ABC News’ mistake-prone Brian Ross doesn’t return from suspension as planned after botching report on Trump, Russia

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ABC News’ embattled chief investigative correspondent, Brian Ross, has not returned to work as scheduled Thursday, despite the end of his suspension for botching an “exclusive” report on Donald Trump and Russia.

Ross was placed on a four-week, unpaid suspension after he reported incorrectly on live television that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would testify that Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while Trump was still a candidate. The report raised the specter of Trump’s impeachment and sent the stock market plummeting.

After ABC was forced to retract the report, ABC News President James Goldston said on a staff conference call that he’d never felt more “rage, disappointment and frustration” in his entire career, and that Ross would never cover Trump again.

Today, an ABC News spokesperson declined to comment on whether Ross will ever be returning to work at all.

“Sounds like separation negotiations,” an industry insider told Fox News.

Just after Ross was suspended, President Trump told a crowd in Florida that Ross should have been fired.

“They took this fraudster from ABC,” Trump said. “They suspended him for a month. They should have fired him for what he wrote. He drove the stock market down 350 points in minutes, which by the way, tells you they really like me, right? When you think of it, and you know what he cost people? And I said to everybody get yourself a lawyer and sue ABC News, sue them

More at the link.

Excellent

and the DEMs keep condemning the new tax law ?

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...ash-may-buy-netflix/

According to reports, Apple is set to repatriate approximately $200 billion in foreign cash as a result of the GOP tax reform bill.

A GBH research note signals that Apple is set to bring back approximately $200 billion of its $252 billion foreign cash portfolio as a result of tax breaks that the company will now receive.

According to other reports, Apple will likely pay a 15 percent tax on any of the funds that are returned from overseas. “With over $250 billion stashed overseas, Apple stands to pay roughly $40 billion under the deemed repatriation provision of the new law,” the report reads.

The report argues that the GOP tax bill is quite friendly to international corporations such as Apple, allowing them to return foreign cash to the U.S. at a low tax rate.

Fighting the tax law is an absolute losing proposition for the dems, and I am heartened by the fact that they are following their own nonsense off a cliff. They literally are believing their own press. Fortunately the American people, no matter what the leftist propaganda masters keep telling them, will begin to see light next year. The democrats HATE this. They know it is a huge victory and they are still trying to trick people. Hopefully some people, not all, but some, will begin to see through the lies the dems keep spinning.

Kristian Saucier was sentenced last Friday to a year in prison for taking photos inside the nuclear sub on which he served. He took them, he said, to one day show to his family and his children, proud of his service. The prosecution never even questioned that he might have taken them for nefarious purposes. In other words-- James Comey-- he had no *intent* to commit a crime.

He just took six photos.

In the slammer for one year.

Hillary and Huma, on the other hand-- well, we all know that story. And nothing, nothing whatsoever, happens to them.

Jeff Session should be referred to as the AAG. Alleged Attorney General. --Though he did just do something or other to make it difficult to legalize pot. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

http://www.americanthinker.com...ristian_saucier.html

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Kristian Saucier was sentenced last Friday to a year in prison for taking photos inside the nuclear sub on which he served. He took them, he said, to one day show to his family and his children, proud of his service. The prosecution never even questioned that he might have taken them for nefarious purposes. In other words-- James Comey-- he had no *intent* to commit a crime.

He just took six photos.

In the slammer for one year.

Hillary and Huma, on the other hand-- well, we all know that story. And nothing, nothing whatsoever, happens to them.

Jeff Session should be referred to as the AAG. Alleged Attorney General. --Though he did just do something or other to make it difficult to legalize pot. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

http://www.americanthinker.com...ristian_saucier.html

Sessions is too busy going after states that legalized weed now.

Sessions is a coward. He is. He does not want to look "partisan", to the detriment of law and order. He was cowed into recusing himself for all matters "Russian" and to deflect his cowardice he keeps going after beaners. He needs to be fired. He is either turning a blind eye to political corruption because he is a coward, or he does not believe what Hillary and her cohorts did was illegal.

Either way he needs to be shown the door. He is no better than Holder or Lynch if he lets these crimes go unpunished. There is more than enough evidence to at least open an investigation. Finding a classified doc outside of the system should have immediately triggered that. And please, no "we don't know whats going on behind the scenes" garbage. If there was ANY investigation into this the deep state would have leaked it so their friends in the press could start running interference. There is no "secret" investigation because there is no investigation period. It is disgusting and pathetic that this man is the AG.

For a while I held out the hope that maybe- secretly-- he was really on the ball, and preparing to move against Comey, Abedin, Hillary, Obama, Lynch et alia.

