Republicans are going to have a hard time selling the unpopular tax plan if their media appearances are anything like Rep. Dave Brat’s cringeworthy appearance on MSNBC. Judging by his reaction, the Virginia Republican was expecting to be able to regurgitate inaccurate Republican talking points on the legislation. Instead, NBC’s Katy Tur challenged Brat — […]

Desperate to get ahead of the Russia investigation, Republicans have been peddling lies about the scandal’s simple, observable facts for weeks. The lies and spin have only grown worse since three Trump campaign officials were indicted, one of whom pleaded guilty and is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Responsible journalists are finally […]

The GOP tax scheme, formally authorized by Thursday’s vote in the House, is a disaster in the making. It would raise the deficit $1.5 trillion, cut nearly $2 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid, and raise taxes on many working families while preserving loopholes that help millionaires buy yachts. Republicans want you to know that whether or […]

The Republican Party — the party that claimed complete victory in November, taking the White House and maintaining control of the House and Senate — is falling apart. “A political implosion is underway,” said Nicolle Wallace, a longtime Republican strategist who worked in George W. Bush’s White House and on John McCain’s presidential campaign in […]

A Republican congressman supported Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign against black NFL players by asserting that as employees, they have given up their right to the First Amendment. Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) appeared on MSNBC to speak about the attacks from Trump and his demand that protesting players be fired. Trump’s war of phony outrage has […]

Donald Trump has always cultivated a mythology of himself as a shrewd, brilliant negotiator who can cut a bargain. But since taking office, and especially since his repeated failure to wrangle a health care repeal bill out of Congress, Trump’s supposed ability to cut deals has been exposed as shallow and fake. Nevertheless, the notion […]

One the most appalling features of the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill that Senate Republicans are trying to ram through without debate is its impact on sick people. The bill would totally wipe out all Obamacare protections, and let insurers jack up prices based on pre-existing illness. According to the Center for American Progress, asthma would […]

Given the chance to reprimand Donald Trump, ever so slightly, for retweeting a video on Sunday that promoted violence against women, and specifically against Hillary Clinton, Republicans are for the most part giving him a pass. Again. The refusal by Republicans to even timidly call out, let along acknowledge, Trump’s dangerous, anti-social behavior means that […]

The Trump administration made yet another attempt to lie about the record of President Barack Obama, but it only took a few minutes for reporters to completely debunk it. During the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the bold and false proclamation that Donald Trump has done “more for bipartisanship […]

Desperate to shore up its once-indomitable ratings, Fox News is reportedly moving Sean Hannity to the 9 p.m. hour, while syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham gets set to debut a new show at 10 pm. The move sets up cable news ratings showdown between Hannity and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Her program airs at 9 p.m., […]

MSNBC anchors with decades of experience in financial journalism ripped into a Trump campaign official as he repeatedly distorted economic information and desperately tried to make Trump look good. Brad Thomas is on the “Advisory Board” for Trump’s re-election campaign and has written a pro-Trump book called “The Trump Factor.” One reviewer noted, “This book […]

MSNBC anchor Katy Tur posed the question many Americans have been asking about the GOP: “Whose side are they going to be on” if Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller? Trump already fired the FBI director in charge of investigating his ties to Russia. And he has repeatedly attempted to undermine Mueller’s legitimacy, threatened to fire him, and […]

The head of Donald Trump’s so-called “Election Integrity Commission,” designed to use the federal government to enforce voter suppression schemes across the country, denied Hillary Clinton’s popular vote victory against Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a strong advocate for voter suppression measures, told NBC’s Katy Tur that “we’ll […]

Members of Donald Trump’s commission on “voter integrity” don’t like being reminded that they’re investigating allegations of voter fraud even though election experts have spent years confirming the United States does not have a voter fraud problem. That could be one reason why secretaries of state across the country, including dozen of Republican office holders, […]

Longtime loyal Republican Nicolle Wallace has some extremely harsh words for Donald Trump and her entire party. Now an anchor on MSNBC, Wallace rose to fame as a communications chief for President George W. Bush and then as senior adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008. She basically made Sarah Palin — and her own […]

In his latest press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed that Donald Trump was “joking” when he urged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. Video of Trump’s comments from July 27, 2016, clearly shows that he was not joking. Trump said at the time, “I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, […]

California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris has proven to be an astute and forceful questioner during Senate committee hearings. Harris, a freshman senator and the former attorney general of the state of California and district attorney of San Francisco, is knowledgable on a wide array of topics related to the law and the intelligence community. And […]

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) began fumbling as MSNBC’s Katy Tur quickly pointed out his weak attempt to use a false equivalence as she asked him about the ongoing FBI investigation of the Trump administration. Tur pointed to statements from Trump, his campaign underlings, and others who had accused Hillary Clinton of being under an FBI […]

While many corporate media figures bear great responsibility for the ascension of Donald Trump, his nascent presidency has also caused some journalists to up their game. One of them has been NBC News’ Katy Tur, who doggedly covered Trump on the campaign trail, despite being directly targeted for harassment by Trump, and has been consistently […]

Befitting his reality TV resume, Donald Trump is certainly the star of the ever-deepening drama his scandal-ridden young administration has brought to D.C. But as Rachel Maddow concisely and devastatingly laid out on her show, Vice President Mike Pence deserves just as much time in the media spotlight. Pence’s reputation has perhaps benefitted from comparison […]

As my colleague Tommy Christopher wrote, President-elect Donald Trump may have made a deal with HVAC manufacturer Carrier to keep some jobs from going to Mexico — but he accomplished this by doing the exact opposite of what he promised as a candidate. And he managed to do it only with the help of his Vice […]

Supporters and observers of the Clintons are accustomed to the corporate media assuming the worst about them. In an especially egregious instance, a touching anniversary tweet from Bill Clinton was twisted into a contrived political move. 41 years ago I married my best friend and the finest changemaker I’ve ever known. And yes, I’m still […]