TPM’s Matt Shuham talked to Josh Scheinblum, the reporter who Iowa congressman Rod Blum freaked out on. In context, his question to Blum makes even more sense, seems even more fair.
Sen. Graham says that after yesterday’s comment by former DNI Clapper he wants to examine President Trump’s business ties to Russia.
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Let me return for a moment to the monopoly beat.
This time it’s a book recommendation and some brief ruminations on the topic of tech monopolies. Read More
Were you assuming the Senate would tame Trumpcare? GOP Senators say they’re good to go with massive Medicaid cuts.
We are putting together breaking news that James Comey is out as FBI Director. He was apparently fired by President Trump.
Statement from the White House … Read More
I can only remember a few times in twenty years in this business that I heard genuinely stunning news. Obviously 9/11 was stunning; natural disasters are stunning. But I mean political developments which are totally unexpected and substantially shocking. This is shocking. Read More
Just a few moments ago Jeff Zeleny reported on CNN (rush transcript) that the President started discussing firing Comey a week ago and then asked DOJ to come up with a “rationale” for the firing. Transcript after the jump … Read More
Let me add a few more thoughts on the events of the evening.
There is a glorious swirl of irony, disingenuousness and bad faith in the vortex of opinions about James Comey and the notional rationale for firing him. Speaking just for myself, after Comey’s October 28th letter to Congress, I thought and think that by all rights he should have resigned. I think I wrote shortly after Trump’s election that by rights Comey should be fired but that it would be a national calamity if he was. An independent FBI Director was critical to the security of the nation as soon as a countdown started for Trump to become President of the United States. Read More
Oh hey, here’s Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov cracking a joke about Comey’s firing before going into a meeting with the Secretary of State. Later he meets with Trump. Video after the jump. Read More
Without the need of an argument or storyline, I want to put together some key facts tied to last night’s events. Read More