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Suspend the Democrats in the House of Representatives for the balance of the term…Shame on them... 
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Mar. 29, 2019
All Gave Some~Some Gave All
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President Donald Trump talks with journalists before departing the White House, on March 20, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Trump Vows to Declassify Documents on Surveillance of His Campaign
BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV
President Donald Trump intends to declassify all of the documents related to the surveillance of his presidential election campaign by the Obama administration.
Trump revealed his intentions in an exclusive interview with Fox News on March 27. The president explained that he held back from releasing the documents while the special counsel investigation was still ongoing in order to avoid the appearance of obstructing the probe.
The FBI obtained surveillance warrants to spy on at least one former Trump-campaign volunteer, Carter Page, beginning in October 2016.
“I do, I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release,” Trump said. “I have some very talented people working for me, lawyers, and they really didn’t want me to do it early on.”
“A lot of people wanted me to do it a long time ago. I’m glad I didn’t do it. We got a great result without having to do it, but we will,” the president added. “One of the reasons that my lawyers didn’t want me to do it, is they said, if I do it, they’ll call it a form of obstruction.”
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications on Page have been partially declassified. The documents show that the FBI used the discredited Steele dossier as the basis of the rationale to surveil Page. The bureau failed to disclose that the Steele dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the dossier by paying second- and third-hand sources with ties to the Kremlin for information. Steele was biased against Trump and did not want Trump to be elected president, another fact the FBI failed to disclose in the FISA application, despite being aware of it.
Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to run the Clinton-funded project, peddled the dossier to the media while Steele funneled it to the FBI. The bureau eventually terminated Steele for talking to the media in violation of its policies for confidential human sources.
“When I said there could be somebody spying on my campaign, it went wild out there,” Trump said. “They couldn’t believe I could say such a thing. As it turned out, that was small potatoes compared to what went on.
“Millions and millions [spent] on the phony dossier, and then they used the dossier to start things. It was a fraud, paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats,” the president added.
The president also tore into the officials involved in investigating his campaign, accusing them of committing “treason.” The president called former FBI Director James Comey a “terrible guy,” suggested that former CIA Director John Brennan is potentially mentally ill, and derided Democrat House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff as a criminal.
“It was treason, it was really treason,” Trump said in reference to former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
“You had dirty cops, you had people who are bad FBI folks … at the top, they were not clean, to put it mildly,” the president added. “We can never allow these treasonous acts to happen to another president.”
In text messages, Strzok and Page spoke of stopping Trump from being elected, spoke of an “insurance policy” in the unlikely event he won, and mused about impeachment after his victory. The two officials were central in the “Crossfire Hurricane” probe of the Trump campaign that started in late July 2016 and then briefly joined the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller.
Mueller finished his 22-month investigation last week, concluding that there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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by Nina Bookout
James Comey isn’t content with tweeting out obscure landscape scenes whenever big news happens. Nope, he has to provide his opinion because somehow someway there was obstruction by Trump. Never mind what the Barr summary of the Mueller report said, Comey is here to tell you that he’s a “Former FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that he found it “confusing” that special counsel Robert Mueller decided not to determine whether President Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice.
“The part that’s confusing is I can’t quite understand what’s going on with the obstruction stuff,” Comey said to an audience at the Belk Theatre in Charlotte, N.C., according to NBC News.
“And I have great faith in Bob Mueller, but I just can’t tell from the letter why didn’t he decide these questions when the entire rationale for a special counsel is to make sure the politicals aren’t making the key charging decisions,” he added.”
So, Comey is ok with the part that found no collusion but is sure there was obstruction by Trump and team? Yeah, I doubt he’s ok with any of this.
Of course, since the narrative of Trump! Russia! Collusion! got spiked, everyone on the left immediately pivoted to a key statement in the Barr memo. After stating that the Special Counsel didn’t conclude that there was any actionable obstruction by Trump and/or his team, the report said this:
“The Special Counsel states that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.””
