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In an evening filled with surprises and theatrics, President Donald Trump awarded conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh — who recently revealed his advanced lung cancer diagnosis — with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in the middle of in his third annual State of the Union address Tuesday night.

“Rush Limbaugh, thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our country,” said Trump to applause. “And Rush, in recognition of all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people a day that you speak to and that you inspire and all of the incredible work that you have done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”

Trump then paused to ask First Lady Melania Trump present Limbaugh with the medal. According to a Politico report earlier in the day, Trump had...

Former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro announced Monday that he is endorsing Elizabeth Warren in the race he pulled out of just days ago.

Though 15 Democrats have already dropped out of the 2020 primary, Castro, the most recent to do so, is one of only two to have formally endorsed another candidate to land the nomination. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) endorsed former vice president Joe Biden in November. But Castro’s announcement Monday morning was more than a simple vote of confidence. He starred in a fresh campaign video for Warren centered around his endorsement,...

Update: Several San Francisco 49ers players have come to radio analyst Tim Ryan’s defense in the wake of insensitive racial remarks that earned him a one-game suspension.

Ryan, who normally provides color on 49ers broadcasts, was suspended for remarks that alluded to Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s skin color providing an edge during play fakes.

Cornerback Richard Sherman, an African American, was one of those who spoke up for Ryan. While noting that Ryan made a poor choice of words, Sherman said he made a good point about the challenges of playing against Jackson.

Sherman said Ryan apologized to individuals at the 49ers team hotel.

“I know Tim personally, and I listened to the dialogue and saw it written, and honestly I wasn’t as outraged as everybody else,” Sherman said. “I understand how it can be taken under a certain context and be offensive to some. But if you’re saying,...

For the first time since Nancy Pelosi launched the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, the top 12 Democratic primary candidates will take part in a debate. This marks the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 campaign season.

The event is co-hosted by CNN and the New York Times and will be held at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio where it will air at 8 p.m. Est on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español while streaming exclusively on of the homepages of CNN and the New York Times. The debate will be moderated by CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper along with New York Times national editor Marc Lacey.

Frontrunners Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, former vice president Joe Biden and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren will be joined by the nine other potential Democratic candidates: New Jersey senator Cory Booker, mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg, former housing and urban development secretary Julián Castro,...

Maybe you thought that as time went on, the Democratic Party debates would become less chaotic, and easier to follow.

Fooled you! Chapter four in the series of Democratic Party debates begins tonight in Westerville, Ohio, on the Otterbein University campus, and instead of ten candidates onstage, which has been the format to date, we will now have twelve. The list includes Joe Biden, Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren.

The...

When CNN telecasts the next Democratic presidential debate in October, 10 or more candidates are likely to qualify and make it to the stage. But based the Democratic National Committee’s new qualifying criteria announced Monday, it’s the November debate that is very likely to feature a pared down set of contenders.

That’s because the DNC’s new threshold will be difficult for many of the candidates to meet.

Roughly speaking, candidates will need to show that they’ve garnered contributions from 165,000 unique donors and that they have reached 3% in four polls. That compares to the previous threshold — 130,000 individual donors and 2% in four qualifying polls.

Candidates also can qualify for the November event by meeting the donor requirement and by reaching 5% or more support in two single-state polls in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada.

The DNC’s new criteria stands to make for a slimmer group on the debate stage,...

The first rule of the third Democratic Party presidential debate probably should be, “Don’t watch.” The Democratic National Committee has been so imperious and annoying with its rules, excluding a host of candidates who are clearly (or at least arguably) outperforming some of the participants in tonight’s debate, that it feels wrong to reward these arbitrary rulemakers with an audience.

Don’t be surprised if one or more of Marianne Williamson, Tulsi Gabbard, Steve Bullock, Tom Steyer, or even Michael Bennet or Tim Ryan gets a spite-bounce in...

America had the greatest orator in modern presidential history working in the Oval Office for eight years, and millions of white people spent virtually all that time getting angrier. Violent right-wing extremism is bursting the nation at the seams, and has for generations now. We didn’t need last weekend’s twin mass shootings to know that dangerous rhetoric can end lives. The question for politicians, in the immediate aftermath, has been what words to use to try to save them. Or, perhaps, just to get elected.

Just after noon Pacific time on Monday,...

Clarification: This post has been updated to make clear Ryan is temporarily stepping away from campaigning but plans to return to it soon.

