"We have a core problem. We have a President without shame, who is backed by a party without spine, that is supported by a network called Fox News, without integrity," says author @tomfriedman, of Donald Trump.
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Donald Ayer, deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, says Attorney General William Barr is "un-American" and should resign.
"Bill Barr's vision is that there is one man, one person who needs to be above the law and that is the President."
.@Acosta: โAre you letting the Saudis get away with murder, murdering a journalist?"
President Trump: โNo. This is about America First. Theyโre paying us $400 billion plus to purchase and invest in our country.โ cnn.it/2QXn8hR
Dem Rep. @tedlieu: โDemocrats will never cave to Donald Trumpโs demands in a government shutdown because if we do, it's just going to incentivize him to do this again anytime he doesnโt get his way. So we cannot talk about wall funding in the context of the government shutdown.โ
"There's no way Vladimir Putin should be coming (to Washington) this fall. And if he does, I'm going to be marching in protest with many other people against him," says congressman Ted Lieu. cnn.it/2zVoo0P
โItโs a tantrum.โ - @RepSwalwell on President Trumpโs letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
โMr. President we donโt need your childish, whiny letter. Donโt send us that. Send us the documents that you have buried and have refused to provide to us.โ cnn.it/2PZfOTN
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) reacts to House testimony: โWhat we heard today was that [the President] was making and partaking in some of these phone calls, not just Giulianiโฆ that really adds a much more disturbing degree of the involvement that he had."
Rep. Turner: Pelosi "needs to come to some recognition that she's not equal to the President"
@wolfblitzer: "She's not equal to the President ... but the legislative branch of the U.S. government is equal to the executive branch and they are both equal to the judicial branch"
CNN's Jim @Acosta: "Pres. Trump gave fact-checkers quite a workout today as he opened up a fire hose of falsehoods on special counsel Robert Mueller. That performance came after the President appeared to accidentally concede that the Russians helped him win the 2016 election."
BREAKING: What first appeared to be a gesture indicating North Korea might be willing to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, appears to have been little more than a propaganda effort for the world's cameras, @barbarastarrcnn reports cnn.it/2kFxNPG
Rep. @tedlieu on the search warrants for the Cohen raid: โIf I was Donald Trump, I would be scared because they have information from Michael Cohen from very early on, months before his office was raided. They have emails, they were tracking his incoming, outgoing phone calls."