CNN — FBI Director Christopher Wray’s resignation announcement was the latest, and inevitable, step in the accumulation of massive and unusual power around President-elect Donald Trump. Wray said Wednesday he would step down at the end of the Biden administration next month to save the bureau from becoming sucked even deeper into politics with a…
CNN — FBI Director Chris Wray will resign at the end of the Biden administration, the agency said Wednesday, as it became clear he would be forced out by President-elect Donald Trump. Trump, who originally nominated Wray after firing the previous FBI director, previously announced he will nominate Kash Patel for the role, although Wray…
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Thank you very much, Matthew [Savill], and good morning to everyone. It is truly great to be back at the Royal United Services Institute. Across the pond, RUSI is well recognized for its incisive research and broad convening power on defense and security matters. And as the specter of state-on-state war returned to Europe with…
Most democratic elections are about competing views of the world. But in the United States in recent years, that divide seems to have evolved, moving from differences of opinion about what the nation could be to differences of opinion about what the nation is. In an October op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Geoffrey Cohen…
Trump Cabinet picks work to win support on Capitol Hill Former communications director Tricia McLaughlin and Princeton University political scientist Lauren Wright discuss the latest in confirming Trump’s Cabinet picks and his comments regarding January 6th committee members on ‘Fox News @ Night.’ The House Task Force investigating the assassination attempts on President-elect Trump’s life…
While many of the rich and famous among us are currently partying down in Miami for Art Basel, others took a much longer flight to the United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend. Officially going down on Sunday (Dec. 8), the F1 event took place at the Yas Marina Circuit and…
In the weeks since the election, I’ve been thinking about the woman who told me she’d heard that Kamala Harris “let in all the illegals who killed all those cops.” I met her when a few of us from Pod Save America were knocking doors in Las Vegas the Sunday before the election. She was…
Democratic Senators-elect Andy Kim of New Jersey and Adam Schiff of California were appointed to the upper chamber of Congress three weeks early on Sunday following their election wins last month. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a fellow Democrat, announced on Sunday that he appointed Kim to the U.S. Senate following the official certification of…
Reality TV can be an incredible springboard for a career in showbiz, as many a celebrity has discovered over the years. Some famous people with reality show beginnings went on for fun, while others felt it could be a means to an end. In the end, though, the result is the same: A surprising number…