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Former FBI director James Comey didn’t pack the same ratings punch in his repeat town-hall visit to CNN for a town hall on Thursday night. An average of 1.6 million viewers watched Comey tell Anderson Cooper that Attorney General William Barr has wrecked his reputation with his misleading recaps of the Mueller report…

UPDATED with Rep. Nadler’s presser: "I'm deeply troubled by reports that the WH is being briefed on the Robert Mueller report AHEAD of its release," Rep. Jerry Nadler tweeted, breaking news that is how DOJ intended to roll it out. "Now, DOJ is informing us we will not receive the report until around 11/12 tomorrow…

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has handed in his report to Attorney General Bill Barr, ending 675 days of probing of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and any participation by members of President Donald Trump’s campaign or transition team. It’s a huge moment for the White House, the investigation having hung over…

UPDATED with video: “How coup-y did it feel to you in the moment?” Stephen Colbert asked former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of the moment when top officials at the Justice Department and the FBI mulled if there were ways to remove President Donald Trump from office. McCabe is making the TV rounds in promotion of…

Seth Meyers captured the crazy of the day’s news cycle on Late Night. It started when the media thought Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had resigned, or been fired, for having suggested – or joking – a year ago that he wear a wire and record President Donald Trump to expose the chaos consuming the…

UPDATED:  “At the request of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he and President Trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories” the White House said this afternoon. “Because the President is at the United Nations General Assembly and has a full schedule with leaders from around the world…

When President Donald Trump declared Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election a “rigged witch hunt that “really hurts our country and really hurts our relationship with Russia” at Friday’s Chequers presser, he had been briefed that Mueller had just indicted 12 Russian…

“The American people see right through the blatant lies of a self admitted leaker,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said of former FBI Director James Comey. This after she got asked if President Donald Trump’s morning Twitter tirade calling Comey a “slime ball” indicated Trump is running scared as…

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders stuck to her "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain with the Twitter account” agenda at Wednesday’s press briefing, insisting "all options are on the table" with regard to a response to a Syrian gas attack on citizens. All options includes diplomacy, she insisted…

Being at Mar-a-Lago the weekend after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein unveiled special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest blockbuster indictments in the Russian election meddling probe took a heavy toll on President Donald Trump. Unable to blow off steam golfing daily at his course, Trump instead spent the weekend…

President Donald Trump – finally forced to acknowledge Russians did meddle in the 2016 election after Deputy Attorney General announced indictments against 13 Russians and three Russian companies for allegedly doing just that – nonetheless tweeted nothing-to-see-ily about the indictments Friday afternoon. “Russia…

In a stunning press conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced today that special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals for U.S. election meddling as a result of his investigation. The special counsel appointed by Rosenstein alleges that the Russians operated to support the…