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VIDEO - MSNBC Reporter Panel Complains Some Are Not Listening to Their Narrative | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 13:33
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Monday night news broadcasts were dominated by a Washing Postreport that claims that President Trump may have disclosed classified information to top Russian officials in the Oval Office. Many in the media were quick to pounce on the report and condemn the President. On MSNBC's The 11Th Hour, host Brian Williams and some of his guests bemoaned how some Americans weren't buying into their narratives about the President over the last few days, including the day's breaking news story.
''Jeremy, I've been thinking about you because of the time you spend thinking about and reminding people about our two bubbles,'' Williams said, getting ready to tee up The New York Times' Jeremy Peters. ''Is this one skewing both ways? Is this a partisan looking story?'' A disheartened sounding Peters responded with: ''I think, Brian, it's shaping up to be that way.''
Peters' analysis was little more than veiled jabs at Fox News, although he didn't mention them by name, for not having the same narrative as the rest of the media:
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VIDEO - Guests Remind NBC, CNN: Obama Gave Classified Intel to Russia | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 13:07
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While NBC and CNN joined the rest of the media in rushing to condemn the Trump White House over an unconfirmed Washington Post report that the President inadvertently shared classified information with Russian officials, guests on both networks provided important context that the Obama administration intentionally shared classified intelligence with Russia less than a year ago.
Appearing on Friday's NBC Today, security analyst Juan Zarate warned: ''The problem is the Russians aren't trustworthy. The Russians have proven that when we've provided information in the past, they've used it against us.'' He then proceeded to explain how former President Obama gave the Russians classified information just months ago:
VIDEO - Morning Joe Treats WashPost Writer To Softball Interview | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 13:03
Following the uproar brought about by his Washington Post article that President Donald Trump leaked classified information during a meeting with Russian officials, columnist Greg Miller turned to the hostile and completely unsafe space of Morning Joe to discuss his story. Just kidding! The friendly liberal show didn't even bother to ask the questions that a real reporter would ask, pressing Miller on his use of numerous anonymous sources. The unconfirmed scoop comes on the heels of the Post getting several facts wrong in its rush to report on the President firing FBI Director James Comey.
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Instead, the cast of Morning Joe simply assumed all of Miller's sources were credible:
WILLIE GEIST: So, Greg, since you do have, obviously, a good source in the national security community who shared with you their concerns about the president leaking this, did he say anything else to the Russians that's important for our viewers or for American to hear? Did he, for example, admonish them for interfering in our election as all the intelligence agencies have confirmed?
MILLER: Well, you know, that's another one of the big issues here. Our story touches on that a bit. There is a lot of frustration within the administration. There are professionals who are deeply knowledgeable about these regions around the world and they take time, they put together pages of preparatory material for the president, two to five-page papers, for instance, were prepared in advance of his meeting with these Russian officials.
What he was supposed to stick to in terms of a script and what he could expect to hear from them and what their questions were and how to handle those things--the President has insisted all of this material be boiled down to less than a page of bullet points and then often strays even from those. And so, in this case he just again goes off script. Not dissimilar to how badly he went off script in describing what he had done and why to the FBI director James Comey.
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I found Willie Geist's use of the word 'obviously' here to be quite interesting given the context of what's currently happening. The Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines 'obviously' as being either a) in an obvious manner or as b) as is plainly evident. At the moment, we don't actually know who or what is the Washington Post's source for this story. The White House's National Security Advisor, H.R. McMallister, says that the story is false and cites as evidence both him and the Secretary of State being in the room at the same time when the incident in question occurred.
So far, the White House has denied President Trump leaked classified information to the foreign officials. At the very least, the facts are far from obvious.
Here are excerpts of the May 16 exchange:
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6:03 AM ET
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, no, he talked for 60 seconds. McMaster talked for 60 seconds. The general didn't answer any questions, and even conservatives last night were saying it was the classic non-denial denial, straight out of the annals of Watergate. But, a non-denial denial for a question that wasn't asked in an issue that wasn't raised.
GREG MILLER: Right, he's giving a bit of a head fake here at a minimum um, saying the president did not reveal sources and methods. But, that's not what our story alleges. instead what or story says is that the president revealed what those sources and methods had obtained, had collected, the information that came through those sources and methods. And in all of the statements from the white house last night, none of them could answer why if this was so ordinary and not a big deal, why was it necessary for McMaster's own staff to come out of that meeting, call right away, place calls to the CIA director and to the director of the national security agency.
SCARBOROUGH: That really is the key Greg, isn't it? It's was just like when the white house a couple days ago is pushing back on the story of the deputy attorney general. The next day it ended up not being true. Last night they do the same thing, they push out, they put general Mcmaster out there. And, Of course, the information provided will lead back possibly to those first two issues that he actually did bring up. But, why did they rush and go to the director of the CIA and the head of the NSA and say this very important information has been spilled out? Why did they ask you at "The Washington Post" not to disclose this information because it was so highly sensitive. Again, the denials fall flat in the face of the information that we had last night when your story came out.
MILLER: Right, so it really doesn't add up. I mean, you're right, It doesn't make sense that you would call the CIA director to give him a heads-up that the president had just overstepped in a serious way in a meeting with senior Russian officials, calling the NSA director. Those two senior intelligence officials are the ones who are dealing most directly with this partner. They're the ones that would have to deal with this partner, they're the ones that would have to deal with this fallout, to try to keep this intelligence channel open, to try to protect it and to try to contain whatever damage was caused by this disclosure.
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6:19 AM ET
WILLIE GEIST: So, Greg, since you do have, obviously, a good source in the national security community who shared with you their concerns about the president leaking this, did he say anything else to the Russians that's important for our viewers or for American to hear? Did he, for example, admonish them for interfering in our election as all the intelligence agencies have confirmed?
MILLER: Well, you know, that's another one of the big issues here. Our story touches on that a bit. There is a lot of frustration within the administration. There are professionals who are deeply knowledgeable about these regions around the world and they take time, they put together pages of preparatory material for the president, two to five-page papers, for instance, were prepared in advance of his meeting with these Russian officials.
What he was supposed to stick to in terms of a script and what he could expect to hear from them and what their questions were and how to handle those things, the president has insisted all of this material be boiled down to less than a page of bullet points and then often strays even from those. And so, in this case he just again goes off script. Not dissimilar to how badly he went off script in describing what he had done and why to the FBI director James Comey.
GEIST: So, he didn't raise the Russian interference in the presidential election with the foreign minister and the ambassador?
MILLER: I have no indication that that issue came up. I would regard that as highly, highly unlikely. All that we no know is the White House official version of what was said in this meeting asserts that Trump raised the issue of Ukraine and a couple other things. There's no mention in the official white house account of this conversation of raising what Russia did in the election last year. What you're pointing to is one of the really fundamentally shocking aspects of this.
Revealing classified information to anyone under any circumstances by the commander-in-chief would be a big problem, but doing so in this case with Russian officials, including the Russian ambassador, whose presence in this meeting is astonishing. He is already an individual linked to the departure of Trump's first national security adviser, Mike Flynn. He is already linked to the attorney general Jeff sessions' forced recusal from anything related to the Russia instigation and now he's in the oval office with Trump.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So, Lavrov said the meeting didn't cover the absurd claims of Russian meddling. Greg Miller, thank you for your reporting.
VIDEO - FLASHBACK: NBC Pushed Back at Suggestions Obama Admin Leaked Classified Info | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 13:00
Like the rest of the liberal media elite, NBC's Today was in a frenzy over the Washington Post's charge -- denied by the Trump administration -- that the President shared classified information in a recent meeting with Russian officials. Co-host Savannah Guthrie started Tuesday's show by saying the White House was in "crisis mode," with "outrage in Washington" over the "jaw-dropping story."
But five years ago, Today had a different take when the allegation was that the Obama administration leaked classified information to a pair of filmmakers making a Hollywood blockbuster (later released under the name Zero Dark Thirty) about the highly-secret raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
VIDEO - Conway Fires Back at 'Morning Joe' Suggestion She Hates Trump; 'Absurd' 'Insinuations' | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:57
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On Tuesday afternoon, White House counselor and former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway responded on Twitter to suggestions lodged on Monday by Morning Joe co-hosts/lovers Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that she secretly loathes President Trump.
A day after the MSNBC pundits claimed that she complained about disliking Trump and only taking the gig for the paycheck, Conway began her statement by noting that the one-time Trump fan boy and girl ''have become virulent critics of the President and those close to him.''
VIDEO - Toobin Declares Trump 'Obstruction of Justice,' Ignores Contradictory Evidence | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:52
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A week to the day after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, a memo he purportedly written claiming Trump asked him to end the Mike Flynn investigation was leaked to The New York Times. In the aftermath of the first story, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin flew off the handle and compared it Watergate. A week later, Toobin was again jumping to conclusions and ignoring the sketchy facts. ''Three words: Obstruction of justice,'' he exclaimed to Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room.
''Telling the FBI director to close down an investigation of your senior campaign adviser for his activities during your campaign for president, if that's true, that is obstruction of justice,'' he continued to opine. But even though Toobin qualified his remarks with ''if that's true'' it was blatantly obvious that he was banking on the shocking accusation to be accurate.
Un-ironically, Toobin lectured about how to put together evidence to corroborate a story. ''When you have two people with contradictory versions of a conversation, what you look at is-- you look at their demeanor, you look at their motives to lie. But you also look at corroboration,'' he told Blitzer. He also explained that:
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VIDEO - Matthews on Comey Memo: I've Placed My Trust in Liberal Papers, Bureaucrats to Tell Me the Truth | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:50
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Amidst the explosive New York Times story on Tuesday night about the supposed James Comey memo, MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews informed viewers that the two institutions he's most entrusted his faith in during these tumultuous times are large, liberal newspapers and lefty bureaucrats in the mold of Sally Yates.
Late in the commercial-free Hardball, Matthews stated out of the blue that ''I have confidence in two forces'' to tell him the truth and maintain integrity, with the first being ''straight front page media.''
VIDEO - Frenzied Nets Pounce: 'Impeach,' 'I-Word,' 'Impeachable Offense' | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:43
[See NewsBusters for more.] The frenzied journalists at ABC, CBS and NBC on Wednesday smelled blood in the water. They threw around the ''I-word,'' ''impeachment'' and ''impeachable offenses'' for Donald Trump. Rather than waiting for actual memos to appear or for evidence unrelated to anonymous sourcing, former Bill Clinton operative and Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos excitedly wondered, ''The big question, did President Trump try to block the FBI's Russia investigation [and] commit an impeachable offense?'' Talking to liberal Congressman Adam Schiff, the journalist, who donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, mused, ''You have the firing of Director Comey with the President saying Russia was on his mind. What would it take for that pattern to be an impeachable offense?''
VIDEO - David Gregory Lectures Fox News to Shut Up on Media Bias | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:41
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN political analyst David Gregory took after Fox News on Wednesday's New Day, lecturing them to stop saying what CNN and others are doing is ''activism over journalism.'' This is the same David Gregory who ranted for gun control while displaying a high-capacity magazine (violating D.C. gun laws) on the Meet the Press set. And it's the same David Gregory that wouldn't let any Republican bring up rape charges against Bill Clinton when he was an MSNBC host. Gregory didn't want to talk about for ten seconds. At NBC and MSNBC, Gregory was more mouthpiece than moderator. But now, Gregory is insisting ''It is a time of reckoning for Republicans, to try and get back on track here and get to the bottom of what the president did.'' CNN was insisting on Republicans getting the ''courage'' to ''rein in'' the president.
