Day 632 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 422 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injured 546 and Congress has taken NO action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget #NeverAgain #EnoughIsEnough
There have been 22 mass shootings (4+ shot or killed, not including the shooter) in the 27 days of November, bringing this year's total to 323.
Mass shootings in the United States in 2018 by month:
January: 22
February: 14
March: 17
April: 25
May: 28
June: 51
July: 46
August: 34
September: 34
October: 30
November: 22
Real-time U.S. gun violence data for 2018, as of November 27th:
•13,213 gun deaths
•25,536 gun injuries
•603 children shot
•2,561 teenagers shot
•1,816 armed home invasions
•1,600 incidents of defensive gun use
•1,435 unintentional shootings
•323 mass shootings
The NRA just reported losing $55m in income from 2016 to 2-17
thedailybeast.com/the-nra-just-r…
Three US service members were killed in an IED blast in Afghanistan, the US military says. Three others and an American contractor were wounded.
11 service members have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
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Sarah Sanders dismisses government report on climate change: "Not based on facts" hill.cm/aUW9HOM
WATCH: CNN airs fact-check graphics as Sarah Sanders criticizes climate report hill.cm/qBQSfN4
MSNBC declines to allow Sarah Sanders to dictate its programming.
Thank you!
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Reminder: The Trump administration is systematically locking up thousands of children at unheard of rates - now more than 14,000 are in U.S. custody.
The government classifies these children as "unaccompanied"
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The Trump administration has quietly resumed separating immigrant families at the border, @ProPublica reports. Immigration advocates say it’s “zero tolerance” with a new name while federal officials say they do it for the safety of the children.
bit.ly/2QqUVTy
"It’s so disheartening. This was supposed to be a policy that ended," said Jodi Ziesemer, a supervising attorney at Catholic Charities that is representing a 4-year-old boy that was separated from his father at the border propublica.org/article/border…
2,349 largely Central American boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 17 were sleeping inside the highly guarded facility in rows of bunk beds in canvas tents in Tornillo, TX.
For each night each child spends, it costs taxpayers up to $1,200.
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A new government watchdog memo says the Trump admin waived rigorous background checks for all staff working at the nation's largest detention camp for migrant children, sidestepping requirements for child abuse and neglect checks, according to AP. apnews.com/dc435c2047fe4b…
How does North Korea keep going amid sanctions? Illegal shipping of textiles, seafood, coal and oil.
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CIA Korea Mission Chief Andy Kim--Sec Pompeo's right-hand man for North Korea--is departing at end of year. yna.kr/AEN20181128000…
The White House is preventing Gina Haspel or any other intelligence official from briefing the Senate on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, The Guardian reports.
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So much for that story that said Kirsten Fontenrose left the NSC because she wanted a tougher policy towards Saudi Arabia.
She's now working for consulting firm linked to the Saudi government.
i24news.tv/en/news/intern…
Trump has made at least 209 separate arguments against the Russia investigation, according to an exhaustive analysis from TIME. time.com/5290531/donald…
Thomas Farr, a controversial judicial nominee for the Eastern District of N.C., is teetering on the edge of defeat after Jeff Flake made good on his promise to oppose judicial nominees until he gets a full Senate vote on a bill to protect Mueller.
politico.com/story/2018/11/…
Paul Manafort allegedly held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
"A well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaks released a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers."
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
An internal document written by Ecuador's Senain intelligence agency and seen by the Guardian lists "Paul Manaford" [sic] as one of several well-known guests. It also mentions "Russians." theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
MARCH 2016: Paul Manafort secretly meets with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
MARCH 2016: Paul Manafort joins Trump campaign.
