Full Show - Pastor Warns Of Planned Sudden Removal Of Trump - 07/24/2017
Published on Jul 24, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel
Monday, July 24th 2017: Kushner "I Did Not Collude" - President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has denied colluding with Russia or having improper contacts. Radio host Lionel joins today's show to discuss the seemingly never-ending Russia witch-hunt and the establishment's plan to "take out" Trump. Also, the C.I.A. and Wikileaks' Julian Assange exchange hostile words.
What Jared Kushner's Statement Reveals About Russian Methods There were numerous attempts to establish contact with the campaign and the transition team. Jared Kushner arrives to speak to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C. Jul 24, 2017 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/kushner-statement-russia/534687/ [with embedded video, and comments]
In the first of an ongoing series of panel discussions called “Public Forum: A Well-Ordered Nation,” David Remnick asks Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, and Claudia Rankine how they envision the final days of the Trump Administration.
Justice Dept. Nominee Says He Once Represented Russian Bank
An Alfa Bank branch in Moscow. President Trump’s nominee to run the Justice Department’s criminal division, Brian A. Benczkowski, has disclosed that he did work for the bank, whose owners have ties to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ADAM GOLDMAN JULY 24, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s criminal division, Brian A. Benczkowski, has disclosed to Congress that he previously represented Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions, whose owners have ties to President Vladimir V. Putin.
Mr. Trump nominated Mr. Benczkowski, a partner at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm and a former Bush administration Justice Department official, in June, and he is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
Alfa Bank was at the center of scrutiny last year over potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia after computer experts discovered data suggesting a stream of communications between a server linked to the Trump Organization and a server linked to the bank. Reports about the mysterious data transmissions fueled speculation about a back channel.
The F.B.I. investigated the matter, however, and concluded that the servers’ interactions were not surreptitious exchanges between the campaign and Russia, according to current and former law enforcement officials. Experts have argued [ http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/11/debunking-trumps-secret-server.html ] that the server linked to the Trump Organization appeared to be controlled by a marketing firm, Cendyn, that was sending emails promoting Trump hotel properties.
Ahead of the Judiciary Committee hearing, Mr. Benczkowski told the panel that he had previously been forbidden by his firm’s confidentiality agreement from disclosing his work for Alfa Bank, but had obtained a waiver.
“Your staff has indicated that the committee may wish to question me at my hearing regarding the fact and scope of my work for Alfa Bank,” Mr. Benczkowski wrote, saying his waiver would permit him “to discuss the fact and scope of the representation at the hearing. As I am sure you understand, ethical considerations prohibit me from disclosing confidential legal advice or any other information protected by the attorney-client privilege under any circumstances.”
Mr. Benczkowski’s law firm has offices around the world, and it represents many foreign clients. But his association with Alfa Bank in particular could be awkward in this period of heightened scrutiny on ties between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.
Mr. Benczkowski’s disclosure comes at a time of tremendous political and legal scrutiny over those ties, including a special counsel investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded in that effort.
Brian A. Benczkowski sat behind Senator Jeff Sessions during a hearing on Capitol Hill in 2009. Harry Hamburg/Associated Press
On Monday, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, spoke to congressional investigators about his own contacts with Russian officials throughout the campaign, even as bipartisan majorities in Congress were poised to enact a bill that would strip Mr. Trump of the ability to unilaterally lift sanctions against Russia.
Mr. Benczkowski and his associates portrayed his representation of Alfa Bank as benign.
Along with Mr. Benczkowski’s letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kirkland & Ellis submitted to lawmakers a letter on Friday by Viet Dinh, a partner at the firm and another former Bush administration Justice Department veteran, denouncing rumors that Alfa Bank had been a conduit for illicit communications between Mr. Trump’s associates and the Russian government.
Mr. Dinh attached two reports by independent cybersecurity experts — one by Mandiant, which looked at data transmissions in 2016, and another by Stroz Friedberg, which looked at another set in 2017 — and concluded that the data were not evidence of substantive contact between the bank and the Trump organization. The Mandiant report was spurred in part by records submitted to Alfa Bank by The Times last year as it investigated the data transmissions.
“As the victim of an apparent malicious hoax, Alfa Bank remains eager to get to the bottom of the false allegations against it, and stands ready to assist the committee and all other government authorities as needed,” Mr. Dinh wrote.
But Mandiant’s investigation of Alfa Bank was, at best, cursory. According to people familiar with Mandiant’s review, its experts were shown largely metadata, the information that travels along with a message, for the communications that took place. The contents of the messages — if there were any — were not available.
Without a much deeper forensic examination, the company could not determine the purpose of the communications. Its resulting report was carefully hedged, noting that without more study, it could not give the bank a clean bill of health. But the bank used that report, however limited, to make the case that it had been exonerated.
