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Part 181, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones. These from a post Saturday, 04/07/18, covering
March 14, 2018, and headed, Trump’s New CIA Nominee, Gina Haspel, Faces Possible Arrest Warrant in Germany over Torture
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139869829

The first five

Trump’s New CIA Nominee, Gina Haspel, Faces Possible Arrest Warrant in Germany over Torture

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Democracy Now! [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqE7-t13O4NIDYJfakrhw / https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow , https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow/videos ]
On Tuesday morning, President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter. In the same tweet, the president announced CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who is a close ally of the Koch brothers, would be nominated to become the new secretary of state. Trump also tapped CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to head the CIA. Haspel was directly involved in the CIA’s torture program under George W. Bush. She was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 where one prisoner was waterboarded 83 times and tortured in other ways. Both Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel must now face Senate confirmations, but barring any Republican defections, both can be confirmed without any Democratic support. Last year, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights [ https://www.ecchr.eu/en/home.html ] asked German prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Haspel for her role in the torture program. For more, we speak with Wolfgang Kaleck, founder and general secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/14/trumps_new_cia_nominee_gina_haspel [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdQxSdJJ7gQ [with comments] [and see also in particular (linked in) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=39471610 and preceding and following]

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“She Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture”: CIA Whistleblower on Trump’s New CIA Pick Gina Haspel

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Democracy Now!
Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou personally knew CIA director nominee Gina Haspel when he worked at the CIA. But their careers have taken very different paths over the past decade. Haspel, who was directly involved in torture at a secret CIA prison in Thailand, has been promoted to head the agency. Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the torture program, ended up being jailed for 23 months. For more, we speak with John Kiriakou, who spent 14 years at the CIA as an analyst and case officer.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/14/she_tortured_just_for_the_sake [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDc1hscfeQ [with comments] [id.]

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Jeremy Scahill: Gina Haspel Should Be Answering for Her Torture Crimes, Not Heading the CIA

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Democracy Now!
Trump has tapped CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace outgoing CIA Director Mike Pompeo, after Pompeo was named to succeed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Haspel was directly involved in the CIA’s torture program under George W. Bush. She was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 where one prisoner was waterboarded 83 times and tortured in other ways. But she enjoys broad support, including from the intelligence community and Democrats in the Senate. For more, we speak with Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/14/jeremy_scahill_gina_haspel_should_be [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTMCiKmABOQ [with comments] [id.]

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Mike Pompeo, Christian Crusader & Koch Brothers Ally, Tapped to Be Trump’s Secretary of State

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Democracy Now!
On Tuesday, President Trump announced via Twitter he was firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and tapping CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. As a former Kansas Republican congressmember, Pompeo has a history of making Islamophobic statements. He’s also been a major ally to the billionaire right-wing Koch brothers. For more, we speak with Lee Fang, investigative reporter with The Intercept. His 2016 piece is “Trump CIA Pick Mike Pompeo Depicted War on Terror as Islamic Battle Against Christianity [ https://theintercept.com/2016/11/23/mike-pompeo-religious-war/ ].”
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/14/mike_pompeo_christian_crusader_koch_brothers [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axAuKoKDpLw [with comments]

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Congresswoman Confirms Erik Prince Tied to Assassination Program Run Out of Dick Cheney’s Office

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Democracy Now!
On one of the latest episodes [ https://theintercept.com/2018/03/14/intercepted-podcast-the-lyin-the-rich-and-the-warmongers/ ] of Jeremy Scahill’s podcast “Intercepted,” he interviews Democratic Congressmember Jan Schakowsky about Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, who is now under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. For more, we speak with Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/14/congresswoman_confirms_erik_prince_tied_to [with embedded video, and transcript]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMvXcUuGiw [with comments]

Ouch. All worth watching, good job Democracy Now.

