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1/Some confusion out there about Libby leaking to the press. Yes, Armitage leaked as well. And neither was convicted of leaking, though Libby was convicted of lying about it. Here's the indictment:
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2/ Please note -- July 8 2003: "LIBBY advised Miller of his belief that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA."
That's Judith Miller of the NYT
That's Judith Miller of the NYT
3/ "On or about July 12, 2003, in the afternoon, LIBBY spoke by telephone to Cooper, who asked whether LIBBY had heard that Wilson’s wife was involved in sending Wilson on the trip to Niger. LIBBY confirmed to Cooper, without elaboration or qualification, that he had heard this"
PHILLIP: Markets also seem to be reacting to the president seemingly targeting individual private companies, in the case of Amazon. Why is the president doing that?...
KUDLOW: Again, his view on Amazon is we’ve got to have a level playing field with regards to taxes.
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KUDLOW: Again, his view on Amazon is we’ve got to have a level playing field with regards to taxes.
2/6
PHILLIP: They pay sales taxes, you know that. They also have a deal, the same bulk deal that other bulk shippers do with the postal service, so what’s the argument?
KUDLOW: There’s a lot of glitches in that....
3/6
KUDLOW: There’s a lot of glitches in that....
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Luke 7:
37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears.
37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears.
Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”
“Tell me, teacher,” he said.
“Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both.
“Tell me, teacher,” he said.
“Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both.
More on DACA not being in omnibus per senior Congressional GOP source (i will also tweet Dem view separately):
Over the weekend, the White House offered $25B for three years of the wall for 3 years of DACA. Democrats then said they needed citizenship for 1.8 million.
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Over the weekend, the White House offered $25B for three years of the wall for 3 years of DACA. Democrats then said they needed citizenship for 1.8 million.
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2/ Ryan and the WH said no but let’s keep talking about border-for-DACA, and Democrat leaders said no; negotiations continued.
On Sunday night, Ryan offered Schumer a clean 3 years DACA for 3 years wall. Schumer wanted to sleep on it.
On Sunday night, Ryan offered Schumer a clean 3 years DACA for 3 years wall. Schumer wanted to sleep on it.
3/ The next morning, Ryan called Pelosi and offered the same thing. Monday afternoon, Ryan offered a written proposal to Pelosi: straight 3 for 3. WH & Ryan offered a second formal and similar offer. GOPers say Democrats were silent on this second offer until Tuesday night
Some of the excerpts of the @Channel4 undercover interview with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix (just suspended): Mark Turnbull, Managing Director Political Global, and Dr Alex Tayler, the company’s chief data scientist:
2/ Nix on Trump campaign says: "We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy."
3/ Tayler: “Trump lost the popular vote by 3M votes but won the electoral college vote - that’s down to the data and the research. You did your rallies in the right locations, you moved more people out in those key swing states on election day. That’s how he won the election."
Since Fri. 5 pm:
*POTUS notified a porn star he might seek $20M from her;
*DOJ fired former deputy FBI director McCabe hours before retirement, as POTUS wanted;
* we learned Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica had unauthorized access to 50 million people's FB data.
*POTUS notified a porn star he might seek $20M from her;
*DOJ fired former deputy FBI director McCabe hours before retirement, as POTUS wanted;
* we learned Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica had unauthorized access to 50 million people's FB data.
All 3 of these stories are of potential consequence.
1) POTUS notifying court he might seek $20M from @StormyDaniels means he is now acknowledging he was party to the NDA Her attorney @MichaelAvenatti was daring POTUS to sue them and amazingly he took the bait. Discovery awaits.
1) POTUS notifying court he might seek $20M from @StormyDaniels means he is now acknowledging he was party to the NDA Her attorney @MichaelAvenatti was daring POTUS to sue them and amazingly he took the bait. Discovery awaits.
2) Regardless of the merits of what the FBI disciplinary officials recommended regarding McCabe, he is now quite likely in a quite different position and frame of mind than he would have been. And he’s a witness for Mueller.
On Sunday, Rev. Farrakhan gave his Saviours' Day 2018 Address, attended by thousands including one of the co-founders of the Women's March.
Shortly after 1:10:50 in the video Farrakhan proclaims that "the powerful Jews are my enemy.”
At 2:57:00 he begins approvingly quoting some of the anti-Semitic comments made by Rev. Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office.
I just asked someone from a previous administration who negotiated MidEast peace for thoughts on Jared Kushner continuing in his role after having his security clearance downgraded from Top Secret/SCI to Secret...
“Some parts of the job would be impossible. If I was denied a TS/SCI clearance I would have had to quit. You can't even go into meetings in the Sit room w/ a “secret” clearance -- they literally give that to anyone without a criminal record on day one...”
“... so there's nothing remotely sensitive at that level. In fact, it's hard to imagine having any substantive high level policy conversations that don't include at least Top Secret info...”
Aaron Feis, a football coach, was married with a daughter. He was killed protecting students. #DouglasHighSchool 
“My heart is broken,” wrote Fred Guttenberg on Facebook about daughter Jaime. “Yesterday, Jennifer Bloom Guttenberg and I lost our baby girl to a violent shooting at her school...am broken as I write this trying to figure out how my family gets through this” #DouglasHighSchool 
This photo of geography teacher Scott Beigel was posted on Facebook by Camp Starlight, where Beigel had been a counselor. #DouglasHighSchool
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Sept 2017, FBI was told of shooter's "I'm going to be a professional school shooter" post on Youtube. FBI said today its agents couldn't ID him -- though he had posted under his name with same unusual spelling.