There are multiple reports that President Trump and his inner circle are considering firing Jeff Sessions, amidst an increasingly strange barrage of public utterances by Trump against his attorney general. Duration: 2:36
Rep. Swalwell: 'Sessions should go...for other reasons'
All In with Chris Hayes 7/24/17
Attorney General Jeff Sessions should go, Congressman Eric Swalwell of California tells Chris Hayes, but not for the reasons Donald Trump has been giving. Duration: 4:43
Sen. Murphy: GOP secrecy on health care bill is bananas
All In with Chris Hayes 7/24/17
Mitch McConnell is scrambling to get something – anything – on the floor, but no one actually knows what’s in the bill they might be voting on. Senator Chris Murphy joins Chris Hayes to discuss. Duration: 6:37
GOP Rep.: I'd duel female senators if they were men
All In with Chris Hayes 7/24/17
Thing 1/Thing 2: Republican Congressman Blake Farenthold complained about ‘some female senators from the Northeast’ who are against the GOP health care bill, and said he might challenge one of them to a duel ‘if it was a guy from south Texas.’ Duration: 2:17
New facts uncovered about Trump FBI pick, confirmation vote looms
The Rachel Maddow Show 7/24/17
Matt Katz, reporter for WNYC, talks with Rachel Maddow about the sketchy employment by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of Donald Trump's pick to replace James Comey has director of the FBI, Chris Wray. Duration: 22:40
Sen Wyden on what Jared Kushner didn't say to Senators on Russia
The Rachel Maddow Show 7/24/17
Senator Ron Wyden talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's responses to questions by the Senate Intelligence Committee on whether Kushner colluded with Russia for the Trump campaign in the 2016 election. Duration: 4:26
Senate Republicans heedless of Obamacare repeal consequences
The Rachel Maddow Show 7/24/17
Senator Ron Wyden talks with Rachel Maddow about the need for Americans to make their objections to the Republican repeal of Obamacare known, as Republicans prepare to vote on whatever bill Mitch McConnell presents to them. Duration: 5:45
Huge jump seen in 2018 Democratic challengers for House seats
The Rachel Maddow Show 7/24/17
Rachel Maddow looks at a chart of House challengers who have raised at least $5000 by June 30 of the year before the election in which they're running and notes a remarkable spike in Democratic House challengers for 2018. Duration: 2:15
Kushner blames aide for omissions on document he signed 4 times
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 7/24/17
Jared Kushner's 11-page statement about his contact with the Russians raises more questions than it answers, including why he signed an incomplete security clearance form. Lawrence O'Donnell explains Kushner mishandled the most serious document of his life. Duration: 8:22
Trump considers replacing AG Sessions with Cruz, Giuliani
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 7/24/17
The Washington Post reports Trump wants the Russia probe to end so badly he may be considering firing Jeff Sessions and appointing a new AG with a recess appointment. WaPo's Robert Costa gives the latest. Josh Barro and Richard Painter also join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 9:13
McCain returning to Senate for critical health care vote
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 7/24/17
Lawrence O'Donnell explains why Sen. John McCain would violate the principles he laid out last week if he votes to proceed to debate on the GOP health care bill when he returns to the Senate on Tuesday. Duration: 2:28
Trump talks politics with Boy Scouts amid Russia probe
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 7/24/17
President Trump discussed his election victory, the media and the so-called War on Christmas while addressing 30,000 Boy Scouts in West Virginia. Ashley Parker, Vivian Salama and Eli Stokols weigh in. Duration: 16:41
Kushner addresses Russia questions from White House driveway
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 7/24/17
From a White House lectern, President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said he did not collude with Russia. Jeremy Bash & Michael McFaul discuss his statement on the investigation. Duration: 6:59
As the newly minted White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders spent most of her first briefing on Friday standing off to the side. Anthony Scaramucci, the just-named communications director, was dominating the lectern that Ms. Sanders had inherited only hours earlier, professing his love — 20 times — for President Trump and his administration.
It was an awkward convergence for the first on-camera news briefing in weeks, even in a White House split by warring factions. Where Ms. Sanders tends to the dry and sardonic, Mr. Scaramucci is over the top.
Four times Mr. Scaramucci said, “I love the president.” He also expressed his affection for Ms. Sanders; Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff; and Sean Spicer, Mr. Trump’s first White House press secretary, who had resigned earlier Friday to protest Mr. Scaramucci’s appointment.
“I love these guys; I respect these guys,” Mr. Scaramucci gushed. Later, of the president, he said: “The president has really good karma, O.K.? And the world turns back to him. He’s genuinely a wonderful human being.”
Less than a week after President Donald Trump responded to Senate Republicans’ latest health care setback by saying the party should just let the Affordable Care Act fail, Vice President Mike Pence penned a gushing op-ed reassuring Americans that Trump would not “rest or relent” until he delivered on the promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.
In a piece published on Fox News’ website, Pence showered Trump with praise about his successful six months in office.
“President Trump’s accomplishments are nothing short of historic,” Pence wrote. “But as the president likes to say, at this White House that’s just what we call a good start.”
Pence then listed a number of promises the Trump administration had yet to deliver on, namely tax cuts.
Profiles in Tremendousness - White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci: The Daily Show
Published on Jul 24, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Anthony Scaramucci joins the Trump administration as the White House communications director, so Trevor examines the former finance executive and media personality's past.
Between the Scenes - How Anthony Scaramucci Made Nice with Donald Trump: The Daily Show
Published on Jul 24, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor digs into new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci past and imagines what his relationship with President Trump might look like.
Spicer's Out, Scaramucci's In and Kushner Speaks: A Closer Look
Published on Jul 24, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump's most recent attacks on the Russia investigation, his secret health care bill and his communications staff shake-up.
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