Tag: Barack Obama

Former CIA Director John Brennan responded to President Trump's accusation that former President Barack Obama launched an investigation into the Trump campaign to help Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

John Brennan: Trump’s tweet shows he’s nervous about the Russia probe

Melissa Quinn · March 5, 2018 5:06 pm

On Sunday going into the 90th Annual Academy Awards, this video of NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch was posted criticizing Hollywood. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

The NRA going after Hollywood shows they’ve run out of things to be mad about

Siraj Hashmi · March 5, 2018 3:46 pm

President Trump shared a poll on Twitter Thursday that showed he was deemed the "better president" when compared to his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. (AP Photos)

National Security

Obama’s work to discredit the Trump campaign was ‘bigger than Watergate,’ Trump tweets

Katelyn Caralle · March 5, 2018 2:24 pm

Denis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff throughout his second term, said that Mitch McConnell was the reason why the administration couldn't do more to counteract the Russians late in the election. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

National Security

Obama’s chief of staff: Mitch McConnell to blame for ‘watered down’ reaction to Russian election meddling

Kyle Feldscher · March 4, 2018 5:54 pm

The differences between former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and evangelist Billy Graham, both Southern Baptist ministers, reflect the differences in society in the two men's times. (AP Images)

Billy Graham’s America — and Mike Huckabee’s

W. James Antle III · March 4, 2018 5:01 am

The conversation about former President Barack Obamaa was prompted when David Axelrod spotted a framed photograph in Sen. Jeff Flake's office that showed Flake and his family with Obama and then-first lady Michelle Obama. (Screen shot)

Jeff Flake says he and Obama keep in touch

Daniel Chaitin · March 4, 2018 3:51 am

President Trump speaks during a meeting with steel and aluminum executives in the White House. Trump announced that the U.S. would be setting a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Trump can learn from Obama’s tariff debacle

Erielle Davidson · March 2, 2018 9:41 pm

In this 2008 photo, former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since 2011, Roemer has worked at the global lobbying firm APCO Worldwide, and he is now co-chair of the Reformers Caucus, a group that bills itself as the best hope for good government. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Beltway Confidential

The Reformers Caucus: A good government front for DC politicians and corporate lobbyists?

Philip Wegmann · March 2, 2018 12:09 pm

Nearly 2 million illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers, remain at risk of deportation despite the Supreme Court essentially nullifying President Trump's March 5 deadline to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Immigration deal as unlikely as ever: ‘DACA is probably on ice for a long time’

David M. Drucker · March 2, 2018 5:01 am

Matt Gaetz writes letter to Adam Schiff asking him to co-sponsor his FISA judge bill from 2013

Daniel Chaitin · March 1, 2018 6:24 pm

Coal ash is the waste left over from burning coal for electricity production. The waste is typically stored in large containment ponds. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Energy and Environment

EPA rule gives states more power to manage toxic coal ash

Josh Siegel · March 1, 2018 5:08 pm

The National Rifle Association supported President Trump when vast swathes of the conservative movement was still skeptical. Now, he's taking on the gun lobby. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trump’s one-man ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine with the NRA

W. James Antle III · March 1, 2018 5:01 am