Van Jones Isn’t Ready to Give Up on Finding Common Ground With Trump
Mark Wilson/Getty As the Senate impeachment trail gets underway, lawmakers are sticking closely to the marching orders for their chosen tribe. Partisanship hangs over the nation, heavier than ever. But Van Jones says he hasn’t give up on meaningful bi-partisan cooperation. The CNN star worked in the Obama White House as the “Green Jobs Czar”,…
Trump Taunts Democrats: “We Have All the Material. They Don’t Have the Material.”
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty President Donald Trump is thousands of miles away from Washington right now, but that hasn’t stopped him from chiming in on the historic impeachment trial currently underway in the Senate. “We’re doing very well,” he told reporters before leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, later adding, “Honestly, we have all the material.…
Here Are Some of the Ukraine Documents Republicans Voted to Ignore
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Evan Vucci/AP Late on Tuesday night, a watchdog group released a trove of documents from the White House Office of Management and Budget related to President Donald Trump’s hold on military aid to Ukraine. The disclosure of the material, obtained by the nonprofit American Oversight, came just…
GOP Senators Representing a Minority of Americans Are Preventing a Fair Impeachment Trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 10, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Tuesday, senators representing 153 million Americans outvoted senators representing 168 million Americans. A majority of the US public supports President…
Fox News Really Doesn’t Want You to Tune Into Trump’s Impeachment Trial
At around 2 a.m. ET, after voting down all 11 Democratic amendments that would have permitted new documents and witness testimony into the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally adjourned the chamber for the evening. It had been an excruciating, marathon day, one that appeared to fit into…
Senators Will Get to Ignore Trump’s Tweets for Six Hours a Day
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) checks his phone.Alex Wong/Getty The Associated Press reports that the US Senate is about to launch a weeks-long experiment in which its members will be forced to put away their smartphones and maintain “silence, on pain of imprisonment.” This mandatory unplugging, based on a 19th-century senatorial tradition, is meant to improve…