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May 30, 2019   Good morning from Washington, where conservatives take heat for foiling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plot to pass a $19 billion “disaster relief” bill while members are away on recess. Jarrett Stepman singles out who to bless and who to blame. Today’s the day Facebook shareholders decide how diverse the social network wants to be, Kevin Mooney reports. Plus: Melanie Israel and Elizabeth Slattery on what the Supreme Court’s latest action on abortion means, Michaela Dodge on Russia’s apparent nuclear tests, and Romina Boccia on Sen. Kamala Harris’ problematic pay scale.       Commentary Conservative Lawmakers Fight the Swamp It’s not grandstanding for legislators to halt the spending of billions of dollars to come to a better understanding of what such vast sums are actually being used for—and whether they would be better spent elsewhere. More News Conservative Shareholders Push Facebook to Achieve ‘True Diversity’ The shareholder resolution calls for the social-networking company to seek “ideological diversity among their board members” that “contemplates differences in political/policy beliefs.” More Commentary The Supreme Court Delivered a Mixed Verdict on 2 Indiana Abortion Laws. Here’s What That Means. Justice Clarence Thomas notes how an Indiana case “highlights the fact that abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.” More Commentary Problematic Women: How Kamala Harris’ ‘Wage Gap’ Plan Would Actually Hurt Women Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., wants companies to face a 1% profit fine for every 1% wage gap that they allow to exist in their ranks. More Commentary Russia Likely Conducting Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Tests, Intel Chief Says By not conducting any nuclear experiments, the U.S. is potentially forgoing military advantages that it now appears the Russians aren’t. More Commentary Revoke Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Marriage Fraud Immunity Card If you are not a member of liberals’ protected class of bitter loudmouths who hate America, you can be investigated and prosecuted for marriage fraud. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as rickbulow74@live.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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POLITICO Playbook: What Biden is planning for June

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NEW … JOE BIDEN’S SCHEDULE through the end of June: May 30: Delaware Memorial Day ceremony … June 1: Columbus, Ohio, for the Human Rights Campaign’s gala … June 4-5: New Hampshire … June 5: Boston … June 6: DNC’s IWillVote Gala in Atlanta … June 11-12: Iowa … June 17-18: New York …

… June 21: Rep. Jim Clyburn’s Fish Fry and the South Carolina Democratic Party convention Dinner … June 22: Speech at the South Carolina Democratic Party convention. Team Biden says more events will likely be scheduled.

TOP TALKER … WSJ’S REBECCA BALLHAUS and GORDON LUBOLD: “White House Wanted USS John McCain ‘Out of Sight’ During Trump Japan Visit”: “In a May 15 email to U.S. Navy and Air Force officials, a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command official outlined plans for the president’s arrival that he said had resulted from conversations between the White House Military Office and the Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy. In addition to instructions for the proper landing areas for helicopters and preparation for the USS Wasp—where the president was scheduled to speak—the official issued a third directive: ‘USS John McCain needs to be out of sight.’

“‘Please confirm #3 will be satisfied,’ the official wrote. When a Navy commander expressed surprise about the directive for the USS John S. McCain, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command official replied: ‘First I heard of it as well.’ He said he would work with the White House Military Office to obtain more information about the order.

“Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan was aware of the concern about the presence of the USS John McCain in Japan and approved measures to ensure it didn’t interfere with the president’s visit, a U.S. official said. …

“A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the president’s trip, according to photos reviewed by the Journal, and sailors were directed to remove any coverings from the ship that bore its name. After the tarp was taken down, a barge was moved closer to the ship, obscuring its name. Sailors on the ship, who typically wear caps bearing its name, were given the day off during Mr. Trump’s visit, people familiar with the matter said.” WSJ

— @MeghanMcCain: “Trump is a child who will always be deeply threatened by the greatness of my dad’s incredible life. There is a lot of criticism of how much I speak about my dad, but nine months since he passed, Trump won’t let him RIP. So I have to stand up for him. It makes my grief unbearable.”

— DEFENSE ONE’S KATIE BO WILLIAMS (@KatieBoWill): “Shanahan on USS McCain: ‘I never authorized… any action around the movement or activity regarding that ship. Furthermore, I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Sen. McCain. I would never disrespect the young men and women that crew that ship’”.

— @realDonaldTrump: “I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan. Nevertheless, @FLOTUS⁩ and I loved being with our great Military Men and Women — what a spectacular job they do!”

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, MUELLER EDITION …

— ON THE SAME PAGE … Speaker NANCY PELOSI and House Judiciary Chairman JERRY NADLER are singing from identical song sheets when it comes to impeaching President DONALD TRUMP. Both said “nothing is off the table” yesterday. Of course, this is mostly meaningless, because neither of them took anything off the table before the MUELLER speech. But there had been some concern among Democratic leaders that Nadler was a bit more aggressive than Pelosi.

— WHAT PELOSI IS SAYING … “Nothing is off the table,” the speaker said at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco Wednesday. “But we do want to make such a compelling case, such an ironclad case that even the Republican senate would at the time seems to be not an objective jury, will be convinced of the path that we have to take as a country.” Again, she’s clearly worried about the prolonged impeachment process that results in nothing.

