Elections 2016

Sam Nunberg, former political advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, told MSNBC on Wednesday that the president and his allies had been "outplayed" by his former fixer Michael Cohen, who delivers public testimony to Congress today about the president's many crimes and history of lawbreaking.

Former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart told CNN on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's utter lack of impulse control was ruining Republican plans to blow up Michael Cohen's public testimony to Congress.

Democratic House Oversight Committee member Ro Khanna told MSNBC on Tuesday that former House Intel chair, California Republican Devin Nunes, was trying to "kill" the Michael Cohen hearings with his call to make all three sessions open to the public.

MSNBC national security reporter Ken Dilanian said on Monday that President Donald Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen, would be bringing documentation to back up his testimony to Congress this week, and predicted "explosive" revelations.

The Daily Beast's Jackie Kucinich said Monday that how President Donald Trump reacts to Congressional testimony from his former fixer Michael Cohen will boil down to how his favorite television news network takes the news.

University of Baltimore law professor Kim Wehle told MSNBC on Monday that she expects public and private testimony from President Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen will "shift the dialogue" among Americans, and could ultimately lead to the president's ouster.

Fired acting FBI director Andrew McCabe described how agents reacted after President Donald Trump admitted in a television interview that he had fired FBI director James Comey over the Russia investigation, and said the president left the agency "no choice" but to launch an investigation of their own.

Rhode Island Democratic Congressman David Cicilline told CNN Friday that the American people deserve to see the Mueller report, and he'll take any steps necessary to make sure it's made public -- including opening up impeachment procedures.

CNN's Gloria Borger said Roger Stone's lawyers' decision to put him on the stand to explain why he'd posted an image on Instagram of the judge presiding over his case with a crosshairs next to her face was "questionable" at best, as Judge Amy Berman Jackson "picked apart" his excuses.

MSNBC's Katy Tur was more than a little bemused on Thursday as she read Roger Stone's frantic plea for mercy, delivered at a court appearance that may send him to jail for violating a gag order by posting images on Instagram of the presiding judge with crosshairs next to her head. Stone was indicted in January on charges of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements.

Democratic House Judiciary member Steve Cohen (TN) told CNN on Thursday that he believed Attorney General Bill Barr was brought in to do President Donald Trump's "bidding" and predicted he would suppress much of Robert Mueller's report into Russia's role in throwing the 2016 election to the former reality TV star.

Democrats seem to have chosen "the perfect day" to drag President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in for public testimony before the House Oversight Committee, perfectly timed to coincide with diplomatic trip to Vietnam. So said CNN justice correspondent Evan Pérez on Thursday.