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That's Sen. John McCain's warning to the country - and his party - about the dangers of submitting to the rising tide of populism, isolationism and nationalism being sold by President Donald Trump. The Arizona Republican's speech - delivered at his alma mater US Naval Academy on Tuesday - was the second time this month he has delivered a broad-spectrum critique of Trump and Trumpism.
The charges against three former Trump campaign aides this week provided a jolt to congressional Russia investigators who now know special counsel Robert Mueller is moving quickly - and his moves will shut down potential lanes of inquiry for them and likely eliminate the chances of lawmakers to question those aides. Mueller's investigation, which has already led to some dust-ups with the Hill, threatens to limit the scope of the congressional Russia probes even further.
Research by the firm Morning Consult shows Susana Martinez's approval rating has fallen to 37 percent from 44 percent in July. Susana Martinez ranked sixth least popular governor in United States Research by the firm Morning Consult shows Susana Martinez's approval rating has fallen to 37 percent from 44 percent in July.
Top lawyers for Google, Facebook and Twitter admitted to senators Wednesday that efforts to combat Russian activity on their platforms during the election were insufficient and said that they still don't have a full picture of the Russian online influence effort. Add Russia Investigation as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Russia Investigation news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Virtually unheard of before Monday, when the FBI indicted two of President Trump's campaign staffers, George Papadopoulos is either the key to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election - or a lying "low level volunteer," as the president tweeted early Tuesday morning. But contrary to Trump's dismissive, never-heard-of-him shrug, Papadopoulos was also known within the campaign as Trump's foreign affairs adviser.
Senator Lamar Alexander said on on Wednesday, as open enrollment begins, his bipartisan bill will help the hardworking Tennesseans who are "getting hammered" because they buy insurance in the individual health insurance market and don't get a government subsidy to help them.
President Trump said Wednesday he would ask Congress to end the diversity visa lottery program, after it was reported that the suspect who attacked people in New York with a rented van entered the country in 2010 under that program. "I am today starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program," Trump said in the White House.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., on Wednesday said he would advise President Trump not to blame Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after an Islamic State-inspired attack in New York killed eight people and injured 12 more. "There's definitely a role for the president to play as far as leadership," King told CNN.
One occupational hazard of political blogging is that you will shut your lights off at night with a good idea in your head about what you're going to write about in the morning only to discover at dawn that someone has done an adequate job of it while you were sleeping. In this case, I was victimized by Marcy Wheeler and her piece: Jeff Sessions Unforgets the Discussions with Russians He Twice Swore He Didn't Know About .
President Trump "essentially blamed the terrorist attack in New York City on what he characterized as soft immigration policies promoted by Democrats, singling out Senator Chuck Schumer, the state's senior lawmaker and the party's leader in the upper chamber," the New York Times reports.
President Donald Trump is calling for "Merit Based immigration" following the deadly truck attack in New York City that killed eight people and injured 11. Trump says on Twitter Wednesday that the driver in Tuesday's attack "came into our country through what is called the 'Diversity Visa Lottery Program,' a Chuck Schumer beauty." Officials said the attacker is an immigrant from Uzbekistan who came to the U.S. legally in 2010.
Exasperated U.S. senators harshly criticized representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google at a hearing Tuesday for not doing more to prevent Russian agents interfering with the American political process as early as 2015. At one point, Senator Al Franken shook his head after he couldn't get all the companies to commit to not accepting political ads bought with North Korean currency.
In a series of interviews with Politico's Tim Alberta for a massive - and massively entertaining - profile of the former speaker of the House, Boehner offered his thoughts on everything from Jason Chaffetz and Jim Jordan to what members of Congress should eat, to Ted Cruz to, yes, his smoking habits. The whole story is amazing, but what stands out is Boehner's candor.
If you're looking for one race this fall to tell you what people make of the first year of the Trump presidency, your best bet is the Virginia governor's race where next week, voters will choose between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie. The race has long looked like Northam's to lose.
Authorities stand near a damaged Home Depot truck after a motorist drove onto a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial. Trump attributed the diversity visa lottery to Schumer, who authored the bill in part, and advocated a merit-based system long supported by Republicans.
Prince Harry and Michelle Obama surprised approximately 20 students Tuesday at Hyde Park Academy, a high school on Chicago's South Side, which is located across from the future site of the Obama Presidential Center. "The warm and wide-ranging conversation, lasting over an hour, covered how the Obama Presidential Center will showcase the South Side of Chicago for a global audience, the importance of young people staying inspired and hopeful, and the transformative power of students using their voices to change the world," Caroline Adler Morales, the former first lady's communications director, said in a statement provided to ABC News.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called out President Donald Trump over his response to domestic terror on Tuesday in the wake of a deadly a truck-ramming attack in New York City. "The Trump administration [has] taken the gloves off when it comes to the war on terror overseas," Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening.
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By BY ZEKE MILLER and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON - Roused by the first major ISIS-inspired attack on U.S. soil since he took office, President Donald Trump urged swift repeal of an immigration program that brought the suspect to America and laid into a political foe he said was responsible for it - though Republican George H. W. Bush signed the law. Trump insisted Wednesday that Congress must end the visa lottery program under which Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov entered the country, and he ordered still tighter scrutiny of immigrants already subject to what he calls "extreme vetting."