GIGANTIC story coming #TrumpRussia within the next hour. Yuge. Bigly.

[L. Coyote]

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UPDATE:

LBN: FBI Director James Comey Tried To Reveal Russian Tampering Months Before Election

GD: Comey Tried to Reveal Russian Plot Before Election

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[FakeNoose]

1. Gotta see this - staying home tomorrow!

[jmg257]

12. Anyone interesting in the hearings tomorrow?

[L. Coyote]

22. We'll need an official five-star LIVE thread ***** for sure.

[Amaryllis]

44. Witnesses scheduled for Senate Intel public hearings tomorrow:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028869453

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Damn! Starting tomorrow?!? Sounds like they got their shit together . . .

I think I feel the flu coming on . . . may have to miss work . . . cough . . . cough . . .

[L. Coyote]

45. Imagine the news cycle tomorrow night. Trump heading for under 1/3rd approval by the weekend.

Trump might have to take a sick day and not golf this weekend.

[pnwmom]

3. So it's been an hour. Where's the huge story, Scott Dworkin? n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. Here it is . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141741865

[bathroommonkey76]

15. That's not it.

Dworkin tweeted about that on his page earlier.

[karynnj]

43. Also that is just smoke -- Obama made a statement that 17 intelligence agencies blamed Russia

for the hacking. Something Newsweek neglects to add -- note that the article says that the WH prefered that several agencies put out the statement -- not just the FBI. Remember HRC referencing this.

[jmg257]

4. God tweets suck :). WHERE is the gigantic story coming from/going to be??

Hopefully not some twitter feed?

[brooklynite]

7. I'm guessing it's the announcement of the Senate Intel Hearing tomorrow...

[bathroommonkey76]

8. No.

Dworkin teases stories like this on Twitter all the time.

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. This . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141741865

[jmg257]

14. Well that's not gigantic news - it was mentioned it in the presser.

[fleur-de-lisa]

16. Scott Dworkin is overly dramatic.

And he retweets his own crap over and over again. I had to stop following him or go insane.

[jmg257]

17. Ha - thanks for that - seems he is! Not like we all didn't know the Senate Hearings would proceed.

Plus he got a few 'facts' wrong.

[randome]

5. How does one pivot from 'huge story' to mundane comments about the committee?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[gratuitous]

6. Well, that's just unpossible

Sean Spicer said that everyone has agreed that there's nothing to investigate, and Rep. Nunes said there are no witnesses to call. How can the Senate Intelligence Committee possibly be looking into this without any witnesses or evidence, and why hasn't one of the Senators on the Committee scampered over to the White House grounds to let someone (we don't know who) know what's going on?

[jmg257]

9. I think he missed the "WHEN" in "Cmte will interview Jared Kushner-WHEN they know exactly..."

At least that's what was said in the Presser.

"Committee will conduct an interview with Mr Kushner when the committee decides it is time for us to set a date because we know exactly the scope of what to ask.."

[H2O Man]

13. Recommended.

The House committee has served its purpose, with Mr. Comey making public that they are engaged in a counterintelligence investigation that includes the Trump campaign. But the Senate committee is definitely where the real work will be accomplished.

[grantcart]

19. So what you are saying H2O Man is that, on a purely technical level, Congressman Nunes is a

fluffer

(noun) a person in the adult entertainment industry whose job it is to give male porno stars blowjobs in order to get them ready to perform.

Just getting the real stars in the Senate excited so that they could stay on point.

I believe that the Senate is up to the job and will keep hard at it.

You see this stuff and you want to cry but you can't help seeing the absurdity of it.

[L. Coyote]

21. He's Trump's milk cow now.

[H2O Man]

27. It's surreal.

But this isn't the first time that republicans in the House have attempted to abuse their office to obstruct the system. I was thinking last night about this, after reading someone noting that republicans were better back in the Watergate era. That was really only true towards the end. If, for example, we consider the House Judiciary Committee's 7-29-1974 evening hearing on the proposed articles of impeachment, lots of republicans were supporting Nixon. The most obnoxious was NJ Rep. Sandman.

