News 12 Mins Ago Dems taking another run at blocked memo on Russia probe

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are prepared to black out parts of their memo about the FBI's Russia investigation to ensure there's no harmful spilling of secrets, then try again to get President Donald Trump to let it come out. A White House aide said Sunday he's confident it will be released once Democrats "clean it up."

Dems taking another run at blocked memo on Russia probe

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are prepared to black out parts of their memo about the FBI's Russia investigation to ensure there's no harmful spilling of secrets, then try again to get President Donald Trump to let it come out. A White House aide said Sunday he's confident it will be released once Democrats "clean it up."

Donald Trump Opposes Due Process For Anyone Differently Situated From Himself

Donald Trump's belief that the presumption of innocence is irrefutable if one of his associates is involved is rather, ah, selective: A pretty good indicator that there's something unusual about Trump's sudden interest in legal procedure is how incongruent it is with his political strategy. Trump plays offense.

Trump questions abuse claims

President Donald Trump thrust himself into the national debate over sexual misconduct, asserting on Saturday that "a mere allegation" could destroy the lives of those accused, as his own White House was engulfed by claims of abusive behavior. Trump, in a morning Twitter post, appeared to be defending two of his aides who resigned last week after facing claims of domestic violence.

Same Deep State Team that Cleared Hillary and Spied on Trump…

The SAME DEEP STATE Team that spied on Donald Trump's Transition Team and worked to exonerate Crooked Hillary Clinton in the sham email investigation is now working to impede, block, delay, lie, deflect from any Congressional investigator sniffing out their trail of crimes. The Last Refuge at Conservative Treehouse put together this string of very important findings regarding the unlawful spying on the Trump Campaign, the Trump Transition Team and the Trump administration by the deep state apparatus.

GOP senators raise more questions about Steele and dossier

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., just before the announcement of an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. WASHINGTON - Two influential Republican senators have injected new information into the partisan dispute over the government's secret surveillance of a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, revealing more details about how the FBI and Justice Department used research compiled by a former British spy whose work was funded by Democrats.

Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s earliest and most trusted confidants, is…

The White House communications director, Hope Hicks, has come under fire as she emerges at the center of a pair of major news stories - the kinds she had eluded in her nearly three years at the top levels of President Donald Trump's orbit. Late last month, The New York Times reported that Mark Corallo, a former spokesman for the president's legal team, planned to tell Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, about a previously undisclosed phone call involving Trump and Hicks.

Republicans are suddenly more optimistic about the midterms

More specifically: The GOP-passed tax plan that led companies to announce bonuses that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed as "crumbs" compared with "the bonus that corporate America received" may be popular enough that it can lessen the danger of Republicans being wiped out by a blue wave in this year's midterm elections. Near Cincinnati on Monday, President Donald Trump compared Pelosi's "crumbs" comment to Hillary Clinton referring to half of Trump's supporters as belonging in a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential election.

GOP bid for control in Nevada raises fear of endless recalls

Nevada's major political parties are locked in a legal battle over a Republican effort to take control of the state Senate by recalling two freshly elected Democratic lawmakers - a tactic that Democrats warn could undermine the validity of elections across the U.S. Experts and those from both parties say the move could be the way of the future for the losing side to keep control of influential statehouses. In Nevada, no official reason was given for the recalls, and none was required.

A new Senate document on Russia probe spying explained

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa and Graham released a criminal referral they had sent to the Justice Department earlier this year asking for an investigation into the former spy, Christopher Steele.

“Intraparty war”: What happens to Pelosi after a 2018 failure?

The wonder of this question is that it's being asked at all - and especially, as Politico reports , by Democrats themselves. Wait , some readers may think, won't Democrats win big in the first-term midterm against an unpopular president ? Until very recently, that had been the conventional wisdom and Democrats had absolutely convinced themselves of it.

Justice Department official who helped oversee Clinton, Russia probes steps down

A Justice Department official who helped oversee the controversial probes of Hillary Clinton 's use of a private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election stepped down this week. David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in 2014 became chief of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said farewell to colleagues Wednesday.

FISA court should make public everything it knows about Carter Page

In this Nov. 2, 2017, file photo, Carter Page speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. A new congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse is being used to undermine the legitimacy of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Juli n Castro says he has “every interest” in running for president in 2020

In an interview this week, former San Antonio Mayor Julin Castro gave the strongest indication yet that he's interested in running for president in 2020. Castro, a Democrat who led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, told NBC News that he has "every interest in running."