Full Broadcast 4Dec17 Real News with David Knight GUESTS: • John McAfee — Freedom is rising w cryptocurrencies & govt can’t stop it • Ted Hayes — Racial healing & the need for whites to understand the value of the culture they created TOPICS: • Power, Profits & no Principles as Apple & Google bow to China’s authoritarian demands • The phony attack against Flynn & the consequences of FakeNews on markets & war • Tax reform advances as Democrats like schoolmarm Elizabeth Warren whine about illegible handwriting
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Monday, Dec. 4th 2017[, with Matt Dubiel hosting the fourth hour]: Russia Narrative Unravels - Alex Jones breaks down the Democrats' plan to impeach the President and remove him from office through a phony Obstruction of Justice Charge that Trump is preparing for with his legal team. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says there's no case for 'obstruction of justice' against President Trump, as the Russian collusion narrative continues to dissolve. And the Fake News machine collapses, with ABC News having to retract a bombshell report alleging Trump ordered Flynn to collude with Russians BEFORE he was president. Alex Jones reveals that Robert Mueller and his team are currently under criminal investigation by the Trump Justice Department and have discreetly been under review for the past eleven months. Also, the president backs Roy Moore for Alabama senator, as he scores another big win on tax cuts.
The fake news does not take a single day off from attacking President Trump. The War Room looks back at all the claims being made against President Trump, with next to no evidence or foundation at all. We look at the double standards of the political left, specifically when it comes to political violence and court room justice.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
Mueller: Manafort bail violated, working with Russia contact
The Beat With Ari Melber 12/4/17
Special counsel Mueller saying Manafort is secretly working with a person with “ties to a Russian intelligence service.” Former Bush lawyer, Richard Painter says Manafort needs to “go back to the slammer.” Duration: 14:01
Ari Melber: The problem with Trump’s obstruction defense
The Beat With Ari Melber 12/4/17
Trump’s lawyer made a false claim that a President “cannot obstruct justice.” Trump’s new defense echoes Nixon criminal standard and two Presidents faced impeachment over obstruction of justice charges. Duration: 7:49
New reporting from The Washington Post goes inside Mueller’s secret interview room. Witnesses describe Mueller’s “sphinx-like presence” during key interviews. Chuck Rosenberg, who served as counselor to FBI Director Robert Mueller joins “The Beat.” Duration: 5:59
A woman who had a relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17 shares new evidence about their relationship. This video surfacing on the same day Trump called Roy Moore and endorsed the alleged sexual predator. Duration: 3:49
Chris Hayes is joined by House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin to discuss the potential obstruction of justice case against the President. Duration: 8:00
Rachel Maddow notes that the news in between Thanksgiving and Christmas can be quiet as audiences and newsmakers are distracted by the holidays. This year that does not appear to be the case, however. Duration: 4:19
Trump lawyers change defense on collusion and obstruction
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/4/17
Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump's lawyers' arguments about Trump's legal liability in the Russia scandal have changed from denying Trump's actions to excusing them as not illegal. Also noted is that Mike Pence's lies about Mike Flynn need a new explanation. Duration: 17:16
Trump team turns to specious legal arguments as pressure builds
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/4/17
Bob Bauer, former White House counsel, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's legal jeopardy in the Russia scandal, and whether Trump has it within his power to make the Robert Mueller and the Trump Russia investigation go away. Duration: 7:32
Protesters out in droves objecting to Republican tax bill
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/4/17
Rachel Maddow looks at protests across the United States against the Republican tax bill, recognized widely as a giveaway to corporations and rich people at the expense of middle class Americans. Duration: 3:10
White House offers conflicting stories on firing Flynn for lies
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/4/17
Carol Leonnig, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about what Donald Trump knew about Mike Flynn's lies to the FBI, when he knew it and who told him as different versions are being put forth by different players in the case. Duration: 8:15
Rachel Maddow about the plight of her middle school self's search for a suitable orchestral instrument and how she settled on the timpani. Duration: 0:43
Mystery of removed Mueller investigator, Peter Strzok, resolved
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/4/17
Rachel Maddow reminds viewers of the mysterious, apparent demotion of a member of Robert Mueller's investigative team, Peter Strzok, in August and updates the story with new revelations that Strzok was found to have made anti-Trump comments in text messages. Duration: 2:51
Lawrence: Trump testifies about Obstruction of Justice on Twitter
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 12/4/17
John Dowd, President Trump's personal lawyer, claims he wrote a tweet for Trump that may have confirmed he committed obstruction of justice when he fired James Comey. Lawrence argues that move may be grounds to sue Dowd for malpractice. Duration: 10:49