VIDEO - Subtle: MSNBC Begins Airing Watergate Promo | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:31
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Wishfully anticipating the impeachment of Donald Trump, MSNBC has begun airing a promo ad for left-wing primetime host Chris Hayes set at Washington's infamous Watergate hotel. The not-so-subtle reference implying President Trump is the new Richard Nixon in the wake of firing FBI Director James Comey.
Hayes, standing in the D.C. landmark, told viewers: ''Watergate. We know it's name because there were reporters who never stopped asking questions.'' Hinting at the Trump administration, he continued: ''Now, who knows where the questions will take us. But I do know this, I'm not going to stop asking them.''
VIDEO - MSNBC's O'Donnell Goes on Tirade Against Trump's 'Ignorance'-Causing Impeachment | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:30
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After wrongly and confidently predicting that Hillary Clinton had 99% chances to beat Donald Trump in the presidential election, late-night MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell was back at it again with the brazen speculation, Tuesday night. To open his show, O'Donnell went on a lengthy takedown of the president, comparing him to Richard Nixon and his Watergate scandal, even claiming that Trump had done ''exactly'' the same thing Nixon was impeached for.
VIDEO - Professor on MSNBC: Trump Actions Parallel the Rise of Nazis in Germany | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:22
Ever since James Comey was fired from his position as FBI Director by Donald Trump, the progressive left and their allies have been in an uproar. Several have voiced the opinion that Trump did this in order to end the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. One Yale history professor, however, put forth the claim that the President's actions foreshadow a much more sinister pattern of events during Wednesday's edition of Morning Joe.
In showcasing his new book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons Learned From The Twentieth Century, author and professor of history at Yale, Timothy Snyder insisted that the manner in which Comey found out about his firing is comparable to Hitler's infamous death squad, the SS.
VIDEO - Nets Flock Special Prosecutor News, Knock Trump and Mock GOP | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:14
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It appears that 5 o'clock P.M. has become the new witching hours, since for over a week that's been when most of the major news stories regarding President Trump have been broken. It was no different Wednesday evening when D.C. was rocked by the announcement that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to be the special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation. The Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) led with the development on their evening programs, during which they celebrated it and slammed the right.
''We're reporting from the White House tonight because of the rapidly developing investigation into whether the President tried to shut down an FBI investigation of his administration,'' announced Anchor Scott Pelley to kick off CBS Evening News. ''Among the developments late today, the Department of Justice just announced it will appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as an independent special counsel to investigate the Trump administration and allegations of Russian interference with the presidential election.''
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VIDEO - Maddow Claims New Flynn Development Might Be Biggest 'Presidential Scandal' Ever | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:12
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been spending a few minutes of the 10:00 p.m. Eastern hour on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on the heels of rumors O'Donnell could be axed, so it was not surprising that Wednesday's conversation turned up a possible Notable Quotable.
Referring to a fresh New York Times story about Mike Flynn, Maddow suggested a New York Times report that the Trump White House hired Flynn as National Security Adviser despite Flynn being under federal investigation would mark the biggest scandal in presidential history.
VIDEO - Sick: Kimmel Jokes Trump Could Shoot Dead 'Fox & Friends' Co-Host, Still Have Show's Support | MRCTV
Thu, 18 May 2017 12:09
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During the opening monologue of his eponymous ABC late-night comedy show Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel crudely joked that President Trump could shoot dead one of the three co-hosts on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends and still have the other two's full support.
''Those three on Fox & Friends, Trump could shoot one in the heart live on the air, the surviving two would still defend Donald Trump,'' Kimmel joked to the delight of his liberal audience, clearly not thinking about the civility of such a joke.
VIDEO - Leftist Hero Noam Chomsky: Trump-Russia Collusion Story is a 'Joke' And 'Not a Major Issue'
Thu, 18 May 2017 00:58
Prof. Noam Chomsky.
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Left-wing icon Noam Chomsky, an MIT professor, author, philosopher, and frequent debate opponent of the late conservative William F. Buckley Jr., said the news stories about the Trump presidential campaign somehow "colluding" with Russia were "a joke" and "not a major issue," but they are tearing away at a positive element of the Trump administration -- the drive to reduce tensions with Russia.
During the April 4 edition of Democracy Now! panelist Juan Gonzalez noted that Chomsky had referred to the Trump-Russia issue as "a joke," and asked the professor, "Could you give us your view on what's happening and why there's so much emphasis on this particular issue?"
Chomsky, the author of more than 100 books, said, "It's a pretty remarkable fact that -- first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn't just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn't like, institutes military dictatorships."
"Simply in the case of Russia alone'--it's the least of it'--the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways," said Chomsky. "So, this, as I say, it's considered'--it's turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world."
''So why are the Democrats focusing on this?" he said. "In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump's programs which is fairly reasonable, the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That's'--the tensions on the Russian border are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed."
"Just a couple of days ago," said Chomsky, "the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, came out and said he just can't believe that so much attention is being paid to apparent efforts by the incoming administration to establish connections with Russia. He said, 'Sure, that's just what they ought to be doing.'"
Continuing, Chomsky said, "So, you know, yeah, maybe the Russians tried to interfere in the election. That's not a major issue. Maybe the people in the Trump campaign were talking to the Russians. Well, okay, not a major point, certainly less than is being done constantly."
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)
"And it is a kind of a paradox," he said, "that the one issue that seems to inflame the Democratic opposition is the one thing that has some justification and reasonable aspects to it.''
Chomsky is the Institute Emeritus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has worked since 1955. His latest book is Requiem for the American Dream.
VIDEO - Gov. Kasich: I hate to say I told you so ... - CNN Video
Wed, 17 May 2017 23:47
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VIDEO - 'Why Make Excuses For Them?': Tucker Battles Student Who Blames US for Venezuelan Crisis | Fox News Insider
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:38
A young man who said American capitalism is to blame for Venezuela's downfall debated Tucker Carlson.
Dakotah Lilly of Students And Youth for a New America said observers should acknowledge "what Venezuela is facing is terrorism by the opposition."
Lilly also pointed to the frequency of elections in the country as a reason that years of socialist policies are not to blame.
"Every country that tries this economic system ends up in poverty," Tucker Carlson said, calling what has happened this past decade in Caracas "fairly predictable."
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Read Full Article Lilly said U.S. sanctions on the Chavez and Maduro administrations put undue burden on the oil-rich country. He added that former President Jimmy Carter's organization certified the country's elections.
"What stake does Jimmy Carter have in calling undemocratic elections democratic?" he asked.
Lilly defended the country's socialist politics and criticized capitalism's effect on the country.
Carlson said Lilly was "making excuses" for Maduro and pointed to authoritarian moves like banning gun ownership and policies that have led to dire shortages of things like toilet paper.
"It's a total disaster. Why not say so? ... Why make excuses for them?" he asked.
Watch the riveting debate above.
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VIDEO - Oregon fines man $500 for using math to challenge red-light cameras - Autoblog
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:38
Few things in this world are as universally despised as traffic cameras. After his wife received a ticket for tripping a red-light camera, Oregon resident Mats J¤rlstr¶m openly criticized the Orwellian devices and the mathematical formulas used to time traffic lights. It seems Big Brother doesn't take too kindly to dissenters, as according to the Institute for Justice J¤rlstr¶m was fined $500 for violating a law that prohibits him from offering mathematical criticism without a license.Free speech is a term that's often misconstrued. It's not some blanket to hide behind while spouting ridicule and hate to anyone and everyone. In the US, what free speech does protect is the right of a person to openly criticize the government, as J¤rlstr¶m was doing when he argued that the equation which governs the traffic light timers was out of date. After being fined, J¤rlstr¶m filed a lawsuit against what he called an "unconstitutional ban on mathematical debate.''
The Institute for Justice says the actual fine from the state engineering board was for J¤rlstr¶m calling himself an engineer. The thing is, J¤rlstr¶m does have a degree in electrical engineering and has worked in engineering jobs, but the problem is he doesn't carry a state license as a Professional Engineer. In Oregon's eyes, even his use of the word "engineer," lowercase, is appropriating a title, and he's not a real engineer.
J¤rlstr¶m's initial issue was that the green-yellow-red progression was too short for lights with a left or right turn. Using his engineering expertise, he researched the matter and began to criticize the math equation that governs this timing. In his view, he was doing research for free as a concerned citizen, with his background aiding the effort and lending credence to his findings.
But the board construed this as "practicing engineering without being registered," saying he had no standing to do the work or publish or present his data.
"I'm not practicing engineering, I'm just using basic mathematics and physics, Newtonian laws of motion, to make calculations and talk about what I found," J¤rlstr¶m said.
J¤rlstr¶m and the Institute for Justice claim these licensing boards violate free speech by fining those who criticize both the boards and the government agencies behind things like traffic cameras. Samuel Gedge, an attorney for the institute, made this point:
"Criticizing the government's engineering isn't a crime; it's a constitutional right. Under the First Amendment, you don't need to be a licensed lawyer to write an article critical of a Supreme Court decision. You don't need to be a licensed landscape architect to create a gardening blog, and you don't need to be a licensed engineer to talk about traffic lights.''
In other words, free speech, whether used to challenge Supreme Court decisions or traffic cameras, is a fundamental freedom granted by Constitution. And it's also no stretch to say that using mathematics is a fundamental human right - part of what actually makes us human. No law can take away our math.Related Video:
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VIDEO - A Man Just Broke Down Every Single Trump Controversy In One Perfect Twitter Rant
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:36
Ryan Teague Beckwith is a political editor at TIME's Washington D.C. bureau, so he's become quite familiar with how the media covers each controversy generated by President Donald Trump. It turns out, each instance has fallen into a pretty typical pattern. On Tuesday, May 16th, he decided to take us through it step-by-step on Twitter:
Here comes the inevitable news coverage:
Then we give Melissa McCarthy something to work with:
But of course the White House won't back down in the face of truth:
Then the White House sends out their spin-masters:
This will greet you as you wake up the next morning:
White House staffers can't be big fans of this step:
These Republicans Senators aren't the only ones who find it "troubling."
Speaker Paul Ryan comments:
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just wants to "get back to work."
But does the controversy make any difference?
Conservatives media outlets offer their take:
Before long, it starts all over again. You may think these tweets sound oddly familiar - hopefully, something will come along to break the pattern soon enough.
VIDEO - Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say - ABC News
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:32
The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk tonight, according to current and former U.S. officials, after President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week.
The spy provided intelligence involving an active ISIS plot to bring down a passenger jet en route to the United States, with a bomb hidden in a laptop that U.S. officials believe can get through airport screening machines undetected. The information was reliable enough that the U.S. is considering a ban on laptops on all flights from Europe to the United States.
The sensitive intelligence was shared with the United States, officials say, on the condition that the source remain confidential.
