Hours after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel held a presser with Chicago cops to blast prosecutors' dismissal of criminal charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, Emanuel appeared on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN program. He hadn’t calmed down any, and refused to say Smollett’s name. “Here is my basic anger. There is no sense…

Getting Donald Trump out of the White House must be the priority of all Democrats, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told CNN's town hall participants Monday night. Not only because he tried to throw more than 30M people out of health care, and not only because, after promising tax cuts for everyone, the biggest beneficiary…

California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi says that if President Donald Trump fails to order the U.S. Cyber Command to respond to Russian hacking of U.S. utilities, it would be a dereliction of office and could amount to an article of impeachment. “This whole thing is spinning out of control,” Garamendi warned CNN’s Wo…

During its coverage of Wednesday’s latest school shooting in America, Wolf Blitzer asked CNN’s counter-terrorism analyst Philip Mudd for his thoughts after a couple hours hearing accounts of today’s shooting in Parkland, FL, Mudd being someone who used to work for the FBI. Mudd is a veteran of this kind of…

The Monday after President Donald Trump announced open season on CNN International journalists, CNN fired back on its air. “For nearly four decades CNN has been constant here in the United States and around the world. Our journalists, in front of and behind the camera, risk their lives in the most dangerous of places…

UPDATED with video: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer returned to air Tuesday evening to apologize for having said, hours earlier at his press briefing, that Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people, as had Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “When you make a mistake you own it,” Spicer told CNN”s Wolf…

Hollywood's worst nightmare of a President Donald Trump is suddenly a real possibility, according to CNN, the New York Times and others. "We are seeing a credible path for Donald Trump to the White House," said Jake Tapper at around 6:40 PM PT as media critics felt the chill of Hell freezing over. At nearly the same…

How about that Marco Rubio tearing into GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at CNN’s GOP debate last night! Sure, it’s likely because polling is showing he’s losing to Trump his own states with Super Tuesday just around the corner. And yes, it’s probably two months too late – and Ted Cruz got in his share of whacks, though…

Chris Christie’s back among the leads in the next episode of this TV season’s favorite reality series, The GOP Debates. CNN, which is airing the next episode, on December 15, this morning announced its casting criteria. Nine candidates look likely to make the cut for the RNC-sanctioned debate at The Venetian in Las…

What can you say about Donald Trump‘s refusal to accept that President Obama was born in Hawaii? Even though the president has released his birth certificate, The Donald dug in his heels in an interview with CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer.  “If you’d report it accurately, you’d probably get better ratings which are pretty small,&#8221…