• Trump pick John Bolton has history of clashing with U.S. intelligence community

    Trump pick John Bolton has history of clashing with U.S. intelligence community

    Mar 23, 2018 10:50 PM EDT

    ... Bolton becomes the third person in the post since President Trump took office. The first choice, Michael Flynn, resigned just over three weeks after the inauguration over revelations that he had lied about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. Army Lieutenant General McMaster took over, but clashed with the president ...

  • News Wrap: Gunman in Southern France takes hostages, attacks police

    News Wrap: Gunman in Southern France takes hostages, attacks police

    Mar 23, 2018 10:45 PM EDT

    ... Bolton becomes the third person in the post since President Trump took office. The first choice, Michael Flynn, resigned just over three weeks after the inauguration over revelations that he had lied about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. Army Lieutenant General McMaster took over, but clashed with the president ...

  • On drug costs, modest steps follow Trump's big promises

    On drug costs, modest steps follow Trump's big promises

    Feb 10, 2018 08:34 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump makes big promises to reduce prescription drug costs, but his administration is gravitating to relatively modest steps such as letting Medicare patients share in manufacturer rebates. Those ideas would represent tangible change and they have a realistic chance of being enacted. But it's not like ...

  • Trump continues to cast some immigrants as criminals

    Trump continues to cast some immigrants as criminals

    Feb 07, 2018 02:45 PM EDT

    ... the country safer. "In the age of terrorism, these programs present risks we can no longer afford," he said in his State of the Union speech. It's an issue that has been near and dear to the president's heart — and his base— since the day he launched his ...

  • Some Trump supporters grumble in battleground Michigan

    Some Trump supporters grumble in battleground Michigan

    Sep 23, 2017 08:30 PM EDT

    MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Republicans in Michigan, where Donald Trump triumphantly stamped the election last year, are giving the president mixed reviews nine months into his term in light of the all-but-dead effort to undo the Obama-era health care law. While Trump still remains popular with the Michigan ...

  • Laying out priorities to Congress, Trump sees immigration reform opportunity

    Laying out priorities to Congress, Trump sees immigration reform opportunity

    Mar 01, 2017 01:23 AM EDT

    ... the process of overturning an Obama era waterway protection rule, and returning oversight of aid to historically black colleges and universities to the White House. President Trump was still adding to his speech late this afternoon, including considering whether to add language about an immigration compromise that he talked about ...

  • George Orwell's '1984' is a best-seller again. Here's why it resonates now

    George Orwell's '1984' is a best-seller again. Here's why it resonates now

    Jan 25, 2017 11:41 PM EDT

    Double think. Newspeak. Thought crime. Memory hole. These are the remembered phrases of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” about a futuristic totalitarian state run by “Big Brother.” It surged to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list Wednesday--President Donald Trump’s sixth day in office ...

  • What we know about Trump’s national security team

    What we know about Trump’s national security team

    Jan 21, 2017 11:30 PM EDT

    So far, the Senate has confirmed two of President Donald Trump’s cabinet-level appointees: Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelley, both former Marine Corps generals. But many vacancies on the Trump administration's national security team remain. POLITICO correspondent Michael Crowley joins Alison Stewart from Washington, D.C., to discuss.

  • Trump says cancel new Air Force One: Costs 'out of control'

    Trump says cancel new Air Force One: Costs 'out of control'

    Dec 06, 2016 02:57 PM EDT

    NEW YORK — The government should cancel its multibillion-dollar order for new Air Force One presidential planes, Donald Trump declared Tuesday, serving notice he's ready to jump in and start making decisions six weeks before his inauguration.

  • For now, Melania Trump plans to be long-distance first lady

    For now, Melania Trump plans to be long-distance first lady

    Nov 25, 2016 08:53 PM EDT

    It will be one of many unusual things about a Donald Trump administration: a long-distance first lady. Trump will move into the White House after the Jan. 20 inauguration. Breaking with tradition, Melania Trump and 10-year-old son Barron plan to remain in New York City at least until the end of the school year.