REMINDER: Trump mentioned Wikileaks 164 times in last month of election goo.gl/PFcbm5
Mueller's team has reportedly been investigating a meeting between Paul Manafort and Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in Quito in 2017 and has specifically asked if WikiLeaks or Julian Assange were discussed in the meeting. cnn.com/2018/11/27/pol…
Bob Mueller's endgame is in sight and he's already written a 287-page report: wired.com/story/manafort…
Roger Stone's efforts to seek WikiLeaks documents detailed in draft Mueller document cnn.it/2QmrDFB @SaraMurray reports
Mueller has emails from Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi about the WikiLeaks email dump.
"Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging," Corsi said in email to Stone, according to draft court docs. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
The draft statement of offense Mueller's team provided to Jerome Corsi mentioned Trump by name, infuriating Trump’s legal team.
In response, Trump's attorneys delayed submitting his written answers and formally complained to Mueller and DOJ.
washingtonpost.com/politics/corsi…
Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent, has been moved to solitary confinement thedailybeast.com/accused-russia…
A blocked number in Donald Trump Jr.'s phone records around the time of the infamous Trump Tower meeting may be among the first targets for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff tells USA Today. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Pretty significant shift from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, from Trump's "No collusion" to "[Trump] *was not part of* any collusion."
Inspectors found some violations at a large Iowa daycare center when it was owned by Matt Whitaker, including deficiencies in 2007 that prompted a downgrade in its license status, according to records.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/whitaker-…
Richard Blumenthal wants the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on Matthew Whitaker's "conflicts of interest," including if he violated a federal law on political activities. thehill.com/blogs/floor-ac…
Former U.S. acting solicitor general Neal Katyal said the NYT report that Trump tried to order prosecution of Comey and Clinton is "tragic" and an impeachable offense.
"This is not about politics. This is about the rule of law."
msnbc.com/the-beat-with-…
Comey: "I am a little bit numb to [Trump's] threats and tweets because there is nothing there. Then I stop myself, because it's wrong for me ... to become numb to the president of the U.S. announcing that a private citizen should be prosecuted."
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James Comey on Matthew Whitaker: "He may not be the sharpest knife in our drawer, but he can see his future and knows that if he acted in an extralegal way, he would go down in history for the wrong reasons. I'm sure he doesn’t want that."
wgbh.org/news/national-…
Did Trump think there'd be no issue with firing tear gas into a sovereign country? reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Sinclair Makes 200 Local News Stations Run Segment Supporting Use of Tear Gas on Migrants mediaite.com/a/dmxfp
Jared Kushner will receive the Order of the Aztec — Mexico’s highest honor for foreigners — from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto this Friday on the sidelines of the G20 in Buenos Aires, per a source familiar.
Four unidentified donors gave nearly $17,000,000 last year to a conservative nonprofit group that distributed funds to organizations that backed Trump's inaugural committee and his two Supreme Court nominees, according to tax documents. washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…
According to emails reviewed by The Daily Beast, Scott Pruitt's team chose the topics for Fox & Friends interviews, knew the questions in advance and even approved parts of the script. thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friend…
New UN report released today on climate change: "Now more than ever, unprecedented and urgent action is required by all nations. The assessment of actions by the G20 countries indicates that this is yet to happen."
Trump claims he’s too intelligent to believe science. “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air & our water and it’s at a record clean.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Meanwhile, a dead sperm whale washes up on a beach with 13 lbs of plastic inside his stomach. And two flip-flips. livescience.com/64139-sperm-wh…
"I’m doing deals and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed," Trump said. "They’re making a mistake because I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me."
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Donald Trump made it his personal mission to take out Jon Tester.
Here’s how the Montana Democrat survived. huffingtonpost.com/entry/jon-test…
In case you missed yesterday's thread:
Manafort‘s lawyer repeatedly briefed Trump’s attorneys on his client’s discussions with Mueller team while Manafort was cooperating with Russia probe, inflaming tensions, NYT reports nytimes.com/2018/11/27/us/…
Here's a weak denial:
"Giuliani said [Trump] does not recall ever speaking to either Stone or Corsi about WikiLeaks." washingtonpost.com/politics/corsi…