It's been a wild week in Washington from gun control conversation shaking up, to personnel changes, and now trade wars. Political Consultant Rick Wilson explains his take on the repercussions of the chaos inside the White House.
"I think that the president's views on guns have always been subject to question," said Wilson. "He mediates every decision by television."
After White House Communications Director Hope Hicks announced her resignation this week, we asked Wilson who might be next to depart.
"I don't think there's a tenable path for Jared Kushner to stay in the White House," said Wilson. "I think he is in really really deep water."
Social media users take note: You won't be able to snap that fall foliage selfie at a popular Vermont spot. The town has temporarily closed the road to nonresidents due to overcrowding and “poorly behaved tourists.”
A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction house.
President Joe Biden grabbed a bullhorn on the picket line Tuesday and urged striking auto workers to “stick with it” in an unparalleled show of support for organized labor by a modern president.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed. The new districts also could help Democrats trying to flip control of the House of Representatives.
With a government shutdown five days away, Congress is moving into crisis mode as Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces an insurgency from hard-right Republicans eager to slash spending even if it means curtailing federal services for millions of Americans.
