Ben Dreyfuss, senior editor at Mother Jones, discusses the surprise resignation of Hope Hicks, making her the 4th White House communications director to leave the Trump Administration.
Dreyfuss also digs into reports that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating what President Trump knew about Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
Another topic of interest in the investigation is Trump's relationship with Jeff Sessions after reports emerged last summer that the president was trying to push Sessions out as Attorney General.
We also talk about the recent revelations that Jared Kushner's retail firm Kushner Companies received large loans from two financial firms after meetings with the White House senior advisor. This information was released one day after Kushner lost his top secret security clearance.
President Joe Biden and First lady Jill Biden are traveling to Lewiston Maine to pay their respects to the people who were killed there in a mass shooting last week.
The House approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
The U.S. Senate, circumventing holds by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, on Thursday confirmed the nominations of two senior military leaders, including the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live.
Israeli troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. With no end in sight after weeks of heavy fighting, U.S. and Arab mediators intensified efforts to ease Israel's siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and called for at least a brief halt to the hostilities in order to aid civilians.
Rep. George Santos easily survived a vote Wednesday to expel him from the House as most Republicans and 31 Democrats opted to withhold punishment while both his criminal trial and a House Ethics Committee investigation proceed.
