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Flynn. Never before in the history of our country has a National Security adviser been fired after 24 days in office. Michael flynn made that history, he didnt make it to the end of his fourth week in office but he made it to the history books. When h was fired there were things about it that didnt make sense that still dont make sense and are starting to become untenable. He was fired ostensibly because he had contacts with the russian government during the transition. The transition between the Obama Administration and the Trump Administration Michael Flynn was talking to the russian government and he lied about the content of his communications with the russian government thereby a couple mysteries that remain about the russian government contact. One is why do we know about it . Why do we the people, we the press, we the citizens of the United States know about the content of communications with the russian government . Michael flynn was reportedly exposed as having lied about the content of his calls to the russian government because u. S. Law enforcement or u. S. Intelligence agencies were listening in on at least one call that was recorded and then transcribed. We have seen quotes and various newspapers from multiple officials who say they have seen the transcripts, the transcripts from Michael Flynn talking to a russian Government Official. Even though the transcripts have never been leaked or published, we have been told whats in them. We have been told, its been reported, that the transcripts show that mike flynn discussed u. S. Sanctions on russia. Everybody though he lied and said he didnt. We still dont know and this is going to end up being important we still dont know why Michael Flynns calls with a russian official were reported and transcribed by u. S. Officials. If it was routine surveillance of Foreign Government officials in the United States, they always listen in on the russians. Okay, that makes sense why a russian Government Official would have been recorded and had his communication transcribed but that kind of routine surveillance should not have included anything involved an american person. It was an official under routine surveillance, any american getting on the line, that should not be included in that surveillance because americans cannot be surveilled just because they happen to speak with foreign officials. If it was done under a fisa warrant, we would expect any person captured in the communication would be what they call minimized, would be excised out of the communication, wouldnt be recorded or transcribed, we would havent access to what that u. S. Person said. A communication involving a u. S. Person is a different thing legally speaking than a communication involving just foreigners. Why do we have access to what flynn and a russian official were talking about . If there was a warrant out on Michael Flynn himself and thats why the call was being recorded, well, that would explain why weve got a recording and a transcript of what mike flynn said when he was talking to a russian official, but theres been nothing to indicate that mike flynn was the subject of a criminal warrant or the subject of a National Security warrant, a fisa warrant which in that case youd only be able to get because you suspected him of something very serious like espionage. We havent seen anything that would indicate that there were warrants taken out to surveil mike flynn specifically. So thats one of the big things thats still to be determined here. One of the things we need to understand if we are going to know what has happened to our government and whats going on with this new presidency and particularly the russian connection. We still dont know the circumstances of how u. S. Law enforcement or intelligence agencies came to be monitoring and recording and transcribing calls between russian officials and mike flynn during the transition. If you are waiting for shoes to drop in this particular news environment, that ones like a big freaking logging boot that will fall off a tenstory window sill at some point. Wear a hard hat. We are still waiting for an planation of that and dont have one. The other part of Michael Flynns firing that never made sense, though was its timing. Mike flynn reportedly had multiple conversations with russian Government Officials during the president ial campaign which, of course, is when russia was interfering in our president ial election to hurt Hillary Clinton and help donald trump, his multiple communications with russian official officials, those also remain unexplained. What was he talking to the russian government about while the russian government was attacking our election . I would love to know. That said, further nonexplained data here, Michael Flynn apparently continued his communications with russian officials beyond the campaign past election day and into the transition. His conversations with the Russian Ambassador that led to his firing happened during the transition. They happened in late december around christmas and new years. Two weeks after that on january 15 the Vice President , mike pence went on tv and assured the American Public that Michael Flynn definitely didnt talk to the russians about sanctions during the transition. Let me ask you about it. It was reported by David Ignatius that the incoming National Security adviser Michael Flynn was in touch with the Russian Ambassador on the day the United States government announced sanctions for russian interference with the election. Did that contact help with that russian kind of moderate response to it . That there was no counter reaction from russia . Did the flynn conversation help pave the way for that sort of more temperate russian response . I talked to general flynn about that conversation. They didnt discuss anything having to do with the United States decision to expel diplomats or impoese censure against russia. What i can say is that those conversations