The House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jerry Nadler will vote on Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for a full,
unredacted copy of the nearly 400 page Mueller report,
according to CNN and the Wall Street Journal.
Nadler said Monday that he had scheduled a markup on Wednesday to authorize a subpoena for the Mueller report,
as well as the special counsel's underlying evidence.
CNN. Nadler's committee will also vote on whether to issue subpoenas for five former White House staffers;
Steve Bannon,
Hope Hicks,
Reince Priebus,
Don McGahn and Ann Donaldson - who Nadler claims may have received documents from the White House connected to the Mueller probe that would waive executive privilege.
On Friday,
Barr sent Nadler and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham a letter notifying them that he was working with Mueller to redact sensitive information which could affect ongoing matters - including grand jury material,
information that would infringe on someone's personal privacy or information which could compromise the DOJ's sources and methods of investigation,
and that the redacted report would be ready by mid-April "
If not sooner."
This wasn't good enough for Nadler,
who responded "
As I informed the Attorney General.Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report,
without redactions,
as well as access to the underlying evidence,
by April 2.
That deadline still stands."
"
We have an obligation to read the full report,
and the Department of Justice has an obligation to provide it,
in its entirely,
without delay.
If the department is unwilling to produce the full report voluntarily,
then we will do everything in our power to secure it for ourselves,"
wrote Nadler in a New York Times op-ed published Monday.
Top House Judiciary Republican Georgia Rep. Doug Collins has accused Nadler of trying to force Barr to "
Break the law by releasing the report without redactions."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-01/house-democrats-issue-subpoena-full-unredacted-mueller-report-and-underlying
As the crisis at our nation's southern border with Mexico worsens due to the unremitting flow of migrants from Central America,
President Trump decided late last week to cut aid to the three Central American countries that were contributing most to the problem - El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras.
Senator Bob Menendez,
D-N.J.,
who is the ranking Democrat on the Republican-chaired Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
said that President Trump's decision was "
Irresponsible"
and "
Reckless."
Senator Menendez claimed this action "
Shows the Administration still does not understand that the United States cuts foreign aid to Central America at our own peril."
He added that "
President Trump reportedly wants to make matters worse by blocking resources for programs that get to the root causes of this humanitarian crisis."
"
As we visit El Salvador evaluating the importance of U.S. assistance to Central America to address the root causes of family and child migration,"
they stated in their letter, "
We are extremely disappointed to learn that President Trump intends to cut off aid to the region.
The President's approach is entirely counterproductive.
It will only result in more children and families being forced to make the dangerous journey north to the U.S.-Mexico border.
We will work with our colleagues in Congress to do everything in our power to push back on the President's misguided approach to Central America."
The open border liberals'
answer to the Central American migration surge is to throw more good money after bad at the hopelessly corrupt and dysfunctional governments running the three countries and hope vainly for the best.
Vicki Gass,
senior policy adviser for Central America and Mexico at the Oxfam charity,
is representative of the misguided view that continuing foreign aid at present levels to these countries is imperative.
Former President Obama called the influx of unaccompanied immigrant children entering the United States during his second term a "
Humanitarian crisis."
He believed that more foreign aid to address the Central American countries'
economic and social problems would ameliorate the problem and he embarked on a program to do just that.
The three Central American countries are doing nothing to stop the caravans.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273342/trump-cuts-aid-three-unhelpful-central-american-joseph-klein
Once on air,
Clapper would insist that Trump was both a Russian asset and thus guilty of collusion crimes greater than those of Watergate.
Brennan in 2016 also reached out to foreign intelligence services,
primary British and Australian,
to surveille and entrap Trump aides,
as a way of circumventing rules preventing CIA monitoring of American citizens.
So are many of the Russian sources that he claims he had contacted to solicit dirt on Donald Trump and his campaign aides.
It is likely that to disguise American intelligence agencies'
efforts to besmirch,
surveille,
and leak to the press damaging unfounded rumors about the Trump campaign that John Brennan enlisted an entire cadre of foreign nationals.
He seems to have been in contact with the media before the election and he may have been one of many FBI officials and contacts,
along with Christopher Steele,
that reporters such as David Corn,
Michael Isikoff,
and Julia Ioffe anonymously referenced in their pre-election published hit pieces on Russian collusion-all the result of the successful strategies of Fusion GPS,
along with some in the FBI,
to seed unverified anti-Trump gossip to warp the election.
Finally,
if their initial efforts were predicated on winning not just exemption from the law,
but even promotions and kudos from a grateful President Hillary Clinton,
their subsequent energies at removing Trump and investing in the collusion hoax were preemptive and defensive.
Seeding the collusion hoax was a way either of removing Trump who had the presidential power to call them all to account for their illegality,
or at least causing so much media chaos and political havoc that their own crimes and misdemeanors would be forgotten by becoming submerged amid years of scandal,
conspiracies,
and media sensationalism.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/31/the-tables-turn-in-russian-collusion-hunt/
Congressional Democrats are committing a grave political blunder by continuing to push Russia conspiracy theories and insinuating that Attorney General William Barr is perpetrating a cover-up by complying with the law in his handling of the Mueller report.