''The real risk is not just this source,'' said Matt Olsen, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and an ABC News contributor, ''but future sources of information about plots against us.''
ISIS has already taken credit for blowing up a Russian airliner two years ago, killing more than 200 people, claiming the bomb was hidden in a soft drink can. The White House National Security Adviser says that justifies President Trump's disclosures to the Russians.
''And so this was the context of the conversation in which it was wholly appropriate to share what the threat was as a basis for common action and coordination,'' said General H.R. McMasters on Tuesday.
When pressed by ABC News' Jonathan Karl, McMaster would not say if Trump disclosed classified information. Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday he had the "absolute right" to share "facts" with the Russians.
But many in the counter-terrorism community say what the President did was a mistake.
''Russia is not part of the ISIS coalition,'' Olsen said. ''They are not our partner.''
Dan Shapiro, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, now a senior visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, agreed. In an interview with ABC News, he called the president and his team ''careless,'' saying that the reported disclosures demonstrate a ''poor understanding of how to guard sensitive information."
Shapiro was most concerned, however, that the president's move could make Israel think twice about sharing intelligence with the United States, warning that it will ''inevitably cause elements of Israel's intelligence service to demonstrate more caution.''
The reaction in Congress appeared to diverge along partisan lines. Asked if he had concerns about the president's handling of classified information, the Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell let out a small laugh and before replying simply, "No."
But Democrats disagree. Shortly after McConnell's comments, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reiterated his call for the White House to release full, unedited transcripts of Trump's meeting with the Russian officials.
"This is not normal behavior. This is not how a White House should operate," Schumer said. "Firing an FBI director who is investigating the president's campaign, disclosing classified information to a country that wishes us harm and just finished undermining the integrity of our elections. We need our Republican colleagues to join us in standing up, to put country over party."
ABC News' Arlette Saenz, Jordana Miller and Meghan Kenneally contributed to this report.
VIDEO - With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance | HuffPost
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:24
WASHINGTON ' On Friday, readers of the new morning email put out by Mike Allen awoke to a little nugget of news. ''One of your favorites is getting their own MSNBC show,'' he teased in the subject line.
That new host was none other than Nicolle Wallace, a former spokeswoman for President George W. Bush and, later, the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin.
New York magazine reported hours later that conservative activist and radio host Hugh Hewitt, already a regular contributor to MSNBC, was in talks with the network about a weekend show.
From outside, it might seem odd to see the premier liberal network veering right, even as liberals around the country are fired up to resist the administration of President Donald Trump.
But from inside, the news about Wallace and Hewitt was seen as just two more steps toward the full execution of the vision of Andy Lack, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC. He has made quite clear his plan to move the cable news network away from its bedrock liberalism and toward a more centrist approach personified by Brian Williams '-- even including hosts of a conservative bent, as typified by hosts like Megyn Kelly or Greta Van Susteren, who Lack brought over from Fox News.
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Andy Lack, who is now the head of MSNBC, is seen in a 2007 file photo. But Lack, in seeking to make this vision a reality, has an unusual problem for a TV executive: sky-high ratings. Since the election of Trump, MSNBC's liberal primetime programs hosted by Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell have surged not just in ratings but in the share of the cable news audience they're capturing. In its earnings call on Thursday, NBCUniversal specifically cited the boost in ratings to ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' for a spike in profits. Maddow has been the top show on cable news in the key demographic for two months running, an inconceivable achievement at MSNBC.
Tossing those primetime hosts overboard while they're raking in viewership and revenue has so far proved an elusive task.
''Hayes, Maddow, O'Donnell ' the entire primetime lineup is doing record numbers and Lack can't stand it. It makes him furious,'' said one senior MSNBC source, echoing the sentiment of many other insiders who spoke to HuffPost only on the condition of anonymity. (An NBC spokesman said Lack is happy with the high ratings.)
The gap between the success of the primetime lineup and the investment of leadership in that very success has started to become public. O'Donnell, for instance, has the network's second-most watched show, but it gets little in the way of promotion, a point he made himself on Twitter last week.
O'Donnell's contract will soon be up for renewal. Keeping the second-best performing show is typically not in question at most networks ' but at MSNBC, it will test whether Lack gives into, or continues to resist, the energy of the resistance.
Lack has targeted the network's progressive programming since arriving at the network in spring 2015. He started with the daytime shows: Shows from Alex Wagner, Joy Reid and Ronan Farrow, as well as ''The Cycle,'' were canceled and replaced by straight news. (At the end of 2015, my own contract with MSNBC, which ran for three years, was not renewed; I had no interaction with Lack.) Lack brought in Chuck Todd to host a 5 p.m. show. He canceled Al Sharpton's 6 p.m. show, and ran one from Bloomberg's Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in its place.
The Halperin-Heilemann program, which has since been canceled, was a hard-to-watch ratings disaster. Lack moved Van Susteren, formerly of Fox News, into the slot. That show has also been a ratings wreck. Across the board, shows that Lack has put his stamp on and moved to the center or to the right have not performed as well as the ones he has left alone, despite MSNBC's ability to get the media-industry press to write flattering stories about the network's ''dayside turnaround.''
''Every hour that Andy has not touched are the strongest hours on the network. Everything he has touched is lower rated,'' said one well-placed insider.
Every hour that Andy has not touched are the strongest hours on the network. Everything he has touched is lower rated. insider at MSNBC
Van Susteren, for instance, looks like a pothole in ratings road. Typically, starting around noon and going until about 9 p.m., each cable news hour is more widely viewed than the one before. But Van Susteren actually loses audience from the hour before. Last Friday, for instance, Todd controlled a 21 percent share of the cable news audience at 5 p.m. Van Susteren fell to 17 percent at 6 p.m., losing more than 30,000 viewers. They come back at 7 p.m. for Chris Matthews, who pulled in a 26 percent share. Hayes kept 27 percent of the share and Maddow had 39 percent. The number dipped to 27 percent for O'Donnell at 10 p.m. (I have appeared frequently on all four shows, although presumably that will end following the publication of this story.)
The daytime side, which is the testing ground for Lack's theory that straight news is a stronger path forward, scores well below the progressive programming. In last Friday's ratings, it pulled in a share of between 15 percent and 16 percent. The total numbers are lower as well, but using share is a fairer comparison, because it accounts for the difference in overall audience size.
In an interview in December 2015, Lack was blunt about the direction he wanted to take MSNBC. He ''explained why he has been toiling to re-brand MSNBC as a reliable provider of breaking news in contrast to its previous incarnation, personified by former anchor Keith Olbermann and other personalities such as Ronan Farrow, Joy Reid, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, as an outlet dominated by left-leaning hosts and pitched to like-minded viewers,'' The Daily Beast reported.
The goal, Lack said, was to get serious.
''Had we not made this turn to breaking news with seriousness of purpose, in these times and in this election, we would have been clobbered,'' Lack said. ''As reasonable as that [discarded liberal] programming was for when it was created, we're in a long game now. '... This is maybe the most interesting election of my lifetime. '... The world has never been more dangerous in my lifetime.'' The bracketing of ''discarded liberal'' appears in the original interview, in which Lack lays out his plan to move more toward Williams and away from Maddow's politics.
Lack's plan helps explain the awkward coverage following debates and on election night, which often put Maddow and Williams on screen next to each other. It was not a portrait of a network bringing forward a diversity of perspectives. Lack appeared ready to move in one direction, but couldn't quite get his foot out of the other canoe.
Hayes, Maddow and O'Donnell have stubbornly insisted on soaring in ratings since the election. In the first quarter of 2015, ''The Rachel Maddow Show'' was ranked 26th among all cable news shows. It was the seventh most-watched show in the first quarter of 2017. ''The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell'' and ''All In With Chris Hayes'' were 37th and 38th, respectively. ''Last Word'' is now No. 11, and Hayes' show is coming in at No. 17. That's real growth, because it considers where they were previously, and accounts for the rise in audience across the board that came with the election and the Trump presidency.
Matthews, who airs at 7 p.m., has also seen a bit of a jump. Two years ago his show was ranked 30th, ahead of both Hayes and O'Donnell, and he's now up to 19th, behind both. While he is certainly a shade or two left of center, his show is more Beltway-friendly fare. In his defense, he is working from a deficit, as he follows Van Susteren and Todd, who come in at 30th and 28th, respectively.
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Brian Williams, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Kasie Hunt and Steve Schmidt do election night coverage on MSNBC.The daytime programming has shown some gains under Lack's leadership, even relative to other networks. But Lack may have misdiagnosed the problem that sapped MSNBC's momentum in the later years of President Barack Obama's administration. After the tea party wave in 2010, the Obama legislative agenda was stopped cold, leaving little for an audience to root for. But with Obama in the White House, there was also little to root against, which makes for terribly boring viewing. House leaders like John Boehner and Paul Ryan weren't villainous on a Trumpian level, and Republicans didn't capture the Senate until the 2014 midterms. Divided government with Democrats in the White House made for dull politics, and MSNBC's programming paid the price across the board.
''The Ed Show With Ed Schultz'' at 5 p.m. was ranked 59th in the first quarter of 2015 in the key demographic, people between the ages of 25 and 54. Sharpton's ''Politics Nation'' clocked in at No. 49. The noon show hosted by Wagner checked in at No. 66, with mid-afternoon shows by Reid and Farrow at Nos. 82 and 85.
Van Susteren is doing better today ' ranked 30th ' than Sharpton did. But with bumps across the board ' see the rise for Matthews ' it's impossible to say whether a more resistance-themed Sharpton show would be doing better than that. Todd's show, meanwhile, has a better performance, with a rank of 28, than Schultz's did But, again, where would a rage-filled Schultz be ranking with all the rage directed at Trump instead of Obama, an audience favorite? (It's impossible to say: He's now at RT.)
Lack, according to a person close to him, was indeed concerned about primetime ratings in 2015 and 2016, as any executive would have been, particularly in the 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. hours. But he has become enthusiastic about the lineup as the viewers came back. Still, he believes that people want hard news and analysis during the day.
The strategy, while it might make sense at noon, falls apart the closer it gets to primetime. It helps explain Van Susteren's collapse at 6 p.m., and may swamp Wallace even as far back as 4 p.m. (A network spokesman said executives know new cable shows take a while to catch on with viewers, and are willing to be patient with Van Susteren.)
Lack's changes, insiders say, are motivated in large part by a desire to engineer the full resurrection of Williams. Deciding what to do with Williams, who had been exposed as a serial liar, was Lack's first major decision when he returned to NBC in 2015. The plan he came up with '-- to move the former star anchor to MSNBC dayside and breaking news '-- set in motion the chain reaction that has led to today.
Lack's decisions have gone a long way to change the look of the network, taking it from the height of diversity to what it is now. In 2014, HuffPost analyzed a two-week stretch of programming on MSNBC, Fox News and CNN to quantify the level of on-air minority talent, specifically looking at African-American talent. MSNBC was far above the competition, with 46 segments in that period that featured an African-American host talking exclusively to African-American guests.
