"Fire and Fury" is the biggest news of the day. Michael Wolff's explosive tell-all from inside the Trump White House has provoked legal threats from the president himself, and intensified the war between Trump and former adviser Steve Bannon. Jason Howerton, Senior Editor of the Independent Journal Review.
While Wolff's credibility came into question during yesterday's news cycle, Howerton says the author was able to turn things around in his Today show interview this morning. He also discusses the extent to which Trump's attack on "Fire and Fury" actually improved sales.
Howerton also ponders how much the revelations from the book will impact the Mueller probe. Steve Bannon reportedly said that that investigators would "'crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.'
Former President Donald Trump answered questions for nearly seven hours Thursday during his second deposition in a legal battle with New York's attorney general over his company's business practices, reversing an earlier decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and remain silent.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can still be used for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be taken and said it could not be dispensed by mail.
The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday.
Some abortion clinics are fielding lots of calls from patients since a court ruling last Friday threatened the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion, mifepristone.
The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday that outlined two ways that seven Western states and tribes reliant on the over-tapped Colorado River could cut their use, but declined to publicly take a side on the best option.