Twenty-four to six

Roger Stone Filmmaker: We "prepared" to meet Assange in London in 2016

The Beat with Ari Melber
3/14/18
The documentarian who spent over five years with Roger Stone details preparations for a 2016 trip to London to
meet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and rebuts Stone’s claim the idea of a meeting with Assange was “a joke.”
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/stone-filmmaker-we-prepared-to-go-to-london-for-assange-meeting-1186206275927 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EjqVkKhOhs [with comments]

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Schiff: “Indications” Trump hiding materials on Comey discussions

The Beat with Ari Melber
3/14/18
As the House Intelligence Committee ends its Russia probe, the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Adam Schiff, reveals “indications” of “some memorialization” of discussions between Trump and former FBI director James Comey that would “shed light on the issue of obstruction of justice.”
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/schiff-indications-trump-hiding-materials-on-comey-discussions-1186214979676 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0nhp5ybBlg [with comments]

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GOP Congressman confronted over how Trump firing Mueller could be illegal

The Beat with Ari Melber
3/14/18
Congressman Matt Gaetz who is leading the charge to have Special Counsel Mueller fired says recused Attorney General Jeff Sessions should fire Mueller.
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/gop-congressman-confronted-over-how-trump-firing-mueller-could-be-illegal-1186217539596 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDPKBPiiOOM [with comments]

Rock on to the thirty-second

Isikoff to Chris Hayes: 50/50 that the 'pee tape' is real

All In with Chris Hayes
3/14/18
Michael Isikoff and David Corn explore the relationship between Trump and Putin, interference in the 2016
presidential election, the claims in the infamous Trump dossier, and more in their new book "Russian Roulette."
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/isikoff-to-chris-hayes-50-50-that-the-pee-tape-is-real-1186260547922 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGFQyMo1o2M [with comments]

The thirty-fifth

Trump target Andrew McCabe faces FBI firing
All In with Chris Hayes
3/14/18
Another alarming turn in President Trump's attack on the American justice system.
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-target-andrew-mccabe-faces-fbi-firing-1186269763919

Thirty-eight

Kushner deal with Japan-backed company gets new scrutiny
The Rachel Maddow Show
3/14/18
Caleb Melby, financial investigations reporter for Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about a
hundred million dollar real estate deal the Jared Kushner's family company did with a Japan-backed company.
©2018 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kushner-deal-with-japan-backed-company-gets-new-scrutiny-1186353219548

Forty-five, six, seven and eight

Insider: Trump White House is 'most toxic' workplace on Earth

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
3/15/18
With reports indicating more staff changes are on the way inside the Trump administration, an
insider tells Axios the Trump White House's atmosphere is 'ripping people apart.' Our panel reacts.
©2018 NBCNews.com
[originally aired March 14, 2018]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/insider-trump-white-house-most-toxic-workplace-on-earth-1186389571890 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR1zFJssR9Q [with comments]

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Second Trump lawyer signed Stormy Daniels gag order docs
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
3/15/18
Newly revealed documents show a top Trump Organization lawyer was involved in trying
to enforce a $130,000 hush agreement with porn star Stormy Daniels. Our panel reacts.
©2018 NBCNews.com
[originally aired March 14, 2018]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/second-trump-lawyer-signed-stormy-daniels-gag-order-docs-1186392131604

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Trump lawyers struggle with prospect of a Mueller interview
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
3/15/18
A new Associated Press report shows Trump's legal team seems to have no good options when it comes to
the possibility of Pres. Trump sitting down with Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Our panel reacts.
©2018 NBCNews.com
[originally aired March 14, 2018]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-lawyers-struggle-with-prospect-of-a-mueller-interview-1186397251612

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After spy poisoned in UK, Trump leaves blasting Russia to aides

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
3/15/18
The harsh words for Putin's Russia came - not from Trump - but his aides in the wake of an ex-spy's poisoning in the United Kingdom. Malcolm Nance joins to discuss.
©2018 NBCNews.com
[originally aired March 14, 2018]
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/after-spy-poisoned-in-uk-trump-leaves-blasting-russia-to-aides-1186397251960 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNLy-eF4dU [with comments]

I didn't say it, Vladimir. Trust me.

