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Senator Chris Murphy On Donald Trump's ‘Foreign Policy Garbage Fire’

"Russia Accused Of Disinformation Campaign In Disinformation Case | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC"


MSNBC
Published on Feb 6, 2019

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy reacts to Pres. Trump's State of the Union address after he called his administration a
"foreign policy garbage fire" and reacted to the president's comments warning Democrats against investigating him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMoL5nLSaY

From video:

Chris Murphy
?@ChrisMurphyCT

Trump has compromised our country's
security in a million ways. His
Administration is an ongoing foreign
policy garbage fire.

Here's a quick thread of the national
security lies he will likely tell at tonight's
#SOTU and what the real deal is.
.. twitter ..

Pelosi warns Trump about making 'threats' against Congress
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked what's the president "afraid of"?
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Feb. 7, 2019, 5:54 AM GMT+11
By Associated Press
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-warns-trump-about-making-threats-against-congress-n968436

Re Trump's "ridiculous partisan investigations" comment of that one:

Constitution: Oversight by Congress is critical
By Betsy Wright Hawkings, opinion contributor - 02/07/17 12:00 PM EST
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/318271-constitution-oversight-by-congress-is-critical

And constitutional oversight is "presidential harassment" in this sick president's paranoia infested mind. Trump is one problematical Putin puppy.

Related:

The ‘courage, power and persistence’ of Wendy Sherman


Wendy Sherman in 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

By Jonathan Capehart
Opinion writer
September 25, 2018

“Particularly for women in my field and in general you have to persist.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/09/25/the-courage-power-and-persistence-of-wendy-sherman/?utm_term=.6258c004ab57

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House Intel Outlines Parameters Of Donald Trump Investigations | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC


MSNBC
Published on Feb 6, 2019

Rachel Maddow reviews the five threads of investigation outlined by the House Intelligence Committee now chaired by Rep. Adam Schiff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypTQ1eY7v60

From video:

Chairman Schiff Statement on House Intelligence Committee Investigation

Washington, February 6, 2019

“In the more than two years since the Intelligence Community released its assessment of Russia’s malign influence operation targeting the 2016 U.S. elections, much has been learned about the scope and scale of Russia’s attack on our democracy, including how covert and overt Russian activities intersected with individuals associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, transition, administration, and business interests, including the Trump Organization. It is now known that, from late 2015 through early 2017, individuals close to Donald Trump engaged in a significant number of contacts with an array of individuals connected to, or working on behalf of, the Russian government, and that several of these contacts involved efforts to acquire and disseminate damaging information about Hillary Clinton and her campaign, or related to Russia’s desired relief from U.S. sanctions.

[...]

“During the prior Congress, the Committee began to pursue credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise related to the business interests of President Trump, his family, and his associates.

[...]

“Unfortunately, these and numerous other avenues of inquiry were not completed during the last Congress. Now, in the 116th Congress, the Committee’s investigation will focus principally on five interconnected lines of inquiry, beginning with these incomplete or unexamined investigative threads:

(1) The scope and scale of the Russian government’s operations to influence the U.S. political process, and the U.S. government’s response, during and since the 2016 election;

(2) The extent of any links and/or coordination between the Russian government, or related foreign actors, and individuals associated with Donald Trump’s campaign, transition, administration, or business interests, in furtherance of the Russian government’s interests;

(3) Whether any foreign actor has sought to compromise or holds leverage, financial or otherwise, over Donald Trump, his family, his business, or his associates;

(4) Whether President Trump, his family, or his associates are or were at any time at heightened risk of, or vulnerable to, foreign exploitation, inducement, manipulation, pressure, or coercion, or have sought to influence U.S. government policy in service of foreign interests; and

(5) Whether any actors – foreign or domestic – sought or are seeking to impede, obstruct, and/or mislead authorized investigations into these matters, including those in the Congress.
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=447

House Intel votes to send witness transcripts to Mueller for possible perjury charges
By ANDREW DESIDERIO 02/06/2019 11:15 AM EST Updated 02/06/2019 02:39 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/06/house-intel-mueller-investigation-1152048

Trump ally Stone charged with lying about hacked emails
By ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAYJanuary 27, 2019
https://www.apnews.com/22e868c12a7748069fdc2d64d8d974d3

Lobbyist [Sam Patten] pleads guilty, says he helped steer foreign money to Trump inaugural and lied to Congress
CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 2259 GMT (0659 HKT) August 31, 2018
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/w-samuel-patten-plea-russia-ukraine/index.html

Put up in the video also:

House Intelligence Committee investigative threads
Donald Trump Jnr
Jared Kushner
Brad Parscale
Steve Bannon
Hope Hicks
Corey Lewandowski
Erik Prince [Redacted For Release]
Keith Schiller
Alexander Nix [Via Video - Teleconference]
Dana Rohrabacher
Rhona Graff
With dates for each. must be the dates of those individual's congressional
testimony from which the transcripts sent to Mueller were created.

Mueller now has the official transcripts and can use them to bring charges against those people if he sees fit.

Michael Cohen's testimony before House intel panel delayed
By ANDREW DESIDERIO 02/06/2019 10:04 AM EST
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/06/michael-cohen-testimony-delay-1151101

Noted: Cohen did not ask for the delay. Schiff, Cohen hearing was delayed "in the interests of the investigation."

Federal prosecutors subpoena Trump inaugural committee
By Erin Burnett, Erica Orden, Gloria Borger and Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 1334 GMT (2134 HKT) February 5, 2019
[...]
The prosecutor listed on the subpoena, Tom McKay, is a member of the office's public-corruption unit and was
one of the lead prosecutors on the office's case against Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
[...]
The subpoena lists only two specific names: Imaad Zuberi and his investment firm, Avenue Ventures LLC. The subpoena asks for documents related to Zuberi but doesn't
offer any clues as to why his donations may be of interest. Avenue Ventures donated $900,000 to the inaugural fund, Federal Election Commission records show.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/04/politics/sdny-subpoena-trump-inauguration-committee/index.html

First on CNN: New York federal prosecutors seek interviews with Trump Organization executives
By Erica Orden and Cristina Alesci, CNN
Updated 1949 GMT (0349 HKT) February 6, 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/new-york-federal-prosecutors-trump-organization-executives/index.html

Related:

Trump's Inauguration Paid Trump's Company -- With Ivanka in the Middle
When it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee
raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people wondered where all that money went.
It turns out one beneficiary was Trump himself.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145469793

Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization, Demanding Documents About Russia
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 15, 2018
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139321613