Saturday, June 16, 2018

BISHOP PROPOSES ‘CANONICAL PENALTIES’ FOR CATHOLICS WHO HELP CARRY OUT TRUMP IMMIGRATION PLAN


Doctors Concerned About 'Irreparable Harm' To Separated Migrant Children


GOP fears midterms backlash from breaking up families at the border


Sessions' church slams his use of the Bible to defend separating migrant families


'Southern Baptists To Cut Ties With The Republican Party and Call Off the Culture War'


Praying together, staying together: The axis between Russian Orthodox and American evangelicals is intact


It will be interesting to hear from Trump and his offspring about how a charitable foundation could somehow legally subsidize a presidential campaign.


It was Stephen Miller who pushed the Trump admin to use the ‘nuclear option’ of separating children from parents at the border.


What happened in the FBI New York Field Office is one of the most overlooked and crucial factors on 2016.


Understanding Provocation


I Was Fired for Making Fun of Trump


Video Shows Border Patrol SUV Hitting Native American Man, Then Driving Away


Trump administration officials held a conference call to defend family separation at border & demand apology for @JoeNBC calling practice Nazi-like. None was willing to be quoted by name


Watch Dershowitz say it’s unfair for Manafort to be with minorities and poor people.


Single-use straws are the scourge of the packaging-waste world because they don’t easily biodegrade and because really, they aren't necessary for most people when it comes to gulping a soft drink.


Natalie Portman says former friend Jared Kushner has become a "super villain"


National Guard soldiers Trump sent to border are shoveling manure, changing flat tires: report


The Israeli government, and its most fervent supporters in the United States, expect Donald Trump to deliver a new New Middle East


Corn farmers have been venting their frustration about Pruitt's decision to not expand summer sales of ethanol.


If you aren't paying attention to what Russia is up to in Afghanistan, including by supporting the Taliban, you should start.


Trump Foundation lawsuit has "merit" on many levels, legal expert says


Opinion: Beware the long-lost threat of inflation


Can America grow like it used to? There are reasons to think not,


"Mueller warns of Russian midterm attack, while Trump attacks Mueller"


New York A.G. files fraud lawsuit against Trump family,...

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit against the President, his foundation, and his three oldest children for using the Trump Foundation in a "persistently fraudulent and illegal manner." Lawrence talks to David Cay Johnston who explains why he believes this is more reason for the President to release his tax returns.


Democrats rip into Ryan Zinke in two new open letters


A full-time worker earning minimum wage can't afford a 2-bedroom rental anywhere in the United States


Analysis: Trump reliably tells the truth on one thing: He likes the way dictators do business.


Lawrence: Who's sleeping better: Manafort or Trump?

Lawrence recaps today’s once in a century development : Donald Trump’s campaign chairman went to jail today, and Donald Trump, in anticipation of that, went to the White House lawn and lied- about Paul Manafort, about the Mueller investigation, and more.


Paul Ryan really has no idea of what’s been going on for the past two years, according to Paul Ryan


How a gender disparity in the immigration court system is affecting who makes it into the country


Even for him, Donald Trump did a lot of lying this morning. Between Fox and Friends and the exchange with reporters, I counted 22 false claims


Former CIA Director John Brennan tells @chucktodd for the first time about the meeting where he informed Senate Majority Leader McConnell about Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election. Brennan said that McConnnell questioned the findings & saw them through a political lens.


Opinion: Sessions and Sanders radically depart from the Christian religion


Mr. Trump excuses his cruelty to children by lying about Democrats. This is unacceptable on every level.


An inmate database shows that Manafort was booked into the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, at 8:22 PM. Jail records listed his housing unit as "VIP-1."


Cambridge Analytica's key staffers formed a new company that's working on Trump 2020. Like freaking cockroaches.


Watergate prosecutor: Manafort may never again "see the outside of a jail cell"


Don Lemon just went off on Steve Cortes, a Donald Trump defender and got him to admit that Trump is a liar and that separating children from their fams IS NOT a Democrat law but just a practice of the Trump administration


Trump puts Foundation donors at legal risk with bogus accounting

Jenny Johnson Ware, criminal tax attorney and partner at Johnson Moore, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the criminal referral against the Trump Foundation puts more than Donald Trump and his family in legal jeopardy.


Trump faces new legal peril from sketchy family charity

Rachel Maddow reviews some of the responses of tax law experts to the case referred by the New York attorney general against Donald Trump's charitable foundation and its members, including Trump's progeny.


Children begin arriving at Trump's 'tent city' camp in Texas

Rachel Maddow reports on the first migrant children arriving at Donald Trump's tent city detention camp after they were forcibly taken away from their parents as they sought asylum in the United States.


Up-hill legal battle for Manafort gets steeper from jail

Devlin Barret, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about the current criminal case against Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.


Manafort appears to choose jail over helping Trump Russia probe

Rachel Maddow points out that while the charges Paul Manafort is being prosecuted for are not connected to the relationship between Donald Trump and Russia, his Russian intelligence-tied co-defendant and his key position between Trump and Russia suggest that he has the kind of information that would help him avoid jail if he cut a deal with Robert Mueller's team.


Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort sent to jail to await trial

Rachel Maddow reads through the court transcript of Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lawyers trying and failing to convince US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson that their client deserved to remain out of jail while waiting for his trial.