Tag: Barack Obama

"My last tweet, you know the one that you are talking about perhaps, was the one about being in quotes, wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess what, it is turning out to be true," Trump said. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

National Security

Trump: My tweet about Obama ‘surveillance’ is ‘turning out to be true’

Keith Koffler · April 2, 2017 7:41 pm

"The White House seems to be doing everything it can to point in other directions," Schiff said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schiff: Nunes’ White House visit an ‘attempt to distract’ investigation

Anna Giaritelli · April 2, 2017 1:42 pm

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who President Trump fired days after taking office, has been tapped to address graduates at Harvard Law School's Class Day on May 24. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sally Yates to headline Harvard Law graduation ceremony

Anna Giaritelli · March 31, 2017 10:03 pm

Hopefully, Trump will find another time to throw out a first pitch to continue the presidential tradition. (CJ GUNTHER/EPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK)

Beltway Confidential

Opening Day 2017: Baseball’s best and worst presidential first pitches

Jason Russell · March 31, 2017 9:16 pm

Illegal immigrants from El Salvador are boarded on an MD-80 aircraft for a repatriation flight carrying 80 immigrants to their home country at dawn, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 from the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

43% of illegals skip deportation hearings, 918,098 in 20 years

Paul Bedard · March 31, 2017 1:17 pm

Vice President Mike Pence stepped in twice on Thursday to save a Senate resolution aimed at killing an Obama administration rule that prevents states from blocking federal grants to abortion providers. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Pence steps in twice to save Senate bill killing Obama abortion rule

Susan Crabtree · March 30, 2017 8:50 pm

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington. A new survey shows most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's performance, but they're more upbeat about how he's handling the economy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Washington Secrets

Poll: 57% say Trump is ‘too confrontational’

Paul Bedard · March 30, 2017 4:52 pm

As Casey Stengel, while managing the New York Mets on their way to a 40-120 season in 1962, reportedly asked, "Can't anybody here play this game?" (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

Doesn’t anybody know how to play this game?

Michael Barone · March 30, 2017 4:42 am

After the repeal bill was pulled Friday because of a lack of votes from conservative House Freedom Caucus members and moderates, House leadership and the White House signaled they will move on to tax reform. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare uncertainty could force insurers out of the marketplaces

Robert King · March 30, 2017 4:30 am

Six years after the Libya operation began, self-reflection is in order. (AP Photo/Manu Brado)

Beltway Confidential

Six years after U.S. involvement in Libya began, here are 3 things we’ve learned about wars in the Middle East

Daniel DePetris · March 29, 2017 5:38 pm

The millennial generation (roughly: those born in the 1980s and 1990s) and Generation X (the folks sandwiched between millennials and 1964's late Boomers) have gotten more liberal in the last decade. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Conservatives can’t just lean on a debunked Churchill line, hoping millennials start leaning right

Kristen Soltis Anderson · March 29, 2017 4:01 am

Canceling the CPP was simply a prudent move for a beleaguered electorate. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Beltway Confidential

Clean Power Plan’s cancellation means Trump is saving jobs

Luke Popovich · March 28, 2017 11:00 pm