But how long do you keep on hoping that something is happening for which there is no evidence or reason to believe might be the case?

These are the times that try men's souls-- and Jeff Sessions turns out to be a pathetic little man who is working to make it difficult to legalize pot. It would be funny if-- nope, never mind. There's no way it would even be funny.

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But how long do you keep on hoping that something is happening for which there is no evidence or reason to believe might be the case?

No evidence Sessions has made any moves to that end? Hmmmmm.......

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No evidence Sessions has made any moves to that end? Hmmmmm.......

Nope none. He won't touch political corruption at all. There is no "secret" plan here. There is no investigation. Rosenstein is a scumbag, just like Mueller, and they are running all over Sessions. Rosenstein is helping Mueller keep the "collusion" investigation alive because he was in on the uranium one deal with Mueller when he was head of the FBI. He needs to be fired.

The entire DOJ and FBI is corrupt and needs to be disbanded. There are NO good FBI agents. That is a fairytale. Period.

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Sessions is a coward. He is. He does not want to look "partisan", to the detriment of law and order. He was cowed into recusing himself for all matters "Russian" and to deflect his cowardice he keeps going after beaners. He needs to be fired. He is either turning a blind eye to political corruption because he is a coward, or he does not believe what Hillary and her cohorts did was illegal.

Either way he needs to be shown the door. He is no better than Holder or Lynch if he lets these crimes go unpunished. There is more than enough evidence to at least open an investigation. Finding a classified doc outside of the system should have immediately triggered that. And please, no "we don't know whats going on behind the scenes" garbage. If there was ANY investigation into this the deep state would have leaked it so their friends in the press could start running interference. There is no "secret" investigation because there is no investigation period. It is disgusting and pathetic that this man is the AG.

You don’t have any idea about what it takes to indict, take to trial and convict in a criminal case, much less one of this magnitude. And, if one is started, there is only one chance to get it right.

You can think what you want, of course. But for my evaluation, I might want to carefully evaluate a number of critical elements.

1. Who should head the prosecution team? Whoever does this will come out either the greatest lawyer of the century or a complete goat, if he doesn’t come out with guilty verdicts.

2. What evidence can be relied upon, admissible, believable, convincing evidence which will be there at trial, documents, witnesses, unimpeachable, memory intact, still alive?

3. What defenses might be interposed by what you must count on being the most impressive legal team in history, with no expenses spared to ruin the case, no holds barred, not matter what it takes, or how long it takes?

4. Where ought the case be brought? New York where the server and laptops were? Washington, DC? Where can you get a “fair trial.” Neither of those is ideal from a prosecution standpoint against the Democrat power couple and their acolytes.

5. Reviewing these and other less critical but perhaps decisive factors, and the devotion of resources which will be required, tying up courtrooms, prosecutors, researchers, clerks, FBI witnesses, travel, etc., are you confident of a conviction enough to devote these resources which can be used elsewhere perhaps to better effect?

You will say, but a crime was committed. Yes. Others have been convicted and ruined over offenses trivial in comparison. Yes. It still required the same standards, evidence beyond a reasonablecdoubt. All the defense has to do is inject reasonable doubt.

You decide.

Sigh. You are right, I have never prosecuted a case. But I know what the law is, and I know what it takes to break it. And it was broken.

Quit telling me "how tough" it is to prosecute, we aren't even there yet. How about an investigation first eh? One that should have been triggered AUTOMATICALLY when classed docs were found outside of the system. Lets start there.

Lets investigate, as would have been done IN ANY OTHER CASE, and we will see. Maybe then you can tell me about how tough prosecution is.

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Sigh. You are right, I have never prosecuted a case. But I know what the law is, and I know what it takes to break it. And it was broken.

Quit telling me "how tough" it is to prosecute, we aren't even there yet. How about an investigation first eh? One that should have been triggered AUTOMATICALLY when classed docs were found outside of the system. Lets start there.

Lets investigate, as would have been done IN ANY OTHER CASE, and we will see. Maybe then you can tell me about how tough prosecution is.

It’s worse than usual, because the head of the FBI went on national TV and told the breathless multitudes that no reasonable prosecutor would proceed based on what they had found in its thorough investigation. That video would be echoing in the jury room on a continuous loop.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Sigh. You are right, I have never prosecuted a case. But I know what the law is, and I know what it takes to break it. And it was broken.

Quit telling me "how tough" it is to prosecute, we aren't even there yet. How about an investigation first eh? One that should have been triggered AUTOMATICALLY when classed docs were found outside of the system. Lets start there.

