CNN, MSNBC Didn’t Used To View Romney As Moral Authority [VIDEO]

It turns out media figures are much keener on Mitt Romney when he is criticizing Donald Trump than when he is running for president. CNN and MSNBC spent much of the day Friday touting the 2012 Republican nominee's long-winded Facebook post urging President Trump to apologize for his "both sides" comments about Charlottesville, Va.

Trump hands communications reins to longtime confidante

After three people tackled the assignment with limited success, the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has for now fallen to Hope Hicks, a young former public relations aide and political neophyte who entered his orbit not knowing the ride would eventually take her into the cutthroat world of Washington politics. Word of Hicks' promotion - she already was director of "strategic" communications at the White House - landed this week just as she and other top Trump aides confronted one of the biggest communications challenges in recent memory.

As the GOP voices outrage at Trump’s response to…

Ever since President Donald Trump issued an equivocating response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, over a dozen of the country's most prominent Republicans have denounced the president's remarks. "[The president] has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great," Sen. Bob Corker, an influential Tennessee Republican, said Thursday, warning that without "radical changes" in the White House, the nation could end up in "great peril."

Bannon, out of Trump White House, returns to Breitbart: ‘I’ve got my hands back on my weapons’

Hold on to your butts, America. Steve Bannon is, as an ally told one reporter, "unchained" after being relieved of his White House duties as Trump's strategic advisor In an interview this evening, Bannon tells the Weekly Standard he's returning to run Breitbart.com, as he was before becoming Trump's campaign manager exactly one year and one day ago today.

GOP Leadership Silent on Bannon’s Departure

House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, right, often avoid addressing controversy surrounding the presidency of Donald Trump. Almost two hours after news broke Friday that President Donald Trump decided to part ways with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy - at least at that moment - had another topic on his mind.

Most Talk Back writers are concerned about North Korea

Concern is the mildest term to use to describe the level of anxiety we should all feel as President Donald Trump continues to use inflammatory language in what is a delicate situation that is best left in the hands of informed diplomats. We have a president who is the bully on the playground and, unlike other presidents who were deeply concerned about the lives of those they might put in peril, this man is concerned about being seen as the macho cowboy, locked and loaded.

Bannon’s Exit Leaves Trump Untethered

Steve Bannon, the enigmatic but influential strategist who joined Donald Trump's campaign at a low ebb, helped coax a win in the 2016 election from it, and then won acclaim and hatred as Trump's eminence grise, is leaving the White House. It is the latest in a string of senior departures from a White House that-like the Republican Party itself-was split between establishment Republicans and populist outsiders.

Flake rebuts Trump on immigration in NYT op-ed

In a news conference at Trump Tower, President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017 on both sides of the conflict, equating the white supremacists on one side with the "alt-left" on the other side. President Donald Trump turned hard on a fellow Republican, boosting the primary opponent of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and calling the incumbent "toxic."

TN Congressman proposes impeaching President Trump

Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen announced that he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump as soon as he returns to Congress. "Part of his oath of office is to take care that the laws are executed appropriately, carried out, if he can't even identify domestic terrorists and equates them with American protesters of anti-American values, he is not capable of leading us," Cohen said.

The Latest: Trump says ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ must end

Confederate statues taken down, Confederate memorials covered up and public debates over Confederate symbols rage across the country in the wake of deadly violence at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists.

Fox’s James Murdoch slams Trump’s Charlottesville response

The CEO of 21st Century Fox denounced racism and terrorists while expressing concern over President Donald Trump's reaction to the deadly violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. James Murdoch also told friends in a personal email that he and his wife, Kathryn, will donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.