That's gone. Under Lack, MSNBC has lost black and brown talent, including Wagner, Melissa Harris Perry, Tour(C), Dorian Warren, Michael Eric Dyson, Adam Howard, Jamil Smith, Jose Diaz-Balart (who now hosts a Saturday night show on NBC) and Tamron Hall. Other people who have been shown the door under Lack include Abby Huntsman, Ed Schultz and Farrow. In their place have arrived folks like Van Susteren, Heilemann and Halperin, Wallace, Hewitt, Stephanie Ruhle, Hallie Jackson, Katy Tur and Kate Snow.
Both Reid and Sharpton have been shunted to the weekends, although Reid appears frequently in primetime and as a substitute host. She hosts ''AM Joy'' from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and Sundays.
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From left to right, in 2007: Brian Williams, Andy Lack, Matt Lauer. Not pictured: non-white people.A February MSNBC press release boasting about ratings gains put ''Morning Joe'' on the top, noting it it had 849,000 total viewers. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the release, though, and you'll find a data point that doesn't do much to support Lack's vision of the enterprise: More people are watching ''AM Joy'' than the network's most celebrated morning program. On Saturdays, 981,000 people watched the program, and 810,000 tuned in on Sundays. That trend continues in other months, according to Nielsen data. ''AM Joy'' had 87,000 more total viewers than ''Morning Joe'' in April, and the weekday show slightly edged her out in the key demo. (Comparing a weekday morning show and Reid's weekend show is apples-to-oranges, an NBC spokesman says.)
Van Susteren may have beaten Reid by getting the coveted 6 p.m. slot, but Reid is still managing to generally beat her in viewership. Van Susteren's ''For the Record with Greta'' averaged 902,000 viewers.
Changing dynamics at the network became clear to the public when Perry made an internal critique early last year. ''I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,'' she wrote in an email that was later made public. ''I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by Lack, [Phil] Griffin, or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.''
''While MSNBC may believe that I am worthless, I know better,'' added Perry, who is now a professor at Wake Forest University.
''That was the sign to me that things had really gone down the tube,'' said one former MSNBC employee. ''A lot of us who had kept holding out hope kind of gave up.''
Sam Geduldig, a GOP lobbyist whose hobby-horse is elite liberal hypocrisy on race, has been quick to flag the changing complexion at MSNBC as suggestive of a bigger problem. ''Liberal media outlets love to lecture Republicans about diversity. It turns out they are totally white and apparently have no intention of hiring blacks or Hispanics,'' he said.
The perception that Lack has eviscerated nonwhite talent at MSNBC has affected the way some of his interactions with black staff at MSNBC are viewed. This past spring, Lack reportedly asked a black senior producer if she could connect him with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. ''It was like Trump asking April Ryan to hook him up with the [Congressional Black Caucus],'' said one employee. (We're withholding the name of the producer; a spokesman noted that Lack also asked Chris Hayes for Coates' contact info.)
During a call with bookers, Lack said to stop asking people he didn't recognize to be guests. And late last summer, in front of countless staff, he told the MSNBC crew that he had walked to the office with his son, and his son suggested to him that he needed a star to show up for internal events. ''I don't have Drake. I don't have Miley Cyrus. But I do have Yvette Miley,'' he said.
It was a corny riff, typical of Lack, who is what Michael Scott of ''The Office'' would have become had he studied at the Sorbonne. Lack, after he arrived, had put Miley in charge of diversity hiring at MSNBC and NBC. ''She was named head of diversity and he continued firing black talent,'' said one Miley friend.
A different executive with a different record may have been forgiven for all three episodes, but much of this has happened with Lack before.
One of Lack's first major moves when he became president of NBC in 1993 was to replace ''Today'' show host Bryant Gumbel with Matt Lauer, sources said. Gumbel is black, and Lauer is white.
''Andy pushed Bryant Gumbel out,'' said a source familiar with how the shake-up went down. Lack didn't fire Gumbel, but ''he made him an offer he couldn't accept,'' the source said, a time-tested way of nudging talent out the door in the television industry. (Gumbel and Lack have since become good friends, the source added. And Lack replaced Williams with Lester Holt, the first black host of a Big Three news broadcast.)
We've come so far from what this place once was. It was a wonderful place to be, and now it's just not. MSNBC employee
Lack oversaw the launch of MSNBC in 1996, which was originally conceived as a 24/7 extension of NBC News, in combination with something or other from Microsoft. The new channel stumbled along for several years without an identity. Then, in 2003, Lack left NBC to become chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment.
Shortly thereafter, MSNBC began drifting left. It was a similar environment to today, with liberal passion against the war in Iraq and its chief advocate, George W. Bush, peaking. Keith Olbermann tapped into the anger to become the network's first real star. Phil Griffin, Olbermann's executive producer, eventually rose to run all of MSNBC, and it is the shows put in place by Griffin that are performing the best today.
Olbermann used his show to create new stars, bringing on the previously obscure Maddow as a frequent guest. When Maddow got her own time slot, she did the same by inviting Hayes, Steve Kornacki and others who became fixtures on the network to be guests.
''This used to be the most amazing place to work, where I felt like my bosses, my colleagues, cared about me and cared about the world we live in,'' said one employee who remains, for the time being, on staff. ''Now I feel like I'm in a stereotypical news network, like something out of [the 1976 movie] 'Network,' yet we're in the year 2017. We've come so far from what this place once was. It was a wonderful place to be, and now it's just not.''
Wallace is replacing Kornacki, the Maddow protege. (''Steve Kornacki is a rising star of political coverage on both MSNBC and NBC news and his portfolio is going to continue to expand,'' an NBC exec said. ''Phil Griffin considers Kornacki to have been a breakout star of the 2016 cycle.'')
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In this file photo, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, Tamron Hall and Al Roker pose with a guest of the "Today" show.It must all look familiar to Tamron Hall. A longtime MSNBC host, she joined ''Today'' in February 2014, before Lack arrived. Sources said Lauer felt threatened by her rise; in any event, she suffered the same fate as Gumbel in February of this year. The network expressed sorrow at her departure in a written statement, but she did not make an on-air sign-off, a signal of the bitterness behind the move.
Hall, a widely liked and talented anchor, had also been hosting an overperforming daytime MSNBC show. All morning shows have sagged in recent months, and NBC's is no exception. But according to Nielsen ratings data, the show is down significantly since Hall left.
And who is Lack's ideal host to replace her?
VIDEO - DEVELOPING: Seth Rich was ALIVE When Police Found Him - But Police Camera Video Went Missing!
Wed, 17 May 2017 16:22
Guest post by Joe Hoft
According to Public Incident Report CCN #16113797 dated July 10, 2016 by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, former DNC employee and the leaker of emails to WikiLeaks, Seth Rich was alive when the police found him on that date. He died later that morning. The report also notes that Rich was conscious and breathing with gunshot wounds to his back when the police found him. The report also notes that at least three of the police at the scene wore body cameras that night.
The video from the body cameras has gone missing.
Watch the latest video at <a href=''//video.foxbusiness.com''>video.foxbusiness.com</a>
#SethRich was alive/awake when cops found him, died at hospital. Cops wore body cameras.
What did he say to cops/what did body cams capture? pic.twitter.com/johEDplTdG
'-- /pol/ News Forever (@polNewsForever) May 16, 2017
Below is a picture of the police report noted above.
Former Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta wrote in an email released later by WikiLeaks that he was ''definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker'':
Podesta: ''I'm definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have any real basis for it.'' https://t.co/MZ2a9gk5t3pic.twitter.com/qQ9tO2aimY
'-- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 30, 2016
Where are the police videos of Seth Rich the morning he died and what did he say?
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VIDEO - Comey Wrote Memo Saying Trump Urged Him to Drop Flynn Investigation: Sources - NBC News
Wed, 17 May 2017 15:50
Michael Flynn Carlos Barria / Reuters file
"Quite simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women of FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution," McCabe said in response to a question from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida.
In response to another question, McCabe said that the FBI was responsible for securing Comey's files and electronic devices and that he was confident that congressional overseers would have access to them.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said he would quickly seek to get his hands on the memo.
"We are drafting the necessary paperwork to get the memo, so we will find out in a hurry if it's out there," Chaffetz told NBC News, adding that if the memo exists and accurately recorded the conversation, "that seems like an extraordinary use of influence to try to shut down an investigation being done by the FBI."
Chaffetz tweeted later: "I have my subpoena pen ready."
All of the Democratic members of Chaffetz's committee and the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the committees' chairmen demanding an investigation into whether Trump and other top officials "are engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to obstruct" FBI, Justice Department and congressional investigations.
AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said: "We need to have all the facts, and it is appropriate for the House Oversight Committee to request this memo."
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in a floor speech that the disclosure further calls into question "the independence of our nation's highest law enforcement agencies."
"In a week full of revelation after revelation, on a day when we thought things couldn't get any worse, they have," Schumer said. "Our nation is being tested in unprecedented ways. I say to all my colleagues in the Senate: History is watching."
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Democrats plan to demand a vote on Wednesday to appoint an independent commission to investigate Trump's alleged ties to Russia. She said Democrats also plan to introduce legislation to appoint an independent counsel "to get the facts free of President Trump's meddling."
"With each passing day, the President's actions give greater and greater urgency to the need for a full and independent investigation of the Trump-Russia connection," Pelosi said in a statement.
Pence and other senior U.S. officials have said the firing of Comey on May 9 was unrelated to the FBI's investigation of alleged ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.
Trump told NBC News' Lester Holt last week that he never tried to pressure Comey into dropping the FBI probe and that he always intended to fire Comey "regardless" of the conclusions in a Justice Department memo recommending the director's removal.Trump later tweeted that because he is so active, "it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at [a] podium with perfect accuracy" and represent the White House's line of thinking, appearing to discredit his press office and administration officials.
VIDEO - Israel says ties with US unaffected after Trump-Lavrov accusations - BBC News
Wed, 17 May 2017 05:03
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption President Trump (right) held talks with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in February Israel says ties with the US have not been damaged by claims President Donald Trump gave Russia sensitive information provided by Israeli intelligence.
"Israel has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States," Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer said.
The White House is refusing to comment on reports that Israel was the source of the intelligence.
Mr Trump has defended his right to share sensitive material on terrorism.
US media reports said he had shared material that was passed on by a partner that had not given permission.
It allegedly happened during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the White House.
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Media caption A wild week for Trump in WashingtonThough not illegal, Mr Trump's alleged gaffe is seen as a breach of trust by many in the US intelligence community.
Leading Republicans and Democrats have voiced concerns over what was said, with top Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer calling for the transcripts to be released by the White House.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has also asked for copies of any notes taken in the meeting. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is due to brief the committee later.
But speaking on Tuesday, Mr Dermer said Israel looked forward to deepening US-Israeli relations "in the years ahead under President Trump".
Mr Trump is due to visit Israel next week.
VIDEO - Investigator Says Evidence Showing Deceased DNC Staffer Seth Rich Was Emailing With WikiLeaks - YouTube
Wed, 17 May 2017 04:51
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VIDEO - Professor Cohen Says Assault on Trump Presidency is Our Greatest National Security Threat: Is There A 4th Branch of Government? - Trading with The Fly
Wed, 17 May 2017 04:46
Steven Cohen, Professor of Russian studies at Princeton and NYU (an obvious Russian spy) was besides himself tonight, in sheer disbelief over the with hunt of gigantic nothing-burgers that are being used to assault the Presidency of Donald Trump.
