Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Comstock to Trump: We dont need a government shutdown over immigration


Defense Secretary Mattis said the Nuclear Posture Review released last week gives the U.S. leverage over Russia


BREAKING; Dow rallies 600 points into the close


Schiff says Bannon's attorney told HPSCI that WH wouldn't allow Bannon to answer questions beyond 14 "pre-approved," yes-or-no questions


It seems a suspect package was left at the Ecuadorian Embassy


George Papadopoulos’ fiancée goes on tweetstorm to prove he wasn’t just a coffee boy to Trump


White House chief of staff John Kelly suggests that some of those eligible for DACA “were too afraid” or “too lazy to get off their asses” to sign up for the program


Hang in there, patriots. Mueller isn’t letting #TeamTreason dictate his strategy execution with their dezinformatsiya stunts. That’s a sign of strength, not weakness. We too must act from strength & keep the faith. Justice will be done. Bet on it.


The House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat Adam Schiff talks to @NatashaBertrand about the Nunes memo, the minority response, and Trump’s insults


JUST IN: Trump says "I'd love to see a shutdown," if immigration reforms aren't passed.


Odd scenes at the Ecuador Embassy where Julian Assange is staying. Police have just arrived with evidence bags.


Social Media Is Helping Putin Kill Our Democracy


Court upholds Trump's $25 million payment in Trump University fraud settlement


NYT: FEMA Contractor Failed to Deliver Meals to Puerto Rico


BREAKING: The media is gathered outside Robert Mueller's office as I post this. This is not a usual occurence! Something big about to hit???


"...the United States is expected to bump up against its borrowing limit a month earlier than previously expected, a function of last year’s $1.5 trillion tax cut, which is resulting in less revenue for the Treasury Department."


.@ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Dow Jones opens after plunging 1,175 points yesterday, its largest one-day point drop in history


Gold continues to drop


The Deep State Conspiracy Is How Fascists Discredit Democracy


Donald Trump Cracks the Seal on Talk of Treason


Trump admin threatened to ban reporter from press calls for refusing to alter story


Is Facebook listening in on your conversations?


"It is very possible that by the time U.S. election season comes around for 2020, the U.S. economy will be, or will have been, in a recession"


Europe stocks head for worst drop since the aftermath of the Brexit referendum


Opinion: Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere


Trump nominee to head Patent Office works at law firm that defended Trump in "Apprentice" copyright claim


.@realDonaldTrump should sit for an interview with the Special Counsel. If he’s done nothing wrong, then he’ll have no trouble keeping his story straight. It’s just one of the benefits of truth.


Day Traitor


The Schiff memo is based on the same underlying docs as the partisan #NunesMemo, so there should be no question as to whether or not @realDonaldTrump will approve the new memo’s release. If he refuses, the American people will be forced to wonder: what is he trying to hide?


Far-right Sheriff Clarke will team up with body-slamming Rep. Gianforte to headline a GOP fundraiser. It only makes sense in the Trump era, writes


'The hairs really went up on the back of our necks': Former top diplomat Victoria Nuland tells the story of how she pushed the Obama administration to do more to stop Russian hacking


New Jersey governor signs order requiring internet providers to follow net neutrality rules


In this Tweet he’s lying or he’s talking to the top .1% The rest of us got a chump change tax cut offset by an additional $3K to $6K in national debt for every man, woman and child in the U.S. We got ripped off, just like those N.J. casino bondholders back in ‘93


Inbox: A group of Senate Democrats will take to the Senate floor on Tuesday evening to call on Republicans to defend our democracy against attacks by foreign adversaries with a renewed focus on important questions about Russian meddling and our government’s response.


Russian lawyer says Trump Jr. offered her a deal: Hillary dirt for a change to U.S. law


"Trump seems to be testing the waters for direct action against the FBI by testing the limits of what his Republican followers will stomach. So far, there are no limits."


Pruitt once called Trump an "empty vessel" in newly resurfaced interview


NEW: I just found this video of Carter Page saying he's worked in Russia for 27 years: "Having worked in Russia for most of my life, you know, going back to my first trip here in 1991"


A remarkable subversion of our democracy continues in Pennsylvania. After losing their fight at the Supreme Court, Republicans are now threatening to impeach members of the state Supreme Court who found the congressional map to be an unconstitutional gerrymander


Rolling world stock sell-off runs to $4 trillion


Asian stocks plunge after bloodbath on Wall Street


The Daily Mirror slams Trump for attacking the U.K.’s universal healthcare system: “You're sick, Mr. President.”


