Statement from the Press Secretary on the Visit of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia
Issued on: February 2, 2018
President Donald J. Trump will welcome Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia to the White House on February 23, 2018. President Trump looks forward to further enhancing our partnership and alliance, and demonstrating our shared commitment to the democratic values that underpin peace and prosperity around the world. The President and Prime Minister will discuss a range of shared bilateral, regional, and global priorities, including fighting terrorism, promoting economic growth, and expanding security and defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. The leaders will celebrate 100 years of mateship through war, peace, and prosperity, charting the course for the coming century of partnership.
Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Call with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan
Issued on: February 2, 2018
President Donald J. Trump spoke today with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. President Trump thanked Prime Minister Abe for Japan’s efforts to maintain international pressure on North Korea, including recent efforts to clamp down on North Korea’s attempts to circumvent sanctions in the waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula. Both leaders agreed on the need to intensify the international maximum pressure campaign to denuclearize North Korea. The two leaders discussed the pending relocation of a United States Marine base on Okinawa and discussed ways to strengthen Japan’s defense capabilities including an expanded missile defense system.
Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Call with President Moon Jae-In
Issued on: February 2, 2018
President Donald J. Trump spoke today with President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea to wish him and the Korean people a successful Winter Olympic Games. The two leaders discussed the importance of improving the human rights situation in North Korea and underscored their commitment to work together on this issue. President Trump also reiterated his commitment to addressing the trade imbalance between the two countries.
Readout of the Vice President’s Call with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani
Issued on: February 2, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence spoke with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan by phone today. The Vice President expressed the Administration’s condolences for the recent terrorist attacks against the Afghan people, and recognized the bravery of the Afghan security forces. The Vice President also noted that attacks like these only highlight the barbarity and cowardice of the insurgency, and strengthen America’s resolve to support Afghanistan and its National Unity Government. Vice President Pence and President Ghani reaffirmed the enduring bonds and close alliance between the United States and Afghanistan.
Earlier today, President Donald J. Trump declassified a memorandum from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The memorandum raises serious concerns about the integrity of decisions made at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI to use the Government’s most intrusive surveillance tools against American citizens.
This decision was made with input from the President’s national security team—including law enforcement officials and members of the intelligence community, for whom the President has great respect. He is especially grateful to the hardworking rank-and-file public servants who work every day to keep America safe and uphold our laws while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans.
Minority members of the Committee have reportedly drafted a separate memorandum. The Administration stands ready to work with Congress to accommodate oversight requests consistent with applicable standards, including the need to protect intelligence sources and methods.
Statement from the President Regarding K.T. McFarland’s Withdrawal of Her Nomination to be Ambassador to Singapore
Issued on: February 2, 2018
I am disappointed that K.T. McFarland has withdrawn from consideration to be Ambassador to Singapore. K.T. served my Administration with distinction. Unfortunately, some Democrats chose to play politics rather than move forward with a qualified nominee for a critically important post. I wish K.T. the best as she uses her considerable wisdom and skill as a commentator to explain to the American people how to make American foreign policy great again.
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Nuclear Posture Review
Issued on: February 2, 2018
On January 27, 2017, in one of my first acts in office, I directed Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to conduct a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). After a year of thorough analysis and careful deliberations across our government, today, my Administration is announcing the conclusions of this review. These conclusions are grounded in a realistic assessment of the global security environment, the need to deter the use of the most destructive weapons on earth, and our Nation’s long-standing commitment to nuclear non-proliferation.
Over the past decade, despite United States efforts to reduce the roles and numbers of nuclear weapons, other nuclear nations grew their stockpiles, increased the prominence of nuclear weapons in their security strategies, and—in some cases—pursued the development of new nuclear capabilities to threaten other nations. Meanwhile, successive United States administrations deferred much-needed modernization of our nuclear weapons, infrastructure, and delivery systems.
The 2018 NPR addresses these challenges. It describes the roles nuclear weapons play in our national security strategy. The strategy is tailored and flexible to address the wide array of threats in the 21st century. It pursues modernization of our nuclear command, control, and communications, all three legs of our triad, our dual capable aircraft, and our nuclear infrastructure. The strategy develops capabilities aimed at making use of nuclear weapons less likely. It enhances deterrence of strategic attacks against our Nation, and our allies and partners, that may not come in the form of nuclear weapons. And, importantly, it reaffirms our commitment to arms control and nuclear non-proliferation, maintains the moratorium on nuclear testing, and commits to improving efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to nuclear terrorism.