He declared, ''today, I would say (the greatest threat to national security) is this assault on President Trump. Let's be clear what he's being accused of is treason. This has never happened in America, that we had a Russian agent in the White House. Cohen believes Flynn did nothing wrong by talking to the Russian ambassador, describing it as 'his job' to do so.
He then illuminated the indelible fact that there is a 4th branch of government, the intelligence community, who have been meddling in American foreign affairs, obstructing the other 3 branches of government.
''In 2016, President Obama worked out a deal with Russian President Putin for military cooperation in Syria. He said he was gonna share intelligence with Russia, just like Trump and the Russians were supposed to do the other day. Our department of defense said it wouldn't share intelligence. And a few days later, they killed Syrian soldiers, violating the agreement, and that was the end of that. So, we can ask, who is making our foreign policy in Washington today?''
Professor Cohen added, ''you and I have to ask a subversive question, are there really three branches of government, or is there a 4th branch of government? These intel services. What we know, as a fact, is that Obama tried, not very hard but he tried for a military alliance with Putin, in Syria, against terrorism and it was sabotaged by the department of defense and its allies in the intelligence services.''
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VIDEO - An Impeachable Offense? Questions Swirl as Trump Accused of Sharing Top Secret Intel with Russians | Democracy Now!
Tue, 16 May 2017 19:30
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN : We're broadcasting from Stanford University in Northern California, as we continue to talk about The Washington Postexpos(C) revealing how President Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence to Russian officials last week. I want to go to Donald Trump when he was campaigning for president. Here he is last September.
DONALD TRUMP : We also need the best protection of classified information. That is the worst situation. Hillary's private email scandal, which put our classified information in the reach of our enemies, disqualifies her from the presidency.
AMY GOODMAN : We're joined now by two guests. In London, Scott Horton is with us, lecturer at Columbia Law School, contributing editor at Harper's magazine, author of Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare. Still with me here at Stanford University is Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.
Scott Horton, your response to, well, what President Trump said before he was president and what he reportedly talked to the Russians about the day after he fired the FBI director, James Comey?
SCOTT HORTON : Well, on one level, it's just a remarkable display of hypocrisy, of course. I mean, we have him pledging to be very cautious in the management of national security information and criticizing his rival ruthlessly over this, and, on the other hand, behaving in a very cavalier fashion with the most serious sorts of secrets.
But I'd say both of these incidents'--that is, the investigation into the Clinton emails and the controversy now surrounding this meeting with Kislyak and Lavrov in the Oval Office'--also serve to demonstrate an important feature of the way the classification system operates. That is, it exists to bind and tie those well down the list of authority. But as we approach the apex of the system, involving Cabinet officers and the president and the vice president, there's actually much less constraint. The president has an absolute right to declassify anything. If he shares information, you could say it would be deemed declassified. So we can get out of the way immediately the question of illegality. So there's no illegality in what he's done. Yet it may be a breathtaking betrayal.
And going back to the things that Larry Diamond said, I think very correctly, earlier, it does raise very fundamental questions about his judgment, and it does raise some legal issues. But they're at the highest level. They're at the level of legality that goes to his oath of office, his pledge to uphold the Constitution and laws, and preserve, protect and defend the United States. And that is impeachment territory.
AMY GOODMAN : So, talk more about when this happened'--what was it?'--a day after President Trump fired James Comey, so certainly very much in the spotlight. According to reports, even he was surprised at the level of blowback for his action. Then the pictures coming out at the White House of him, you know, laughing with his Russian colleagues. Talk about the timing of this.
SCOTT HORTON : Well, that is the second most striking thing, that he agrees to have a meeting in the Oval Office, where it's literally the only major scheduled event on his calendar, the day after he has fired James Comey and immediately after he gave an interview to Lester Holt in which he acknowledged that he was firing Comey because'--in the first instance, because of his concerns about the Russia probe that the FBI was carrying out. So, I would say the visuals are astonishing.
But then, when we get into that meeting that occurred, notably with Sergey Kislyak, who, of course, is a leading Russian spymaster in the United States, and Lavrov, who is the senior architect of President Putin's foreign policy, that meeting, as occurred, allowing Russian media to come into the Oval Office while excluding American media, and then the whole flavor of that media, as was transmitted in'--that meeting, as it was transmitted in the Russian media, was jovial, gregarious, back-slapping, friendly, open. That contrasts rather sharply with almost every meeting that Trump has had with major allies, with the Australian prime minister, with Angela Merkel, with Theresa May, and on and on and on. Those meetings have been touchy, difficult, usually have involved a great deal of friction and challenge. So I think it's fair for everybody to look at this contrast and ask what'--you know, what is going on here and what marks this just extraordinary attitude that Trump has towards Russia, which, in the quadrennial review, is still viewed as America'--presenting the greatest security threat to the United States.
AMY GOODMAN : Part of this is about the U.S. and Russia having an alliance against ISIS . Is Trump being criticized through a Cold War lens here, Scott?
SCOTT HORTON : Well, I think that'--I think we have to be careful about that. And there certainly is a'--there is an element of that in the criticism that comes up inside the Washington Beltway, particularly the criticism that comes from neocons. But I don't think that that explains the problem altogether. I think when we look more closely at the situation in the Middle East, you know, there is a context that has to be taken into account. And that is that Russia is very tightly aligned with Iran and with President Assad in Syria. And while we have mutual enemies, you know, we also don't have the same friends, not by a long shot. There is a very, very clear friction and distance between the U.S. position and the Russian position throughout the region, and particularly in Syria. So, I think if we step back, we would say that, yeah, pursuing a closer, collaborative stance with Russia in operations in Syria, that's a perfectly fair thing to pursue. Sharing intelligence would be a reasonable thing to do in pursuing that relationship. But the way things occurred and are being reported now in The Washington Post is'--nevertheless, it's shocking. It's'--in a word, it's reckless.
AMY GOODMAN : You talked about impeachment territory. What exactly do you mean? And how do you see this possibly happening? Do you see this as the beginning of the end, Scott Horton, for the Trump presidency?
SCOTT HORTON : I think so. I talked about the oath a little bit earlier. So, impeachment proceedings that have occurred historically have'--when they involve the president, they do'--they always involve whether the president has satisfied or fulfilled his oath. That's taken as covering a number of different areas. And when the president behaves on the national security stage in a way that is reckless, shows little'--disregard for the security of the country, that's a fair question. So it becomes an issue for discussion in connection with impeachment proceedings. And I think I'd be surprised if we don't'--if we come to impeachment proceedings at some point'--and I'd say the odds makers'--the odds makers here in London are putting this now as a 50/50 proposition'--if we get there, I think that this event, this meeting with Kislyak and Lavrov, is going to feature in the impeachment process and the bill of impeachment.
AMY GOODMAN : Larry Diamond, do you really see this happening in Washington with a Republican majority in the House and the Senate?
LARRY DIAMOND : No, I see almost no prospect of it. I think either Trump would have to do something so massively criminal or dangerous that even the shockingly loyal Republican leadership, shocking in its loyalty to Trump, would defect, probably to save their own necks in advance of the midterm election, or, more likely'--and keep in mind this was certainly the pattern during Watergate, as you well know, Amy'--it will only be when and if there is a Democratic Congress that the Congress is able to act to defend the Constitution.
AMY GOODMAN : But very conservative Republicans eventually, when it came to Nixon, said, "No, this is a step too far."
LARRY DIAMOND : Yeah, but it took a long time from the initial break-in at the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C., to the ultimate defection of enough Republicans to make it inevitable that Nixon was going to be convicted in the Senate if it went to trial. And, you know, even to the bitter end, a fair number of House Republicans voted not to impeach him.
AMY GOODMAN : So, Larry Diamond, your thoughts right now, overall, about the Trump administration and about the United States?
LARRY DIAMOND : My thoughts are basically aligned with what Senator Corker said yesterday, and this could be a straw in the wind. He's a very respected guy. He is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Trump was considering him for secretary of state. We're, in essence, in free fall here. And I think we're in free fall ethically, and I think we're in free fall in level of competence.
And, Amy, I was just thinking about the state of the world now. Go back to what'--all the news you read this morning about the ongoing civil strife in Afghanistan and Iraq, where we still have troop commitments and major historical stakes'--
AMY GOODMAN : Where you spent a lot of time, in Iraq.
LARRY DIAMOND : Well, in Iraq'--about raging civil wars, not only in Syria, but, much less reported'--and thank you for reporting it'--in Yemen; the critical challenge of international terrorism represented by ISIS , and then there's also still al-Qaeda; the North Korean missile threat, which we haven't even talked about, but which is potentially, with its nuclear program, an existential threat to the United States. And if you have then a president who's incompetent and whose commitment to the Constitution is dubious, and is not even willing to read more than a page of national security briefing memos, I'm not just outraged, I'm actually frightened for the national security of the United States.
AMY GOODMAN : Finally, President Trump will be meeting with the Turkish president, Erdogan, today at the White House, the president of Turkey just having pushed through a referendum that would increase his dictatorial powers. Much of Europe criticized this. President Trump called him and congratulated him.
LARRY DIAMOND : Mm-hmm.
AMY GOODMAN : Talk about the significance of this meeting and this relationship. And do you think it has anything to do with the fact that President Trump has the twin Trump Towers in Istanbul?
LARRY DIAMOND : I don't know'--no, probably not, actually. I think it has more to do'--and this is actually much more disturbing'--with the fact that he has an open and consistent admiration for authoritarian leaders. Keep in mind that he's also invited to the White House, though fortunately so far it isn't scheduled, a meeting with Philippine President Duterte, who has presided over, in less than a year in office, the extrajudicial execution of over 7,000 people on the streets of the Philippines. And the back-slapping joviality that Scott referred to with the Russian leaders seems to be a pattern with authoritarian leaders in general. A responsible American president might, in a low-profile way, talk to President Erdogan about our mutual national security urgent interests in Syria and in the region, but raise open and serious concerns about the human rights'--deteriorating human rights situation and the loss'--we must say that'--of democracy in Turkey. And no one should hold their breath that Donald Trump is going to spend 10 seconds raising concerns about that in his meeting with President Erdogan.
AMY GOODMAN : Finally, and we're just about to go to the Washington state attorney general, but I wanted to get your comment on President Trump's latest tweet that happened during this broadcast. He said, "I have been asking Director Comey and others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the leakers in the intelligence community."
LARRY DIAMOND : Well, I can only say, thank God that people in the intelligence community feel a higher loyalty to the country than they do to the political position of the president.
AMY GOODMAN : Larry Diamond, thanks so much for being with us, senior fellow here at Stanford University at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. And thanks so much to Scott Horton, lecturer at Columbia Law School, contributing editor at Harper's magazine.
This is Democracy Now! When we come back, we go to Seattle to talk to the Washington state attorney general, Bob Ferguson. Stay with us.
VIDEO - Murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich had sent 44,000 internal emails to WikiLeaks: Report
Tue, 16 May 2017 19:29
The Democratic National Committee staffer shot and killed in Washington, D.C., last summer leaked more than 44,000 emails to WikiLeaks before his death, according to a report.
