Author: Stephanie Moffat

Cummings Demands Chaffetz Request White House Documents On Comey, Russia Cummings steps up pressure on Chaffetz, White House over Russia documents. Democrat and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings on Friday demanded that his colleague Jason Chaffetz, the chair of the committee, to issue a request for any White House documents that reveal what Donald Trump told Russian officials about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, including that it eased “great pressure.” Cummings made his statement in response to a report that was published by The New York Times on Friday detailing the Oval...

Rachel Maddow Keeps Crushing Fox News MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is clearly now the undisputed queen of cable news. Maddow continues to be the go-to destination for Americans looking for thoughtful reporting on the Trump administration. And because of Maddow’s strong viewership, MSNBC has rocketed to the top of the cable news ratings race, providing a strong lead-in for Lawerence O’Donnell who also beats Fox News on most nights and Brian Williams who hosts “The 11th Hour.” On Thursday night, Maddow’s show was the most watched program in cable news with nearly 3 million viewers. With 2.94 million viewers, Maddow beat Fox News’s Tucker...

Democrats Catch Mike Pence In Major Lie About Mike Flynn Vice President Mike Pence keeps saying that he had no idea that Michael Flynn was a paid foreign agent for Turkey when he led the Trump transition. But Mike Pence’s story just isn’t adding up. Mike Flynn, of course, is at the center of the quickly growing Trump-Russia scandal. And in recent days it’s been revealed that Flynn warned the Trump transition. And who was head of the transition? Mike Pence, of course. We have noted before that Flynn’s work Turkey was widely reported in public, again contradicting Pence’s credibility on...

Investigators Actively Looking Into White House Cover-Up: Report Trump-Russia investigation just took a major turn against Trump.  Federal investigators in the Trump-Russi probe are now actively looking into whether the White House is committing a cover-up. According to a McClatchy report, members of Congress who received a briefing from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Friday. “A Justice Department official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic, confirmed that Rosenstein told members of the House of Representatives that the special counsel in charge of the probe, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, ‘has been...

Russians Bragged About Using Flynn To Influence Trump New report details just how sure the Russians felt about influence over Trump.  Russian officials bragged during the campaign about being able to exert influence on Donald Trump because of having cultivated a cultivated a relationship with Micheal Flynn. According to a report by CNN, “Russian officials bragged in conversations during the presidential campaign that they had cultivated a strong relationship with former Trump adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn and believed they could use him to influence Donald Trump and his team, sources told CNN.” The Russian bragging seemed to frighten...