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@CNNAerial footage shows the turnout at various March for Our Lives across the US today
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/977670568861487105
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/us/march-for-our-lives-latest/index.html?sr=twCNN032418march-for-our-lives-latest0110PMVODtop
Morgan Freeman: "Our leaders simply cannot ignore resounding scream for change by our young people"
@mjfree
Our leaders simply cannot ignore the resounding scream for change by our young people today.
https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/977659130394677253
"The Only Thing Hiding Under Desks Should Be _______"
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/977648296880758784
Yo Trump FUCK your bitch ass inaugural crowd!!!---DC March officially reached 1,000,000 protesters!
Yo @realDonaldTrump Fuck your bitch ass inaugural crowd!!!
This IS America Right HERE
https://twitter.com/DEW_Resistance/status/977619109369208832
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/977597695903879168
Bolton Finds His WMD...
Patton Oswald re: March for Our Lives
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/977580529284296706?s=20me pete & I just finished our San Diego March.
Totally Awesome. So proud of our town.
TX deserves better than Ted Cruz!
https://twitter.com/LazyyMillennial/status/977267940796936192?s=20Funny.
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/977255819820584961?s=20https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/977239091673751552?s=20
Frankens first tweet in a month calls out Jeff Sessions.
Lack of candor.
Thats one of the reasons that Attorney General Jeff Sessions used to justify his decision to fire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last week, just two days before Mr. McCabe was set to retire from a distinguished 21-year career with the Bureau. Ironic, because, as you may recall, Jeff Sessions has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of candor under oath about his own interactions with Russians.
During his confirmation hearing, I alerted then-Senator Sessions to a breaking report from CNN that there had been an ongoing exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Russians. When I asked him what he would do as Attorney General if those reports were true, Mr. Sessions decided to answer a different question:
SESSIONS: Senator Franken, I am not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didnt have did not have communications with the Russians, and Im unable to comment on it.
That turned out to be false. Then-Senator Sessions had, in fact, met with Russian ambassador Kislyak at least three times during the 2016 campaign. Id like to claim that I was three steps ahead of Sessions - that I knew Senator Sessions wouldnt answer my question and would pivot to a lie that would ultimately lead to his recusal in the Russia investigation. Id like to claim that but in all candor, I had no idea that was the moment that would lead to the Mueller investigation.
The Attorney General has a different version of this exchange. He said he was taken aback by my question and that in retrospect, he should have slowed down and been more forthcoming about his meetings. Now, Im no lawyer, but its not a good sign if the man nominated to be our nations top prosecutor is so easily flummoxed by a straightforward question.
But in the weeks and months that followed, as Attorney General Sessions was called before congressional committees to explain himself, try as he might, he just couldnt manage to set the record straight. His explanation of his own Russian contacts continued to shift from I did not have communications with the Russians to I did not meet with any Russians to discuss any political campaign to the Justice Department asserting that Sessions did not discuss interference in the campaign with any Russians.
When I asked him in an October hearing whether he believed that other Trump campaign surrogates communicated with the Russians, Attorney General Sessions said no. Im not aware of anyone else that did, and I dont believe it happened, he said.
And you dont believe it now? I asked, slightly slack-jawed.
I dont believe it happened, he answered. Never mind that at that point in time, the public already knew about meetings between Russians and Michael Flynn, Russians and Paul Manafort, Russians and Jared Kushner, and Russians and Donald Trump, Jr. all Trump campaign surrogates.
And never mind that Sessions attended a March 31, 2016 foreign policy meeting at which George Papadopoulos raised his connections with Russians and offered to set up a meeting between Trump and Putin. Sessions first said he didnt recall the Papadopoulos meeting, then testified that he pushed back on the Papadopoulos suggestion of Trump meeting Putin and now three sources have said Sessions didnt push back on this suggestion. More candor problems.
Fast forward to this week, when ABC News reported that nearly one year before Attorney General Sessions fired Andrew McCabe allegedly for a lack of candor Mr. McCabe oversaw an investigation into whether Attorney General Sessions himself lacked candor when he repeatedly misrepresented his contacts with Russians when testifying before Congress. That investigation was opened after my former colleague, Senator Pat Leahy, and I wrote to the FBI last year and requested that the Bureau examine the attorney generals false statements.
That the attorney general would fire the man who was tasked with investigating him raises serious questions about whether retaliation or retribution motivated his decision. It also raises serious questions about his supposed recusal from all matters stemming from the 2016 campaign. But the fact that Attorney General Sessions would claim that a lack of candor justified Mr. McCabes termination is hypocrisy at its worst.
https://twitter.com/SenFranken/status/977197190585180160?s=20
Via: http://www.eschatonblog.com/2018/03/they-dont-navigate-with-dashcam.html?m=1#comment-3820463663
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