The Fox News report implies that Seth Rich may have been the one who leaked information about the DNC to WikiLeaks that showed, among other things, that the DNC favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary. While it's not clear, the report does note that WikiLeaks posted that information just 12 days after Rich was killed.
However, U.S. intelligence officials believe Russia hacked into the DNC and allowed that information to be sent to WikiLeaks.
The report states federal law enforcement investigators found 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between DNC leaders from January 2015 to May 2016 were sent by Rich to Gavin MacFayden, an American reporter and WikiLeaks director based in London who is now deceased. That information was found in a FBI forensic report on Rich's computer done within days of his murder.
Rich was killed July 10 in Washington, D.C., as he walked home. His murder remains unsolved.
Rod Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective whose private investigation firm was hired by Rich's family, confirmed to Fox News his investigation shows similar information.
"My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks," Wheeler told Fox News. "I do believe that the answers to who murdered Seth Rich sits on his computer on a shelf at the DC police or FBI headquarters."
Wheeler added he believes someone in the Washington, D.C. government, DNC or in Clinton's camp is blocking the investigation from continuing.
Rich was shot twice in the back but wasn't robbed. His wallet, cellphone, keys, watch and necklace were all left on him at the scene of the crime.
Through a spokesperson, Rich's family denied that they've seen any evidence that his death is tied to Wikileaks.
"As we've seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press," the statement said. "Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we've seen that those interest in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so."
"We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth's murderers. The services of the private investigator who spoke to the press was offered to the Rich family and paid for by a third party, and contractually was barred from speaking to press or anyone outside of law enforcement or the family unless explicitly authorized by the family."
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VIDEO - Ohio officer accidentally overdoses after touching Fentanyl during drug response | WDTN
Tue, 16 May 2017 19:23
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio (WKBN) '' An East Liverpool Police officer, while responding to a drug-involved call Friday night, accidentally touched Fentanyl and overdosed.
Friday around 8:50 p.m., East Liverpool patrolman Chris Green responded to a traffic stop at the bottom of Lisbon Street at West 8th Street.
According to a police report, East Liverpool Police had blocked in a blue Monte Carlo after watching the driver '-- 25-year-old Justin Buckle '-- perform what they believed was a drug transaction.
''We think they were trying to flee, but they were blocked in,'' East Liverpool Captain Patrick Wright said. ''Once they got blocked in, they tried to dispose of the evidence in the vehicle.
''There was white powder on the seat, on the floor, on the guys' shoes and on his clothing.''
After Buckle and passenger Cortez Collins, 24, were arrested, patrolman Green followed station protocol for handling drugs by putting on gloves and a mask when he searched the car.
But when he got back to the station, another officer noticed Greene had some of the white powder on his shirt.
''Just out of instinct, he tried to brush it off '-- not thinking,'' Wright said.
An hour later, Green passed out at the station from overdosing on the white powder that police think was Fentanyl. The drug can get into the body just through contact with the skin.
''They called an ambulance for him and the ambulance responded for him,'' Wright said. ''They gave him one dose of Narcan here and then transported him to East Liverpool City Hospital, where they gave him three additional doses of Narcan.''
Captain Wright said Green is fine as of Sunday.
He added it's a scary example of how the drug epidemic has forced police officers to change aspects of their job.
''We changed our procedures to where we used to field test-drugs,'' Wright said. ''We don't do that any longer because of accidental exposures.''
Buckle, of East Liverpool, and Collins, of Cleveland, are being charged with tampering with evidence. Collins had an active warrant out for his arrest out of Euclid.
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VIDEO - Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: 'It's a criminal issue '-- and Trump knows that'
Tue, 16 May 2017 17:22
Screaming overheard in Cabinet Room meeting between Spicer, Bannon and Sanders after Russia intel revelation
Fox News military analyst slams GOP for 'reflexive' defense of 'egregious' Trump actions
Sally Yates reveals the real reasons why Mike Flynn was unmasked in intel reports
Olbermann loses it over Trump's leaking: 'YOU are the leaker, you stupid, pea-brained, motherf*cking traitor'
GOP lawmaker demands classified briefings 'so that Congress can at least know as much as Russians'
WATCH: Fox News contributor apologizes for mocking 8-year-old boy with autism as a 'snowflake'
National security adviser refuses to deny Trump leaked to Russians: 'The premise of that article is false'
WATCH: Trump's speech at Liberty U is weirdly similar to Reese Witherspoon's 'Legally Blonde' speech
Family blasts right-wing media for spreading 'fake' news story about slain DNC staffer as Russia scandal deepens
Conservative Erick Erickson claims source who leaked latest Russia bombshell was a Trump supporter
VIDEO - Report: Justice Scalia Believed Supreme Court was Being Surveilled by Obama (VIDEO)
Tue, 16 May 2017 17:20
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst, went on FOX Business Network on Monday to discuss allegations Senator Rand Paul and another senator were under surveillance by the Obama administration.
Napolitano also dropped a bomb on the Obama administration spying on the US Supreme Court.
Judge Napolitano: Justice Scalia told me that he often thought the court was being surveilled. And he told me that probably four or five years ago'...If they had to unmask Senator Paul's name to reveal a conversation he was having with a foreign agent and the foreign agent was hostile to the United States they can do that. That's not what he's talking about. They're talking about unmasking him when he's having a conversation with his campaign manager when he's running in the Republican primary.
During the discussion Judge Napolitano also said Barack Obama could be subpoenaed to testify if he viewed the unmasked intelligence.
Via Vlad Tepes and FOX Business Network:
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VIDEO - Someone Made A Mashup Of Ozzy Osbourne And Earth, Wind, & Fire.. And We Can't Stop Laughing! | Society Of Rock
Tue, 16 May 2017 17:17
Probably The Best Mashup We've Ever Seen!If you ask me, mashups of metal singers with other genres of music are some of the greatest things in the world. They're simply down-right hilarious, especially when the two elements of the mash-up couldn't be anymore different.
For example, Ozzy Osbourne being mashed up with Earth, Wind, & Fire. On one hand, one of the founding fathers of heavy metal. On the other, a legendary funk band that's about as heavy metal as a sunflower.
Both are truly amazing musical acts, but they couldn't be anymore different in their music styles. Then again, as they say, opposites attract, and that much is proven, here!
What you're about to watch is a video in which DJ Cummerbund mashes up Ozzy Osbourne'sCrazy Train and Earth, Wind, & Fire'sSeptember.
This DJ did an AMAZING job combining these two completely different songs together. You'd almost think that this would be a hit in the 80s! Don't believe me? See for yourself!
VIDEO-Seth Rich Contact With WikiLeaks - YouTube
Tue, 16 May 2017 15:44
VIDEO - Seth Rich, slain DNC staffer, had contact with WikiLeaks, say multiple sources | Fox News
Tue, 16 May 2017 13:00
The Democratic National Committee staffer who was gunned down on July 10 on a Washington, D.C., street just steps from his home had leaked thousands of internal emails to WikiLeaks, law enforcement sources told Fox News.
A federal investigator who reviewed an FBI forensic report detailing the contents of DNC staffer Seth Rich's computer generated within 96 hours after his murder, said Rich made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen, a now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker, and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time.
''My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks.''
- Rod Wheeler, former DC homicide investigator ''I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and Wikileaks,'' the federal investigator told Fox News, confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the emails are in possession of the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of the Washington Police Department.
The revelation is consistent with the findings of Rod Wheeler, a former DC homicide detective and Fox News contributor and whose private investigation firm was hired by Rich's family to probe the case. Rich was shot from behind in the wee hours, but was not robbed.
''My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and Wikileaks,'' Wheeler said. ''I do believe that the answers to who murdered Seth Rich sits on his computer on a shelf at the DC police or FBI headquarters.''
Related ImageExpand / Collapse Rich was fiercely patriotic, say family members. (Rich family)
The federal investigator, who requested anonymity, said 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between Democratic National Committee leaders, spanning from January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred from Rich to MacFadyen before May 21.
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich was killed, WikiLeaks published internal DNC emails that appeared to show top party officials conspired to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont from becoming the party's presidential nominee. That controversy resulted in Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC chairperson. A number of Sanders supporters refused to back party nominee Hillary Clinton, and some subsequently formed groups to work against Clinton and the party.
Related ImageExpand / Collapse Seth Rich, shown here with his mother, was idealistic and wanted to change the world, his father said. (Rich family)
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange has stopped short of identifying Rich as the source of the emails, but has taken a keen interest in the case, and has not denied working with Rich.
''WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US$20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich,'' the organization announced.
Washington's Metropolitan Police Department has no suspects and no substantial leads as to who the killer or killers may be, sources close to the investigation said. Metropolitan Police, including the police chief, have refused to discuss the case, despite requests from Fox News dating back 10 months.
The FBI's national office declined to comment, but sources said the bureau provided cyber expertise to examine Rich's computer.
Wheeler believes powerful forces are preventing the case from a thorough investigation.
''My investigation shows someone within the D.C. government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward,'' Wheeler told Fox News. ''That is unfortunate. Seth Rich's murder is unsolved as a result of that.''
The botched robbery theory, which police have pursued for nearly a year, isn't panning out, Wheeler said. Two assailants caught on a grainy video tape from a camera posted outside a grocery mart, shot Rich twice in his back, but did not take his wallet, cell phone, keys, watch or necklace worth about $2,000.
Police should consider all angles, Wheeler said, especially in light of Assange's statements to a Dutch television reporter who asked about Rich.
''I am suggesting,'' Assange told the Dutch reporter, ''that our sources take risks, and they, they become concerned to see things occurring like that.''
On Twitter, WikiLeaks announced the reward but said Assange's statement ''should not be taken to imply that Seth Rich was a source for WikiLeaks or to imply that his murder is connected to our publications'' because WikiLeaks has a policy not to release the names of its sources, even after their death.
In subsequent appearances on Fox News Channel, Assange confirmed, ''We're interested in anything that might be a threat to alleged WikiLeaks sources.''
Assange has not returned a series of recent emails from Fox News about Rich. MacFadyen, who was considered a mentor by Assange, died of lung cancer on Oct. 22 at age 76.
D.C. police have announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of Rich's killer. Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman has offered a separate $130,000 reward.
Rich had been at Lou's City Bar a couple of miles from his home until about 1:15 a.m. He walked home, calling several people along the way. He called his father, Joel Rich, who he missed because he had gone to sleep. He talked with a fraternity brother and his girlfriend, Kelsey Mulka.
Around 4:17 a.m., Rich was about a block from his home when Mulka, still on the phone with him, heard voices in the background. Rich reassured her that he was steps away from being at his front door and hung up.
Two minutes later, Rich was shot twice. Police were on the scene within three minutes. Rich sustained bruising on his hands and face. He remained conscious, but died at a nearby hospital less than two hours later.
Police detectives will not say whether Rich provided them with any clues about the identity of his attackers or their motivation, Wheeler said. However, Wheeler believes Rich could have provided information prior to his death of who was responsible for carrying out his murder.
