Monday, October 14, 2019

Fiona Hill has now been behind closed doors with House investigators for nine-plus hours. She's told lawmakers that she had high praise for Yovanovitch and spoke out against her removal as ambassador


I’ve seen a lot of misunderstanding about Hong Kong and the American flag. They don’t carry them simply because they love America. They carry them specifically to ask Congress to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019.


"He tried to smash the whistleblower, and it didn't work," James Baker, former FBI general counsel, said. "One of the things that Donald Trump has trafficked in is fear. And, once people are no longer afraid of him, I think more people will come forward."


Nancy Pelosi's bill to lower prescription drug prices would save Medicare $345 billion over 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.


So story keeps developing. Administration wants to play peacemaker. Can't hurt. Could help a great deal, if it works. Timing critical. Facts on the ground changing quickly.


Oh I’m sure they’ll stop slaughtering the Kurds if trump “asks them to.”


Treasury will again borrow $1 trillion to pay for tax cuts, spending


Ukrainian businessman Lev Parnas, one of two Giuliani associates arrested last week and charged for scheming to funnel foreign money into various US elections, is seen (on the left) in this Nov 6 2018 video I took at Governor Ron DeSantis' election victory party in Orlando.


Had Jim Jordan showed up for more than a couple of them he’d know his Benghazi committee interviewed nearly 60 State Department witnesses in the same location and barred non-members from attending.


Are you happy now, Trump supporters?


William Barr is helping to cover up Trump’s biggest crime of all


Devil's Advocate for those who still deny it: If Trump *were* a KGB asset working on Putin's wish list, what would he be doing differently today?


NEW: SECDEF Esper admits "the release of many dangerous ISIS detainees" as a result of Turkey's military incursion in northern Syria.


House Republicans defend Giuliani acting as the Shadow US Secretary of State while digging at Biden dirt, claiming that its ok because the Ukrainian government asked for him.


Speaking outside the House Intelligence Committee hearing for Fiona Hill today, @Jim_Jordan seems to now be arguing that unless Trump impeachment witnesses testify in from of all 435 members of the House, their committee testimony doesn't count. That isn't how committees work.


Fiona Hill had high praise for Trump's ousted ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who had been targeted by Giuliani and his associates and criticized by Trump. She reportedly made her opinions known about Yovanovitch's removal during her deposition


Today @GOP Rep. Matt Gantz crashed a hearing with Trump’s former top #Russia🇷🇺expert (Fiona Hill) and was KICKED OUT because he’s NOT a member of the committee. Remember when Gaetz crashed the #CohenHearing and tried to intimidate Cohen?


France's Macron warns Trump of need 'to prevent re-emergence' of IS


Zuckerberg has just responded to our report:


In 2016, the House GOP Majority leader told the Speaker he thought Trump and Rohrabacher were paid by the Russians. He did nothing. Now, #KievKevin is the new Minority @GOPLeader and he took Russian money funneled through a Ukrainian-Belarusian team of Trump's henchmen.


BREAKING: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked Turkish President Erdogan in a phone call to bring an immediate halt to military operations in northern Syria, according to a German government spokeswoman.


Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat? Raise your hand if you demand an answer to this question.


Two Soviet-born men were arrested for funneling foreign cash to Ron DeSantis to "buy potential influence with candidates, campaigns, and the candidates’ governments." We should know what they were buying. We should know why they picked DeSantis.


MCCONNELL on withdrawing from Syria: “Withdrawing American leadership from this pivotal region would not serve our nation’s short-, medium-, or long-term interests. It would only make a troubling situation much worse...”


Opinion: It’s time we properly hear from Jim Mattis


In 2016, the House GOP Majority leader told the Speaker he thought Trump and Rohrabacher were paid by the Russians. He did nothing. Now, #KievKevin is the new Minority @GOPLeader and he took Russian money funneled through a Ukrainian-Belarusian team of Trump's henchmen.


Same tactic by @RepMattGaetz when he strode across the hearing room before Michael Cohen testified. I've said this before and it fits again: this is a mob tactic -- send a tough guy into the courtroom to glare at the witness. (And I've seen much tougher guys than Gaetz do it).


Neil Cavuto gave Fox viewers nothing but the truth in this clip. Must watch.


Neil Cavuto gave Fox viewers nothing but the truth in this clip. Must watch.


Don't be fooled by Turkey's military operations. They won't do much for Erdogan. Russia, Iran & Hezbollah have a much stronger hand. In fact, they now own Syria. Turkey will, however, push as many Salfists back as it can, helping Al-Qaeda and ISIS regroup


I wonder if Barron is upset seeing his father in a video where he’s portrayed as a mass shooter.


Let’s give credit where credit is due to Logan Cook aka CarpeDonktum


The Landing page for the US State Department website as of noon on Monday October 14.


Over the weekend, State and Energy Dept officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating 50 nuclear weapons that the US had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey... Wow.


NEW: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting secretive talks & off-the-record dinners with conservative influencers in recent months to discuss free speech and partnerships. Among the participants: Tucker Carlson & Lindsey Graham.