Fed up Ohio Congressman and presidential candidate Tim Ryan blasted Republicans for doing nothing about gun control, telling MSNBC on Sunday, “Republicans need to, quite frankly, get their shit together and stop pandering to the NRA because people are getting killed.”

Rep. Tim Ryan on gun control legislation: "Republicans need to, quite frankly, get their shit together and stop pandering to the NRA because people are getting killed.

Stephen Colbert needled President Donald Trump after he refused to say whether or not he would stop the crowd at his next rally from chanting “Send her back” on The Late Show Thursday.

Thursday night, Trump gave a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio — “For once chili on spaghetti was not the most disgusting thing in town,” Colbert cracked — which marked his first since his audience started chanting “Send her back” about Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. As CBS reported Friday morning, the chant did not pop up at the Cincinnati event, though...

The second night of CNN’s Democratic presidential debates averaged 10.722 million total viewers, 3.031 million of which were adults aged 25-54, which was a 23% increase over the previous night, which had 8.7 million viewers.

The digital stream also had 3.1 million live starts, according to the network.

The second night, which took place in Detroit, just like the first, included protesters and heated debate between the presidential candidates. In total, 10 candidates debated one another. Sen. Michael Bennet, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former Hud secretary Julián Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Gov. Jay Inslee, and Mayor Bill de Blasio were all on stage.

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The previous night, ten others debated: Gov. Steve Bullock, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Rep. John Delaney, former Gov. John Hickenlooper, Sen. Amy Klobuchar,...

The top 20 Democratic presidential candidates will face off once again in a two-day, televised debate hosted by CNN this week.

Filmed live at the Fox Theater in Detroit, the debates will take place on Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31, beginning at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et each night. CNN’s Dana Bash, Don Lemon, and Jake Tapper will moderate both evenings.

How to watch

The debates will air on CNN and CNN en Español and can be streamed online for free via CNN.com or CNN’s app.

Who’s debating?

Tonight’s debate will include 10 candidates: Michael Bennet, Kirsten Gillibrand, Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, and Bill de Blasio.

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Last night’s debate featured Marianne Williamson; Tim Ryan; Amy Klobuchar; Pete Buttigieg; Bernie Sanders; Elizabeth Warren; Beto...

Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, which turned into an everyone versus Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren scrap, drew around 8.7 million viewers for CNN, according to Nielsen preliminary figures.

That represents a substantial 43% decrease on NBC’s first debate which aired to 15.3 million viewers on June 26. However, it’s worth noting the previous debate also aired on MSNBC and Telemundo. The second NBC debate on June 27 was watched by nearly 18.1 million viewers, a tally which it seems unlikely the second round on CNN will overtake. The figure for last night’s debate, which sits at around 2.4 million viewers in the 25-54 demographic, is likely to change as more accurate measurements come in later in the day.

None of the debates so far in this cycle have come near to the 24 million figure posted by Donald Trump’s first debate on Fox News in August of 2015. However, the feisty affair on June...

As the second Democratic debate kicked off Tuesday in Detroit, late-night host Seth Meyers evaluated the evening takeaways during a live episode of Late Night.

Prominent Democratic candidates participating in the first night included Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, South Bend mayor and former military officer Pete Buttigieg, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke.

Additional candidates were author and activist Marianne Williamson; U.S. Representative from Ohio Tim Ryan; Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper; Maryland politician John Delaney; and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock.

The event was moderated by CNN's Dana Bash, Don ...

Even though CNN split the Democratic presidential candidates into two halves for its latest televised debates, processing all the platforms and campaign promises on night one was exhausting. Enter Stephen Colbert, who gleefully mocked the political chaos in his live post-debate Late Show monologue on Wednesday. The host generated punchlines from the evening’s most talked-about moments — from lesser-known candidates taking aim at frontrunners Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to Marianne Williamson lamenting President Trump’s “dark psychic force.”

“It’s hard to sum up what happened tonight,” Colbert noted early on.

Ten Democratic presidential contenders took the stage at the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit for the first night of the second round of the 2020 primary debates — and churned out a memorable, marathon debate.

The contest had offered the prospect of a faceoff between progressive champions Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But instead of fighting, the two candidates with transformative plans for America stuck together, defending their bold agendas against the slings and arrows of can’t-do moderates, particularly former congressman John Delaney and ex-Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.

The night featured...

At the Democratic primary debate on Tuesday, Marianne Williamson had a blunt response when asked to explain the $500 million she argues should be paid as reparations to the descendants of slaves: “Anything less than $100 billion is an insult.”