And….the left POUNCES!!!
“We’re going to hear this nonsense about “fighting” for full disclosure of the report until the day it’s turned over to Congress, at which point one of two things will happen. Either Democrats in Congress will find enough information to support the Great Deflection from collusion to obstruction, or they won’t find enough information to support the Great Deflection but will pretend that they did.”
Comey got the memo. Hence his’ confused’ remarks along with his slam against Barr. This is on the heels of his cutesy tree tweet the other day.
James Comey ✔@ComeySo many questions.
Yes Jimmy, we have lots and lots of questions. So does Lindsey Graham.
Comey says he’s happy that Mueller did find out that Russia tried to tamper with the 2016 election. Which is laugh out loud funny given the fact that he’s been digging at Trump for Russia collusion ever since and before he got fired by Trump.
“”The notion that obstruction cases are somehow undermined by the absence of proof of an underlying crime, that is not my experience in 40 years of doing this, nor is it the Department of Justice’s tradition. Obstruction crimes matter without regard to what you prove about the underlying crime,” said Comey, who led the Russia probe before Trump fired him in May 2017.”
There’s that POUNCING again! Comey has jumped onto the new narrative bandwagon. It’s called the ‘Trump obstructed something somewhere!!’ narrative and the media/left/Democrats have been running full speed ahead with it since two hours after the Barr summary was released.
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James Comey said that he is confused by special counsel Robert Mueller's decision to neither charge nor exonerate President Trump on obstruction of justice.
So he doesn't understand how; no charges, no indictments, and no grand juries, for Russian Collusion, doesn't exonerate someone, after over 2 yrs of investigation? I guess if you are caught, multiple times, lying to Congress, you don't understand a lot of things....
Rand Paul: Need to Determine if Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch Were in on Spying on Donald Trump Campaign
BY MATTHEW BOYLE
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to know if former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch were in on the decisions to spy on President Donald Trump’s campaign and lend credence to the phony dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that gave way to what became the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Sen. Paul said he is not sure if Obama or Lynch were personally aware of everything going—but demanded the production of documents that would prove it conclusively one way or the other.
“You know, I don’t know. But I think we ought to know,” Paul said when asked if this rose to the level of the former president and his inner circle of cabinet officials. “The thing is like I say, when they release the information—if the report is to come out, part of the release is they should have to release any documents from Loretta Lynch and any documents from the president that discuss or have information pertaining to the FISA warrant. If this went all the way up to president, to President Obama, yes we should know that. The only way you’ll get that is if Democrats really want to read all million pages of Mueller’s investigation and we tell them fine you’ll get that but only if we get all the information from the Obama administration on who was unmasking names, who was unmasking phone calls. Who was making the arguments for the FISA warrant and what were there arguments for it? Did President Obama get involved in it? Did Loretta Lynch get involved in it? So I think if we’re going to look at the Mueller report we should look at the origins of this Russian hoax investigation as well.”
Paul said there needs to be a full investigation into the origins of all of this, in particular what appears to be abuse by the Obama administration when it comes to using foreign surveillance wiretap powers.
“Yeah, and the way you’ll find out about it like I say is if they’re demanding the full report come out and all of that information come out then we should demand in exchange for that all of the paper, all of the information that was transforming how and why they got those FISA warrants should be made public too,” Paul said. “Everybody should be allowed to read who’s making the decisions and what were their arguments for why anybody should respect or believe this dossier that was paid for by the Clinton campaign. So I think that from my point of view the only way I’ll agree to release more information from this Mueller investigation is they also need to release information that points to who in the Obama administration agreed to start this Russia hoax.”
Paul also said that there are reforms that President Trump can make right now to ensure this never happens again. Trump, he said, could change the process by which the FBI accesses the FISA database to require the government to obtain a warrant to do so. Paul said he has discussed this idea with the president, and the president would not need Congress to enact such a reform now.
