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Michael Eric Dyson: President Donald Trump Is A 'Lethal Liar' | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

"Bill Kristol: Trump 'Assaults' On Mueller Probe, DOJ Have Failed | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC"

MSNBC
Published on Sep 4, 2018

A new book by Investigative Washington Post journalist, Bob Woodward, who is known for much of the original reporting on Nixon’s Watergate scandal, alleges Trump’s closest staffers overlap with the core Trump resistance, both saying President Trump is a liar and can’t be trusted, while Democrats and Republicans battle on The Hill over Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Professor Michael Eric Dyson tells Ari Melber that Woodward’s book “clarifies” that “we are in dire trouble”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVBPBNnUOE

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Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency

[ the video first on Tornado Alley here ..
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President Trump and Bob Woodward discuss Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” before its publication. (The Washington Post)
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa
September 4 at 11:08 AM
John Dowd was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he talked to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. So, on Jan. 27, the president’s then-personal attorney staged a practice session to try to make his point.
[...]
At a National Security Council meeting on Jan. 19, Trump disregarded the significance of the massive U.S. military presence on the Korean Peninsula, including a special intelligence operation that allows the United States to detect a North Korean missile launch in seven seconds vs. 15 minutes from Alaska, according to Woodward. Trump questioned why the government was spending resources in the region at all.
P - “We’re doing this in order to prevent World War III,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told him.
P - After Trump left the meeting, Woodward recounts, “Mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president acted like — and had the understanding of — ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.’?”
[...]
Trump told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a wealthy investor eight years his senior: “I don’t trust you. I don’t want you doing any more negotiations. .?.?. You’re past your prime.”
[Insert: If that doesn't strike you as possibly being the purest example of wannabe-presidential
projection you are likely to ever see, you may just be as past your prime as this dickhead president is.]
[...]
[and this,] Mocking Sessions’s accent, Trump added: “This guy is mentally retarded.
[...]
After Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017, Trump called Mattis and said he wanted to assassinate the dictator. “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,” Trump said, according to Woodward.
[...]
Cohn, a Wall Street veteran, tried to tamp down Trump’s strident nationalism regarding trade. According to Woodward, Cohn “stole a letter off Trump’s desk” that the president was intending to sign to formally withdraw the United States from a trade agreement with South Korea. Cohn later told an associate that he removed the letter to protect national security and that Trump did not notice that it was missing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodwards-new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/2018/09/04/b27a389e-ac60-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.9a1a0af154ac .. also linked here .. Bombshell Reporting: Trump Lawyer Warned He Could Be Jailed | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
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The thing is that Woodward has the tapes of all the Trumpistas saying these things. And now they're denying everything. It's upside down world.
Like Trump is now calling the Lester Holt interview "fudged" and the JimLurs of the world spread it around on facebook and twitter like it's gospel.
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GOP Carries Brett Kavanaugh Weight To Protect Legally Precarious Trump | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Sep 4, 2018

Rachel Maddow points out that while many judges are as reliably conservative as Brett Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh is
distinct for his opposition to prosecuting presidents, which likely explains the lengths to which Republicans
are going to conceal Brett Kavanaugh's past record and rush him onto the Supreme Court.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfu9SJgbKU

Notes; Papadopoulos sentencing date,Sept. 7.

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Witness [George Nader]in Mueller Inquiry Who Advises U.A.E. Ruler Also Has Ties to Russia
By Mark Mazzetti, David D. Kirkpatrick, Ben Protess and Sharon LaFraniere
April 4, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/george-nader-russia-uae-special-counsel-investigation.html

Trump advisor Roger Stone says ‘Mueller is coming for me next’ in fundraising plea to cover legal fees
Mr Stone says he is on the FBI's 'hit list' in the Russia probe
Mythili Sampathkumar New York @MythiliSk Tuesday 28 August 2018 15:18
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-roger-stone-robert-mueller-investigation-russia-fbi-wikileaks-a8511331.html

Mueller Will Accept Some Written Answers From Trump
By Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt
Sept. 4, 2018
https://goo.gl/thUiRL

A Coveted Lawyer’s Juggling Act May Be Good, and Bad, for Trump
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The lawyer William Burck is at the center of the two biggest dramas in the nation’s capital. Tom Brenner for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/politics/william-burck.html
By Michael D. Shear and Michael S. Schmidt
Sept. 2, 2018
[...]
Shortly after Mr. Burck began representing Mr. McGahn, Mr. Priebus, then the chief of staff, asked Mr. McGahn for a recommendation. A few months later, Mr. Bannon decided he needed a lawyer, too, and hired Mr. Burck.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/politics/william-burck.html

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Kavanaugh: Watergate Tapes Decision May Have Been Wrong
Kavanaugh's belief in robust executive authority already is front and center in his nomination by President Donald Trump to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy
By Mark Sherman
Published at 6:51 PM EDT on Jul 21, 2018 | Updated at 11:26 PM EDT on Jul 21, 2018
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Kavanaugh-Watergate-Tapes-Decision-May-Have-Been-Wrong-488811511.html

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U.S. Women See Reason To Reject Donald Trump SCOTUS Pick Brett Kavanaugh | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Sep 3, 2018

Rachel Maddow outlines the historic depth of the unpopularity of Donald Trump's pick for Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and and unearths audio
of Kavanaugh looking for legalistic excuses to keep a 17-year-old pregnant immigrant from exercising her constitutional right to an abortion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy0xA4OKS0g

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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Block an Abortion for an Undocumented Teen
Seventeen-year-old Jane Doe is being used as a political football while she awaits her fate in federal custody
By David S. Cohen October 20, 2017 6:38PM ET
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-trump-administration-is-trying-to-block-an-abortion-for-an-undocumented-teen-203251/

Even most Republicans want to keep Roe v. Wade
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has support among all voters at 71 percent.
By Jen [e-mail] Jul 23, 2018, 8:05pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/23/17605214/abortion-roe-v-wade-poll-kavanaugh-supreme-court

CNN Poll: Brett Kavanaugh nomination has lowest public support since Robert Bork
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director
Updated 1902 GMT (0302 HKT) August 16, 2018
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/cnn-poll-kavanaugh-confirmation/index.html