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mobeau69's JournalRob Goldstone ready to come to U.S. and talk to Mueller
Source: NBC News
The British publicist who helped set up the fateful meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a group of Russians at Trump Tower in June 2016 is ready to meet with special counsel Robert Mueller's office, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Rob Goldstone has been living in Bangkok, Thailand, but has been communicating with Mueller's office through his lawyer, said a source close to Goldstone.
Goldstone's New York lawyer, G. Robert Gage, declined to comment other than to say, "nothing is presently scheduled."
However, sources close to Goldstone and familiar with the investigation say they expect he will travel to the United States at some point "in the near future," as one put it.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rob-goldstone-ready-come-u-s-talk-mueller-n821826
My prediction is that this whole treasonous affair is going to lead to a constitutional crisis. Bone Spurs can't survive with the truth seeing the light of day.
"People who live in glass white houses shouldn't throw stones" - Jake Tapper
Wow, what a powerful segment on The Lead just now! Jake just ripped dotard bone spurs with both barrels blazing.
Here's a link:
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson will oppose current GOP tax bill
Source: CNBC
•He comes the first Republican senator to explicitly say he will not back the bill.
The lawmaker from Wisconsin is the first GOP senator to explicitly say he will not back the tax proposal. Johnson told The Wall Street Journal that the bill benefits corporations more than other businesses.
"If they can pass it without me, let them," he told the newspaper, which first reported his opposition. "I'm not going to vote for this tax package."
Johnson's opposition adds uncertainty to the GOP goal of chopping tax rates on businesses and individuals by the end of the year. Other Republican senators have raised concerns about budget deficits fueled by tax cuts, though none other than Johnson have publicly opposed the bill, yet.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/15/republican-sen-ron-johnson-tells-wsj-he-wont-vote-for-gop-tax-bill.html
1st Puke. It's a start.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries grills Jeff Sessions for lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee
Give'em hell, Mr. Jeffries.
Trumps nuclear authority divides senators alarmed by his volatile behavior
Source: The Washington Post
Senators trying to prevent President Trump from launching an unprovoked nuclear attack were stymied Tuesday, after a panel of experts warned them against rewriting laws to restrain a commander in chief many worry is impulsive and unpredictable enough to start a devastating international crisis.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who has said Trump’s threats to global rivals could put the country “on the path to World War III,” began Tuesday’s session warning of the inherent danger in a system where the president has “sole authority” to give launch orders there are “no way to revoke.” By the time Corker emerged from the hearing — the first to address the president’s nuclear authority in over four decades — he was at a loss for what to do next.
“I do not see a legislative solution today,” Corker told reporters. “That doesn’t mean, over the course of the next several months, one might not develop, but I don’t see it today.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senators-deadlock-in-debate-over-whether-to-restrain-trumps-nuclear-launch-authority/2017/11/14/491a994a-c95b-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.09479697d015
Mitch McConnell says Roy Moore 'should step aside'
Source: CNBC
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Roy Moore, the GOP candidate for Senate in Alabama, "should step aside."
McConnell says he believes the women quoted in a Washington Post story.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/13/senate-majority-leader-mcconnell-says-moore-should-step-aside-in-light-of-sexual-contact-allegations.html
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What to Make of the Latest Story About Flynn and Gulen?
By Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes Friday, November 10, 2017, 4:44 PM
"The federal kidnapping statute is at 18 U.S.C. 1201 and the laws of Pennsylvania—where Gulen lives—would presumably have something to say about aspects of the plot (assuming the facts as reported by the Journal are true) as well. Flynn was a private individual—a campaign adviser—at the September meeting, and in the transition period during which the December meeting took place, he was a designated government official who had not yet assumed office. When government officials act or conspire to transfer someone, against their will and not pursuant to regular legal process, to a foreign jurisdiction, that is often described as “extraordinary rendition.” Prior administrations have acknowledged the use of the practice with respect to foreigners captured overseas. Even then, it is extremely controversial. As applied to a domestic person outside of traditional legal processes, it is simply criminal—under all imaginable circumstances. Plotting to do it, is a conspiracy to kidnap."
The Journal is, as we say, ambiguous about means. In some passages, it suggests a kidnapping; in others, it suggests that Flynn would use his position as national security adviser to return Gulen by legal means. The U.S. and Turkey do have an extradition treaty. The Department of Justice has so far rebuffed Turkish extradition requests related to their claims that Gulen is the mastermind behind a 2015 failed coup attempt. But perhaps Flynn only agreed that he would use his influence to mount pressure on the Justice Department to use legal methods. And perhaps Flynn might argue that he was doing the President-elect’s bidding, attempting to reset relations with Turkey by removing a major irritant in those relations.
That answer might get Flynn out of some legal hot water, but unless the facts in the Journal story don’t pan out, there are still big problems. For one thing, there’s still the allegation about money. It’s no more legal to take $15 million to use your influence as national security adviser to bring about an outcome than it is to kidnap someone."
more: https://lawfareblog.com/what-make-latest-story-about-flynn-and-gulen
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