Friday, Feb. 2nd 2018[, with an appearance by Roger Stone]: Unedited Memo to Rock DoJ! - The FISA Memo is FINALLY released thanks to President Trump! The American people are ready for the truth. They’ve had enough with the exhausted “Russian Collusion” allegations. Together with the surge in jobs, Trump’s high approval ratings reveal the people are on his side. William Binney joins Alex Jones live via Skype to break down the crimes committed and laid out in the FISA Memo. Doug Hagmann provides exclusive insight on the FISA memo and hosts the fourth and final hour.
Responsible Immigration Reform Will Secure Our Borders “For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities. They’ve allowed millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans.” - President Donald J. Trump February 2, 2018 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/responsible-immigration-reform-will-secure-borders/
Emperor Atheist raising the issues of social justice and awareness by atheists as a whole. We should do more than just debate the theoretical existence of a god. There is much more to do as our ranks grow larger!
A historic day in America as the Nunes Memo has been declassified, turning the tables entirely on the Trump Russian collusion investigation, and putting Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton in the investigation crosshairs. Despite the truth about the FISA warrant being exposed in the memo, the deep state and the Democrats are in full panic mode trying to cover for the devastating document.
[from Alex Jones and his merry band of batshit bullshitters]
FFRF Legal Fellow Colin McNamara discusses FFRF [Freedom From Religion Foundation] taking legal action against a Kentucky penal institution to make it comply with the law.
Revealed: GOP Rep. Nunes did not read evidence for his own intel memo
The Beat with Ari Melber 2/2/18
One sign the memo release is failing as a political matter — on the night of its release, Nunes on Fox promising another memo instead of discussing this one. NBC News Contributor Howard Fineman calls the appearance a dramatic “faceplant”.
Watch legal journalist demolish claims in GOP Russia memo
The Beat with Ari Melber 2/2/18
In a ‘Beat’ Special breakdown Ari Melber separates legal facts vs. Nunes’ fiction — calling it a ‘dud’ when it comes to revealing anything about Bob Mueller’s criminal probe into the Trump White House.
There seem to be some real parallels between Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre and Trump's alleged desire to fire Special Prosecutor Mueller. Many in Congress seem to think their job is to protect the president.
Rep. Hurd on Nunes memo: DOJ authority should be used appropriately every time
Published on Feb 2, 2018 by PBS NewsHour
What information in the so-called Nunes memo was so compelling to Republicans it it warranted its release despite calls by the intelligence community to keep it classified? Judy Woodruff speaks with Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, a former undercover officer in the CIA, said it’s a matter of oversight of federal law enforcement, the use of verified sources and the protection of civil liberties.
Rep. Schiff: Nunes memo cherrypicks information to mislead, includes untrue claims
Published on Feb 2, 2018 by PBS NewsHour
The Nunes memo is "directly misleading" and selective about the details it uses, says Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and author of a Democratic memo. Schiff joins Judy Woodruff to combat Republican accusations of intelligence community bias around the Russia investigation.
Rachel Maddow points out that despite two weeks of Fox News hype, the Nunes memo is not only underwhelming as a political stunt, it actually undermines the argument it was meant to make for Donald Trump.
Congressman Adam Schiff, top Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the damage the Nunes memo has done to the relationship between Congress and the intelligence community.
Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the FISA process and why Devin Nunes' manipulation of classified information puts the FBI in in a tough bind.
Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about the context of the Devin Nunes memo and how Richard Nixon met with Roger Ailes about creating a conservative media that now carries Donald Trump.
Memo as excuse to fire Rosenstein opens can of worms for Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show 2/2/18
Rachel Maddow points out that Dana Boente, the current FBI general counsel, also signed off on a Carter Page FISA warrant, just like Rod Rosenstein did. So if the Nunes memo is an excuse to fire Rosenstein, how many other people will Trump have to fire?
Joy Reid talks with former DOJ lawyers Paul Butler and Harry Litman, who says that the Republican memo is a "disgraceful episode" that will damage institutional relations with the DOJ and FBI.
Lawyers involved in probe: Mueller may indict Trump
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 2/2/18
A new report from Politico says two lawyers who have interacted with Mueller's team think Special Counsel Robert Mueller could indict President Trump. Politico reporter Darren Samuelsohn and Paul Butler discuss with Joy Reid.
After Nunes memo's release, Trump fails to back Rosenstein
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 2/3/18
Critics of the Nunes memo argue its real purpose is to give Trump cover to fire Dep. Atty. General Rod Rosenstein who's overseeing Robert Mueller's Russia probe. White House officials say Rosestein's job is safe, but Trump failed to answer the question when asked.