Asked by moderator Don Lemon why she says $500 billion was an appropriate amount, Williamson said “It’s $200 to $500 billion dollars payment of a debt that is owed. That is what reparations is.”

“It is time for us to simply realize that … when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with,” she continued. Then, referencing “40 acres and a mule,” Williamson added, “If you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars, and I believe that anything less than $100 billion is an insult.” Watch the clip above.

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Elizabeth Warren scored one of the most talked-about moments during Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, when she essentially asked former Maryland congressman John Delaney why he’s even bothering to run for president.

During the night, Delaney frequently criticized policies advanced by Warren, calling ideas like Medicare for All “impossible promises” and “more free stuff.” He later said that Democrats need “real solutions, not impossible promises” to win, and called Warren’s policy positions “fairy tale economics.”

Asked for a response by moderator Jake Tapper, Warren said: “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for,” she said. “I don’t get it.” The line was met with some of the biggest applause of the night.

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The first night of the Democrats’ second round of presidential debates of the 2020 election cycle was billed as a matchup between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and the two contenders did not disappoint on the CNN-hosted huddle as they faced The Bachelorette season finale on ABC.

In tone and temperament, the two pageants were similar tonight in their search for love and ratings — intentionally or not. Coming in hot and fiery from the start on their mutual policy of “Medicare for All” and railing against the rich and a “corrupt, rigged system,” to quote the Massachusetts senator, the two progressive parental figures went straight for the heart and soul of their party. It was a dash that might leave Joe Biden and Donald Trump as the real winners of tonight’s near-endless debate, in no small part thanks to ex-Today producer Jeff Zucker.

Emphasizing style over structure and in...

Looking ahead as the calendar turns to August, this coming weekend will be the last big one of the summer box office season. “The Lion King,” now a freshly-minted $1 billion hit, will continue to be a presence, “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” enters a crucial second weekend and Universal sends in its summer tentpole, “Hobbs & Shaw.”

“Hobbs & Shaw” isn’t looking like it will make “Jurassic World” numbers… at least domestically. The “Fast & Furious” spinoff is projected to see an opening in the low $60 million range, with Universal estimating a $57-60 million domestic launch. By comparison, 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” opened to $98.7 million.

But over the last eight years, starting with “Fast Five,” the “Fast & Furious” series has taken more and more of its success from overseas. For “Fate of the Furious,” which made over $1 billion, only 18.3% of its total grosses came from domestic moviegoers.

Health care spending makes up somewhere around a fifth of the U.S. economy. It affects every American, and is a life-or-death issue for millions of them every year. And here in the United States, where we spend more on care but die younger than in comparable countries, it’s a mess.

So let us know how you’d fix it in 15 seconds.

That was the proposition CNN made to Democratic candidates on Tuesday night. Believe it or not, it didn’t go well.

Moderator Jake Tapper initially framed the...

The Democratic presidential race kicked off Round 2 on Tuesday night, as half of the 20 candidates currently in the mix debated live on CNN, for nearly three hours.

CNN’s Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Don Lemon cracked the whip loudly and often during the proceedings, earning some admonishment on social media for continually cutting off respondents just as they were getting to the meat of their answer.

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Among the night’s notable...

Sen. Bernie Sanders had strong words for Tim Ryan on Tuesday after the Ohio congressman claimed that Sanders couldn’t know whether Union members would get better health care coverage under Medicare For All than from their union plan.

During Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate, Sanders said his Medicare for all plan would provide comprehensive coverage — particularly “dental care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses” for senior citizens. Ryan interrupted, saying “but you don’t know that. You don’t know that, Bernie.”

“I do know,” Sanders snapped back. “I wrote the damn bill.”

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The Vermont senator continued by saying that rather than putting money into health care, union members’ companies could instead direct that funding toward raising wages for workers.

Moments after Sanders’s line, stickers brandishing the line were being sold on the candidate’s Twitter account.

With immigration and Donald Trump’s race-baiting grabbing headlines across the country, both were bound to surface early tonight during the start of the second round of Democratic debates. And the first candidate onstage to accuse the sitting president of racism was one who is quite familiar with these televised face-offs.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont broke that Ice. “What Trump is doing through his racism and his xenophobia is demonizing a group of people, and as president, I will end that demonization,” the 2016 campaign alum said. “If a mother and child walk thousands of miles on a dangerous path, in my view they are not criminals, they are people fleeing violence.”

Sanders added, “What we will do the first week in the White House is bring the entire hemisphere together to talk about how we rebuild Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador so people do not have to flee their own countries.

