Month: December 2019

The forthcoming release of an internal Justice Department watchdog report on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation won’t be the last word on the matter, Attorney General William Barr has told conservative allies. Long a skeptic of the Russia probe, and particularly the FBI’s tactics to investigate Trump campaign associates, Barr believes questions remain about some of

Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump are without doubt the key women in President Donald Trump’s life. Both are glamorous women. Both fashionable. Both smart and savvy about their public personas. Both equally powerful and influential when it comes to the President of the United States. But despite maintaining a warm relationship over the last two

Sen. Kamala Harris ended her 2020 presidential campaign on Tuesday, an abrupt departure for a candidate who was once seen as a leading contender for the Democratic nomination. The California Democrat told her senior staff of the decision Tuesday morning, and later sent an email to supporters and released a video on Twitter. “To you

The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines Tuesday night to approve a report that found evidence of President Donald Trump’s misconduct and obstruction of Congress is “overwhelming.” The report, released earlier Tuesday, will form the backbone of the impeachment proceedings against the President and charges that Trump’s conduct toward Ukraine compromised national security The

Kamala Harris fell as quickly as she rose. The California senator entered the 2020 presidential race in January a top contender for the Democratic nomination, someone whose political chops after ascending from prosecutor to attorney general to senator instantly made her one of the top 2020 candidates. Less than a year later, and exactly two

There is fresh intelligence of a potential Iranian threat against US forces and interests in the Middle East, according to several US defense and administration officials. “There has been consistent intelligence in the last several weeks,” one administration official told CNN. A second official described it as information that has been gathered throughout November. The

One of President Donald Trump’s most common responses to intelligence briefings is to doubt what he’s being told, former Deputy Director of Intelligence Susan Gordon said Tuesday. Gordon, an intelligence veteran of more than 30 years, said Monday that Trump had two typical responses to briefings. “One, ‘I don’t think that’s true,’” Gordon told the

House Democrats on Tuesday released a 300-page report presenting what they call “overwhelming” evidence that President Donald Trump abused his official powers by pressuring Ukraine to help his reelection and then obstructed the inquiry into his actions. The report, from the House Intelligence Committee, offered a compelling narrative of how Trump used the powers of