I may need to watch Kelly Sunday night, which would be a first for me, but I can’t imagine her getting “hysterical” about anything during an interview.
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Hmmmm, has he tweeted about Bloomberg or Macron yet? Cuz that should be juicy.
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Okay … that’s pretty satisfying.
Not until we see him in the big house…progress nonetheless.
There are some things in politics that are forever hard for me to fully understand. James Carville and Mary Matalin is one. The Frankens being personally good friends with the Sessionses (is this the plural?) is another.
I wonder if Franken already had in mind a fear of what the worst scenario could be like that involved his personal “friend” when he asked that question.
Yes i would…
Now these meetings may or may not lead to much, but the idea that these meetings are a continuing ‘cloud’ suggests to me that its more than just three meetings.
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N Paul Ryan is likely a willing accomplice.
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Poor Mike’s gotten himself into a nutcracker, in every sense of the term. Might not feel too good Down There right now…
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Yes n no.
While i agree it’s not good for Nunes’s hand to again get caught in the ‘cookie jar’, Trumpists are still sarcastic for a reason: Congress likely still has 45’s back.
Now '18 n '20 ('19 is ‘something’) might let folks find out where we stand.
Right now, the following three things are prolly in play next year
A) paris accord
B) trump
C) impeachment
D) Russia/Putin
N yep, they are related.
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I’ve remained rather ambivalent when it comes to Bloomberg but I do love he met with Macron in Paris today and that he’s pouring some of his vast fortune into standing up a separate group to basically speak for the US in the international sphere.
“Americans don’t need Washington to meet our Paris commitment, and Americans are not going to let Washington stand in the way of fulfilling it,” he said. “That’s the message mayors, governors, and business leaders all across the U.S. have been sending.”
I wonder if Tramp realizes that there are millions of people working to marginalize him? Just how tight are the walls of the WH starting to feel?
Heh heh… 
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its more than just three meetings.
Yeah it’s pretty much a safe bet I think. Just wait for a while for “another meeting” to become “a couple more meetings”… drip drip drip in the end can fill a big fat bucket (then start leaking like a colander lol). Three is just too few given the scale of this scandal slowly but surely unfolding in front of us.
More specifically, it’s not unreasonable to suspect Sessions was part of Putin’s plan from the start. Like other GOPers he once was a Russia hardliner, but given his extreme ideological and personality profile he was a nearly ideal one for the Kremlin to recruit (I read some congressional GOPers were indeed warned they might be approached by the Kremlin). And he was appointed as AG as planned. Three are just too few for such a person.
(ETA. Oh, and – I cannot remember off the head where I read this, but I think I saw somewhere Sessions was actually Bannon’s first preference for a presidential run).
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Of course. Then again, it’s not like they still have the luxury of sitting back and enjoying watching the wrestling match, either. And now that the referee is a real one…
They wasted no time to throw back Nunes onto the ring again.
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Dammit, this Friday has been quite modest overall. Just less than two hours left here 
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Ooh, I missed this one.
Husband of Kellyanne Conway, expected to head Justice Department civil division, withdraws
Conway, the husband of Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, said in a statement that he was “profoundly grateful to the President and to the Attorney General” for selecting him to serve in the Justice Department.
However, he said, he had concluded that it is “not the right time for me to leave the private sector.”
Haha. Is there any plausible interpretation other than that KAC’s hubby knows Trump is screwed? 
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When the alarms are sounding after the core starts to melt down, no one wants to run into the nuclear facility to see if they can get a job.
Just spitballin’ 
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Wow. Nicely put 
By the by wrt what I posted as ETA just above…
I dug. It was from the NY Times Magazine about two months ago. So yes, Bannon did want Sessions. Now put that fact in the current context…
At some point during the five-hour dinner, Bannon recalls blurting out to Sessions, “We have to run you for president.” Just two years earlier, in 2011, he made a similar pitch to Sarah Palin, after completing a documentary about her called “The Undefeated.” Palin demurred. She was enjoying her life of celebrity and wealth, she had done little to immerse herself in policy minutiae and she was no doubt unsettled by Bannon’s warning that she stood little chance of defeating Obama.
Now he delivered a similar message to Sessions. “Look, you’re not going to win,” he recalls saying. “But you can get the Republican nomination. And once you control the apparatus, you can make fundamental changes. Trade is No.100 on the party’s list. You can make it No.1. Immigration is No.10. We can make it No.2.” Acknowledging that the drawling Alabama senator lacked Palin’s charisma, Bannon said, “You’ll be the anti-candidate.”
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If Bannon wanted first Palin and then Sessions, he was clearly looking for a completely malleable idiot he could use from behind the curtain.
And he was lucky enough to see in PeePee what Putin did - a complete and total idiot with no morals, no ethics, driven by ego and greed who could be so easily manipulated that it was and still is laughable.
I just don’t get why Bannon would want Sessions. Why him? There are plenty of 'pub idiots to choose from and each year brings a new bumper crop.
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I guess nothing can beat the appeal of “the KKK is OK until I found out they smoked pot” at that stage? For Bannon both Palin and Sessions were just stepping stone idiots (he indeed warned them they would lose if run)… and precious idiots (?) were saved for later.
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OT but what the heck:
Someone posted this ABC news link Lawmakers ask whether looming debt left Jared Kushner vulnerable to Russian influence earlier but I just got around to reading it. Yes, it certainly does appear that, after acquiescing and standing more in the shadows for a few months and probably watching and fuming over “wonder boy’s” access and tongue baths, Bannon is flexing his power and throwing Kushner (and with him, of course his wife) under the bus.
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, (which was founded by Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and funded in part by a Trump mega-donor, Rebekah Mercer), said the meeting “had conflict of interest written all over it.”
“You worry about a quid pro quo, you worry about Kushner getting some financial arrangement from a Russian financial institution, and you worry about White House policy being shaped in a way that benefits either those banks or Russia at large,” Schweizer told ABC News. “That’s the concern.”
Not even trying to hide it or be subtle.
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