FBI insider on what the Nunes memo tells America's enemies
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 2/3/18
Robert Anderson, a former FBI colleague of Robert Mueller's, joins to discuss if he thinks Mueller will be affected by the release of the Nunes memo and what the memo is telling America's adversaries about the U.S. intelligence community.
McCain: Undermining our own rule of law only helps Putin
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 2/3/18
Condemning the release of the Nunes memo, Sen. John McCain said it serves no one's interests but Vladimir Putin’s. Republican strategist Mike Murphy joins to discuss.
Published on Feb 2, 2018 by Real Time with Bill Maher
Former White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci joins Bill Maher and panelists David Frum and Donna Brazile to discuss the 2016 election and the president's first year in office.
President approves release of GOP memo criticizing FBI surveillance President Trump approved release Friday of a GOP memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI, intensifying a fight between the White House and Republican lawmakers, on one side, and the nation’s top law enforcement agency over whether the origins of a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election were tainted by political bias. The memo was approved for release without redactions, according to two White House officials. The president told reporters in the Oval Office, “I think it’s a disgrace what’s happening in our country. A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that.” The FBI and the Justice Department had lobbied strenuously against the memo’s release. In a statement Wednesday, the FBI had said it was “gravely concerned” that key facts were missing from the memo, which, it said, left an inaccurate impression of how the agency conducted surveillance under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Friday morning, the president tweeted in anticipation of the memo’s release, saying: “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago.’’ He added: “Rank & File are great people!” [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-approves-release-of-gop-memo-criticizing-fbi-surveillance/2018/02/02/699eb988-06cf-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html
When Mass Murder Is an Intimate Affair Parade of volunteers for Waffen-SS Division “Galicia” in Buczacz, 1943 [photo] A new book reveals how neighbors turned on neighbors in an Eastern European border town There’s a common misconception about genocide that’s bothered Omer Bartov for a long time. “We tend to talk about genocide as something that calls for dehumanization,” says the Brown University professor of European history. “We think of it as a process where you have to detach yourself from the victims, to distance yourself from them as much as you can, and to create a system of detachment.” The reality of mass murder, he says, is far more intimate. Bartov should know. For the past 20 years, he’s reconstructed the 400-year history of one Eastern European border town to show the deep-seated roots that led to genocide during World War II. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, published this week by Simon & Schuster establishes the longstanding, multigenerational relationships that existed among Ukrainians, Poles and Jews in the town of Buczacz (pronounced Buh-cha-ch) for hundreds of years before the war unfolded and neighbors turned on neighbors. In a few years’ time, the German and Ukrainian police would almost completely eradicate Buczacz’s Jewish residents. Ukrainian nationalists, in turn, would devastate Buczacz’s Polish population. [...] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-mass-murder-is-intimate-affair-180967958/
Did Trump just reveal the real reason this memo was written? Republican leaders in Congress have one main defense for releasing a controversial memo on the FBI's Russia investigation: It reveals mistakes and even bias at the FBI, not with the separate, independent special counsel investigation set up by the Justice Department. The memo, said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday, isn't “an indictment of the FBI, of the Department of Justice.” Apparently President Trump didn't get that memo. In one tweet Friday morning, Trump publicly undermined Ryan's argument that the memo does not equal an attack on the FBI, Justice Department or the special counsel investigating Trump. This memo will actually prove political bias in all of those places, Trump suggested: The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people! [ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/959389424806191104 ] [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/02/did-trump-just-reveal-the-real-reason-this-memo-was-written/
These Are the Republicans Speaking Out Against Trump's Release of the Nunes Memo Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona Sen. John Thune of South Dakota Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania [that's it - no others] http://time.com/5130286/devin-nunes-memo-republican-party/
All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy. https://twitter.com/Comey/status/959197429156466689
Trump’s on a tweet rampage against FBI/DOJ for being too helpful to Dems. But there’s a problem with that theory: Comey? Republican. Wray? Republican. Mueller? Republican. Sessions? Republican. Rosenstein? Republican. I guess, to him, upholding the Constitution is pro-Democrat. https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/959415325329641473
The top leadership of the FBI and Justice Department (current and former, including Wray, Mueller and James Comey) are Republicans. The Justice Department and FBI are led by Republicans appointed by Donald Trump. Are they politicized against themselves? https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/959412111452590082
Theresa May under pressure over Brexit position Theresa May is coming under increasing pressure to set out where she stands on Britain's future trade agreements. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42915261