As the second round of Democratic debates began Tuesday in Detroit, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah went live, offering political and social commentary on the night’s biggest moments.

Prominent candidates taking the debate stage on Tuesday included Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; South Bend mayor and former military officer Pete Buttigieg; Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders; former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke. Author and activist Marianne Williamson; U.S. Representative from Ohio Tim Ryan; Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper; Maryland politician John Delaney; and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock rounded out the debate.

Moderators for the ...

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are set to face off once again. This time they’ll be meeting at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.

CNN is airing round two of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned debates. With the still crowded field of candidates, the match-ups will take place over two nights — Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31.

Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper will serve together as moderators, with the debates airing live from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Et on both nights.

For those who don’t have cable, CNN says the debates will stream live, without requiring a log-in to a cable provider, on CNN.com, CNN’s apps for iOS and Android and via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, and Android TV.

Fox News and MSNBC will also be offering extensive pre- and post-debate coverage.

The 20 Democratic candidates have been split into two groups, just...

No witch hunt, no Russia hoax, no press leaks from his office and, seemingly more often than not, no comment: Those were among the highlights of this afternoon’s Robert Mueller testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.

Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee this morning focusing on the topic of obstruction of justice; this afternoon’s hearing before Intelligence focused on Russia collusion.

Declining or deferring answers to his report more than 200 times today (by CNN’s count), Mueller wouldn’t be baited by Congressional Republicans into discussing Fusion Gps or the Steele Dossier, but the 74-year-old Mueller was blunt in rejecting President Donald Trump’s catch-phrase description of the his investigation as a witch hunt or Russia’s interference in the election that got Trump elected as a hoax.

Here’s what Mueller told Rep. Will Hurd about Russian interference: “It wasn’t a single attempt. They’re...

Donald Trump may think ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is a “little wise guy,” but NBC, the DNC and Lady Luck have denied Sen. Elizabeth Warren a chance to take on the big boys in the first debates among Democrats who want the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host’s job.

After a random draw at 30 Rock today with party and candidate officials in attendance, the June 26 and June 27 tussles will see the Massachusetts senator and third-highest-ranking Dem in the 2020 race relegated to sharing the stage with the minuscule polling likes of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and former Hud Secretary Julian Castro.

The debates are set to air live from Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and in translation on Telemundo

More than six months before the first actual primary season voting starts with the February 3 Iowa caucus, ex-vp Joe Biden leads the field of 20-plus candidates with 2016 election alum Sen. Bernie...

The first Democratic primary debates for the 2020 presidential election will be held later this month in Miami across two nights, and aired on NBC, and now we know which of the (many) candidates will be sharing a stage with whom.

Per the New York Times, the 10-person lineup for Wednesday, June 26, includes Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar. Then on Thursday, June 27, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders will be among the debaters.

The debates will be moderated by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

The field is set for the first two Democratic debates of the presidential election cycle: Call them the 20 for 2020.

Here are the candidates set appear on the stages of the dual debates NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo on July 26 and 27 in Miami, in alphabetical order:

Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado

Former Vice President Joe Biden

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey

South Bend, In, Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York

Sen. Kamala Harris of California

Former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas

Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont

Rep. Eric Swalwell of California

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

Author-activist Marianne Williamson

Entrepreneur-philanthropist Andrew Yang...

When former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, now a 2020 candidate, bounded up onto a platform inside Trinkle Hall on the campus of William and Mary College in Virginia in mid-April, he may not have known he was bounding into a carefully planned ambush. Scattered throughout the audience, student activists were engaged in a coordinated, and ultimately successful, campaign to force the congressman to swear off donations from the fossil fuel industry.

The Sunday before O’Rourke’s planned visit to campus, activists involved with the local chapter of Sunrise Movement,...

Rep. Tim Ryan is pushing a new approach to educating America's kids, and it's not just about making them smarter ... it's about avoiding deadly school shootings. The Democratic candidate for President was on "TMZ Live" Monday, and told us he wants to become the education Prez -- and job 1, for him, would be teaching students socially And emotionally. Congressman Ryan calls the program Self -- social and emotional learning for families -- and he explained...

Washington — Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) announced on ABC’s “The View” Thursday that he is running for president in 2020, adding to a growing list of contenders seeking the Democratic nomination.

In an interview on the show, Ryan said he was a candidate who could “not only advance a progressive agenda but also win. I can win western Pennsylvania. I can win Ohio. I can win Michigan. I can win Wisconsin, and that means Donald Trump is going back to Mar-a-Lago full time.”

