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Gowdy Just Dropped Some Hints About What’s in Secret FISA Memo By Leah Barkoukis Townhall January 29, 2018 Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs, said Sunday he wants the two FBI officials whose anti-Trump text messages were revealed to testify before lawmakers. He also dropped some hints about what’s in the secret FISA memo. To start, Gowdy commented on the FBI officials’ messages that showed they “hated” then-candidate Donald Trump. He wants answers as to whether their positions were powerful enough to have actually affected the election. Continue Reading…..

Graham: FISA memo should not be released now By Julia Manchester TheHill January 29, 2018 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday he does not believe a classified memo purported to list Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the U.S. government should be released now. “No, I don’t want it released yet,” Graham told ABC’s “This Week.” “I want somebody outside of the Republican-led Congress to look at these allegations,” he said. Continue Reading…..

Mike Pence’s Holocaust Day message with ‘Christ imagery’ sparks Jewish outrage haaretz.com January 28, 2018 U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been excoriated on Twitter by Jews offended by what they view as his use of “Christ imagery” when memorializing Hitler’s victims on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Pence tweeted a video of him and his wife Karen laying a wreath and taking a tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem during their visit to Israel last week. In the tweet, he paid tribute to what he called the “6 million Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust who…

Jeff Sessions weathers turbulent year as attorney general AP News January 28, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeff Sessions was in his office, looking unusually deflated. He had just received another public lashing from President Donald Trump. Trump had browbeaten his attorney general for months after Sessions’ decision to step aside from the intensifying Russia investigation. Never mind that Sessions has proved fiercely devoted to his boss, carrying out Trump’s agenda while giving him credit every step of the way. Trump was unforgiving. Continue Reading…..

Rancher Cliven Bundy, recently freed, sues Nevada and Clark County Fox News January 28, 2018 Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was recently cleared of federal charges and freed from jail, is now turning his sights on state and county government. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Bundy’s lawsuit filed Thursday in Clark County District Court claims that former President Barack Obama’s late 2016 establishment of Gold Butte National Monument was “as illegal as it is unlawful” and would preclude him from continuing to function on his land and destroy his livelihood. Continue Reading…..

Mueller ‘should look at’ whether Trump lied on desire to fire special counsel: Starr ABC News January 28, 2018 The former independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton said President Donald Trump can fire special counsel Robert Mueller “for any reason.” But the former counsel, Ken Starr, also told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that Mueller should “look at” whether Trump lied to the public about wanting to fire the special counsel. Starr said he takes “very seriously” any possibility that the president may have misled the public when he told reporters last August that he…

The Politics of Race and the Photo That Might Have Derailed Obama The New Yorker January 28, 2018 It’s useful, almost ten years after his election to the Presidency, to recall how much of the opposition to Barack Obama during his first run for that office was conducted via image, and the promise—or, really, the threat—of images to come. The way he looked was inextricable from the rest of his appeal as a potential leader, and so, perhaps, a game of subliminal, symbolic tit for tat was to be expected. The latter months of Hillary Clinton’s losing 2008…

Republican lawmakers consider need to protect Mueller By Mallory Shelbourne TheHill January 28, 2018 Republican lawmakers on Sunday grappled with the potential need to protect special counsel Robert Mueller in light of a report that said President Trump called for his firing last year. Hosts on the Sunday shows questioned lawmakers about the revelations in The New York Times report and what they mean for the investigation into Russia’s election interference and any potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Continue Reading…..

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Can Woody Allen Work in Hollywood Again? By Melena Ryzik and Brooks Barnes New York Times January 28, 2018 Hollywood says it’s done with Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Kevin Spacey and other figures ousted for misconduct through the #MeToo movement. But what about Woody Allen? His film distributor, Amazon, the presenters of his musical “Bullets Over Broadway,” and colleagues are now grappling with renewed scrutiny of allegations that Mr. Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992 when she was a child. Mr. Allen has steadfastly denied the claims and was not charged. But at a moment…