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EXCLUSIVE: The first round of public impeachment hearings wrapped up on November 21, but today saw the debut of a new video venture examining the process to potentially extradite Donald Trump from the Oval Office. Moving in where perhaps Meet The Press fears to tread, this morning The Circus co-host John Heilemann…

Early on in tonight's fifth Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders proclaimed that for all the incumbent's apparent sins, "we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are we're going to lose the election." The sage from Vermont and his nine fellow contenders onstage in Atlanta may have wanted to…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Ray has found his Barack Obama for the CBS Studios miniseries adaptation of the James Comey bestseller A Higher Loyalty, which began production last week in Toronto and DC. Kingsley Ben-Adir has been set to play the former U.S. President; Spotlight‘s Brian d'Arcy James will play Mark Giuliano, the…

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! show saw Donald Trump’s 48-minute speech on the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and decided there were a few moments of comedy gold to be had. So they compared and contrasted the oratorical style of the 44th and 45th Presidents as they gravely announce the deaths of some of the world’s worst…

President Donald Trump again brought up Barack Obama’s Netflix deal, grousing that his predecessor didn’t face the same criticism that Trump himself has for his now-scuttled plan to host the G7 summit at the Trump Doral resort. “Many other presidents, there weren’t too many really rich presidents, but there were a…

Four U.S. presidents paid their respects to ABC News’ longtime correspondent Cokie Roberts today, but only one also whined about the late reporter’s treatment of him. Any guesses? "I never met her,” President Donald Trump told pool reporters aboard Air Force One today. “She never treated me nicely. But I would like to…

President Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats on Monday for trying to “build a case that I enrich myself by being President,” instead arguing that President Barack Obama’s Netflix and book deals should be investigated. There is a big difference, though. The subject of Democrats’ scrutiny, and that of a federal lawsuit…

Bill Maher and Michael Moore got in a heated exchange Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and eventually made a pricey on-air bet — the stakes: a trip to Hawaii — over a factual dispute. And, as it turns out, Maher will be footing the bill for Moore’s upcoming luau. The conversation started friendly enough…

Higher Ground, the production company founded by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, has hired Ada Chiaghana as VP Development and Production. Chiaghana moves over from HBO, where she has been a creative executive in the original programming department, working on half-hour series including Los Espookys and S…

Forty four is jamming to 44 songs this summer. President Barack Obama shared the former first couple’s summer 2019 playlist today on social media, and it includes 44 tracks spanning multiple decades. “With summer winding down, here's a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to — some new, some old, some…

Stephen Colbert started things off Thursday night with a fun story on The Late Show about a petition to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets in New York City “President Barack H. Obama Avenue.” And guess what building lives on that street? Yup, Trump Tower. “To make the honor complete…

Stephen Colbert called out President Trump tonight for continuing to spread conspiracy theories on Twitter and then feigning innocence. After branding the president “conspiracist in chief,” The Late Show host played a clip of an impromptu news conference Trump had today outside Marine One in Morristown, New…