Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that the Intelligence Community should "dumb down" briefings for former President Trump as the presumptive GOP nominee receives classified information once he becomes the nominee, over concerns about whether Trump could share the information. Schiff hit Trump over his criminal charges for mishandling classified information and other legal cases in an NBC...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) denied Sunday that former President Trump is calling the shots in the Senate after a bipartisan deal on the border collapsed because the former president didn't support it. NBC's Kristen Welker asked Graham on "Meet the Press" to respond to comments made by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) who said lawmakers should...
A panel of pundits on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday argued over President Biden's use of "illegal" in his address to Congress last week. Biden responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who had given him a pin honoring 22-year-old Laken Riley. She later heckled him over Riley, a Georgia student who police say was killed...
Lawmakers should shift the financial responsibility of collecting, recycling and reusing plastic packaging materials from consumers and municipalities to the producers of plastic products, by establishing a national Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) said Sunday he would welcome President Biden campaigning for him in the swing state. CNN co-host Jake Tapper asked Stein on "State of the Union" if he would want Biden to campaign for him in North Carolina — a swing state Democrats are hoping to flip in 2024...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) jabbed President Biden over his comments on the failed border bill in the State of the Union address last week. Co-host Jake Tapper played a video of Lankford mouthing, "That's true," when Biden said the failed bipartisan Senate deal on the border would have hired more border patrol agents and immigration...
The White House on Sunday chastised Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) after multiple news organizations fact-checked a portion of her rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union in which she told the story of a migrant who was sexually abused. "Instead of telling more debunked lies to justify opposing the toughest bipartisan border legislation in...
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) defended the choice to deliver her State of the Union response from her kitchen on Thursday, saying it focused on “kitchen table issues” after being criticized as in poor taste. Britt’s State of the Union featured the accomplished senator portrayed as a motherly figure, compared to more traditional presentations by previous...
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday accused Republicans of using the death of 22-year-old Laken Riley to "score cheap political" points after she was invoked during President Biden's State of the Union address. "I can tell you as a pastor who has done hundreds of eulogies, and presided over all kinds of funerals, there is...