WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper Slams Trump White House For Banning Press From Briefing In one of his strongest criticisms yet of the Trump administration, CNN’s Jake Tapper slammed the White House for its decision today to ban several media outlets from participating in the press briefing. Tapper said the Trump White House doesn’t want to be held accountable and is against checks and balances. Tapper also called the Trump administration’s decision “petulant.” The CNN host noted “Let’s not make any mistake about what’s happening here,” Tapper began. “A White House that has had some difficulty telling the truth and...

BREAKING: White House Bans Media Outlets Including NY Times and CNN From Press Briefing The White House has blocked several news outlets from covering the White House press briefing Friday afternoon. According to the Hill,  “Spicer decided to hold an The news outlets that were note permitted to attend included: The New York Times, The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News. Some major news outlets were allowed into the gaggle including: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Reuters, Bloomberg and McClatchy. And the Associated Press and Time magazine were allowed in...

Hillary Clinton To Democrats: ‘Let Resistance Plus Persistence Equal Progress For Our Party And Our Country’ A message from @HillaryClinton: “Let resistance plus persistence equal progress for our Party and our country.” #DNCFuture pic.twitter.com/smbxQZQfpV — The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) February 24, 2017 Hillary Clinton on Friday released a video on the Democratic Party’s Twitter account praising the overwhelming energy from progressives and Democrats throughout the country. Clinton said, “After the primaries we came together as a party to write the most progressive platform in history.” “Ideas we championed are now inspiring leaders and activists across our country,” Clinton continued. “And everywhere...

People attending Trump’s speech during the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference could be seen waving small Russian flags with the word “Trump” on it. It appeared to be a prank – and CPAC workers quickly began to collect the flags after they were being waived. But that didn’t stop people from waving them. Here’s an image of the Russian flag: And here are images of the CPAC Trump Russian flags: Crowd at CPAC waving these little pro-Trump flags that look exactly like the Russian flag. Staffers quickly come around to confiscate them. pic.twitter.com/YhPpkwFCNc — Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) February 24, 2017...

Joe Scarborough Slams Trump White House For Telling FBI To ‘Clean Up’ Russia Story Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough slammed the White House for reports that chief of staff asked the FBI publically walk back the new reports that Trump’s campaign team was in regular contact with Russian intelligence. According to CNN, Reince Priebus privately asked FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to help walk back what they call are inaccurate media reports about the Russia contacts. And almost more shockingly, Trump’s chief of staff also asked FBI Director James Comey to authorize investigators to dispute the stories. Scarborough said, “Why would...

Report: Trump Tells Homeland Security To Help Back Up Muslim-Ban Order CNN has reported that Donald Trump has instructed the Department of Homeland Security to help make the case for his Muslim-ban. If that seems weird to you, it should.Usually, presidents get evidence from the intelligence community then they craft policy based on those facts. But in Trump’s America you just make up policy, then make your yes-men find something that will help make your case. According to CNN, “First, some intelligence officials disagree with the conclusion that immigration from these countries should be temporarily banned in the name...

Report: FBI Rejected WH Request to Deny Contacts Between Trump Advisers and Russia The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN. The report comes days after the New York Times and CNN reported last week that Trump campaign aides and associates were in touch with Russian intel officials during the campaign. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus then said during a weekend television interview that senior...

Trump Administration May Crack Down on Recreational Marijuana White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested Thursday during his daily briefing that the federal government may crack down on recreational marijuana use across the country, even in states that have legalized the drug. “I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement,” Spicer said, while adding the exact policy is “a question for the Department of Justice.” Spicer added that Trump approves of medical marijuana use but when it comes to recreational use, Spicer suggested that was tied to the opioid crisis many states are currently facing. “There is still a...

Trump’s Win Driving More Women to Run For Office There are early indications that women are considering running for office in order to combat Trump’s misogynistic, sexist remarks that many heard while he was on the campaign trail. NPR shared the story of Karen Noble, who never thought about running for office until the day after Election Day. NPR considers her political philosophy to be “distinctly un-Trumpian.” Noble explains, “I want to be someone who can bring forward anybody’s and everybody’s good ideas. They don’t need to be my own.” Noble ended up contact the New Mexico branch of...

Former Speaker John Boehner: Obamacare Repeal ‘Not Going To Happen’ Politico reports that former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not going to happen.” “[Congressional Republicans are] going to fix Obamacare – I shouldn’t call it repeal-and-replace, because it’s not going to happen,” he said. Boehner, who was speaking at a Orlando health care conference, thinks a quick repeal and replace is just “happy talk” and most likely there will only be modest changes to President Obama’s legacy legislation. “Most of the framework of the Affordable Care Act …...