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Seth Meyers popped President Donald Trump’s tough-on-crime balloon in Wednesday’s Late Night Closer Look. The president is now all in on backing an accused sexual predator running for the senate in Alabama, and offers sympathy for Michael Flynn, a former top aide who lied to the FBI, “making clear what Trump means when he says he’s tough on crime,” Meyers observed. During his campaign, Trump liked to use Richard Nixon’s “law and order" gag. And he routinely lied about…...

In the world of late-night television, 2017's biggest media story was the fact that, after initial stumbles – and even rumors that he might get replaced – Stephen Colbert's much-hyped Late Show overtook Jimmy Fallon's seemingly invincible Tonight Show in the ratings. (NBC's boyish, game-loving host still has the advantage in the much-coveted 18-to-49 demo, but that lead keeps shrinking.) There were many reasons to cheer this news. From his time on The Daily Show to hosting The Colbert Report, Colbert has proved to be one of the best, most...

Here’s a spoof song that likely won’t make it onto President Trump’s holiday playlist.

The gifts mentioned in the classic 1909 holiday tune “The Twelve Days of Christmas” are a little dated (10 lords a-leaping? That is so last century) so Stephen Colbert took the liberty of sprucing up the song to make it more relevant to 2017.

In the Late Show‘s reimagining, the 12-day celebration focuses on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Kicking off the song — and replacing the famous “partridge in a pear tree” — is “a Michael Flynn guilty plea,...

Now we know for sure which way madness lies: Molly Shannon is set to bring the cray-cray back to Will & Grace as wackadoodle Val Bassett, and TVLine has an exclusive first look at Jack’s onetime stalker in (fatal attr)action.

As you can see from the image — a throwback, perhaps, to the character’s introduction to Will during a Season 1 elevator ride — Grace’s rival has not gone sane, so to speak, since her last appearance in Season 7. Or at least Karen and Jack don’t seem to think that she has, given the distance they’re keeping from her. The hitcom’s co-creators, Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, say that “2018 promises to be a year marked by unmoored insanity, and it’s in that spirit we’ve asked the divine Molly Shannon to be part of the second half of our first season back.”...

Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert found the holiday spirit in the latest results of Robert Mueller's investigation into collusion between Russia and President Trump's administration. On Friday, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's inquiry.

On The Tonight Show, Fallon resurrected his spot-on Bruce Springsteen impression – donning Aviator sunglasses, a red bandana, sleeveless denim and one earring – and adapted the words of Springsteen's rendition of "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town.

Jimmy Fallon tends not to get political on “The Tonight Show,” but on Monday night’s episode he unveiled an impression of Bruce Springsteen that celebrated Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Trump administration. Also Read: Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty of Lying to FBI, to Cooperate With Robert Mueller's Probe Wearing the classic Bruce uniform of cutoff denim shirt and red headband, Fallon performed a parody of The Boss’ iconic cover of “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” called “Robert Mueller’s Comin’ to Town.” Stand out lyrics include “he’s making a list/naughty and nice/he’s...

Get ready to hear lots of Alec Baldwin talking. (And not in that Donald Trump voice.)

The Emmy-winning actor is nearing a deal to host a talk show for ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The untitled show would be based on Baldwin’s Wnyc radio show and podcast “Here’s the Thing With Alec Baldwin,” where he interviews celebrities and newsmakers like Barbra Streisand and Bernie Sanders.

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The deal for the ABC talk show isn’t officially done yet, but production is slated to get underway next week.

Donald Trump says it’s a “shame” that his former national security advisor Michael Flynn‘s life is ruined after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

“I feel badly for Gen. Flynn. I feel very badly,” the president told reporters outside the White House on Monday morning. “He’s led a very strong life, and I feel very badly. I will say this, Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI and nothing happened to her. Flynn lied, and they destroyed his life. I think it’s a shame.”

Trump continued: “Flynn lied, and it’s like — it ruined his life.