Global stock market turmoil: What's going on?


Trump is keeping the pressure up on Mexico, but he 'risks cutting off his nose to spite his face'


Things Republicans won't tell you in their $400 million #GOPTaxScam lying campaign


Here's a snapshot of the major European indexes, all in red


Dow Jones futures point to massive 1,000 point drop at market open


The Dow Jones stock index was down 1,175 points at the closing bell, its worst closing point decline on record


Nunes: Fine, the FBI Didn’t Lie, But Its Font Was Too Small


WATCH: Asian stocks sink as global sell-off continues


Russia has been attacking top Republicans who criticize Trump


‘The president clearly set himself up’: Trump’s stock market miscalculation


Monthly 'emergency' budget extensions allow the GOP to keep blackmailing Democrats for concessions on everything from CHIP to immigration, but there's this too...


Congress should censure Nunes. Just like McCarthy


This May 2016 protest in Houston, Texas, was organized by Russian trolls. The troll group promoted and organized two opposing events on Facebook to pit Americans against each other.


A CNN employee found sensitive Department of Homeland Security reports about protecting the Super Bowl from terrorism in the seat-back pocket on a commercial airplane flight


Trump supporters are spreading the majority of phony news and conspiracy theories, a new study shows


Schiff: "The vote was unanimous to release this. I think the Republican members understood that after a calling for full transparency they were getting hammered over the course of the week for trying to hide the minority response."


Carter Page says he had a brief interaction with a “senior government official” in Moscow on his trip there during the 2016 campaign. “A lot of the things he was talking about, you could tell there were positive opportunites on the horizon for U.S.-Russia relations."


President Trump took credit for the stock market at least 25 times in January alone. But as shares swooned Monday, he avoided any mention of it.


The judge Trump disparaged as ‘Mexican’ will preside over an important border wall case


Foxconn package cost Wisconsin eight times as much per job as similar 2017 state jobs deals


Trump lawyers worry he'd perjure himself in Russia probe

Harry Litman, a fmr. Clinton DOJ official, says there's no credible reason for Trump to not be interviewed by the special counsel and that excuses of Trump's lawyers for not complying are "muddled" at best. Nick Akerman and Natasha Bertrand join Lawrence O'Donnell


Sean Hannity blames Obama for today’s historic stock market crash


The ‘Woke’ GOP Learns to Loathe the FBI


White House moves to distance Trump from market plunge


According to this article, Trump's own lawyers think he is a liar: his "lawyers are concerned that the president...has a history of making false statements." John Dowd is sometimes right


Steve Bannon is planning to skip a closed-door interview with House committee


Global stocks crumble in vicious sell-off as 'goldilocks' trade unravels


Nunes conceded in an interview with Fox and Friends that the FBI mentioned political funding of the Steele dossier in a footnote on the Carter Page FISA application

The Smearing of Christopher Steele


Lawrence: What Donald Trump doesn't know about treason

In the Rewrite: After President Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not applauding during his State of the Union address, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell rewrites the President’s attempt to define what "treason" means.


Coll: U.S. needs diplomacy to complement military in Afghanistan

Steve Coll, award-winning journalist and author of "Directorate S," talks with Rachel Maddow about Mike Flynn's path from Afghanistan to indicted former Trump official, and the need for a robust State Department to be the diplomatic counterpart to the military in Afghanistan


Why is the U.S. still in Afghanistan? Pakistan

Steve Coll, award-winning journalist and author of "Directorate S," talks with Rachel Maddow about why the United States is still waging war in Afghanistan after 17 years there.


Swalwell: GOP leaks, releases designed to tip off Trump on probe

Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Rachel Maddow about the Democratic memo to rebut the Devin Nunes memo, the Republican strategy behind the Nunes memos, and whether Steve Bannon will finally testify before the House Intel Committee.


Nunes memo stunt blows up in GOP's face

Rachel Maddow shows how key claims in the Nunes memo didn't even survive the weekend before being disproved, and the memo is now both a political and legal can of worms for Republicans to deal with.

Market plunges, government shutdown looms (again)

Rachel Maddow reports on a vertiginous two-day stock market sell off, the government shutdown deadline looming this week, and the Republican tax bill causing the government to run out of money sooner than expected or planned for