— THE NUMBERS GAME: PELOSI said the impeachment crowd in the House was “35 of them … maybe it is 38 of them out of 238.” Actually, it’s 41 — and 42 if you include Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash. This represents fewer than 20% of House Democrats, and less than 10% of the House. “Many of them are reflecting their views as well as those of their constituents,” Pelosi said in SF. “Many constituents want to impeach the president. But we want to do what is right and what gets results. What gets results.”

TRANSLATION: This is still a small group of Democrats. BUT … That said, the ranks of pro-impeachment Democrats are growing by the day. House Homeland Security Chairman BENNIE THOMPSON of Mississippi Wednesday became the most recent high-ranking Democrat to call for impeachment proceedings.

— MISJUDGING MUELLER? … AT THE END OF THE DAY, all Robert Mueller really did was reiteratewhat was in Volume II of his report: He wasn’t allowed to indict the president for anything, so the special counsel’s office didn’t consider it. To the extent that he leaned into the idea of impeachment, all he did was note the fact that it was up to others — i.e., Congress — to figure that out.

MAYBE ROBERT MUELLER is exactly who we thought he was: someone who follows rules to the letter, and views his mission in the narrowest terms possible. And maybe folks on the left are investing too much of their hopes in a guy who just doesn’t want the entire weight of American democracy on his shoulders — and never has.

— FORMER PROSECUTOR KEN WHITE IN THE ATLANTIC: “Wednesday’s press conference was consistent with Mueller’s image as a classic just-the-facts-ma’am G-man, a persona that frustrates anti-Trump partisans who dreamed of him as an avenging superhero. But a bit of passion shone through in two areas.” The Atlantic

FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS … PETER BAKER on NYT A1: “Mueller Delivered a Message. Washington Couldn’t Agree on What It Was.” (Print headline: “A Message Unlikely to Change Minds.”): “At long last, the sphinx of Washington spoke on Wednesday, and here is what President Trump heard: ‘Case closed.’ Here is what the president’s adversaries heard: ‘Time to impeach.’” NYT

Good Thursday morning. THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS beat the Braves 14-4 in Atlanta last night, and are now the winners of five of their last six games.

SPOTTED: Ivanka Trump and Emmanuel and Christina di Donna — New York art figures and friend of the president’s daughter — getting an after-hours tour of the National Gallery of Art on Wednesday night. Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of modern art, gave them the tour, according to a museum source. Christina is the daughter of Raymond Floyd, the professional golfer.

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BAD NEWS FOR JARED … WAPO’S LOVEDAY MORRIS and MIRIAM BERGER in Jerusalem: “Israel will hold unprecedented second election after Netanyahu fails to form governing coalition”: “In a stunning turn, Israel will head to elections for a second time in less than six months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government before a midnight Wednesday deadline.

“Rather than give someone else the chance to do so, his party advanced a bill to dissolve the parliament and trigger new elections in September.

“Despite his reputation as a ­master of political maneuvering, Netan­yahu proved unable to bring Avigdor Liberman, his former defense minister, into a coalition that would give the prime minister a majority in the parliament, or Knesset. The two veteran politicians were at loggerheads over legislation sought by Liberman to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, a measure bitterly resisted by Netan­yahu’s powerful political allies in the religious parties. …

“[F]or the White House, the political breakdown presents a significant challenge to the rollout of President Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, was scheduled to touch down Wednesday night in the midst of Israel’s political maelstrom ahead of talks with Israeli officials about the economic component of the peace proposal.” WaPo

TRACKING TRADE … THE PRESIDENT’S TOP LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY: BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP, from NYT’s Glenn Thrush and Ana Swanson: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi is resisting pressure from the Trump administration to quickly approve an updated North American trade deal and is telling lawmakers and union officials that a planned study of the agreement could drag on well into the fall, people familiar with the situation said.” NYT

— THE FALL is well later than the White House’s goal of getting this passed by the August recess. And this timing would place trade in the combustible mix of government funding and debt limit fights — and on the porch of election season.

— VP MIKE PENCE will travel to Ottawa today to meet with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

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AP/TOKYO: “Asian stocks mostly fall on Wall Street slide, trade fears”: “The latest market slide comes as investors worry that the trade war between the U.S. and China will derail global economic and corporate profit growth as it drags on with no sign of a resolution. …

“With two more trading days left in May, the S&P 500 is heading for a loss of 5.5%. That would be its first monthly loss since December. The market has been heading steadily lower this month as prospects for the economy have dimmed and as traders got more worried about the lingering trade feud between Washington and Beijing.” AP

— BLOOMBERG: “China Puts U.S. Soy Purchases on Hold as Tariff War Escalates”: “China, the world’s largest soybean buyer, has put purchases of American supplies on hold after the trade war between Washington and Beijing escalated, according to people familiar with the matter.

“State-grain buyers haven’t received any further orders to continue with the so-called goodwill buying and don’t expect that to happen given the lack of agreement in trade negotiations, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information is private. Still, China currently has no plans to cancel previous purchases of American soybeans, the people said.” Bloomberg

— THE UPSHOT’S NEIL IRWIN: “The Bond Market Is Giving Ominous Warnings About the Global Economy”

PELOSI on Facebook, via Cristiano Lima: “During an interview with San Francisco radio station KQED, the Democratic leader responded for the first time to the company’s decision to leave up the flurry of videos that had been slowed to make her appear inebriated.