Most of the time, the costs of Trump presidency are inchoate —laws broken, norms transgressed. But with immigrant children in cages or Kurds in line of fire, the costs are all too human & horrifying. Are you happy now, Trump fans? Is this worth a tax cut?


I'm not shocked by ANY OF THIS anymore. Jared Kushner failed to disclose he led a foundation funding illegal Israeli settlements before U.N. vote


Hong Kong protesters plead for American protection as police crackdown intensifies


Putin, Assad and Iran had long demanded the US leave.


My loco QAnon emailer sends this with the words, "You and all your Soros Deep State friends are going to die in GITMO." I replied: "Dude. GITMO is secretly a Deep State Beach resort now. It's like Mustique, only for the globalists."


Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Trump is "derelict in his duty" to protect America, and making major decisions "on a whim." He called for a joint resolution condemning the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria


New polling shows that most of the public does not think Trump has or will have a health care plan. Trump's argument that he'll protect Medicare also isn't sticking, the same poll found.


A Chinese official told @mcgregorrichard that Russia’s success in interfering in American elections prompted Beijing to take a look at what tools they could use to infiltrate politics in places like the Philippines and Taiwan


In all this recent talk about forever wars et al, am I detecting the whiff of Bannon gestank? I know he's been trying to slither back in, and some of Trump's word choices seem drawn from pudgy fascist's "Wee Lad's Book of Totalitarian Isolationist Fantasy."


I knew I’d seen this somewhere before. AG Barr and Hitler


Not one reporter has ever considered that Sanders didn't to talk about his past earlier because he didn't work for the first decade of his son's life. He lived in poverty in order to run for office 8x while his son was raised by his single mom on welfare.


Woman killed in own home when Fort Worth officer shoots her, police and witness say


Scoop from my colleagues in Beijing: China isn’t ready to sign what Trump calls the “phase one” deal without more talks later this month. Beijing also wants commitments prior to signing that the next round of U.S. tariffs, scheduled for Dec. 15, is off.


"Under Trump, many of the political appointees'have absolutely no understanding of U.S. government policy and State Department policy. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing,' one former U.S. ambassador said..."


This video shows what military experts described as a precision strike on a major trauma center in Syria, Nabad al Hayat. Analysts said it was a strike the Syrian air force is not currently capable of, only the Russians.


"Trump has for the first time in our history aligned the U.S. with our enemies and against everything we should stand for and that is in our interest."


Hand marked paper ballots. “A handful of Kansas counties are being urged to upgrade their voting machines to a voting system that creates a paper record of each vote.”


The Secretary of Defense said today that the U.S. was powerless against Turkey, which is not, I think, what many Trump supporters thought they were getting. Speak loudly and carry a feather duster.


Protesters at ICE facilities sometimes chant “quit your job” at agents. Now an activist group says they’ll help ICE agents quit and find new jobs — and within hours of launching the campaign, two ICE employees asked for help getting different gigs


Just a reminder that Trump's first national security advisor was a literal Turkish agent


“Zuckerberg will appear before the House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23, according to Maxine Waters, the panel’s Democratic chairwoman.”


Russia picked Donald Trump and ran him for president, former Israeli intelligence officer says


Jethro loves being a double-naught spy.


President Trump today said that the whistleblower who filed the complaint that set off the House impeachment inquiry must be identified "to determine WHY this was done to the USA."


The President is lying. Again. The whistleblower’s complaint matched the White House’s memorandum documenting the conversation between @realDonaldTrump and @ZelenskyyUa.


S&P 500 futures drop


Opinion: In a month, Trump has destroyed "America First"


Dictatorial regimes in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria have all planned genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Kurds | Opinion


Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari has had it with the "hubris and stupidity" of Wall Street bankers. "Honestly, my patience for these market opinions is basically gone," Kashkari told Axios in an exclusive interview


By "mess" you mean "the warming-up act for the genocide."


Now he is demanding to know the identity of a federally protected whistleblower.


"I think my rhetoric brings people together," Trump said. But a nationwide review conducted by @ABC identified at least 36 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault.


Calling out President Trump by name, Joe Biden's campaign has introduced a plan to "strengthen our laws to ensure that no future president can ever again abuse the office for personal gain."


As Trump withdraws U.S. forces from northern Syria, his administration scrambles to respond


Next week tariffs on hundreds of European products, from French wine to Italian parmesan cheese, take effect. It might just be cheaper to come to Europe and enjoy it firsthand.


America 2019: traitors writing foreign policy, racists writing immigration policy, thieves writing economic policy, polluters writing environmental policy, ignoramuses writing science policy, a hired goon heading the department of justice and One Fucking Moron to Rule Them All


Trump falsely claims "virtually every Democrat" supports "ripping babies straight from the mother's womb up to the moment of birth."


.@bradleytusk: Elizabeth Warren’s anti-corruption proposal will lead to a more vibrant American economy — something all corporate lobbyists should be able to get behind.


