Wednesday, March 7, 2018

BREAKING: NYT: Special counsel Mueller has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to 3 people familiar with the encounters


LIVE: These kids are sitting down on the floor of Mitch McConnell’s office protesting for #GunReformNow


JUST IN: Several White House staffers have been terminated or reassigned for security clearance issues, sources tell


FBI Director Christopher Wray says hacking has "mushroomed into full-blown economic espionage"


Russians collected Americans’ personal information on social media: report


Consulting firm says Trump tariffs will cost 146,000 jobs


Putin says that in the early 1990s, Helmut Kohl predicted that America would increasingly concentrate on its own internal affairs and the American continent. Putin giggles with great pleasure, while saying: "That's exactly what is happening now."


Donald Trump is doing Vladimir Putin's geopolitical dirty work for him: the Kremlin has long sought to weaken NATO by driving a wedge between the US and its Western allies. Trump's tariffs do exactly that, imposing costs on friends while he blocks sanctions on America's foes


Donald Trump is doing Vladimir Putin's geopolitical dirty work for him: the Kremlin has long sought to weaken NATO by driving a wedge between the US and its Western allies. Trump's tariffs do exactly that, imposing costs on friends while he blocks sanctions on America's foes


Putin Sends the West Another Deadly Message


Sen. Wyden asks Brenda Farrell of the Government Accountability Office what the government is doing that is effective in reducing security clearance backlog: "I think the answer is obviously not enough."


.@SenSchumer says the White House "is getting hollowed out": "I've heard story after story of capable people...trying to be recruited by the White House, and no one wants to go."


Big story: Sergei #Skripal poisoned with a nerve agent, sources say. Now looks highly likely he was a victim of a state plot


You show an amazing albeit unsurprising ignorance of how technology, automation, and the attendant evolution of economics and societies have transformed the world. Your simple minded policies--imposition of tariffs--have the potential to seriously damage our future prosperity.


Senate GOP considers legislation to limit Trump's ability to impose tariffs


Jim Mattis and Rex Tillerson privately warned senior trade officials today that Trump’s proposed tariffs could endanger the U.S. national security relationship with allies, five people familiar with the meeting tell WaPo


Here’s the Stormy Daniels lawsuit, obtained by NBC News


They've handed the Koch Brothers and wealthy corporations $1.5 trillion in tax cuts. To pay for them, Republicans now plan on stealing $1.4 trillion from Medicaid and $500 billion from Medicare.


An unsavory plaintiff for sure, but how does a respectable man get involved with such people? No judgment, no respect for his own wife and a botched hush money agreement. A very unpresidential mess on top of many more messes that are much more serious.


McConnell denies he slowed Obama's 2016 Russia response


Russia’s State TV Brags on Air That They Own Donald Trump, He’s “Ours Again”


On the unbelievable stupidity of the Russian GOP fundraiser, Wyoming LLCs, and FARA


Blackwater founder Erik Prince tells @ErinBurnett he met w/ Russian "fund manager" over "one beer" in Seychelles.


The last steel tariff by Bush of 30% preceded a recession


Trump Administration Departures


Jared Kushner to meet with President of Mexico

Jared Kusher will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto. It comes amid Trump's trade controversy and as Kushner is under scrutiny for meetings with foreign governments. Neera Tanden and Jennifer Rubin join Lawrence O'Donnell.


Untethered Trump fails to process advice on tariff policy

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle talks with Rachel Maddow about the dynamics within the White House that led to the departure of Donald Trump's top economic adviser Gary Cohn.


Adviser to UAE cooperating with Robert Mueller investigation: NYT

Rachel Maddow reports on a series of unusual meetings between the United Arab Emirates and the Trump administration and talks with Adam Goldman, national security reporter for the New York Times about new reporting that UAE adviser George Nader is cooperating with Robert Mueller's investigation.


Trump, apparently winging it on tariff policy, loses Gary Cohn

Rachel Maddow reports on the resignation of Gary Cohn, Donald Trump's top economic advisor, as Trump is in the midst of attempting to wing it through the implementation of complicated, consequential tariff policy.