He is the first politician to announce a presidential bid on t”The View,” speaking to the power of the daytime talk show as a campaign stop.

Ryan is regarded as a centrist in a field that so far emphasized an emerging agenda of progressive goals, including a “green New Deal” and Medicare-for-all.

“We can’t just ask people to pay more in taxes and dump them into these old systems,...

A day after a televised confrontation with President Trump underscored why she’s the only woman for the job, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-ca) appears to be a lock to return as the Speaker of the House in January.

Many of the leaders of an insurgency to deny her the gavel reversed their position Wednesday, citing an agreement for the House to vote on term limits for top Democratic leadership.

The agreement could spur turnover among senior party positions. The rule to be voted on creates a three-term (six-year) limit for top House leaders,...

Nancy Pelosi appears to be safe. The Democrats opposing her bid to resume her role as Speaker of the House — specifically Reps. Tim Ryan (D-oh) and Seth Moulton (D-ma) — keep stepping on rakes. Everyone from freshman member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to former president Barack Obama have given Pelosi their full-throated endorsement. Yes, 16 Democrats signed a letter earlier this week rebuking her, but 16 donors published one of their own that implied they would suddenly become awfully frugal were Pelosi replaced as leader.

But the most significant indicator that this may be over...

A record 102 women were elected to the House of Representatives this cycle — close to half of them women of color — and Democrats made massive gains, many in close elections that were decided by female voters. 2018 is, indisputably, the year of the woman — you just wouldn’t know it by looking at the Democratic House leadership where the lone woman, Nancy Pelosi, is fending off calls to pass the torch to a younger generation while the men she’s groomed or installed around her — Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, Ben Ray Luján...

There’s an insurrection brewing in the House of Pelosi.

An intractable group on the Democratic Party’s center flank is working to deny Nancy Pelosi the speaker’s gavel. The leaders of the block-Pelosi effort — which roughly mirrors the right-wing Freedom Caucus’ play to oust Republican Speaker John Boehner in 2015 — include Reps. Seth Moulton (D-ma), a 40-year-old former Marine officer, and Tim Ryan (D-oh) a 45-year-old former college quarterback who ran against Pelosi for the minority leader post in 2016 and lost badly, 134–63.

Their gambit is complex; here’s a...

The set of “Fox & Friends” weighed into what looks to be a nasty fight for leadership of the House Democratic majority, urging viewers and any Democratic Congressmen watching to stick with Nancy Pelosi — citing her long history of leading the caucus and resistance to Trump.

“Nancy Pelosi, whether you love her or hate her, she has helped deliver the House and kept everything together,” said show co-host Brian Kilmeade. “She has formulated a resistance. If you talk about effectiveness, you might say she’s effective.”

Kilmeade warned that it might even be dangerous to prevent the “historic revisiting of a female Speaker.”

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“In this era of #MeToo, is it time to oust what would be a historic revisiting of a female Speaker?” he said. “Is this the time for Democrats to have that type of optic, and...

On Wednesday morning, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon appeared to join those who have expressed varying degrees of interest in running against President Trump in 2020. “I think I could beat Trump,” Dimon said. “I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is. I would be fine. He could punch me all he wants, it wouldn’t work with me. I’d fight right back.” The billionaire threw in a dig about the millions of dollars Trump borrowed from his father to help spur his real estate empire.

Last year saw one of the biggest flubs in the history of the Oscars when the award for Best Picture was mistakenly announced as La La Land, even though the actual winner was Moonlight. It was a tremendously embarrassing mix-up for The Academy Awards and they're determined to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. As such, they've instituted some new rules to ensure that's the case. Here's what Tim Ryan of PwC, the company that partners with The Academy for the Oscars and handles the actual awards envelopes, had to say.

"One of the most disappointing things to me was all the great work that had been done, not only last year but over the last 83 years, around accuracy, confidentiality integrity of that process. And where we got it wrong was on the handing over of the envelope."

The biggest change being implemented, per Tim Ryan, is celebrity...

The accounting firm behind the Oscars ceremony has put new safeguards in place to help avoid another #envelopegate at this year’s ceremony.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Tim Ryan told The Associated Press that the company spent the past year developing new protocols and safeguards to prevent potential mishaps.

“One of the most disappointing things to me was all the great work that had been done, not only last year but over the last 83 years, around accuracy, confidentiality integrity of that process,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “And where we got it wrong was on the handing over of the envelope.