A planned White House promotion for Sen. Eric Schmitt's general counsel is reportedly now in jeopardy after the Missouri Republican's attempted gotcha moment against former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed into public humiliation during a congressional hearing.Ethan Harper had been set to leave ...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was warned that texts he used to accuse former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury were unvetted.Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee cautioned Schmitt ahead of Smith's testimony Tuesday that the Justice Department texts had not been verified, a source with d...

President Donald Trump made a cryptic remark Wednesday about his political future while defending his Republican midterm convention against criticism from Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton.Paxton reportedly told conservative donors in a private conversation that Trump’s September convention in Dalla...

President Donald Trump is now facing such a severe collapse of his political brand that even hardcore MAGA politicians are looking for a way to distance themselves from him, Democratic strategist Lis Smith told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace.This is most clearly exemplified by the new reporting that Ken P...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued troops a book in which President Donald Trump promises not to ask them to "fight dumb Wars" as the U.S. wages war on Iran.The 144-page book went to the 600 troops attending Hegseth's speech on Wednesday, ABC News reporter Steven Beynon reported on X.The book col...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday recounted what he repeatedly called an “amazing” story about an Israeli plumber who supposedly helped save a plunging passenger plane — while acknowledging he didn’t know whether the extraordinary account was true.Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Israe...

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow revealed a surprising move that President Donald Trump seems to have made that is pummeling the GOP's chances of maintaining their majority after the midterms. Under more normal circumstances, a president with a historically low approval rating might allow his party to crit...

Former special counsel Jack Smith got a resounding cheer from Salon's Troy Farah on Wednesday — who noted that he is actually meting out "consequences" to Republicans who have spent years trying to rewrite the narrative against anyone who investigated President Donald Trump.The GOP has been trying t...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sued former special counsel Jack Smith Wednesday — and accused him of mocking President Donald Trump's complexion in a codename chosen for his investigation.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Tennessee by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, targets Smith pers...

Sen. John Fetterman’s political operation is offering conservative groups a hefty cut of donations to recruit new donors, according to an exclusive new report in The Atlantic that is drawing sharp criticism of the Pennsylvania Democrat. After Democratic fundraising firm MissionWired ended its work w...

In 1998, Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, a truly loathsome character at the time but now almost angelic in comparison to today's characters, told the Indianapolis Star that Bill Clinton was "a scumbag" and that's why he was "after him."It was a really big deal. It sent shock waves through Washington. I ...

Attorney General Todd Blanche fired back at reporters who questioned how he could accuse federal judges of bias after calling his own fight with the judiciary a "war."Blanche faced the questions Wednesday at a Justice Department press conference, where he announced a misconduct complaint against nea...

A Republican senator has filed a formal complaint asking Tennessee's attorney disciplinary board to investigate former special counsel Jack Smith and pursue his disbarment.Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) sent a four-page letter dated Wednesday to R. Culver Schmid, chairman of the Board of Professional Resp...

The wife of Donald Trump's second son, Eric, complained about the scrutiny the family continually faces in an attempt to defuse backlash over a controversial AI video featuring champagne and a celebration inside the Trump insider circle.Lara Trump delivered a "mind-boggling defense" of a "champagne-...

At the same time Donald Trump's approval numbers are hitting lows never seen before, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is enjoying a burst of popularity that's letting him push his agenda through with little resistance.The reason? His refusal to be bullied by the American president has Canadians a...

Attorney General Todd Blanche moved to have nearly all of Minnesota's federal district judges investigated, calling their comments to the press "overtly political" and a "flagrant violation" of ethics rules.The Justice Department filed the misconduct complaint Wednesday with Chief Judge Steven Collo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican senator suspects Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was handed his bad intel directly by the White House before his possibly career-ending Jack Smith slam dunk.Schmitt was massively humiliated as his gotcha moment — unveiling proof that Donald Trump's prosecutor Smith had s...

English actor-turned-conservative activist Russell Brand disturbed onlookers Wednesday after “joking about consent” during a Trump administration health summit — less than two weeks before he goes on trial on rape and sexual assault charges.“Russell Brand was backstage hugging the secretary of agric...

Self-identified Donald Trump voters in his home state of Florida had little good to say about the president when speaking with MS NOW correspondent Alex Tabet.In a clip shared by “Money Power Politics” host Stephanie Ruhle, the best review Trump received from one of his MAGA fans was, “I hope it all...

FBI agents kept the man accused of planting the D.C. pipe bombs away from a judge until he broke down and confessed, his lawyers say.Attorneys for Brian Cole Jr. made the claim in a motion filed Tuesday in federal court that asked a judge to throw out everything Cole told the FBI during his Dec. 4, ...

Democratic senators were sent scrambling Tuesday night after discovering the text of a draft bill designed to speed up federal permitting had been “changed substantially” without notice, a senior Democratic aide told Punchbowl News’ Joshua Siegel.In the works for months, the legislation is designed ...

