I love how predictable the tweets have become. Trump: "failing New York Times!" Everyone else: "oh man, NYT is about to drop something juicy!" NYT: "yeah, here you go."
I love how predictable the tweets have become. Trump: "failing New York Times!" Everyone else: "oh man, NYT is about to drop something juicy!" NYT: "yeah, here you go."
NYT stocks are up 30% and readership is up too. Failing, yep.
Senate Intelligence Committee looks pretty well-focused on Russia interference in the election. Not getting caught up in the 'who are the leaks' narratives that Nunes took the house committee down. Not a lot of discussion of Trump collusion right now in the senate committee, but that's not a problem, they're basically hearing and acknowledging that Russian interference was a massive problem that needs to be looked at very seriously. That seems like it will almost inevitably lead to whether Trump's team was involved, so I'd say the Senate Committee investigation is going as it should.
Meanwhile, Schiff doing a good job hammering Nunes and the White House for their attempt at distraction last week.
A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" or "Paris Agreement" in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO.
Employees of DOE’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy learned of the ban at a meeting Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order at EPA headquarters to reverse most of former President Barack Obama's climate regulatory initiatives. Officials at the State Department and in other DOE offices said they had not been given a banned words list, but they had started avoiding climate-related terms in their memos and briefings given the new administration's direction on climate change.
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The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words "climate" in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies. It plays a key role in U.S. participation in the Clean Energy Ministerial and Mission Innovation, two international efforts launched under Obama that were designed to advance clean energy technology.
Infighting between Republicans is increasing following the failed health care bill with finger pointing all around. The GOP has been a very weird collection of conflicting special interest monies, even before Trump, and now it seems more and more the cracks are showing.
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GOP ‘cannibalization’ after failed health care push
Republican infighting breaks out all over Washington.
Republican infighting consumed the Capitol Thursday, drowning out last-ditch attempts by GOP leaders to salvage their failed attempt to replace Obamacare and threatening to sharpen the divisions that sank it in the first place.
President Donald Trump threatened to drive hard-line conservatives from office after they led the opposition to his health care push. In return, one of them, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), accused the president of becoming a creature of Washington.
That wasn't all: Speaker Paul Ryan warned that the GOP health care stalemate could drive Trump to work with Democrats. A Republican senator accused Ryan of badmouthing bipartisanship.
The crossfire left a sour taste for lawmakers as they left town for the weekend without resolving any of the differences that ruptured health care deliberations the week before.
A few more details (second-hand, as the WSJ is behind a pay-wall): this offer was initially made on March 26, and so far neither the FBI nor either of the intelligence committees have taken him up on the offer.
1) Immunity for what he's facing irrespective of Russiagate (agent of foreign power undeclared) will make committees / prosecutor apprehensive of making a deal without knowing what he will cooperate with. What if he doesn't have useful info?
2) They need concrete evidence here which will be very difficult to get to make this worthwhile
