Bernie today:
He will seek to expand Medicare, lower the eligibility age & lower drug prices with a fast-track reconciliation bill
He said: “That’s going to be right in there I mean, to me, it is incomprehensible that in the richest country in the history of the world
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"that if you are 80 years of age, you may not have any teeth in your mouth to digest your food you may not have be able to hear your grandchildren speaking, we have to address that issue
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"And the way we address that is another long neglected crisis is the pharmaceutical industry in this country gets away with murder, they charge us any prices that they want
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"That has got to change and we're going to negotiate prescription drug prices, and we raise between five and $600 billion to expand Medicare and to lower the eligibility age.”
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Last night The Intercept broke a call Joe Manchin had with a billionaire donor gp asking for help with 3 more votes on 1/6 Commission
-his "last, best argument" for keeping the filibuster
Poss ethics violations trying to get a Blunt vote
Thin line Senator! theintercept.com/2021/06/16/joe…
2/"Manchin told the assembled donors that he needed help flipping a handful of Republicans from no to yes on the January 6 commission in order to strip the “far left” of their best argument against the filibuster. om lines.
3/"The filibuster is a critical priority for the donors on the call, as it bottles up progressive legislation that would hit their bottom lines. When it came to Sen. Roy Blunt, a moderate Missouri Republican who voted no on the commission, Manchin offered a creative solution.
Out sick today
I'm okay
I'll return tomorrow
On top of all the other Trump spygate news
We now know the extent to which Meadows pressured DOJ
And Chris Wray's testimony today?
Only 1 thing to say:
Holy. Shit.
⬇️ gizmodo.com/parler-warned-…
2/"during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday probing the security failures that led to the insurrection, it was revealed that on more than 50 occasions, Parler had attempted to warn the FBI of the growing potential for violence.
3/"Parler had uncovered “specific threats of violence being planned at the Capitol” on its platform and was apparently ready to sing like a canary in the weeks leading up to January 6, outing its own members and providing transcripts of the concerning communication to the feds.
NYT pointing out that Don McGahn was Trump campaign's top lawyer in 2016 & interacted with Manafort
Trump DOJ subpoenaed McGahn's personal info the day AFTER Mueller unsealed new fraud charges against Manafort
Was this about Russia, too?
(thread) nytimes.com/2021/06/13/us/…
2/"One of the roughly concurrent events was that the federal court in the EDVA was the center of one part of the Russia inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that focused on Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign
3/"Because Mr. McGahn had been the top lawyer for the Trump campaign in 2016, it is possible that at some earlier point he had been among those in contact with someone whose account the Mueller team was scrutinizing in early 2018
New:
Giving new meaning to targeting political opponents:
"Trump had the DOJ seize records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides & family members"
Unsurprising
Yet still absolutely stunning: nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/…
2/"As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee,
3/"aides and family members. One was a minor. All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, then the panel’s top Democrat and now its chairman,
Chris Murphy issued a statement today saying that gun control talks with Cornyn have broken down
The issue: agreeing on a measure to meaningfully increase the number of gun sales that require background checks
He says he's now "talking with other" GOP about this
Not looking good
Sen Murphy's statement:
"I’ve spent a lot of time talking with Senator Cornyn about proposals to increase background checks. I have been very open to compromise and I think Senator Cornyn was negotiating in good faith.
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"But we haven't been able to get to a bill that would meaningfully increase the number of gun sales that require background checks
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NEW:
Uh oh!!!
Per WaPo:
Manhattan DA Cy Vance's office has convened a special grand jury in the Trump Organization case (& others)
This suggests Vance has found evidence of crime
Could indict Trump, his execs, Trump Org itself or a combo washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
2/"Manhattan's district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict .. Trump, other executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges
3/"The panel was convened recently and will sit three days a week for six months. It is likely to hear several matters — not just the Trump case — during the duration of its term, which is longer than a traditional New York state grand-jury assignment, these people said.