Republicans see governor's race in a western swing state as a warning light for the whole party.Politico Playbook reported Wednesday that some Republicans said a loss by Gov. Joe Lombardo in Nevada would probably mean the GOP has lost "pretty much everywhere else."Lombardo is running for a second te...

Journalists, analysts and politicians were left floored Wednesday after Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee, became the latest prominent Republican to criticize President Donald Trump or his midterm strategies.“Rats jumping off a sinking ship,” quipped Jaime Harrison, forme...

CNN panelists piled on to a conservative commentator who defended a Republican senator's failed ambush of former special counsel Jack Smith.Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) attempted to link Smith to a conspiracy to take down Donald Trump with a Georgia prosecutor by placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game in ...

President Donald Trump’s months-long fixation on rebranding the term artificial intelligence (AI) may be a cover for something far more sinister, according to a theory floated Tuesday by journalist and professor Adam Cochran.“I always thought it should be ‘SI’ — supreme intelligence, but I guess som...

A network of Florida Republicans with links to hate groups and the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally is mobilizing to seat members on local government boards and run for elected office in the Sunshine State and beyond.Members of American Restoration Coalition, or ARC, who count among their ranks a ...

The editorial board of Missouri's largest newspaper joined the pile-on after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) embarrassed himself during his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on national TV.Schmitt, who previously didn't have much of a national profile, accused Smith of perjury while going ...

Previously obscure Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. may be headed back to a career as a backbencher after his humiliation during an interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday.That was the opinion of House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who could barely disguise hi...

Texas Attorney General and GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton privately badmouthed President Donald Trump’s midterm convention, audio recorded at a private fundraiser and obtained by The New York Times revealed on Wednesday.“This is more manipulated nonsense from The New York Times to create a story th...

Republicans are turning to an insult Democrats used against them two years ago as their midterm chances droop.MS NOW reported that top Republicans have started slurring rivals as "weird," which Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz deployed in July 2024 against Donald Trump, JD Vance and other Republicans. Sen. T...

Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their communities for years."Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and what...

President Donald Trump's gait and stance during his high-profile appearance with tech industry titans drew raised eyebrows late Tuesday.The 80-year-old president spoke with reporters after a luncheon with tech executives, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockma...

U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia scrambled jets early Wednesday morning in response to an incident aboard a FlyDubai flight that Israeli journalist Amit Segal reported was being treated as a “full-fledged terrorist attack.”“It appears that the co-pilot repeatedly stabbed the captain. Once the att...

With the war on Iran in its seventh month and no end in sight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is demanding another purge of high-ranking officers at the Pentagon, according to reports.Hegseth will announce plans to cut by 20 percent the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals during a...

President Donald Trump took control of the Kennedy Center 19 months ago. Since then, the center has used up nearly every financial cushion it had, and one arts management expert says it now appears to be "in free fall."The Washington Post reviewed confidential board documents and tax filings that sh...

The Trump White House stopped a cleared Homeland Security order weeks before the midterms, catching some inside the department by surprise.The Department of Homeland Security had approved a notice this month ending temporary protected status for roughly 200,000 Salvadorans before the White House int...

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton ripped his own party for bringing former special counsel Jack Smith to Capitol Hill weeks before the midterms.Singleton, appearing on CNN alongside Democratic strategist Paul Begala, didn't mince words when host Kaitlan Collins asked what went through his ...

Jeffrey Epstein refused to release his photos of President Donald Trump with young women at his home because he feared for his own life, an author claims.Trump biographer Michael Wolff made the claim on Tuesday's episode of "Inside Trump's Head," where he and co-host Joanna Coles went back over a co...

The silence from Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton about a Fox News debate offer exposes that he's gripped by fear, according to an analyst.In a Tuesday episode on his YouTube channel, progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen made the case after a Fox News spokesperson told HuffPost the...

A Justice Department lawyer dared a federal judge to rule against the Trump administration rather than give the court advance notice.Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias flagged the exchange in a Tuesday livestream, saying it was "urgent enough that it deserved the alert" his viewers received. The li...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) landed in a humiliating national spotlight Tuesday after falsely accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of lying about attending an Atlanta Hawks game, when he was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes away game in Maryland.But even more embarrassing, MS NOW's Jen Psaki noted tha...

CNN’s Erin Burnett tore into Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) on Tuesday after his attempted “gotcha moment” of former special counsel Jack Smith backfired spectacularly during a Senate hearing.Schmitt accused Smith of lying about whether he attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024, suggesting the tr...

The top U.S. general in Latin America and the Caribbean says land strikes against drug cartels are on the table.Gen. Francis Donovan, the Marine four-star who leads U.S. Southern Command, made the remarks in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was featured in a Tuesday article. His commen...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found himself humiliated on Tuesday at the hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith, when he tried to corner Smith in supposed "perjury" that he hadn't been in Atlanta by providing texts of him being at a "Hawks" basketball game, when in fact he had been at an Iowa Haw...

Federal appeals judges signaled that criminal contempt charges could reach beyond former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whom one judge called a possible "sacrificial lamb."Ten of the 11 active judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard nearly three hours...