“‘We have said all along, poor Facebook, they were unwittingly exploited by the Russians. I think wittingly, because right now they are putting up something that they know is false. I think it’s wrong,’ she said. ‘I can take it. … But [Facebook is] lying to the public.’ She added: ‘I think they have proven — by not taking down something they know is false — that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election.’” POLITICO

A NEW HEADACHE? … MIAMI HERALD: “Federal prosecutors demand Cindy Yang records from Mar-a-Lago, Trump campaign”: “Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., this week sent subpoenas to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, and Trump Victory, a political fundraising committee, demanding they turn over all records relating to Republican Party donor Li ‘Cindy’ Yang and several of her associates and companies, the Miami Herald has learned.

“Yang, a South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur, is the target of a public corruption investigation seeking to determine if she funneled money from China to the president’s re-election campaign or otherwise violated campaign-finance laws. She became a GOP donor in the 2016 election cycle and opened a consulting company that promised Chinese businesspeople the chance to attend events at Mar-a-Lago and gain access to Trump and his inner circle.

“Some of those events were campaign fundraisers that required guests to buy tickets for entry, payments that are considered political contributions. Foreign nationals are prohibited from donating to U.S. political campaigns.” Miami Herald

NYT’S MIKE GRYNBAUM interviewed MICHAEL WOLFF: “In ‘Siege,’ you quote a witness — a former sound engineer on ‘The Apprentice’ named Erik Whitestone — who describes episodes of what could be construed as sexual misconduct by Trump before his taking office. Did you seek a response from Trump? I did not. As I say, I didn’t contact Donald Trump at all. But why would you? Literally, this is not a man who is going to suddenly at this point of his life ’fess up to being a sexual harasser. …

“You also write that Fox News provided questions ahead of time for its interview with Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination fight. Did you ask Fox for comment? No, but, again — it’s a difference between an institutional reporter and a non-institutional reporter. I don’t have to ask the silly questions. …

“As a journalist, is there a responsibility to seek out the subject’s side of the story? To gather as much information as you can?

“‘As a journalist — or as a writer — my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that’s not as close to someone else’s truth, but the truth as I see it. Remember, it’s a difference between a book and something else — you don’t have to read my book, you don’t have to agree with my book. But at the end of the day, what you are going to know is that it is my book. It is my vision. It is my report on my experience. It’s not put together by a committee. What you do is a committee project at some point. What I do is not. And I’m not saying one is better than the other, they’re just different functions.’” NYT

— ANOTHER TOUGH REVIEW: Ryan Lizza for WaPo: “Michael Wolff’s trip inside Trumpworld, and inside the president’s head, with Steve Bannon as guide”

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2020 WATCH — “First 2020 debate puts Democrats on edge,” by David Siders, Natasha Korecki and Elena Schneider: “Qualifying for the first Democratic presidential debate was the easy part. Now comes the challenge of preparing for it. With the first debate in Miami now less than a month away, at least half-dozen major candidates have begun to block out time or lighten their schedules to prepare.

“In telephone calls and conference rooms, advisers are peppering them with potential questions. The candidates are practicing tightening their answers, cognizant of the seven to 10 minutes of total speaking time they expect to be allotted. And they are watching clips of the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates to familiarize themselves with the dynamics of debating on a crowded stage.” POLITICO

— “Roy Moore hits back at Trump in defiant interview,” by James Arkin: “A defiant Roy Moore brushed aside Donald Trump’s warning not to run for Senate again, telling POLITICO on Wednesday that Alabama voters are capable of deciding for themselves whether he’s fit for office.

“‘The president doesn’t control who votes for the United States Senate in Alabama,’ Moore said in a phone interview. ‘People in Alabama are smarter than that. They elect the senator from Alabama, not from Washington, D.C.’ The scandal-plagued former judge said he is ‘seriously considering’ running for Senate again and plans to decide in a ‘few weeks.’” POLITICO

TRUMP’S THURSDAY — The president is leaving the White House at 7:45 a.m. Eastern en route to Colorado Springs, Colo. He will give remarks at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony at 10:40 a.m. (MT). Trump will depart at 2:05 p.m. to return to Washington.

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT FILES — “2 executives depart The Nature Conservancy after harassment probe,” by Zack Colman: “Two senior officials at The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s most influential environmental groups, have exited the organization after an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.

“The departures of Mark Burget, who headed the group’s North American operations, and Kacky Andrews, who led global programs, were announced in an email Tuesday from CEO Mark Tercek to staff. It said the group’s president, Brian McPeek, who stepped into ‘a less active role’ during an investigation, will now return to his job.” POLITICO

WILD STORY — “Former Tehran mayor confesses to killing his wife, sips tea on Iranian state TV,” by WaPo’s Erin Cunningham

LEDE DU JOUR: “A man who was pretending to campaign for Beto O’Rourke in South Austin on Tuesday was arrested after breaking into a home and stealing a Popsicle, according to an arrest affidavit.” Austin-American Statesman

HAPPENING FRIDAY — Former Roger Stone aide Andrew Miller is due to testify before Mueller’s grand jury. Josh Gerstein and Natasha Bertrand’s preview

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MEDIAWATCH — “The Future of NRATV Is in Doubt After Ad Agency Severs Ties to Gun Group,” by the Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff and Asawin Suebsaeng: “On Wednesday, ad agency Ackerman McQueen announced that it has moved to end its decades-long relationship with the National Rifle Association. It is the latest domino to fall in an ongoing legal fight, one that could ultimately mean the demise of the gun group’s affiliated, pro-Trump TV network.

