October 15, 2019

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It's time to impeach Trump via @YouTube

October 15, 2019

When John Bolton emerges as the hero of the story, you know the rest of the cast are some real....

yup!!



When John Bolton emerges as the hero of the story, you know the rest of the cast are some real next level villains. https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/

https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1184115721611161600?s=20



https://twitter.com/Bagonuts627/status/1184116981122785281?s=20

October 15, 2019

"talks between France and the U.S. are focusing on the need to prevent a re-emergence of the IS'....

I imagine European leaders are horrified of IS re-emerging. Damn, Trump has created a problem for the whole Mother earth!




https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/the-latest-us-forces-leave-manbij-as-syrian-forces-move/article_4d91dffe-b0f4-5ffd-8b68-d88b211cd467.html

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3:00 p.m.

French diplomatic officials say talks between France and the U.S. are focusing on the need to prevent a re-emergence of the Islamic State group amid the violence in Syria.

According to two officials with his office, President Emmanuel Macron spoke with President Donald Trump in a phone call Monday, insisting on the threat posed by Turkey's offensive in northeast Syria to the whole region and Europe.

The officials say France's priority is to issue a strong, coordinated diplomatic response in order to put pressure on Turkey so that the country ends its offensive in northern Syria.

The officials spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity.

Macron also spoke to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday in a discussion that "underlined the deep divergence of views", Macron's office said.

October 15, 2019

Mitch McConnell continues to confirm federal judges. Their lifetime appointments will long outlast

This really is the horrible part of everything--Mitch continues on and on.


Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
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Narrator: as Trump’s presidency goes into a tailspin, Mitch McConnell continues to confirm federal judges. Their lifetime appointments will long outlast this presidency & control the tenor of American life for a generation. Menashi is only 40.
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1184079435840012288?s=20

October 15, 2019

Scrambling to limit damage, Trump tells Turkey to stop its Syria invasion--Pence in this up to his

nose!!





October 14, 2019 / 3:17 PM / Updated 19 minutes ago

Scrambling to limit damage, Trump tells Turkey to stop its Syria invasion


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa-sanctions/scrambling-to-limit-damage-trump-tells-turkey-to-stop-its-syria-invasion-idUSKBN1WT2DU

Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk

4 Min Read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from his much-criticized decision to clear U.S. troops from Turkey’s path.

Vice President Mike Pence said Trump had told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Monday to agree to an immediate ceasefire. He also said he would travel to the region soon to try to mediate the crisis.

Pence said Trump had been firm with Erdogan on the phone.

Related Coverage

Syrian Kurdish-led authority: 275,000 displaced by Turkish offensive
U.S. coalition: 'We are out' of Syria's Manbij


“The United States of America simply is not going to tolerate Turkey’s invasion in Syria any further. We are calling on Turkey to stand down, end the violence and come to the negotiating table,” Pence told reporters.

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October 15, 2019

Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani 'a Hand Grenade'

Source: nytimes




Published Oct. 14, 2019 Updated Oct. 15, 2019, 6:11 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday.

Mr. Bolton got into a tense exchange on July 10 with Gordon D. Sondland, the Trump donor turned ambassador to the European Union, who was working with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats, according to three people who heard the testimony.

The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony.

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition. (Another person in the room initially said Mr. Bolton referred to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Mulvaney, but two others said he cited Mr. Sondland.)

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The testimony revealed in a powerful way just how divisive Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to extract damaging information about Democrats from Ukraine on President Trump’s behalf were within the White House. Ms. Hill, the senior director for European and Russian affairs, testified that Mr. Giuliani and his allies circumvented the usual national security process to run their own foreign policy efforts, leaving the president’s official advisers aware of the rogue operation yet powerless to stop it............................

