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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 10:47 AM May 2017

House leaders worry more meetings secretly recorded

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by DonViejo (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Axios

House Republican leadership is agitated after the Washington Post published a transcript from a secret recording of one of the inner-sanctum conversations in the office of Speaker Paul Ryan.

The transcript shows House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy joking with his colleagues that then-candidate Trump and California Republican Dana Rohrabacher were both on the payroll of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"The unknown is frustrating," said one senior GOP aide, referring to the possibility that this wasn't the only private leadership conversation that was secretly recorded.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/house-leadership-worry-more-of-their-meetings-were-secretly-recorded-2413142464.html



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I believe the Republican mantra is: "if you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to fear".
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House leaders worry more meetings secretly recorded (Original Post) brooklynite May 2017 OP
Please, oh please... More tapes! deurbano May 2017 #1
Loyalty, greed, and oppression above country. Today's republican party. ffr May 2017 #2
Locking... DonViejo May 2017 #3

deurbano

(3,008 posts)
1. Please, oh please... More tapes!
Fri May 19, 2017, 10:51 AM
May 2017

ffr

(23,448 posts)
2. Loyalty, greed, and oppression above country. Today's republican party.
Fri May 19, 2017, 10:53 AM
May 2017

The deadly sins that will come back to bite them.

They should all resign or be forced to resign. Despicable!

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
3. Locking...
Fri May 19, 2017, 10:53 AM
May 2017

According to Axios, the article was published 19 hrs ago, posted on LBN Fri May 19, 2017, 10:47 AM. Over 12 hours old.

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