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Former CIA boss John Brennan explains Trump's 'authoritarian toolbox'

The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency blasted President Donald Trump for trying to use "authoritarian" tactics to win his border wall fight -- and said he'd been doing so for quite some time.

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Fox News' Shep Smith debunks Trump's border claims just seconds after he says them

Fox News' Shep Smith on Friday immediately fact-checked President Donald Trump after a live press conference about the ongoing government shutdown over his border wall.

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Trump ends border security meeting by lashing out at CNN's Jim Acosta

At the end of a press conference Friday afternoon, Donald Trump mocked CNN’s Jim Acosta for posting a video that downplayed the president’s claims of a “crisis” on the border.

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Fox News host bizarrely claims Obama obstructed justice by talking to Fox News Sunday

Fox News' Lisa Boothe on Friday bizarrely claimed that former President Barack Obama obstructed justice in 2016 when he gave an interview to her network colleague Chris Wallace.

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Actor Bradley Whitford tells The View the US is like a dysfunctional family under Trump: 'Daddy's nuts'

Actor Bradley Whitford compared the United States to a dysfunctional family under President Donald Trump.

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The View's Meghan McCain throws a tantrum after producer scolds her for calling Michael Cohen a 'jackass'

"The View" co-host Meghan McCain bristled when a producer scolded her for repeatedly using "jackass" during a discussion of former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen.

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GOP operative begs Trump to stop associating himself with 'galactically stupid people'

In a New York Times article published Thursday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wondered, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King said.

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GOP lawmaker short circuits when CNN host asks if Dem president could declare climate change a 'national emergency'

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on Friday appeared to short circuit after CNN's John Berman asked him if a Democrat president could in the future use the precedent being set by President Donald Trump to unilaterally declare climate change a "national emergency."

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National Enquirer looks like they’re doing Trump’s dirty work with Bezos hit piece: CNN’s Alisyn Camerota

CNN host Alisyn Camerota cast a skeptical eye on the National Enquirer on Friday morning over what she called a hit piece on Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' previously private divorce plans, saying it had all the hallmarks of the type of reporting that helped propel Trump to the Oval Office.

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America is being ruled by Fox & Friends because Trump is ‘afraid’ to defy them: Texas Democrat

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) told CNN's John Berman on Friday that the only reason the federal government is still shut down is because President Donald Trump is afraid that the hosts of "Fox & Friends" will say mean things about him.

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Michael Cohen will annihilate Trump when he answers these 4 devastating questions before Congress: CNN's Toobin

Discussing a report that Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has agreed to be questioned by lawmakers in televised hearings, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin had some advice for Democrats on getting more dirt on the embattled president.

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Frightening prospect if an authoritarian like Trump declares state of emergency: consumer watchdog

President Trump says that he will likely declare a national emergency over the border wall if negotiations over the government shutdown continue. We speak with Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. “The Congress has given the president quite a bit of authority to declare emergencies with terms that are almost unbounded,” Weissman says. “Congress has always expected, and society has always expected, that presidents wouldn’t abuse that authority recklessly, declaring emergencies just because they want to. We obviously have a president now who has no such constraints.”

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe blasts Lindsey Graham for enabling Trump’s ‘illegal’ power grab: ‘He shouldn’t even be in Congress’

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for morally bankrupting himself to serve President Donald Trump.

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