House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Democrat lawmakers in a conference call Monday that caucus leaders have no immediate plans to impeach President Donald Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, according to a report. The Washington Post, citing three officials on the call, reports that lawmakers were told to pump the…

Leaders of the House Democrats backed off the idea of immediately launching impeachment proceedings against President Trump in an urgent conference call Monday evening amid a growing rift among the party’s rank-and-file members, presidential contenders and committee chairs on the contentious issue.Fox News is told by two senior sources on the private conference call that even House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is falsely suggesting that the people “closest” to him weren’t called to testify before special counsel Robert Mueller and his team because investigators didn’t want to hear the “good things” those people would want to share about the president. Plenty of people close to Trump, or who worked closely…

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not impressed with the idea former Vice President Joe Biden is considering a run for president in 2020. “That does not particularly animate me right now,” Ocasio-Cortez said in response to a question about Biden during an interview with Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff. The famous Democrat-Socialist said she had “a…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused President Trump of trying to create a “surge of migrants” to the U.S. southern border so that he could shut it down, according to an interview she gave on Yahoo News’s “Skullduggery” podcast on Sunday. The congresswoman first denied there was a surge of migrants to the U.S. southern border…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that Herman Cain has withdrawn from consideration for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s board amid a focus on past scandals and doubts about his qualifications for the role.Cain is a former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza who dropped out of the 2012 presidential race as he faced…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his business organization sued the Democratic chairman of the House oversight committee on Monday to block a subpoena that seeks years of the president’s financial records.The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, says the subpoena from Rep. Elijah Cummings “has no legitimate legislative purpose” and accuses Democrats…

In an interview that aired on Sunday’s “MediaBuzz” on the Fox News Channel, law professor Alan Dershowitz argued the Mueller team got the law wrong on whether or not President Donald Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice. Dershowitz explained a president could not be charged with obstruction for carrying out his constitutional duties…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani insisted there was “nothing wrong” with the president’s 2016 campaign taking information from the Russians, as House Democrats pledged stepped-up investigations into campaign misconduct and possible crimes of obstruction detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report .Giuliani called the Trump campaign’s effort to get political help…

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she questioned the patriotism of Republicans who are supporting President Donald Trump after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. While discussing Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) support for Trump, Water said, “One of the things you have to think…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is poised to tell five nations, including allies Japan, South Korea and Turkey, that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. sanctions if they continue to import oil from Iran, officials said Sunday.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to announce on Monday that the administration will not renew…

A BuzzFeed News world editor, Miriam Elder, faced backlash Sunday for her tweet about President Trump and the Sri Lanka attacks. (AP/BuzzFeed, File) A BuzzFeed News world editor faced backlash Sunday for taking a swipe at President Trump while tweeting an article about the attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter.”Suspect we’d be hearing a lot more outrage…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani insisted Sunday there was “nothing wrong” with the president’s 2016 campaign taking information from the Russians, as House Democrats pledged stepped-up investigations into campaign misconduct and possible crimes of obstruction detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report .Giuliani called the Trump campaign’s effort to get political…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Democrats “may” take up impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Schiff said, “I think Elizabeth Warren makes an important point and that is the level of evidence in the Mueller report is serious and damning and under normal circumstance would by think…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-NY, argued on Sunday that, despite Special Counsel Robert Mueller deciding not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice, he believes there is still plenty of evidence of obstruction by the president.Nadler, who filed a subpoena Friday for Mueller’s full, unredacted report, said that Mueller only restrained from…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,”  House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the Mueller report showed President Donald Trump’s  obstruction of justice was “far worse than anything that Richard Nixon did.” Schiff said, “I have been clear over the last year, there’s ample evidence of collusion in plain sight. I distinguish time and time…

President Donald Trump is offering “heartfelt condolences” after the deadly terror attacks in Sri Lanka, joining other world leaders who have condemned the Easter Sunday atrocity that claimed 207 lives. More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more hospitalized from injuries after a series of blasts devastated three churches and three luxury hotels in…