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Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon gave a wide-ranging interview to “60 Minutes.” Here’s what he said about Republican leadership and the Russia investigation. (Amber Ferguson,Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) Shortly after Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, finished taping his “60 Minutes” interview, a top Bannon aide texted White House Communications […]Read More

President Trump said the military is “relentlessly pursuing and destroying” the “horrible enemies” of America, at the Pentagon’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony. (The Washington Post) President Trump said Monday that terrorists have “nowhere to hide” as he marked the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. “These are horrible, […]Read More

President George W. Bush waves to members of Congress before his fourth State of the Union address in 2004. (AP) There are any number of lessons to be taken from the events of Sept. 11, 2001: the sacrifices of the first responders, the stories of those who were killed, the emergence of terrorism as a critical threat to […]Read More

Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon was interviewed on “60 Minutes.” Here’s what he said on Republican leadership and the Russia investigation. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post) There are few people who have believed in President Trump as firmly and unapologetically as Stephen K. Bannon, his former top White House adviser and top campaign […]Read More

Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon gave a wide-ranging interview to “60 Minutes.” Here’s what he said about Republican leadership and the Russia investigation. (Amber Ferguson,Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) Political campaigns are an on-off switch. You won or you lost. Nuance can be overlaid — maybe you did better or worse than past […]Read More

[embedded content] Stephen K. Bannon labeled the Russia investigation a “farce” and a “waste of time” during his interview with “60 Minutes” this weekend. But those strong words papered over what was otherwise a pretty nervous and nonsensical defense of President Trump on Russia. If you watch the video above, you’ll see Bannon repeatedly stumble over […]Read More

[embedded content] “Do you worry 100 years from now someone is going to take that memorial down like they are trying to remake our memorials today?” On the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, we start our day bringing your attention to a question by a Fox News […]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill on July 27. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is considering whether to run for reelection or retire, he said Monday, drawing fresh attention to a dilemma with far-reaching implications for his party. Corker is an influential Republican who […]

A person walks through the flooded streets of a trailer park in Key Largo, Fla., in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma on Sept. 11. (Wilfredo Lee/AP) With Hurricane Irma pounding Florida with historic intensity and Hurricane Harvey leaving unprecedented levels of flooding in parts of Texas, Congress is back in session — and, coincidentally, looking at […]

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in a moment of silence in remembrance of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001, at the White House on Sept. 11, 2017. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) It struck me the other day that at some point I would have to explain the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, […]

Stephen K. Bannon — President Trump’s former chief strategist who left the White House in August — declared war Sunday against the Republican congressional leadership, called on Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, to resign, and outlined his views on issues ranging from immigration to trade. Bannon, in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” accused […]Read More

Republicans who dared to cut deals with Democrats have long had to fear retribution from conservative activists like Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government. He had railed against a 2015 debt-ceiling compromise as “absurd,” and as recently as March called for President Trump to use the vote to “create real reforms” to cut […]