Month: February 2018

During a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on gun control Wednesday, Trump suggested guns should be taken away “immediately from people that you can judge easily are mentally ill,” alluding to the Florida shooter, who had undergone a psychiatric evaluation in 2016 but was ultimately not hospitalized. “The police saw that he was a problem, they didn’t take any guns away,” Trump said. “Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system,” Trump said.

Former White House photographer Pete Souza dug deep into his archives to troll President Donald Trump, once again.

White House staffers operating with interim security clearances — including President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — were told in a memo Friday that they will no longer have access to highly classified information.

Unite America, formerly The Centrist Project, a group hoping to create a third political force in America, on Tuesday named the two candidates it plans to run for the U.S. Senate in November.

“I’ve always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not,” Oprah said in an interview with InStyle, conducted three weeks before her Globes speech. “Gayle ― who knows me as well as I know myself practically ― has been calling me regularly and texting me things, like a woman in the airport saying, ‘When’s Oprah going to run?’” Oprah revealed to InStyle. If Oprah did run, the “A Wrinkle In Time” actress already has experience with attention she’d receive from President Donald Trump.

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and panel report on First Lady Melania Trump cutting ties with an aide whose company made $26 million on the inauguration.

President Trump lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to ask the Justice Department’s inspector general to look into claims that the FBI and other Obama administration officials misled a FISA court judge.

Rachel Maddow reports on three state special elections, two of which, in New Hampshire and Connecticut, were formerly Republican-held and flipped by Democrats, and a third, in Kentucky.