Why is every news source reporting on Hunter Biden, whose dad's not in office, serving on a Chinese company’s board? But nothing about foreign deals of Eric, Donny Jr. and Ivanka - while daddy refuses to release his tax returns & reveal sources of income


EU must consider Turkish arms embargo, call for end to Syria offensive: France


He's a lawyer. This is extortion.


Trump is paying Facebook to spread political disinformation to millions of people.


Lutsenko told @RichardEngel that he met with Giuliani “maybe 10 times.” Anti-corruption advocate @dkaleniuk believes Lutsenko entertained Giuliani’s conspiracy theory to curry favor with Trump’s circle & keep his job.


BREAKING: Nobel Economics Prize for 2019 awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for studies on poverty.


Donald Trump may not be able to count on the affluent Ohio suburbs that all modern Republican presidents have relied on to deliver winning margins in a must-win battleground state


BREAKING: China wants more talks before signing Trump’s "phase one" trade deal


Russia's military helped save Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. Our visual investigation shows that included bombing 4 hospitals in 12 hours. Here’s the evidence — videos, flight logs and Russian Air Force cockpit recordings — that proves what happened.


Putin and Bonesaws


Another journalist leaving Syria now to avoid the regime as it takes back Kurdish territory. “This is the last time we will be in Syria. It’s very sad.”


Treasury will again borrow $1 trillion to pay for tax cuts, spending


John Oliver thinks that Rudy Giuliani is totally screwed: "Trump will abandon him"


The media needs to focus on the real corruption


This is a must read. Commander in chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces Mazloum Abdi writes of being forced to choose between facing genocide or allegiance with Putin and Assad


Russia never sought to be a small-time fixer in the Middle East. Its goal was to reclaim its status as a global power broker.


Fox brainwashing propaganda in full effect...


Trump's Former Russia Adviser Set To Testify As Part of Impeachment Inquiry


And this is one more reason why Pakistan fully support Turkey's offensive into Syria....its hurts Israel.


Reports describing a violent video played at a Trump Campaign event in which images of reporters & @JohnMcCain are being slain by Pres Trump violate every norm our society expects from its leaders& the institutions that bare their names. I stand w/ @whca in registering my outrage


‘Bolton went ballistic’: New report describes panic and fury at White House after aides found out about Ukraine call


Syrian government troops strike deal with Kurdish-led forces to hold off Turkey's military offensive. Kurdish authorities have already reported the escape of hundreds of people with links to ISIS from a detention camp


Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver


Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy. He must be impeached. — Joe Biden


Russian State TV has just criticised the US & the Kurds in the same breath: America for "betraying & dumping the Kurds...the US is not a reliable partner." And why the Kurds? "For choosing America as their ally, not Assad or Russia.." Here's the transcript:


According to early exit polls, PiS won about 44% of the vote. Its largest competitor, the Civic Coalition, got 27%, the left 12%, and the right-wing Kukiz movement 10%.


Vital we withdraw nuclear weapons from Turkey. NATO should administratively cut links to their armed forces. Erdogan an authoritarian threat to his own people and his NATO allies.


America 2019: traitors writing foreign policy, racists writing immigration policy, thieves writing economic policy, polluters writing environmental policy, ignoramuses writing science policy, a hired goon heading the department of justice and One Fucking Moron to Rule Them All


"Joking" about shredding the Constitution and becoming president for life has now become a standard part of Trump's speeches


The Kurds will be just as dead, and Putin will laugh even harder as we sanction our own ally. Competent policy is about not ending up in no-win situations like this. But because we have an emotionally disordered president and a party of enablers, here we are.


BREAKING — Turkish military and opposition’s SNA are about to begin an offensive to Manbij to expel YPG from there, Turkish local TV report says BUT, we don’t know whether US forces are still in the city or not.


This video is way worse than people can imagine without seeing it. It’s a terrorist recruiting video with Trump as a mass shooter murdering Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and many others. Every Republican in Congress should be asked if they condemn it.


Federal judge rules that President Trump violated federal law when he used his declaration of a national emergency to get millions for building a wall on the southern border.


Today’s Russian government newspaper slams Europe for its reaction to Turkey’s military operation in Syria (Moscow clearly welcoming divisions within NATO.) Another paper describes Putin’s visit to Saudi Arabia as “Russia’s new push into the Middle East.


Syrian government forces have reportedly entered a northern town close to Turkey's border. The move came a day after Syria's Kurds said government forces agreed to help them against Turkey and President Trump ordered all U.S. troops withdrawn from the area


Do President Trump's action rise to the level of a crime? @MiekeEoyang: *pulls out the Constitution*


How public servant squirrel away such riches?


Her net worth is $1.6 million.Last October, she listed up to $1 million in debt as she steps down as U.N. ambassador. WTH?


The Kurds will be just as dead, and Putin will laugh even harder as we sanction our own ally. Competent policy is about not ending up in no-win situations like this. But because we have an emotionally disordered president and a party of enablers, here we are.


I live in the South Carolina Lowcountry. I’ve lived on Kiawah. What’s missing from this picture is that the homeownership cost is one thing; the HOA dues are another. Who is giving Nikki the money to afford this? @CNN and other news orgs should investigate