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Byron York is chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, a Fox News contributor, and host of The Byron York Show podcast. He has covered the Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden administrations, as well as Congress and each presidential campaign since 2000. He is the author of two books -- The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, an account of liberal activism in the 2004 election, and Obsession, an account of Democratic efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office. Formerly White House correspondent for National Review, his work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and the New Republic. A graduate of the University of Alabama and the University of Chicago, he lives in Washington, DC
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The political world is consumed with the fighting going on after Hamas's attack on Israel. How could the vaunted Israeli intelligence services have been so surprised? How extensive will Israel's retaliation be? Will the conflict spread?
What is President Joe Biden's biggest liability as he runs for reelection? Republicans could give you a lot of answers, but the most important is the president's age. He's 80 now and would be 82 upon beginning a second term and 86 at the end of it. He looks and sounds every minute of his age. Having such an elderly chief executive is unprecedented in American history.
On Feb. 7, 2022, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It was about the case of Montez Lee, a Rochester, Minnesota, man sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a man during the Black Lives Matter riot in Minneapolis.
Let's say you hate Donald Trump and really, really, really don't want him to become president of the United States again. How do you prevent that? Well, most would agree the best way would be to defeat him electorally, either in the Republican primaries or in the 2024 general election.
The first debate of the Republican presidential primaries is now just days away. There is still uncertainty about who will take part — there have been reports that former President Donald Trump, who leads second-place Gov. Ron DeSantis by 40 points, will skip the event. But Trump could always change his mind.
The House Oversight Committee has released a new report on the progress of its investigation into Biden family influence-peddling during the time Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. "Committee staff is releasing payments from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan that occurred during Joe Biden's vice presidency," the report said. "The committee has now identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates."
President Joe Biden has often said the United States will continue military aid to Ukraine "for as long as it takes" to win the war with Russia. On Jan. 25 of this year, for example, Biden said to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, "We're with you for as long as it takes." Last month, Biden said, "Our commitment to Ukraine will not weaken.
In the past few days, we've seen a number of political analysts come to a momentous conclusion. Actually, two momentous conclusions. The first is that it is unlikely anyone can catch former President Donald Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
The government still has not released the original plea agreement between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden, even though it was the subject of three hours of discussion and debate in open court this week. Fortunately, Politico has published a bootleg copy — cellphone photos of a printout of the document — or otherwise, we would not know the lengths to which the DOJ went to accommodate the president's son.
There has been a highly political battle on Capitol Hill — actually, that's the only kind of battle they have on Capitol Hill — over defense policy and spending. The fight has been on two fronts: 1) passage of the yearly National Defense Authorization Act, which sets military spending levels, and 2) a Republican senator's decision to block Senate confirmation of military promotions until the Biden Pentagon changes its policy on abortion.
Every now and then, the attorney general, whoever he or she is, whichever administration he or she serves, writes a memo called "Election Year Sensitivities." The purpose is to remind the Justice Department's 115,000 employees that they should not allow politics to influence their work.
Yesterday's newsletter discussed the growing frustration among Capitol Hill Republicans about the FBI's apparent reluctance to investigate an allegation, from a trusted bureau confidential source, that Joe Biden accepted a multimillion-dollar bribe when he was vice president.
One of the murkier aspects of congressional Republicans' investigation of President Joe Biden's financial history concerns an allegation that Biden, when he was vice president, accepted a $5 million bribe from the corrupt Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. The alleged scheme also involved Biden's son Hunter.
Republicans in Congress are starting to ask questions about last weekend's discovery of a baggie of cocaine in the White House. On Friday morning, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), best known as the chief investigator of Hunter Biden on Capitol Hill, sent a letter to Kimberly Cheatle, head of the Secret Service. "The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House's history," Comer wrote. "This incident has raised additional concerns with the committee regarding the level of security maintained at the White House." Comer requested a briefing for the committee by no later than next week.
There's no doubt Hunter Biden had some serious tax problems. In the 2010s, he took in millions from shady overseas business dealings, trading on the name of his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and had a history of filing his returns late with six-figure amounts of taxes due. There was also his lowlife, high-cost drug addict lifestyle in which he threw away hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes and crack. He had personal financial problems most people don't share.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said she will bring articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden to the House floor and that she will do it in a way, a parliamentary maneuver called a privileged motion, that will force the House to take a vote on it. Boebert's effort to impeach the president focuses on his mishandling of the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
There are a lot of questions surrounding the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, which alleges that after leaving the White House, Trump kept secret national defense information he was not legally allowed to possess. Questions such as: Did Trump, as president, have the authority to decide what to keep, and what to give to the National Archives, after leaving office? And just how sensitive were the documents he kept? And even if Trump lacked the specific authority, and the papers were sensitive, has the Justice Department overreached by charging Trump with 37 felonies?
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced Thursday that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Suarez released a video of himself in athletic clothes running around Miami as dramatic music swelled behind him. "When I was elected, the city was broke and broken," he says in the video. "But we came together, and I won my mayoral election with over 80% of the vote." (Critics quickly pointed out that Miami has a city manager government in which the mayor has relatively little power.)
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On June 6, President Joe Biden marked the 79th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by issuing a brief statement praising the "brave service members" who "volunteered to lay down their lives for our liberty." According to the Department of Defense, more than 9,000 Allied troops were killed or wounded during the first 24 hours of the invasion.
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There are reports the Biden Justice Department is on the verge of indicting former President Donald Trump in the classified documents investigation. Not only would such an indictment be the first federal charge against a former president, but it would also be the first time a sitting president's administration has indicted a leading opposition party candidate in the run-up to a presidential election.
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On paper, has there ever been a more qualified candidate for president than Mike Pence? Twelve years in the House of Representatives, four as governor of Indiana, and four as vice president of the United States. No president in at least the last 30 years has come to office with that kind of resume.
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Starting in 2015, Donald Trump changed the scale of Republican primary politics. In Iowa, the first-voting state, Trump drew crowds that were not just bigger than anyone had seen before, but they also attracted lots of people who had never participated in the caucuses process. As Trump progressed, things got even bigger.
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Back in 2021, President Joe Biden fought hard to win Senate confirmation for Rachael Rollins to become the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts. Rollins was the district attorney of Suffolk County, which includes Boston, and she had become notorious by pledging not to prosecute many crimes. Early in her term, she published the "Rollins Memo" that listed 15 crimes in which the "default is to decline prosecuting" — that is, in which her office would not allow its attorneys to prosecute unless a supervisor gave special permission.
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There's a lot of media talk these days about the Republican "donor class" and its preferences in the 2024 GOP presidential race. That's natural at this stage of the contest, in part because 1) people with billions of dollars hold an outsize place in journalists' minds, 2) the political class, composed of candidates, consultants, officeholders, media, and other insiders see money as an important measure of a candidate's viability, 3) candidates kiss up to billionaires and lavish attention on them, and 4) most importantly, the voters haven't spoken yet.
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For more than two years now, Republicans have been predicting that President Joe Biden's big-spending policies will crash the U.S. economy into recession. It hasn't happened yet, although the country did experience two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, a widely accepted definition of a recession, in the first and second quarters of 2022. But the economy climbed back into positive growth territory in the next quarter and has stayed there since.
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Recently, the NAACP issued what it calls a "formal travel advisory" to warn black people against visiting Florida. "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals," the group said. "Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color."
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Just last month, this newsletter covered the emergence of a whistleblower in the joint Justice Department-IRS investigation of President Joe Biden's son Hunter. The whistleblower was a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who, according to his lawyer, could reveal "clear conflicts of interest" in the Biden investigation as well as "examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected."
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For more than a year, professional golf has been engulfed in a civil war over money and politics. The cause has been the creation of a new tour, funded by the vastly wealthy government of Saudi Arabia, to challenge the dominance — some would say the monopoly — of the PGA Tour.
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President Joe Biden was born on Nov. 20, 1942. That has been a well-known fact, or at least a widely available fact, since Biden entered national politics a half-century ago. The fact that Biden is 80 years old now, that he will be 82 when the next presidential term begins, and that he will be 86 when that term ends — all that has been known at all times surrounding Biden's campaigns and presidency.
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There's an incredible amount of information in special counsel John Durham's new 306-page report on the disastrous misdeeds and mistakes committed by the FBI and other government agencies in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here is one of many fascinating episodes.
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One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president's son, with no obvious sources of income, manages to maintain a grand lifestyle. For the last year or so, he has been living in a $20,000 a month rental house in Malibu, California. (The taxpayers are footing the bill for the Secret Service to pay even more, $30,000 a month, to rent the house next door while protecting him).
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Byron York welcomes guest Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist for a live episode at the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center. The two discuss the 2022 Election, the status of election integrity in America, and what the Republicans should do if they win.
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You've probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats, includes provisions to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. The number seems too big to believe. The IRS has just 93,654 employees, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
Beginning in the months before Donald Trump took office, and extending well into his presidency, the media and political world took a set of vague but serious accusations of wrongdoing involving the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia and created a 24/7 frenzy of talk about secret evidence, possible criminal charges, and allegedly grave damage to national security.
In today's podcast Byron sits down with attorney and recent Republican primary winner of the United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, Harriet Hageman. They discuss her recent win over Liz Cheney and what she plans to do moving forward.
In this podcast from a few months back Byron is joined by the CEO of The Babylon Bee, Seth Dillon. They discuss everything from how The Bee had a small part in Elon Musk's Twitter takeover to what viewpoint discrimination actually is. Dillon also gives us insight into why his company decided to take a stand against censorship. And he reminds us that when you have to justify a joke, the joke is dead.
The Justice Department has been investigating President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden for a long time. The inquiry began in 2018, before the elder Biden even decided to run for president. It is now in its fifth year. Hunter Biden has not been charged with any wrongdoing. The investigation continues
There's still a lot we don't know about the events surrounding the appearance and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign. Twitter, after the purchase by Elon Musk, revealed some key information about the role of the FBI and other government agencies in the effort to censor the laptop's contents. But there is much yet to discover.
There was a furor among politicos when Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Democratic members for using a bullhorn to hijack and then occupy the House floor amid a noisy protest by anti-gun demonstrators. The March 30 occupation brought the House to a standstill as the members whipped up protesters in the House gallery calling for gun control in light of the recent Covenant School shooting. It took nearly an hour for order to be restored and the House to resume its session.
What is the hardest job in politics? Without doubt, at this moment, the hardest job in politics is running against Donald Trump in a Republican presidential primary.
It was another weekend of violence and disorder in Chicago. "At least 32 shot, 8 fatally, in weekend violence across city," read one headline on the WLS-TV news website. Another headline said, "15 arrested in connection with Loop chaos after 2 teens shot." That story went on to report that a "large disturbance," more accurately a small riot, took place in the city's downtown area. Videos of the incident showed crowds of young people jumping on cars and buses. Later, at least one person pulled out a gun.
