Together again? Trump, Pelosi, Schumer tackle infrastructure

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The last time President Donald Trump sat down with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, the president walked out in a huff and dismissed their government shutdown talks as a “total waste of … Read More

AG Barr Gave Dems A Chance To See Some Redacted Portions Of Mueller’s Report. They Said No.

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Seemed like a fair offer Congressional Democrats, even before the Mueller report was released, have expressed outrage that portions of the report would be redacted by special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr. When the report was released, … Read More

Dems rage against Barr for backing claims of Trump campaign ‘spying’ by FBI

Prominent Democrats lined up to hammer Attorney General Bill Barr for testifying Wednesday that federal authorities had spied on the Trump campaign in 2016, with one top House Democrat charging that Barr is not acting “in the best interest of the DOJ or … Read More

Hans von Spakovsky: Dems wrong to attack Barr for telling truth about fed spying on Trump campaign

Democrats sharply attacked Attorney General William Barr for telling the truth when he acknowledged in Senate testimony Wednesday that federal law enforcement officers had spied on the Trump presidential campaign. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland … Read More

Rhetoric won’t fix border crisis

Mounted Border Patrol agents ride along a newly fortified border wall structure on Oct. 26, 2018, in Calexico, Calif. President Donald Trump is visiting Calexico on Friday, April 5, 2019, to tour the recently-built portion of the border fence that … Read More

Mueller investigation into Trump ends but House Democrats are just getting started

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President Trump may be cleared of colluding with the Russians to win the White House, but House Democrats are hardly ready to give up investigating the president. They are gearing up for comprehensive probes that could go far beyond the narrow … Read More

Trump declares emergency on border, eyes $8B for wall as he plans to sign spending package

President Trump said Friday he is declaring a national emergency on the southern border, tapping into executive powers in a bid to divert billions toward construction of a wall even as he plans to sign a funding package that includes just $1.4 … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 1 February 2019

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Greetings from Tyler, The mainstream media’s hair caught fire this week. It seems that President Trump had the audacity to disagree with top “intelligence” officials who say Iran poses no nuclear threat. Evidence has surfaced that the regime is still … Read More

In reversal, Trump now says he and intel chiefs in agreement

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday.  Photo: AP WASHINGTON A day after he lashed out at U.S. intelligence agency chiefs over their assessments of global threats, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course and said that … Read More

Schumer urges Coats to stage intelligence intervention with Trump

“I applaud you and your colleagues in the Intelligence Community for being clear-eyed about the threats we face, but you cannot allow the President’s ill-advised and unwarranted comments today to stand,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in his letter. … Read More

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