Police also have refused to release security footage from a market on the corner of the crosswalk where Rich was killed. The footage, sources told Fox News, shows two people following Rich across the tiny crosswalk just moments before he was attacked. The camera captured grainy footage of the assailants' legs and Rich as he fell backwards into the street after being shot.
Wheeler said normally police would release the footage to the media. The family also should be privy to the entire case jacket, with all the details of the case, unless they are considered suspects, Wheeler said. However, to date, the family has not received a copy of the tape or most of the details related to their son's murder case. The homicide case remains open, according to a spokesperson for D.C. police.
Rich's father, Joel Rich, could not be reached for comment, but told Fox News in January that he didn't believe his son would leak the emails. However, he said above all, his son "wanted to make a difference in the world."
Malia Zimmerman is an award-winning investigative reporter focusing on crime, homeland security, illegal immigration crime, terrorism and political corruption. Follow her on twitter at @MaliaMZimmerman
VIDEO - Family's private investigator: There is evidence Seth Rich had contact with WikiLeaks prior to death - Story | WTTG
Tue, 16 May 2017 11:23
Family's private investigator: There is evidence Seth Rich had contact with WikiLeaks prior to deathWASHINGTON - It has been almost a year since Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now.
Rich was shot and killed last July in Northwest D.C and police have suggested the killing in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood was a botched robbery. However, online conspiracy theories have tied the murder to Rich's work at the DNC.
Just two months shy of the one-year anniversary of Rich's death, FOX 5 has learned there is new information that could prove these theorists right.
Rod Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the Rich family, suggests there is tangible evidence on Rich's laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.
Now, questions have been raised on why D.C. police, the lead agency on this murder investigation for the past ten months, have insisted this was a robbery gone bad when there appears to be no evidence to suggest that.
Wheeler, a former D.C. police homicide detective, is running a parallel investigation into Rich's murder. He said he believes there is a cover-up and the police department has been told to back down from the investigation.
"The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,'' said Wheeler. ''They haven't been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.''
When we asked Wheeler if his sources have told him there is information that links Rich to Wikileaks, he said, ''Absolutely. Yeah. That's confirmed."
Wheeler also told us, "I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said, 'Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can't share any information with you.' Now, that is highly unusual for a murder investigation, especially from a police department. Again, I don't think it comes from the chief's office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor's office and the DNC and that is the information that will come out [Tuesday].
A full report with the new details will air Tuesday morning on FOX News.
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VIDEO - BEFORE BEING CANCELLED Tim Allen DESTROYED LIBERAL SNOWFLAKES On Last Man Standing! [VIDEO]
Tue, 16 May 2017 04:57
ABC has cancelled its Tim Allen-starring sitcom Last Man Standing after six seasons, the network confirmed Wednesday.
ABC and production partner 20th Century Fox TV had reportedly usually negotiated over licensing fees for the comedy series before each season; this time, according to Deadline, there was no negotiation, and the network simply pulled the plug on the show.
The show was one of the few (if not the only) broadcast network sitcom to appeal to conservative, blue-collar America, a true oddity since Allen has noted in interviews that the program was written by liberal writers. (scroll down for video)
Allen himself is also conservative, and has in the past expressed support for President Donald Trump.
Last Man Standing fans took to Twitter Wednesday and Thursday to urge another network, perhaps Netflix or CMT, to pick it up, while some accused the ABC of axing the show for political reasons.
In the most recent season of ''Last Man Standing,'' in Episode 9 titled ''Precious Snowflake,'' Tim absolutely eviscerates whiny liberal snowflakes and their microaggressions after his daughter asks for help with a school project.
If you did not laugh at this, I do not know what to say. Maybe you are a midget warrior!
My favorite part is when Tim says, ''I know what microaggressions are it's the latest liberal attack on free speech and a lot of fun if you do it right!''
VIDEO - Guccifer 2.0 - Seth Rich Was the DNC Leaker, 1573 - YouTube
Tue, 16 May 2017 04:23
VIDEO - Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador - The Washington Post
Mon, 15 May 2017 23:06
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump's decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump's meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.
[Political chaos in Washington is a return on investment in Moscow]
''This is code-word information,'' said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump ''revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.''
Team Trump's ties to Russian interests The revelation comes as the president faces rising legal and political pressure on multiple Russia-related fronts. Last week, he fired FBI Director James B. Comey in the midst of a bureau investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Trump's subsequent admission that his decision was driven by ''this Russia thing'' was seen by critics as attempted obstruction of justice.
One day after dismissing Comey, Trump welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak '-- a key figure in earlier Russia controversies '-- into the Oval Office. It was during that meeting, officials said, that Trump went off script and began describing details of an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft.
For almost anyone in government, discussing such matters with an adversary would be illegal. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.
''The president and the foreign minister reviewed common threats from terrorist organizations to include threats to aviation,'' said H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, who participated in the meeting. ''At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed, and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly.''
The CIA declined to comment, and the NSA did not respond to requests for comment.
But officials expressed concern about Trump's handling of sensitive information as well as his grasp of the potential consequences. Exposure of an intelligence stream that has provided critical insight into the Islamic State, they said, could hinder the United States' and its allies' ability to detect future threats.
[On Russia, Trump and his top national security aides seem to be at odds]
''It is all kind of shocking,'' said a former senior U.S. official who is close to current administration officials. ''Trump seems to be very reckless and doesn't grasp the gravity of the things he's dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security. And it's all clouded because of this problem he has with Russia.''
In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. ''I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,'' the president said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange.
Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering method, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State's territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.
The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardize important intelligence capabilities.
''Everyone knows this stream is very sensitive, and the idea of sharing it at this level of granularity with the Russians is troubling,'' said a former senior U.S. counterterrorism official who also worked closely with members of the Trump national security team. He and others spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the subject.
The identification of the location was seen as particularly problematic, officials said, because Russia could use that detail to help identify the U.S. ally or intelligence capability involved. Officials said the capability could be useful for other purposes, possibly providing intelligence on Russia's presence in Syria. Moscow would be keenly interested in identifying that source and perhaps disrupting it.
[Trump's new Russia expert wrote a psychological profile of Valdimir Putin '' and it should scare Trump]
Russia and the United States both regard the Islamic State as an enemy and share limited information about terrorist threats. But the two nations have competing agendas in Syria, where Moscow has deployed military assets and personnel to support President Bashar al-Assad.
''Russia could identify our sources or techniques,'' the senior U.S. official said.
A former intelligence official who handled high-level intelligence on Russia said that given the clues Trump provided, ''I don't think that it would be that hard [for Russian spy services] to figure this out.''
At a more fundamental level, the information wasn't the United States' to provide to others. Under the rules of espionage, governments '-- and even individual agencies '-- are given significant control over whether and how the information they gather is disseminated, even after it has been shared. Violating that practice undercuts trust considered essential to sharing secrets.
The officials declined to identify the ally but said it has previously voiced frustration with Washington's inability to safeguard sensitive information related to Iraq and Syria.
''If that partner learned we'd given this to Russia without their knowledge or asking first, that is a blow to that relationship,'' the U.S. official said.
Trump also described measures that the United States has taken or is contemplating to counter the threat, including military operations in Iraq and Syria, as well as other steps to tighten security, officials said.
The officials would not discuss details of those measures, but the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed that it is considering banning laptops and other large electronic devices from carry-on bags on flights between Europe and the United States. The United States and Britain imposed a similar ban in March affecting travelers passing through airports in 10 Muslim-majority countries.
Trump cast the countermeasures in wistful terms. ''Can you believe the world we live in today?'' he said, according to one official. ''Isn't it crazy?''
Lavrov and Kislyak were also accompanied by aides.
A Russian photographer took photos of part of the session that were released by the Russian state-owned Tass news agency. No U.S. news organization was allowed to attend any part of the meeting.
[Presence of Russian photographer in Oval Office raises alarms]
Senior White House officials appeared to recognize quickly that Trump had overstepped and moved to contain the potential fallout.
Thomas P. Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, placed calls to the directors of the CIA and the NSA, the services most directly involved in the intelligence-sharing arrangement with the partner.
One of Bossert's subordinates also called for the problematic portion of Trump's discussion to be stricken from internal memos and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, efforts to prevent sensitive details from being disseminated further or leaked.
Trump has repeatedly gone off-script in his dealings with high-ranking foreign officials, most notably in his contentious introductory conversation with the Australian prime minister earlier this year. He has also faced criticism for seemingly lax attention to security at his Florida retreat, Mar-a-Lago, where he appeared to field preliminary reports of a North Korea missile launch in full view of casual diners.
U.S. officials said that the National Security Council continues to prepare multi-page briefings for Trump to guide him through conversations with foreign leaders, but that he has insisted that the guidance be distilled to a single page of bullet points '-- and often ignores those.
''He seems to get in the room or on the phone and just goes with it, and that has big downsides,'' the second former official said. ''Does he understand what's classified and what's not? That's what worries me.''
Lavrov's reaction to the Trump disclosures was muted, officials said, calling for the United States to work more closely with Moscow on fighting terrorism.
Kislyak has figured prominently in damaging stories about the Trump administration's ties to Russia. Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was forced to resign just 24 days into the job over his contacts with Kislyak and his misleading statements about them. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from matters related to the FBI's Russia investigation after it was revealed that he had met and spoke with Kislyak, despite denying any contact with Russian officials during his confirmation hearing.
''I'm sure Kislyak was able to fire off a good cable back to the Kremlin with all the details'' he gleaned from Trump, said the former U.S. official who handled intelligence on Russia.
The White House readout of the meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak made no mention of the discussion of a terrorist threat.
''Trump emphasized the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria,'' the summary said. The president also ''raised Ukraine'' and ''emphasized his desire to build a better relationship between the United States and Russia.''
Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
Read more:
The strange Oval Office meeting between Trump, Lavrov and Kislyak
On the campaign trail, Trump was very worried about revealing America's secrets
Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories
VIDEO - Donald Trump is Deep into Watergate Territory Now: Former Congresswoman Who Probed Nixon Speaks Out | Democracy Now!
Mon, 15 May 2017 17:42
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN : We're on the road in San Francisco. I'll be speaking today in Santa Cruz and in Palo Alto.
Fallout continues to grow over President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey last week. The firing came just days after Comey requested more resources to probe Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. The Senate Democrats are now threatening to refuse to vote on a new FBI director unless a special prosecutor is named to investigate possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared on Meet the Press.
SEN . CHUCK SCHUMER : A special prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department has the ability to actually prosecute people for violations of law. And they go on in tandem. One shouldn't step on the other. I know they're talking to each other right now, the FBI was, with the Intelligence Committee, to make sure no one's granted immunity. But it's two separate issues. And we very much need a special prosecutor, Chuck. We need someone who's independent of the Justice Department to get to the bottom of this.
AMY GOODMAN : On the same program, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson admitted Russia did in fact interfere with the election.
SECRETARY OF STATE REX TILLERSON : I have seen the intelligence reports, Chuck. And, yes, I don't think there's any question that the Russians were playing around in our electoral processes. Again, as those intelligence reports also have indicated, it's inclusive as to what, if any, effect it had.