There are now five candidates who have either joined the 2024 Republican presidential race or have taken official steps toward doing so: Former President Donald Trump; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, also the former South Carolina governor; entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy; former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR); and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
National security circles in Washington are aghast at a new leak of classified U.S. military documents. Apparently originating in the Pentagon, the leak is said to include around 100 documents and focuses mostly on U.S. assistance to Ukraine and American assessments of Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion.
The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules. The constitutions also give lawmakers the authority to punish members for violating those rules.
The Tennessee House of Representatives spent Thursday debating the expulsion of three members, all Democrats, who hijacked the House floor for nearly an hour on March 30, using a bullhorn to shout at and harangue their fellow legislators in tandem with noisy anti-gun protesters who filled the galleries. House Republicans, who hold a huge 75-24 majority in the chamber, filed a resolution to expel state Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson for "knowingly and intentionally bring[ing] disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives through their individual and collective actions." Thursday, they debated and voted.
Something odd happened in the days leading up to the New York indictment of former President Donald Trump. Nobody outside a small group of prosecutors knew what the sealed indictment said. But on the basis of leaks — there were a lot — as well as indicators of what the grand jury was doing, observers could sketch out what the indictment would likely be. And it seemed...weak.
Alvin Bragg, the local district attorney in Manhattan who has led the effort to indict former President Donald Trump, is an elected official. He ran for his current office in 2021. In that campaign, he won a Democratic primary crowded with fellow Democrats who promised that, if elected, they would go after Trump. Now, having been elected, Bragg is going after Trump.
Everyone in the universe knew that an indictment of former President Donald Trump would be an explosive event in the political, legal, and media worlds. It would be something everybody talked about, dominating television, the internet, social media, radio, everything. And indeed, that has turned out to be the case.
An amazing statistic has been circulating among people who follow crime in Washington, D.C. In 2022, the U.S. attorney in Washington, appointed by President Joe Biden, declined to prosecute 67% of all arrests in the city. That's not 67% of all crimes committed. It's 67% of instances in which police have identified, captured, and charged a suspect. Prosecutors just let them go.
It looks like there has been another delay, possibly a long one, in the local New York prosecutor's drive to indict former President Donald Trump. After great expectations 11 days ago — Trump's statement on Saturday, March 18, that he expected to be arrested the following Tuesday — the grand jury convened by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has heard additional witnesses in the Trump matter and has also moved on to other, unrelated cases without taking action on Trump. Now, there are reports the grand jury will not consider Trump for the rest of this week — and possibly most of next month.
Former President Donald Trump does not usually play the national anthem when he appears at rallies around the country. Trump enters the arena to the strains of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." He walks around the stage, soaking up his fans' enthusiasm and support, and begins his remarks when the song finishes.
President Joe Biden's job approval rating has fallen to 38% in a new poll from the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center — close to his lowest rating ever in that poll. Just last month, Biden's rating was 45%, which was as high as it has been since his rating began a long slide a few months after he took office.
In the RealClearPolitics average of polls, there are 59 polls, going back to January 2021, on the Republican presidential race. In 58 of them, former President Donald Trump was the leading candidate, sometimes by huge margins. There was one poll, from CNN, done between March 8-12, that showed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the lead. The margin was small — DeSantis led Trump by just 2 points — but the significance was big. Here was a first sign that perhaps another Republican candidate could overtake Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Some say it will be today, some say tomorrow or Thursday or next week, but whatever the case, it appears an indictment of former President Donald Trump is imminent. It won't come from a local prosecutor in Georgia and focus on Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as many had expected. It won't come from the Justice Department and concern the classified documents matter or Jan. 6. Instead, it will come from another local prosecutor, New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
It's been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize what he said was the threat of weapons of mass destruction posed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Except, it turned out Saddam did not have WMDs. U.S. forces searched and searched and searched and never found them. In all, 4,586 American service members died in the war, and 32,455 were wounded.
Recently, Fox News's Tucker Carlson asked all the Republican presidential candidates and possible candidates to answer a series of questions on U.S. policy concerning the war in Ukraine. There were six: 1) Is opposing Russia in Ukraine a vital American national strategic interest? 2) What specifically is our objective in Ukraine, and how will we know when we've achieved it? 3) What is the limit of funding and materiel you would be willing to send to the government of Ukraine? 4) Should the United States support regime change in Russia? 5) Given that Russia's economy and currency are stronger than before the war, do you believe that U.S. sanctions have been effective? And 6) Do you believe the United States faces the risk of nuclear war with Russia?
We've now had a few weeks of a multicandidate race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. It's not where it eventually will be — some new candidates will undoubtedly join the race in the coming weeks and months. But there is more frequent polling than there was a few months ago, and it is possible to get an idea of the contours of the race as it stands at this moment.
What's one good clue that President Joe Biden really intends to run for reelection in 2024? He is trying to distance himself from the Democratic Party's soft approach to crime. The president, who in 2020 distanced himself from Democrats who advocated defunding the police, stunned many in his party recently when he announced his opposition to a lenient local law in the District of Columbia that would reduce sentences for carjackers and other criminals who use guns in the commission of their crimes.
More than two years ago, during the transition when he was president-elect, Joe Biden mused what might happen if he mishandled immigration policy. If he got it wrong, Biden said, if he too quickly opened up access to the United States after former President Donald Trump's more restrictive policies, we could "end up with 2 million people on our border." That would be a catastrophe.
In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Laurence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle. The informal way to describe it was this: In a business hierarchy, an employee does well and is promoted. He does well in his new, higher-level job and is promoted again. He does well in that position and is promoted yet again. Finally, he rises to a job that is beyond his abilities. He is no longer promoted and stays in the job he does not do well.
In the 2020 Democratic primaries, there was a lot of discussion about something called the "centrist lane." That referred to the small number of candidates thought to be a little less to the left, a little less progressive, than contenders such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
On Tuesday morning, former President Donald Trump went on the attack, again, against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). DeSantis, of course, has not revealed whether he is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, but nearly everything he has done in public lately points toward a run. The polls show DeSantis as Trump's only real competition in the race at this point. In a recent Fox News poll, Trump leads DeSantis 43% to 28%, with the next-highest candidates, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley, at 7% each.
As the war in Ukraine begins its second year, a new Fox News poll shows the public divided nearly down the middle over how much and how long the United States should support Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.
The relationship between Congress and the local government in the District of Columbia is long and complicated. It goes back to the Constitution. The founders created the district specifically as the home of the new federal government. The idea was to create a new seat of government that was not in any state and not beholden to any state and not subject to the control of any state.
John Fetterman was sworn in as a senator from Pennsylvania on Jan. 3. On Feb. 8, after 36 days in office, Fetterman was admitted to George Washington University Hospital in Washington after experiencing symptoms he and those around him feared might indicate a stroke. Tests showed he did not have a stroke, and Fetterman was released after two nights in the hospital. On Feb. 15, after 43 days in office, Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment of depression. He is still there. Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that Fetterman "could remain hospitalized for more than a month."
Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) announced her candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this morning. Word was she would jump in at an event in Charleston tomorrow, but Haley scooped herself with the release of a 3.5-minute video that constitutes an announcement. The event in Charleston will essentially be a live re-announcement.
There's been a lot of talk among Republicans about the effect a big primary field might have on the 2024 presidential nomination race. The short version is that a big field is thought to benefit former President Donald Trump, who, as in 2016, would not have to win a majority of votes to win — a plurality, and not even a big one, would be enough. On the other hand, a small field, especially a one-on-one matchup with another candidate, say Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), might allow the challenger to defeat Trump.
Some Republicans have entreated House GOP leaders: Can't we get rid of this guy? Can't we just kick him out? The guy, of course, is Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the freshman who won the election in the 3rd District by lying about virtually everything in his life. His campaign also operated on what appears to be a very shady financial basis.
One of the most commented-upon moments of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address happened when Biden accused some Republicans of wanting Medicare and Social Security to "sunset." In other words, Biden said, those Republicans want Medicare and Social Security, the twin foundations of the safety net for the retired, to go out of existence.
President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday night is widely expected to double as a kickoff to his 2024 reelection campaign. It's being called a "soft launch" because Biden will not actually announce his candidacy but will instead make it unmistakably clear that he is running.
The Chinese spy balloon matter has become far more serious in recent hours — and it was serious enough to begin with.
The new, Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing Wednesday. Under Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), the hearing's purpose was to begin what is expected to be a long and detailed investigation of the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and the Biden administration policies that brought it about.
Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal is also a Hunter Biden story. Two Biden scandals are merging into one.
Columbia, South Carolina — Former President Donald Trump did something unusual here in South Carolina Saturday night. He held a small event, or at least a relatively small event. Trump is known for holding massive rallies, with 8,000, 10,000, 15,000, or even more attending. His appearance in the main lobby of the state Capitol in Columbia was tiny by comparison, with perhaps 500 people in the room, and maybe a little less than that.
What is the most important similarity of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump classified documents investigations? Of course, there is the simple fact that both men, the current and former presidents, are accused of mishandling classified information. But just as critical, from the public's perspective, is this: We don't know what that information was. We don't know if the classified material each allegedly mishandled involved the nation's most sensitive and carefully guarded secrets, secrets that would do grave damage to national security if revealed, or whether it was minor stuff that should never have been classified in the first place.
The United States has shipped massive amounts of military aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022. There has been bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for the aid, although some Republicans have questioned the price tag — $27.5 billion so far in military aid, or "security assistance" alone, which does not include tens of billions in financial, humanitarian, and other types of aid. Some GOP lawmakers have also expressed concern about the lack of safeguards in sending so much money to a notoriously corrupt country.
Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court more than four years ago, on Oct. 6, 2018. His oath followed perhaps the ugliest Supreme Court Senate confirmation process in history — and that, given the previous examples of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, is saying something. But when it was all over, Kavanaugh settled in to the court, where he has, by all accounts, performed admirably ever since.
In a new interview with Fox News's Bret Baier, former South Carolina governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley walked close to the line of declaring her candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. "I'm not going to make an announcement here," Haley said. "But when you're looking at a run for president, you look at two things. You first look at, does the current situation push for new leadership? The second question is, am I that person that could be that new leader?"
Here's a lesson from the polls in the last 16 months. When President Joe Biden is unpopular, when things are going badly, his job approval rating falls to about 36%. When he is doing better, when things are going well, his job approval rises to about 44%.
It was big news at the time. Shortly after the Aug. 8, 2022, FBI raid to seize classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, the winter home of former President Donald Trump, Democrats in Congress asked the intelligence community to do a "damage assessment." In a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) cited news reports about the classification levels of the documents, including one sensational Washington Post story that Trump held documents concerning nuclear weapons. "At least one report indicates that the FBI's investigation focused in part on highly classified documents 'relating to nuclear weapons,' which are among our nation's most closely guarded secrets," they wrote. "If this report is true, it is hard to overstate the national security danger that could emanate from the reckless decision to remove and retain this material."
This newsletter has written previously about the fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. When confronted with more than 2 million illegal border crossers overwhelming U.S. authorities on the border last year — and 250,000 more crossers last month indicates the figure will be even higher this year — Republicans want to find a way to stop, or dramatically reduce, the flow. Democrats want to accommodate it.
