Author: William Cummings, USA TODAY

“It’s a very horrible thing they said,” Trump said of a New York Times report that the FBI investigated if he was working for Russia.

When asked, “Who do you think is mainly responsible for this situation?,” 53 percent of Americans blamed Trump and congressional Republicans.

On Oct. 12, 2000, two suicide bombers drove a small boat loaded with explosives into the hull of the USS Cole, killing 17 sailors.

“The president certainly didn’t invent racism. But he’s certainly given a voice to it and expanded it,” the New York Democrat told Anderson Cooper.

“As long as the radical left is in charge we’re never going to get anywhere. The president will compromise but he will not capitulate,” Graham said.

“If he gives in now, that’s the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president. That’s probably the end of his presidency,” Graham said.

“Our Department is proven to be at its best when the times are most difficult,” he wrote. “So keep faith in our country and hold fast.”

Many Americans might not want to see Congress get paid amid a shutdown, but any change would require getting over a big hurdle: the U.S. Constitution.

“Steele was clearly onto something,” Isikoff said. But some of the dossier’s details lack “the evidence to support them.”