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Part 94, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones.
These from a second on Tuesday, 01/02/18, headed, Weakly Address: 12/16/2017
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Mueller: GOP leaders attack Russia probe prosecutor
AM Joy
12/16/17
Mueller: GOP leaders attack Russia probe prosecutor Republicans accuse special prosecutor Robert Mueller and his team investigating
Russia’s election interference of bias. Joy Reid and her panel discuss what experts call this threat to our republic. Duration: 11:39
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/mueller-gop-leaders-attack-russia-probe-prosecutor-1118158403963

To "stashed December 16, 2017:"

President Trump claims the FBI is tainted and its reputation in tatters. This graph shows he’s wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/16/president-trump-claims-the-fbi-is-tainted-and-its-reputation-in-tatters-this-graph-shows-hes-wrong/
.. more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dLsMyXe7hgedzmMJKCpy_N3Qc4_0M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

What Does Trump Mean By ‘Make America Great Again’?
By Ralph Nader (. . .)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-does-trump-mean-by-make-america-great-again_us_5a341e29e4b02bd1c8c6066b

Trump lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained transition documents in Russia probe
Exclusive — A lawyer for the Trump presidential transition team is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office of inappropriately obtaining transition documents as part of its Russia probe, including confidential attorney-client communications, privileged communications and thousands of emails.
In a letter obtained by Fox News and sent to House and Senate committees on Saturday, the transition team’s attorney alleges “unlawful conduct” by the career staff at the General Services Administration in handing over transition documents to the special counsel’s office.
The transition legal team argues it could be a violation of the 4th Amendment – which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Kory Langhofer, the counsel to Trump for America, wrote in Saturday's letter that the GSA “did not own or control the records in question.”
Langhofer said the special counsel’s office received “tens of thousands of emails” from the GSA as well as certain laptops and cell phones containing privileged materials.
The transition attorney said they discovered the “unauthorized disclosures” by the GSA on December 12th and 13th and raised concerns with the special counsel’s office.
“We understand that the special counsel’s office has subsequently made extensive use of the materials it obtained from the GSA, including materials that are susceptible to privilege claims,” Langhofer writes.
Trump for America is the nonprofit organization that facilitated the transition between former President Barack Obama to President Trump.
The GSA, an agency of the United States government, provided the transition team with office space and hosted its email servers.
“We continue to cooperate fully with the special counsel and expect this process to wrap up soon,” Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Saturday.
The special counsel’s office declined to comment Saturday.
Langhofer wrote that some of the records obtained by the special counsel’s office from the GSA “have been leaked to the press by unknown persons.”
The Trump transition team lawyer also argued the actions “impair the ability of future presidential transition teams to candidly discuss policy and internal matters that benefit the country as a whole.”
Langhofer requests in the letter that Congress “act immediately to protect future presidential transitions from having their private records misappropriated by government agencies, particularly in the context of sensitive investigations intersecting with political motives.”
The letter was sent to the Senate Homeland Security and House Oversight Committees.
The committees did not immediately return a request for comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/16/trump-lawyer-mueller-improperly-obtained-transition-documents-in-russia-probe.html

Rep. Speier: ‘Rumor on the Hill’ is Trump to Fire Mueller Before Christmas

( https://youtu.be/VPUJD9HR-Xg )
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) told KQED Newsroom on Friday that she believes Republicans are trying to shut down the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Speier also said, “The rumor on the Hill when I left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week. And on Dec. 22nd, when we are out of D.C., he was going to fire Robert Mueller.”
If this were to happen, Speier said, it would cause a constitutional crisis. “That is Saturday massacre 2.0,” she said. “Without a doubt there would be an impeachment effort.”
Fellow California representative, Adam Schiff (D-Los Angeles), voiced similar concerns on Twitter on Friday.
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https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/15/congresswoman-speier-says-republicans-trying-to-shut-down-russia-probe/

Trump Allies Say Mueller Unlawfully Obtained Thousands of Emails
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2017-12-16/trump-allies-say-mueller-unlawfully-obtained-thousands-of-emails

DOJ bias is like a cancer: Rep. Gaetz

Fox Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAki5Y_TcQ
.. more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d01IAS03_zNtSPMQk_BpdeXBMxQsM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en