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Donald Trump Jr. Wouldn't Tell Congress About Chats With His Dad, Citing Attorney-Client Privilege—Even Though Neither are Lawyers
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- cited attorney-client privilege when the House Intelligence Committee grilled him behind closed doors about the conversation, the committee’s top Democrat, Representative Adam Schiff of California, told reporters after the session.
- watches his father, Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, leave the stage on the night of the Iowa Caucus in Des Moines, Iowa, on February 1, 2016.
- and his father took place in July of this year, around six months after Trump's inauguration, and soon after a July 8 report in The New York Times revealed that Trump Jr.
Sanders: Trump should think about resigning over sexual misconduct allegations
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- "What I worry about right now, as we speak, in restaurants and in offices all over this country, where you have bosses who are not famous, there is harassment of women and women are being intimidated.
Trump didn't seem to have complete understanding of Jerusalem decision: report
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- Trump has vowed to broker a historic peace accord between Israel and Palestine. On Wednesday, he said he will try to resolve the decades-old conflict his way, arguing that past approaches, such as delaying the recognition, have not worked.
Dem wants to publicly release the number of sexual harassment claims filed against senators
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- At a more personal level, it signals the failure of our society to guarantee even the basic safety and dignity of our colleagues, classmates, friends, family, and neighbors," Kaine wrote in a statement on Thursday.
- A lax or indifferent response, marked only by symbolic changes, signals that we consider the issue a low priority.
- Johnny Isakson , the top members of the Senate Ethics Committee, also asked the Office of Compliance on Friday to turn over any information on sexual harassment allegations involving current members of Congress.
GOP senator on Franken and Moore: There’s a difference between a 14-year-old and an adult
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- Moore, meanwhile, is facing allegations about his conduct decades ago, including an accusation by one woman who said Moore touched her sexually when she was 14, and another who said Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16.
- Several Republican lawmakers, including Cassidy, retracted their endorsement of Moore or called on him to drop out of the race.
The Steele Dossier on Trump and Russia Is Looking More and More Real
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- When news surfaced at the beginning of the year that British intelligence agent turned private investigator Christopher Steele had compiled a report on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, news reports immediately treated its findings as radioactive. The implications of Steele’s reporting were spy-movie-unreal: Trump was the subject of Russian financial and even sexual blackmail, and he and his advisers had been openly colluding with Moscow.
- "Cohen’s passport would not show any record of a visit to Prague if he entered the EU through Italy, traveled to the Czech Republic, and then returned to his point of EU entry," reports Politico, in a passage that’s received less attention than merited.
- Most reporters have treated the say-so of Cohen, a Trump hanger-on laden with extremely shady associations, as implicitly more credible than the reporting of a British intelligence agent with years of expertise.
Republicans brazenly admit massive tax cuts are to justify cutting Medicare and Medicaid
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- But a recent analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation found that the nearly $1.5 trillion tax plan will only generate around $400 billion dollars in growth, meaning it’ll actually fall $1 trillion short of breaking even. He defended this by claiming the bill would generate $1 trillion dollars in revenues, which is a common talking point in support of the legislation.
- But two thirds of the people who receive those benefits are children, people who have disabilities, or people too old to return to work. But as the Washington Post notes, the programs Republican lawmakers want to cut actually help people who are struggling get back to work.
Ryan reiterates call for Roy Moore to drop out
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Megathread: Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to Resign
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- After that a story was "leaked" to the press that Franken was going to resign tomorrow, and by the time Franken had come out and said it wasn't true a few hours later it had already been reported everywhere and it just gained it's own momentum. I think the big final push that got Franken's own party to turn on him instead of defending him, which all happened in the last 48 hours leading up to this, was prompted by Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris. Gillibrand's public call for Franken to resign yesterday which was immediately followed by over 20 people, including Harris who called for it on CNN, had obviously been well coordinated. They saw this as an opportunity to take him out now, while he was hurt by this, so that they don't have to fight him in the primary.
- Unless the ethics committee can hire investigators that can do more than reporters can, we already know what we're going to know - and based on the history of the committee, we already know the outcome, too.
- What about Trump and Moore, among other GOP members? They have been accused of far worse, and have denied it, which you equate directly to taking part in whataboutism.
I am Congressman Mike Doyle (D-PA). I’m Ranking Member for the Congressional Subcommittee that oversees the FCC and has primary jurisdiction over Net Neutrality, which I strongly support. I represent Pittsburgh, PA. AMA
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- I serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee and I am the Ranking Member on the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, which oversees the Federal Communications Commission and has primary jurisdiction over Net Neutrality.
- Many of us find it much easier to give up because we're so tired of fighting the same battle as it returns year after year. Those around us, the less technical folks, just don't "get it", and are easily swayed by the expertly crafted messages the net neutrality opposition provides.
- With the clearly deceptive behavior of the FCC lately, it should be much easier to convince our friends, family and acquaintances that they're being tricked.
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