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kpete's JournalIt sounds like we are *this* close to a bipartisan deal on comprehensive tax reform.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/848866723474399232Manafort Wanted for Questioning in U.S. and Ukraine
“American and Ukrainian officials are pushing to question President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in separate investigations related to his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine once headed by that country’s disgraced former president Viktor Yanukovych,” Politico reports.
American and Ukrainian officials are pushing to question President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in separate investigations related to his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine once headed by that country’s disgraced former president Viktor Yanukovych.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) told POLITICO that Manafort “would certainly be at the top of my list to testify” before the House Intelligence Committee’s ongoing investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The panel held its first public hearing Monday, featuring hours of testimony from FBI Director James Comey, who publicly acknowledged for the first time that his agency is investigating the possibility of Russian coordination with members of Trump’s campaign team. “Of all of the characters in and around the Trump campaign and administration, Paul Manafort’s relationships with Russians are by far the longest-standing and the deepest,” said Himes, who is a member of the committee. “And he has some pretty unsavory contacts.”
At the same time, an investigative department within a top Ukrainian law enforcement agency intends to ask the U.S. Department of Justice for help questioning Manafort about his possible relationship to Yanukovych during the 2014 riots that drove Yanukovych from power, according to Serhiy Gorbatyuk, the head of the department for special investigations within the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/paul-manafort-trump-ukraine-russia-236286
Today's LA Times editorial. Hillary said virtually the same thing last summer.
https://twitter.com/HillaryWarnedUs/status/848543130475515905
Dang right Maxine. Don't let up
https://twitter.com/MaxineWaters/status/848632034637615109Chris Wallace repeatedly calling bullshit on Trump EPA admin Pruitt is, dare I say, kinda heroic
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/848556104657272833https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/848539937209241600
https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/848539361314570240
Top intel Dem hints at dragging Trump before House Intelligence Committee
Schiff raised important questions that have obvious, if unconfirmed, answers. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer went to pieces when asked if Trump personally directed the Nunes cover-up, and Schiff is correct that the best person to answer that definitively is Trump himself.
Even Nunes has previously expressed a willingness to subpoena the Trump administration, and Schiff’s remarks seem to suggest that Trump’s tweets may end up putting him in the hot seat, under oath, before Congress.
The only question, then, will be if Trump asks for immunity.
http://shareblue.com/top-intel-dem-hints-at-dragging-trump-before-house-intelligence-committee/#.WOEdeDYoki4.twitter
Rep Adam Schiff's Very Important Questions After His Trip To WH To See Docs
When Jake Tapper asked about the classified information he’d seen, Rep. Adam Schiff very important questions after his trip to the White House to see these documents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=-Ektc18Pjvc
But the most important thing people need to know about these documents is not classified and it's a couple of thing. First, the deputy assistant to the white house informed me when I went to see them that these are exactly the same materials that were shown to the chairman. Now this is a very interesting point. How does the white house know that these are the same materials that were shown to the chairman if the white house wasn't aware what the chairman was being shown? And the second point was also made to me, this is, I think, was also underscored by Sean spicer and that is that it was told me by the deputy assistant the materials were produced during the ordinary course of business. The question for the white house and Mr. Spicer is the ordinary course of whose business? Because if these were produced either for or by the white house, then why all of the subterfuge? I think the answer may come from the president, himself, and you can say a lot of things about the president, but one thing you cannot say is he's not subtle. And I think his tweets tell the story and the story is look over there at leaks and look over there at anything the Obama administration we can claim did wrong on incidental collection or anything else. But whatever you do, under no circumstances look here at me or at Russia. I think that is really what is going on.
lots more:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/2/1649517/-Rep-Adam-Schiff-has-two-important-new-questions-for-the-White-House-after-seeing-the-intel-docs
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