Miles Archer
Miles Archer's Journal2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports
Source: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/
WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.
The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.
Mr. Nunes has also been faulted by his congressional colleagues for sharing the information with President Trump before consulting with other members of the intelligence committee.
The congressman has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe coming to the committee with sensitive information. He first disclosed the existence of the intelligence reports on March 22, and in his public comments he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.
Read more: New York Times
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback vetoes Medicaid expansion bill
Source: Raw Story
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Thursday vetoed a bill expanding eligibility for Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), saying he could not support legislation that provided tax dollars to Planned Parenthood.
State lawmakers in the Republican-controlled senate voted in favor of the measure on Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal and replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare, ended with the bill being pulled from a vote.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/kansas-governor-sam-brownback-vetoes-medicaid-expansion-bill/
DeVos: Picking a school should be like choosing among Uber, Lyft or a taxi
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/847482879684730881https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/847373532543688705
Ryan: Trump was "very apologetic" for promoting Fox show that called on me to resign
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/paul-ryan-donald-trump-jeanine-pirro-236686
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that President Donald Trump was "very apologetic" after promoting a television segment during which Fox News host Jeanine Pirro called on Ryan to step down for failing to deliver enough votes to pass Republican's Obamacare replacement bill.
“He actually was very apologetic,” Ryan said on "CBS This Morning" about Trump's endorsement of the program, during which Pirro also said Trump was not to blame for the American Health Care Act's failure. “He said, 'I had no idea she was going to talk about that. I thought she was going to talk about something else.'”
“So, really, it was completely coincidental,” he said, adding that Trump told him that he expected Pirro would deliver a monologue about Russia.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted to his followers to watch Pirro's show, sharing the time and channel on which the program would air hours before Pirro delivered a blistering opening monologue calling for Ryan's resignation. White House press secretary Sean Spicer this week defended Trump for promoting Pirro’s program, saying that he was only promoting it as "a fan of the show, plain and simple.”
Trump floats changing libel laws, because, you know, failing NYT has gotten him wrong for two years
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847455180912181249Ahead of Senate open hearing on Trump/Russia ties, Putin calls meddling claims "lies"
https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/847449402939592704
Trump is WETTING HIMSELF on Twitter over 2018. That boy's running scared. DEMS! Our AGENDA! SAD!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847435163143454723
Its"Preschool Politics" If Trump Thinks He Can Split Democrats, Black Lawmakers Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-democrats-black-lawmakers_us_58dc2a66e4b08194e3b70ea2
WASHINGTON ― Black lawmakers say they’re ready to work with President Donald Trump on some of his big-ticket legislation, despite his credibility problem with them.
But if Trump’s administration thinks it can win votes by targeting black members of Congress while ignoring the rest of the Democratic caucus, it’s not going to work, according to Congressional Black Caucus members.
“Who in the world is going to announce, ‘Oh we’re going to try to siphon off 14-15 Democrats,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). “I mean that is preschool politics.”
Cleaver became visibly riled when asked about a recent report by Axios that GOP lobbyists were working with African American lobbyists to create an opening for Trump to pick off votes through the Congressional Black Caucus on a tax-reform and infrastructure package.
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Name: Miles ArcherGender: Male
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