Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday argued that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) warrants to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page were justified.
"If the dossier is the reason you issued the warrant, it was a bunch of garbage," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said. "The dossier has proven to be a bunch of garbage."
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) tore into the Justice Department on Sunday for failing to disclose in a clandestine surveillance warrant application that a controversial opposition research dossier detailing salacious allegations against President Trump was funded in part by political opponents.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Sunday criticized President Trump's handling of a closely watched summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the U.S. leader "missed a good opportunity" to stand up to Moscow.
"I certainly think he’s acting like someone who’s compromised, and it may very well be that he is compromised or it may very well be that he believes that he’s compromised, that the Russians have information on him."
Former Obama administration official Susan Rice said Sunday that President Trump's rhetoric and actions toward Russia raise questions about his motivations, particularly in the wake of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“You can speak to adversaries, but at the end of the day, you have to do it in a way in which you challenge them," Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said on Sunday. "The president seems to want to be chummy with Putin instead of challenging him.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Sunday that he President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not a good moment," but said he has no issue with the two men meeting again later this year.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hit President Trump for appearing to change his stance on issues like Russia, saying it’s "hard to comment on anything that Trump says because he could change his mind tomorrow."
"It's so personal. So unbecoming of a president of the United States to engage in that ... it shows fear or something, I don't know," the former secretary of State said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) advised first-time House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday to keep doing what she's doing, praising her grassroots campaign that led to her victory over long-time incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (R-N.Y.) last month.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said Sunday he has no intention of challenging House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for party leadership, but reiterated his calls for a fresh direction for the Democratic Party.
The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to curb legal immigration, taking a series of actions in recent weeks that could lead to deportation for people already granted citizenship.
President Trump's performance this past week aside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki sparked outrage among congressional Democrats in all ways but one: There's been no surge in support for impeachment.
Instead, Democratic leaders have tamped down the impeachment push in the name of political pragmatism, fending off — for now — an effort by animated caucus liberals to escalate their oust-Trump campaign following his broadly maligned joint press conference with Putin in the Finnish capital on Monday.
