“Look, I hate to do it, but I will do it, I would give myself an A plus,” he told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?”
President Trump said Sunday he's considering making a change to as many as five Cabinet positions amid speculation that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen and White House chief of staff John Kelly could depart imminently.
President Trump said Sunday he doesn't want to listen to an audio recording that purportedly depicts the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi because it's "a suffering tape."
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) Sunday pushed back against claims by a foreign policy adviser to former President Obama that President Trump may have knowingly covered up the Saudi crown prince's involvement in the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), the likely next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Democrats will challenge the appointment of new acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring legislation that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller up for a vote.
"Let’s start 2019 on a positive note," Graham said. "I’m urging Sen. McConnell to bring the bill to the floor of the Senate. It would get 80 votes. Mr. President, pick up the phone and push the Republican leadership."
Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that he doesn't think he will run for president in 2020, but added that he believes somebody from the GOP needs to challenge President Trump.
"I think we’ll see the same trends as we’ve seen elsewhere. ... You cannot run as someone who is just tied at the hip with the president and win statewide."
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Sunday that he has "no real timetable" for deciding whether to run for president in 2020, but argued the core message that won him re-election to the Senate could resonate with voters on a national level.
A panel of five Democratic women recently elected to the House was split Sunday on whether or not they would support Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in her run for Speaker.
Democrat Stacey Abrams on Sunday called Georgia's gubernatorial election "tainted," saying that Gov.-elect Brian Kemp (R) deliberately interfered in the election en route to defeating her by a narrow margin.
Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka took aim at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and progressive members of the Democratic Party in a new interview, asserting that former President John F. Kennedy would be welcome in the modern-day incarnation of his party.
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Sunday he believes the science surrounding the deadly wildfires that have ravaged California in recent years will become so evident that climate skeptics will become believers in the less than five years.
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