Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon defended her recent call to put her GOP opponent Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) in jail over accusations she approved of mishandling taxpayer funds into a charity called “Hope Florida.”
Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Saturday, Nixon was asked whether her calls for Moody to be “locked up and punished in jail” sounded “like a desire to weaponize the justice system?” |
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Zelensky warns US support of Putin is a ‘historic mistake’
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky advised the U.S. that supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “historic mistake.”
“If United States will support Putin, I mean, it’s unbelievable, it’s tragedy, it’s historic mistake and big tragedy. That’s why I think that I don’t want to live in illusions, but I think that we have to be pragmatic,” Zelensky told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday. |
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Democratic Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson on Sunday said that he’s campaigning on issues that many senators in Washington don’t “give a s— about.” Jackson pitched his campaign in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash. He emphasized that “at least in Maine, we don’t have anyone in everyday people’s corners, and that’s definitely what I’m going there for,” to advocate for improving health insurance and to ensure “a Medicare for All system,” as well as lowering fuel bills. |
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday backed President Trump’s move to waive sanctions against Russia under a new legislation package, insisting that it is “not an economic lifeline” for Russia.
“This is an incentive to Russia that if they can reduce the conflict with Ukraine, [if] they can get an energy ceasefire or reduce the conflict such that they have diesel to export will allow it to flow to world markets,” Wright said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week.” |
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Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R) on Sunday said he’s worried about the “optics” of the U.S.’s deal with Russia to export diesel and added that the U.S. cannot give Russian President Vladimir Putin “an inch.”
Rogers told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that President Trump is “trying to do something to bring down diesel prices” by striking a deal with Russia. |
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should be careful” with “reckless” comments about the U.S. slowing down Starlink.
“President Trump and Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio have categorically said that no one in the Trump administration did that. And I think it is very reckless for President Zelensky to make such a charge,” Bessent said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” |
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday said the Trump administration has not broken its promise to lower gas prices as the Iran war stretches into its eighth month.
CNN’s Dana Bash asked Wright on “State of the Union” about his predictions early in the conflict that gas prices would decline “within weeks, not months,” and, with prices still high, asked if the administration has let Americans down. |
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said “of course” his country trusts the U.S. but hopes President Trump will “change his decisions” after greenlighting a diesel deal with Russia.
“Of course we trust America,” he told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on NBC News. “We trust bipartisan support and we trust President of the United States. We want to trust him and I hope that he will change his decisions because I think that it’s all mistakes and it will not help us and it will not help United States, I’m sure.”
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Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said he expects current chief of staff Susie Wiles to leave her post after the midterm elections, but her departure would be on her own terms after reports suggested she may have lost President Trump’s confidence.
“If she leaves, and I think she probably will, it’s not necessarily because she’s fallen out of favor with Trump,” Mulvaney said in an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.” |
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said oil prices could go down before the end of the year, but it will depend on the Iran war. NBC News’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker asked Bessent about the chances of lower prices by the start of 2027, adding President Trump’s assertion that “this is his economy.” |
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