Politics
Seth Meyers- A Closer Look: “Hey man, I guarantee you no one wants nude pictures of Donald Trump.”
A recap of the House’s first public impeachment hearing into Trump , enjoy.
Politics
U.S. appeals court again backs House request for Trump tax documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said it would not revisit an October decision backing a U.S. House of Representatives subpoena issued to President Donald Trump’s accounting firm for his financial records. MORE
Updates
Recap of November 13, 2019 Impeachment Inquiry Hearing
First will start with the best line/comeback of Wednesday’s hearing. No, it wasn’t from Gym Jordan. MSNBC had a surprise panelist today, George Conway, husband of Trump’s White House counselor, Kellyanne Conway. The biggest takeaways: MORE
Impeachment
Watch GOP Counsel’s Outlandish Questioning of Kent and Taylor
The Republican’s counsel Steve Castor appeared to suggest that the Trump administrations interactions with Ukraine could have been more “outlandish” than they were. Taylor laughed, but then conceded that it was not. See PBS
Newscasts
Trump holds a presser with Turkey’s President Erdoğan
What: Trump and Erdogan meet and hold a press conference at the White House Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Time: 12:10 p.m. ET for meeting, 3:10 p.m. ET/12:10 p.m. PT for press conference Location: The White House – Washington, MORE
Impeachment
Republicans for the Rule of Law warn Congress: “History is watching.”
The Republicans for the Rule of Law, a GOP group critical of Trump, purchased air time on Fox & Friends to air a commercial that urges “GOP lawmakers to stand up to President Donald Trump MORE
Economy
According to Donnie, Ivanka Has Created 14 Million New Jobs!
From Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential inauguration through the middle of last month, the American economy added a total of about 6 million jobs. But during a speech to the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday, MORE
Politics
UF student body president faces impeachment over Trump Jr.’s speech; misuse of student fees
The University of Florida’s student body served their president, Michael Murphy, with an impeachment resolution accusing him of malfeasance and abuse of power. The resolution resulted because “he helped bring Donald Trump Jr. and Trump MORE
Live Discussions
House Impeachment Hearing: William Taylor and George Kent
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on “the House Intelligence Committee’s first open hearing of the impeachment inquiry against Trump. Today, lawmakers will hear testimony from William Taylor, Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Deputy MORE
Politics
Idiot-in-Charge of Executive Branch to Create “Wall Cam”
Jared Kushner and other senior Trump administration officials are planning to set up web cameras to live-stream construction of President Trump’s border wall, going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and senior MORE
Newscasts
Ari Melber: We’re Here Because of ‘Weaponized’ Propaganda from John Solomon, Hannity, Giuliani, and More
MSNBC’s Ari Melber looked back on “how we got here” (re: impeachment) tonight and called out figures like John Solomon, Sean Hannity, Rudy Giuliani, and Joe diGenova for “weaponizing” propaganda on Ukraine. Melber mostly focused on the reporting from Solomon — formerly MORE
News
One-in-a-Million Rare 3-Antlered Deer In Michigan
An amateur photographer in Marquette, Michigan, spotted and photographed a 3-antlered deer, a rare sighting. Steve Lindbergh, a former state Rep, gave up firearm hunting for photographing wildlife, saying he’d rather shoot deer with a MORE
News
Trump’s name popped up in Roger Stone’s trial; contradicts what he told Mueller
The deputy manager of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign pulled back the curtain Tuesday on the campaign’s keen interest in the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks and suggested that Trump himself had more knowledge of the matter MORE
Politics
Bolton Trashes Trump in Private Speech
In private speech, Bolton suggests some of Trump’s foreign policy decisions are guided by personal interest Former national security adviser John Bolton derided President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law during a private speech MORE
Breaking News
Trump Considered Firing the Intel Inspector General for Disloyalty
The president blames Michael Atkinson, whom he appointed, for finding the anonymous whistle-blower’s complaint on his interactions with Ukraine to be credible. President Trump has discussed dismissing the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, because Mr. MORE
Opinion
Abigail Disney has a message for those offended by, ‘OK boomer:’ ‘sit the f**k down’
In a thread on Twitter, the 59-year-old Disney heiress asks fellow members of the baby boomer generation when they became “so easily triggered”. “The more often you object to Millenials’ [sic] understandable resentment toward a MORE
2020 Elections
New Ads Show Trump Voters Saying They Made a Mistake
A left-leaning Super Pac named American Bridge has sunk $50 million into an ad campaign that features Trump supporters with regrets. The focus will be on rural working-class voters in the swing states of Michigan, MORE
2020 Elections
New Polls shows Buttigieg first in Iowa
Pete Buttigieg, whose presidential campaign has been steadily gaining ground in Iowa over recent weeks, now sits narrowly atop the 2020 Democratic field in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, according to a new survey. A Monmouth University poll published MORE
News
State Department Mina Chang appears to have embellished resumé
Deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations Mina Chang appears to have embellished her bigly resumé. According to NBC, “Chang inflated her educational achievements — like claiming, falsely, to MORE
Hate Watch
Stephen Miller’s leaked, hate-filled emails
Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hate Watch division “reviewed more than 900 previously private emails Miller sent to Breitbart editors from March 4, 2015, to June 27, 2016.” Former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh leaked the MORE
Impeachment
The Impeachment Loophole No One’s Talking About
A nugget of political arithmetic is suddenly everywhere: “Two-thirds majority.” This is the share of votes required to convict President Trump in an impeachment trial in the United States Senate. That’s 67 senators, if you’re counting—or, in the MORE
News
Nikki Haley grilled over Trump’s Ukraine conduct, truthfulness
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s July call with the leader of Ukraine, but said that “it’s never a good practice for us to ask a MORE
Politics
Trump loyalists become Seema Verma’s “communication consultants” who suck at the public trough
At least eight former White House, presidential transition and campaign officials for President Donald Trump were hired as outside contractors to the federal health department at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per MORE
Gun Violence
SCOTUS will not hear Sandy Hook families’ case against Remington; families can proceed
SCOTUS denied cert Tuesday on a case filed “against gun-maker Remington, a move the gunmaker has warned could potentially increase the liability of firearm manufacturers to suits brought by victims of gun crimes.” The case MORE
Updates
Liveblog - Impeachment Updates: 11-12-19
The first public hearings begin Wednesday. A leaked GOP talking points memo shows House Republicans will focus on these key items to discredit the Democratic Party’s impeachment inquiry. The July 25 call summary — the MORE