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2/ By that time, Sept 2017, the shooter had:
* been suspended from school for fights and for bringing ammunition to school;
* been expelled for disciplinary reasons;
* bought a gun (Feb 2017)
* been suspended from school for fights and for bringing ammunition to school;
* been expelled for disciplinary reasons;
* bought a gun (Feb 2017)
3/ The shooter's social media footprint was also fairly disturbing by the time the FBI heard the complaint about his Youtube posting. And he posted under his own name.
Time for another episode of my 8-year-old’s new comic strip TOOTY CUBE ™️ 
Panel 1: TOOTY CUBE™️ says “Someone’s out to get me — but who?” 
Panel 2: Wherein we meet TOOTY CUBE’s™️ nemeses: CUBE CONTROL™️ 
So how and why is President Trump denying the remarks that he reportedly said?
I have some clarifying reporting from a source familiar the meeting. I want to start by saying that this does not make what he said any more acceptable, but it might shed some light on it all. 1/
I have some clarifying reporting from a source familiar the meeting. I want to start by saying that this does not make what he said any more acceptable, but it might shed some light on it all. 1/
The president did not refer to Haiti as a “shithole” country according to the source familiar with the meeting… though he DID say it about countries in Africa...
What happened, the source says, is there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president. 2/
What happened, the source says, is there was a conflation of two different remarks by the president. 2/
First, when talking about “temporary protected status” countries as part of the immigration deal it was mentioned that Salvadorans, Hondurans and Haitians have that status. 3/
‘Twas the night before Christmas
At Nakatomi Tower
When our story of homecoming
Begins with brute power
At Nakatomi Tower
When our story of homecoming
Begins with brute power
At Los Angeles airport, meet our savior, McClane;
With toys for his kids he disembarks from his plane.
To not see that this tale’s about Christmas is folly;
Did I mention that Mrs. McClane’s name is Holly?
With toys for his kids he disembarks from his plane.
To not see that this tale’s about Christmas is folly;
Did I mention that Mrs. McClane’s name is Holly?
“How 'bout some Christmas music?” McClane asks of Argyle.
“That *is* Christmas music,” the driver says with a smile.
To reunite with Holly, his aim is shared with shy laughter;
T’would be a holiday miracle to last ever after.
“That *is* Christmas music,” the driver says with a smile.
To reunite with Holly, his aim is shared with shy laughter;
T’would be a holiday miracle to last ever after.
POTUS called Sen. Warren "Pocahontas" in April 2017. The bi-partisan National Congress of the American Indians said "we cannot and will not stand silent when our Native ancestors, cultures, and histories are used in a derogatory manner for political gain.”
Continued NCAI: “the name of Pocahontas should not be used as a slur...we hoped that President Trump would refrain from using this name as a pejorative term and other such terms that insult Native peoples and degrade their cultures in order to score political points."
The Chinese government never wants to take questions from US reporters. In the past American presidents have insisted upon it as a demonstration of standing up for the freedoms our nation believes in. 1/
Here’s President George W Bush with the Chinese President in Shanghai taking a couple questions
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presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?p…
3/ here’s President Obama and President Xi taking a couple questions in China
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uschina.org/china-hub/rema…
October 28, 2008, COP Keating, Afghanistan: Captain Rob Yllescas is targeted for assassination by local insurgents. 
Yllescas, an immigrant from Guatemala, was an incredibly effective leader who won the trust of local Afghans.
The injuries he suffered, on this day in 2008, were from a remote controlled IED -- his men believe he was targeted for assassination. 3/
Thought experiment: let’s try to assume for the sake of argument that everyone in this story had the best and noblest of intentions. 1/
2/ That means: President Trump sought the advice of John Kelly with the best of intentions, and that’s how Kelly offered it.
3/ The means President Trump said what he said to the widow of SGT Johnson - repeating what Kelly recounted that GEN Dunford told him...
A word on media accountability. The world has seen not only the truth finally come out about Harvey Weinstein thanks to NYT & New Yorker 1/
2/ ... we've also seen direct/indirect examples of how members of the media helped cover up his alleged crimes. Publishing dirt on victims..
3/...plus killing excellent and solid journalism that would have exposed his crimes earlier thus stopping his victimizing new women
A few notes about this piece in @POLITICOMag, "How We Found Tom Price’s Private Jets" 1/ politico.com/magazine/story…
2/ first and foremost kudos to @ddiamond and @rachanadixit for incredible and diligent shoe leather reporting. 👏 👏 👏
3/ second - they note how untransparent HHS and Price were. This is the whole point of pols being opaque - hiding such abuses from you.
1/ Friend of mine just spent 48 hours in Puerto Rico. Some of his thoughts, which he said I could share, follow:
2/"Despite the chaos of no electricity, little water, lines for gas, food, cash machines and virtually everything else..."
3/ ...the people of Puerto Rico "are positive, optimistic and determined to rebuild and make Puerto Rico a better place."
2/ 1st what ever happened to POTUS waiting for facts before speaking about terror attacks? (I know: it's not true) cnn.it/2wj8aLR
3) Spanish police have said they *suspect* Barcelona is a terror attack, and we all may have our theories, but facts still coming in.