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The Senate voted to confirm Haspel after several Democrats were persuaded to support her despite lingering concerns about her role in the brutal interrogation of suspected terrorists.   The president said he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members in spite of a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders.  He’s running for Congress. His daughter is running for state representative. And, yes, he is “so proud” of her.

MORE subpoenas Trump, their team will challenge it.   "We're going to see what legal remedies are available to us, including if they [Mueller's team] subpoena us, challenge the subpoena," Giuliani told Fox News's Laura Ingraham Wednesday night. Giuliani said the president cannot be subpoenaed because his position guarantees him immunity based on the Constitution.

MORE acknowledged Wednesday his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may not take place after Pyongyang threatened to scrap the historic meeting. “We haven’t been notified at all. We’ll have to see,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if the summit was still on. Asked if he thinks the North Korean leader is bluffing, Trump replied: “We’ll see what happens.” North Korea threw the summit into doubt on Wednesday when it said Kim might not attend the June 12 meeting with Trump if the U.S.

Partisan divisions over the federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election deepened Wednesday as new developments rippled across Capitol Hill. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE and other participants in a controversial 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer — a move that Democrats said signals an effort to prematurely end the committee’s investigation.  The Senate Intelligence Committee said it agrees with the intelligence community’s assessment (ICA) in 2016 that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an interferen

The Senate on Wednesday voted to reinstate the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) net neutrality rules, passing a bill that has little chance of advancing in the House but offers net neutrality supporters and Democrats a political rallying point for the midterm elections. Democrats were able to force Wednesday’s vote using an obscure legislative tool known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA). CRA bills allow Congress, with a majority vote in each chamber and the president's signature, to overturn recent agency moves. Three Republicans — Sens.

House GOP leadership called separate meetings Wednesday evening with both the backers and opponents of an effort to force immigration votes on the House floor, after the effort gained new momentum earlier in the day. Speaker MORE (R-Wis.) and his top four lieutenants, who are facing pressure from within their own ranks to bring immigration legislation to the floor, first huddled with the centrist Republicans leading a discharge petition that would set up a series of floor votes on immigration bills. Reps.

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The TAKE with Rick Klein What will the builder actually build? After showing that he is more than capable of tearing things down, now comes time for President Donald Trump to put some things together that will be judged on their own merits. Much of Trump’s first year-plus as president has been about a willingness – ev

The TAKE with Rick Klein They are off the sidelines.