September 28, 2016
The State Department has agreed to process for public release in advance of the election almost 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails recovered by the FBI during their recently closed investigation into Clinton’s private server arrangement. A federal judge previously ordered State to review 1,050 pages of the Clinton messages before the election. The deal […]
September 28, 2016
Gary Johnson drew a blank again on Wednesday. In another excruciating exchange on MSNBC, the Libertarian nominee was unable to name a single foreign leader he respects, failing to recall the name of former Mexican President Vicente Fox just as he previously drew a blank on the Syrian city of Aleppo. Pressed by Hardball host […]
September 28, 2016
Paul Ryan and his close-knit political orbit have long shunned prognosticating about the speaker’s political ambitions. Young kids. Unpredictable political climate. And the speakership is a tough job. But the speaker’s allies have turned keenly aware of his precarious political future, the daunting challenge of governing under a President Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, and […]
September 28, 2016
Sen. Elizabeth Warren staunchly defended Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Wednesday, two days after Donald Trump questioned her stance on trade during their debate. Touting Clinton’s proposals as “the most progressive agenda in history,” the firebrand leader of the Democratic Party’s left wing told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that Clinton is well aware […]
September 28, 2016
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — In an effort to go steady his campaign after this week’s shaky debate, Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a coordinated attack casting Hillary Clinton as a corrupt pawn of major donors and special interests. The attack — rolled out in a campaign speech here, followed by a barrage of press releases […]
September 28, 2016
Congress’ overwhelming rebuke of President Barack Obama on a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia — and the bitter finger-pointing that followed — was a fitting coda to the dysfunctional relationship between the Obama White House and Capitol Hill. In the twilight of his presidency, Obama on Wednesday was summarily […]
September 28, 2016
Will this year’s presidential election be rigged, as Donald Trump has predicted? It’s highly unlikely, and that’s true whether we’re talking about scary new threats, like cyber-hacking by the Russians, or old-fashioned ballot-box stuffing of the sort that ostensibly has led Trump to recruit his own poll watchers. We’re much more likely to see the […]
September 28, 2016
Republican lawmakers have some advice for Donald Trump and his surrogates as they openly mull bringing up President Bill Clinton’s infidelity at the next presidential debate: Don’t do it. GOP senators who’ve finally grown more comfortable with Trump warned in interviews Wednesday that descending into Bill Clinton’s sexual past is dangerous territory for the GOP […]
September 28, 2016
David Axelrod on Wednesday called on Howard Dean to apologize to Donald Trump for accusing him of being a cocaine user. “My reaction, that was outrageous,” Obama’s former campaign strategist said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “He, like Donald Trump, has refused to apologize for an outrageous statement. He really should.” Dean, a […]
September 28, 2016
President Barack Obama on Wednesday knocked Congress for overriding his veto of legislation allowing families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, calling the move “a mistake.” Obama, speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper during a town hall, was measured in his response to the first successful veto […]