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consortium of news organizations. ukraines president zelenskyy is on "the verge of disaster" with ukrainian and russian forces saying the other is about to stage a nuclear incident at zaporizhzhia with russia telling its operators today not to report to work. and well look at the surprising senate race in pennsylvania. one of a handful of match-ups, key match-ups where democrat candidates are beating expectations in recent polls and republican leaders suggesting its donald trumps f...

addressed the media calling the attack an affront to democracy and freedom to speech. the suspect, a man in his 40s, was arrested on the spot, in possession of what nhk is describing as a handmade gun. he made no attempt to flee before being swarmed by the security detail. witnesses say abe was shot from behind, he didnt collapse after the first shot, but did collapse after the second shot before receiving cpr. while controversial figure here in japan at times, abe is an incredibly imp...

Searching the property. the fbi is concerned about that because they dont want the faces of their agents to be broadcast. they asked news organizations to blur those faces in the event that happens. what im getting from the trump team is what may their defense be? they said the president declassified these documents, but that doesnt explain why government records would be taken to mar-a-lago, why thats okay. i would be interested in anything that the lawyers have for why it was okay for the pres...

Mouth, which is the key really to potential progress by the department of justice, attributing knowledge to the president at key junctures, he should be able to do that, but we also may have to manage our expectations because as it has been reported, the committee has agreed to place limits on what mr. cipollone will testify to, including direct conversations with the president, which is kind of where the rubber hits the road here. we have to see how it all shakes out. but fingers crossed that w...

They subpoenaed apple for the records of white house counsel don mcgahn back in 2018, according to two people familiar with this. this is while don mcgahn was still white house counsel in that white house. they informed don mcgahn and his wife, by the way, of the subpoenas just last month. he does join a growing list of people who had their data seized, a list that also includes the people you see on the screen right here, democratic lawmakers adam schiff and eric swalwell, both trump critics, a...

Its fara. its not an area of the law you hear a lot about. the implications are high for our democracy and frankly for mr. giuliani. now, david loftman knows this corner of the law well. he oversaw enforcement of this law for the d.o.j. and now helps clients navigate this framework. lets start macro and get micro. why do we care about this? you look at how often its used. its discreet. its a regular with flynn. it was a political gotcha, we were told. why does it matter, this area of the law? >>...

>> i can see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesnt fire bob mueller, just reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. >> today, the person who wrote all those things and said all those things attacking the special counsels office and proposing ways to destroy their investigation or stop it in its tracks, today, that person got a new job. he will now be in charge of overseeing the robert mueller investi...

Proposing ways to destroy their investigation or stop it in its tracks, today, that person got a new job. he will now be in charge of overseeing the robert mueller investigation. when the president fired attorney general jeff sessions, he did not allow sessions deputy, rod rosenstein, to become the acting attorney general, which would be the normal course of events. he instead installed matt whitaker, who used to have a job as a full-time pundit, railing against the mueller investigation. he, as...

His name is david loftman. he served in the department of justice under republican and democratic administration. before he stepped down from the justice department in february of this year, he served in the national security division at doj. he was the chief of the counter intelligence and export control section in the national security division. now, in that capacity he oversaw investigations you might have heard of like the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and before special counsel rober...

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