that happened to occur around the time the United States took action to expel diplomats had nothing whatsoever to do with those sanctions. But that still leaves open the possibility that there might have been other conversations about the sanctions. I dont believe there were more conversations ant okay, lets move on. I can confirm that those elements were not part of that discussion. What mike pence said there was not true. We now know that Michael Flynn did dcuss sctions with the russian government even though mike pence said he didnt. So there are two possible ways to explain that. One is that, you know, Vice President mike pence was knowingly lying. He was straight up lying. He knew what flynn had actually done but he lied about it on tv. Thats one possibility. Thats a very dark possibility. The other possibility is that mike pence thought he was telling the truth. He thought he was telling the truth but because Michael Flynn fed him a b. S. Story, mike pence innocently relayed that b. S. Story to the American People as if it was true even though he wasnt in on the real facts of the matter. That latter story is what the white house decided to go with Vice President mike pence would never knowingly lie to the American People, he passed on what mike flynn told him. Thats the story from the white house. Mike pence made those comments on tv january 15. 11 days later, january 26, the then acting attorney general of the United States sally yates, we now know, she went to the white house with apparently the information gleaned from those transcripts, those recordings of Michael Flynns calls talking to the russians. She brought that information to the white house and said basically hey, what youve been saying about how mike flynn was communicating with the russians and what he was and wasnt talking to the russians about, what youve been saying is not true. Mike flynn did talk to the russian government about the sanctions. And we know because we heard it and then we wrote it down. What does not make sense here, what has never made sense here is what happened after that visit om the department of justice. Avenue that visit from the acting attorney general because what happened next after she told them mike flynn was, in fact, talking about sanctions when he talked to the russians. What happened next after she told him that was nothing. From january 26 all the way through the end of january all the way through the end of the first week through february, to february 13 the white house did nothing in response. Their line for why they had to fire Michael Flynn on february 13 is that they were so outraged that Michael Flynn lied to mike pence. Look at mike pence. How dare you lie to him . How could you lie to somebody like that . They were so outraged they had to fire Michael Flynn but they found out about Michael Flynn supposedly lying to mike pence almost three weeks before. And it apparently took three weeks to start boston botherio much. It didnt bother them until it hit the news and then everybody found out that mike pence had talked about sanctions with the Russian Ambassador and had been lying about it, thats when they finally fired mike flynn. Its never made sense in the white house account of what happened to Michael Flynn and how he was fired and why he was fired. It has never made sense that the reason he had to go was that he lied to mike pence and nobody lies to mike pence and gets away with it. The white house sat on the news of that lie for three weeks, did nothing about it before they finally got dragged into firing him because of public exposure. The only thing that makes sense is that his lies got finally publicly exposed so why did it happen that way . What what theyre saying makes no sense. Why did it happen for real . Why did they stick with mike flynn for so long even when the department of justice came to them and said hes lying and unless mike pence is in on the lie, hes apparently lying to mike pence, hes lying to the Vice President and in terms of what hes lying about, remember, the department of justice told the white house they thought Michael Flynn as National Security adviser might be vulnerable to russian blackmail. Still they held on to him for another three weeks. They held on through a lot of embarrassing stuff. There was a profoundly negative bipartisan reaction to him being appointed a top National Security adviser to the campaign and them even more so to him being appointed actual National Security adviser to the president. For somebody with such a distinguished military career, Everything Else about what mike flynn i dont mean in the a mean way it was embarrassing. His online statements, the tweets he deleted, the ones he didnt, his son who he employed at his consulting business who was embarrassing enough and extreme enough that he has the rare distinction of being one of the only people ever fired from the trump apparatus for being too embarrassing even for these folks. Michael flynn never had an explanation for why he took tens of thousands of dollars from the russian government through russian stateowned television. He never had an explanation for what he was doing not only taking their money but sitting next to Vladimir Putin at that gala dinner for russia today and standing up and applauding putin at the end of putins speech, giving him a standing ovation. Leading the standing ovation for putin. Then there was micel flynn being on the payroll for a Foreign Government while he was on the campaign during the transition. And that point, him being on another governments payroll, lobbying for another government while he was in the white house, right . While he was Just Transition official, while he was running that point is what has really sent the lug nuts skittering off the wheels in washington tonight. On election day, while Michael Flynn was serving as the top National Security advisor to the republican candidate for president , Michael Flynn published this overthetop oped in the hill