I wonder how long it'll be before we really understand the relationship. What promises were made, etc.? Seems to be backfiring though on both parties. Trump Administration under serious fire, and would seem to be very unwise to adopt or change any policies to favor Russia at this point.

Are foreign ambassadors often at party conventions? That seems really weird to me.

It's not backfiring on Russia. They don't need their compensation to be policy change. They are plenty happy with the compensation being a reduction in American legitimacy and competence and global stature.

Someone needs to tell the trump fans that mccaskill didn't lie under oath to congress in a hearing for her whitehouse cabinet appointment.

Flynn never cabinet member tho...

lol at this "out of context" angle-shoot garbage

Jeff Sessions the Senator wears the same skin suit as Jeff Sessions the Campaign Surrogate or whatever else he wants to call himself. Given all of the current known controversy with Russian involvement in the election there's no way you anyone can justify failure to disclosure 2 meetings with the Russian ambassador in January. No way. I don't gaf how you word the question.

If he had simply said, "...however, I did meet with so-and-so as part of my role with the AS committee, our business concerned Y issue..." Yes it would have been questioned, and probably noteworthy to point out that meetings with the Russian ambassador aren't common on that committee (20/26 members told the WaPo they did not last year, and the other 6 didn't answer).

Instead he tried to slide it by and got caught. Good work by WaPo

Someone said there's a State Department program that invites foreign emissaries out to election events "to show how American democracy works".

And their other meeting was in Cleveland, site of the Republican National Convention, while the convention was occurring...

But, yeah, I'm sure that the election never came up. I'm also confident that Sessions made it crystal clear to the Russian Ambassador that he was talking to him in his capacity as a Senator, and certainly not as someone who frequently appeared on the stump for Trump, and who had been publicly identified as one of his primary foreign policy advisors. (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...ds_donald.html). Maybe Sessions even wore a nametag or badge of some sort so that the Ambassador could know in which capacity Sessions was acting.

Yeah this. He's got some plausible deniability wrt Leahey, assuming the actual contents of his conversations with Comrade Whatshisface don't get leaked. The statement he made to Franken is unequivocally false.

IS NECESSARY

IS NECESSARY

Are my ears deceiving me? Did Nunes just say right now that 'most of the countries in the world have embassies here, most of them are adversaries' or something like that

I need to find the clip but i dont know how really

And then he makes this hairbrained analogy with the reporter 'What if you were in contact with the Russian embassy?'

If someone finds the clip (it was just on CNN now) I love you long time

Buzz that Trump will sign an executive order that saves his advisers millions of dollars. It is a bit odd that Trump, who doesn't have much interest in policy, magically has very specific and obscure policy points that seem to directly benefit the people he assigns as advisers


https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/...pany-millions/

Failed software engineer ChrisV has unbalanced btrees. Hates time tested OOP concepts. Sad!

Is Spiceman on today? Should be incredible, if so.

Did Nunes just threaten the press that they would investigate press phone calls to the Russian Embassy? Clearly Nunes is not an enthusiastic participant in this investigation.

He deflected a question with a slippery slope threat to investigate journalists or ordinary citizens who talk to Russians. This guy is another beauty.

Unbalanced binary search trees? Bro, do you even compile?

this.

I haven't seen a briefing in awhile and am home today.

Two shortest terms of senior whitehouse officials in the history of the United States then.

That was so weird. She asked about the FBI giving info, he said it hadn't been given, she asked why not, and he said because it was complicated.

Then he proceeded to give this analogy saying that they were probably in contact with the Russian embassy, and would they want their phone calls out there investigated?

Then she asks well isn't there a difference between a public and private citizen and I can't remember what he said to that but it was done after that

****ing MSNBC running with "by golly, why not recuse, will make things easier!"

Because, ****heads, he lied for a ****ing reason! What, he just happened to ****ing lie under oath about a hyper sensitive subject?

THE MEDIA

Hope you like your takes bleak:

Why didn't you hilight the part that said "I did not have communications with the Russians."?

The funny part is Franken didn't even ask if he had contact w/ the Russians. He freely gave that up under oath. That's something a person guilty of something does. It's like a driver that knows he was speeding getting pulled over, the cop asks "Do you know why I pulled you over?" and saying "Officer, I wasn't speeding. Why did you pull me over?"

Dude, if there is nothing to see here, you should WELCOME an investigation. This guy is the AG. He's not some random cop out in the sticks.

But you are Trump slappy. You can't possibly admit that your orange messiah and his cronies may be up to no good.