Several polls conducted since the Mueller probe ended suggest that most Americans believe the President is innocent of wrongdoing and that the Democrats are merely playing politics.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll,
for example,
found that two-thirds of registered voters want Congress to accept the special counsel's finding and forego any further investigations.
The survey of 1,437 registered voters,
which was first reported by the Hill,
asked respondents the following question: "
Should the Democrats in Congress accept the finding of the special counsel or contest the finding and do another investigation?"
No fewer than 68 percent of the voters answered, "
Accept finding."
The survey also found that 64 percent of voters are themselves willing to accept the conclusions reached by the Mueller report,
and 61 percent personally agree with them.
The survey asked 1,002 adults, "
Do you think the investigation into possible dealings between Trump associates and Russia was justified,
or was the investigation politically motivated?"
Fully 54 percent answered, "
Politically motivated."
Predictably,
CBS buried this datum deep in its article on the poll.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 31%
of all Likely U.S. Voters think congressional Democrats should do their own investigation even though the Mueller probe has failed to prove that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
It's one of the rare questions in the first two years of the Trump presidency in which a majority of independents sided with Republicans instead of Democrats on a subject.
https://spectator.org/voters-agree-with-trump-on-russia-probe/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=55694a78e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_01_04_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-55694a78e5-104520165
A new study by Pew Research reveals that 18%
of migrants in the world live in the U.S. This is an astonishing number,
given the grief the U.S. gets from nations around the world - and the left in this country - for not doing enough to solve the migrant crisis.
Overall,
44.5 million people in the U.S. is foreign born - the highest percentage since 1910.
The 44.5 million foreign-born population living in the country marks a nearly 108-year record high of immigration to the U.S. That 44.5 million includes roughly 22 million naturalized citizens,
11 million other residents - including more than 1.5 million foreign temporary visa-workers - plus about 11 million illegal aliens.
The last time the U.S. foreign-born population was this high was in 1910 when immigrants made up 14.7 percent of the total country's population.
Four million young Americans enter the workforce every year,
but their job opportunities are further diminished as the U.S. imports roughly two new foreign workers for every four American workers who enter the workforce.
Even though researchers say 30 percent of the workforce could lose their jobs due to automation by 2030,
the U.S. has not stopped importing more than a million foreign nationals every year.
If you listen to mass immigration advocates around the world,
you'd think the U.S. wasn't doing its fair share to address the migrant crisis.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/pew_nearly_20_of_worlds_migrant_population_lives_in_the_us.html
The multi-generational ignorance of Democrat Party leaders was on display over the weekend,
and it is glorious.
First up was the elderly face of the Democrat Party,
80 year-old Maxine Waters,
who was apparently off her meds and went off into a dementia-driven rant during an interview at the NAACP's Image Awards.
She then clearly demonstrated she has no clue about the size of the Mueller report,
saying "
No matter what has been revealed thus far and there's only four pages of what appears to be a report of about,
maybe somewhere between 3,000,
4,000 pages."
Oh. For accuracy's sake,
pretty much every media outlet in America has reported that Mueller's report consists of about 300 pages,
so Waters was only off by a factor of about 10,
which is far closer than she normally gets to the reality of any given situation.
No matter what this report is thus far,
we have seen enough.
We have seen right before our very eyes the obstruction of justice in so many ways."
Oh. Ok. So it's absolutely,
100%
mandatory that you see the whole report and all of its documentation,
but you've seen enough already,
and really don't need to see any of it at all.
"
We are dealing with a crisis of how our economy is made up.
Our economy is increasingly financialized.
Which means we're making profits off of interest and off of leasing your phones,
off of doing all these things,
but we're not producing and we're not innovating in the way we need to as an economy."
What AOC and Mad Maxine show us is that abject ignorance and despicable mendacity are not things bound by age,
generation or personal experience.
Which precisely describes the basic working model for today's Democrat Party.
https://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2019/04/01/aoc-and-mad-maxine-the-prophets-of-democrat-mendacity-and-ignorance/
The end of the Special Counsel's investigation into the non-existent conspiracy between President Donald Trump and the Russians has created an army of "
Mueller Truthers,"
demanding additional investigations.
The real work was to insert the dossier into American media and intelligence organizations to prevent Trump from winning the election.
To then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe the material was uncorroborated and had been compiled by Steele,
who wanted it used to stop Trump.
The FBI immediately opened an unprecedented investigation called Crossfire Hurricane into the Trump campaign.
The FBI needed something as backup,
so their investigation into Trump,
now focused on the FISA surveillance,
could be said not to have rested entirely on the dubious Steele dossier.
There has been no discussion of why,
in possession of information showing the Russians were running a global full-court press to recruit inside Trump's inner circle,
Trump was never offered a defensive briefing.
It would be easy to dismiss all this as a wacky conspiracy theory if it wasn't in fact the counter-explanation to the even wackier,
disproved theory that Trump was a Russian asset.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-primordial-ooze-of-the-collusion-conspiracy/
