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Part 81, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 largesse. These from a second
Saturday, 12/16/17, headed, [no, umm, 'presidential' Weakly Address on December 1, 2017]
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=136955704

There are quite a few here, i'll repost a few.

The explosive video that shows how Flynn flipped
The Beat With Ari Melber
12/1/17
MSNBC Chief Legal correspondent Ari Melber breaks down the key moments that led to Michael Flynn flipping,
and shows their new significance, through the lens of Mueller’s newly released plea documents Duration: 10:01
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/the-explosive-video-that-shows-how-flynn-flipped-1108012099812

Trump at "Watergate moment" - Sen. Richard Blumenthal

All In with Chris Hayes
12/1/17
Trump and others are now at a "Watergate moment," said Sen. Richard
Blumenthal. "What did he know and when did he know it?" Duration: 6:07
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-at-watergate-moment-sen-richard-blumenthal-1108055619958 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9jsT9KBR8 [with comments]

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The original Michael Flynn lies

All In with Chris Hayes
12/1/17
At the very heart of today's Michael Flynn news are the repeated lies or false
statements made by members of the Trump administration. Duration: 3:18
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-original-michael-flynn-lies-1108049475943 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ItWwqwIVs [with comments]

Why did Trump ignore repeated warnings Flynn was compromised?

The Rachel Maddow Show
12/1/17
Rachel Maddow looks at the warnings Donald Trump received about Mike Flynn and the
inexplicable way Trump held Flynn in favor even after he left office. Duration: 19:36
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-did-trump-ignore-repeated-warnings-that-flynn-was-compromised-1108062275821 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4PmePyKoA [with comments]

Flynn prosecution still possible despite plea agreement
The Rachel Maddow Show
12/1/17
Paul Fishman, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about Mike Flynn's legal situation in light of his guilty plea and
whether his deal makes it more likely that other people in Donald Trump's circle will look for deals as well. Duration: 3:59
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flynn-prosecution-still-possible-despite-plea-agreement-1108104259781

These eight are good refreshers. They straddle halfway.

Flynn guilty plea marks historic turn for U.S. presidency
The Rachel Maddow Show
12/1/17
Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about the historic nature of Mike Flynn's
guilty plea, and the parallels with John Dean as someone who flipped to work with investigators. Duration: 3:55
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flynn-guilty-plea-marks-historic-turn-for-u-s-presidency-1108109891943

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Mike Flynn case allows peek at Robert Mueller legal team
The Rachel Maddow Show
12/1/17
Rachel Maddow looks at what was reported about the reputations of Zainab Ahmad and Brandon Van
Grack before we saw their names at the bottom of Mike Flynn's prosecuting papers. Duration: 1:49
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mike-flynn-case-allows-peek-at-robert-mueller-legal-team-1108102723790

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Lawrence: Flynn guilty plea means walls are closing in on Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
12/1/17
Robert Mueller's investigation is now just one person away from the president after Michael Flynn's guilty plea, Lawrence O'Donnell says.
Because Flynn has already told his story to the special counsel to get a deal, even pardoning Flynn can't save Trump now. Duration: 13:00
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-flynn-guilty-plea-means-walls-are-closing-in-on-trump-1108101187858 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etg_LotCV0c [with comments]

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How will Michael Flynn's guilty plea affect the Trump family?

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
12/1/17
Robert Mueller is one step closer to Trump's inner circle after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in the Russia probe. So who in Trump’s world has the most
to worry about with Michael Flynn’s testimony? Lawrence O’Donnell discusses with David Frum, Barbara McQuade, & Ken Dilanian. Duration: 8:19
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/how-will-michael-flynn-s-guilty-plea-affect-the-trump-family-1108106307784 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_9WSfyZDBs [with comments]

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Trump White House was 'blindsided' by Flynn guilty plea

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/2/17
What will a guilty plea from Mike Flynn mean for Trump and his inner circle inside the White
House? Our panel of reporters and legal experts breaks it all down. Duration: 7:40
©2017 NBCNews.com
[originally aired December 1, 2017]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-white-house-was-blindsided-by-flynn-guilty-plea-1108125763587 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76DmMbNhH-M [with comments]

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Trump lawyers did not know Flynn guilty plea was coming
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/2/17
Given that Trump's legal team reportedly had no idea the Flynn guilty plea was coming, how
will the Trump White House plan for Mueller's next move. Our panel reacts. Duration: 6:47
©2017 NBCNews.com
[originally aired December 1, 2017]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-lawyers-did-not-know-flynn-guilty-plea-was-coming-1108124227918

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From decorated officer to felon: Who is Mike Flynn?

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
12/2/17
Before joining the Trump campaign, Michael Flynn and a long and decorated military career. Gen. Barry
McCaffrey - who knows Flynn - and former U.S. Ambassador Mike McFaul join to discuss. Duration: 6:24
©2017 NBCNews.com
[originally aired December 1, 2017]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/from-decorated-officer-to-felon-who-is-mike-flynn-1108126275916 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFRytOIHMg [with comments]

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Trump Has A Lot To Be Worried About Now That Flynn Is Talking (HBO)

Published on Dec 1, 2017 by VICE News
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn just became the fourth — and potentially the most important — person charged in
Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into whether the Trump administration colluded with Russia during and after the election.
Back in February 2016, Flynn, a retired three-star general, was one of the first high-level people to join Trump’s campaign,
later making him a senior member of the transition team. And just 10 days after the election, Trump had already named
Flynn as national security adviser, a role that would give him nearly unfettered access to White House secrets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnOf8ZhIH7I [with comments]

