Miles Archer
Miles Archer's JournalWOW! Looks like Trump will meet with China's Xi Jinping on a FOUR DAY Mar-A-Lago weekend! #MAGA!
Unless, of course, he meets with him on Thursday and Friday and comes back to the White House for a hard-workin' weekend.http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/donald-trump-xi-jinping-to-meet/index.html
(CNN)Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on April 6 and 7, the two nations' governments have announced.
It will be the first meeting between the two men in what many argue is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, and it comes amid heightened tensions in Asia.
Trump has said in recent weeks that North Korea is one of the biggest security challenges he faces as president and has called on China to rein in Pyongyang, which US officials believe is preparing for another nuclear test.
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea and China's continued building of man-made islands are also likely to be on the agenda, as will be the trade relationship between the two countries.
Mother Jones: The Trump "Dossier" Is Looking More Credible All the Time
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/dossier-looking-more-credible-all-time
....I understand — from former officials — that from 2013-16, Steele gave the US government extensive information on Russia and Ukraine....One former senior official who saw these reports told me: "It was found to be of value by the people whose job it was to look at Russia every day"....Another who dealt with this material in government said: "Sometimes he would get spun by somebody. But it was always 80% there."...In light of his earlier work, the US intelligence community saw him as "credible" (their highest praise).
....Members of the Obama administration believe, based on analysis they saw from the intelligence community, that the information exchange claimed by Steele continued into the election.
"This is a three-headed operation," said one former official, setting out the case, based on the intelligence: Firstly, hackers steal damaging emails from senior Democrats. Secondly, the stories based on this hacked information appear on Twitter and Facebook, posted by thousands of automated "bots", then on Russia's English-language outlets, RT and Sputnik, then right-wing US "news" sites such as Infowars and Breitbart, then Fox and the mainstream media. Thirdly, Russia downloads the online voter rolls.
The voter rolls are said to fit into this because of "microtargeting". Using email, Facebook and Twitter, political advertising can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters....This would take co-operation with the Trump campaign, it is claimed.
2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports
Source: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/
WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.
The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.
Mr. Nunes has also been faulted by his congressional colleagues for sharing the information with President Trump before consulting with other members of the intelligence committee.
The congressman has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe coming to the committee with sensitive information. He first disclosed the existence of the intelligence reports on March 22, and in his public comments he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.
Read more: New York Times
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback vetoes Medicaid expansion bill
Source: Raw Story
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Thursday vetoed a bill expanding eligibility for Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), saying he could not support legislation that provided tax dollars to Planned Parenthood.
State lawmakers in the Republican-controlled senate voted in favor of the measure on Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal and replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare, ended with the bill being pulled from a vote.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/kansas-governor-sam-brownback-vetoes-medicaid-expansion-bill/
DeVos: Picking a school should be like choosing among Uber, Lyft or a taxi
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/847482879684730881https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/847373532543688705
Ryan: Trump was "very apologetic" for promoting Fox show that called on me to resign
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/paul-ryan-donald-trump-jeanine-pirro-236686
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that President Donald Trump was "very apologetic" after promoting a television segment during which Fox News host Jeanine Pirro called on Ryan to step down for failing to deliver enough votes to pass Republican's Obamacare replacement bill.
“He actually was very apologetic,” Ryan said on "CBS This Morning" about Trump's endorsement of the program, during which Pirro also said Trump was not to blame for the American Health Care Act's failure. “He said, 'I had no idea she was going to talk about that. I thought she was going to talk about something else.'”
“So, really, it was completely coincidental,” he said, adding that Trump told him that he expected Pirro would deliver a monologue about Russia.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted to his followers to watch Pirro's show, sharing the time and channel on which the program would air hours before Pirro delivered a blistering opening monologue calling for Ryan's resignation. White House press secretary Sean Spicer this week defended Trump for promoting Pirro’s program, saying that he was only promoting it as "a fan of the show, plain and simple.”
Trump floats changing libel laws, because, you know, failing NYT has gotten him wrong for two years
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/847455180912181249Ahead of Senate open hearing on Trump/Russia ties, Putin calls meddling claims "lies"
https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/847449402939592704
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