the front page of the seattle times that residents in washington state woke up to this morning. quote, inquiry finds state lawmaker engaged in domestic terrorism. that s a pretty memorable headline. probably want to read that article. a 108-page report commissioned by the washington statehouse of representatives found that state representative matt shay had been involved in not one, not two but three armed conflicts against the u.s. government. starting in 2014 with the standoff between rancher cliven bundy and the bureau of land management workers in nevada the report found that matt shay put out a social media call for militia members that resulted in, quote, turnout of approximately 1500 armed militia members. and fast forward to 2015 idaho. veterans affairs workers were headed to the home of a veteran deemed ineligible to purchase firearms by a health care professional, and the report found shay participated in an operation that, quote, resulted in the use of armed militia
with your sleep number setting. can it help keep me asleep? yes, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. don t miss 0% interest for 48 months on all smart beds. ends tuesday biggest base of support for president donald trump comes from white evangelicals and yet many, many, many people have noted the inherent contradictions in people who prioritize biblical righteousness supporting someone as flagrantly godless and morally incontinent as donald trump. and yesterday that contention hit a snapping point for one of the most important publication in the evangelical world, christianity today. published an editorial yesterday calling for the president s removal in the senate after his impeachment and saying, quote, to the many evangelicals who continue to support mr. trump in spite of his blackened moral record we might say this,
the solemn constitutional duty. but mcconnell basically now is okay, the fix is in. we re just not even going to pretend to go through all the pomp and circumstance. then in response house speaker nancy pelosi said fine, i m not going to send the articles of impeachment to the senate until you, mitch mcconnell, in the senate agree to set some guarantees for a fair trial. when asked if she is too afraid to send the articles over to mcconnell pelosi told politico today, fear is never a word used with me. i should know right away i m never afraid and i m rarely surprised. with all this still unresolved today speaker pelosi invited president trump to give the state of a union speech february 4th. probably not by chance she begins the invitation, quote, in their great wisdom our founders crafted a constitution based on a separation of powers. three coequal branches acting as checks on each other. the state of the union will be the day after the iowa caucuses and will also probably happen
according to the washington post, quote, the blame he cast on a rival country led many of his advisers to think that russian president vladimir putin himself helped spur belief of ukraine s culpability. one senior white house official said trump even stated so explicitly at one point saying he knew ukraine was a culprit because putin told me. in fact, go back and watch trump and putin s infamous helsinki press conference from july 2018. at the time everyone reacted to trump refusing to back his own intelligence community on the question of whether russia had interfered with the election, but listen to it again. there he is having just met one-on-one with putin. right? they just had a conversation. continually dropping a word which would come to be associated with this utterly debunked ukraine conspiracy theory, the server. you have groups that are wondering why the fbi never took the server. why haven t they taken the server? where is the server? i want to know where is the serv
control of the house. the government was already in the midst of the longest shutdown in the nation s history when pelosi rescinded her invitation to the president and sent trump through the roof. remember that? it was clear then and clear now pelosi has trump s number psychologically. and i ve got to say it appears to me that part of holding back the impeachment probably comes down to extracting some kind of psychological toll on the president. at one level holding back the articles of impeachment does seem kind of petty or small or not really clear what the endgame is. but on another level trump is someone so ruled by his grievances and very weird psychology that essentially trying to restrain his behavior via psychodrama is one of the only tools pelosi or anyone has left. the uncertainty is likely to be ironed out. it is still driving the president nuts. this afternoon tweeting, quote, nancy pelosi is looking for a quid pro quo in the senate. why aren t we impeaching her? okay. memb