“‘Today, faced with the NRA’s many inexplicable actions that have constructively terminated the parties’ Services Agreement, Ackerman McQueen decided it is time to stand up for the truth, and formally provide a Notice to Terminate its almost four-decade long relationship with the National Rifle Association,’ the ad firm said in a statement.

“‘The turmoil the NRA faces today was self-inflicted,’ the statement continued. ‘It could have been avoided. We deeply regret that it wasn’t.’” The Daily Beast

— RESULTS! Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan took questions from reporters amid growing complaints about the Pentagon’s year-long stretch without a formal, on-camera press briefing. The transcript

PLAYBOOKERS

TRANSITIONS — Jami Burgess is now COS for Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.). Burgess previously was COS for Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.). … Kelsey Suter is a new VP at GQR, the progressive polling and strategy firm, where she’ll be working to grow communications/PR. She was previously an associate director at APCO Worldwide.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: D.C. agent Holly Page. A fun fact about Holly: “While in college at San Francisco State University, I worked as an undercover store detective for the now defunct I. Magnin Store in Union Square. While my general fear of getting hit in the face prevented me from being good at arresting shoplifters, on the day after Thanksgiving in 1989, I did discover a bomb intended to start the store and specifically the fur salon on fire.” Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Jenna Lee … Jake Hargraves … NBC’s Frank Thorp … Jeff Freeland, special assistant to the president for legislative affairs (hat tip: Neal Patel) … Kim Kingsley, head of content strategy at Airbnb … Miryam Lipper, Iowa communications director for Kamala Harris, is 28 (h/t Ian Sams) … NYT’s Michelle Cottle … former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is 61 … Scott Mason, senior policy adviser at Holland & Knight … Stratton Kirton … Loren Duggan … Alan Berger … Ashe Schow, senior editor at the Daily Wire … CNN’s Eric Levenson … Shawnda Westly … WSJ alum Gautham Nagesh … Larry Silverstein is 87 … Lindsey Davis Stover … Josh Gatlin is 43 … Lisa Stark, correspondent at Education Week … BBC science editor David Shukman is 61 … CAA’s Alan Berger … Rachel Clark, celebrating by getting ready to run the Baltimore 10 Miler on Saturday (h/t boyfriend Eric Geller) …

… Rob Noel (h/t fiancée Christina Mandreucci) … Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini is 57 … Joe Williams … Reema Dodin … Kirsten Danis, deputy Metro editor for investigations at the NYT … Obama WH alum Rusty Pickens is 4-0. He celebrated in Scotland at the Ben Nevis Inn (h/t Heath Clayton) … Steve Kramer aka Kramer is 50 … PhRMA’s Nicole Longo … POLITICO’s Pratyusha Sankuratri … Jenna Klaus of the NYC City Council … Ashley Bender, associate at Arnold & Porter (h/t Trey Herr) … Marcus Messner … Victoria Kucharski … Hunter Williams … Brian Infante … Fiona Maxwell … Sophia Zaller … Lauren Nevin … Nicholas Ballasy … Sheila Ali-Oston … Doug Grane, co-founder and partner at St. Andrews Partners … Greg Moore … Paul Scharff … Thomas Cluderay … Gary Lee …. Jorna Taylor … Stephanie Bosh … Chris Gowen … Joe Cowie (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)

