House Intel Committee Demands Proof of Wiretap From Trump By Monday House Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Devin Nunes and ranking member Democrat Adam Schiff have asked the White House to hand over any evidence proving Trump’s claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. First reported by The Associated Press, Nunes and Schiff sent a letter to the White House with this demand. Trump has not provided any evidence thus far and news reports indicate that Trump’s claim comes from a debunked Breitbart article that was placed on his desk by a White House staffer. Since then, Trump has...

BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has been fired by the Trump administration. In November, Bharara was offered the opportunity to stay on as U.S. Attorney by Trump and Jeff Sessions. “I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life,” Bharara tweeted. A senior administration official confirmed that Bharara had been fired. On Friday, Sessions asked the 46 remaining Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys to resign. The move is...

FBI Director Comey To Testify In Congressional Hearing On March 20 FBI Director James Comey will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 during a hearing on Russian interference in the U.S. elections. “That’s the plan. We’re still working out the details and the ground rules with the committee, but we expect that we will be able to accommodate that date,” said Greg Brower, assistant director for the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs. According to a report in The Hill, “The hearing — announced this week — is the first public hearing in the committee’s contentious probe.” It...

Kentucky’s Republican Governor ‘Not Impressed’ With Obamacare Replacement Bill The Republican governor of Kentucky is standing up against the House Republican plan to replace Obamacare. Governor Matt Bevin is siding with fellow Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is saying he is “not impressed” with the health plan. The Associated Press quoted Bevin saying, “Sen. Paul … is not impressed with what has currently been offered. Truth be told, I’m not either. So I’m with him.” Kentucky was one traditionally red states that chose to expand medicaid coverage under Obamacare, though Bevin has vowed to roll that back. Republicans seem to...

Federal Court Ruled Texas House Districts Must Be Redrawn In a 2 to 1 ruling, a panel of federal judges ruled that the Texas state legislature must redraw three districts, because it unconstitutionally discriminates against Hispanic voters. The judges found the Texas legislature violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Republicans had repeatedly tried to dilute the political power of Latino voters — either packing them into one specific district, or dividing communities between separate districts, a process called “cracking.” The ruling described a chaotic, hurried process that led to the 2011 congressional maps, redrawn to add four...

Counterterrorism Expert Malcolm Nance Calls Trump ‘Conspiracy Theory President’ Counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance took on Trump this morning on MSNBC’s AM Joy, calling him a “conspiracy theory president” who has no business being in control of America’s nuclear arsenal. Nance’s comments came after Joy Reid asked him whether any previous president has “actively worked to undermine the trust of government from within” by using alt-right conspiracies to inform his decision-making. Nance continued, holding nothing back, he’s “not even sure whether you can put those three words together in a tangible sentence and actually use the word president.” Referring to...

Maddow: Impossible To Believe Mike Pence On Flynn Story On Friday’s show, Rachel Maddow reviewed the increasingly implausible explanations from the Trump administration about Michael Flynn and particularly Vice President Pence’s story about Flynn’s lobbying activity. Maddow pointed out how Mike Pence’s claim that he only found out about Michael Flynn’s work as a foreign agent for Turkey when news broke this week just doesn’t hold up. We now know that Flynn’s lawyers informed the Trump transition team that he may need to register as a foreign agent. And we also know that Congressman Elijah Cummings sent a letter...

Obama Appointed US Attorney Bharara Refusing Trump Demand He Resign: Report Multiple news outlets are reporting that Preet Bharara, United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, is refusing the Trump administration’s demand to resign. On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the remaining 46 attorneys appointed by former President Obama to submit their resignations, including Bharara. Bharara was asked by Trump and Sessions in November to stay on as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York – Bharara agreed to stay on. “HOLDOVER: Bharara is not submitting his resignation, according to several ppl briefed – WH not responding...

Mike Pence Was Informed That Flynn Would Need To Register As Foreign Agent 3 Months Ago Questions continue to swirl what the Trump team knew regarding Mike Flynn’s need to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work on behalf of Turkey. It was revealed that Flynn was paid over $500,000 to a foreign agent for the nation of Turkey at the same time that he sat in on top secret national security briefings during the Trump campaign. And Friday news reports confirmed that the Trump transition including the head of the transition team, Mike Pence, were warned of Flynn’s...

Trump Campaign Consultant Admits Contacts With DNC Hacker Roger Stone, former campaign adviser and longtime to Donald Trump, admitted on Friday that he had private conversations with the hacker involved in the Russian hacking and leak of the DNC last year. In an interview with the Washington Times, Stone tried to suggest that the conversations were “completely innocuous.” “It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it,” Stone said about his private Twitter conversation with the hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0.” The United States intelligence community believes that Guccifer 2.0 is a cover for Russian intelligence and have...