American politics

"Here's something I don't say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC. Indeed, I have long called for a LIFETIME BAN on former Members of Congress becoming lobbyists," Republican Senator Ted Cruz wrote.

Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson all lashed out at Robert Mueller during their respective Fox News shows on Wednesday after the special counsel spoke publicly for the first time since starting the Russia probe in 2017.

"We are not beyond holding in contempt, sanctioning or even using the Sergeant at Arms to bring someone in," Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) said.

"Republicans should be appalled at their casual disregard for the law, the Constitution and everything that makes America great," Chris Truax, a legal adviser for Republicans for the Rule of Law, said.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) on Tuesday called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a "so-called leader" and accused him of not having read special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

"You're in luck! I'll be bartending in NY-14 this week to promote a national living wage," she tweeted.

"I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil," the president tweeted.

"What people don't (maybe do) realize is when orgs air these hateful messages, my life changes because of the flood of death threats they inspire," Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

"Can you imagine if Barack Obama in 2011 had said 'oh, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran thinks Mitt Romney is low IQ and I'm totally with him,'" Al Jazeera presented Mehdi Hasan said on CNN.

"On behalf of the entire McCain family," she wrote, "Please be respectful to all of us."

"This is like my thing with Trump — we don't have to feel the same way, but we have the right to feel what we feel," West said.

Trump shared the video amid rising tensions between himself and the Speaker of the House after Pelosi said the president had a "temper tantrum" and canceled a meeting with top Democrats over an infrastructure deal.

Robert Mueller is a "man of great rectitude and apolitical, and he doesn't want to participate in anything that he might regard as a political spectacle," Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said.

"Lawmakers of both parties should not blindly follow the polls but instead follow the evidence and their conscience. Politics should not rule the day," former Rep. Tom Coleman wrote.

"The point of defending free speech is not that you expect to be perfectly aligned with every speech act that is protected," Buttigieg said.

The video, the origin of which remains unknown, has been slowed down to approximately 75 percent of its initial speed and the pitch of Pelosi's voice altered to appear more like her natural speaking tone

Former Vice President Joe Biden joins members of Congress and other 2020 presidential candidates who have vowed to codify Roe v. Wade through legislation.

"Some greasy Joe McCarthy wanna-be, who is shameless and will remain nameless, was lecturing me in the press about morality and civility after spending years in the Senate defending the rights of mass murderers to own AR-15s with which they massacre innocent children in their classrooms."

Can you "explain the disparity in REO rates. Do you know what an REO is?" Rep. Katie Porter (D-Cali.) asked Department of Housing and Urban Department (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson during a hearing on Tuesday. "An Oreo?" Carson responded.

Even as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler seemed to move toward impeachment, Pelosi and other party leaders remain against it.

Former Vice President Joe Biden surged ahead as the top pick for the Democratic party nomination with a 19-point lead over Sanders, the next-closest candidate.

"Forget Mayor Pete, maybe we should call him Pope Pete, because don't you love how he, you know, because he attends church we're supposed to treat him as the be-all and end-all moral authority or the arbiter of who is and who is not operating in good faith."

The comments were not the first time the president has suggested extending his constitutional term limits.

Senator Jerry Moran, In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, urged the Trump administration to resolve the China trade dispute that's "hurting" Kansas' farmers and ranchers.

"Best jobs market ever, great housing and financing. Go out there, work hard and have a GREAT life. You deserve it. Congratulations!," Trump tweeted to recent and future graduates of the Class of 2019.

Actor Paul Rudd impersonated Pete Buttigieg in a skit.

"As most people know, and for those who would like to know, I am strongly pro-life, with the three exceptions - rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother - the same position taken by Ronald Reagan," Trump wrote.

The reactions came hours after the Michigan congressman tweeted that he believes the Mueller report confirms President Donald Trump "engaged in impeachable conduct."

Former federal prosecutor Jack Weiss compared Michael Flynn's voicemail recording to Trump's "Access Hollywood" tape in 2016. "If we get a live tape, I think it'll be a big deal," he said.

"She was not suggesting that you know, the killing of the Jews was something that calmed her. She was saying the fact that the Palestinians suffered so much and gave up so much but at least the Jews had a homeland to go to in the wake of the horrible destruction committed by the Nazis," Rivera said.