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View this email in your browser Thursday, May 30, 2019 Mueller Speaks “Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday that charging President Donald Trump with a crime was ‘not an option’ because of federal rules, but he used his first public remarks on the Russia investigation to emphasize that he did not exonerate the president.” AP News From the Left The left is calling for an impeachment inquiry and urging Mueller to testify in front of Congress. “The [Mueller] report chronicles how Trump fired the FBI director, tried repeatedly to push out other Justice Department officials, tried to shut down the Russia and Flynn probes, tried to fire Mueller, praised witnesses who didn’t cooperate with Mueller, and attacked a loyalist who did… [Mueller said on Wednesday] that he concluded that he wasn’t even allowed to consider charging the president with a crime… [he also said] that he doesn’t have ‘confidence’ that Trump ‘clearly did not commit a crime.’ So, you know … connect the dots, I guess?” Andrew Prokop, Vox “Put it all together and Mueller was saying: Russia interfered in our election. Trump obstructed that investigation. Mueller’s office could have said Trump didn’t commit a crime, but did not reach that conclusion. The ball is in Congress’ court. This is as close to a call for Pelosi to begin impeachment proceedings as we are likely to hear from someone as circumspect as Mueller, and it makes Pelosi’s foot-dragging not just untenable but a dereliction of her constitutional duty.” Richard L. Hasen, Slate “You may note that the subject which the Democrats are claiming they need to investigate further before initiating impeachment—whether Trump committed obstruction of justice—is something that Mueller addressed via a two-year inquiry that culminated in a 448-page report. (The report’s volume on obstruction was largely unredacted.) One suspects, then, that the issue the party is really interested in is whether public hearings involving Mueller and various obstruction-adjacent ex-administration officials would affect the polls which say that most voters don’t support impeachment… In other words, talking about accountability may be the order of the day, but actual accountability is not yet on the table.” Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate “Mueller hardly delivered the resounding closing argument the voting public might have required… Perhaps the only thing that will break through… is the sound of Congress stiffening its collective spine after weeks of incoherent claims that the nation is in the grip of a constitutional crisis of unprecedented proportions about which it does not intend to act. With Republican Rep. Justin Amash already there, the question is whether this moves congressional Democrats, who hold the majority, or if they will instead settle for strong feelings about infrastructure.” Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Regarding his reluctance to testify in front of Congress, many lament that “Mueller is a man out of time. This is the age of alternatively factual tweets and sound bites; he’s a by-the-book throwback who expects Americans to read and absorb carefully worded 400-page reports. Has he met us?” Ken White, The Atlantic “It’s difficult, of course, not to sympathize with Mueller’s view that having written this all down clearly in a report and then said it should mean he shouldn’t have to say it again before Congress… But that’s not how the world works. Mueller says it’s Congress’s job to determine what should be done, not the DOJ’s. Congress is political, and fundamentally, you can’t take the politics out of politics… media coverage matters… Live video matters — and Wednesday’s statement just drives that home.” Matthew Yglesias, Vox Some note that “confusion persists about Mueller’s labored explanation for why he felt constrained to say — flat out — whether Trump committed obstruction. Mueller repeated an analysis that because Justice Department rules prohibit a sitting president from being indicted, it would be ‘unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge.’ But if fairness is a key consideration, is it fair to leave the president under a cloud of double-negative suspicion? Among the other questions we’d like to hear Mueller address: Does he think the nation needs a new process for investigating sitting presidents? Why wasn’t Trump subpoenaed to testify in person?” Editorial Board, USA Today In an open letter to Mueller, Robert De Niro writes that Mueller’s silence has “allowed the administration to use its own voice to control the narrative… you said that your investigation’s work ‘speaks for itself.’ It doesn’t. It may speak for itself to lawyers and lawmakers who have the patience and obligation to read through the more than 400 pages of carefully chosen words and nuanced conclusions [but not to the public]… You’ve characterized the report as your testimony, but you wouldn’t accept that reason from anyone your office interviewed… And if, in fact, you have nothing further to say about the investigation, for your public testimony, you could just read from the report… You are the voice of the Mueller report. Let the country hear that voice.” Robert De Niro, New York Times From the Right The right is critical of Mueller, arguing that his statement was inappropriate and went beyond his role as a prosecutor. “Last I heard, a prosecutor’s job involved determining whether sufficient evidence exists to charge someone with a crime—not whether there’s sufficient proof of innocence. The insertion of ‘not’ in Mueller’s statement… turns American jurisprudence completely on its head.” Marc Giller, The Resurgent “Our system of justice in America is designed to protect the innocent. This is why there are laws that prevent disclosure of grand jury testimony and even more expansive rules at the Justice Department that prohibit prosecutors from disclosing derogatory information about uncharged individuals. It is, in a word, unfair to smear people who have not been charged with anything. Mueller was well aware of this…  “In the case of a sitting president, wrote Mueller, ‘The stigma and opprobrium could imperil the President’s ability to govern.’ Ironically, the special counsel then proceeded to ignore his own warning. He produced his own ‘dossier’ on Trump that was filled with suspicions of wrongdoing… He refused to make a decision to charge the president in a court of law but was more than willing to indict him in the court of public opinion.” Gregg Jarrett, Fox News  Mueller “has distorted the critical role of a prosecutor in our justice system… No responsible prosecutor should ever suggest that the subject of his investigation might indeed be guilty even if there was insufficient evidence or other reasons not to indict. Supporters of Mueller will argue that this is not an ordinary case, that he is not an ordinary prosecutor, and that President Trump is not an ordinary subject of an investigation. They are wrong. The rules should not be any different.” Alan Dershowitz, The Hill Mueller offered “an invitation to impeachment. But that’s not Mueller’s job. He is a member of the executive branch. He is not an independent counsel. He is not a legislative investigator. A criminal investigation that cannot possibly result in charges is a conflict in terms. Mueller never should have agreed to such an investigation under the law, and Mueller’s own standard makes that clear…  “In fact, he pulled a James Comey: he effectively indicted Trump for supposed non-crimes publicly, the same way Comey did Hillary Clinton… It’s not Mueller’s job to exonerate anyone. It’s his job to prosecute or not prosecute. Instead, he told everyone that Trump might be prosecutable, but he couldn’t really say, but still, there might be impeachment available.” Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire Mueller “did decide there was insufficient evidence on collusion, so he obviously did not understand the guidance to forbid him from rendering judgments on the sufficiency of the evidence… [So he] can be fairly understood to be saying he believed President Trump committed obstruction of justice… and, for good measure, he added that in our system it is for Congress to take action against a sitting president. From that premise, the hardline anti-Trump Left will now argue that if Congress does not act, it is shirking its duty and placing the president above the law… Mueller’s statement was a boon for pro-impeachment Democrats.” Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review  “Mr. Mueller would have better served the country and his own reputation if he had simply done what he claimed he wants to do and let his report speak for itself. Instead he has weighed in for the Democrats who want to impeach the President, though he doesn’t have to be politically accountable as he skips town. This is the core problem with special counsels who think they answer only to themselves.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal Some argue that “America is fighting over the application of a terribly drafted and overbroad law

