We know in retrospect that that inauguration took place against the backdrop of an open and active fbi counterintelligence investigation into the russian attack on the election that made that inauguration possible. And on the key question of whether the new president s campaign had been in on the russian attack somehow. We know looking back that it was happening in the background. That wearing happened on a friday, january 20th. The very next week, though, the whole thing started to shake and rattle within the first week we now know. The inauguration is friday. Theres the weekend. Then the first tuesday after the inauguration, the National Security adviser got interviewed by the fbi. When the fbi does that kind of interview, the agents who conduct the interview produce a written report about it. Its called a 302. Swearing in was on friday, then theres the weekend, then the following tuesday National Security adviser gets interviewed by the fbi. The consequences of that interview are st
Senate offices around the country and in the has the capitol hill, and at the cincinnati last night, both on the floor where Senate Democrats held the floor for hours, and they went outside and held the Capitol Steps, an impromptu protest which started with senator corey booker, john lewis, and soon grew to be hundreds of people on the steps of the capitol deep into the night after a score from the Congressional Budget Office that said the rep bill to kilobama care would kick 22 million americans off their Health Insurance . Not just off the Health Insurance youre on now, it would kick 22 million americans all of all forms of Health Insurance and leave them uninsured. After all of that, today it became too much for the republicans in washington to bear. For a while i think they thought they could hold the line and stop their own senators from peeling off the bill. They knew they had lost dean heller and knew they had lost Susan Collins of maine, and i think they thought for a while the
you put your finger on a lot of what s distressing. here we have a situation where the attorney general warns white house counsel there s a problem with mike flynn and the underlying conduct is problematic, the lying is problematic, and what do they do? they end up firing her. and only later when it becomes public do they fire mike palestinian. in terms of that 18-day gap, sean spicer opened up about the watergate tape, which i thought was artful. but there is this 18-day period. we know that the house oversight committee asked the white house for documents related to flynn s time in the white house. and they asked in a specific way they were looking at. we know the white house responded by handing over zero documents. is there a way to get at figuring out what was going on without delay? it is a remarkable thing for the
pronounce the names. there was his own business partner from ukraine who ran the manafort office in ukraine. a guy who used to work for russian military intelligence, who then met with manafort multiple times in the united states during the ferns the pro-putin dictator who manafort worked for for a deck caddy before he was deposed and had to flee to moscow. he too had to resign under the trump campaign until a huge scandal relating to russia. he too, like mike palestinian, is reportedly the subject of congressional investigations, he and his businesses have been the subject of federal grand jury subpoenas over the past several months. you would think that would