President Donald Trump's outside lawyer wants you to know that Trump cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice, because he’s Potus. John Dowd is still doing damage control after Trump’s Twitter account announced Saturday that Potus knew his former national security advisor Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI when he was fired. “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI,” “@realDonaldTrump tweeted. “He has pled guilty to those lies. It’s…...

Middle acolytes, remember when Frankie was bad at her job? And Sue was bad at everything? And Brick whispered random words?

Actually, come to think of it, not much has changed in the eight years since we first touched down in Orson, Ind. and became acquainted with the Heck family.

Ahead of Tuesday’s milestone 200th episode (ABC, 8/7c), TVLine is looking back at the show’s pilot, which originally aired Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, launching alongside Modern Family, Cougar Town and — oof! — Kelsey Grammer’s Hank.

So join us as we look back at Frankie’s less-than-Super joyride, Sue’s short-lived...

ABC News has suspended Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross for four weeks following a misleading message he delivered about the news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III had secured a guilty plea from Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI

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2017-12-03T08:48:09-08:00Jimmy Kimmel Compares Trump to 'Star Wars' Villain

The cast of Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi was on hand to help Jimmy Kimmel explain the week's developments in the Trump Russia scandal using a Star Wars analogy. It's kinda complicated, but in shirt, Kimmel compared former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to Darth Vader and Trump to Emperor Palpatine. You'll have to watch the clip to sort out the rest of it.

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Because Friday was Star Wars night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel decided to use a Darth Vader analogy to illustrate the relationship between President Donald Trump and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Opening his show on the "bigly" story of the day, and perhaps the year, Kimmel summarized how Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI...

Saturday Night Live opened with A Christmas Carol spoof where the ghosts of Donald Trump's past haunted the president played by Alec Baldwin.

The sketch began in the White House during a Christmas celebration, but Trump is too unnerved by Michael Flynn's guilty plea to attend. "I want you to withdraw $5 million from my bank account and put it in a duffle bag with my passport, a fake mustache and a bucket of chicken," Trump told his advisor Kellyanne Conway, played by Kate McKinnon.

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Last week's political news cycle reached a fever pitch on Friday after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty

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Last week's political news cycle reached a fever pitch on Friday after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and Republican Senators passed their controversial tax reform bill. But Saturday Night Live has become adept at dealing with these end-of-week news dumps, so SNL's cold open for

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Did the luck of the Irish rub off on Saturday Night Live?

Ireland native Saoirse Ronan made her hosting debut this weekend in one of the better episodes of the still-young season, where she was joined by her fellow Irishmen U2. The two-time Oscar nominee, who is currently promoting the acclaimed indie film Lady Bird, even joked that she was hosting the St. Patrick’s Day episode of SNL — albeit a few months early.

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The show’s strongest Trump-centric cold open of the fall was followed by a cute,...

Saturday Night Live celebrated the holiday season with a politically charged cold open this weekend based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

After sitting the last few episodes out, Alec Baldwin returned to reprise his acclaimed impression of President Donald Trump.

In the sketch, Baldwin's Trump says he's in "pouty baby mode" over the ongoing investigations by Robert Mueller and fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's decision to plead guilty to lying to the FBI as part of a rumored deal to reveal information regarding Mueller's probe into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.

As Trump ruminates alone in the oval office, he's soon visited by Flynn wearing heavy chains and shackles (a la Jacob Marley) who calls himself "the ghost of witness flipped." Flynn warns Trump that he's going to be visited by three other ghosts as well, starting with Billy Bush (in the role of the Ghost of Christmas Past).

"I'm here to remind...

Saturday Night Live celebrated the holiday season with a politically charged cold open this weekend based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

After sitting the last few episodes out, Alec Baldwin returned to reprise his acclaimed impression of President Donald Trump.

In the sketch, Baldwin's Trump says he's in "pouty baby mode" over the ongoing investigations by Robert Mueller and fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's decision to plead guilty to lying to the FBI as part of a rumored deal to reveal information regarding Mueller's probe into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.

