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Trump and Putin did not discuss Russian meddling during their 5-minute chat, Kremlin says
4:40 AM - 11 Nov 2017

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It’s sad when you don’t know whether to trust the Kremlin or the White House on this.

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And I have a hard time taking seriously the outrage from people screaming “age of consent” who think a three year old boy can identify as a girl and there’s nothing wrong there.

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The nation loses the only goat ******* child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court in David Souter's retirement.
7:24 PM - 30 Apr 2009

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Trump continues to slam former US intel leaders: “I mean, give me a break, they are political hacks...I mean, you have Brennan, you have Clapper and you have Comey..So you look at that and you have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with them”
4:43 AM - 11 Nov 2017

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has questioned Sam Clovis, co-chairman of President Donald Trump's election campaign, to determine if Trump or top aides knew of the extent of the campaign team's contacts with Russia, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday.

The focus of the questions put to Clovis by Mueller's team has not been previously reported.

"The ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-elect Trump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them," one source said. "That is still just a question."

President Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner told an executive from CNN's parent company earlier this year that the news organization should fire 20 percent of its staff over their coverage of the 2016 election, according to a new report.

Kushner told Time Warner executive Gary Ginsberg that CNN should fire the employees because they were so wrong in their analysis of how the election would turn out, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

A White House official said Kushner didn't intend for the comment to be taken seriously and was only trying to make a point, according to the Journal, which reported that the remark "wasn't taken lightly" inside Time Warner.

The newspaper had previously reported in February, shortly after Trump took office, that Kushner had met with Ginsberg at the White House and criticized CNN over what he deemed inaccurate analysis of the Trump administration and commentators who had been especially critical of Trump.

CNN and its parent company Time Warner were in the spotlight this week over reports that the Trump administration wanted CNN sold as a condition of a merger between AT&T and Time Warner.

Justice Department sources told The Hill and other outlets earlier this week that AT&T had offered to sell CNN from the combined company to get the merger approved by regulators. Other outlets reported that the Trump administration had demanded the sale.

Speculation among Wall Street insiders and people within the companies has risen over whether the administration's feelings about CNN could be influencing the decision, the Journal reported.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Thursdaydenied reports that the Justice Department wanted CNN sold as a condition for the merger.

Trump and his associates repeatedly bashed CNN during the 2016 campaign and into his time in office, calling the network and certain stories "fake news.

WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan involving former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Under the alleged proposal, Mr. Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., were to be paid as much as $15 million for delivering Fethullah Gulen to the Turkish government, according to people with knowledge of discussions Mr. Flynn had with Turkish representatives.

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Between defending Russia on the election meddling charges and saying we "can't blame" China for taking advantage of us economically, President America First has *really* made a strong showing on this trip through Asia.

US states, cities and businesses signed up to ‘America’s pledge’ to combat global warning have a combined economic power equal to the world’s third-biggest economy

The US states, cities and businesses that have signed up to reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite president Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw from the Paris agreement would, if put together, have the clout of the world’s third biggest economy, after the US and China.

To date, 20 US states and more than 50 of its largest cities, along with more than 60 of the biggest businesses in the US, have committed to emissions reduction goals.

Added together, they have an economic power of about $10tn, placing this group behind only the US as a whole ($18.6tn) and China ($11tn) in terms of GDP.

On Saturday at the Bonn conference on climate change, these groups joined together to make “America’s pledge”, a commitment to combat global warming, in stark opposition to the Trump administration.

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I just saw Hugh Hewitt (not a liberal stalwart) say that if you read the whole WAPO story you can come to no other conclusion but that Moore did the things he's being accused of. Further, when his guest said this is a real test of conservatives' morals, Hewitt quipped "No, I think it's a test of literacy."

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In my view Moore is guilty as accused. But 1) it happened 30 years ago, & 2) he can't be removed from the ballot, & 3) electing a Dem strengthens a party that defends these criminals: Obama, the Clintons, Holder, Lynch, Abedin, Cheryl Mills etc. &their crimes are far far worse

Obama, the Clintons, Holder, Lynch, Abedin, Cheryl Mills

snood wrote:

I just saw Hugh Hewitt (not a liberal stalwart) say that if you read the whole WAPO story you can come to no other conclusion but that Moore did the things he's being accused of. Further, when his guest said this is a real test of conservatives' morals, Hewitt quipped "No, I think it's a test of literacy."

Billw wrote:

Yes, but he's not a southern Conservative either. There's is a big difference. If Hewitt leaves tRump, he takes half the remaining 33% of the tRump coalition.

wmwcjr, any group of conservatives in Alabama is by circumstance a racist group.

I'd like to see the poll run of Southern states with the following question: "Are you in favor of seceding from the USA and if yes, are you in favor as a first act; reinstating slavery?"

Doug Jones - Roy Moore currently being shown tied (46%-46%) in polls, hmmmmmmm! I like what Republicans are doing, keep on keeping on.