The conscience, and while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims now young women. They deserve their day in court. The New York Times writes of todays charges, quote, mr. Bermans decision to seek an indictment in manhattan was an implicit rebuke of the decision by prosecutors in miami in 2008 to enter an agreement with mr. Epstein that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution and a possible life sentence, and heres where the story goes from lurid and tragic to potentially explosive for the Trump Administration. That implicit rebuke is a rebuke of a deal negotiated by a current member of Donald Trumps cabinet, his secretary of labor, alex acosta who previously served as the top prosecutor in south florida and negotiated that nonprosecution agreement for epstein. Julie kay brown, Investigative Reporter if the miami herald who has done Ground Breaking work on this story, work that happened to be credited today by the
Right in attack mode starting today as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. Day 784 of the trump administration, and there are brandnew signs that we may indeed be witnessing the end stage of Robert Muellers investigation into russian interference in our president ial election and please note here, when covering an entity that does not leak, we are forced to watch for other things like personnel moves and for starters one of muellers top prosecutors Andrew Weissmann plans to leave the team. The news came from the special Councils Office itself, which sent out this Statement Today and we quote. Andrew weissmann will be concluding his detail to the special counsels office in the near future. He was the architect of the case against Trump Campaign chairman paul manafort, whos been sentenced to prison for almost 7 1 2 years. You may recall last month, weissmann said his lies about it go to the larger view of what we think is going on. And what we think the motive here is, this
The magic number. It was 134 on sunday on sunday it was 84 since sunday. You know, the question of how broad theyre going to make this impeachment proceeding in terms of how broadly theyre going to draw these articles is fascinating. I think that its worth knowing, though, that theyve got, you know, its like bird in the hand, two in the bush. At this point if they want to impeach him specifically on this scandal of what he admitted to today in terms of what he asked the ukraine government for, theyre done. Theyve got that in hand if they want to do it. They also have the Mueller Report, and weve never seen one article go forward. Theres a lot of reasons for that, including offering the senate, for example, the possibility some senators the possibility to vote against one article or two articles, and then vote for one. And it only takes one. So if you get the twothirds vote on one article, but then two or three other articles dont pass, the president is still removed. And so that is ver
With the intention of sowing chaos in the democratic president ial primary. The theory, a lengthy trial could potentially sideline six of the Democratic Candidates who are also sitting senators. Yes, there are still six sitting senators running. I know you probably only think its warren and sanders and who else . Well, its Elizabeth Warren, its bernie sanders, its michael bennet, its kamala harris, its Amy Klobuchar and im drawing a blank. Cory booker, of course, during the most important part of the primary calendar. Its a strategy that has potential to backfire because the president and the evidence in the impeachment inquiry has made it clear the candidate he worries about most is joe biden. And sidelining bidens two main rivals could actually help him win the nomination, not hurt. But logic aside, republicans today are confronting a potentially bigger problem when it comes to defending the president from impeachment while also looking ahead to his reelection bid. Yesterdays hearing
average american wouldn t tolerate if they understood what was at stake. i m hearing people putting the pressure ones and cornyn from the right, but i don t see many of us on the other side of this, whether we re centrists or progressive, saying, wait a minute, we re talking about exactly what you re talking about as district attorney, we re talking about saving lives. they re talking about these things that are not law at all. that s right, rev. i completely agree with you. we really, i think, have to start pointing it out, that it is a small group of politicians who are pandering to extremist views. when it comes to gun safety, that s the issue. we cannot have guns in the hands of people who we know either have been convicted of crimes, like domestic violence, or, and this is where the red flag laws come in, or who are showing signs in a court temporarily