newspaper. The oped praised the authoritarian leader of turkey. It also called for the heads of his dissidents and opponents. It was weird at the time. The timing itself was weird because it was on election day but the content was weird and within days, the daily caller and politico confirmed this weird oped makes sense, he wasnt just writing that out of the goodness of his heart, actually Michael Flynns Consulting Group is being paid to represent the interest of the government of turkey retired general Michael Flynn in the running for a top National Security post in the new administration running a Consulting Firm that is lobbying for turkish interests. This wasnt like a rumor or like a secret. The daily caller reported it, politico reported it, cnn reported it, the a. P. Reported it, bloomberg recorded it. On the 11th of november some dumb cable show did a big long story at the top of the hour at 9 00 eastern on msnbc. It was widely publicly known and discussed that Michael Flynn and his Consulting Company were taking money to represent the turkish government. They were lobbying for the turkish gernments interests. While he was the t of the National Security apparatus in the trump transition, while he was advising trump on National Security matters, he was taking that money, hed been on the turkish payroll during the president ial campaign. Well, now this week finally mike flynn has finally retroactively registered with the Justice Department as a Foreign Agent. He has admitted that he took hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for the government of turkey last year between august and november. But again this filing is retroactive. Hes not filing now to say hes about to start taking noun lobby for the turkish government. Hes filing now to report that he was lobbying for the turkish government last year while he was also working for trump. Now, the white house said today that President Trump had no idea, no idea that Michael Flynn was an agent of a Foreign Government while he was advising the Trump Campaign and leading the National Security part of the trump ran the sigts and honestly while he was sitting in on the president ial daily brief and all of the other things he did as part of the trump effort. Maybe amazingly thats true that President Trump had no idea Michael Flynn was a Foreign Agent while he was doing that because maybe the president consumes no news and information that is publicly available to the rest of us, maybe he didnt notice anything on cable news, maybe he didnt notice anything on the daily caller or the a. P. Or cnn or bloomberg or any of it, just didnt notice. But you know, just a weekfte we did that big segment that we did on Michael Flynn working for Foreign Government, one week after that democratic congressman Elijah Cummings wrote to the Trump Transition Team to formally alert them to these credible news reports that the top National Security adviser was lobbying for turkish interests. Notification from congress and now today the Associated Press has confirmed that the Transition Team beyond the letter from Elijah Cummings, beyond the News Coverage and public discussion, the Transition Team was formally notified by Michael Flynns lawyers during the transition that he was on the payroll of a Foreign Government. Lawyers for flynn told Trump Transition Team that flynn might need to register as an agent for a government foreign power. So even if you believe that President Trump never heard any of this, how did you find out about this crazy story . Oh, it was in the a. P. . Even the president had no access to that publicly available information we know for certain the white house is tonight confirming that even if theyre still saying the president didnt know theyre confirming the transition knew. The Transition Team was informed at the highest levels that Michael Flynn maybe needed to register as a Foreign Agent. Even if you dont even if the president somehow was completely immune to this information, the white house confirms the transition knew. That the head of the transition was informed. Who is the head of the transition . An incredibly honest looking gentleman named mike pence. Michael flynn has filed with the department of justice as a Foreign Agent for making more than 500,000 as a lobbyist r turkey. Your reaction to that considering that doesnt that mean mr. Vice president that even if he didnt lie to you about what the Russian Ambassador said or didnt say, that you would have had to fire him anyway . Well, let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it and i fully support the decision that President Trump made to ask for general flynns resignation. Youre disappointed by the story . The first i heard of it and i think its an affirmation of the president s decision to ask general flynn to resign. First of all, bret baier at fox asks the question perfectly. He lays it out, lays it out accurately, let me get your reaction. Basically saying is this not a significant scandal involving general flynn . How does mike pence respond to that . Play that bit again. Well, let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. That was not actually the question you were asked. But nobody asked when you heard of it but twice mike pence volunteers that this is all news to him. Youre disappointed by the story . Its the first i heard of it. It is impossible this is the first time mike pence has heard of it. Mike pence was theea of the transition. All of those stories about Michael Flynn on the payroll of turkey, he was the head of the transition when Michael Flynn was being vetted for the National Security adviser job, he was the head of the transition when Congress Formally notified the head of the transition that Michael Flynn appears to be on a Foreign Governments payroll. He was the head of the transition when Michael Flynns personal lawyers came and told the head of the transition that Michael Flynn maybe needed to register as a Foreign Agent and now mike pences explanation