However, other republicans knew this was risky. The RNC head was Bush the Elder, who warned his fellow party members that the nation's eyes would "be on New Jersey." Bush went so far as to meet privately with Sandman, who would quietly change his stance on impeachment. But the republican party paid a price for Sandman's toxicity.

(I should note that Sandman, a former amateur boxer, had been a WW2 POW. Thus, though he was a flaming asshole, I gave him more credit than I do this new breed of slime, such as Nunes.)

[grantcart]

33. They key is if the Burr and Warner stay on the same page, which it appears they are.

There will be all kinds of odd fellows wander through the tapestry before the curtain is drawn.

Carter Page is a good candidate and most hilarious idiot but I expect to hear from a few bartenders, a group of Russian sex workers and an OCD bookkeeper who kept elaborate details on Manafort's books and sent a copy to his brother in law who hid it in his Butterfly Conservatory.

The only thing that counts at this point is that Burr and Warner stay on the same page. Burr's father was a minister and Burr is active in the progressive and tolerant Methodist Church. He has an independent streak being the only Southern Republican Senator to vote for the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".

It would be a great irony that the seat that John Edwards gave up to run for VP was filled by a descendent of Aaron Burr who stood up and did the right thing. The survival of Republics require unexpected good fortune from unexpected quarters.

[H2O Man]

36. Aaron Burr

was an interesting character. A close friend of his built the turnpike from the pre-war "western front" to Ithaca, a section of which is now my driveway.

[cwydro]

18. Every week a new shoe about to drop.

A new boot about to fall.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I read this wishful thinking on DU.

Sigh.

[janx]

23. a lot of it comes from speculation/gossip

on Twitter, and nobody seems interested in finding the original source of information (if there is one).

[jmg257]

25. That fact is SOO frigging annoying! Hearsay based on opinions based on reports based on stories.

Everyone with an opinion thinks they are a journalist.
(or just want you to click and donate)

[janx]

28. Yep.

And a lot of so-called news sources online (twitter or no twitter) are just recycling news from those who are, with a lot of speculation and spin.

[L. Coyote]

29. FBI investigation into Trump-Russia COLLUSION means Trump's domestic and foreign agendas must PAUSE

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[L. Coyote]

20. Day 69: The Russia Scandal Has Reached the Trump Family

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[L. Coyote]

24. THIS must be it: Senate Intel Committee May Interview Ex-UK Spy Christopher Steele

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/senate-intel-committee-may-interview-ex-uk-spy-christopher-steele-n739976

Three sources told NBC News the committee is in talks to interview Steele, who wrote the dossier alleging links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

[jmg257]

26. That isn't big (or new) news either - it was in the presser too.

[Bonx]

30. Regular hour or business hour?

[L. Coyote]

31. Senate Intelligence Committee Rocks Trump By Not Ruling Out Russia Collusion

[Shrike47]

32. It's been more than an hour; no big story.

[L. Coyote]

34. I did get a good nap in, and came back to nothing much yet. Watching still.

Lots of good cartoons coming up!

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. Ben Garrison is a hard right wing cartoonist. RW meme is "Trump vs Deep State" with tRump as "hero".

See Obama and Clinton in the water moving in on tRump. RW memes.

See Bilderberg in the background. Frequent RW whipping boy. Same for Rothschild nemesis top left.

Schumer and Pelosi as two-headed snake.

Rats in the MSM boat. RW meme.

[L. Coyote]

35. Sen. Cassey: 80,000 Pennsylvanians have written my office demanding answers

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[L. Coyote]

37. Jared Kushner & Paul Manafort Sought for Questioning over Russia

[jmg257]

38. They both already volunteered. Not this either! :)

[L. Coyote]

39. Dworkin - HERE IT IS: Comey Tried to Reveal Russian Plot Before Election

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[jmg257]

40. Ah HERE ya go!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028869023

[L. Coyote]

41. DISCUSS here:

LBN: FBI Director James Comey Tried To Reveal Russian Tampering Months Before Election

GD: Comey Tried to Reveal Russian Plot Before Election