Rep. John Ratcliffe (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) A leading Republican investigator put former special counsel Robert Mueller in the hot seat Wednesday for the obstruction of justice aspect of his sweeping Russia investigation. In a fiery five-minute session, Rep. John Ratcliffe said Mueller’s repeated insistence both in his report and in public that […]

President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 re-election, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity. It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: Traditionally, a presidential re-election committee has worked in tandem with the national […]