to this whole story inexplicably is hes never heard any of this. Let me say hearing that story today was the first i heard of it. That cannot be true. There is something wrong in this story. Theres something wrong here. Its one thing to pick somebody manifestly unfit for the job of National Security adviser to be National Security adviser, thats one thing. Its another thing if you bring somebody on board to a top National Security position while theyre also on the payroll of a Foreign Government and you either dont notice or dont care and you have them sit in on the president s daily brief and you have them receive and deliver Intelligence Briefings while another government is paying them to represent that Foreign Government. Thats a secondlevel scandal here. But its a third level of scandal when you start making utterly implausible denials that you had any knowledge of this thing that not only happened in plain view but you very clearly did know about it at the time that it was happening and you were notified of it directly. Whats going on with the Michael Flynn story and his links to Foreign Governments . Honestly it didnt make sense why they hid himn the first place. Theirxplanation for why he was fired makes no sense whatsoever. Especially if you believe that mike pence was the innocent wronged party in that drama, then it really doesnt make sense. Now that we have mike flynn lawyering up or at least starting to cover his legal tracks and retro actively filing as a Foreign Agent from the time he was managing Intelligence Briefings for the new president , now their explanation for that part of the story also makes absolutely no sense and does not comport with the facts. Why cant they simply explain what happened here . Mike flynns gone, you can blame the whole thing on him, but you have to make sense if it happened the way you said it did. Why are the denials and explanations around him and his contacts with Foreign Governments, why are they getting more arcane, more incoherent and more elaborate . Nobody asked mike pence when he first found out mike flynn was a Foreign Agent. Why is he repeatedly volunteering an implausible answer to that unasked question . On this one, the white house makes no sense. They appear to be trying to protect themselves or position themselves, maybe in the event of further questions here, further revelations here, maybe an investigation here . We can see the freakout happening. We do not yet know why they are freaking out like this about this. But if theyre freaking out about the prospect of a real investigation into this kind of stuff then that explains what else happened tonight. And thats next. Cause, actually. Ooohh aaaahh uh hooooly mackerel. Wow. Nice. Strength and style. Its truck month. Get 0 financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get 5500 on select Chevy Silverado pickups when you finance with gm financial. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Or keeping a Hotels Guests cuttinconnected. I to 35,000 fans. Businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. Im phil mickelson, pro golfer. My Psoriatic Arthritis caused joint pain. Just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. 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Preet bharara was appointed by barack obama there 2009 and it is not unheard of for a prosecute to stay on beyond their four year term even into a new presidency if the next president wants to keep them on. In this case, when donald trump became the new president , he decided he want Preet Bharara to say on. The president elect asked me because hes a new yorker and is aware of this great work our office has done asked me whether id be prepared to stay on as the United States attorney to do the work as we have done it independently without fear of favor for the last seven years. We had a good meeting. I said i would consider staying on. I agreed to stay on. I have already spoken to senator sessions who is, as you know, the nominee to be the attorney general. He also asked i stay on so i expect ill be continuing to work at the Southern District of new york. Thats all i have. That was right around the end of november, so after the election, the early days of the transition i agreed to stay on. Thats all i have but thank you. I agreed to stay on, i was asked to stay on by donald trump, by Jeff Sessions personally, i have agreed to stay on. Now something has happened and apparently hes out. In one fell swoop, the Trump Administration asked for the resignation of 46 Obama Administration federal prosecutors, u. S. Attorneys in the Justice Department and i should tell you, its not unheard of for a new president to clean house of all the u. S. Attorneys from the previ administration. It doesnt always happen but itsot unprecedented. In 1993, president bill clintons new attorney general janet reno replaced all the u. S. Attorneys across the country as well. But nobody had any idea this was coming today. They had not given any signal that was going to happen and they made this unannounced decision to drop the hammer on all the remaining u. S. Attorneys at once. They reportedly started calling people late today to tell them to submit their resignations effective immediate ly these u. Attorneys are gone tonight. Boom, boom, gong. The Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary committee, dianne feinstein, released this statement. She writes in january i met with Vice President pence and White House Counsel Don Mcgahn and asked specifically whether all u. S. Attorneys would be fired at once. Mr. Mcgann told me the transition would be done in an orderly fashion to preserve continuity. This is not the case, im very concerned about this unexpected decision in federal law enforcement. They previously said they wouldnt do this but tonight they decided to. Part of what remains here as a question is whether this applies to Preet Bharara, too. Because he kind of had a special deal he was asked to stay on by the president , by the attorney general. He accepted. Tonight nbc news asked the Justice Department if this new order applies to Preet Bharara, if they want him to stay on or leave and the Justice Department told nbc ask the white house. Nbc called the white house to ask about Preet Bhararas situation and the white house said accousk the justice dertme. So somewhere between the white house and the Justice Department maybe somebody knows but we dont know for sure either way. I mean, the president has the power to fire Preet Bharara if he wants to. Hes allowed to do that. But it would be a strange and dramatic decision if he did it because there was an overt personally worked out deal admitted publicly to keep him on. What happened since then . Why have they decided Preet Bharara has to go . Is there something to be afraid of . In addition to his reputation for aggression in prosecuting public corruption, it may be that his jurisdiction here matters. Being the u. S. Attorney for manhattan doesnt mean that you cover, for example, all of wall street. It also means in his case his jurisdiction includes the headquarters of trump tower where you see him there the day he made his deal to stay on. Two days ago a letter was sent to brePreet Bharara from a few different ethics watchdog groups asking him based on his jurisdiction in manhattan to investigate whether the Trump Organization is receiving illegal financial benefits from Foreign Governments that are redown to the president himself. We call on you as the United States attorney for the jurisdiction where the Trump Organization is located to exercise your responsibility to investigate and take appropriate action to ensure the Trump Organization and related trump Business Enterprises do not receive payments and financial benefits from Foreign Governments that benefit President Trump. So that letter was sent from ethics watchdogs groups to Preet Bharara two days ago. You have jurisdiction here. If the president is getting payments for Foreign Governments through his businesses because hes not divested, you have jurisdiction to investigate that. That letter went to Preet Bharara two days ago. Now apparently Preet Bharara has been fired two days later. What are you so afraid of . Weve got a good guest on this subject coming up who may be able to shed light on whats going on here, why this has happened, but i should tell you that there is one previous example just in case this becomes relevant. There is one previous example of a federal prosecutor in new york resisting and saying no when a president tried to remove him. His name was Robert Morgenthau in 1969 he had the same gig Preet Bharara has now. President nixon called for Robert Morgenthaus head and he dug in his heels and said he would not leave. He would resist being fired. It was dramatic but the way it ended is he had to leave because the president can decide whos in these jobs. The president has this power. Why a president chooses to use to exercise it at a time like this making a uturn from his previous decision without any advanced notice and any explanation, thats a really interesting question regardless of whether or not hes got the power to do it. Thats next. Are your allergies holding you back or is it your allergy pills . Break through your allergies. Introducing Flonase Sensimist. More complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. Using unique mistpro technology, new Flonase Sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. Most allergy pills only block one. And six is greater than one. Break through your allergies. New Flonase Sensimist. Top democrat in the Senate Chuck Schumer is setting off a flare about the Trump Administration firing more than 40 u. S. Attorneys and one fell surprise swoop. From schumer im troubled to learn of reports for resignations for the remaining u. S. Attorneys, particularly that of Preet Bharara after the president initiated a call to me saying he wanted mr. Bharara to remain. By asking for the resignation before their replacements have been confirmed or nominated the president is interrupting ongoing cases and investigations and hindering the administration of justice. Any president can clean house like this. A president can switch the u. S. Attorneys out. But why tonight . Why so abruptly . And why ask Preet Bharara to stay and then change your mind. Joining us now is charlie savage, hes been reporting on the latest move by the Trump Administration, hes the author of power wars, inside obamas post 9 11. Mr. Savage, thank you very much for being here tonight, thank y you. So he can appoint as many u. S. Attorneys as he likes, is this a Standard Operating Procedure for his administration . Is there anything unusual about the fact that there was no announcement or the fact that there was no announcement to replace these attorneys . The first point is absolutely a president can remove u. S. Attorneys at will, they serve at the pleasure of the president and it is not unusual for a new president , especially when theres been a change of party, to replace the 93 top federal prosecutors in federal districts around the country. Typically it happens on a more rolling basis with transition time and well replace this guy and then that guy and then this woman or as you mentioned earlier there was one precedent for a mass firing which came from president bill clinton in march of 1993 even that was a little different than this then however because the people werent all told the pack up their offices and get out by the close of business that day. I talked to one of president george h. W. Bushs u. S. Attorneys who was there in january of 1993 when president bill clinton took over in mckay in seattle and Michael Mckay and he told me well i was going to leave but when this thing came down they let me stay three weeks beyond that, there was another guy he remembered who had had a big investigation open, they let him stay. So this very aupt get out is part of whats unusual about this unexpected