WATCH: Trump Calls Fox’s Maria Bartiromo ‘Fake News’ for McCain Questions
Trump sat down for a wide-ranging interview on FBN which aired Friday morning. Things get tense toward the end, around the 9:40 minute mark when Bartiromo pushes Trump on the McCain stuff.
Trump calls “fake news” at the 10:55 mark - and Bartiromo pushes back.
Ocasio-Cortez Lands Time Magazine Cover Less than 100 Days into Term
“Wonder Woman of the left, Wicked Witch of the right,” the magazine’s profile of Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), written by Charlotte Alter, reads, “Ocasio-Cortez has become the second most talked-about politician in America, after the President of the United States.”
Ocasio-Cortez on Fox News ‘Haters’: ‘Why Are So Many Grown Men Just Obsessed’ With Me?
This is a long clip of Seth Meyers interviewing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so you may want to pass. They start talking Fox News at the 2:30 minute mark.
“Why are so many grown men just obsessed with this 29-year-old?” she ponders.
“The conspiracy theories are great,” she says.
She also hit the network on Twitter for incorrect usage of her last name.
By the way: Fox News likes to say my name (incorrectly) as “Cortez,” which I can only imagine is bc that sounds more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them.
Pro Tip: My last name is not “Cortez,” just as theirs isn’t “Ingra” or “Carl” or “Hann.”
Harvard Law professor and former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz wants the FBI and federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into allegations he sexually assaulted two women, including one who was underage.
"All three of us have filed sworn affidavits in federal court. These affidavits are in irreconcilable conflict: I have sworn that I never met either of them; they have both sworn that I engaged in sexual acts with them. Either I have committed perjury or they have,” Dershowitz wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Dems Pushing to Get Trump's Business Tax Returns
Some liberal Democratic lawmakers are urging their colleagues to demand President Donald Trump’s business tax returns, Politico is reporting.
The move comes as top Democratic lawmakers prepare to request Trump’s personal tax returns. Democrats are planning to use a nearly century-old statute in an attempt to get his returns.
Jimmy Carter just became the longest-living president in history
On Friday, at the age of 94 years and 172 days, Jimmy Carter — the 39th president of the United States — became the longest-living president in U.S. history.
This after doctors discovered that cancer had spread to his brain just a few years earlier.
“There are no special celebrations planned,” his spokeswoman said. Carter has lived a modest life relative to his successors.
Unprecedented Flooding Will Get Worse this Spring, Forecasters Warn
The stage is set for unprecedented major flooding this spring for most of the nation, U.S. weather officials said Thursday. 25 states are at risk of serious flooding with the Midweat likely getting hit the hardest.
"We expect the flooding will get worse and become more widespread," a National Weather Service official said.
More than 200 million Americans are at risk for some kind of flooding, with 13 million of them at risk of major inundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its spring weather outlook . About 41 million people are at risk of moderate flooding.
John McCain’s Youngest Daughter Makes Rare Public Statement, Calls President a “Child”
Meghan McCain read her sister’s Tweets on The View:
.@MeghanMcCain responds to Pres. Trump’s latest attack on her father by reading a response to his comments from her little sister, and urging people get involved with veterans charity.
McCain’s close friend Joe Lieberman wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, saying, “The person who suffers most from the strange, posthumous attacks by the president is the president himself.”
