January 10, 2019

OMG #TRump on WH lawn talking with his #MAGA hat on!!

January 10, 2019

Shutdown's economic damage: $1 billion a week

Source: Politico



The mounting toll is adding new risks to the Trump administration’s economic hopes for 2019.

By VICTORIA GUIDA 01/09/2019 06:33 PM EST


As federal workers face the prospect of missed paychecks during the partial government shutdown, their financial reality is rippling into the broader economy.

The roughly 800,000 government employees who are either furloughed or working without pay will be forced to start slashing their consumer spending when paychecks don’t appear this week. Private-sector contractors and other workers tied to the government are already seeing damage from lost business.

And a hit to the nation’s financial standing is on the horizon with a warning from Fitch Ratings on Wednesday about downgrading the government’s credit rating if the shutdown persists.

Estimates from President Donald Trump’s chief economist peg the cost to the overall U.S. economy at about $1.2 billion for each week the shutdown persists. While that’s just 0.05 percentage points off the GDP growth rate, it could be among the factors complicating the administration’s aspiration of reaching sustained 3 percent growth.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/shutdowns-economic-damage-1-billion-a-week-1071609

January 10, 2019

Maddow reporting that WH just hired 17 new Lawyers to handle the Mueller probe. whow

January 10, 2019

Pelosi, Schumer response tops Trump speech in preliminary ratings

Source: the hill


By Joe Concha - 01/09/19 01:23 PM EST


The response to President Trump's Oval Office address to the nation by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) on Tuesday night rated slightly higher than the president's remarks, according to preliminary audience figures.

According to early numbers from Nielsen, the quarter hour from 9 to 9:15 p.m. EST that included the president's address attracted a combined 28.1 rating in metered markets on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.

The 15 minutes that followed immediately after that included remarks by Pelosi and Schumer registered 29.3 across those same networks.
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The early numbers also show that the Pelosi-Schumer response beat Trump by 26 percent on CNN and 15 percent on MSNBC, according to Deadline.
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Deadline also notes the Trump address and Democratic response got an equal number of viewers on Fox News...................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424560-pelosi-schumer-response-tops-trump-speech-in-preliminary-ratings

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Trump bragged constantly on the stump that he was a ratings man--he got the cable and networks good ratings. (per Inners_)

Love this headline!!




https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1083163786138345473




Rachel
? @RJMMM
1h1 hour ago
Replying to @thehill

This makes me happy.
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Matthew May
? @TweetMatthewMay
1h1 hour ago

Replying to @thehill

Think those ratings are high... wait for Trump's Impeachment.
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Richard Adkins
? @adkins381
1h1 hour ago

Replying to @thehill

Trump's primetime address was nothing more than a joke!!!

January 9, 2019

Ok time to turn msnbc back on--waiting for Nancy and Schumer

January 9, 2019

Here are a few WATCH LIVE links to Trump propaganda speech....

Tack more on if you come across them. thanks




LIVE
Watch live at 9 p.m. ET: President Trump addresses the nation on border security
President Trump will deliver a prime-time address from the Oval Office in the midst of an ongoing government shutdown and controversy over funding for his border wall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/watch-live-at-9-pm-et-president-trump-addresses-the-nation-on-border-security/2019/01/08/5ce686a2-2f3d-458f-bd2e-24912db2c185_live.html?utm_term=.0ee0bccba075


Watch live: Donald Trump’s border wall speech hits prime-time TV at 9 p.m. Eastern
Updated 6:39 PM; Posted 6:00 PM


https://www.al.com/news/2019/01/watch-live-donald-trumps-border-wall-speech-hits-prime-time-tv-at-9-pm-eastern.html

January 9, 2019

Pro-Tip: Switch channels AFTER Trump starts speaking, the networks see the drop-off rate.

Does anyone know if this works?? I have no idea.



Tengrain
? @Tengrain

Pro-Tip: Switch channels AFTER Trump starts speaking, the networks see the drop-off rate.
If you don’t watch your protest isn’t counted.

Want proof? Steve Bannon tanked Ari Melber’s ratings by 42% during his appearance and they saw it live.





https://twitter.com/Tengrain/status/1082743210294702080

Replying to @Tengrain @melaniedeppen

Don't watch! Whatever LIES he tells, will be on Twitter for discussion. You don't need tv for info
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Mr Rock
ℹ
? @The_Arsenal78
2h2 hours ago

Absolutely right...if People boycott, tv networks will learn not to encourage this kinda behaviour for ratings.
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End of conversation

Aibhilin, lady of nerdy goodness

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🏹
? @ladyaibhilin
3h3 hours ago
Replying to @Tengrain @PatsyResists

Does this work on streaming services like Sling and Hulu live as well?
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January 8, 2019

Mueller believes Manafort fed information to Russian with intel ties

Source: CNN

CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 4:13 PM ET, Tue January 8, 2019


Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller believes that Paul Manafort was sharing polling data and discussing Russian-Ukrainian policy with his close Russian-intelligence-linked associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, while he led the Trump presidential campaign, according to parts of a court filing that were meant to be redacted by Manafort's legal team Tuesday but were released publicly.


