Politics Episodes

His party may be enraged by Donald Trump's presidency, but Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden insisted Saturday that Democrats will not defeat the Republican president if they pick an angry nominee.

Taking his bipartisan message to pivotal Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pledges to bridge the deep divide in the country under President Donald Trump and reject the anger that he says is motivating some in his party.

Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache resigned on Saturday after two German newspapers published footage of him apparently offering lucrative government contracts to a potential Russian benefactor.

Lone Star State congressmen, Rep. Al Green, a Democrat, and Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican, express their thoughts and concerns regarding President Trump's most recently unveiled immigration plan.

U.S. President Donald Trump went on Twitter to mock New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday, after de Blasio announced that he's running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told a Chicago audience that you're not free in the U.S. if your reproductive health can be criminalized.

Thirty years ago France and Germany formed a joint military brigade. A model for European defense policy, the Franco-German Brigade shows that it's possible for former enemies to become allies.

More and more young Italians are traveling hundreds of kilometers from the south of Italy to the north in search of work. They see little future for themselves in their homeland and place much of the blame on the EU.

In Brussels' Molenbeek district, which has a large Muslim population, residents are campaigning for European ideals. Better integration and job prospects are to make young immigrants less susceptible to radical Islamist rhetoric.

Tons of lost or abandoned plastic fishing nets are polluting the Baltic and endangering its marine life. Recovering and disposing of these ghost nets is proving problematic for both environmental activists and the authorities.

Peter Marki-Zay, independent mayor of the Hungarian town of Hodmezovasarhely, aims to combat anti-EU sentiment in his country. But officials loyal to Hungary's governing party, Fidesz, are making his job difficult.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announced Tuesday that he is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, distinguishing himself as the field's only statewide elected official to win a state that President Donald Trump carried in 2016.

A bipartisan coalition led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sent a formal letter to Congressional leaders demanding that lawmakers pass the SAFE Banking Act or similar legislation that would provide a safe harbor for banks to provide finan...

Yuval Noah Harari calls for global co-operation to stop Artificial Intelligence becoming as big a threat to humankind as climate change and nuclear war

On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Joe Biden said he would be open to breaking up Facebook. The former vice president said that dismantling large technology companies is something the government should take a “hard look at.”

The U.S. remains an outlier among industrialized countries without a national paid parental leave policy, but Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) hopes to change that with new legislation.

Mallory Newall, director of Ipsos News and Polls, told Cheddar that the 2020 field for the Democratic primary is so large that modern polling history won't be of help in making predictions.

Bill Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, plans to stay on the board of cannabis company Acreage Holdings while campaigning during his Republican primary challenge against President Trump.

The 2018 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox divided along racial lines as nine players, as well as manager Alex Cora, declined a traditional invite to the Trump White House. Sports writer Britni de la Cretaz breaks down the split formed by the p...

In Ukraine, more and more women are becoming surrogate mothers for foreign couples -- often out of sheer need. Here a surrogate can earn up to 15,000 euros per pregnancy.

European investigators are tracking down Syrian agents believed to have tortured opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The agents are to be charged with crimes against humanity.

Catch the full episode of Wednesday's Raw Politics.

President Donald Trump, at a rally in Panama City, Florida on Wednesday night, mocked some of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. His targets included Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

After withdrawing his nomination to the Federal Reserve Board amid growing controversy over past comments degrading women, Stephen Moore says he hopes to work on reelecting President Trump in 2020 as part of his campaign.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (R-N.Y.) told Cheddar in an interview Wednesday that the law plainly states that President Trump is required to have his tax returns released to the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Watch the full episode of Tuesday night's Raw Politics.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) wants to focus on cybersecurity as it pertains to China's alleged acts of espionage and intellectual property theft, as opposed to a southern border wall, much a focus of President Trump's security policy.

"We hope that we don't have to impose tariffs on each other," EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told Euronews' The Global Conversation programme.

Catch the full episode of Monday's Raw Politics

A new round of positive economic indicators is giving President Donald Trump a significant political advantage just as the 2020 presidential election begins to intensify. Voters in Michigan weigh in on the topic

A new round of robust economic indicators is offering fresh evidence of a strong economy and giving President Donald Trump a big political advantage just as the 2020 election campaign is beginning to intensify.

President Donald Trump says he discussed special counsel Mueller's report with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump says Putin described the investigation as "something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse."

Washington D.C. Mayor Murial Bowser unveiled a sweeping measure to legalize adult-use retail sales and use tax proceeds from those sales to fund housing preservation and other programs in low-income neighborhoods, which could bring stiff oppositio...

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than an hour Friday on a wide range of topics, including "very, very briefly" the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

President Trump signaled that he would not allow former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before Congress. An interview with Trump aired on Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier and Fox News @Night with Shannon Bream.

More than half of Americans want major changes to the system of government, according to a new survey by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Catch the full episode of Thursday's Raw Politics

Pundit and commentator Stephen Moore, amid controversy, withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on behalf of the Trump administration, just hours after saying he was “all in” on the central bank position.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is asserting that Attorney General Robert Barr has committed a crime by lying to Congress in his testimony Wednesday to lawmakers about special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump's Justice Department.

Russia has launched a travelling exhibition of tanks and weapons captured in Syria. The propaganda tour from Moscow to Vladivostok aims to win approval for Russia's intervention in Syria. But relatives of Russian soldiers killed remain unconvinced.

On the Irish border, there are growing fears that Brexit could lead to a rise in crime. A hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, and the introduction of border controls, could also lead separatists to return to violence.

Liechtenstein is ruled by an unelected prince who wields more political power than almost any other European monarch. Nestled between Switzerland and Austria, the tiny principality is celebrating its 300th anniversary this year.

University of Chicago professor William Howell says Attorney General William Barr's performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was impressive for its calm, but corroded public perceptions of independence.

Attorney General William Barr defended his release of his Mueller report memo to Senate Democrats after it had been revealed that the special counsel wrote him a letter stating that the memo “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substanc...

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper running in the Democratic primary for president offered up his take on the student loan debt crisis and the rise of the gig economy to Cheddar's Hope King at the Milken Conference on Wednesday.

Attorney General William Barr defended his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report Wednesday amid new revelations that Mueller expressed frustration about how the attorney general was portraying the investigation's findings.

Colorado is moving up its 2020 presidential primaries from June to Super Tuesday in March, hoping to lure major party contenders to the purple state. Gov. Jared Polis made the announcement Tuesday.