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O’Rourke went through his normal claims that he believes Americans will comply with the buybacks by handing over their AR-15s and similar commonly owned semiautomatic rifles. Host Carol Costello asked O’Rourke, “You expect mass shooters to follow the law?” O’Rourke responded, “Our fellow Americans will follow the law, yes.” Costello countered, “Mass shooters … don’t follow the law — by definition.” She added, “It doesn’t make sense that people are going to hand over their ‘assault weapons’ if they’re mass shooters.

“Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her ‘upstairs,’ or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Pelosi and Congressional Democrat leaders stood up and abandoned a White House meeting on Syria after the president described her as a “third-rate” politician, according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

So the story from Biden goes, gangster “Corn Pop” represented a serious threat to Biden when he was a lifeguard at a community pool.

During a panel alongside former President Bill Clinton at the Nir School of the Heart, Bush laid into Trump for his recent decision to withdraw up to 1,000 American troops from northeast Syria — fulfilling his longheld campaign promise to bring troops home after more than a decade of war. “An isolationist United States is destabilizing around the world,” Bush said, according to the Washington Post‘s Josh

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — The kettle steamed in the background as a familiar yet painful argument began to boil over between father and daughter in the Slewo home last Inauguration Day. “My president is going to be good for the Christians and the economy,” Warda Slewo, an ardent Donald Trump fan, told his daughter, Ashourina Slewo, in her small kitchen in the northeastern suburbs of Detroit on Jan. 20, 2017. “Your president is a racist,” Ashourina shot back.

WASHINGTON — A ‘‘dark day.’’ A ‘‘betrayal.’’ The ‘‘biggest mistake of this presidency,’’ and ‘‘really delusional.’’ And that was President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans. Trump’s decision to pull American troops out of northern Syria — triggering a deadly Turkish invasion targeting the US’s erstwhile Syrian Kurdish allies — has unmuzzled GOP lawmakers in a manner seldom seen since Trump entered the White House. In a time when the threat of a caustic Trump tweet is enough to stifle open internal dissent, the extent and strong language Republicans

When President Trump’s 2020 campaign claims that Democrats have always wanted to see Trump impeached, it’s not entirely incorrect. While the Democratic Party’s establishment has only relatively recently embraced the idea of impeaching Trump, Democrats broadly — that is, voters — have long approved of the idea. Polling from Monmouth University earlier this month makes that clear. Support for impeaching Trump has been steady since Monmouth started asking about it (shortly after the appointment of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller), powered by support from Democrats.

WASHINGTON — Washing his hands of Syria, President Trump declared Wednesday the US has no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America’s partners against IS extremists.

Democratic congressional leaders said they walked out of a briefing with President Trump on Turkey after hearing little but insults from Trump. The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said Trump insulted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by calling her a ‘‘third-rate politician.’’ Schumer said the meeting ‘‘was not a dialogue. This was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts.’’ “He was insulting, particularly to the speaker,” he said.

Sen. MORE (D-Mass.) came under fire from several of her Democratic rivals at Tuesday's primary debate, reflecting her newfound front-runner status and testing her ability to weather criticism. A handful of contenders took turns criticizing Warren over everything from her support for "Medicare for All" to her oft-repeated call for an additional tax on the wealthiest Americans. At one point, former Rep.