mass firing which we did not expect to happen in one big gulp but we did expect to happen in lee is motion over quite a lot of time. In terms of your reporting and your understanding of the dynamics at work here, was there a beef . Was there a political analysis that made this seem like an imperative . Was there a grudge against the u. S. Attorneys as a group . I dont know about the u. S. Attorneys but for the last few weeks as these various leaks have been coming out about Trump Campaign officials and Michael Flynn and contacts with russia and chaos inside the Trump Administration theres been a growing counternarrative in conservative circle which is is that all these leaks are sabotage by leftover obama era officials who are embedded in the government and are need to be purged. Weve had a growing clamor of conservative talk radio people and members of congress escalating with sean hannity on fox news saying its time for trump to purge his word all of these saboteurs, his word, which means ever holdover obamaera official, he has to get them out. And hannity in particular talked about how clinton got rid of all 93 u. S. Attorneys at the beginning of his administration and it was no big deal. On the issue of Preet Bharara specifically, theres two things at work here. One he has jurisdiction geographically over what would include the Trump Organization, two, there was a public announcement he would stay on i think thats a particular point of concern for people looking at this story tonight. We dont know. Stufmaycome out but in from this vantage pint at this moment in time i think the most likely explanation is that at the time that trump made that deal with Preet Bharara in november of last year, he was in a sort of moment of bromance with Chuck Schumer the Incoming Democratic minority leader, he was like we can work with this guy, we can find Common Ground when somebody people on the left were saying scorched earth schumer was saying no, lets find things we can do together and this was a gesture towards senator schumer because Preet Bharara is a long time. Prior to being u. S. Attorney was counsel to Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer was his patron, Chuck Schumer got him the position of being u. S. Attorney by telling barack obama he should nominate him. So that was a gesture. Since then relations between President Trump and Chuck Schumer have become increasingly toxic, trump has insulted schumer and schumer in turn called for an independent investigation into the russia thing, he said Jeff Sessions should resign. They are not friends anymore and that may be why this deal that sort of was thrown together capriciously in november when things looked very different no longer was that attractive to trump or to sessions. If we ever find outs about the presence or absence of any trumprelated investigations out of the u. S. Attorneys office youll probably be the guy who writes the amazing book about it. Charlie savage, Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent for the New York Times New York Times. Thanks. Thank you very much. I love friday nights, buckets of news every friday night. Were just getting started. Stay with us. I know, we need to talk about this. Its time. 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The 1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. Now in kids chewables. Colorado senator Corey Gardner, Donald Trumps Colorado Campaign chairman, senator gardn gardner, take it away. Were one week into President Trumps administration. Is it what you expected . You know, i think its just been a fire hose. It just seems the second you turn your head one way to see whats coming down that road you have to turn your head this way to see whats coming down that road. On point, senator, on point. So what is your advice to your constituents . Folks who experience this administration as an unmanned fire hose. There are people who are afraid right now about the environment, about health care, ant immigration, education. People shouldnt be afraid, i dont think, in this country, we should be proud. Dont be afraid. Be it appears a lot of senator gardners constituents are deciding to be proud. In part on his office doorstep. They have mounted a longstanding and forceful effort to push Senator Cory Gardner to say no to trump plans and republican plans on everything from repealing the Affordable Care act to the muslim ban to the wall on the mexican border, coloradoens have been demanding time with their senator, they have been pressuring him to hold town halls, they have been be doing whatever they can to reach him to get his attention through prank missing poster signs. Try to initiate contact. See the small print there . If you have seen or heard from this man, please inform his constituents. Theyve tried flattery, senator gardener, will you make a date with colorado . They have tried getting his attention by Holding Town Halls without him where they pose questions to a cardboard version of cory gardner. They have made art from his face. That pressure may be starting to move things. After the president s first muslim ban took effect senator gardner called on the president to change it. 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One thing to keep an eye on this weekend, weve been trying to watch town halls and constituents getting in touch with their members and senators in congress, in part because that sometimes is leading to obvious change in the views and behavior of those members of congress. Darrell issa had a town hall in his district during the congressional recess that a lot of his constituents went to but he didnt. He is apparently going to be doing two town halls tomorrow. They are both totally full up, oversubscribed. His office tells us they are looking for larger venues. But if youre going to keep an eye on people pressuring their members of congress this weekend, watch those darrell issa town halls. They should be hot. Is that the right word . That does it for us