… Think of the breadth of this interpretation of the law. You can take actions completely within your power as a citizen, employer, or public official and still be prosecuted for them if a prosecutor deems your motivation to be subjectively ‘immoral’ or ‘wrongful.’…  

“Two of the three stated grounds for indictment relate directly to the president’s exercise of his lawful powers — the alleged effort to fire Mueller and his alleged effort to limit the scope of Mueller’s investigation… Trump’s conduct is scandalous, no question. But so is the law. It places too much power in the hands of prosecutors and the courts, and it gives citizens — even presidents — inadequate definitions of prohibited conduct. The raging debates you read today are in part the product of a flaw in the system, a defect in the law that virtually no one will have the energy or interest to change.”
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IN THIS ISSUE: – House 2020: Incumbents Hardly Ever Lose Primaries HOUSE 2020: INCUMBENTS HARDLY EVER LOSE PRIMARIES But that doesn’t mean every single one is safe By Kyle Kondik Managing Editor, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Incumbent House members hardly ever lose primaries. In the post-World War II era, more than 98% of House members who have run for reelection have been renominated by their own parties. — However, even such a lofty renomination rate suggests that a few House members will lose primaries next year. And the high victory rate for incumbents in primaries doesn’t take into account some members who may have retired in the face of possible primary challenges. — There are several incumbent House members who should take seriously the threat of a primary in 2020. As of now, it appears that there is more primary action on the Democratic side than the Republican side. Incumbent primary threats in 2020 A week before Rep. Joe Crowley decisively lost his primary last year, I tweeted about Crowley’s potential vulnerability, with the caveat that “I have little idea if Rep. Joe Crowley (D, NY-14) is actually seriously threatened by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in his primary next week.” A member of Crowley’s staff sent me an email that quoted this question I raised and said, “He’s not. Not at all.” One couldn’t necessarily blame Crowley and his team for not fully recognizing the threat that Ocasio-Cortez posed. After all, almost all primaries of sitting House members fail.   That history might give some comfort to House members on both sides who have deviated from party orthodoxy and will face primary opposition next year, most notably Rep. Justin Amash (R, MI-3), who now supports impeaching President Donald Trump, and Rep. Dan Lipinski (D, IL-3), whose social conservatism nearly led to his defeat in 2018. That said, history also suggests that at least a few primary challenges will succeed this cycle. It’s those few examples that will, or at least should, keep House members from taking renomination totally for granted. Since the end of World War II, there have been 37 elections for the U.S. House (one every two years). In those 37 elections, an average of 397 House incumbents sought reelection each election year. On average, only six House members failed to secure renomination each election year. In other words, more than 98% of all House members who have sought renomination in the post-World War II era have received it. Table 1 shows the history from 1946 through 2018. Table 1: Postwar House renomination rate

