The Office of White House Counsel is losing mustachioed wonder Ty Cobb to retirement and adding Emmet T. Flood, veteran lawyer who was part of President Clinton’s legal team during his impeachment hearings. Apparently, Mr. Flood was in talks to join the WH legal team as early as last summer but couldn’t stand idea of…
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that loosens the restrictions on political activity for religious groups. âWe will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore, and we will never ever stand for religious discrimination,â Trump said in the White House Rose Garden. âNo American should be forced…
Former national security adviser Susan Rice denied on Tuesday that she was responsible for âunmaskingâ the names of top Trump officials, as was claimed in reports on Monday. âI leaked nothing to nobody, and never have and never would,â Rice said on MSNBC. Rice denied that she or any Obama administration official âused intelligence for…
President Trump unveiled his 2018 budget proposal Thursday, providing the clearest view yet of the policies he wants to use to deliver on his campaign promises. The plan includes a $54 billion increase in defense spending and a substantial bump for border security, while calling for deep cuts to most federal agencies, including roughly 30…
Several major news outlets found themselves blocked from attending a Friday White House press briefing with Sean Spicer, the Press Secretary, the latest sign of worsening relations between the Trump administration and the media attempting to cover it. The New York Times, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Politico were among the…
Trump administration officials asked intelligence officials and members of Congress to help them downplay and speak out against news reports about the Trump campaign’s connections to Russian intelligence, according to a Washington Post report. These individuals reportedly called journalists attempting to âchallengeâ stories in the New York Times, CNN and elsewhere about top Trump advisersâ…
President Obama is scheduled to deliver a farewell address Tuesday night at McCormick Place, a lakefront convention center in his adopted hometown of Chicago. Aides said the speech would be a call to action for a new generation of leaders. “It’s a passing of the baton,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. Senior adviser Valerie…
On Friday, the heads of the CIA and FBI, plus Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, are scheduled to brief President-elect Donald Trump on a 50-page classified report on Russian hacking, a day after President Obama was presented with the same findings from the U.S. intelligence community. Trump has publicly questioned the intelligence community’s findings…
The first woman to serve as Americaâs attorney general, Janet Reno, died early Monday at the age of 78. She passed away in her Miami home after a long battle with Parkinsonâs disease. Reno served in the White House under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. During her tenure, she oversaw the conviction of Sheik…
Donald Trump speech at a Pennsylvania rally included doubts about Clintonâs marital fidelity, an impression of her being sick from pneumonia and opinions about the state of movies in America. âHillary Clintonâs only loyalty is to her financial contributors and to herselfâŚI donât even think sheâs loyal to Bill, if you want to know the…
Former President Bill Clinton weighs in on the divisive rhetoric used in the Donald Trump campaign and talks about stumping for his wife, Hillary Clinton.
… speeches like this are fun. Actually doing the work is hard. So people say, “well we need a change; she’s been around a long time; and she’s sure been worth every single year she’s put into making people’s lives better… …You don’t know any of these …3.4 million people…but I’ll guarantee you they know…
Watch Dana Carvey doing a rundown of 2016 politics, including a post-apocalyptic Trump, Bernie at Disneyland, & Hillary getting fed lines from Bill.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clintonâs brother-in-law, Roger Clinton, was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in California on Sunday night, TMZ reports. Clinton was reportedly arrested in Redondo Beach and remained in police custody Monday morning in lieu of a $15,000 bond. He was arrested on the same charge in 2001.
President Barack Obama has announced the US is fully lifting its embargo on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam, its one-time enemy. Speaking during a visit to communist Vietnam and talks with its leaders, Mr Obama said the move removed a “lingering vestige of the Cold War”. The US is trying to bolster its relationship…
During another interview with Sean Hannity, Donald Trump accused former President Bill Clinton of rape. âFor example, I looked at The New York Times. Are they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick? Are they going to interview Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey?â Hannity asked Trump, per the transcript of the show. âIn…
Bill Clinton appeared on Tuesday’s Late Night With Stephen Colbert where he answered some tough questions. First, why is Bernie Sanders doing so well? “Because there are a lot of people all over the world that are really hacked off that they think the system is rigged against them and the rich get all the…
Bill Clinton called Donald Trump this spring and âencouraged Trumpâs efforts to play a larger role in the Republican Party,â The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing five people familiar with the exchange. Clintonâs personal office confirmed the call occurred. Trump aides claim their boss was âcandid about his political ambitions and his potential interest in…
George Stephanopoulos has revealed that he gave the Clinton Foundation $25,000 in 2012, 2013 and 2014âwhile continuing to report on the Clintons, their foundation, and related fields. The ABC News chief anchor also did not disclose those donations last month while interviewing the author of Clinton Cash, a book critical of the foundationâs disclosure issues.…
Bill Clinton says he has no regrets about taking millions in foreign cash for his foundation – even though the donations have caused a political headache for Hillary Clinton as she seeks to follow in his footsteps and be elected to the Oval Office.
Monica Lewinsky – She’s back! Breaking years of silence, the former White House intern at the center of the scandal that led to President Bill Clintonâs impeachment writes in Vanity Fair that her affair was âconsensual.â Lewinsky, now 40 and with a masterâs degree in social psychology, writes that itâs âtime to burn the beret…
The Kentucky GOP senator shot back at Democrats’ claim Republicans are waging a ‘war on women,’ saying that if Hillary Clinton does run for President, her husband’s ‘predatory’ sexual behavior should be investigated. ‘He took advantage of (Monica Lewinsky), a girl that was 20 years old and an intern in his office. There is no…
Former US Presidents George W. Bush and Laura Bush will travel with President Barack Obama to South African to attend Nelson Mandelaâs memorial. Former President Bill Clinton will also attend the memorial, but his travel plans were not released. A spokesman for former President George H. W. Bush said he is not attending the Mandela…
(VIDEO) President Obama and President Clinton Talk Health Care Reform at the Clinton Global Initiative. President Obama and the BIG DOG BILL talk about the health care implementation and push back against the right wing lie machine.
Bono pretended to be Bill Clinton as the audience waited for the former US president to arrive on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative event. “When I first met Bono, he walked into the Oval Office and I actually thought it was a member of his own road crew, [He] wasnât really dressed right,” Irish…
Bill Clinton To Give Speech Defending Obamacare Bill Clinton will go to bat for President Barack Obama next week when the former president delivers a speech in defense of the new federal health care law, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd reported on-air Wednesday. Clinton will deliver the speech next Wednesday at his presidential library in Little Rock,…
Bill Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama should do more to aid rebels in the Syrian civil war and that he risks looking like “a total fool” if he allows public opinion polls to govern U.S. policy on that front, according to audio obtained by Politico. The former president made his remarks to Sen.…
The former president dictated his first and only tweet to Colbert under the handle @PrezBillyJeff. The account now has more than 38,000 followers. Stephen Colbert has signed former President Bill Clinton up for Twitter with a not-so-presidential handle: @PrezBillyJeff. Clinton joked that he had been reluctant to jump on the Twitter bandwagon during the interview…
Bill OâReilly continued his theme of what the biggest problem facing the country today is with James Carville. Carville cited a general economic trend downward since the 1970s and unemployment. After a brief clash, OâReilly brought up Carvilleâs former boss, Bill Clinton, and challenged him on the difference in economic outlook between Clinton and President…
Jodi Arias, the 32-year-old woman on trial for killing her boyfriend Travis Alexander, opened up during her testimony today about the sexual relationship between her and Alexander. Arias told the courtroom that Alexanderâs definition of what constituted sex was very limited, likening his definition of sex to the âBill Clinton versionâ infamously provided by the…
