "I don't understand why people are that shocked.
State of the Union panel tackled the ongoing Russia investigations and the question of whether there was collusion with the Trump campaign . Rick Santorum said he doesn't agree with getting a special prosecutor since they "have a history of prosecuting to justify their existence."