Lets investigate, as would have been done IN ANY OTHER CASE, and we will see. Maybe then you can tell me about how tough prosecution is.

It’s worse than usual, because the head of the FBI went on national TV and told the breathless multitudes that no reasonable prosecutor would proceed based on what they had found in its thorough investigation. That video would be echoing in the jury room on a continuous loop.

At Comey's trial or hers?

IG Horowitz's Report is the first step. You can't talk about how the case was handled without talking about the case.

Isn't there a thread on Hillary's emails already? Post this shit there. Why the fuck are we screaming for the blood of a washed up old hag in a thread about Trump's administration? The only reason she is even in the news is because she wrote a silly book. Without the book, she would be forgotten already. She and Comey are of no threat or consequence to Trump's administration. Just leave Hillary alone. At least in this thread, anyway.

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Isn't there a thread on Hillary's emails already? Post this shit there.

...Just leave Hillary alone. At least in this thread, anyway.

Who put you in charge?

1. Dow Jones breaks 25,000 (first time ever)


2. In another move toward dismantling the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Labor announced a proposed rule to expand the offering of small business health plans, also known as association health plans. The proposed rule will be published Friday.

Under the proposal, small businesses and sole proprietors would have more freedom to band together to provide health insurance for employees.

The proposed rule applies only to employer-sponsored health insurance. This would allow employers to join together as a single group to purchase insurance in the large group market.

As proposed, the rule would:

Allow employers to form a Small Business Health Plan on the basis of geography or industry. A plan could serve employers in a state, city, county, or a multi-state metro area, or it could serve all the businesses in a particular industry nationwide;

Allow sole proprietors to join Small Business Health Plans, clearing a path to access health insurance for the millions of uninsured Americans who are sole proprietors or the family of sole proprietors.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...state-lines-n2430052

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Just leave Hillary alone. At least in this thread, anyway.

I dunno which side Para will come down on this topic, but my thinking is Hillary doesn't deserve to be left alone. Not here, not in the other thread, not anywhere, not ever. Fuck Hillary Clinton. May everyone who ever wants to shine a light on that evil bitches' traitorous acts do so loudly, and vigorously wherever appropriate. And given that our President is so inextricably linked to her fate, I would argue it's as appropriate here as anwhere else, even the dedicated thread. No need to swear at us about it.

EXCLUSIVE: House investigators will get access this week to “all remaining investigative documents” – in unredacted form – that they had sought as part of their Russia inquiry, under a deal between Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

The letter, from Nunes to Rosenstein, summarizes an “agreement” reached on a phone call Wednesday evening and also says key FBI and Justice Department witnesses in the probe will be provided for interviews later this month.

"It is my hope that this agreement will provide the Committee with all outstanding documents and witnesses necessary to complete its investigations," Nunes wrote.

The agreement comes after the DOJ and FBI faced a Wednesday deadline to comply, under the threat of new subpoenas and even contempt citations. Under deadline pressure, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Rosenstein met Wednesday with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to discuss the demands from the intelligence committee.

Nunes’ letter outlines the terms of the deal reached, as he seeks information that could shed light on whether the controversial anti-Trump “dossier” was used to open the Russia probe and justify surveillance on Trump campaign officials.

Nunes wrote that the committee is “extremely concerned by indications that top U.S. Government officials who were investigating a presidential campaign relied on unverified information that was funded by the opposing political campaign and was based on Russian sources.”

This is a reference to the dossier’s funding from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign. Opposition research firm Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the document, which contained salacious allegations about Trump.

The congressman originally issued subpoenas for related records on Aug. 24 that remain in effect, but the committee was stonewalled by the Justice Department and FBI for months.

Nunes said committee investigators and staff will now have access to all remaining documents during a review at the Justice Department on Friday.

According to the letter, committee investigators also will get access to eight key witnesses this month including FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who exchanged anti-Trump text messages during an affair and previously worked on the special counsel’s Russia probe; FBI general counsel James Baker, who was reassigned; FBI head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap, whom ex-FBI boss James Comey testified made the decision not to brief Congress about the Russia case during last year's election; and Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official reassigned after concealing meetings with figures involved in the dossier.

The witnesses are directly tied to allegations of political bias.

Nunes wrote that outstanding text messages between Strzok and Page will be delivered by Jan. 11.

The agreement could subject the DOJ and FBI to a level of scrutiny to which they are not accustomed.

"The FBI in particular is not used to having its inner discussions kind of brought to light, and I think that's of huge concern for probably people at the FBI," former Justice Department official Robert Driscoll said.


http://www.foxnews.com/politic...obe-letter-says.html