Sources: Vital Statistics on Congress, Crystal Ball research This 98% renomination figure may actually understate the safety of incumbents in primaries, at least in this election. The reason is that 2020 is not a national redistricting cycle. While it is possible that some states will have new maps next year based on a pending Supreme Court decision, the lion’s share of states — if not all of them — will hold House elections next year under the same maps those states first created following the 2010 census and in advance of the 2012 election. Election years that end in “2” feature new maps across the nation as seats are reapportioned from slower-growth states to faster-growth ones and district lines shift within states in response to the population changes uncovered by the decennial census (this is also typically when one party or the other engages in gerrymandering). Reapportionment years naturally lead to more primary turnover in the House, as incumbents of the same party sometimes have to run against one another and the power of incumbency can be weakened as an incumbent finds him or herself in a radically-redrawn district. Note that on Table 1, four of the last five House election cycles where the number of incumbent primary losers reached double digits were in years ending with 2; the fifth, 1970, was not a national redistricting year, but the state that then held the nation’s largest congressional delegation, New York, drew new maps that year. One consequence of the new GOP-drawn map was that some white, liberal parts of Manhattan’s Upper West Side were added to a congressional district centered on then-heavily African-American Harlem. That helped Charlie Rangel narrowly defeat then-Rep. Adam Clayton Powell in the Democratic primary, ending the career of one of the most famous House members of the 20th century and beginning the career of another. (Because of his legal problems, the House had refused to seat Powell in 1967, but the Supreme Court later overruled the House, and Powell won reelection in 1968 anyway before losing to Rangel in the 1970 primary). In any event, redistricting can spur a level of primary competition greater than one would otherwise expect in non-redistricting years. But 2020 is not a national redistricting year. On the other hand, the imposing 98% renomination figure overstates how easy it is for incumbents to be renominated because it doesn’t take into account the members who retire instead of seeking reelection. For all the ease with which House members are renominated and reelected historically, there actually is a lot of turnover in the House from year to year. As noted above, an average of 397 House members seek reelection every even-numbered year. But the House has 435 members, meaning that on average 38 House districts do not feature an incumbent running for reelection each cycle, which is about 9% of the body’s total membership. So there actually is a fair amount of turnover every two years, if not through incumbents who lose in primaries or general elections, then because of members who decide not to run for the House again for one reason or another. Some of these members — not a lot of them, but some — may have retired at least in part because of fear of a primary challenge. Rangel himself is a recent example — he barely survived primary challenges from now-Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D, NY-13) in 2012 and 2014 thanks in part to his own personal legal troubles that earned him a censure from the House in 2010 as well as the changing racial composition of his district, which had become increasingly Hispanic over time and through redistricting. Rangel indicated in advance of the 2014 election that he would not run again in 2016, and Espaillat eventually claimed the safely Democratic seat. On the other side of the aisle, former Reps. Marge Roukema (R, NJ-5) and Richard Hanna (R, NY-22) retired, respectively, in 2002 and 2016, which cleared the way for past primary challengers to claim their seats: Those former challengers, who both ran to the right of the more centrist incumbents, would later lose to Democrats. So the renomination rate for incumbents might be slightly less glowing if some incumbents vulnerable to primary challenge had decided to run again as opposed to retiring and opening up their seats to their past primary rivals. There’s also the glaring reality that even though there have not been many House primary incumbent defeats in recent years, the ones that have occurred have featured some very prominent members. In 2014, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R, VA-7) lost to Dave Brat; four years later, Crowley, the No. 4 House Democrat, lost to Ocasio-Cortez. Both men might have been speaker if not for their primary defeats: Cantor almost assuredly would have been, perhaps as soon as after the 2014 elections; Crowley may have been sometime in the future. Even though one could count on a single hand the total number of House incumbent primary defeats in each of those years (2014 and 2018), these are the kinds of primary upsets that, with good reason, can spook other incumbent members. So, who might face the most serious primary opposition? It’s far too early to know for sure, particularly because the seriousness of such challenges often don’t become apparent to outside observers until right before the election. That said, there are some names who stand out on both sides. Amash, the Libertarian-inclined Republican who holds the Grand Rapids-based seat that is the descendant of the seat once represented by Gerald Ford, made national news recently for concluding after reading the Mueller Report that President Trump should be impeached. Outright opposition to Trump has become harder to assert in the GOP: Disloyalty to the president contributed to a House primary defeat last cycle, that of ex-Rep. Mark Sanford (R, SC-1), although Sanford had preexisting weaknesses stemming from a secret affair he carried on while he was governor. Criticism of Trump almost certainly contributed to Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) retirement last cycle, as polling showed him doing very poorly in a primary; the same dynamic may have also helped convince Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to retire last cycle, although he was not in as obviously dire of straits as Flake. In any event, Amash — who has had primary opposition in the past — will face a challenge again, making him an incumbent to watch in next year’s primary season. Amash could potentially opt against reelection and run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, which would provide another example of a retiring member leaving the House in advance of what may be a very difficult primary. Three other GOP incumbents, all of whom performed weakly in what should be safe Republican districts last fall, could face trouble within their own party next year if they seek reelection: Reps. Chris Collins (R, NY-27) and Duncan Hunter (R, CA-50), both of whom are under indictment on accusations of corruption, and Rep. Steve King (R, IA-4), whose racist comments and dalliances with white supremacists have aggravated leaders across the political spectrum. GOP leaders have stripped Collins, Hunter, and King of their committee assignments. First-term Rep. Ross Spano (R, FL-15) also could face a primary after admitting to possible campaign finance violations after his victory last November. Meanwhile, there appear to be more Democrats who already face primary opposition. It may be that Democrats are beginning to experience some of the primary strife that emerged on the Republican side of the aisle during the Obama years. Strangely enough, Trump’s victory, and the mere fact of holding the White House, may have actually had the effect of imposing more primary calm on the GOP side, and Trump’s backing of incumbents can help them fend off challengers if needed (assuming such support is offered). Meanwhile, losing the White House may be contributing to more primary agitation among Democrats, as a leaderless party sorts itself out in the post-Barack Obama era. Lipinski, the socially conservative Chicagoland Democrat noted above, only barely beat marketing consultant Marie Newman in 2018, and Newman is running again. The brewing primary has already made national news: Rep. Cheri Bustos (D, IL-17), the chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was going to hold a fundraiser for her fellow Illinois Democrat, Lipinski, but the optics of the head of the DCCC so openly backing an anti-abortion rights incumbent outraged some Democrats. She recently canceled the event. The DCCC has also caught flak from some Democrats over a policy to freeze out campaign operatives and firms who back primary challengers. Remember: The formal party committees on both sides are first and foremost incumbent-protection organizations; incumbents help fill committee coffers and party groups typically don’t police member ideologies. That said, other ideological groups aligned with Democrats have backed Newman, like EMILY’s List, Planned Parenthood, and NARAL Pro-Choice America. One thing to watch in this race is the number of other candidates who enter: it was just Lipinski versus Newman last time, whereas this time there are other candidates running who could help split the anti-Lipinski vote. The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin reported that Newman and her allies are worried that any extra candidates may effectively be Lipinski plants. Some other House Democrats who are not particularly liberal, like Reps. Jim Costa (D, CA-16), Stephen Lynch (D, MA-8), and Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28), also seem likely to face primary opposition, although they all start in a much stronger position than Lipinski. (One note: California technically doesn’t have a primary, but rather a top-two system in which all candidates compete on a single first-round ballot and the top-two finishers advance to a general election. Washington has the same system, and Louisiana has a different system in which a candidate can avoid a top-two runoff if he or she wins more than 50% in the first round of voting. Intraparty challenges exist in those states, but they take a different form than in more traditional primary states.) Any discussion of Democratic primary challenges in the 2020 cycle must include the New York City area, scene of the Ocasio-Cortez insurrection in 2018. While Ocasio-Cortez was the only primary challenger to emerge victorious last cycle, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D, NY-9) nearly lost and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D, NY-12) was held under 60% of the vote. Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times surveyed the primary scene earlier this year and found that they and many other NYC Democrats could or will face primaries. That includes senior members such as Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D, NY-10), Eliot Engel (D, NY-16), and Gregory Meeks (D, NY-5) as well as newer members like Reps. Tom Suozzi (D, NY-3) and Kathleen Rice (D, NY-4). To the extent that credible primaries develop against some or all of these members, they likely will be fueled by the left, including Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that counts Ocasio-Cortez among its success stories. Ocasio-Cortez herself fundraised off the possibility of facing a primary challenger; it’s possible that two of her first-term allies, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D, MN-5) and Rashida Tlaib (D, MI-13), could be primaried, too. Tlaib in particular merits watching, given that she is a Muslim of Palestinian descent who represents a majority African-American district, and she narrowly won her initial primary victory in 2018 thanks in part to multiple African-American candidates splitting the black vote. Rep. Diana DeGette (D, CO-1), a long-serving Denver representative, attracted a strong primary opponent, former state House Speaker Crisanta Duran (D), who seemed to be angling for a Senate bid before surprising observers by opting for a safe-seat primary challenge. DeGette fended off a primary challenge by a roughly two-to-one margin in 2018, but Duran may push her harder. Rep. Lacy Clay (D, MO-1) was held under 60% last cycle while Rep. David Scott (D, GA-13) was unopposed, but both will face challenges in majority African-American districts; so too will Rep. Danny Davis (D, IL-7). A couple of long-shot presidential candidates who have been a thorn in the side of House leadership, Reps. Seth Moulton (D, MA-6) and Tulsi Gabbard (D, HI-2), may need to tend to the home fires before too long lest they find themselves in primary trouble. Another, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D, CA-15) might well run again for House if his own bid for the White House doesn’t take off. It is uncertain whether he can clear the Democratic field for his seat, however, since some contenders are already organizing for the contest, although state Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D) has said he would defer to Swalwell if he ends up running for reelection. Top Democratic leaders in safe blue seats such as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D, MD-5) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D, MA-1) have announced or likely challengers. So too do swing district members like Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D, AZ-1) and Kurt Schrader (D, OR-5), as well as a rising star from a famous family, Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D, MA-4). This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all the Democratic and Republican primary challenges, as there are some we may not be mentioning here and more that will emerge over time. And to be clear: Just because a member has a primary challenger does not mean that member is in any trouble. Again, few of these challenges, historically, are successful. But one never quite knows which challengers will emerge as credible from the much larger group of those that fizzle. The rare incumbents who lose may not comprehend the depth of their troubles until the votes start coming in on Election Night. Read the fine print Learn more about the Crystal Ball and find out how to contact us here. Sign up to receive Crystal Ball e-mails like this one delivered straight to your inbox. Use caution with Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and remember: “He who lives by the Crystal Ball ends up eating ground glass!”