From "stashed December 1, 2017:"

These Are The Facebook Ads Trump Only Wants His Loyal Supporters To See
“Fake news” media, liberal obstructionists and the San Francisco 49ers are all targets of his fundraising fury.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-facebook-ads_us_5a205d86e4b03350e0b5362b

Paul Manafort reaches bail deal with Mueller probe prosecutors for judge’s approval
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/paul-manafort-announces-proposed-bail-deal-with-mueller-probe-prosecutors-for-judges-ok/2017/11/30/7c0deede-d607-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html
.. more: https://news.google.com/news/story/drL7h7oAlDfvADM7itdkdw-opjNnM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

The Latest: Flynn says Trump transition team directed him
As part of a plea deal, former national security adviser Michael Flynn has admitted that a senior member of the Trump transition team directed him to make contact with Russian officials in December 2016.
[...]
https://www.apnews.com/99bb8f75c5514af8b7e5ec77ea4f6f68/The-Latest:-Flynn-says-Trump-transition-team-directed-him

Trump Is Cracking Up
By Michelle Goldberg [ https://www.nytimes.com/column/michelle-goldberg ]
Paul Joseph Watson is an editor and staff writer for Infowars, the website published by archconspiracist Alex Jones. Stories on the site claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and the “deep state” orchestrated August’s racist mayhem in Charlottesville, Va. On Wednesday, when Donald Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos from the British fascist organization Britain First, Watson thought Trump had gone too far. He tweeted: “Yeah, someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump’s Twitter account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great optics.”
By the end of the day, Trump had been condemned by Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, to which he responded by going after a different Theresa May on Twitter, dragging an obscure woman who at the time had six followers into the limelight. In another tweet, he insinuated that the TV host Joe Scarborough killed an intern in 2001, when he was a congressman. This came after news reports informed us that Trump is still a birther and that he no longer admits that the voice on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape is his own. He seems to be cracking up.
There is a debate over whether Trump is unaware of reality or merely indifferent to it. He might be delusional, or he might simply be asserting the power to blithely override truth, which is the ultimate privilege of a despot. But reports from the administration all suggest an increasingly unhinged and chaotic president. Trump’s aides are trying to spin his behavior, which they clearly expect to get worse, as a sign of heightened confidence. “Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office,” Mike Allen reports on Axios.
This should be seen as an emergency situation. But now that Republicans are about to get their tax cuts, they appear to have decided that it doesn’t matter whether the president is sane. “One senator who listened as the president revived his doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate chuckled on Tuesday as he recalled the conversation,” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin reported in The New York Times this week. In Politico, the conservative Rich Lowry made the argument that beneath the tempestuous surface, the Trump presidency is going relatively well, installing right-wing judges and rolling back regulations instituted by Barack Obama. On CNN, Senator Lindsey Graham chided the press for treating Trump like “some kind of kook not fit to be president,” which is some serious gaslighting from a man who previously called Trump “crazy,” a “kook” and “unfit for office.”
The message here is clear: Republicans aren’t going to defy their mad king over anything as mushy and amorphous as democratic norms, rationality or national honor. Indeed, whether Trump is mentally ill or simply unbound, his provocations can serve a purpose for the Republican Party, numbing the country to a tide of less flamboyant outrages. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for example, appears to have flat-out lied when he said that his agency’s comprehensive analysis shows the Republican tax bill paying for itself through economic growth; according to The Times, no such analysis exists. This should be a scandal, but when an administration lies all the time, it makes a lie like this less shocking.
Less than a month ago Thomas Wright, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, warned that it was a mistake to infer that what we’ve seen so far of the Trump administration will be “as bad as it gets.” As time goes on, he wrote, “Trump will find people who will empower him, instead of trying to contain him. Some of these will be junior officials who gain experience. Others may be opportunists who see a chance to gain high office by pledging to be more of a loyalist than the current cabinet.”
One such figure, Wright wrote, might be Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, who has previously said that cabinet members who won’t unreservedly enact the president’s vision should resign. On Thursday, The Times reported that Cotton, who like the president is a defender of waterboarding, could be on his way to head the C.I.A. He would replace Mike Pompeo, who is himself expected to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
These moves would put the country closer to war with Iran, a course Cotton almost appears to welcome. In an October speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said: “If we are forced to take action, the United States has the ability to totally destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. And if they choose to rebuild it, we could destroy it again, until they get the picture.”
Meanwhile, Trump has put us on a track toward armed conflict with North Korea; on Thursday he resumed tweeting insults about that country’s thin-skinned leader, writing, “The Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man.”
If you think 2017 was bad, imagine an America without allies fighting another two-front war, this one involving nuclear weapons, under the leadership of the most hated president in modern history, while a torture apologist runs the C.I.A. The world right now is a powder keg. Trump, an untethered maniac, sits atop it, flicking a lighter that Republicans in Congress could take away, but won’t. If everything goes up in flames, we can’t say we weren’t warned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/opinion/trump-is-cracking-up.html
.. more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d92ERxJBfFldgLM_e6fX8LrnDk84M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Democrats Warn Against White House Interference in Russia Inquiry
Minority leaders stressed that investigations into potential Trump-Russia ties must continue unimpeded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/flynn-guilty-plea-congress-democrats/547289/
.. more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dgNpXLqlHzL-yjMqgBrQFViL_67XM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en