A warming little comedy spot

The President Is Putting on a Great Big Special - The President Show

Published on Mar 14, 2018 by Comedy Central [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsN5ZwHx2kILm84-jPDeXw / https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral , https://www.youtube.com/user/comedycentral/videos , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7nPL1U-R5o-p0I_6RGUR2MZus6O8cpX ]
On April 3, the president will restore our nation's telethons to their former glory with an hour-long special, Make America Great-A-Thon: A President Show Special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iCvFXOt1S0 [with comments]

To "stashed March 14, 2018:"

Andrew McCabe, a Symbol of Trump’s F.B.I. Ire, Faces Possible Firing
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing a recommendation to fire the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, just days before he is scheduled to retire on Sunday, people briefed on the matter said. Mr. McCabe was a frequent target of attack from President Trump, who taunted him both publicly and privately.
Mr. McCabe is ensnared in an internal review that includes an examination of his decision in 2016 to allow F.B.I. officials to speak with reporters about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that Mr. McCabe was not forthcoming during the review, according to the people briefed on the matter. That yet-to-be-released report triggered an F.B.I. disciplinary process that recommended his termination — leaving Mr. Sessions to either accept or reverse that decision.
Lack of candor is a fireable offense, but like so much at the F.B.I., Mr. McCabe’s fate is also entangled in presidential politics and the special counsel investigation. He was involved from the beginning in the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. He is also a potential witness in the inquiry into whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct justice.
Mr. Trump’s supporters have tried to cast Mr. McCabe as part of a “deep state” that operates in secret to undermine the administration. Mr. Trump has goaded Mr. Sessions into taking action against him.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-firing-recommendation-justice-department.html

FBI disciplinary office recommends firing former deputy director Andrew McCabe
The FBI office that handles employee discipline has recommended firing the bureau’s former deputy director over allegations that he authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and misled investigators when asked about it — though Justice Department officials are still reviewing the matter and have not come to a final decision, a person familiar with the case said.
The recommendation from the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility is likely to add fuel to the political fire surrounding former deputy director Andrew McCabe, who abruptly stepped down from his post earlier this year but technically remained an FBI employee.
McCabe was hoping to retire in just days, when he becomes eligible for his full benefits. If he is fired, he could lose his retirement benefits. President Trump has long made McCabe a particular target of his ire, and the recommendation to fire the former No. 2 FBI official could give him new ammunition.
Through a representative, McCabe declined to comment. A Justice Department spokeswoman said in a statement: “The Department follows a prescribed process by which an employee may be terminated. That process includes recommendations from career employees and no termination decision is final until the conclusion of that process. We have no personnel announcements at this time.”
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-disciplinary-office-recommends-firing-former-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe/2018/03/14/c1d0dc1a-208a-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html

Jeff Sessions Weighs Firing of Former FBI Deputy Chief Andrew McCabe
Dismissal could occur before McCabe’s retirement, a person said
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeff-sessions-weighs-firing-of-former-fbi-director-andrew-mccabe-1521052143

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dCB3t-MLW4bLGgMDEf1hL0jHb1ZXM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Lawrence Kudlow Says He’s Accepted Post as Trump’s White House Economic Adviser
Adds announcement could be made as soon as Thursday
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawrence-kudlow-says-hes-accepted-post-as-trumps-white-house-economic-adviser-1521048580

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/du5y9o67TdHbcmMvZG8DP_ia3GVDM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Tillerson’s Ouster Has Allies Hoping for Coherence, but Fearing the Worst
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/world/europe/tillerson-ouster-allies-pompeo.html

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dFR4jx8bUMkzCQMAEZyIwsB8byI2M?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Tillerson Firing Tells U.S. Allies That Russia Comes First
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-pike-tillerson-fired_us_5aa80032e4b04042d27ebb18

Obama Photographer Taunts Trump Over Rex Tillerson Ousting
“Back in the day...”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pete-souza-rex-tillerson-donald-trump_us_5aa8d7a4e4b0f7a689cdbaab

Veterans Are Pissed At Trump For Not Knowing How To Spell Marine Corps
The president called it the Marine “Core.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-marine-corps-spelling_us_5aa8b28ce4b0f7a689cd8a75

Trump Organization Tied to Deal to Keep Ex-Porn Star Quiet
An assistant general counsel at the president’s flagship holding company intervened in arbitration proceeding in California to enforce a nondisclosure deal with former porn star
https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-trump-company-lawyer-worked-to-silence-stormy-daniels-1521072252

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/db9EdUaleFILPXM-ExZiaMcYulgMM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Team of Sycophants
Tillerson’s dismissal leaves the White House more than ever the conniving and dishonest court of an erratic, ill-informed, and willful monarch.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/dirty-work-trump-administration/555617/

Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe Just Got a Lot Weirder
A mysterious Middle East fixer, the founder of Blackwater, an Emirati prince, and a secret meeting in the Seychelles are now under investigation as Robert Mueller uncovers a nexus of foreign influence on the Trump campaign.
March 7, 2018
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/robert-mueller-george-nader-russia-investigation

Horrifying Videos Show Racist Moms Teaching Kids To Be Patriots By Vandalizing A Mosque - Tempe, Arizona
The disturbing Facebook live video captures a troubling excursion in which two women and three children trespass and vandalize a mosque.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-videos-mosque-vandalism-women-children_us_5aa9a121e4b0600b82ffe195

White Students Allegedly Tied Black Classmate To Lamppost And Whipped Him
The alleged incident in Bath, England, has been described as a “mock slave auction.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/british-students-black-classmate-whipped_us_5aa95e60e4b0004c04069a15

First You’re The Party Of Torture [dubya]. Then You’re The Party Of Trump.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-berlatsky-bush-trump-torture-haspel_us_5aa97a6de4b0004c0406c9c9

Rand Paul Says He’ll Oppose Trump Nominees For CIA, Secretary Of State
The GOP senator’s stance could imperil both nominations in what is expected to be a heated confirmation process.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rand-paul-trump-nominees_us_5aa93d5fe4b001c8bf160d72

Jeff Sessions Has Power To Shape Asylum Policy. He Could Be Gearing Up To Use It To Deny Relief To Domestic Violence Victims.
The attorney general has criticized the asylum system. Now he’s taking steps that could make getting relief tougher.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sessions-asylum-deportations_us_5aa9729fe4b0600b82ff93b4

FBI Official Trump Loathes May Be Fired For Disclosing Info That Helped Trump’s Campaign
Andrew McCabe’s pension would be in question if Jeff Sessions fires him before Sunday, his official retirement date.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/andrew-mccabe-trump-fbi_us_5aa958b4e4b0004c040691f6

Kushner Conflict Cloud Hovers Over Brooklyn Sale Linked to Japan - Maddow segment 3-14-18
Unit of telecom giant NTT bought stake with U.S. firm
Kushner was helping oversee trade policy at the time
Two months after Jared Kushner joined the White House as a senior adviser, his family firm sold [at a 60% premium] a stake in a Brooklyn building to a unit of a company whose largest shareholder is the government of Japan.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-13/kushner-conflict-cloud-hovers-over-brooklyn-sale-linked-to-japan

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=kushner+conflict+cloud+hovers

Another Trump lawyer signed Stormy Daniels gag-order documents - Jill A. Martin, whose LinkedIn profile says she is assistant general counsel for the Trump Organization
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/another-trump-lawyer-signed-stormy-daniels-gag-order-documents-n856786

Another Trump attorney involved in Stormy Daniels case
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/stormy-daniels-jill-martin-trump-organization/index.html

BuzzFeed maneuver could free Stormy Daniels to speak on Trump
BuzzFeed may have found a legal opening to allow the porn actress Stormy Daniels to discuss her alleged relationship with President Donald Trump and a $130,000 payment she received just before the 2016 election as part of a nondisclosure agreement she is now trying to void.
The same Trump attorney who brokered the deal with Daniels, Michael Cohen, filed a libel suit in January against BuzzFeed and four of its staffers over publication of the so-called dossier compiling accurate, inaccurate and unproven allegations about Trump’s relationship with Russia.
Now, BuzzFeed is using Cohen’s libel suit as a vehicle to demand that Daniels preserve all records relating to her relationship with Trump, as well as her dealings with Cohen and the payment he has acknowledged arranging in 2016.
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed’s lawyer wrote to Daniels’ attorney asking that the adult film actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, preserve various categories of documents. Such preservation letters are often a prelude to a subpoena. If Daniels’ testimony is formally demanded in a deposition, the nondisclosure agreement would likely be no obstacle, legal experts said.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/14/buzzfeed-stormy-daniels-trump-462261

more: https://news.google.com/news/story/d7sDd03Eu72itVM-ExZiaMcYulgMM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en

