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Presidential historian Doug Wead joined Fox News‘ Molly Line on Thursday morning to discuss the upcoming impeachment trial. (Video below) Line first asked Wead for his take on reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is “disturbed” over Mitch McConnell’s approach to the trial, which frankly, I see as a non-story. Line asked specifically if Wead thought Murkowski’s position could throw a monkey wrench into McConnell’s plan for a quick trial. The very amiable Wead replied, “I think this is Sen. Murkowski signaling who she is. She’s an establishment Republican…but I don’t think it’s going anywhere and it’s certainly not outrageous...

The following is an exclusive excerpt from Doug Wead’s new book, Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, available on November 26. *** As a candidate, Trump’s frequent refrain was “America First.” We should take care of our own problems, he said, before meddling in the business of other nations. But the words “America First” were also a reminder that other countries were competing for our attention and our resources. One reason Trump had entered politics was his long-felt frustration over the nation’s trade deficits and defense arrangements, which he believed had led to the economic bloodletting...

Like others, I have enjoyed reading the titillating, racy stories that have issued forth from bestselling books about the Trump White House. At times I felt nagging pangs of doubt, wondering why the stories always have come from anonymous sources. Doesn't anyone ever go on record nowadays? And why were so many stories later denied by their cited sources? So when I got the opportunity to write an insider history of the Trump White House I fairly tripped over my own feet to get through the doors. “Michael Beschloss came to Mar-a-Lago right after I won the election,” the president...

Promising “an inside account of election night at Clinton headquarters, where the sounds of ‘heated shouting’ and ‘smashing of glass’ emanated from the Clinton’s private rooms as their empire fell down around them,” a new book, Game of Thorns by New York Times bestselling author and presidential historian Doug Wead, is due out from Hachette Book Group on February 28. . . . Wead claims the Bush family, feeling “growing concern” over Trump, actually colluded with the Clintons, presumably to derail the Trump campaign. He also hails Reince Priebus for urging Trump not to drop out after the Access Hollywood...

Newsmax.com reports of a rejection by John McCain to meeting with Dr. Billy Graham have been refuted by representative of both the McCain Campaign and the Billy Graham Association. Journalist Doug Wead caused a big stir on Newsmax.com last night when he posted a story that the McCain campaign had turned down an opportunity to meet with Billy Graham. Wead wrote, “In recent weeks I have been involved with Brian Jacobs, a Fort Worth, Texas, minister and consultant to the Billy Graham Association, to broker a meeting between McCain and Graham. In May, we contacted the McCain campaign with an...

In another disturbing sign that Sen. John McCain has little interest in reaching out to his conservative base, including evangelical Christian voters, his campaign has declined an offer to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham. For almost six decades, Graham has been America’s most influential preacher and evangelist, a man sought out by every president since Harry Truman. Today, the 89-year-old Graham is in declining health and stays near his home in Montreat, N.C. His last public appearance, in May 2007, marked the dedication of his library. Three former American presidents -- Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and Bill...

Mike Huckabee’s Big Mistake When seeking to establish a base among evangelical voters, presidential contender, Governor Mike Huckabee, made a big mistake. It is one that many presidential wannabes have made before him. He went over the heads of the evangelical leaders of influence and talked directly to the people. It works well with most constituencies, Catholics, Labor, Jews, Hispanics, Women but it never works with Blacks and it never works with evangelicals either. It cost Mike Huckabee the presidential primary in South Carolina and it will probably cost him the nomination. In fairness, presidential candidates seeking the evangelical vote...

WASHINGTON - They've been an unlikely pair since the day they met - the nerdish bookworm and the cocky backslapper - but Karl Rove and George W. Bush have been partners and political allies for more than 30 years. Now their friendship is being tested by Rove's involvement in the unauthorized outing of an undercover CIA officer. Depending on the outcome of a grand jury investigation, the president soon could face a painful choice between protecting his trusted aide or forcing his resignation to limit political damage. ''It's going to be an interesting test of his loyalty if this goes...

I caught the tail end of Hannity and Colmes tonight and saw Doug Wead wildly trying to save the sales of his book on Bush. It seems that on one page of his book, Wead claims that Bush admitted to taking cocaine. Of course...HE HAS NOTHING THAT SHOWS THAT BUSH ACTUALLY ADMITTED THAT. Even the tapes released do not have that. The issue is talked about as a hypothetical for others....but not at the part where Bush stated he would not want kids trying what he tried. Wead has gone beyond pathetic. At one point he claimed that during the...

