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Fmr. CIA head On Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump & ‘kompromat’ | The Last Word | MSNBC
Fmr. Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin tells Ari Melber that Cohen's guilty plea reveals Russia's compromising information on Donald Trump and describes the revelations as "the seeds of blackmail." Malcolm Nance and Ruth Marcus join the discussion.
Lifting Russian Sanctions Key To Trump Deal Exposed By Michael Cohen | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Rachel Maddow shows how the Trump Organization's continued pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow deal into the 2016 campaign, exposed by Michael Cohen this week, explains Donald Trump's soft stance on sanctioning Russian entities, including the bank that would finance the Trump Tower deal. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
Charles Pierce | Trump Can't Control the Process Anymore. It's Unraveling on Him.
 30 November 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News
Charles Pierce | Trump Can't Control the Process Anymore. It's Unraveling on Him.
 Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "Michael Cohen's latest plea is a sign Robert Mueller is turning the screw." READ MORE  Donald Trump Jr. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Donald Trump Jr. May Face Legal Peril After Cohen Admits Lying to Congress
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK Swaine writes: "Donald Trump's eldest son and other associates of the president may be at greater risk of prosecution after Robert Mueller, the special counsel, showed he is willing to criminally charge people for lying to Congress." READ MORE  Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker. (photo: Getty)
Whitaker Fielded Early Fraud Complaints From Customers at Patent Company Yet Promoted It for Years, Records Show
Carol D. Leonnig, Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Months after joining the advisory board of a Miami-based patent company in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker began fielding angry complaints from customers that they were being defrauded, including from a client who showed up at his Iowa office to appeal to him personally for help, records show." READ MORE  ICE officers. (photo: AP)
Here's Another Story About the Abject Evil That Is Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Paul Blest, Splinter News Blest writes: "For most of the past year, Samuel Oliver-Bruno lived in the basement of a Methodist church in Durham, NC, in order to avoid deportation. Oliver-Bruno left that church last week in order to attend a scheduled meeting with immigration authorities in a nearby town." READ MORE  Assembly line workers. (photo: Fortune)
General Motors Job Cuts: A Harbinger of the Next Crash
Larry Beinhart, Al Jazeera Beinhart writes: "The job cuts announced by GM and the shrinking of the industrial base are the bells tolling for the next crash." READ MORE  A rally in support of those waiting to claim asylum in the U.S. (photo: Reuters)
Shows of Solidarity With Migrant Caravan Amid US Tear Gas
teleSUR Excerpt: "Protesters supporting the migrant caravan in Tijuana, Mexico marched next to the border wall with Mexico in San Diego, California to show their solidarity." READ MORE  A whale surfaces off the coast of Australia. (photo: John Goodridge/ABC)
Trump Administration OKs Seismic Tests That Could Harm Many Thousands of Dolphins, Whales
Darryl Fears, The Washington Post Fears writes: "The Trump administration is preparing to take an important step toward future oil and natural-gas drilling off the Atlantic shore, approving five requests from companies to conduct deafening seismic tests that could kill tens of thousands of dolphins, whales and other marine animals." READ MORE Update My Monthly Donation |
FOCUS: Bob Bauer | Roger Stone's 'Time in the Barrel': Campaign Dirty Tricks, Political Sabotage and the Law
30 November 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!
FOCUS: Bob Bauer | Roger Stone's 'Time in the Barrel': Campaign Dirty Tricks, Political Sabotage and the Law
 Bob Bauer, Lawfare
EXCERPT:
He [Segretti] was indicted for violating a provision of the 1971 federal campaign finance law that required that campaign literature distributed “in connection with a candidate’s campaign” but without the candidate’s authorization carry a notice to that effect, making clear that the named candidate was “not responsible” for its content.
The violation of this transparency requirement was enough to support a prosecution, but Congress later concluded that it needed to enact a more detailed prohibition of acts of political “sabotage.” The counterfeiting of campaign literature for which Segretti went to jail was just a means to the larger end of disrupting an opposing campaign. The 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act included a ban on "fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority." The statute prohibits agents of a campaign from falsely misrepresenting themselves as acting on behalf of another, “on a matter which is damaging to such other candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof.” The nub of the new offense was the use of underhanded means to undermine the opposition. This was the purpose of the Nixon campaign’s sabotage operations: “[T]o throw the Democratic party into confusion,” to “sow confusion and discontent among Mr. Nixon’s opponents.”
Bauer writes: "News reports increasingly suggest that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is circling around Roger Stone and his associates in the Russia matter and that the legality of his 'dirty tricks' is very much in question." READ MORE Update My Monthly Donation |
Michael Cohen Plea Shocker Exposes Trump Camp Lies About Russia Dealings | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Rachel Maddow reports on Michael Cohen's surprise new plea deal with Robert Mueller and what it tells us about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia during the 2016 campaign while Russia was attacking the U.S. election to help Trump. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
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