Democrats issue rebuttal to GOP ‘capitulation’ report on Russia
WASHINGTON - Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee vowed to carry on with their investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, accusing Republicans of prematurely shuttering the probe in a “capitulation” to the White House.
One day after the GOP announced they had completed a draft report concluding that the Trump campaign had not colluded with Russians in an effort to defeat Hillary Clinton, Democrats issued a 22-page document specifying unresolved issues they said the committee needed to continue exploring — and that they would attempt to do so even without the GOP’s cooperation.
Most, but not all of the items Democrats point to address collusion, and whether the Russian government had leverage on President Trump that could affect his decision-making. The report also lists key individuals that the committee’s Republicans refused to bring in for interviews, documents that should have been sought, and steps that should have been taken to compel answers from uncooperative witnesses like the attorney general, the president’s son and his son-in-law.
“The work is too important to be left undone,” Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead Democrat on the committee, told reporters Tuesday night. “The American people need to know whether the Russians still have something they can hold over the president's head.”
Even in the earliest hours of the Republican’s report circulating among members of the committee, the GOP appeared to back-pedal on some of their initial comments.
Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas, who has been running the Russia probe, told reporters he misspoke Monday when he said that he in fact believed the Russian government had sought to help Clinton in the campaign and hurt Trump. And he seemed to step back from a key claim in the report, disputing the Intelligence Community’s January 2017 assessment that Russia had shown a “clear preference” for Trump in the campaign.
“Nothing that they did remotely helped Hillary Clinton,” Conaway said. But asked if there was any distinction between attempting to harm Clinton and help Trump, Conaway said: “glass half full, glass half empty. You could pitch that either way."
Schiff called the GOP report “little more than another Nunes memo in long form,” saying it cherry-picked intelligence while ignoring or mischaracterizing others. He said he had assumed that even despite clear differences of opinion about collusion, Democrats and Republicans could jointly validate the conclusion of intelligence agencies that Russia sought to elect Trump.
“If this is where the GOP is coming from, it represents to me the completeness of their capitulation to the White House, and that leaves little common ground,” he said.
Asked if he could say definitively whether he found evidence that Trump campaign aides or allies had colluded with Russians — just as the GOP insisted it had not — Schiff said he could.
“What I cannot say, because I do not know what Bob Mueller knows, is whether that evidence rises to the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy to violate U.S. election laws,” he said.
Schiff has increasingly drawn attention to the question of financial leverage the Russians have on Trump. The Democratic status report says the committee had only begun to explore “credible allegations” about whether Russian oligarchs and others used Trump properties to launder money, and notes that Deutsche Bank, which has been fined before for involvement in Russian money-laundering, has been a regular source of financing for Trump’s businesses.
Democrats also say the committee should probe whether the president sought to obstruct justice by impeding the Mueller probe — something Republicans have maintained is outside the committee’s agreed-upon scope of inquiry.
The Democrats said they have “a good faith reason to believe” that the White House has documentation of Trump’s conversations with James Comey, which could corroborate the then-FBI director’s accounts that the president pressured him to drop an investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Among the key witnesses Democrats say the committee still needs to hear from are current and former administration officials including Trump’s first chief of staf, Reince Priebus, senior policy advisor Stephen Miller, former press secretary Sean Spicer and senior counselor and former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
The list also includes names recently brought to light in relation to the Mueller probe like George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who the Washington Post and New York Times reported helped orchestrate the January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles involving a known Trump associate and a Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin.
Committee Democrats say there should be new document requests, including bank records from Deutsche Bank, additional information from social media companies like Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, and records from the Ritz Carlton Moscow related to Trump’s 2013 visit for the Miss Universe pageant.
And Democrats fault Republicans for now taking further action to compel testimony from uncooperative witnesses including Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and Corey Lewandoswki.
All of these are issues that Schiff said Democrats could ultimately revisit if the party wins control of the House next year – and along with it control of the committee and subpoena power.
“If the majority in the Congress changes hands we’ll have to evaluate where is the investigation at that point.,” he said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-issue-rebuttal-gop-capitulation-report-russia-n856426

more: https://www.google.com/search?q=democrats+issue+rebuttal+to+gop

Trump Says a Democrat Won in Pennsylvania Because He’s ‘Like Trump’
In remarks delivered at a private fundraising event and obtained by The Atlantic, the president attributed Conor Lamb’s success to the fact that he “sounds like a Republican.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/trump-on-the-lamb/555668/

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