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/bolton-giuliani-fiona-hill-testimony.html

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https://twitter.com/ProudResister/status/1183949183843127296?s=20








Subpoenas and Requests for Evidence
in the Trump Impeachment Inquiry

By Weiyi Cai and Alicia ParlapianoUpdated Oct. 14, 2019, 2:10 p.m. ET

House Democrats have been issuing near-daily requests or subpoenas for documents and witness testimony as a part of their impeachment investigation into President Trump. The White House announced that it would not cooperate with the inquiry, but despite the administration's orders, some current State Department employees have decided to comply with the House's requests.



Complied with requests

Fiona Hill

Former Trump adviser on Russia

Marie L. Yovanovitch

Former ambassador to Ukraine

Joseph Maguire

Acting director of national intelligence

Kurt D. Volker

Former special envoy to Ukraine



Have not complied :

The White House

Mike Pompeo

Secretary of state

T. Ulrich Brechbuhl

State Department counselor

Igor Fruman

Giuliani associate

Lev Parnas

Giuliani associate


Pending

Gordon D. Sondland

Ambassador to the E.U.

George P. Kent

Deputy assistant secretary of state

Rick Perry

Energy secretary

Rudolph W. Giuliani

Trump’s personal lawyer

Mike Pence

Vice president

Mark T. Esper

Defense secretary

Russell T. Vought

Acting budget director

Semyon Kislin

Giuliani associate

The impeachment investigation was launched after a whistle-blower complaint alleged that President Trump abused his power for political gain by pressuring Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/04/us/politics/president-trump-impeachment-inquiry.html










https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1183939919095443458?s=20

October 15, 2019

Trump says he wants to mediate between the Kurds and the Turks was the banner running

on msnbc a few minutes ago.

Gawd. has that man no brains at all?? or just plain mushy Ego for brains. BTW--our troops are in the midst of this war and the road is blocked. damn

October 14, 2019

Jubilant ISIS Prisoners Hail American Liberators

Actually, it was Trumps irrational decisions, without consulting anyone, even the Pentagon, that caused the liberation of IS members. Let that sink in!!



Jubilant ISIS Prisoners Hail American Liberators https://trib.al/bskV3DK
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1183806943682584576?s=20

October 14, 2019

CBO says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's drug pricing plan saves Medicare $345 billion over decade

Source: cnbc.com






Key Points

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to lower prescription drug prices would save Medicare $345 billion over 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis from the CBO.
The greatest savings would come in 2028 at $93 billion, according to the federal agency.



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to lower prescription drug prices would save Medicare $345 billion over 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The savings wouldn’t begin until 2023, assuming the bill gets passed by both the House and Senate and signed by President Donald Trump before the end of this year, the CBO said in the report released late Friday. The greatest savings would come in 2028 at $93 billion, according to the CBO, an independent agency that reviews congressional spending.

The CBO said the largest savings would come from the provision that allows Medicare to negotiate lower prices on as many as 250 of the most expensive drugs per year and apply those discounts to private health plans across the U.S. The legislation includes a penalty on pharmaceutical companies that refuse to negotiate or fail to reach an agreement with the U.S. government, starting at 65% of the gross sales of the drug in question.


The lower prices under the legislation would immediately lower current and expected future revenues for pharmaceutical companies, according to the CBO. The plan would also alter drug manufacturers’ incentives and have broad effects on the drug market, the CBO said................................................

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/nancy-pelosis-drug-pricing-plan-would-save-medicare-345-billion-cbo.html

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1183765662138880001?s=20

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Improve Obamacare, no need to reinvent health care

October 14, 2019

Parlimamentarian ruled Rep Schiff was correct in Kicking GOP Matt Gaetz OUT of Fiona Hill despositio

Gaetz is a spoiled little school yard brat!


Rep. Matt Gaetz says Adam Schiff kicked him out of the Fiona Hill deposition.

https://twitter.com/jeremyherb/status/1183759953087074307?s=20

Gaetz says that the question was put before the House parliamentarian, who sided with Schiff that Gaetz should not attend

https://twitter.com/jeremyherb/status/1183761639113277447?s=20


https://twitter.com/Guitarlord34/status/1183762732945797120?s=20


https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1183770654207819777?s=20