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One of the most bizarre aspects of the investigations engulfing the Trump administration is the lawyers involved. Here we have a presidency on the line, and this is Trump's team? The top legal spokesmen for each side are . . . Rudy Giuliani and Lanny Davis!? Up until this point, though, Giuliani was the Great Contradictor and Davis was merely a colorful character. Now that has changed in a big way. In a new interview with The Washington Post's Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, Davis is backing off two massive claims he made in recent weeks, including that former...

A person close to Lanny Davis's law firm tells me there is no conflict between him simultaneously representing Cohen and Manafort-linked Ukrainian oligarch Dmtryo Firtash....

Lanny Davis is a lawyer and public relations consultant who is best known for serving as public counsel in the Clinton White House. Earlier this month, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, hired Davis to represent him. Cohen is under investigation by federal prosecutors for his business dealings, as well as for a payment he made to Stormy Daniels, the porn star who once had a relationship with the president.

Don't miss Lanny Davis being interviewed by Chris Wallace today (Mar. 8, 2015) on Fox News Sunday. After you watch it, search for "Nathan Therm" in your favorite search engine. Mr. Therm is a fictional character created by Martin Short.

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division who played a critical role in lying to Congress about Operation Fast and Furious, plans to resign soon, the Washington Post reports, citing anonymous sources. “It is not clear when Breuer intends to leave his post, nor what he plans to do once he departs, but it is certain that the prosecutor’s days in office are winding down, according to people who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter,” the Post wrote. When asked for a comment on the Post’s report, and to verify...

If the Democrats lose ... there may be a ray of sunshine for President Obama. A president forced to deal with the opposition party in Congress can actually end up more successful and more popular. Remember President Clinton's experience post-1994 deluge. He was disappointed for a while, but then he found he was, in many ways, liberated from following the agenda of the most liberal base of his party. President Clinton was forced to work with, and at times painfully forced to compromise with the Republicans. The result of Bill Clinton being forced to sit down with Republicans and work...

It really is like we're in the twilight zone. For eight years we all heard about Bushitler and his big brother tactics to keep the opposition quiet but now we have Democrat's calling for the photographing and interrogations of all those opposed to socialism at the town hall meetings: Let's have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those responsible for approving, even organizing these techniues. And let's find an investigative journalist - are there many left - to prove these so-called grassroots shouters are, or are not, being paid. Even more classic: The "shout downs" organized...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/2 and 9/3/06It's Labor Day weekend!  The press can now concentrate (without feeling silly) on the Fall elections.  Who cares if there's actual news that might affect the future of human existence, let alone the fortunes of the United States and all Americans?  They get to report on the horse race!Meet The Press starts off the Sunday shows in my area, so I'll talk about them first.  Lil' Timmah is back and he's got a signature MTP event - live debates.  He'll get to sit upright to ask questions of Casey...

Weekend Talk Show Preview - Analysis for August 5th and 6th, 2006On the Sunday shows I'm probably most interested in Fox News Sunday's line up.  I want to hear Newt and Biden, mostly to see if they've changed their act for their second appearance together in three weeks.  What is this, a do over or the beginning of a traveling show?  Actually, that might have some interest.  Maybe they're auditioning to get their own show if this whole presidential thing doesn't work out.  Hadley made news on Iraq this week by saying that this is mostly sectarian violence now, instead...

http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=358&pid=479541&agid=2 Chapter 1 Whose Side Are You On? Mike McCurry was in a good mood. I was in his office on December 10, 1996, my second day in the White House, and he was trying to explain my job as the press's point man on scandal. He was grinning like a Cheshire cat -- as if he knew something I didn't know, saw something I didn't see. His feet were on his half-moon desk. Behind him were watercolor paintings by his children, giving a surreal impressionistic backdrop for a tutorial on how to handle the scandal machine. This is going...