Bitcoin price drops below $8,000 for first time since November 24 The volatile digital asset fell as low as $7,695.10, according to Coinbase data. A number of critics have railed against cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, citing extreme price swings and worries of dubious activities associated with the crypto world. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/02/bitcoin-price-drops-below-8000-for-first-time-since-nov-24.html
How did we lose a president’s daughter? What the disappearance of Thomas Jefferson's daughter can tell us about racism in America. Many people know that Thomas Jefferson had a long-standing relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. But fewer know that they had four children, three boys and a girl, who survived to adulthood. Born into slavery, Sally’s daughter Harriet boarded a stagecoach to freedom at age 21, bound for Washington, D.C. Her father had given her $50 for her travel expenses. She would never see her mother or younger brothers again. With her departure from Monticello in 1822, Harriet disappeared from the historical record, not to be heard of again for more than 50 years, when her brother told her story. Seven-eighths white, Harriet had “thought it to her interest to go to Washington as a white woman,” he said. She married a “white man in good standing” in that city and “raised a family of children.” In the half-century during which she passed as white, her brother was “not aware that her identity as Harriet Hemings of Monticello has ever been discovered.” So how did we lose a president’s daughter? Given America’s obsession with the Founding Fathers, with the children of the Revolution and their descendants, why did Jefferson’s child disappear? As it turns out, America has an even greater obsession with race, so that not even Harriet Hemings’s lineage as a president’s daughter was sufficient to convey the benefits of freedom. Instead, her birth into slavery marked her as black and drove her decision to erase her family history. Harriet Hemings passed as white to protect her fragile freedom. Jefferson had not issued her formal manumission papers, so until the abolition of slavery in 1865, by law she remained a slave, which meant her children also inherited that condition. But in a society that increasingly associated blackness with enslavement, Hemings used her white skin not only to ensure her children’s freedom, but to claim for them all the rights and privileges of whiteness: education, the vote, a home mortgage, any seat they chose on a streetcar. To reveal herself as the daughter of Jefferson and his slave would have destroyed her plans for a better life for her descendants. Since Harriet’s time, science has proved there is no difference in blood as a marker of “race.” As a biological category, racial difference has been exposed as a sham. Even skin color is not a reliable indicator of one’s origins. As one study calculated, almost a third of white Americans possess up to 20 percent African genetic inheritance, yet look white, while 5.5 percent of black Americans have no detectable African genetic ancestry. Race has a political and social meaning, but not a biological one. This is why the story of Harriet Hemings is so important. In her birth into slavery and its long history of oppression, she was black; but anyone who saw her assumed she was white. Between when she was freed in 1822 and the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865, she was neither free nor enslaved — yet she lived as a free person. She does not comfortably fit any of the terms that have had such inordinate power to demarcate life in America. Her disappearance from the historical record is precisely the point. When we can so easily lose the daughter of a president and his slave, it forces us to acknowledge that our racial categories are utterly fallacious and built on a science that has been thoroughly discredited. Yet as political, economic and social categories, racial difference and its consequences remain profoundly real. White privilege has been much on display in our own day, as armed white men proclaiming white supremacy marched unmolested in the streets, while unarmed black men are shot down by police who are rarely held to account. Politicians run successful campaigns on platforms of racial hatred. This is why, by one estimate, between 35,000 and 50,000 black Americans continue to cross the color line each year. As I pored through hundreds of family genealogies, searching for more details about the life of Harriet Hemings, I saw that all families have invented stories: details that have been embellished over time, or perhaps altered by accidental errors. Descendants of immigrants Anglicized their names; information in census records is inconsistent from one decade to another; genealogies are altered because of confusion with recurring favorite names over multiple generations. Those families who pass as white most definitely have such invented stories. It is what they had to do to authenticate a white lineage, to be recognized as fully human and fully American, with all the rights and privileges thereto — rights and privileges not even a lineage as honored as Jefferson’s can match. Nations, as well as families, invent stories about themselves. In both cases, we will run into characters we would rather not admit as being one of us, and stories we would rather not tell about ourselves. That the president’s daughter had to choose between her family and living a life with the dignity only whiteness can confer is one of those stories. But without them, we will never truly know where we’ve come from; and without them, we will never be able to chart out a path for a better family and national life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/01/25/how-did-we-lose-a-presidents-daughter/
