[no, umm, 'presidential' Weakly Address on January 6, 2018]
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Fire and Fury revelations disputed by Trump
AM Joy 1/6/18
Donald Trump tweeted that he is a ‘stable genius’ after the release of the new book ‘Fire and Fury’ by journalist Michael Wolff, who depicts the president as mentally unsound. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. Duration: 16:26
Jeff Sessions: did attorney general seek Comey ‘dirt’?
AM Joy 1/6/18
Jeff Sessions sent an aide seeking ‘dirt’ on James Comey before the FBI director was fired, according to a report from The New York Times. Joy Reid and her panel discuss the implications. Duration: 9:17
Devin Nunes news: Ryan sides with Nunes on Russia docs
AM Joy 1/6/18
Devin Nunes will gain access to disputed Russia probe documents, after Paul Ryan intervened, despite suspicions Nunes seeks to derail Robert Mueller’s investigation. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. Duration: 11:03
Clinton Foundation investigation is active yet again
AM Joy 1/6/18
The Clinton Foundation is being investigated yet again, despite no previous findings of wrongdoing. Joy Reid and her panel discuss the widespread belief that the motivations are political. Duration: 16:09
Clinton Foundation probe: Feds persecuting Trump enemy?
AM Joy 1/6/18
The FBI and Department of Justice are ramping up new Clinton Foundation probes, leading Joy Reid and her panel to debate the ethics of federal agencies investigating the president’s enemies. Duration: 12:30
IronStache ad: Randy Bryce running in Wisconsin against Paul Ryan
AM Joy 1/6/18
Randy Bryce, a Wisconsin ironworker running against Paul Ryan in 2018, also known as ‘IronStache,’ tells Joy Reid that he is running, ‘a people-powered campaign’ focused on the needs of everyday Americans. Duration: 6:01
President Donald Trump held a press conference Saturday with GOP leaders at Camp David where he addressed North Korea, immigration legislation and "Fire and Fury," a controversial book on the Trump White House by Michael Wolff.
Alex Jones Challenges CNN's Brian Stelter To Fight For $1,000,000!
Published on Jan 6, 2018 by The Alex Jones Channel
Alex Jones joins the War Room to challenge fake news purveyor Brian Stelter to a three-round bare-knuckle boxing match, for which Alex will donate $1 Million to charity.
The battle for Marawi may be coming to an end but the next frontier in the fight against terrorism in Southeast Asia has shifted to more remote areas of Mindanao — where Muslim separatist groups have arguably been boosted by what happened in Marawi — and the international support of ISIS.
VICE News Tonight joins a force of Philippines, Malaysian and Indonesian natives as they hunt for terrorists.
Happy New Year! By which I mean sorry for taking two weeks off. Francesco and I needed a rest.
This is a video about the plight of the Hmong, and how not every rebellion leads to freedom. I only got around to recording the V/O on a -13 day in a Canadian backyard, if you're wondering why I speak so fast during that part. I just wanted to get back indoors.
Michael Kosta learns about communities in central California that are helping to curb gun deaths by offering travel and cash incentives to violent offenders.
Tillerson says he's 'never questioned' Trump's mental fitness The secretary of state hasn't doubted Trump's mental fitness Tillerson spoke to CNN in an exclusive interview Tillerson said he will stay for 2018 after speculation he would be leaving at the end of last year http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/tillerson-trump-mental-fitness/index.html
Government Shutdown Looms as House Moves Toward Budget Vote
By THOMAS KAPLANJAN. 18, 2018
From left, Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders, at the Capitol on Wednesday. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times
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A tweet by Mr. Trump on Thursday morning launched a day’s worth of confusion. Republican leaders had spent Wednesday pressuring Democrats to vote for the spending bill, arguing that opposing it would effectively block a six-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which they had included in the spending bill. Funding for the program lapsed at the end of September.
Yet on Thursday morning, Mr. Trump suggested that the funding should not be part of the stopgap bill, writing on Twitter: “CHIP should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 Day, or short term, extension!”
Hours after Mr. Trump’s tweet, the White House tried to walk it back. A White House spokesman, Raj Shah, said that the president supported the House’s stopgap bill.
"The Biggest Secret: James Risen on Life as a NY Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror"
Photo Illustration: Soohee Cho for The Intercept. Getty Images
James Risen
February 16 2018, 10:00 p.m.
Trump and Russia Part 1
Americans must live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether Trump has the best interests of the United States or those of Russia at heart.
I find it hard to write about Donald Trump.
It is not that he is a complicated subject. Quite the opposite. It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious. He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist. He is an unrelenting liar and a two-bit white identity demagogue. Lest anyone forget these things, he goes out of his way each day to remind us of them.
At the end of the day, he is certain to be left in the dustbin of history, alongside Father Coughlin and Gen. Edwin Walker. (Exactly – you don’t remember them, either.)
What more can I add?
Unfortunately, another word also describes him: president. The fact that such an unstable egomaniac occupies the White House is the greatest threat to the national security of the United States in modern history.
Which brings me to the only question about Donald Trump that I find really interesting: Is he a traitor?
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There are four important tracks to follow in the Trump-Russia story. First, we must determine whether there is credible evidence for the underlying premise that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump win. Second, we must figure out whether Trump or people around him worked with the Russians to try to win the election. Next, we must scrutinize the evidence to understand whether Trump and his associates have sought to obstruct justice by impeding a federal investigation into whether Trump and Russia colluded. A fourth track concerns whether Republican leaders are now engaged in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice through their intense and ongoing efforts to discredit Mueller’s probe.
This, my first column for The Intercept, will focus on the first track of the Trump-Russia narrative. I will devote separate columns to each of the other tracks in turn.
A Key Trump-Russia Intermediary Has Been Missing for Months, as the Case for Collusion Grows Stronger
Photo illustration: Soohee Cho for The Intercept. Getty Images. AP
James Risen
April 13 2018, 1:15 a.m.
Trump and Russia Part 2
The relationship between a young American adviser and an academic with shadowy ties to Moscow reveals a secret channel between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
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When I began this series of columns about Trump and Russia for The Intercept, I believed that evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow was thin. Collusion, I thought, was the weak link in the middle of the larger Trump-Russia narrative.
At that time, I believed there was much stronger evidence that the Russians had intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump win through a cyberoffensive targeting the American political system. I also thought there was powerful evidence that Trump and his aides had engaged in efforts to obstruct justice and impede Mueller’s investigation. Further, I suspected that congressional Republicans were engaged in a similar conspiracy to obstruct justice in Mueller’s inquiry. I was much less convinced that there was compelling evidence to show that Trump or those around him had actually conspired with the Russians to win the presidency. Like many others, I was willing to believe that Trump and his aides were too haplessly disorganized and incompetent to have coordinated with the Russians.
How the NY Times & U.S. Government Worked Together to Suppress James Risen’s Post-9/11 Reporting
Published on Jan 5, 2018 by Democracy Now! We continue our interview with former New York Times reporter James Risen, who left the paper in August to join The Intercept as senior national security correspondent. This week, he published a 15,000-word story headlined The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror. https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/5/how_the_ny_times_us_government [with embedded video, and transcript] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-24X7d5sc [with comments]
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