Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax calls on the FBI to open a probe into the sexual assault allegations against him.In a statement on Saturday, Fairfax said his encounters with two women who have accused him of sexual assault were consensual.
Virginia’s embattled Democrat governor offers a new explanation for why he believes neither of the men pictured in a recently uncovered racist yearbook photo could be him. According to staffers from Ralph Northam’s office, the governor began having doubts about the photo when he realized the men were holding beers in their right hand.
A freshman Democrat representative is again coming under fire, after appearing to support a group of potential ISIS terrorists. Reports on Saturdays said, Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar asked a judge in 2016, to show leniency toward nine men charged with planning to join ISIS. The men had been taken into custody in 2015, in a plot to buy fake passports and travel to Syria to join the Islamic state.
Senator Lindsey Graham says President Trump is “not going to give in” on the shutdown fight over border security funding.During an interview Sunday, Graham said the President should open the government for a short period of time before he pulls the plug on solving the funding issue through Congress.
President Trump blasts the New York Times following their recent report that the FBI investigated if he was working on behalf of Russia.In a phone interview Saturday night, the President was asked if he ever worked for Russia after the Times reported the FBI started the probe following the firing of James Comey.
Another migrant caravan is reportedly forming in Honduras. The caravan’s organizers plan to leave for the U.S. sometime next week, and they are using social media as a way to spread the word. Mexico is already sending hundreds of additional law enforcement agents to its southern border, in anticipation of the caravan.