WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has effectively blocked President Donald Trump from making any appointments while the lawmakers are on their August break. The politicians have agreed to a procedural quirk known as pro forma sessions — a series of brief meetings that will technically keep the Senate in session. Senators took the action after Trump’s […]
A new public opinion poll shows more Americans than not are opposed to President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey in recent days said just 29 percent of those surveyed say they approve of Trump’s dismissal of Comey, who was in the fourth year of a 10-year […]
As the on-air scuffle between Trump an his former Director of the FBI, James Comey, continues to heat up following Comey’s firing this week, Trump implied that he may have secret tapes of his meetings with the FBI head, saying, “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts […]
WHITE HOUSE — The White House on Thursday continued to defend its handling of the firing of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, amid investigations into connections between the president’s election campaign last year and Russian officials. At the center of the scrutiny is whether the deputy attorney general of the Justice Department, Rod […]