Tag: Dick Durbin

Former Starbucks CEO and potential presidential contender Howard Schultz speaks on "Morning Joe" Jan. 30, 2019.

Top Democrats fear Howard Schultz is a Perot or Nader who could help re-elect Trump

Al Weaver · January 29, 2019 5:00 am

Attorney general nominee William Barr speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Barr will face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee including his views on executive powers. Barr served as attorney general under George H.W. Bush.

Barr vows independence: ‘I will not be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong’

Kelly Cohen · January 15, 2019 4:41 pm

President Trump attends a roundtable discussion on border security with local leaders, Friday Jan. 11, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.

Trump: FBI rank and file ‘disgusted’ by leaders

Pete Kasperowicz · January 15, 2019 12:11 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Top Democrats refuse to reveal their holiday travel during the shutdown

Steven Nelson · January 3, 2019 12:00 pm

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the assistant Democratic leader, speaks to reporters as the Senate takes up a House-passed bill that would pay for President Donald Trump's border wall and avert a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018.

National Security

Dick Durbin: Senators urged Jim Mattis to stay

Kelly Cohen · December 23, 2018 5:21 pm

MSNBC television anchors Joe Scarborough, left, and Mika Brzezinski, right, co-hosts of the show "Morning Joe," take questions from an audience, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at a forum called Harvard Students Speak Up: A Town Hall on Politics and Public Service, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.

MSNBC host apologizes for ‘butt boy’ slam: ‘Super bad choice of words’

Katelyn Caralle · December 12, 2018 5:03 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, center, looks on as House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington.

Nancy Pelosi's 'manhood' barb at Trump is her latest gender-conscious quip

Dominick Mastrangelo · December 12, 2018 1:35 pm

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S., Prince Khalid bin Salman, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington.

State Department deflects calls to expel Saudi prince from US

Joel Gehrke · December 7, 2018 5:00 am

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters following a closed-door luncheon on Capitol Hill.

Senate Republicans manage expectations for more tax legislation this year

Colin Wilhelm · December 6, 2018 12:05 am

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, attends a news conference about the FBI investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Grassley pushes GOP to vote on criminal justice reform

Kelly Cohen · December 4, 2018 5:52 pm

Incoming Central Intelligence Agency director Gina Haspel listens to a speech.

National Security

CIA chief Gina Haspel to brief Senate leaders on Khashoggi’s death this week

Diana Stancy Correll · December 3, 2018 11:29 pm

President Trump speaks about H. R. 5682, the "First Step Act" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in D.C. on Wednesday. The bill would reform America's prison system.

Prison reform bill represents what’s beautiful about America

Paula White-Cain · November 21, 2018 5:00 am