Read the Nunes Memo - plain text, not pdf or scribd-style House Republicans on Friday released a previously secret memo that was written by Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee and declassified by President Trump. The memo claims that F.B.I. officials abused their authority and favored Democrats in the early stages of the Russia investigation. Our reporters are reading the memo and will add their analysis soon. For more coverage, read here ["House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias", https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/us/politics/trump-fbi-memo.html ]. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/02/us/politics/nunes-memo-gop-fbi-annotated.html
Joe Arpaio has given at least 5 interviews to anti-Semitic publication - American Free Press PHOENIX — Maricopa County's controversial former sheriff who's now a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate has given several interviews to a publication that traffics in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Joe Arpaio, whom President Trump pardoned last year after he was convicted of criminal contempt of court in connection with a federal civil-rights case, declined an opportunity Wednesday to distance himself from the extremist material. Arpaio, who lost his 2016 re-election bid for sheriff, said he was unfamiliar with other stories on the American Free Press website, such as an interview with the author of an anti-Semitic book that was headlined Jewish Fingerprints All Over 9-11. But Arpaio declined to criticize the site or other anti-Semitic content associated with the publication. "I'm not going to criticize the news media like you," Arpaio told The Arizona Republic. "I can't believe another news outlet is criticizing a newspaper." [...] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/02/joe-arpaio-anti-semitic-publication/300571002/
Joe Arpaio’s excuse for his interview with anti-Semitic outlet is bogus, and we have the receipts Arpaio claims he doesn't support the viewpoint of the anti-Semitic weekly to whom he's given five interviews. Hmm. https://thinkprogress.org/joe-arpaio-anti-semitic-history-fb524e438a3a/
US says Russia 'developing' undersea nuclear-armed torpedo [...] First mention of Russian nuclear torpedo system The report also publicly acknowledges, for the first time, that Russia is "developing" a "new intercontinental, nuclear armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo." Known in English as the "Status-6" system, the program is described by US officials as essentially a drone-type device fired underwater that can potentially travel thousands of miles and strike US coastal targets such as military bases or cities. Upon detonation, the device is designed to cause large zones of radioactive contamination. Some analysts have called it a "doomsday weapon," and US Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, has labeled the concept "destabilizing." "The concept is a horror of the Cold War," according to Adam Mount, a senior fellow and the director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists. "It is clearly inspired by overblown Russian worries that US missile defenses will make their missile forces obsolete." "There is no indication from public information that Russia is actively developing the system, but it is alarming to see it in a Pentagon document," Mount said, adding that while the program is referenced in the Nuclear Posture Review, it is not mentioned in other government reports. [...] https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/politics/pentagon-nuclear-posture-review-russian-drone/index.html
Why Did Trump Let the Russians Off the Hook? - Russia Matters This week’s highly anticipated news on additional Russia sanctions landed with a thud. For weeks, both Moscow and Washington had been astir about the impending steps the Trump administration would take against Russia based on legislation reluctantly signed by the president nearly six months ago and overwhelmingly supported by Congress. The law, called the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, or CAATSA, called for three analytical reports and the imposition of no less than five punitive measures, out of a possible 12, against Russia for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The administration instead chose to impose zero new sanctions, saying the current ones were working and the “mere threat” of additional steps had had enough impact. [...] http://www.newsweek.com/why-did-trump-let-russians-hook-798251 original https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/why-did-trump-administration-pass-buck-sanctioning-russia
Nunes memo: Key extracts and what they mean After days - weeks - of breathless anticipation, the secret memo is a secret no more. Was it a bomb or a dud? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42827167
( https://youtu.be/lSWD9aWLuXw ) In 1996 in Niagara, a tornado tore through a drive-in theater, ripping apart the movie screen—just as it played the scene in Twister in which a tornado demolishes a drive-in movie theater. “It seemed like the screen was coming alive,” remembers one witness. Another: “We’re watching Twister, and my god, we had a twister!” It’s an incredible story, as its many "witnesses" will readily attest. But did it actually happen? Jay Cheel’s short documentary Twisted investigates this Canadian urban legend, revealing the fallibility of memory, the subjectivity of truth, and the enduring power of human storytelling. “I think most people will continue to believe whatever stories support their beliefs and narratives, and question everything that challenges their ideals,” Cheel told The Atlantic. “And when truth depends upon memory, things seem to get very complicated.” https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/551975/twisted-film-niagara/
Trump says 'people should be ashamed' after memo is declassified - included near the end in the official White House YouTube "President Trump Meets with North Korean Defectors" included in sequence in the body of this post above (there followed immediately by Trump's "You figure that one out." reply to "Does [the memo] make you more likely to fire Rosenstein? Do you still have confidence in him after reading the memo?")