By Steve Benen 07/05/17 On Thursday night, the Wall Street Journal published an important piece on Donald Trump’s Russia scandal, noting that a longtime Republican operative, Peter Smith, assembled a team that set out to obtain Hillary Clinton emails. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to MSNBC story. To that end, Smith and his cohorts reached out to people they […]
By Liz Stark and Grace Hauck Mon July 3, 2017 Washington Forty-one states have defied the Trump administration’s request for private voter information, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to CNN story & videos. State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter […]
By CORAL DAVENPORT Published JULY 2nd, 2017 WASHINGTON — In the four months since he took office as the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt has moved to undo, delay or otherwise block more than 30 environmental rules, a regulatory rollback larger in scope than any other over so short a time in the agency’s 47-year history, according to […]
AM JOY 7/1/17 Healthcare: Repeal and delay? President Trump endorsed a Republican senator’s plan to repeal Obamacare first, and replace it later. What that could mean for millions of Americans. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to MSNBC story & video. EDITOR’S NOTE: in the course of a blistering debate with Tommy Binion, the Director of […]
By Shane Harris, Michael C. Bender and Peter Nicholas Updated July 1, 2017 12:30 a.m. E Peter W. Smith listed Bannon, Conway and Clovis, besides Flynn, in a recruiting document; his purpose isn’t clear and there’s no indication he asked for or received any coordination with them. WASHINGTON—A longtime Republican activist who led an operation hoping to obtain […]
By Matt Tait Friday, June 30, 2017, read the Wall Street Journal’s article yesterday on attempts by a GOP operative to recover missing Hillary Clinton emails with more than usual interest. I was involved in the events that reporter Shane Harris described, and I was an unnamed source for the initial story. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to […]
By Shane Harris June 29, 2017 WASHINGTON—Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to WSJ story. In conversations with members of his circle and with others […]
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM JUNE 29, 2017 President Trump faced a swift and bipartisan backlash on Thursday after he assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski in unusually personal and crude terms, the latest of a string of escalating attacks by the president on the national news media. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. Shortly […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 6/28/17 Another empty Trump threat falls flat against Comey Rachel Maddow looks at evidence of Donald Trump’s long history of trying to intimidate people he doesn’t like with hollow threats of lawsuits, and notes the failure of his recent threat to file a complaint against James Comey as a setback in his attack […]
by Jeff Guo@_jeffguo Jun 27, 2017 Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the White House press corps to watch a video, “whether it’s accurate or not,” from conservative provocateur James O’Keefe on Tuesday — and a Playboy correspondent rose to the media’s defense. CLICK IMAGE above for direct link to VOX story & video. The sequence of […]
