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Speaker interview with California radio station KQED News. Pelosi was referring to a doctored video of her that had been slowed down to make her appear to be slurring her words or intoxicated.

MORE explained during his first comments on the Russia investigation why he did not charge the president with obstruction of justice. “Nothing changes from the Mueller Report. There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed!

Special counsel MORE and his campaign, said Wednesday that his office did not charge Trump with a crime because it “was not an option” under Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations. Mueller, in a dramatic appearance at DOJ headquarters, said it would have been impossible to bring Trump to court and that his final report clearly spelled out that investigators did not conclude that the president was innocent of a crime. “After that investigation, if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said during his eig

Special counsel MORE with a crime was “not an option” for his office, put new pressure on House Democrats as they scramble to advance their investigations into the president’s conduct. Mueller’s first public comments since the start of his landmark 22-month probe into Russia's election interference leave Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders with tough questions about forging a path forward. The special counsel sug

Special counsel MORE sent shockwaves through Washington on Wednesday by delivering his first — and possibly only — public remarks on his investigation. During a brief, nine-minute appearance, Mueller made clear that he did not plan on speaking further about his two year-long investigation and gave fuel to pro-impeachment Democrats pressing their leadership to take action. Here are five takeaways. Mueller gives pro-impeachment Dems an argument Mueller said that if his office “had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would ha

“I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

CNN’s Don Lemon shared a quote from Mueller’s statement and told his audience to “read that over and over” to draw a conclusion. “#RobertMueller, ‘If we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so.’ Read that over and over and draw your own conclusion,” Lemon said in a tweet. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough reacted on Twitter, where he shared two individual quotes from Mueller’s statement and included the well-known Latin term “Res ipsa loquitur,” which translates to “the thing speaks for itself.” Scarborough also boasted about the change of his Twitter bio,

According to the U.S. Secret Service, the man set himself ablaze at 12:20 p.m. EST near 15th Street and Constitution Ave., located south of the White House. National Park Service and U.S. Park Police provided first aid to the individual. Social media users shared footage of the incident with one showing law enforcement scrambling to the scene of the fire.

Mueller said nothing new, other than defending Attorney General William Barr as having acted in “good faith” in his summary of the investigation’s report.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration notified Congress on Friday that it is invoking a rarely used provision in federal law to bypass congressional review of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, two Democratic senators said. The administration is issuing an emergency declaration that will allow it to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and others despite congressional objections, according to Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.