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"So long as I can go home every single day and look to myself in the mirror and say 'you did what you thought was right and you did not compromise people and their well being along the way," Ocasio-Cortez said. "That's all I care about."

Some of the special counsel's investigators spoke out because they feared that Attorney General William Barr's version of the Mueller report's findings would harden public perception before the full report was released.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) told reporters that Mazars USA LLP have confirmed they will release the tax returns if they are issued a friendly "subpoena." "We'll get them a subpoena," Cummings said.

"@realDonaldTrump does not do as well with illegal immigrants which is why the Democrats want them so badly," Trump Jr. tweeted.

Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) says he is expecting to be briefed by Secret Services on Mar-a-Lago security on Thursday.

Matt Gaetz, the Florida GOP congressman who unveiled the Green Real Deal, classified his climate change resolution as a "love letter to the American innovator" and a "real, serious plan to address climate change."

"I was gonna call him," President Donald Trump said. "I don't know him well, but I was gonna say, 'Welcome to the world, Joe. You having a good time, Joe?'"

The South Bend mayor went for a run and got to his office early Monday before getting approached by the couple, who had a baby girl not long after saying their vows.

"It doesn't matter if your intention is sexual or just friendly, you can't massage a woman's shoulders and sniff her hair and kiss the back of her head. That's not appropriate," Tapper said.

The security clearances had originally been denied for reasons that included drug use and criminal conduct, foreign influence and conflicts of interest, but the administration still granted them, a White House official said.

"That's not even a question, of course I would support Biden," Lucy Flores said, though the former Nevada lawmaker said she would not vote for the former vice president in a Democratic primary.

The former vice president was accused of inappropriately touching a Connecticut woman just days after the same allegations from a Nevada woman.

Another four years of Trump could doom the Republican Party for good, says former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake.

The Senate neither held hearings nor took a vote on the Obama Supreme Court nominee, who was nominated nine months prior to the 2016 elections.

A majority of Americans are either enthusiastic or comfortable with a gay presidential candidate, marking a massive swing in favorability since 2006.

"Not once—never—did I believe I acted inappropriately," Biden said in a new statement on Sunday.

Only 39 percent of Americans have deeply engaged with Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, according to a recent poll.

"If you know President Trump...there is no way he sat down with the Russians and came up with a plan and followed it," South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said.

The president said Eddie Gallagher would be moved to less restrictive confinement "quickly."

President Donald Trump took time during his campaign rally Thursday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to dispute the asylum claims from immigrants who are trying to enter the United States.

Although special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation has ended, President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign remain at the center of five other probes from House Democrats, and one from the Senate Intelligence Committee.

"I'll tell you this about Russia — if they had anything on me, it would have come out a long time ago. Probably a long time before I ran because they would have been better off, much better off. I hope we really get along well with them but they would have been much better off with Hillary Clinton as president," Trump told Sean Hannity on Wednesday.

"The investigation had to happen. It would have been irresponsible not to investigate," Comey said. "And we don't investigate, despite what the partisans say, to find a particular result. We investigate to find out what's true, and as best I can tell, it looks like Bob Mueller was allowed to do that, and that's a great thing."

"You're not offended about me and McCain, you're trying to use me to get to Trump. I'm not playing that game," Graham said.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 presidential candidate, told Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show" that she pledged to run a "grassroots" campaign by connecting with people instead of big money.

House Democratic lawmakers say the abbreviated summary from Attorney General William Barr doesn't adequately answer their questions about Russian activity and the "president's conduct."

Donald Trump Jr. said it "has been hard to watch" Democrats and the media attack his father, and that both worked to create "a narrative that they want to be true because they couldn't explain the outcome of the last election."

"The truth is NOT in what they SAY. We are being railroaded, people. That is all," former Florida Democratic candidate Pam Keith tweeted.

"Mueller Madness! Which of the angry and hysterical @realDonaldTrump haters got it most embarrassingly wrong? #YouDecide," Sanders wrote on Twitter before sharing a Mueller Madness bracket created by the New York Post to determine the media member who got the Mueller report the "most wrong."

"The issuance of these definitive findings comes after two years of Democrat leaders and others lying to the American people by vigorously and repeatedly claiming there was evidence of collusion. They made many of these false claims, without evidence, on your airwaves," the letter reads in part.