As Trump ruminates alone in the oval office, he's soon visited by Flynn wearing heaving chains and shackles (a la Jacob Marley) who calls himself "the ghost of witness flipped." Flynn warns Trump that he's going to be visited by three other ghosts as well, starting with Billy Bush (in the role of the Ghost of Christmas Past).

"Im here to remind...

President Donald Trump lived through his very own version of A Christmas Carol this weekend, which culminated with former 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton chanting, “Lock him up!”

It all went down on Saturday Night Live, where Alec Baldwin’s Potus was first visited by the Ghost of Christmas Flipped, Michael Flynn. The former National Security Advisor, who on Friday was indicted for lying to the FBI about his contact with Russian officials, told Trump that it was time to turn himself in to the feds.

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From the Senate’s passage of a tax reform bill that cuts corporate taxes from 35% to 20%, to the guilty plea by former national security advisor Michael Flynn that seems to implicate Donald Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner in contact with the Russians during the presidential campaign to the stunningly disgraceful downfall of NBC’s own Today Show host Matt Lauer for sexual harassment and worse in the workplace, there were plenty of places Saturday Night Live could have…...

ABC News has issued a four-week suspension to chief investigative reporter Brian Ross, who botched a special report following the guilty plea of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

On Friday, Ross appeared during ABC’s breaking news coverage of the Flynn indictment, during which he weighed in on Flynn’s connection to the ongoing federal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It was then that he falsely reported that Flynn would testify that then-candidate Donald Trump had instructed him to make contact with the Russians. This was not the case.

ABC News was forced to issue a retraction later that day,...

Update 5:45 Pm Pst Dec. 2: Brian Ross has responded to the news of his four-week suspension from ABC News after he gave incorrect information regarding a report on former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Ross took to Twitter hours after the announcement of his suspension saying, “My job is to hold people accountable and that’s why I agree with being held accountable myself.” Earlier: Veteran ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross has been suspended for four…...

ABC News has announced that Brian Ross would be suspended for four weeks without pay “effective immediately.” “It is vital we get the story right and retain the trust we have built with our audience – these are our core principles. We fell far short of that yesterday,” the network said in a statement on Saturday. “Effective immediately, Brian Ross will be suspended for four weeks without pay.” Ross came under considerable fire on Friday after he erroneously reported on live television that then-candidate Donald Trump had instructed Michael Flynn to make contact with the Russians. In a correction seven hours later,...

[[tmz:video id="0_wzx8ek79"]] Tomi Lahren doesn't think President Trump has anything to fear despite his former national security adviser pleading guilty to lying to the FBI ... so she says he can just keep on making America great again. We got the Fox News contributor at Lax Saturday and asked if Trump should be nervous about Michael Flynn deciding to turn state's evidence in his plea deal. She says no way, because if there was a smoking gun ... we'd already know.

President Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to defend is his former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn. “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies,” said Trump. “It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!” I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!

Jimmy Kimmel offered a convenient explainer Friday night for anyone confused about the latest Russia news surrounding former national security adviser General Michael Flynn — and revelations that he will now be cooperating fully with the Special Counsel. The late-night host said the matter was similar to that scene in “Return of the Jedi,” when Darth Vader switched at the last minute to save his son and destroy Emperor Palpatine (spoiler alert!) “You see Luke Skywalker getting electrocuted on the floor. Ok, Luke represents Robert Mueller, Darth Vader represents Michael Flynn and Emperor Palpatine — shooting lightening out of his fingers...

On Friday, ABC News correspondent Brian Ross dropped a bombshell report on “Good Morning America,” revealing that candidate Donald Trump had told him to make contact with the Russians — thus contradicting everything so far coming from the White House on the issue. The only problem — that was fake news. Seven hours later, the network updated their story to reflect that the order came from “President-elect” Trump and not candidate Trump — which is a pretty big difference. Also Read: Former FBI Director James Comey Posts Cryptic 'Justice' Quote After Michael Flynn Guilty Plea Correction of ABC News Special Report: Flynn prepared to testify.