Manafort discussed a Ukrainian peace plan with Kilimnik, his lawyers acknowledged. He also shared polling data related to the 2016 presidential campaign with Kilimnik, Manafort's legal team acknowledges in their court filing.


The details accidentally released Tuesday are the closest public assertion yet in the Mueller cases of coordination between a Trump campaign official and the Russian government, as Kilimnik is believed to be linked to Russian military intelligence. It's a major acknowledgment from the Mueller team that their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is finding potential contact between at least one Trump campaign official and the Kremlin.


The Ukraine peace plan that they discussed likely would have dealt with Russian intervention in the region. At around the same time, Russian government operatives were allegedly hacking Democratic computers to help Trump and orchestrating a social media propaganda scheme to sway voters against Trump's electoral opponents.................

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/manafort-russia-court-deadline/index.html

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closer and closer to Trump. yup!




Manafort Shared Trump Campaign Data With Russian Tied to Intelligence Services, Prosecutors Say
The revelation was inadvertently revealed in a court filing by Paul Manafort’s lawyers that contained a formatting error.
Profile image of authorThe New York Times
Jan 08, 2019

🚨 NEW: Paul Manafort's attorneys failed to properly redact their filing. They reveal that Mueller alleges Manafort "lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign". Konstantin Kilimnik has alleged ties to Russian intelligence. 🚨
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Natasha Bertrand
?Verified account @NatashaBertrand
4h4 hours ago

Things we learned today from Manafort's lawyers' redaction errors: Manafort is alleged to have met in Madrid w/Kilimnik; shared polling data with him; and discussed a Ukraine peace plan w/him more than once. Is that the same peace plan that Cohen delivered to Flynn in Jan 2017?
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Matthew Miller Verified account @matthewamiller
4h4 hours ago

Matthew Miller Retweeted southpaw

These failed redactions show Manafort had a meeting with Kilimnik in Madrid, gave him campaign polling data, and discussed a Ukrainian peace plan with him - then lied about all of it. Very normal contacts between a US presidential campaign manager & a Russian intelligence asset.


https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1082712220306423809
Matthew Miller added,
southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
You can copy the black highlighted “redactions” in the Manafort team’s filing, paste it somewhere else, and see what it says. Here’s the first one. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-20190108-Dc.pdf …
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Ted Lieu
?Verified account @tedlieu
3h3 hours ago

Ted Lieu Retweeted Natasha Bertrand

Manafort may want to fire his lawyers.

Also, um, this is collusion or attempted collusion by the campaign manager of the @realDonaldTrump campaign right?
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1082728217448980480




https://twitter.com/MusicBoxRF/status/1082728649688633344

January 8, 2019

@Lawrence to Sen Grassley--Are you insulting New Yorkers or Iowans? Do you want Trump to use bigger

Ha ha




Lawrence O'Donnell
?Verified account @Lawrence

Lawrence O'Donnell Retweeted ChuckGrassley

Are you insulting New Yorkers or Iowans? Do you want Trump to use bigger words or smaller words? Should it be smarter or stupider? Are you saying Iowans aren’t as smart as New Yorkers? Or are you just casually showing your bigotry?

https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1082665275940454400



https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1082342091366322177



https://twitter.com/g_gambz/status/1082737554326196225



https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1082672399466799107

January 8, 2019

Hoyer: IRS distributing refunds during shutdown is illegal

Source: thehill




By Mike Lillis - 01/08/19 11:51 AM EST



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“Literally, there are $140 billion, approximately, in tax refunds that won’t be able to be sent,” Hoyer said during his weekly press briefing in the Capitol.

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On Monday, the administration vowed that the shutdown will not delay the Internal Revenue Service’s distribution of those payments.

“Tax refunds will go out,” Russell Vought, the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters on Monday.

The threat that tax refunds would be delayed was seen as a pressure point — and an advantage for Democrats — in the battle to reopen the government as Trump and Democratic leaders seem to be digging in on the issue of whether to provide billions of dollars for the president’s promised U.S.–Mexico border wall.

Hoyer said flatly that making the payments during the shutdown is illegal..........................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/424327-hoyer-irs-refunds-during-shutdown-are-illegal

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No doubt the RW fox will be yelling about how the Dems want to prevent folks from getting their refunds. sigh!

I susppose it would take a law suit to stop the IRS--but who will bring it??