On Sept. 23, 2022, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), then the House Minority Leader, traveled to Pennsylvania to unveil the GOP's midterm campaign platform, the Commitment to America. The document was a "plan for a new direction," McCarthy said. "We want to roll it out to you, to the entire country, so you know exactly what we will do if you would trust us and give us the ability to take a new direction for this country."
On Monday evening came one of those stories that seem almost too convenient to be true. CBS News reported that Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate classified documents found in an office used by President Joe Biden after he left the vice presidency.
Republicans have spent two years demanding that President Joe Biden visit the U.S.-Mexico border. They wanted Biden to face the real-world consequences of his border policy and the burden it has placed on people not only in the border states but around the country. Now, the GOP has gotten its wish; Biden visited the border at El Paso, Texas, on Sunday. But there is bad news: The president used the occasion of his border visit to make things even worse.
It was obvious when the Capitol riot took place on Jan. 6, 2021, that its aftereffects would last for a long time. The prosecutions alone would be lengthy, and indeed, they are still underway and will be for the foreseeable future. Politically, from the beginning, one party, the Republicans, had an incentive to move on, while the other, the Democrats, had an incentive to dwell on Jan. 6 for as long as possible.
Two contrasting realities of the present-day Republican Party were on display on Tuesday. In the House of Representatives, 20 members of the GOP's so-called chaos caucus blocked the efforts of 202 fellow Republicans to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker. The move led to a once-in-a-century standoff that paralyzed the House. Members cannot be sworn in, committees cannot be formed, and lawmakers cannot do any work until the deadlock is broken, whenever that might be.
With great fanfare, the House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee sent to the Justice Department four criminal referrals targeting former President Donald Trump. Committee members, all picked for the job by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), want the Justice Department to investigate Trump for 1) obstruction of an official proceeding; 2) conspiracy to defraud the United States; 3) conspiracy to make a false statement; and 4) "incite," "assist," or "aid and comfort" an insurrection.
This week could mark the most consequential development on the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021, when President Joe Biden essentially opened the nation's doors to millions of illegal border crossers. On Wednesday, Title 42, the Trump-era measure that allows the U.S. government to quickly return illegal crossers to Mexico on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID, will expire. After that, officials expect a flood of illegal crossers, all coming into the United States confident that they, like hundreds of thousands before them just this year, will be allowed to stay.
President Joe Biden has not officially, finally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024. But he has done everything short of coming out and saying it. The word is that Biden will make a final decision with his family over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Recent news reports suggest that first lady Jill Biden, who not long ago was said to be skeptical about a second presidential campaign, is now "all in" for a 2024 run. All of this means that, once the new year comes around, Biden is likely to declare his candidacy.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden held a big White House ceremony to sign the Respect for Marriage Act, passed by bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate. It was a strange event, celebrating the passage of a bill that will make absolutely no change in the practice of marriage in the United States today.
It is sometimes said that the crisis of illegal crossers on the U.S.-Mexico border "can't get any worse." Well, it can. And now it has.
Republican lawmakers will take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. That means that, among many other things, they will take control of the House's investigative committees and subcommittees. GOP leaders have already said they plan to probe the Biden administration's disastrous policy on the U.S.-Mexico border, the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the disastrous failure to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and more.
With Republican Herschel Walker's loss in the Georgia Senate runoff, the 2022 midterm elections are finally over. The GOP actually took a step backward in the Senate, from the 50 seats the party controls now to 49 in the new Senate that convenes in January. That will be a big boost for Democrats, who had chafed under the difficulties of running a Senate that was evenly divided at 50-50, relying on the vice president's vote to break ties. Now, if Democrats stick together, they can win outright, and even if they lose one of their own, such as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), they can still prevail.
New Twitter owner Elon Musk made a lot of news in the conservative world on Friday when he released information about Twitter's infamous suppression of the October 2020 New York Post story about Joe Biden and influence peddling, a story based on evidence from Biden's son Hunter's laptop. The article, published in the last three weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, noted that Hunter Biden was engaged in shady business dealings in Ukraine and reported that one of his Ukrainian associates thanked him for arranging for the associate to meet Hunter's father, then the vice president of the United States. One reasonable inference to draw from the story was that Hunter and Joe Biden worked together to reward the people who were paying Hunter Biden at least $50,000 a month to do nothing in particular.
What is former President Donald Trump thinking? On Saturday, he posted this statement on his social media network Truth Social:
"So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Elections Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!"
For Republicans, the numbers look ominous. Record-setting totals of Georgians have voted early this week in the Dec. 6 runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. The turnout appears to include slightly more likely Warnock voters than at the same time in the general election. And overall, the more early voting there is, in the experience of recent election watchers, the better Democrats perform.
You know those people who tell you a devastating recession, or maybe a depression, is on the way or that this or that investment is guaranteed to skyrocket or collapse in the next few months? The ones who confidently predict coming doom or prosperity? Why should you listen to them? After all, who knows what will happen with the economy?
What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully underway.
Think back five years to the frenzy of news reporting and commentary over what was called Trump-Russia "collusion" — the allegation that the 2016 Trump campaign conspired with Russia to fix the presidential election. Most of the coverage, and especially the commentary, seemed predicated on the belief that collusion did, in fact, take place. But later, in one of history's great never minds, the extensive investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller was unable to establish that Trump-Russia collusion — prosecutors called it conspiracy or coordination — ever occurred at all. The Mueller team spent years investigating an alleged crime and in the end concluded it could not establish that the alleged crime even took place, much less who did it.
There are two things to remember about the Respect for Marriage Act. One, it is unnecessary. And two, it's going to become law.
Former President Donald Trump wanted to announce his 2024 candidacy at a rally in Ohio on the evening of Nov. 7, the night before millions of people voted in the midterm elections. A lot of advisers in Trump's large, informal circle strongly opposed the idea. It was too early, they said, and nobody knows how the elections will turn out. Better to wait. But a few in Trump's orbit argued a glorious red wave was on the way and that Trump should be out in front, taking credit for it.
Remember when the conventional wisdom was that abortion would be a huge issue in the midterm elections? Then the election came, and a lot of data pointed to the fact that yes, abortion did indeed play a big role. But now, the subject most people are talking about is...former President Donald Trump.
Many Republicans and conservatives are pointing fingers at each other over the party's lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections. Given all the advantages the GOP had — widespread economic anxiety, a huge majority believing the country has gone off track, and a deeply unpopular Democratic president — Republicans should have done better.
Even as votes continue to be counted, the big picture that is emerging from midterm results around the country is that, as predicted, it appears Republicans will win control of the House of Representatives. That's a big deal. Even if the GOP controls only one chamber of Congress, President Joe Biden's legislative agenda is dead. Biden should realize that as speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is not going to help the president pass any big legislative priority. That will be a momentous change in Washington.
A rumor swept through the political world Monday that former President Donald Trump would announce his 2024 candidacy at an election-eve rally in Ohio for Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance. It didn't happen. But it attracted a lot of attention, certainly among the politicians, staffers, consultants, journalists, pundits, and other obsessives who make up the political chatter world. They watched the rally not to hear what Trump might say about the midterm elections, but about his own plans.
President Joe Biden said he is optimistic about the Democratic Party's chances in the midterm elections. "Folks, I'm not buying the notion that we're in trouble," Biden told the crowd at a party fundraiser in Chicago Friday night. "I really mean it. ... I think we're going to keep the House and we're going to keep the Senate."
THE HYSTERICAL STAGE OF THE CAMPAIGN. Even with campaigns that are less hard-fought than this one, the final days before an election can be a time when both sides, but most often candidates who are trailing in the polls, make extreme statements about their opponents. Losers see defeat coming and make desperate attempts to avert it. That is what is happening now: The 2022 midterm elections have entered the hysterical stage.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr does not mince words about FBI misconduct in its pursuit of candidate, and then president, Donald Trump. "I think the behavior of the leadership of the FBI during 2016 and the first part of 2017 has been catastrophic," Barr told me in a recent interview. "It harmed the country, it was completely unfair to the president, and it has completely undercut the FBI."
Full interview here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/bill-barr-unplugged
Many Democrats and their allies in the media are blaming Republicans for a deranged man's attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). There's no question suspect David DePape is deranged, or what the British would call barking mad. Consider this, from the Washington Post: "In [a] blog post on October 24, four days before the attack on Pelosi, DePape shared images of a wooden birdhouse he said he had purchased for an invisible fairy he communicated with that had begun interfering with his life. 'He appears in a form that makes sense in my reality because I can't see fairies. He'll do things to let me know it's him and he often appears as a bird,' DePape wrote."
On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room. The subject was Biden's "determination to be one of the most consequential presidents" in U.S. history, according to an account in Axios. The group talked a lot about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal — Biden's model for the "think-big, go-big mentality" that characterized the first months of his presidency. The president has "giant plans teed up that could make Biden's New Deal the biggest change to governance in our lifetimes," Axios wrote.
Tuesday's newsletter covered the fact that GOP strategists believe the race for control of the House is over. "The midterm results, as far as the House of Representatives is concerned, are pretty much set in stone," it said. "Republicans are going to win. Democrats are going to lose." That's the House. Now, what about the Senate?
Early voting is well underway in Pennsylvania. Indeed, one reason Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, recovering from a serious stroke, wanted to delay his debate with Republican Mehmet Oz was to bank as many early votes as possible before debate night. Given Fetterman's disastrous performance in the debate, it was a good idea. And it worked. According to the Election Project, which compiles early voting figures from around the country, 685,289 Pennsylvanians cast their ballots before the debate. Of those, 499,396 were registered Democrats. The Fetterman campaign wanted to get its team to the polls before what was likely to be a discouraging debate.
What’s the connection among China, the Mexican cartels, the opioid crisis and your backyard? What if I told you it all starts at the southern border? What if I told you that the threats posed by the border crisis are not confined to the southern border at all but are also very real within your state, your town, and even your neighborhood? You’ve heard about the crisis at the southern border... but never like this.
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The midterm elections are now two weeks away. Some political commentators have an interest in portraying them as one big, suspenseful, down-to-the-wire contest. Maybe some of those commentators are partisan. Maybe some just think it's good for business. But the fact is, at this point, the midterm results, as far as the House of Representatives is concerned, are pretty much set in stone. Republicans are going to win. Democrats are going to lose. The Senate is moving in that direction, too. It might already be there.
Early voting began in Georgia six days ago. There is, of course, intense interest in both the state's Senate race, with University of Georgia football legend Herschel Walker challenging Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, and the governor's race, between Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams. Kemp is going to win, but the Senate contest is essentially tied. Its outcome might well determine which party controls the Senate.
President Joe Biden has just announced his plan to release even more oil, 15 million barrels, from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That is the last portion of the 180 million barrels he authorized for release in March, which was the biggest withdrawal ever from the reserve that is supposed to ensure a supply of oil in case of a national emergency.
