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September 21, 2017

24 posts · Thursday

McConnell Could Schedule Health Care Vote Anyway

September 21, 2017 at 7:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “It’s still anyone’s guess whether the bill’s backers can get to 50 votes. One Republican senator suggested that McConnell may ultimately decide to bring the bill up for another failed vote, in part to show GOP donors and President Trump that the Senate GOP tried again.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was quoted by the Associated Press: “We’re going to vote. Everybody will be held accountable.”

Spicer’s Notebooks Could Be a ‘Honey Pot’ for Mueller

September 21, 2017 at 6:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Mike Allen: “Now we can tell you about another potential honey pot for Mueller. Former colleagues of Sean Spicer tell Axios that he filled ‘notebook after notebook’ during meetings at the Republican National Committee, later at the Trump campaign, and then at the White House.”

“When Spicer worked at the RNC, he was said to have filled black books emblazoned with the party’s seal. Spicer was so well-known for his copious notes that underlings joked about him writing a tell-all.”

Said one source: “Sean documented everything.”

Does Body Language Tell Us If GOP Has the Votes?

September 21, 2017 at 6:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

As Republicans scramble to find the 50 votes they need to pass the latest Senate health care bill, CNN did some body-language analysis using video of the Senate floor last night.

‘Stop the Hammering!’

September 21, 2017 at 6:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Someone leaked outtakes from the filming of MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell’s show on Aug. 29, 2017.

In the collected clips, O’Donnell is absolutely irate at his staff over an apparent equipment malfunction, swearing under his breath and demanding to know who’s to blame.

Jimmy Kimmel Explains the Graham-Cassidy Bill

September 21, 2017 at 6:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

After Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) suggested Jimmy Kimmel “didn’t understand” the latest GOP health care bill, Kimmel did his best to explain it.

Bharara Details Trump’s Inappropriate Communications

September 21, 2017 at 6:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Preet Bharara, the US attorney who President Trump fired just three months into his presidency, said on his new podcast that he believes that if he had stayed Trump would have asked him “to do something inappropriate.”

Said Bharara: “I believe based on the information that we have on the president talking to Jim Comey relating to Michael Flynn, the information about the president talking to Jeff Sessions about the case of Joe Arpaio, and how he wanted both of those cases to go away — that had I not been fired, and had Donald Trump continued to cultivate a direct personal relationship with me, it’s my strong belief that at some point, given the history, the President of the United States would have asked me to do something inappropriate.”