“One of the things that I’ve talked with President Trump several times about would be a reform where the FBI was required to go to a judge to get a warrant in order to search the FISA database,” Paul said. “The FISA database is a foreign intelligence database. We tap phones and listen to people all around the world. But when they talk to an American, you’re not supposed to be able to know who the American is without getting a warrant from a judge. An American has a right to the Fourth Amendment, and you’re not supposed to listen to Americans’ phone calls without asking a judge. We believe President Trump has the power to make this the standard rule for the FBI. We tried to pass this in Congress and we got very close, we didn’t get it passed, and that would be requiring the FBI to get a warrant. But we think the president could also, just as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, make it a rule for the FBI and say from now on if you want to listen to an American’s phone call or you want to use evidence from an American’s phone call to a foreigner from that database, that you have to ask a judge for permission before you can listen to it or use it for any means.”
When it comes to the media, Sen. Paul said they have “no shame” and to not expect widespread apologies for the two years of inaccurate misreporting and fake news that has dominated the “hoax” that was the Russia scandal.
“I think the left-wing media has no conscience. I don’t think that they’ll apologize,” Paul said. “I think the left-wing media has no shame. They’ve been trumpeting this thing for two solid years. People were saying ‘the president is going to jail,’ that he ‘absolutely colluded,’ that the president is a spy, we’ve even had some in the media do the same to me. I think they should apologize but do I think they will apologize? No. If you go on the left-wing television sites and watch them they’re still concocting new stories and saying things like ‘we need to know about his tax returns.’ It’s endless. But I think the American people are catching on. Ever since the Catholic high school student who was in Washington that the left-wing media made this fake story about him disrespecting Native Americans—ever since then I think people are catching on that the media doesn’t really care about the truth and is willing to concoct any story that fits their narrative. It’s the same thing with Trump. They hate Trump so they concocted this whole thing, and now they’ll move on to some other thing. So I think you’ll see rare if any apologies.”
Mueller concluded his investigation last Friday and submitted a report to Attorney General Bill Barr. The investigation, which lasted 675 days or 22 months, included the issuance of over 2,800 subpoenas, execution of about 500 search warrants, interviews of about 500 witnesses, and so much more. The investigation cleared President Trump, per Barr’s letter summarizing Mueller’s report to Congress over the weekend, on all allegations, including particularly whether the president or his campaign colluded with Russian efforts to interfere in the election in 2016 and whether the President obstructed justice when it came to the investigation afterwards.
Paul, also in his exclusive interview with Breitbart News after the president’s complete exoneration, called for several other senior Obama officials like former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director James Brennan, and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, to be compelled to testify before Congress about their roles in perpetrating this hoax on the American public.
MSNBC’s Trump-Russia Ratings Fizzle: ‘Time to Pivot to 2020’
The Mueller report and its potential implications have driven the network’s coverage—and monster ratings—for two years. Now it’s ended with a whimper, leaving execs in a bind.
Maxwell Tani
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyAttorney General William Barr’s short letter claiming Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no clear evidence of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign left some MSNBC personalities dumbfounded on Sunday.
Several hours before Barr’s letter was released, former intelligence officer Malcolm Nance predicted on MSNBC that the report could “technically eclipse Benedict Arnold” in its level of treasonous activity.
But when Nance returned to MSNBC several hours after Barr’s letter was made public, the network contributor did little to hide his displeasure about why the investigation hadn’t resulted in more criminal indictments.
“We’ve seen these things occur and in any other standard, these people would’ve been arrested, they would’ve been polygraphed, and would’ve been brought to trial,” he said.
Over the past two years, Nance has been one of MSNBC’s most outspoken personalities commenting on the network’s most important story: Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference. Hosts like Rachel Maddow have seen their ratings notably increase as the investigation unfolded, while other anchors like Ari Melber have built major elements of their shows around interviews of witnesses of the investigation to get their perspective on Mueller’s probe.
But the release of Barr’s summary letter threw a wrench into the narrative that has driven the network’s coverage and called into question what the primary narrative would be for the network going forward.