WHO'S MORE IN LOCKSTEP — REPUBLICANS WITH TRUMP, OR DEMOCRATS WITH BIDEN? There was an extraordinary Senate debate Monday night in Orem, Utah, between Sen. Mike Lee and challenger Evan McMullin. It was extraordinary in part because McMullin, who is running as an independent and says that, if elected, he will not caucus with either Democrats or Republicans, agreed with Lee in many policy areas, such as federal spending and regulatory overreach. "I think our difference is in approach," McMullin said at one point.
The 2022 midterm campaign has gone through two distinct phases and has now entered a third. In the first phase, lasting about 12 months and ending in late June of this year, Republicans were the clear favorite to win control of the House, and probably win big. In the second phase, from late June until mid-September, the race was much more competitive, with most observers still predicting a GOP victory in the House, but a much narrower one than earlier thought. Some even said Democrats had at least an outside chance of keeping the House. But now, we are in a new phase in which the odds of a big Republican victory have risen again.
It's obvious that a midterm election loss would be devastating for President Joe Biden. Even if Republicans only win control of the House of Representatives, whatever remains of a Biden legislative agenda, if there is such a thing, will be instantly dead. If the GOP also wins control of the Senate, even narrowly, Biden's ability to win confirmation for his judicial and other nominees will be greatly diminished. So while the president and the leaders of the Democratic Party want to appear cool and confident about the elections, there is more than a little desperation behind the scenes.
President Joe Biden gave a rare — really rare — one-on-one interview Tuesday night. Speaking to CNN, Biden defended his use of the word "Armageddon" in warning that nuclear annihilation might result from Vladimir Putin's threat to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Biden described Putin as "a rational actor who's miscalculated significantly."
Republicans always believe the polls are slanted against them. That belief has sometimes caused them to misread big political races. In 2012, for example, a significant number of Republicans convinced themselves that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was actually going to defeat incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama. There was a lot of talk about "unskewing" the polls. Then Obama beat Romney handily.
With just a few weeks left before the midterm elections, on Thursday night, President Joe Biden traveled to New York to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser. Such events don't normally produce earth-shattering news, but this one did.
On Monday, the New York Times published a story about Konnech, a small election software company that has just 27 employees, 21 based in Michigan and six in Australia. The paper reported that Konnech has been the target of "election deniers" who have made it the focus of "a new conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential election."
There's a new report from NBC News that President Joe Biden has told a confidant, the Rev. Al Sharpton, of all people, that he will run for reelection in 2024. It's not terribly well sourced, attributing the information to "an official of Sharpton's National Action Network" who told NBC what Sharpton had told him. In any event, the story said Biden told Sharpton as the two posed for pictures after a White House meeting with civil rights leaders on Sept. 2: "I'm going to do it again. I'm going."
There have been endless news reports about the Biden Justice Department's pursuit of former President Donald Trump. There is, of course, the Mar-a-Lago classified documents affair. There is the Jan. 6 investigation. And lately, there have been reports that the department is also investigating some unspecified aspect of Trump's post-presidential fundraising.
If history is any guide, Democrats do not have a chance — not even a small a chance — of keeping control of the House in the midterm elections. But the question is: Is history any guide?
The Sept. 19 newsletter discussed the mass hysteria over the arrival of 48 Venezuelan illegal border crossers in Martha's Vineyard on a flight orchestrated by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. In reference to the newsletter, I tweeted this: "Problem with the Martha's Vineyard freakout is that the debate ignores the real problem. We're talking about how to accommodate illegal border crossers once they are in the country, and not about how to prevent people from crossing illegally into the U.S."
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. James alleges that Trump engaged in fraud by overvaluing properties in order to get loans and undervaluing properties in order to pay lower taxes.
Before his appearance on 60 Minutes Sunday night, President Joe Biden had not given a sit-down interview with an American journalist for seven months. It's easy to see why. On CBS, the president, who was known as a "gaffe machine" when he was a much younger man, kept up his tradition of saying something startling, weird, or newsworthy — and, sometimes, true.
Much of the nation's political and commentary class had a near-nervous breakdown when 48 Venezuelans who had crossed illegally into the United States arrived at Martha's Vineyard Airport, not far from the summer homes of some of the country's wealthiest and best-connected people. When they realized what had happened, many Democrats and allied voices in the media expressed white-hot anger at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who arranged the immigrants' trip. Meanwhile, Martha's Vineyard residents volunteered to feed and care for the immigrants for 24 hours, after which the National Guard whisked them off the exclusive island.
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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre-taped interview on NBC's Meet the Press last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harris said a few awkward, ill-informed, or downright odd things. For example, she claimed that the U.S.-Mexico border is "secure." When asked if she was confident of that, Harris answered, "We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration." It's hard to figure out what that meant.
Tuesday was a really bad day for the economy. Amid hopes that inflation might be abating, the Commerce Department reported that prices remain persistently high, and what is known as the "core inflation" rate actually rose in August.
It wasn't terribly big news on March 7, 2021. President Joe Biden, then less than two months in office, signed an executive order "promoting voting rights," in the words of the Washington Post, to "make voting easier," in the words of the New York Times. Both papers played the story as a modest Democratic measure to push back against Republican efforts to "roll back voting access," as the Washington Post put it, and to counter former President Donald Trump's "months-long assault on the voting process," as the New York Times said.
The Justice Department has charged more than 870 people in the Capitol riot investigation. According to DOJ numbers released last month, 264 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. Of those, 90 have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury. About 55 have been charged with destruction of government property.
President Joe Biden's job approval rating hit its low point, 36.8%, in the RealClearPolitics average of polls on July 21. At the same time, his disapproval rating was 57.5%. Both were unhappy records for Biden, and also for any president at that point in his term. That's how low Biden sank.
The Supreme Court decisions in the 1857 Dred Scott case and the 1944 Korematsu case are generally considered two of the worst judgments ever handed down by the nation's highest court. One concerned slavery, and the other concerned the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
Why did President Joe Biden give the speech he gave Thursday night in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia? Was it a 2022 midterm speech? Was it a 2024 presidential campaign speech? Was he preparing the country for the possible arrest of his predecessor, former President Donald Trump? What was he doing?
In today's podcast Byron sits down with attorney and recent Republican primary winner of the United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, Harriet Hageman. They discuss her recent win over Liz Cheney and what she plans to do moving forward.
Once given up for dead, Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their chances in November's midterm elections. The race for the House is narrowing, although Republicans are still predicted to win control, while the race for the Senate is a toss-up. Formerly pessimistic Democrats now think November will not be an unmitigated disaster for their party.
There have been several new reports about the number and the sensitivity of documents seized in the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, the winter home of former President Donald Trump. If true, the reports add to the body of knowledge about the matter.
There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November's midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe we're not going to get clobbered after all! But much of their hope is still likely in vain. For one reason: President Joe Biden.
There have been dozens of headlines in recent months suggesting that radical supporters of former President Donald Trump hope to start a new civil war in the United States. The dangerous threats and rhetoric reached a new peak after the unprecedented Aug. 8 FBI raid on Trump's winter home at Mar-a-Lago, followed by revelations that the Biden Justice Department is pursuing an unprecedented criminal case against the former president, apparently over the alleged mishandling of classified information.
Beginning in the months before Donald Trump took office, and extending well into his presidency, the media and political world took a set of vague but serious accusations of wrongdoing involving the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia and created a 24/7 frenzy of talk about secret evidence, possible criminal charges, and allegedly grave damage to national security.
Republicans and conservatives have loudly protested the Democratic plan to expand the IRS vastly, and especially its enforcement arm, with an infusion of $80 billion included in the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act. The $80 billion is, by many accounts, far more than the IRS needs, and Republicans are suspicious about how it will be spent.
In addition to reporting the nuts and bolts of the FBI's unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida, much media coverage has also focused on angry Trump supporters, who are portrayed as being whipped up by Republican politicians and MAGA agitators.
here's a line at the end of an Axios newsletter that sums up everything that is wrong about media coverage and public discussion of the FBI's unprecedented raid on the home of former President Donald Trump. "These investigations are top secret," Axios's Mike Allen wrote. "So more likely than not, we won't get the full picture any time soon."
You've probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats, includes provisions to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. The number seems too big to believe. The IRS has just 93,654 employees, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
There are less than two weeks to go before Wyoming's Republican primary, pitting incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, of Jan. 6 Committee fame, against challenger Harriet Hageman. There's never much polling in House races, but there was one big one in Wyoming three weeks ago, and it was terrible for Cheney.
You've seen the polls showing that large majorities of Democratic voters want the party to pick a new nominee for president in 2024, bypassing incumbent President Joe Biden. Now we're seeing the living embodiment of those polls as some important Democratic lawmakers distance themselves from, or outright oppose, a reelection run by the nearly 80-year-old president.
It is not common practice for senior U.S. government officials to visit Taiwan. The last time a really high-ranking official visited Taiwan was 25 years ago, when then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich traveled there. Gingrich remained the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit Taiwan until today, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arrived in Taipei.
An odd atmosphere has descended on Washington, D.C. At the precise moment the government announced that the economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, the popular definition of a recession, Washington pundits began talking about what a great week President Joe Biden was having. And they meant it sincerely, not ironically.
Did you know that it is still the position of the Biden administration that the U.S.-Mexico border is "closed?" "The fact of the matter is, the border is closed," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in late June.
This morning the Commerce Department announced the economy shrank by 0.9% in the second quarter of 2022. That comes after the announcement last April that the economy contracted by 1.6% in the first quarter of this year. Now, the United States has had two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, which is the popularly accepted definition of a recession. So it's official: The U.S. is in a recession.
The 2004 presidential election was a relatively close one. Republican President George W. Bush won reelection with 286 electoral votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 251. (No, that does not add up to 538. In a move that has never been fully explained, one "faithless elector" voted for Kerry's running mate, Democratic Sen. John Edwards.)
In today's podcast Byron is joined by Kevin Kosar to talk about the Electoral Count Act and why there is a need for it to be reformed. They get into the history of it and how it could effect our future of politics.
Last month, this newsletter focused on the Biden administration's practice of allowing illegal border crossers to stay in the United States. Documents made public as a result of a lawsuit over border policy revealed just how many illegal crossers the administration has admitted into the country. It's a big number.
The Hunter Biden story has always been a Joe Biden story. It has been clear all along that Hunter Biden, like some other relatives of high office-holders, spent years trying to cash in on his father's government position.
A new poll in the Casper Star-Tribune shows Republican and Jan. 6 committee star Rep. Liz Cheney losing big to challenger Harriet Hageman in the Wyoming House GOP primary. The survey has Hageman's support at 52% and Cheney's at 30%, with minor candidates or undecideds making up the rest of the total.
Here's the short version of this newsletter: 1) A new government report shows inflation at devastating levels — 9.1% on an annual basis in the last year. 2) There is a bipartisan consensus that recent massive government spending has made inflation worse. 3) Democrats are trying to pass more massive government spending.
In a recent ruling it was stated that absentee ballot drop boxes will no longer be allowed in Wisconsin. The point of the Wisconsin drop box case was to look ahead, not to look back at all of the disputes around this past election. And the thought process behind the ruling was simple. Ballots need to be cast in accordance with election laws.
