Virginia gubernatorial candidates make final pitches before Tuesday’s primary
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello, left, and rival Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam face off Tuesday in a tight primary race.
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‘He’s got to step up to the plate’: Schumer challenges Trump to …
Senator Chuck Schumer speaks to the crowd at the 2013 Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, IA According to a press release from the office of Sen. Chuck Schumer , the the Democratic Party leader has invited President Donald Trump to testify before the Senate under oath about his interactions with fired FBI Director James Comey. "I would like to invite the President to testify before the Senate," Schumer said on Face the Nation .
‘He drank the Kool-Aid’: Homeland Chief Kelly ripped for lying at …
A new report by Politico claims that the same Democrats who supported President Donald Trump's nomination of Marine Gen. John Kelly for head of Homeland Security are now turning against him as he works to implement the president's agenda.
The Latest: Feinstein wants ‘all-hands-on-deck’ Trump probe
The Latest on President Donald Trump and the investigation into his campaign's potential ties to Russia : Most Democrats are being cautious about whether President Donald Trump might have obstructed justice in the Russia investigation and his dealings with fired FBI chief James Comey. Obstruction is a serious and complicated matter.
Sen. Reed to Trump: Give Statements to Mueller, Not Congress
President Donald Trump should speak about the investigation into Russian interference in the election to special counsel Robert Mueller rather than testifying before Congress, as such testimony would raise "separation of powers" questions, Sen. Jack Reed said Sunday. "Special prosecutor Mueller is charged to conduct this investigation, and I believe he's the appropriate person to conduct this investigation," the Rhode Island Democrat told "Fox News Sunday."
Graham Predicts New Russia Sanctions, Warns Trump Against Veto
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’
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.
Collins: Trump should give a ‘yes or no’ on tapes
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.
The Latest: Republican wants Trump tapes if they exist
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.
White House, GOP split over how to handle Comey
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.
Graham: Trump May ‘Go Down’ Because He Can’t Stop…
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."
Sessions says he will discuss Comey with Senate Intelligence Committee
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.
Schumer opposes Trump plan to privatize air traffic control
Sen. Charles Schumer says President Donald Trump's plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system could mean higher costs for consumers. The New York Democrat and Senate minority leader said Sunday that the plan Trump announced on June 5 would give airlines too much control over costs.
Here are 10 clues Comey dropped that show Trump is in deep trouble
FBI Director James Comey is sworn in before testifying at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the ''Oversight of the State Department'' in Washington U.S. on July 7, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo There's no lack of comments by ex-FBI Director James Comey that President Trump sought to end the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, over unreported contacts with Russia.
US attorney general next in scandal’s spotlight
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.
Romney Vital to GOP With or Without Senate Run
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.
Shocking! Seven pro-Castro Republicans urge Trump not to kill Normalization Circus
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 headed to Miami
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.
Alleged Russian hack reveals a deeply flawed election system
Election officials have long contended that the highly decentralized, often ramshackle U.S. voting system is its own best defense against vote-rigging and sabotage . New evidence from a leaked intelligence report indicates that hasn't deterred foreign adversaries from exploring ways to attack it anyway.
Tens of thousands expected for Puerto Rican Day parade
Tens of thousands of revelers were expected to pack Fifth Avenue for New York's annual Puerto Rican Day parade, despite a controversy over honoring a man who spent 35 years in prison for his involvement with a group responsible for bombings that killed and maimed dozens in the 1970s and 1980s. Corporate sponsors including AT&T and JetBlue dropped out of Sunday's parade over the organizers' decision to honor Oscar Lopez Rivera, 74, a former member of the militant Puerto Rican nationalist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, or FALN.