AMY GOODMAN : Meanwhile, pressure is growing on the administration to reveal whether Trump has been secretly recording conversations at the White House. On Friday, Trump tweeted, "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" unquote. Lawmakers are now calling on Trump to hand over any such tapes. On Friday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused to rule out the existence of the tapes.
JEFF MASON : Moving on to the news of the week, really, and the day, did President Trump record his conversations with former FBI Director Comey?
PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER : I assume you're referring to'--
JEFF MASON : His tweet.
PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER : '--the tweet. And I've talked to the president. The president has nothing further to add on that.
JEFF MASON : And why did he say that? Why did he tweet that? What should we interpret from that?
PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER : As I mentioned, the president has nothing further to add on that.
JEFF MASON : Is there'--are there recording devices in the Oval Office or in the residence?
PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER : As I've said, for the third time, there is nothing further to add on that.
JEFF MASON : Does he think it's appropriate to threaten someone like Mr. Comey not to speak?
PRESS SECRETARY SEAN SPICER : I don't think that's'--that's not a threat. He simply stated a fact. The tweet speaks for itself. I'm moving on.
AMY GOODMAN : President Trump's possible recording of White House conversations has led many comparisons between Trump and former President Richard Nixon, who resigned August 8th, 1974, three days after the release of an audio recording of Nixon discussing the Watergate break-in. Nixon had fought off congressional subpoenas to release the tape, but eventually the Supreme Court forced him to hand it over. It later became known as the smoking gun tape.
We're joined now by Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. congresswoman from New York who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon.
Liz Holtzman, welcome back to Democracy Now! Can you talk about the significance of what President Trump threatened in one of his tweet storms against James Comey after he fired him as FBI director?
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : Well, the threat is an absurdity. He's'--the president was saying that Comey should hope that there was no tape recording, before he talks about the meeting? The president knows whether there's a tape recording or not. He's the one who knows. So this is just nonsense. If President Trump wants the truth out, if Comey was lying about the meeting, the president should just release the tape. He's just playing games with the American people. The real connection with Watergate is the firing of Comey by President Trump, which appears to be, on the face of it and given all the circumstance around it, an effort to cover up and to prevent an investigation of whether Russia colluded with him and his campaign over interference in the American election, and whether he's still colluding with the Russians. I mean, what's involved in the firing is a question really of whether we have a president of the United States who is under the influence of and working in collusion with the president of a hostile foreign government. And we've got to get to the bottom of that. And Trump's actions prevent us, at this point, from making sure that we can get the truth.
AMY GOODMAN : I want to turn to an interview last week, when Donald Trump once again changed his story about why he fired FBI Director James Comey, admitting on NBC he made the decision in part due to Comey's probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. Trump's comment directly contradicts numerous statements by White House aides, as well as Trump's own claims that he had fired Comey over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton and her use of private email servers.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP : But regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself'--I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.'"
AMY GOODMAN : So, can you talk about this, Liz Holtzman, the astounding original story that President Trump did not appreciate how Hillary Clinton was treated, although throughout the campaign he congratulated James Comey for going after Clinton?
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : Look, everything we've seen about Trump'--I mean, I won't go elsewhere, but in this, in connection with the firing of Comey'--has been just one misstatement, one pretext, one lie after the other. It's totally incredible to think that President Trump was so concerned about Comey's treatment of Hillary Clinton that he fired him months later for doing that. It's just'--nobody can believe that. What really was at stake'--and we know that later'--he said, "I made up my mind before I ever heard from the Justice Department. I was going to fire him anyway." And what was on his mind when he fired him? The Russian investigation. And Trump has been attacking this Russian investigation from the get-go. He even called the CIA Nazis over that. So, we know he's not happy about that, and he wanted to stop it. And stopping that could mean that we have in place a president of the United States in cahoots with the Russian government at this very moment. We've got to'--
AMY GOODMAN : I want to turn to Senator Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, speaking on Fox News Sunday about Trump's threat of a tape of a conversation with James Comey.
SEN . MARK WARNER : This sure seems to have reverberations of past history. When we've seen presidents who secretly tape, that usually does not end up being a good outcome for a president. ... The whole notion that the president can throw out these kind of claims, and then not either confirm or deny them, is outrageous, in my mind. And if there is the existence of tapes, I want to make sure, one, they're preserved and not mysteriously destroyed in the coming days, and then, two, one way or the other, Congress will have to get a look at those tapes.
AMY GOODMAN : So, that was Senator Warren [sic]. If you'--Senator Warner of Virginia. Elizabeth Holtzman, take us back through what happened to Richard Nixon. You know, there are a lot of references, including the Saturday Night Massacre, and parallels have been made to what happened with the firing of James Comey. But especially for young people to understand what happened then, also how long it took, explain the chronology, when you were a young congresswoman from New York, serving'--what?'--the youngest member to serve on the House Judiciary Committee.
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : OK, I'll try to do this in 25 words or less. Basically, in June of 1972, there was a break-in into the Democratic National Committee headquarters. People were apprehended, and they were connected to Richard Nixon's campaign and to the White House. Nixon had a special surveillance operation in the White House, that was illegal from the get-go. These people were caught. And Nixon was terrified that they would get to the presidency and that his election in November would be jeopardized. So they had this big cover-up. And that worked. Nixon was re-elected in 1972 in November with one of the biggest margins in electoral history. After that, the burglars'--the burglars cracked. One of them said, "Yeah, there were higher-ups involved." And then you started to have investigations.
And Richard Nixon had a taping system in the White House. In August of 1973, the taping system became public, because you had a bipartisan Senate investigation, Senate Watergate Committee, and they asked, "Are there tapes?" And the person who set up the taping system said there were tapes. President Nixon, for reasons that are still not understood, had a full taping system in the Oval Office and a few other places, and he tape-recorded all the conversations. And at that time, the question was: Did Nixon participate in the cover-up or not? And the tapes could prove it.
And there was a special prosecutor who was appointed. And the special prosecutor wanted to get the tapes. And that was in October of 1973. The special prosecutor said, "I'm getting the tapes." And Nixon had the special prosecutor fired. He said, "You're not getting my tapes." Well, Nixon knew what was on the tapes, just as, if there are tapes with regard to Trump, Trump knows exactly what's on them. Nixon knew exactly what was on them. And he said, "You are not getting these tapes," because the tapes were incriminating. And there was a big fight over that in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ultimately required the tapes to be released. And the tapes showed, without any question, out of Richard Nixon's own mouth, that he obstructed justice, and he ordered the Watergate cover-up from almost the day that the break-in took place.
So, you have a repetition of a president claiming there was a tape-recording system, and the tapes could exonerate him or not. But my view is that Comey not only is a very careful prosecutor and would never have said things that were improper in that meeting with Trump, but I'm sure he suspected that he could have been tape-recorded, so he was doubly or triply careful. But the person who knows whether there are tapes and what's on those tapes is the president. And why is he playing games with the American people over this issue?
AMY GOODMAN : Just to be clear, the issue isn't so much that he tapes, but that it was incriminating that he'--what he taped.
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : Absolutely.
AMY GOODMAN : That's what he was concerned about being replaced. So let me ask you: Does every president tape in the Oval Office?
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : Well, I hope not, but we know that there are a few who did. We know Nixon had the most elaborate system. But I also believe that Johnson had some kind of taping system. I don't know if it was as systematic as this, but he had some kind of taping system'--I mean, systematic as Nixon's. And I think, after Nixon, people didn't want to touch it.
AMY GOODMAN : I want to turn to a conversation we had in February with President Richard Nixon's White House counsel, John Dean. I asked him about where Trump stood just over a month into his presidency in comparison with his boss, Richard Nixon.
JOHN DEAN : If you recall, Watergate ran about 900 days. In other words, it went on for years, starting with a bungled burglary at the Democratic National Committee and right up to Richard Nixon's resignation, followed by the conviction of his top aides. So it ran a long time. What we're seeing is very accelerated. It's partially responsible because of the media and the technology today, but it's also the behavior of Trump and his aides, as well as the media's vigilance on this. So we're seeing things accelerated. And what I see or hear are echoes of Watergate. We don't have Watergate 2.0 yet, but we have something that is beginning to look like it could go there.
AMY GOODMAN : That was John Dean. Your response, Liz Holtzman? And interesting, to say the least, you were on very different sides back in the '70s, when were a congressman and John Dean worked for Nixon, but you may share a lot of views right now.
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : Yes, I think we're getting very close to Watergate. I think Donald Trump is deep into Watergate territory. I think the firing of James Comey, with the apparent intention to squelch an investigation into his campaign activities and his activities, resonates deeply with the issues in Watergate.
But I just want to make one point about what Dean said. When Richard Nixon took office, it was only a matter of two or three months before he started into his illegal activities. The illegal bombing of Cambodia started in March of his first year in office. And that was a war crime and a crime against the Constitution. Unfortunately, Nixon wasn't impeached for that. There was no vote to impeach him for that. But let's not get carried away with how Nixon was really a good guy up to the very end. He wasn't. The bad stuff started right away. The Plumbers unit started right away. Illegal surveillances started right away. So, I think we have here a similar kind of idea that he, that the president, is above the law. And once you get that idea in your head, then that's trouble, not just for the president, for the American people.
AMY GOODMAN : And, Elizabeth Holtzman, a last question in this last minute, and that was: When the Republicans turned on Richard Nixon, the Republicans in Congress? And talk about what you're seeing today, because many say, with a Republican majority in both houses, there's just no way that President Trump would be impeached.
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN : Well, I think what happened during Watergate was that the checks-and-balances system worked. It worked for the judiciary. The first person who stood up was a very conservative Republican judge, John Sirica, who smelled something wrong with the burglary and imposed very tough sentences, because he knew there was something fishy going on. And as a result of that, one of the burglars broke and said higher-ups were involved. That really led to the whole rest of the investigation.
The second thing was when you had the Senate Select Committee on Watergate. You had Sam Ervin, who was a Democrat, Southern Democrat, a constitutional scholar, was the chair. And Howard Baker, Republican from Tennessee, was the vice chair. And he started out as a total partisan for Richard Nixon. And he came up with a series of questions: What does the president know, and when does he know it? And he thought those questions would show that Nixon had nothing to do with the break-in, with a cover-up. And so he asked those questions of the witnesses. And when he asked those questions, the answers, repeated and repeated and repeated, showed that Nixon was aware, the White House was aware, and showed his involvement. As a result of the facts, Baker became an advocate for the rule of law.
On the House side, the House Judiciary Committee, I think at the beginning most of the Republicans, if not all of them, were advocates for the president. But the facts came out. And in the end, most of the Republicans voted for the articles of impeachment, because they put country above party. In the end, all of them, when the smoking gun tape came out, as you said, all the Republicans announced that they were going to be in favor of impeachment, even those who had voted against it, very conservative Republicans. Why did they do that? Because the facts were clear, the Constitution was clear, the law was clear.
And I'm hoping that that will happen here. It may take longer for Republicans to come to their senses on this, but they did in Watergate. And let's not lose hope. They take an oath to uphold the Constitution. And they have the opportunity to protect the Constitution against a president who's got no respect for it, no respect for the rule of law.
AMY GOODMAN : Elizabeth Holtzman, I want to thank you for being with us, former U.S. congresswoman from New York, served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon.
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