President Joe Biden's reelection prospects have seemed doubtful for months now. Many voters think the nation's oldest president ever — he turns 80 in November — is too old for the job and is certainly too old for a second term. Many others think he's simply doing a bad job. Many think both.
News reports are filled with stories about growing Democratic unhappiness with President Joe Biden. It's not just a little frustration. A lot of Democrats are really, really, really upset about Biden's performance in the White House.
Is showrunner James Goldston the most important force on the House Democratic Jan. 6 committee? There's no doubt the former president of ABC News is shaping the committee's presentations, episode by episode.
At the end of the House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee hearing featuring former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, committee member Liz Cheney (R-WY) delivered an elaborate tease for the panel's as-yet-unscheduled next episode.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's one-sided Jan. 6 committee had its greatest hit Tuesday — and also revealed its greatest weakness.
There's a debate among some on the right about former President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Does Trump deserve any credit for what happened?
National polls show former President Donald Trump with a commanding lead over all other Republicans for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. The group includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is in a distant second place but is widely seen as the new front-runner should Trump decide not to run.
There's an unintentionally amusing article in the Atlantic that has gotten a lot of discussion lately. It's about the age issue and President Joe Biden, who will turn 80 this November. The journalist Mark Leibovich began the piece this way: "Let me put this bluntly: Joe Biden should not run for reelection in 2024. He is too old." Leibovich said he has recently spoken with 10 "official and unofficial advisers to the administration." They've spent time around the president and say he is holding up well despite all the bad things that are happening in the country and the world. But then Leibovich added: "Here's another recurring theme I keep hearing, notably from people predisposed to liking the president. 'He just seems old.'"
Have you been following the court case Biden v. Texas? It's not in the headlines every day, but court filings in the case are giving us the best picture yet of what the Biden administration is doing on the U.S.-Mexico border. And the news is very, very bad.
Byron York welcomes guest Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist for a live episode at the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center. The two discuss the 2022 Election, the status of election integrity in America, and what the Republicans should do if they win.
President Joe Biden's job approval rating has slipped below 40% in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. As of this writing, it is 39.9%, versus a 54.4% disapproval rating. Biden, of course, has been underwater in the polls for a long time.
How many times has President Joe Biden blamed today's painful inflation on "Putin's price hike?" No need to count — he's done it a lot. The problem has always been, of course, that inflation, including energy inflation, began well before Russia's Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in late February.
There's no doubt inflation is the nation's most pressing concern. All the polls show it. All the data show it. And everyone just personally knows it. President Joe Biden will not admit that his policies, and his party's policies, have made inflation worse — and that, if Biden and congressional Democrats had their way, they would make it worse still.
You knew something was up when the leaks about the House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee began to change. A month ago, committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin said the committee's hearings would "blow the roof off the House." The weeks that followed were filled with hype about the first hearing, which would be held in prime time for maximum television exposure and would be produced with showbiz expertise by a former president of ABC News.
Much of Washington has been fixated on the coming hearing of House Democrats' Jan. 6 committee. That could turn out to be a lucky thing for President Joe Biden if it distracts the public's attention from an embarrassment he, not to mention the United States of America, is experiencing on the West Coast.
The premiere of the House Democrat's big Jan. 6 show is just days away. But now some Democrats appear to be concerned about publicly discussing the show's frankly political nature.
Just a few days ago, we were told that June would be Economy Month, when the Biden White House wanted to "pivot" from whatever it has been doing to spend June communicating its "accomplishments on the economy." But now, on June 6, less than a full week into Economy Month, we find out that this is Jan. 6 Week. The House Democrats' committee to investigate the Capitol riot will have a prime-time hearing on Thursday night, and it's spending the first days of this week trying to build excitement about the findings.
There's something remarkable about the gun debate that has arisen in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Compared to years past, the argument on Capitol Hill is somewhat muted.
What does the acquittal of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann say about the state of politically charged investigations in Washington? It says juries matter — whether a case goes to trial or not.
On Oct. 8, 1974, amid a dramatically worsening economy marked by skyrocketing inflation, President Gerald Ford unveiled a plan he called "Whip Inflation Now." To fight inflation, the government made millions of WIN buttons and encouraged people to carpool to conserve gas — this was after the Arab oil embargo — and to grow their own food. The campaign was a disaster, alternately ridiculed and hated. Most of all, it didn't work. Alan Greenspan, who was a top Ford economic adviser, called it “unbelievable stupidity.”
The trial of Michael Sussmann is before a jury in Washington, D.C. Sussmann is the Democratic lawyer who, according to special counsel John Durham, lied to the FBI in 2016 when, working on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign, he tried to plant a derogatory story about Donald Trump. The hope was that the FBI would start an investigation and then the campaign conversation would be: TRUMP IS UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION!
For all the speculation that goes on around former President Donald Trump and the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race, it's possible, even likely, that the more intense battle will be among Democrats. A new poll from Mark Penn, the former Clinton strategist who runs the Harvard-Harris poll, suggests President Joe Biden's support among Democrats is significantly weaker than Trump's support among Republicans. And that could lead to chaos on the Democratic side.
The political argument over gun control has erupted again after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead. It's the same argument that erupts after every mass shooting. But this time, on Capitol Hill at least, it seems more muted, and the measures under consideration are more limited than in the past.
Former President George W. Bush has been known for making mistakes while giving speeches and he has always taken criticism lightly. But after a recent speech at the George W. Bush Institue where he said Iraq in place of Ukraine, his words are under far more scrutiny.
In the days after Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a lot of talk among Republicans that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded had Donald Trump still been president. Trump was so difficult to predict, so impulsive, so impetuous, the thinking went, that Putin would not have risked a massive U.S. response under Trump.
With midterm elections about 6 months away, things are not looking good for President Joe Biden and the Democratic party. Numerous polls gauging American's feelings on the direction of the country show that things will likely not go well for the Democrats come midterm elections.
Late Wednesday afternoon, President Joe Biden tweeted his frustration over the Senate's failure to pass a Democratic bill, the "Women's Health Protection Act," which would codify Roe v. Wade and forbid states from passing future laws limiting abortion. Here is the president's tweet:
"As fundamental rights are at risk at the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans have blocked passage of the Women's Health Protection Act. They have chosen to stand in the way of Americans' rights to make the most personal decisions about their own bodies, families and lives."
The reason President Joe Biden delivered a speech on inflation on Tuesday was that he knew the government would release the latest statistics on inflation Wednesday morning and he knew the news would be bad. Might as well try to get ahead of things. And now that the numbers are out, the news is indeed bad.
One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president's son, with no obvious sources of income, manages to maintain a grand lifestyle. For the last year or so, he has been living in a $20,000 a month rental house in Malibu, California. (The taxpayers are footing the bill for the Secret Service to pay even more, $30,000 a month, to rent the house next door while protecting him).
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, angry and seeking political advantage after the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, is vowing to hold a vote Wednesday on a bill to legalize abortion nationwide. "Every American is going to see which side every senator stands," Schumer said last week. "A vote on this legislation is not an abstract exercise. This is as urgent and real as it gets."
Some Republicans want a special counsel appointed to investigate presidential son Hunter Biden's shady business dealings in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere. The calls started in the last months of the Trump administration, when revelations about his activities, and suspicion that his father, President Joe Biden, might have been involved, began to emerge.
There's a lot of speculation that a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, if that indeed happens, would be a boost for Democrats in this November's midterm elections. There seems no doubt the decision will motivate some part of the Democratic base. But the question is: Who? How many? And how important would they be to the election results?
It was recently leaked to Politico that the Supreme Court had drafted a decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. Aside from the leak itself shocking the nation, people are eagerly waiting to see what the actual decision will be and the long-term political effect it will have on the courts. In today's episode, Byron discusses the issue and the anger it has caused for both political parties.
One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject. Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with one side, so why are you even trying to argue? It's settled.
The specter of recession and war settled over Washington on Thursday, on top of inflation that has already cut into the public's standard of living and increased its worries about the future. It was, in short, a very bad day — one of the most concerning so far in the presidency of Joe Biden.
In today's podcast, Byron is joined by the CEO of The Babylon Bee, Seth Dillon. They discuss everything from how The Bee had a small part in Elon Musk's Twitter takeover to what viewpoint discrimination actually is. Dillon also gives us insight into why his company decided to take a stand against censorship. And he reminds us that when you have to justify a joke, the joke is dead.
New Twitter owner Elon Musk is vowing to reform the social media platform. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in a statement after his $44 billion bid to buy the company was accepted.
You may have noticed that Democrats on Capitol Hill are trying their best to keep the Jan. 6 investigation in the news. Making the spring and then the summer and then the fall about former President Donald Trump would be a huge win for them, given the calamitous state of Democratic midterm election prospects these days. But even though the Jan. 6 committee will get a lot of coverage when it finally unveils its report, the fact is, the Democratic Party cannot divert voters' attention from losing issues such as inflation, crime, and the border crisis.
A big fad in Democratic circles is to hold events devoted to discussing the threat of "disinformation" in America. Former top Obama adviser David Axelrod, who now runs the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, recently held a conference on "disinformation and the erosion of democracy." His old boss, former President Barack Obama, stopped by. But now Obama has taken center stage for himself on the disinformation issue with a speech Thursday at Stanford University, in the heart of the nation's tech industry.
There is word that President Joe Biden is looking for a way out of his decision to end Title 42, the Trump-era regulation that allows U.S. authorities to turn back illegal crossers at the U.S.-Mexico border on the grounds of protecting the country from COVID. Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced that Title 42 will be repealed on May 23.
For years Democrats have used student debt relief as a selling point in elections and it looks like the upcoming midterms will be no different. Recent polls suggest that young people won't turn out in November and that's exactly what the Democrats need to happen. Even if Biden does not cancel student debt, he can extend the payment moratorium as long as he wants and attempt to grab young people's attention that way.
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, from President Joe Biden's home state of Delaware, has been called the president's "closest Senate ally" and even a "shadow secretary of state." When he travels abroad, Coons is widely thought to speak for the president. "The fact that I am known to have a close relationship with [Biden] helps me deliver a more forceful message," Coons told Politico last year.
Remember just a few weeks ago, when President Joe Biden's supporters hoped he would enjoy a bounce in job approval ratings after his State of the Union address? They scoured each new poll for evidence of even a tiny uptick. A couple of polls appeared to show just a little improvement — maybe it was happening! — and then Biden settled back down into approval ratings in the low 40% range.
There was a shooting in a New York City subway yesterday that shook the United States. Currently, police have identified a 62-year-old man named Frank James as the suspect. In today's podcast, Byron dissects the motive and facts behind the case and plays some clips from the suspect's YouTube channel that has since been taken down.
Inflation is up in every area of the economy and it's crippling the livelihood of many Americans. While the White House blames the complexity of price structures, the limited ability of government, and "Putin's price hike"... no one seems to care. Americans just don't want a solution, they need a solution and if Democrats don't come up with one quick the people will vote someone else in who can.
