Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke out in defense of former Rep. Matt Gaetz on Wednesday after meeting with him about his attorney general nomination, but he stopped short of saying whether he will vote to confirm Gaetz. Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting with Gaetz and Vice President-elect […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) suggested former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is suited for the role of attorney general because he was “talented” at cross-examining House Judiciary Committee attendees. Gaetz resigned from the House shortly after President-elect Donald Trump named him as his attorney general. As chairman, Jordan defended Gaetz from backlash by citing their work […]
Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan migrant in the United States illegally, has been convicted on charges of malice murder and felony murder in the death of Laken Riley, according to the judge’s ruling on Wednesday. The 22-year-old student was killed the morning of February 22 in the woods at the University of Georgia, when she […]
Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough joked that their show could be gone in a year, referencing the news that Comcast will spin off a large chunk of NBCUniversal cable channels. Among the networks set to be affected by Comcast is MSNBC, the home channel of Morning Joe. Upon hearing Brzezinski read out […]
President-elect Donald Trump selected former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as the U.S Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Wednesday morning. “Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended,” Trump said in a statement. “Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is pushing to extend her proposal to ban transgender women from using female bathroom facilities on Capitol Hill to be enforced in all federal buildings. Mace introduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit transgender women from using any “private, protected facilities” such as bathrooms or locker rooms on all federal property. The legislation […]
President-elect Donald Trump is seeking the “immediate dismissal” of the New York hush money case, in which a jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of business falsification, citing the “uniquely destabilizing” effects of sentencing an incoming president. “As DA Bragg engages in his own election campaign, [the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office] appears to […]
President Joe Biden is enjoying his 82nd birthday today at home after an especially low-key trip to South America. With exactly two months left in his term, Biden has no public events scheduled to celebrate his birthday, and he frustrated the traveling press by refusing to take their questions for the entirety of his Latin […]
Senior members of President-elect Donald Trump‘s campaign preemptively excoriated the author Michael Wolff, who contacted them for interviews, in a joint statement released Wednesday morning. “A number of us have received inquiries from the disgraced author Michael Wolff, whose previous work can only be described as fiction,” the signees wrote, which included Trump’s co-campaign managers […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rebutted comments made by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the new secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, that women should not serve combat roles in the military. Austin gave what is expected to be his final television interview as secretary to NBC News, which will air Wednesday. Hegseth, who recently left his […]
