The Byron York Show

There have been endless news reports about the Biden Justice Department's pursuit of former President Donald Trump. There is, of course, the Mar-a-Lago classified documents affair. There is the Jan. 6 investigation. And lately, there have been reports that the department is also investigating some unspecified aspect of Trump's post-presidential fundraising.

If history is any guide, Democrats do not have a chance — not even a small a chance — of keeping control of the House in the midterm elections. But the question is: Is history any guide?

The Sept. 19 newsletter discussed the mass hysteria over the arrival of 48 Venezuelan illegal border crossers in Martha's Vineyard on a flight orchestrated by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. In reference to the newsletter, I tweeted this: "Problem with the Martha's Vineyard freakout is that the debate ignores the real problem. We're talking about how to accommodate illegal border crossers on...

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. James alleges that Trump engaged in fraud by overvaluing properties in order to get loans and undervaluing properties in order to pay lower taxes.

Before his appearance on 60 Minutes Sunday night, President Joe Biden had not given a sit-down interview with an American journalist for seven months. It's easy to see why. On CBS, the president, who was known as a "gaffe machine" when he was a much younger man, kept up his tradition of saying something startling, weird, or newsworthy — and, sometimes, true.

Much of the nation's political and commentary class had a near-nervous breakdown when 48 Venezuelans who had crossed illegally into the United States arrived at Martha's Vineyard Airport, not far from the summer homes of some of the country's wealthiest and best-connected people. When they realized what had happened, many Democrats and allied voices in the media expressed white-hot anger at Florid...

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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre-taped interview on NBC's Meet the Press last weekend. As is often the case with her interviews, Harris said a few awkward, ill-informed, or downright odd things. For example, she claimed that the U.S.-Mexico border is "secure." When asked if she was confident of that, Harris answered, "We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation,...

Tuesday was a really bad day for the economy. Amid hopes that inflation might be abating, the Commerce Department reported that prices remain persistently high, and what is known as the "core inflation" rate actually rose in August.

It wasn't terribly big news on March 7, 2021. President Joe Biden, then less than two months in office, signed an executive order "promoting voting rights," in the words of the Washington Post, to "make voting easier," in the words of the New York Times. Both papers played the story as a modest Democratic measure to push back against Republican efforts to "roll back voting access," as the Washingt...

The Justice Department has charged more than 870 people in the Capitol riot investigation. According to DOJ numbers released last month, 264 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. Of those, 90 have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury. About 55 have been charged with destruction of government property.

President Joe Biden's job approval rating hit its low point, 36.8%, in the RealClearPolitics average of polls on July 21. At the same time, his disapproval rating was 57.5%. Both were unhappy records for Biden, and also for any president at that point in his term. That's how low Biden sank.

The Supreme Court decisions in the 1857 Dred Scott case and the 1944 Korematsu case are generally considered two of the worst judgments ever handed down by the nation's highest court. One concerned slavery, and the other concerned the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.

Why did President Joe Biden give the speech he gave Thursday night in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia? Was it a 2022 midterm speech? Was it a 2024 presidential campaign speech? Was he preparing the country for the possible arrest of his predecessor, former President Donald Trump? What was he doing?

In today's podcast Byron sits down with attorney and recent Republican primary winner of the United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, Harriet Hageman. They discuss her recent win over Liz Cheney and what she plans to do moving forward.

Once given up for dead, Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their chances in November's midterm elections. The race for the House is narrowing, although Republicans are still predicted to win control, while the race for the Senate is a toss-up. Formerly pessimistic Democrats now think November will not be an unmitigated disaster for their party.

There have been several new reports about the number and the sensitivity of documents seized in the Aug. 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, the winter home of former President Donald Trump. If true, the reports add to the body of knowledge about the matter.

There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November's midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe we're not going to get clobbered after all! But much of their hope is still likely in vain. For one reason: President Joe Biden.

There have been dozens of headlines in recent months suggesting that radical supporters of former President Donald Trump hope to start a new civil war in the United States. The dangerous threats and rhetoric reached a new peak after the unprecedented Aug. 8 FBI raid on Trump's winter home at Mar-a-Lago, followed by revelations that the Biden Justice Department is pursuing an unprecedented criminal...

Beginning in the months before Donald Trump took office, and extending well into his presidency, the media and political world took a set of vague but serious accusations of wrongdoing involving the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia and created a 24/7 frenzy of talk about secret evidence, possible criminal charges, and allegedly grave damage to national security.

Republicans and conservatives have loudly protested the Democratic plan to expand the IRS vastly, and especially its enforcement arm, with an infusion of $80 billion included in the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act. The $80 billion is, by many accounts, far more than the IRS needs, and Republicans are suspicious about how it will be spent.

In addition to reporting the nuts and bolts of the FBI's unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida, much media coverage has also focused on angry Trump supporters, who are portrayed as being whipped up by Republican politicians and MAGA agitators.

here's a line at the end of an Axios newsletter that sums up everything that is wrong about media coverage and public discussion of the FBI's unprecedented raid on the home of former President Donald Trump. "These investigations are top secret," Axios's Mike Allen wrote. "So more likely than not, we won't get the full picture any time soon."

You've probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats, includes provisions to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. The number seems too big to believe. The IRS has just 93,654 employees, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

There are less than two weeks to go before Wyoming's Republican primary, pitting incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, of Jan. 6 Committee fame, against challenger Harriet Hageman. There's never much polling in House races, but there was one big one in Wyoming three weeks ago, and it was terrible for Cheney.