Over the past several days, MSNBC and other media outlets have been the targets of criticism from Trump supporters and others who felt the network’s journalists and commentators had spent too much time obsessing over the Mueller investigation and drawing conclusions that were not borne out by Barr's summary.
The White House shared a meme mocking Maddow’s and host Chris Hayes’ coverage of the investigation. Conservative news outlets and prominent politicians also criticized former CIA director John Brennan, who predicted earlier this month that there could be further indictments and suggested there may be evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Within MSNBC, there’s an acknowledgement that the Trump-Russia narrative on which the cable network—and especially its primetime star Maddow—built monster ratings has fizzled for the moment.
Insiders also claim not to be surprised that the conclusion of the long-awaited Mueller report—or at least the Trump-appointed attorney general's summary—was a whimper, not a bang for an outlet that has invested so much time and energy, in primetime and throughout its dayparts, in the notion that Trump is unworthy of the Oval Office and might at some point be forced to give it up.
And it’s also possible that the Mueller disappointment drove loyal viewers away in much the same way that people avoid looking at their 401(k)s when the stock market is down. Maddow, who has consistently vied for the first or second top-rated cable news program, was sixth on Monday evening, down almost 500,000 total viewers from the previous Monday, as was MSNBC’s second top-rated program in primetime, The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.
Conversely, “It was obviously a big couple of nights for Fox,” said one network insider, claiming, however, that nobody at MSNBC is panicking.
Many top on-air personalities at the network argued Monday night that the public should not jump to conclusions until it has Mueller’s full report, not a brief, vague summary written by Trump’s attorney general.
On her program Monday night, Maddow listed a number of unanswered questions from from the Barr letter.
“Can we expect President Trump and the Trump White House to finally accept the underlying factual record that Russia did in fact attack us?” Maddow asked. “I know, I know, I’m just getting crazy. But the Barr report has given us this whirlwind of questions. The Mueller report, if and when we see it, should answer most of them. But tick tock, how long do we have to wait?”
Many of the network’s top figures defended its coverage of the Russia story.
Though MSNBC president Phil Griffin did not return The Daily Beast’s request for comment, he said in a statement that the Mueller investigation was a “huge story” and that the network was going to “keep doing our job, asking the tough questions, especially when it involves holding powerful people accountable.”
On Tuesday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough delivered a lengthy monologue admonishing Trump supporters and media critics who used the Barr summary to discount major reporting by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others on the Mueller investigation. He also acknowledged that while there were some “bad actors,” they didn’t represent the responsible journalism done around the report.
“What was the media supposed to do at that point? Shrug it off? No. You know the answer,” Scarborough said, noting the instances where individuals in Trump’s orbit had lied to law enforcement officials.
“Were there bad actors?” he continued later in the show. “Yeah, and guess what? We know who they are. We won’t have them back on our show.”
According to network insiders, viewers can expect to hear less about Trump’s alleged collusion with Russians—which Barr has declared an investigative dead end—both from the cable outlet’s anchors and its paid contributors.
Several MSNBC employees who spoke to The Daily Beast following the release of the report said although Nance appears regularly across numerous shows on the network, many producers already had reservations about bringing him on, given his penchant for over-the-top rhetoric related the investigation.
But until Mueller’s full report is released, there is no sense that there will be any major changes at the network or evaluation of its coverage. Nance and Brennan, both contributors, are expected to be back on the air in the coming days.
The hope now is that Trump’s conduct as president, along with the ramping up of the 2020 presidential campaign, will prove powerful storylines that will give MSNBC the opportunity to regroup. Hayes led his show Tuesday night with an interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg about the Trump administration’s decision to pursueyet another repeal of Obamacare.
“This stuff ebbs and flows,” said one network insider. “I think we’re ebbing.”
Asked what they thought of Monday’s ratings and the path forward for the network, another network source replied succinctly.
“Time to pivot to 2020,” they said.
Ciao…..G’day…….Helen & Moe Lauzier
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