Author: Stephanie Moffat

Democrats Press White House Over Kushner Security Clearance Dems Blast Trump White House Over Kushner Security Clearance Concerns.  House Democrats on the Oversight Committee are demanding answers from the Trump White House about why Jared Kushner still has a security clearance despite his failure to disclose meetings with Russian officials while he was seeking clearance. Congressman Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the committee, sent a letter signed by the committee’s Democrats to Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus requesting documents related to Kushner’s security clearance by July 5. The letter also discusses the White House’s “failure to...

Congressional Black Caucus Rejects Trump’s Invite To White Hose The Congressional Black Caucus has declined an invitation from Donald Trump to visit the White House. The 49-member group rejected the White House meeting citing his unresponsiveness on previous attempts at policy engagement as proof that Trump isn’t interested in working with the members beyond a photo op. “Through an objective assessment, we have seen no evidence that your Administration acted on our calls for action, and we have in fact witnessed steps that will hurt the Black community,” the letter stated. Despite repeated attempts to communicate with the White...

Maddow Makes Bombshell Revelation About Trump-Russia Money Laundering (Video)   Maddow continues her great coverage on the Trump-Russia story. [watch the videos below] On Tuesday night’s edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, we learned about a new potential bombshell story in the Trump-Russia saga. Maddow revealed the details of a new report by Tim O’Brien of Bloomberg News, that details a connection between Donald Trump’s real estate business and “money connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Maddow walked through the relationship between Trump and a shadowy Russian mafia figure named Felix Sater. Sater was involved in a large stock...

Republican Karen Handel Defeats Democrat Jon Ossoff In Georgia Congressional Race Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. The race has been the most expensive House race in history, after the seat that has been in the hands of the Republicans since 1979 was being challenged on the left. In the primary on April 18, Ossoff came in first place with 48.8 percent – just shy of the 50 percent threshold to win the race outright. Handel’s predecessor won in November by 23 points, while she won tonight by only five points. The contested...

Live Election Results: South Carolina Special Election Race [Live results below] The polls in South Carolina close at 7 pm Eastern. South Carolina’s special election has largely flown under the radar while national attention has focused on the Georgia special election between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel. In South Carolina’s 5th congressional district Republican Ralph Norman is expected to beat Democrat Archie Parnell. The seat was left open when Mick Mulvaney joined the Trump administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Here are live results in the South Carolina Congressional race: (please refresh if results don’t...