For quite some time now COVID has been the most talked about issue in the United States and around the world. But it's important to always look at how the media portrays it. Recently many important officials in D.C. (most being democrat) have come down with COVID and it's barely breaking the news. In today's podcast, Byron discusses this and how it's all occurring after Washington's Gridiron Club annual dinner.
The recent bill passed by the Florida Legislature as the "Don't Say Gay" bill has stirred up quite the controversy amongst the United States. In today's podcast Byron discusses the actual facts of the bill and exposes so many media outlets and politicians who have publicly shamed the bill for reasons that just don't make sense.
There's a lot of hypocrisy in the United States Senate. It's virtually built into the place. To cite just one example, the filibuster is something many senators support when they are in the minority and oppose when they are in the majority. Somehow, a good thing becomes a bad thing when the other party uses it.
If anything embodies the sort of Washington insiderdom that populists of both parties hate, it is the annual Gridiron dinner. The oldest of Washington's journalistic institutions, the white-tie dinner each year features politicians and journalists putting on comedy routines that are supposed to be self-deprecating, and sometimes are quite funny, but are also at times painfully flat.
There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it, and history says it: The coming election is the type of election in which the party in power loses big. And to some Democrats, only one man can save the party from disaster: Donald Trump.
Many politicians have avoided calling the U.S. - Mexicos border a crisis, but that is in fact what it is. And Biden is about to turn it from a crisis into a disaster with his new border policies. In the coming months, the U.S. can expect to see a record number of illegal border crossers if Biden goes through with his promise to lift Title 42.
Comedians like Stephen Colbert, and many others, loved it when reporters pressed Trump on the various things Trump said. But now when Biden is asked the simplest questions that are of international concern the comedians turn on the reporters. One thing is for sure it's a clear example of partisanship and hypocrisy.
What to think of actor Will Smith's assault on comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday night? It seems a pretty cut-and-dried issue. Smith physically attacked Rock, apparently over a joke Rock told about Smith's wife. But you don't get to attack someone physically over making a joke. Smith was in the wrong, as he later acknowledged, although not before attending post-Academy Awards parties.
Biden surprised and alarmed not only the public but also his White House staff this past weekend during his speech in Poland. The majority of his speech in which he addressed the Russia, Ukraine conflict was as expected until he basically called for regime change. In today's podcast, Byron discusses the repercussions of Biden's statement and the outlandish comparison one columnist made to Ronald Reagan.
he important thing to remember about the now-infamous "define 'woman'" exchange between Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is that Blackburn telegraphed her pitch. It wasn't a gotcha question. It didn't come out of nowhere. No one should have been surprised.
It's no secret that the Democratic Party has been having its fair share of problems but, a very unique one that they are currently facing is the 2024 presidential election. With President Biden and VP Harris both being very unpopular, people are starting to ask questions. Will Biden be a one-term president? Would Harris even have support as Biden's successor?
While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered a speech that could reverberate through the next two election cycles.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott and 30 other Senate Republicans voted against the 1.5 trillion dollar bill that among many other things was supposed to "help" Ukraine. Democrats jumped on this and pushed out stories to make it look like Republicans were against any aid for Ukraine but in reality that is far from the truth.
Democrats planned to use the Jan. 6th Capital Riot as an issue in the midterm elections. But what they didn't plan for was how unimportant Jan. 6th would become as issues like inflation, COVID, the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and the border would rise on peoples hierarchy's of concerns. So Byron discusses the question, what if it doesn't work?
Today the New York Times published a story about the federal tax and foreign-influence investigation of President Joe Biden's son Hunter. The paper reported that Hunter Biden paid off a "significant tax liability," thought to be more than $1 million, in hopes of fending off indictment.
Former Sen. Tulsi Gabbard recently posted a video on Twitter talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and it triggered Sen. Mitt Romney. In fact, Romney was so upset by what Gabbard said in the video that he began to accuse her of "treasonous lies". In today's podcast, Byron discusses what could have caused Romney's out-of-character reaction and why the word treason should never be thrown around lightly.
House Democrats recently went on their annual retreat in Philadelphia to discuss policy initiatives. And with the Democrat's numbers down in a majority of polls, it would be reasonable to think they would use that time to discuss their message for the upcoming midterm elections. But no. Nancy Pelosi used her speaking time and publicity to ban the word "retreat" from the retreat... and even went to the extent of referring to it as the "R-word".
The inflation rate in the United States is the highest it's been in decades. And while most people are worried about the effect it will have on their daily living, Democrats are just focused on how it could impact them in the midterm elections. In a sad attempt to deflect any blame from themselves the Biden administration is pushing the narrative that Putin is solely responsible for the United States inflation.
One of the weirder scenes in our recent politics took place this week in the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee. Three Democratic state senators linked arms and did a sort of semi-dance down a hallway singing an impromptu song, "Gay, gay, gay! My daughter's gay! Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay!" (They had apparently gotten the idea from a Saturday Night Live skit.)
There was a striking moment on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. Moderator Chuck Todd brought up a poll recently released by NPR and Marist that showed President Joe Biden's job approval rating at 47%, with a disapproval rating of 50%. The screen showed that poll in contrast to another NPR/Marist survey from two weeks earlier that showed Biden's approval rating at 39%, with a 55% disapproval rating. One poll was done before Biden's State of the Union address and the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the other was done after. What happened?
The moment Trump entered into politics he became a target. Even though he is now a defeated former president so many leftists get hopeful when there's the slightest rumor of him being charged with a crime. In today's podcast, Byron discusses the facts behind all of these politically motivated investigations.
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine now in its second week, it's possible to get a glimpse of what Americans think about the war, and especially what they think the U.S. role, if any, should be.
As most Presidents do, Biden used his State of the Union speech to applaud himself and his administration for all their great accomplishments. The interesting part is that he left out the Unites States withdrawal from Afghanistan which he not even 6 months ago called an "extraordinary success". In today's episode, Byron discusses this controversy and the women in congress who spoke up about it.
Before President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, there was some speculation about whether he would mention the mess he has created on the U.S.-Mexico border or whether he would simply pretend it did not exist. As it turned out, he did both — he mentioned the border, and he pretended the mess did not exist.
The president gives his State of the Union speech tonight in an odd context. If there were not a war in Ukraine, many observers, and not just Republicans, would be talking nonstop about the disastrous state of Joe Biden's presidency.
Senator Tom Cotton appeared on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday and he left people talking. After the Republican Senator elegantly reverted several questions about Trump to more important issues like what's going on in Ukraine, host George Stephanopoulos didn't know what to say.
It's an unspoken tradition for former presidents to stay quiet when their successor makes decisions on foreign policies. But in typical Trump fashion, he just broke this tradition. After his recent comments connecting the Russia/Ukraine crisis to the 2020 election being stolen from him many people on both sides of the aisle are thinking it's time for him to hush up.
Mike Pompeo is being attacked on social media platforms like Twitter after making a statement about Vladimir Putin. The only thing this proves is how quickly the mob is set off. In today's podcast, Byron brings you the obvious and insightful information into what Pompeo actually said and how the media twisted it.
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia are heating up and everyone is looking at the United States to see what Biden will do. In the past, Biden talked a tough game but his recent play on the word "invasion" is leading people to think otherwise. Byron discusses all of this and Trump's role in it on today's no chit-chat podcast.
It's no secret that Hillary Clinton has been sneaky and conniving throughout her time in politics. But recent revelations detail how ugly the truth actually is. On today's podcast, Byron discusses the three major ways Hillary played dirty in her 2016 campaign against Trump and how the effects still linger.
Everyone has partially heard about the recent court filing that came out and proved that Trump was spied on. The question is whether you got the facts or a biased story? In today's episode, Byron discusses the fine details of the court filing and how media outlets like The New York Times have led people astray.
It's no secret that the United States, Mexico border is a MESS. After months of the border crisis, many people are wondering if there is a solution in sight. Byron talks about what could come next and whether or not Biden will confront the issue at his State of the Union address in March.
It's clear woke culture has gotten out of hand when even people from the left are starting to fight back. After some California schools put so much energy into changing their school names instead of getting kids back into the classroom during COVID, the left lost some woke warriors. Byron discusses how this one incident is just a piece of a wider revolt.
A recent court filing revealed some explosive information about Donald Trump..... he was in fact the target of spying. From informants to secret agents to the FBI, Byron dives into the facts of everyone that was involved. Unfortunately, it seems so many Democrats and anti-Trumpers were searching for a narrative that just wasn't there.
Is the Biden administration falling behind in dealing with COVID? Are the States now the leaders? Is Joe Biden irrelevant in all of this?
With midterm elections just months away, Democrats are scrambling to find any bit of hope that they could save their House and Senate majorities. In today's podcast, Byron gives insight into five major issues that point to a loss being in the Democrat's future. At the end of the day, Biden's approval rating speaks for itself when it comes to the Democrat's chances in the 2022 midterms.
There's a wrenching debate in the Republican party right now..... and it's whether the GOP should move backward or forward as elections approach. Such a simple question is causing an evident divide. With Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump continuing to put pressure on the decision many members of the RNC have come out to voice their thoughts.
This past weekend Joe Manchin pronounced that Biden's agenda is dead. Maybe the lack of media coverage on the announcement will make Democrats realize people aren't sad to see it go. For now, the Build Back Better bill will just be an unfilled progressive dream.
In light of Jeff Zucker's dismissal, the reactions behind the scenes at CNN have been anything but pleasant. However, why are so many of the staff upset at the firing of a leader that's ran it into the ground?
In another installment of our southern border series, Mark Krikorian joins the show to answer questions on the border and immigration. Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, and he addresses the state of the border, a breakdown of immigration policies, refugee vs asylum status, and more.
Continuing with the theme from last episode, there are more developments surrounding the southern border and the illegal crossers that are coming into the country. In addition to the covert operations to move them around, studies have shown that the number of migrants from other countries than normally seen are rising. What is going on?
Despite the constant talk of the Russia-Ukraine border, the Biden administration has been active at the Mexico-U.S. border with covert relocations of thousands of illegal border crossers into the country.
There's a growing number of "scheduling conflicts" occurring between Democrats and Joe Biden whenever he comes to town. Are these indications of some modest steps being taken to distance themselves from the president as midterm elections approach?
A few days out from journalist Peter Doocy being called and SOB by the president has seen a few interesting reactions from some corners of the press in the wake of the mini controversy. Some say he was right, some say he was wrong, and some seem to think that doing it more would help him.
The president’s job approval rating is a very important factor for midterm elections. With Biden’s approval rating down, how has this affected presidents of the past? How will it affect Biden in the future?
Despite his (largely Democratic) television celebrations in 2018, a new indictment of Michael Avenatti regarding his famous client Stormy Daniels tells us something much different than his media circuit at the time, and about the media itself.
A new article from Politico reports on a new controversy over a "draft executive order" during Donald Trump's presidency. The order (which did not come close to being passed) would've allowed the Trump administration to seize control of voting machines during the 2020 elections.
