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The backlash has begun on top Democrats who pushed the claims of Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign. Sen. Rand Paul today called on Justice to investigate the Obama aides who forced the false claims into public. “Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!” he tweeted. And Trump campaign pollster John McLaughlin demanded a probe into the efforts by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign to spy on the Trump campaign. “I’m very concerned that it’s becoming more clear that the Obama administration was able to obtain a FISA warrant to...

Former Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said he was “proud” to defend President Barack Obama in his massive surveillance of the Internet, likening it to making people walk through metal detectors at airports. “The fundamental notion of is it good for this country if the United States government is collecting massive information in an attempt to find small numbers of individual people who could do us harm?” Fleisher told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Friday, where he debated Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story. (VIDEO-AT-LINK) “It reminds me, Anderson of other things we’ve accepted in life, such as...

In one of the epic dust-ups in recent TV memory, former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleisher repeatedly called out Chris Matthews today for the way the Hardball host twisted Fleisher’s words and Pres. Bush’s record. I’ll provide a more complete transcript later, but for the time being, savor the video, which includes these hightlights: * Matthews begins by asking what Fleisher is doing on the show. Answer: “Chris, you invited me.” * Fleisher asks Matthews “how dare you?” for seeking to blame Pres. Bush for 9/11 and calls Matthews’ comments “shameful.” * At one point, Fleisher asks “Chris,...

Watch "Hannity & Colmes" at 9 p.m. ET tonight! Thursday, Mar. 3: (Excerpt)... We'll get a look behind-the-scenes with the man who spent a lot of time in front of the cameras during the first Bush adminstration: In a cable exclusive we'll talk with former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher author of the new book "Taking Heat." Also, Sean spoke with White House Senior Adviser Karl Rove earlier today. You'll want to hear what he had to say...

<p>In a contest cast as a test of President Bush's popularity leading into 2004, GOP luminaries are trooping through Mississippi to promote former party chairman Haley Barbour in his bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove.</p> <p>Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole appeared in Biloxi and Jackson on Friday to campaign for Barbour, a well-connected Washington lobbyist, Republican National Committee chairman from 1993 to 1997 and member of the George W. Bush's exploratory committee before the 2000 presidential election.</p>