Saturday, May 4, 2019

Russia is poised to mess with our elections again, and what do Republicans do? ‘Nellie Ohr, Fusion GPS Contractor And Wife Of DOJ Investigator, Criminally Referred By House Republicans.’ Disgusting.


"Counterintelligence professionals must doubt that Russia could have pulled off its election-interference effort without the support of spies burrowed into US society or institutions."


Nancy Pelosi: "Impeachment is never off the table."


Federal prosecutors tell Roger Stone he can’t cite Bill Barr to get out of obstruction charges


A plane traveling from the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida has skid into shallow water at the end of the runway at around 9:40 pm local time on Friday


Among AG Bill Barr’s crimes, not technically but realistically, is garden-variety theft: stealing taxpayers’ money for representing Donald Trump personally rather than representing the American people. Barr was hired to work for us. He’s not doing that. Period.


Here's how a deal to oust Maduro in Venezuela unraveled


Its hard to imagine that Mr. Bolton and President Trump work in the same building. In his public remarks about their chat, President Trump most certainly did NOT make clear to Putin "that there will be costs for those who further Maduro’s usurpation and repression."


One moment from Barr's hearing that I'm still replaying: This exchange with Cory Booker where Barr seemed to be unaware that Paul Manafort had shared internal polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik.


The economy is booming, but Donald Trump can't stop talking about Russia


Steven Moore on CNN ending his employment: "If I’m such a scoundrel and sexist, why did they have me on every night?” Which, I mean lol yea exactly, why did they?


Breaking: North Korea fired an unidentified short-range missile at 9:06am local time Saturday from the country's eastern coast, South Korea's Defense Ministry confirms to CNN.


Reacting to Trump’s Friday phone call with Putin, former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi claimed that POTUS had given the Russian leader the “green light” to interfere again


Mother of Otto Warmbier calls U.S. diplomacy with North Korea a "charade"


Harris: Senate Intel probe of Trump 'still a live inquiry'


President Trump: "There's been no president in history that has given what I've given in terms of looking at just a total witch hunt. I call it the Russian hoax, it turned out to be -- no collusion no obstruction. It was a total hoax. And yet I was transparent."


BREAKING: Trump files a brief today going further than ever before to dismantle the ACA in entirety.


Harris: Enough in Mueller report for Congress to take next step


With Trump rollback, school lunch could get more white bread, less whole grains


Sarah Sanders on Trump discussing Mueller report during call with Putin: "Very, very briefly it was discussed -- essentially in the context of that it's over and there was no collusion, which I'm pretty sure both leaders were very well aware of long before this call took place."


Harris: Barr's non-response on suggestions from W.H. 'suspicious'


"Excuse me, I'm talking, I'm answering this question." In the middle of this appalling answer (which included "the nuclear" because that's very important to him), he still manages to sound like a rich, prissy first grader talking to his mother's maid.


Lindsey Graham has changed his tune on Mueller appearing before Congress. Gotta wonder why


Two days ago Lindsey said, "We're done" with Mueller. Now they want him to come visit? The GOP has suddenly realized that Robert Mueller's testimony will blow this whole thing wide open so they must destroy him as soon as possible


Trump seems to think “freedom of speech” requires social media companies to give platforms to bigots. It does not.


Democrat Adam Schiff is calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign.


JUST IN: New documents from the government in Roger Stone case argue that Stone does NOT need to be guilty of an underlying crime to be found guilty of obstruction. Prosecutors say he mischaracterizes Bill Barr's pre-AG memo on this subject.


This is crazy Congress doesn’t even have the unredacted Mueller Report, but Trump is briefing the Russians? He needs to be impeached. Trump and Putin spoke by phone, discussed Mueller report


Trump embattled on several fronts as oversight deadlines come due


House Dems ask DC, Virginia bar associations to open ethics probe into Trump AG


When Bernie Sanders went to the USSR in 1988, he drank vodka, sang shirtless – and got ideas that shape his thinking today.


Trump contradicts top aides with reversal after Putin phone call