“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” Trump told Duterte, according to an official transcript.
Spicer: “When it comes to Sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Ashad [sic] was doing. ... He brought them into the Holocaust center.”
“I don’t understand why he would say such a thing to a guy who’s practicing extrajudicial executions,” Sen. John McCain told The Intercept.
While the media overwhelmingly focuses on Trump and Russia, Yemen is dying, covert ops are spreading, and war is raging.
This union is far more than a marriage of convenience to stop Trump; it reflects broad-based agreement on U.S. hawkishness toward Russia and beyond.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and DJ Spooky discuss the Trump moment. Sherine Tadros and Mehdi Hasan analyze the strange crisis with Qatar.
Nothing brings warmongers, hawks, and elites from both parties closer together than a cruise-missile strike.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses the Equifax data breach and activist Shaun King lays out his campaign to bring violent neo-Nazis to justice.
Glenn Greenwald fills in for Jeremy Scahill, and we take a deep dive into the origins and evolution of the Trump-Russia story.
Civil rights advocates are preparing for the White House to launch a new assault on Muslims and immigrants in the wake of a domestic terrorism attack.
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