We cannot post any articles from USA Today - so you can read it here I'M SORRY MR. PRESIDENT (APOLOGY FROM DOUG WEAD)

There are times when God gives an indivudal a very appropriate name. And it came to pass, that an Indiana preacher, Wead, brought forth a son who was a very bad weed (sic). And this son became an evangelical motivational speaker, even though he did not actually graduate from the Central Bible College. This man, known as Douglas, who had three brothers, kept close company with J. Douglas Cassidy, a Springfield businessman who wound up serving time for conspiracy and tax evasion, something The New York Times has conveniently forgotten to mention. Furthermore, this holy man, Wead, has been associated...

WASHINGTON - Tapes of President Bush that were secretly recorded by an old friend and released to the media now are in the possession of the president's private attorney, the White House said Tuesday. "It's a matter that we consider closed at this point," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. Doug Wead allowed journalists to hear and broadcast the tapes as he promoted his new book on presidential parents. But he said last week he had regrets about that and was turning the tapes over to Bush and giving the proceeds from his book to charity. On the tapes,...

<p>I was surprised, but hardly shocked, to hear that President Bush all but admitted to illicit drug use in a secretly taped conversation. I'm only disappointed by the sleazy way the disclosure was disclosed and by the president's reluctance to set the record straight.</p>

By The New York Times WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 - Doug Wead, the author and former campaign adviser who taped conversations with President Bush when Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, said Monday that he had given the tapes to "the president's counsel." After drawing criticism for his secret taping of Mr. Bush as Mr. Bush was beginning to move onto the national political stage and for his disclosure of a dozen conversations to a reporter for The New York Times, Mr. Wead said last week that he would return the tapes. He said then that he had felt stung by...

A man could get cynical. A recent non-story of national interest involved one Doug Wead, a friend of President George W. Bush. Wead, an author, motivational speaker and former assistant to the first President Bush, created a bit of a stir when he released a dozen audiotapes in which he secretly taped conversations with George W. Bush from 1998 until mid-2000, as Bush sought and won the Republican nomination. News readers and commentators jumped on the Wead tapes as if they were the missing 18 minutes from the Nixon Oval Office tapes, but a listen to the tapes could put...

Should the U.N. be lord of the oceans? Posted: February 28, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "Sovereignty. The issue is huge. The mere mention of Kofi Annan in the U.N. caused the crowd to go into a veritable fit. The coalition wants America strong and wants the American flag flying overseas, not the pale blue of the U.N." So George W. Bush confided to friend Doug Wead before he declared his candidacy. And, twice, President Bush has acted to defend U.S. sovereignty against the encroachments of global government. He rejected both the International Criminal Court, which...

February 23, 2005 Beyond the Politics of Personal Destruction What the Bush tapes reveal about policy disputes Nick Gillespie If Ronald Reagan was the Teflon president, and Bill Clinton was the Kevlar president (and Jimmy Carter the irrevocably stained Polyester president), what 21st-century wonder material describes George W. Bush, who is surely the most underrated—and seemingly invulnerable—politician in recent memory? In a strange spasm of self-identification that doubtless speaks to some sort of childhood trauma every bit as terrifying and forgettable as the Fatima revelations, Bill Clinton used to liken himself to the diaper-wearing cartoon character Baby Huey because,...

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul? The words should be familiar to Doug Wead, who secretly taped private conversations with George W. Bush for two years and has now released some of them. Wead is an ordained Assemblies of God minister, the kind of man with whom many people would feel comfortable sharing intimate, personal details, confident that he would not share them with others, least of all for fame or fortune. ==================================================================== Secret Tapes Say Bush Critics Smoked Wead The New York Times, still reeling from the 'JEFF GANNON...

It wasn't the Pentagon Papers, but give The New York Times and reporter David D. Kirkpatrick credit for bamboozling sad-sack author Doug Wead (The Raising of a President) into playing tapes he secretly recorded with then-Texas governor George W. Bush before his 2000 presidential election. Kirkpatrick's Feb. 20 front-pager didn't offer much juicy material, although the inference that Bush "tried" marijuana has a lot of liberals clucking, but some of the anecdotes are noteworthy in historical footnote sort of way. Steve Forbes won't be too happy, one imagines, with Bush's supposedly private conversations with Wead, an adviser to the President's...

Did you hear about the secret tape recordings that were released on President Bush? These were taped without the knowledge of Bush back in the late nineties before he ran for president. He was having what he thought to be a private conversation with a "friend." Wow, you can just imagine all the real dirt that those tapes must have uncovered on Bush, right?