Elections 2016

WATCH: Former FBI special agent stunned by Mueller team’s pushback against Barr

Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa told CNN on Thursday that the Mueller team's pushback against Attorney General Bill Barr's four-page summary of the special counsel's report was nothing short of "astonishing" -- and suggested the attorney general was actively trying to "distort" its findings.

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Ex-US attorney unloads on Bill Barr for playing ‘hide the ball' with damning information about Trump

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner told MSNBC on Thursday that Attorney General Bill Barr and the Department of Justice were playing games with "damning" information in the Mueller report that implicates President Donald Trump in a variety of shady dealings -- and that those shenanigans would soon be coming to an end.

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Trump’s attempt to bury Mueller's report will be undone by his own actions: reporter

The Washington Post's Karoun Demirjian said on Thursday that President Donald Trump's attempts to stonewall Congress on the release of the Mueller report will ultimately fail due to precedents he himself set by insisting on the release of James Comey's report on Hillary Clinton.

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Lindsey Graham squirms as CNN host grills him over his role in passing the Steele dossier to the FBI

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) squirmed on CNN Wednesday after being called out on his role in passing the Steele Dossier to the FBI.

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Trump being Putin’s useful idiot is just as scary as him willfully colluding with Russia: Ex-FBI agent Clint Watts

Former FBI special agent Clint Watts on Monday told MSNBC he wasn't sure which was worse: the idea that President Donald Trump is actively in league with Russia, or simply too stupid to know he and his inner circle are being manipulated by the Kremlin.

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Bernstein: Trump is already talking up retribution when we haven't even seen Mueller's report

Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein told CNN on Monday that President Donald Trump is already planning his revenge on his "perceived enemies" even though Americans have yet to see the Mueller report, which found no collusion in the Trump presidential campaign's contacts with Russia.

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Patriots owner Robert Kraft to reject plea deal: Report

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft will reject a conditional plea deal offered by Florida prosecutors on charges of soliciting prostitution, sources told CNN on Wednesday.

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Giuliani 'sometimes tells the truth’ about Trump — and that’s why they keep him off TV now: Ex-federal prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler said Monday he had an alternate reason for Rudy Giuliani's absence from television lately -- it's not, as Giuliani claims, that there's nothing more to say, it's that he slips up and tells the truth about President Donald Trump.

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Workers on Sanders' 2020 White House campaign join union

Workers on Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign have joined a labor union, becoming the first presidential campaign in history to unionize.

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Michael Cohen drops bombshell at hearing: Trump is being investigated right now for criminal acts

Michael Cohen, former fixer for President Donald Trump, testified to Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) in a public House hearing Wednesday that he knew about other crimes implicating the president, but he was not at liberty to discuss.

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‘Are you referring to me or the president?’ Cohen laughs in the face of GOP congressman who called him a liar

President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen outright laughed in the face of Republican Congressman Paul Gosar after the representative accused Cohen of being a liar.

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Cohen testifies Trump’s ‘whole family’ could have been 'compromised' by Russia during the campaign

Michael Cohen on Wednesday conceded that President Donald Trump's "whole family" was likely in bed with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign during public testimony to the House Oversight Committee.

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GOP's Jim Jordan flings Clinton conspiracy theories to derail Michael Cohen testimony

Ohio Republican Jim Jordan tried on Wednesday to derail Michael Cohen's testimony to Congress, flinging unhinged Clinton conspiracies for nearly five solid minutes before flaming out.

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