Expert: Why Trump’s tweet is "more damning" if lawyer helped
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 12/4/17
Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman tells Lawrence O’Donnell that Trump’s tweet about what he told James Comey would be more taken more seriously by a court if it was vetted by his legal counsel. Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman joins. Duration: 5:27
Boot: “No innocent explanation” for Trump world Russia contacts
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 12/4/17
Max Boot and former Chief of Staff to FBI director James Comey, Chuck Rosenberg, react to a new alleged contact between Paul Manafort and a Russian with ties to Russian intelligence services and new emails obtained by the New York Times that show members of the Trump team knew Michael Flynn would be speaking to the Russian ambassador about sanctions when President Obama was still in office. Duration: 9:52
A Trump tweet raises questions over obstruction of justice and one of Trump's attorneys responds by saying Trump can't obstruct justice because he's president. Our panel reacts. Duration: 8:28
MSNBC National Security Analyst Jeremy Bash reacts to Trump saying the reputation of his own FBI is in 'tatters' and the 'worst in history' because of James Comey. Duration: 1:19
Fmr. Watergate prosecutor: 'No one is above the law'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/5/17
Jill Wine-Banks, former Assistant Watergate Special Counsel, and Jack Sharman, former Special Counsel during the Whitewater Investigation, react to Trump's attorney saying the president can't obstruct justice. Duration: 3:44
Trump backs Roy Moore: We need him to win in Alabama
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/5/17
After weeks of speculation over whether he would endorse Roy Moore before the Alabama special election, Trump officially backed the embattled GOP candidate to join the U.S. Senate. Duration: 5:24
RNC helping Roy Moore again after Trump endorses him
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/5/17
After the allegations mounted against Roy Moore, national Republicans stopped helping his campaign. But now that Trump has officially endorsed Moore, the RNC is back in Alabama. Robert Costa discusses. Duration: 0:55
At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, workers are tackling the final preparations for a major milestone, slated for next year: handing over full control of the site to Ukraine. Chernobyl still holds the distinction of being the world’s worst nuclear disaster. And the job of containing the fallout has required an international cast of players. A year ago, crews finished putting the new sarcophagus in place. It’s a massive steel arch -- officially called the New Safe Confinement -- that covers the destroyed reactor. Now, workers are busy sealing up the space between the new sarcophagus and the old one-- which was built in the 80s. And they’re facing some of the highest levels of radiation they’ve encountered so far. Jake Hanrahan got an exclusive look.
A House panel is set to approve a bill allowing good guys with guns to carry concealed weapons across state lines, even if they happen to have violent criminal pasts.
Seth takes a closer look at how one of President Trump's closest associates pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI and how Republicans forged ahead with a radical plan to slash taxes for corporations and the wealthy.
Trump's lawyers are laying the groundwork for a brazen new legal strategy in the Russia probe President Donald Trump's defense team is arguing that Trump cannot be charged with collusion or obstruction of justice — the central threads of the special counsel's Russia investigation. Two of Trump's key defense lawyers, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, have said in recent days that collusion is not a crime and that Trump as president cannot be guilty of obstruction. Legal experts have pushed back on the claims, saying that Trump's lawyers are ignoring the crux of the obstruction case and that he could be found guilty of crimes resulting from collusion. http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-john-dowd-obstruction-of-justice-collusion-flynn-comey-russia-2017-12
GOP Senator Implies Those Who Aren’t Millionaires Waste Money On ‘Booze, Women’ That’s why the richest deserve a break on estate taxes, says Chuck Grassley. In an astonishing defense of dropping “death taxes” for individual estates worth more than $5.5 million, GOP Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley implied that people not currently affected by that tax are “spending every darn penny ... on booze or women.” “I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing — as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies,” Grassley told the Des Moines Register in an interview published Saturday. Grassley, who serves on the Finance Committee, made the remark when asked about the Senate tax reform measure which would double the exemption for estates to $11 million for an individual and $22 million for a couple. Heirs would inherit the estates tax-free. Grassley’s comment triggered a wave of criticism on social media. Many complained that the working class is, in fact, spending “every darn penny” on raising their kids, caring for elderly parents, health care and putting food on the table. One Twitter user complained that the GOP was turning America into a version of “The Hunger Games.” [...] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassley-estate-taxes-booze-women_us_5a247d89e4b03c44072e5a04
Breakthrough Prize – “The Oscars Of Science” – Celebrates Top Achievements In Physics, Life Sciences & Mathematics, Awards $22 Million In Prizes At Gala Televised Ceremony In Silicon Valley https://breakthroughprize.org/News/41