This week, Republicans learned what the rest of us have known all along—President @realDonaldTrump is only loyal to himself (and Vladimir Putin).
As Trump got rolled by Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for the second time in as many weeks, conservatives saw their dream of a big, beautiful wall go up in smoke.
Suffice it to say, Trump's DACA deal (or no deal) was not well-received on the alt-right; to his most die-hard supporters, it was the ultimate betrayal.
Suddenly, talk of impeachment was no longer confined to the left side of the isle [sic]—it became a bipartisan rallying cry.
And, given the speed and intensity with which Robert Mueller's investigation appears to be closing in on Trump, it may soon become a reality.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR); Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I); Roundtable: TBA.
Face The Nation: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Documentary Filmmakers Ken Burns & Lynn Novick; Roundtable: Susan Page (USA Today), Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic), Jamelle Bouie & Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review).
This Week: UK Prime Minister Theresa May; National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster; Rep.Adam Schiff (D-CA); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Alex Castellanos, Former US Ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard, Republican Strategist Alice Stewart, Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation) & Jonathan Karl (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster; Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO); Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Roundtable: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R), Julie Pace (Associated Press), Guy Benson (Townhall.com) & Rachael Bade (Politico).
State of the Union: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Roundtable: Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Former Mchigan Gov. Jennifer Graholm (D), Republican Strategist David J. Urban & Republican Strategist Ana Navarro.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with author John le Carré (preview).
The Emmy Awards, hosted by Stephen Colbert, will air on CBS beginning at 8pm.
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Second Anniversary Special.
Tuesday: Hillary Clinton; Actress Emma Stone.
Wednesday: Actor Jeff Bridges; Actress Pamela Adlon; Singer-Songwriter Miguel.
Thursday: Actor Jim Parsons; Actress Tatiana Maslany; Rock Band The Killers.
Friday: Actor Bobby Moynihan.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Rapper Gucci Mane; Tuesday: Actress Olivia Munn; Wednesday: Attorney Ellen Pao; Thursday: Philanthropist Bill Gates.
Elsewhere...
Putin's favorite congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, blamed the violence in Charlottesville on left-wing Civil War re-enactors... or something.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says Democrats, not white supremacists, are to blame for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month.
"It's all baloney," Rohrabacher told the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about his 2018 reelection chances.
Rohrabacher, a Republican from Costa Mesa, told the Chronicle he believes a supporter of former presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders prompted the violence by arranging for Civil War reenactors to protect a Robert E. Lee statue at the center of the dispute between white supremacist protesters and counter-protesters.
"It was a setup for these dumb Civil War reenactors," Rohrabacher said. "It was left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation" and to "put our president on the spot."
Meanwhile...
Sen. Ted Cruz blamed a "staffing issue" for his Twitter account liking a porn clip.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) reiterated Wednesday that he was not the person who highlighted an explicit Twitter post that made the senator the target of viral mockery online.
"It was not me, and it's not going to happen again," Cruz said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash.
The Texas senator woke up Tuesday to find his name trending on Twitter—linked overnight to a certain explicit video, perhaps unfairly, perhaps irrevocably.
The video clip itself is just over two minutes, details of its contents mostly unprintable. It features a sectional sofa, the pornographic actress Cory Chase, her fictitious nude stepdaughter, and a very energetic young man.
And, in other news...
Due to a sourcing issue, former Sheriff David Clarke must rework his Master's thesis or lose his degree.
Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke (D) is now required to rework his master's thesis or risk losing his degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, CNN reported on Friday.
Documents provided to CNN under the Freedom of Information Act revealed the Monterrey, Calif., school has given Clarke, who now works for a pro-President Trump political group, until Oct. 23 to revise parts of his thesis, "Making U.S. security and privacy rights compatible," after accusations of plagiarism.
Clarke had reportedly borrowed language from several sources in his 2013 master's thesis, citing the sources in footnotes but not showing through quotations instances in which they were quoted verbatim.
The former sheriff denied all the allegations after CNN's original report in May, claiming that the reporting team had a "political agenda."
Class dismissed.
– Trix