Joe Biden's course corrections are to...not have any course corrections. The president gave three distinct steps he'll be enacting for positive change in his governance, but they don't actually help anything as much as he thinks it does.
President Biden held his marathon of a presser yesterday, and there are several takeaways from it. The biggest perhaps were Biden's comments on the legitimacy of upcoming elections, and how it hinges on the passing of his voting rights bill.
It's the one year anniversary of not only Joe Biden as president, but also of unified Democratic control in Washington. A multitude of areas have seen approval ratings drop, all of which you can likely expect to be glossed over in the "public reset" planned in President Biden's upcoming press conference.
Democrats rehash the 2020 election scandal involving forged Electoral College votes on behalf of Donald Trump. But the reality is that the facts surrounding Trump's lawsuit contesting the Georgia election tells us otherwise.
The anniversary of January 6th was short lived and many American's have moved on without getting all of the facts. But the reality is that the aftermath of the event is far from over. As of right now the indictments are fuzzy, encrypted platforms are still being discovered, and the group that seems to have caused the most issues just seems like a bunch of "LARPers".
In the last few weeks, Biden's handling of COVID cannot be ignored. While no one person should be blamed for the tragedies in a pandemic, Biden sold himself by saying he would "shut down the virus" and recent numbers show he has done anything but that. One thing is for sure in both the handling of the pandemic and the rejection of the Build Back Better plan, Biden and his administration need to learn how to adjust their agenda to fix the current situation.
There's a lot to talk about — about our president's. The media has gone into a frenzy after text messages from political figures and news correspondents were released regarding January 6th and Donald Trump. But there's a lot less to the texts than critics and the media would have you believe. Looking forward the media has people considering who could be the presidential prospects in 2024. Because as of right now, the polls for both Biden and Trump are not looking promising.
A large amount of recent political conversations and polls are consumed by who could be in the 2024 presidential race. Is Donald Trump considering a third run for the White House? Does Joe Biden plan on running for reelection? And what happens if both of them opt out? Will a new candidate continue the policy's of their party's predecessor? It's all fine to think about, as long as this infamous rivalry doesn't overshadow another year of our politics.
Harvard University Institute of Politics came out with a new poll asking young people about their thoughts on the United States. And the findings are anything but boring. A large number of young people from both sides said they think the United States is a failed or troubled Democracy overall. This just shows that people of all ages see through the current administration's attempt to continually pitch the idea that everything is "free".
The democratic party loves to use the word transform but the word alone is powerless. What the United States needs right now isn't persuasive or "feel good" langue it's actual action. Sooner or later Democrats will realize that they can't bank on people hating Trump to get them elected. That's in the past. And the present issues of our nation are catching up to them.
The Washington Post came out with a piece that said Biden's approval rating is at a new low. And with the direction the White House is headed, it could be getting worse. Democrats want to believe that Biden's main downfall is messaging and communication. But issues like inflation, COVID, Afghanistan, and many others are substance issues that take REAL action and change to solve. The last thing the United States needs is another sales pitch!
Here's a basic fact: The Democratic Party's number-one priority is to pass a voting "reform" bill that would federalize elections under rules favorable to Democratic candidates. It's more important than any other part of the party agenda. But Democrats on Capitol Hill don't have the votes to pass the far-reaching voting bill known as S.1. […]
When President Biden announced a bipartisan deal to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure — the real kind, like roads and bridges and waterways — he stressed that it is extremely important that he and lawmakers be able to trust each other. Each must be as good as his or her word, Biden […]
In Washington, Democrats are trying to pass the most ambitious agenda since the Great Society without having won a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. How is that supposed to work? (Answer: It won't.) There are increasing signs that party leaders are deeply out of touch not just with the public as a whole […]
Yes, 35 House Republicans voted to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. And yes, some GOP senators also support the proposal. But the two top Republican leaders — Kevin McCarthy in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate — are solidly opposed. They have their reasons. Like: What about the […]
Talk to House Republicans, and they'll tell you this about Liz Cheney: Her problem is not that she voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Her problem is that she can't move on from voting to impeach Trump. At a time when House GOP leaders feel it is critical to oppose the Biden-Pelosi agenda — trillions […]
Remember the shooting at the House Republican baseball practice just outside of Washington? A zealous Bernie Sanders supporter and Trump hater named James Hodgkinson, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, attacked a group of GOP lawmakers as they practiced for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. Representative Steve Scalise was gravely wounded. A lobbyist was seriously hurt, […]
Anyone paying attention to the news knows the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible. Anyone who actually visits the border discovers it is worse than that. This is a report on a recent trip to the border in Mission, Texas, where U.S. officials are scrambling to handle thousands of migrants who are crossing the […]
When the CEO of Delta Airlines took a stand against the new Georgia voting law — declaring it "unacceptable" — a chorus of Americans had the following reaction: Who asked him? Why should an airline executive get involved in electoral politics? Maybe he should concentrate on…flying? Now, Delta CEO Ed Bastian is taking it from […]
There's a lot to talk about — about the press. First, the White House press corps, or at least a selected group of ten reporters, delivered an embarrassing performance at President Biden's first formal news conference. There were baffling omissions, neglected follow-ups, and at least one first-class attempt at presidential flattery. All in all, not […]
A United States senator vowing to oppose all nominees of a particular race? Could that happen in 2021? The answer is yes. It happened this week, in fact, when Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth declared she would not support any white nominees for any administration positions. (The only exceptions, Duckworth said, would be for white nominees […]
All Americans hope the coronavirus pandemic ends and life can return to normal. But Democrats in Congress are trying to make what they call ‘COVID relief' permanent. Their ‘COVID relief' is in fact a series of long-held Democratic policy goals that have nothing to do with the virus, but they want to use the pandemic […]
Much of the daily conversation on social media is consumed by ephemera. Is political Twitter being mean to Taylor Lorenz? Does Pepe Le Pew promote rape culture? And what about Harry and Meghan? It's all fine to think about, as long as you don't devote too much mental bandwidth to it and don't forget that […]
It's hard to exaggerate the anger, criticism, and vitriol directed toward then-President Trump last year for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. If for some reason you need a reminder, just search for "Trump" and "blood on his hands." But now something interesting is happening. In the last few days, among some commentators following the […]
FBI Director Christopher Wray was supposed to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the state of the January 6 Capitol riot investigation. He gave the media the soundbite it wanted, but failed or refused to answer some of the senators' basic questions about the riot. And it wasn't a partisan thing. Some Republican members […]
The Senate GOP leader came to a Fox News interview prepared to talk about the current president equally prepared to not talk about the former president. But Mitch McConnell ended up making news about Donald Trump anyway. What is the thinking behind McConnell's statement — less than two weeks after his scathing criticism of Trump […]
It's one of the most basic questions of the Capitol riot investigation: What was the rioters' plan? What did they think was going to happen when they stormed the Capitol on January 6, as Congress certified the results of the Electoral College? There are lots of different answers — remember, thousands of people were there […]
As expected, Democrats won the vote on constitutionality that began the second impeachment trial of former President Trump. Six Republicans went along with unanimous Democrats in voting that the trial is in fact constitutional. So now it is on to the substance of the case. House Democratic impeachment managers will attempt to prove that then-President […]
The impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is beginning with a deep divide among senators. Nearly all Republicans believe it is unconstitutional to try an ex-president. All Democrats disagree. Democrats point to a majority of law professors who agree with them — no surprise there — while some conservative scholars and jurists support the […]
New White House press secretary Jen Psaki promised to bring “truth and transparency back to the briefing room.” President Biden promised to be guided by science in his decisions regarding the COVID pandemic. Now both of those vows are being put to the test on the question of reopening schools. This week, Biden’s new CDC […]
There were roughly 25,000 National Guard members in Washington for the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The deployment was in large part an overreaction to the Capitol riot of January 6. But now, 5,000 are still here. The inauguration was two weeks ago, it went off without incident, and there is no need for troops […]
Just look at what happened Tuesday night in, of all places, a Zoom meeting of the San Francisco School Board. In that meeting, members voted to strip the names of American historical figures — George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and even California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein — from schools in San Francisco. A removal […]
House Democrats will deliver to the Senate a single, hastily-passed article of impeachment against former President Trump. A trial is set to begin two weeks later, on February 9. It will be an event without precedent — the first time in U.S. history that a former president will be tried in a court of impeachment. […]
The new Biden administration says it must act quickly, with a flurry of executive orders, because the nation is experiencing not one, not two, not three, but four crises. “We face four overlapping and compounding crises,” said new chief of staff Ron Klain. “The COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a […]
President Trump will become former President Trump tomorrow. When Joe Biden takes office, Democrats will control the White House, the House, and the Senate. An ambitious agenda lies ahead for the new Democratic administration. And yet there are signs that some Democrats' obsession with Donald Trump — the condition known as Trump Derangement Syndrome — […]
Donald Trump is now the only president ever impeached twice. Yes, that says a lot about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, and the Democratic Party's, obsessive quest to remove him from office. But the impeachment is also the result of a disastrous turn in Trump's presidency since the November 3 election. The turn was so consequential […]
Democrats started trying to remove President Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing to remove him from office after he leaves office. How do you remove an ex-president? He's already gone. That is the bizarre question posed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's obsessive quest to re-impeach Donald Trump with just a […]
There are some Republicans in Washington who wish inauguration day were today, or tomorrow — or yesterday. They supported President Trump and appreciated his significant accomplishments, but now they are more than ready to move on from what has become a disastrous end to the Trump presidency. The fact is, though, the president's term lasts […]
It's possible to have two entirely different but entirely compatible reactions to accounts of President Trump's Saturday phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. First, the president clearly tried to press Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to flip Georgia from Biden to Trump. Even though Trump obviously believes the phantom votes are rightfully […]
Democrats and their allies in the press spent the last four years accusing President Trump of being soft on Russia. And worse: Some called the president a Russian asset, a traitor, Putin's patsy, and much, much more. It was all BS, because behind the rhetoric was the stark reality that Trump, and his administration, have […]
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. But it's going to be an uphill battle. Republicans are pushing harder and harder to learn more about Swalwell's relationship with Chinese spy Christine Fang. And after an FBI briefing for GOP leader Rep. Kevin […]
There's been a lot of commentary in recent days about President Trump, the election, and martial law. It is unclear what the president himself thinks about it — he tweeted that reports were "fake news" and "knowingly bad reporting" — but it is clear that his former national security adviser, retired General Michael Flynn, is […]
The Electoral College has voted to elect Joe Biden president. That is done. But there is one more step in the process. On January 6, Congress will officially ratify the Electoral College vote and declare Biden the president-elect. Now, though, there is talk that some House Republicans will try to disrupt the ceremony. The plan, […]
With the meeting of the Electoral College and the Supreme Court's denial of the Texas case, President Trump is running out of options to challenge the election results. Yes, some supporters believe he still has paths to victory. But to win he needs to change the results in not one, not two, but three states, […]
After months of stonewalling Trump efforts to pass targeted, short-term relief for millions of Americans suffering in the pandemic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has changed her mind. What she blocked before is now OK. Why? Because, Pelosi explained, there's a new president and a vaccine on the way. Huh? Didn't the absence of a vaccine […]
Some in the media knew the story of the trip before Trump even flew to Valdosta, Georgia on Saturday. The president would rant about election results and in the process undermine purpose of trip — to campaign for Republican Senators Kelly and David Perdue. News accounts, even the ones published after Trump's speech, reflected those […]
Wednesday witnessed one of the most extraordinary events in recent political history. With two critical Senate races underway in Georgia — with Republican control of the Senate at stake — two prominent allies of a Republican president traveled to the state to urge voters not to vote for Republican candidates.
