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Posted at 7:01 pm on May 19, 2017 by Jay Caruso Get your popcorn ready. Former FBI Director James Comey will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in an open session sometime after Memorial Day. This guarantees to be worth watching. There will still be items he will not be able to discuss based on his knowledge of ongoing investigations but he is going to shed some light on the memo people are talking about and other areas related to President Trump’s attempts to cajole Comey into being “part of the team.”

Posted at 8:31 pm on May 19, 2017 by streiff Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein briefed the House today and to say it was not a love-fest, at least in the eyes of Democrats, is an understatement. Rosenstein wouldn’t dish on what was going on about the investigation but what really set them off was his statement about the Comey firing.

Posted at 9:00 pm on May 19, 2017 by Susan Wright Seriously, can you blame them? After the news broke that Trump chose to share highly classified intelligence with visiting Russian officials, pretty much all hell broke loose. Probably the most egregious detail was that President Loose Lips also gave the location of the undercover operative that was providing the U.S.

Posted at 9:40 pm on May 19, 2017 by Jay Caruso So Rod Rosenstein went before a closed-door meeting with the Senate Democrats and apparently, they came away with a less-than-enthusiastic attitude towards Rosenstein, particularly on why he drafted a letter recommending the termination of then FBI Director James Comey when he already knew President Trump made the decision. Here is what Rosenstein said when briefing the House today: House and Senate Democrats are likely frustrated in part because Rosenstein cannot answer questions related to an ongoing investigation and

Chelsea Handler says she once rejected Ivanka Trump straight to the first daughter’s face, only to be met with a shrug. The “Chelsea” host — whose politically charged talk show's second season premiered this month on Netflix — recalled the encounter Friday over drinks with a small group of journalists at Teddy & The Bully Bar in downtown Washington. Both Ivanka Trump, who serves as an adviser to her father at the White House, and Handler, an outspoken critic of President Trump, were among the speakers last October at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit in California. Handler — wh

President Trump is considering pulling the plug on key ObamaCare subsidies, Politico reported Friday, citing remarks the president has made to advisers. “No final decisions have been made at this time, and all options are on the table," the White House said in a statement to Politico. The Trump administration has reportedly told Congress that it will continue the subsidies through May, but it is not clear what will happen after that. If the payments do stop, it could cause premium costs

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday slammed President Trump's claim that fired FBI Director reported on Friday that Trump had told visiting Russian officials last week that firing Comey had taken "great pressure" off of him, because of the FBI's ongoing investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election. Trump also told the Russian officials that Comey was "crazy" and "a nut job," according to the report.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro slammed President Trump on Friday, ordering him to stop "meddling" in the South American country, Reuters reported. Maduro's comments came a day after the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on eight members of Venezuela's Supreme Court in retaliation for the court's decision to strip power from the country's legislature. That ruling was later reversed.  "Enough meddling ... Go home,

A top White House official fired back at noted at a hedge fund conference earlier in the day Friday in Las Vegas that he had predicted Trump would be a "chaos president" while the two battled for the GOP presidential nomination.  "When I ran for office, I said he is a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president," the former Florida governor said at the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) event.

Richard Rojas did not speak much about his three years in a Navy uniform, but when he returned to the Bronx from a naval base in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2014, he was a different man. His mind was clouded with conspiracy theories. His dreams of opening his own clothing business had wilted. He lashed out at friends who challenged him; some thought that his grasp of reality had slipped and that he needed psychiatric help. During a string of arrests in recent years, Mr.