Elections 2016

MNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin said on Thursday the big takeaway from former Trump transition team leader Chris Christie seemed to be that the president was running out of friends in a cabinet filled with backstabbers.

Conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot told CNN on Monday that it was 'bonkers' how many ways President Donald Trump was implicated as a Russian asset, and said the entire episode was like something out of a spy movie.

Former United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told MSNBC on Monday that the United States was in a "dangerous moment" that has America's allies worried about President Donald Trump's legitimacy, after the Washington Post's bombshell report that Trump went to "extraordinary lengths" to hide, and possibly destroy, the notes from his private meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

Former FBI special agent and CNN law enforcement analyst Josh Campbell told CNN Monday that the interpreter's notes from President Donald Trump's private Helsinki meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin are "political dynamite", saying they will reveal the sheer magnitude of the U.S. president's weakness.

On Thursday, CNN reporter M.J. Lee predicted a white-hot White House meltdown when President Donald Trump turns on his television February 7 to watch his former personal attorney Michael Cohen testifying publicly in front of Congress on what will presumably be a wide variety of topics.

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice Elliot Williams told MSNBC on Wednesday that President Donald Trump 'absolutely should be frightened' by the latest revelations about his convicted campaign manager Paul Manafort's contact with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Unlike his older sister and her husband, Eric Trump did not join his father's administration and has no formal role in government.

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, prominent fundraisers for right-wing causes and Breitbart.com, are scaling back their political activities after years of negative press, reports Bloomberg.

CNN's Jim Sciutto heavily criticized White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders for dragging Americans through the looking glass again, as she continued to insist that President Trump's disgraced and convicted national security advisor Michael Flynn was tricked into talking to the FBI, despite Flynn's own public admission to the contrary.

Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller, said Tuesday that after Judge Emmet Sullivan all but accused President Trump's former national security advisor Mike Flynn of treason, the president's claim that the Mueller probe is a 'witch hunt' was in tatters.

MSNBC's Pete Williams was stunned by the ferocity of Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is taking "a much harder line" with the sentencing of President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn, convicted for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.

Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution Ben Wittes told MSNBC on Tuesday that he couldn't even begin to understand why President Donald Trump would attack his convicted former fixer Michael Cohen while praising his convicted national security advisor Michael Flynn, given that both men were cooperating fully with special counsel Robert Mueller.

CNN senior investigative correspondent Drew Griffin said Monday that Russian troll farm attacks on social media "went beyond politics" and flirted with outright blackmail.