Attorney General William Barr has appointed John Durham as special counsel investigating the Trump-Russia investigation. Durham's new status will make it harder for Biden to fire him. It also clears the way for a public report. And that means we will learn more about the FBI's effort to target the 2016 Trump campaign. People who […]
Remember the dossier? Many journalists (not to mention the FBI) worked hard to confirm its allegations against Donald Trump. They failed miserably. But even then, some Democrats, and their allies in the press, refused to admit the dossier was BS. Instead, they argued that since it had not been proven untrue, it must be true. […]
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes has been in the middle of Trump wars on Capitol Hill. In this podcast, we discuss some scenes from my new book, Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment's Never-Ending War on Trump, in which he played a prominent role. Like, what happened when Republicans took over the secret room where Democrats were […]
It's like Russiagate all over again, this time with the Post Office. The news is filled with reports of President Trump's "assault" on the U.S. Postal Service. The president, Democrats say, is deliberately slowing mail delivery and crippling the Postal Service so that it cannot handle an anticipated flood of voting by mail in the […]
You've been hearing it for a long time: President Trump will refuse to accept the election results if he loses in November. But now, a secretive group of former government officials has worked through a number of scenarios for the election, and guess what they found? War-gaming a scenario in which Trump lost the popular […]
This is the first "Byron York Show" podcast since February. Even though it's the no chit-chat podcast, I need to explain what's been going on. The short version: I have written a book. It's about the long effort to remove President Trump from office, and it will be published on September 8. The title is […]
So now the Senate has acquitted President Trump on both articles of impeachment. It is the end of a Senate trial marked by wild predictions and intense speculation. So with it all over, it's time to look at the things that were said about the trial — Republicans will defect! John Roberts will take charge! […]
A special edition from Iowa, where Democrats are struggling with a number of unpalatable options in their presidential caucuses. The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway got her first chance to observe the 2020 version of Joe Biden in action, and her reaction is…not entirely optimistic for the former vice president's chances. Meanwhile, President Trump is making an […]
On Friday a new movie, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words," will open in theaters across the country. The most striking thing about it is obvious from the beginning: The famously publicity-shy Supreme Court justice is talking. A lot. Thomas spoke to filmmaker Michael Pack for 30 hours — yes, 30 hours — […]
Democrats and their allies in the press have been saying President Trump simply has no defense against articles of impeachment. Hill Republicans made the case for the president, but the fact is, the White House had not produced any comprehensive defense in the nearly four months since impeachment began. Until now. In a 110-page memo, […]
The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump begins in earnest Tuesday. Nobody knows the charges better than Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, who was there for every step of impeachment's way in the House. The articles of impeachment are actually quite brief, and we go line-by-line through the accusations against the president. Jordan answers them all […]
Impeachment, the Horowitz report, FISA, battling the FBI, suing CNN, trolling Adam Schiff for getting so much of it wrong — Devin Nunes has a lot to talk about. He goes into detail about how he discovered the FBI's abuses during the Trump-Russia investigation, and how he faced obstacle after obstacle in his work to […]
Democrats are making up impeachment as they go along. They're sensitive to accusations that they're rushing — but they're rushing. Adam Schiff says Democrats have to act quickly because President Trump presents an imminent danger to the country and must be removed ASAP. For her part, Nancy Pelosi says it's not a rush at all, […]
Republican Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, sat through all the impeachment depositions, and then all the hearings. He talks about dealing with the witnesses–Vindman, Sondland, Hill, and others–and sees some waning in impeachment enthusiasm. Polls seem to show that, too. So are Democrats irreversibly committed? Are they on board with […]
With public impeachment hearings starting on Capitol Hill, it's time to look at what the witnesses actually said in those secret Democratic depositions. The star of the show, whenever he is scheduled to testify, will be Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. The National Security Council staffer showed up in full dress uniform — the first witness […]
Back in 1998, the former independent counsel Ken Starr saw House Republicans use his report to impeach Bill Clinton. Now, he's watching the House race to impeachment again, this time under Democrats and in a very different way. Amid much Republican complaining, do Democrats have the authority to conduct impeachment as they are conducting it? […]
You know the story about a lie getting halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on? Today, a look at two key parts of the impeachment battle that have been the subject of a lot of inaccurate commentary but which we're finally learning more about. First is the now-infamous Mick Mulvaney […]
Nobody knows more about the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight than Mollie Hemingway, co-author of "Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court." Now, a new book by two New York Times reporters tries to throw more dirt at Kavanaugh — and Hemingway has taken the lead in debunking its new, […]
A solo edition taking a look at a story that has roiled the anti-Trump media: Is the president really using military money to prop up his money-losing golf resort in Scotland? Reading Politico, watching MSNBC, you might think one thing. Dig a little deeper, however, and you'll find a much different story.
No reporter knows more about the Trump-Russia affair, top to bottom, than Fox News Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge. We go deep into the Little Horowitz Report, on James Comey, and what's expected in the Big Horowitz Report, on FISA and the beginnings of the Trump-Russia probe. And more importantly, after all the weedy stuff, […]
The inspector general's report on fired FBI director James Comey changed the way students of the Trump-Russia affair view one of the key moments in the investigation. The players: Comey, President-elect Donald Trump, an FBI laptop, a secure video tele-conference, and the Crossfire Hurricane team. Remember when Comey told Trump the FBI wasn't investigating him? […]
It's a go-to website for political junkies and non-junkies alike. The most famous feature of RealClearPolitics is its average of polls, and in this discussion with RCP founder Tom Bevan, we go through how it all started. Plus, a look at what's happening in the 2020 race through the lens of what went right and […]
A look at the dynamics inside the Democratic presidential race — in these post-Great Awokening times, can the party accept Joe Biden's back-to-Obama appeal, or will voters choose a left winger? Also: Do we need to pay attention to NeverTrumpers? And finally: Should anyone care about anything that happens in Canada? That and more with […]
In this episode, former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint discusses his old colleague Joe Biden ("He clearly has lost a step"), his old colleague Nancy Pelosi ("A very tough person…she will eventually bring the little rabble-rousers around"), and the current president's personality ("Perfect…because nice doesn't work.") Plus: What is Mitch McConnell doing in the Senate? And […]
The world waited for Robert Mueller to testify about his Trump-Russia report. And then, when the moment came, the story quickly turned into the state of Mueller himself. Slow, confused, not up on his own investigation, Mueller's performance denied Democrats their desire to turn his report into a "movie" that would capture the imagination of […]
In the course of a few hours, the Speaker of the House was put into timeout, her words removed from the record, and Democrats and Republicans drove themselves into fits — all over a tweet from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We talk with Rep. Chip Roy, who was in the middle of the whole mess. Plus: […]
The Democrats headed to South Carolina recently, and there could be something strangely familiar going on, with Joe Biden in the role of 2008 Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in the role of 2008 Barack Obama. Plus, will all the craziness in Washington cause any South Carolina Republicans to lose faith in President Trump? A […]
2016 Trump campaign veteran Corey Lewandowski flew with the president on Air Force One to the big 2020 campaign kickoff in Florida this week. What do they talk about on the World's Greatest Airplane? Plus: How does Trump win over voters turned off by his style? Were the first six months of the Trump White […]
So much writing on President Trump, and especially his business career, comes from journalists who aren’t businesspeople. What do they know about being hundreds of millions of dollars in debt? Conrad Black is a former press baron who sees Trump’s business life from a businessman’s (and a historian’s) perspective, and his new biography of the […]
A special solo edition of the podcast — it’s just me going through the latest in the Trump-Russia investigation, and, more important, the investigation of the Trump-Russia investigation. What to look for after the president's declassification order, plus a little-discussed reason why pressure is building for Democrats to impeach.
So where should U.S. Attorney John Durham start as he investigates the Trump-Russia investigation? Well, he might start by talking with former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. Then: You want to get into the Trump-Russia weeds? This is the place. What about the CIA's involvement in starting the investigation? How come we don't hear much about that? […]
In a weird coincidence, the same lawyer who represents accused spy Butina also represents a key figure in the GOP platform brouhaha. Attorney Robert Driscoll goes inside two of the weirdest cases of the Trump-Russia affair — cases that started with sensational headlines and ended as nothingburgers.
The former Trump campaign aide got mixed up in one of the weirdest episodes of the Trump-Russia affair. He talks about it all, from his brief run-in with the mysterious Russian Henry Oknyansky to the FBI agent who showed up in a muscle car to whisk him to Mueller's lair.
Carter Page, the only man wiretapped — that we know of — in the Trump-Russia probe describes what it was like in the grand jury with Robert Mueller's prosecutors. Also, what did the FBI ask in five, count 'em five, interviews? And then the question: Can you tell if you're under surveillance?
In this interview, George Papadopoulos describes —in crazy detail— why he believes a series of shady figures recorded him when he was he was working for the Trump campaign. Plus, why did so many foreign spooks want to buy him a drink? The answers to this and more in this episode of the Byron York […]
Talking with Mark Meadows about secret surveillance in the Trump-Russia investigation. Was there more than we know? Plus, what is the Grand Unified Theory of how it all started? And are we paying enough attention to John Brennan and the CIA?
John Dowd has much, much, much more to say about what was going on behind the scenes in the Trump-Russia investigation. Mueller, Manafort, Sessions, Rosenstein, Stone, collusion, Twitter, privilege, the press, and more.
John Dowd was President Trump's lawyer during a critical time in the Mueller probe. Boy, was there a lot going on behind the scenes. A peek inside the epic battle of the presidency with the president's attorney.
How much wall–er, barrier–do we really need? Can Dems really stonewall the wall? And why did Trump dump on Paul Ryan in that White House meeting?
This week, Byron sits down with Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH). First up: what kind of deal could break the Trump-Pelosi impasse? Plus: With the 2020 race underway, is Ohio still the nation's key swing state? (Hint: Maybe not.) And: having voted for Mike Pence for president–yes, president–in 2016, will he vote to re-elect President Trump?
This week, Byron York is joined by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH). He discusses efforts to find out what really happened with the Trump dossier. Plus: Why being in the minority is a bummer and what Trump should do for the State of the Union.
In his debut podcast, Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York sits down with Devin Nunes to discuss the status of the House Intelligence Committee investigation into collusion, why the FISA applications ought to be declassified, when and if the the Mueller Report will be issued, and life in the minority.
The Byron York Show, an eponymous podcast hosted by Washington Examiner chief political correspondent and Fox News Contributor Byron York, will cover politics and personality from deep inside the swamp.