Rep. Adam Schiff: Russians Now Attacking 2018 Elections | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
"Lawrence: Rudy Giuliani Gives ‘Incoherent’ Defense Of President Donald Trump | The Last Word | MSNBC"
MSNBC Published on Jul 31, 2018
Facebook reveals new attacks on the 2018 U.S. Midterm elections that they describe as “consistent” with the Russian election meddling in 2016. Rep. Adam Schiff tells Ari Melber that the Russians appear to be using the same “vectors” to meddle in the 2018 midterms as they did to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election: using social media and hacking political campaigns. Schiff also notes he is “concerned” that Congress learned about the attempted hacking of 3 campaigns this year from Microsoft, rather than from Federal intelligence agencies, which he attributes “unquestionably” to a lack of focus from the Trump administration.
Legal Reporter Ari Melber Fact Check: Collusion Is A Crime | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
MSNBC Published on Jul 31, 2018
President Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s new argument is that collusion is not a crime. Ari Melber gives a special legal break down of why colluding with a foreigners to impact U.S. Election is a crime, including the four key felonies that it involves. Former Federal Prosecutors Seth Waxman and John Flannery join “The Beat” to discuss with The Atlantic’s Natasha Bertrand.
Melber, "Collusion with foreigners to impact an American election is a crime." Collusion between two or more individuals to commit an illegal act is conspiracy. Conspiracy is a crime. Melber, "It's a collusion conspiracy."
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Published on Jul 30, 2018
Trump's legal team has come a long way from 'no collusion!' to 'collusion is not a crime!
35 tweets allegedly from Trump last weekend. Which raises a reasonable question. Who is helping Drumpf writing tweets? Gotta look, eh. Ok
Inside the Trump Tweet Machine: Staff-written posts, bad grammar (on purpose), and delight in the chaos
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images President Trump spoke during the swearing-in ceremony for Gina Haspel as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday.
Unraveling the mystery of Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, whose job is to help @realDonaldTrump stay unpresidential.
By ROBERT DRAPER APRIL 16, 2018
Last July, President Donald Trump was sued in federal court over his Twitter habits. It wasn’t the tone or content of Trump’s approximately 37,300 tweets that had landed him in trouble. Instead, it was the possible unconstitutionality of the way he uses one feature of the platform: the block button. The plaintiffs, represented by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, were seven individuals — ranging from a freelance journalist to a New York comedian to a Texas police officer — who had sent negative replies to an @realDonaldTrump tweet and were subsequently blocked by the president. Though Trump’s Twitter account purports to be a personal one, the plaintiffs argued, his writings invariably involved government business and executive opinions — making his posts a public forum to which all American citizens should be guaranteed access.
Though @realDonaldTrump reads like the unabridged representation of a singular man’s impulses, three other defendants were named in the suit, which is expected to be ruled upon in the Southern District of New York in the coming months. One of them was Hope Hicks, long a public face of Trump World, the 29-year-old former model who spent the past three years as Trump’s media liaison before leaving the White House in late March. A second was Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the president’s designated mouthpiece. But the third, unlike Hicks and Sanders, was someone most Americans have never heard of: a man named Dan Scavino Jr.
Rudy Giuliani, Bad Lawyer, May Have Just Spilled the Beans
Even Fox News wasn't buying his attempt to clean up his own brain droppings.
By Jack Holmes Jul 31, 2018
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This, of course, was the inevitable endpoint for Trump defenders should the investigation progress this far. The Slippery Slope of Excuses was predictable:
1. There were no Trump campaign contacts with Russians.
2. There were contacts, but there was no collusion.
3. There might have been sketchy stuff happening, but the president wasn't involved.
4. Collusion isn't a crime.
Soon, we can expect to hear that Actually, Collusion Is Good. That's collusion with agents of a hostile foreign power, mind you.
The new variable here is that Cohen has signaled his willingness .. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22572469/michael-cohen-trump-tower-meeting-don-jr/ .. to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller under oath that Trump the Elder was informed in advance of the infamous Russian Rendezvous at Trump Tower, in which Don Jr. agreed to a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer on the express condition she would provide dirt on Hillary Clinton. Giuliani sees an open goal, so the posts have got to move.
When later asked if Senior knew about the meeting, Giuliani wisely offered that “nobody can be sure of anything."
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There's no indication this planning meeting was public knowledge before Giuliani brought it up on-air. That is, Rudy might've spilled the beans. This pre-meeting is a signal that the main meeting was not, as Junior and others first sought to portray it, some throwaway deal over "Russian adoption" that he wouldn't have deemed worthy of his father's attention. By this account, the meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya was a well-planned event that was ascribed significant importance. And crucially, Giuliani openly suggested that Rick Gates was at that meeting. That's the same Rick Gates who has flipped and is cooperating with the special counsel.
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