Because Friday was Star Wars night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel decided to use a Darth Vader analogy to illustrate the relationship between President Donald Trump and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Opening his show on the "bigly" story of the day, and perhaps the year, Kimmel summarized how Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russia ambassador. The plea makes Flynn the first Trump White House official to face criminal charges and admit guilt amid the election investigation being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller, a probe...

The following contains 5.97 sextillion metric tons of spoilers from the Season 5 premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

It was, as promised, a world of difference when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. uncorked its Season 5 premiere, as Coulson & Co. came to realize that the big question was not so much where in space they were, but when. Plus, what… happened to Earth?

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Because just as they were getting acclimated to their new digs in “The Lighthouse,” to which they each were transported via a Kree monolith...

Updated with Jared Kushner reports: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Friday became the first member of President Donald Trump’s administration to be charged and plead guilty in Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election. Flynn pleaded guilty Friday morning to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian officials. As part of a plea deal, Flynn will testify Trump "directed him to make contact" with the Russians during the…...

Ousted former FBI director James Comey reacted to the news of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea on Friday with a Bible quote about justice on Friday. “But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream’ Amos 5:24,” he wrote in an Instagram post with a photo of a river. The post didn’t mention Flynn by name, though the timing suggests the quote was shared in light of the latest development in the special counsel investigation. This is not the first time Comey has reacted to Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Donald Trump campaign and.

Brian Ross of ABC News was the first to report that a source is claiming former White House Security Adviser Michael Flynn is prepared to testify against President Donald Trump after Flynn — who was fired after just 25 days on the job — pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with […]...

What a day for Michael Flynn, right? It was reported earlier that he would be pleading guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, which could be a sign that he is turning against President Donald Trump to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. As a matter of fact, it has also been suggested that he will testify […]...

Twitter went into overdrive on Friday after President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI during a January 2017 interview.

According to the Associated Press, court documents show that Flynn will admit to making false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. while Trump was president-elect. The move makes Flynn the first Trump White House official to plead guilty so far in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser in the early days of the Trump White House, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he lied to the FBI regarding two conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year. In a statement in court, Flynn said he was prepared to fully cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Flynn faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Also Read: Michael Flynn Linked to Russian Hackers, Wall Street Journal Reports According to the Washington Post, people close to the negotiations for Flynn’s plea deal said that he agreed to.

President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was indicted Monday on money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying charges, including one count of “conspiracy against the United States.”

It was almost too much for Twitter to handle.

In anticipation of Monday’s revelation, many on social media shared a parody video of members of the Trump administration — including Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and last but not least President Trump — all getting arrested to the sound of the 1963 James Bond theme song “From Russia with Love.”

“It’s Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending,...

The turnover in the Trump administration continues. Michael Flynn Michael Flynn resigned in February as President Trump’s national security adviser after less than a month in the position. The move came after Flynn admitted he gave “incomplete information” about a call he had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. last December regarding sanctions against Russia, The New York Times reported, and that he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about the conversation. James Comey President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Two of the former officials, per CNN's sources, are ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Michael Flynn’s Son Is Now a Subject of Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe—Here's Why That's a Big Deal...

Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon became the White House flotsam, John Oliver noted at the top of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. Like various TV news programs before him, Oliver showed that infamous Oval Office photo of Trump talking on phone to Russian ruler Vladimir Putin while surrounded by his team of Reince Priebus, Michael Flynn, Sean Spicer, Bannon and Veep Mike Pence – all now gone, save Pence. The truly depressing thing about Chief White House Strategist Steve…...

[[tmz:video id="0_65udof56"]] Michael Flynn doesn't want anything to do with the raging Russian brouhaha ... that he made clear. We got Trump's former National Security Adviser Friday morning at Reagan National Airport in D.C. ... and he bristled at our photog who asked if the end game of the Democrats is to impeach the Prez. Flynn, who was forced out for lying to the Veep about a convo with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., was in...

Just over a week into his new role as White House communications director, New York financier Anthony Scaramucci has been removed from the position, the White House confirmed Monday.

“Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director. Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best,” the White House press secretary said in a statement.

Multiple sources told the New York Times that President Donald Trump chose to remove Scaramucci at the request of the...

John Oliver looked at the troubling conservative takeover of unbiased local news broadcasts on Last Week Tonight.

"Our main story tonight concerns the potential problems in corporate consolidation of local news, don't you dare change the channel," Oliver warned.

"Sinclair [Broadcast Group] may be the most influential media company that you've never heard of: Not only are they the largest owner of local TV stations in the country, they could soon get ever bigger," Oliver said, referring to Sinclair's $4 billion acquisition of Tribune Media's 42 local stations.

Last Week Tonight discovered that when...

A Wall Street Journal report indicates that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have been involved in collusion between supporters of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian hackers. The Journal reported that Flynn, who was senior adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump at the time, was in contact with a Gop operative about obtaining emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server. The Gop operative, Peter W. Smith, considered Flynn and his consulting company, Flynn Intel Group, to be “allies in their quest” to obtain the damaging emails, according to the WSJ. The report says that Smith “assembled a.

Was it the jock? Was it the nerd? The answer to which member of the legendary ’80s movie-star posse, The Brat Pack, got “laid” the most might not surprise you: the bad boy.

When Andy Cohen asked Anthony Michael Hall on Watch What Happens Live this week which Brat Pack member was making the most of their fame “back in the day,” Hall didn’t hesitate for long.

“I’ll go with Judd Nelson,” he said.

That wasn’t all Hall had to say about his former castmates during Cohen’s “Plead the Fifth” segment, in which stars can choose...

Fox News Channel attracted the largest crowd among cable news networks on Thursday when former FBI Director James Comey testified under oath that President Donald Trump had pressured him to drop the FBI probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. And CNN scored by far the biggest cable news crowd in the news demo, with MSNBC coming in second and Fnc third. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was the prettiest dress in the cable news primetime shop on Thursday. Fnc scored…...

James Comey’s testimony before Congress may reflect a dark chapter in American politics, but it also created some of the most riveting live television in history — and, at just under three hours, a gripping feature-length window into the anxieties of our troubled times. While the biggest questions remain unresolved — has President Trump colluded with Russians? obstructed justice? — it created a fascinating spectacle of the highest order.

Moments before testimony began, pundits already discussed the broadcast in movie terms. More than one journalist compared Comey’s appearance to “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” — a private citizen standing before the government, ostensibly taking the moral high ground. However, that comparison failed to convey Comey’s paradoxical nature. Last fall, he emerged from the 2016 presidential election reviled on both sides of the aisle, with his role in the Hillary Clinton email scandal leaving Democrats reeling. However, by the time he was unceremoniously dismissed last month,...

Donald Trump has finally weighed in on the headline-making testimony of James Comey, less than a day after the ousted FBI director addressed the Senate Intelligence Committee in the biggest political drama in decades.

Trump, 70, took to Twitter on Friday morning to give his thoughts on Comey’s testimony regarding potential collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

“Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication … and Wow, Comey is a leaker!” Trump tweeted.

The nation waited with bated breath for Trump to live-tweet during Comey’s testimony on Thursday, adding even more potential drama to Comey...

Among the bombshells dropping at Thursday’s U.S. Senate intelligence committee’s hearing with former FBI director James Comey was a moment of historical camaraderie. Independent senator from Maine, Angus King, asked Comey about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “hope” for Comey to “let go” of the bureau’s investigation into the president’s then-national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Read More: James Comey says he took notes on Trump over fear president […]...

This morning at the Senate Intel Committee, former FBI Director James Comey said President Donald Trump was a liar. Trump’s attorney returned the favor this afternoon. Trump never told Mr. Comey to “let go” the FBI’s investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, nor did Trump tell Comey he expected Comey to pledge his “loyalty” to Trump. Potus’s outside counsel Marc Kasowitz said at a news conference at which he declined to take questions. The attorney…...