Today's Mudline

Sen. Ted Cruz on Coretta Scott King letter: "The charges she was making against Jeff Sessions are demonstrably false, they're slanderous, they're ugly...And I'll point out, the Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan."....Trump on judge's decision to suspend travel ban: "Horrible, dangerous and wrong."....Bill McKibben on Trump-Bannon White House: "The Black Tower, sending out its Breitbartian orcs and alt-right winger harpies to poison the politics of a nation."....Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Steve Bannon: "It's a stunning thing, that a white supremacist would be a permanent member of the National Security Council."....Trump on U.S. District Court judge who put hold on executive order: "If something happens blame him and [the] court system. People [are] pouring in."....CNN's David Gregory on Trump's comment: "He sounds like an old man sitting on his porch yelling at somebody to get off his lawn."....Trump on New York Times: "Now they are making up stories and sources."....CNN's Jake Tapper to Kellyanne Conway: "Every day there are these sprays of attack and sprays of falsehoods coming from the White House."....J.K. Rowling on Pence's turnaround from his 2015 view on Muslim ban: "'For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?'"....Trump: "My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by Nordstrum's...Terrible!"....Trump on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell: "A weak guy...A dope. He's a stupid guy."....Frankie Boyle on Trump: "A man so obnoxious and unhappy that karma may see him reincarnated as himself."....