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Of course, that wiggle-room will super-charge the “I see Bigfoot” impeachment crowd. But there … Jerry Nadler & His Predetermined Outcome is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump Cracks Down On People That Help Immigrants Illegally Enter The US By Jason Hopkins – Arrests of people caught providing shelter or helping illegal immigrants have sharply increased since the beginning of the Trump administration. There were 4,532 people federally charged with harboring and bringing in immigrants in fiscal year 2018, according to a study by Syracuse University and reported by NPR. 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This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) … Darknet fentanyl dealer indicted in Dallas for selling deadly drug for bitcoin is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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Branco – The Democrats failed to successfully lynch President Trump via the Mueller Report, now they want a do-over. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE The End of Their Rope – A.F. Branco Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Locked Them Up! – A.F. Branco Cartoon By A.F. Branco – Trump nailed Biden over his major role in the 1994 crime bill. A bill responsible for locking up many minorities unnecessarily, considered by many, a very dark period in our recent history. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE Locked Them Up! – A.F. Branco Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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An MPAA spokesperson told TheDCNF in a statement that “The outcome in Georgia will also be determined through the … Netflix Says It Will ‘Rethink’ Georgia Investments If ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Takes Effect is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Gravity Is No Longer a Political Issue By Michael R Shannon – Good news for the suicidal or just plain idiotic who plan on visiting one of America’s outstanding national parks this summer. One can now make a mistake and fall befuddled, surprised or screaming to your death off one of our scenic cliffs without any worries that your demise will be … Gravity Is No Longer a Political Issue is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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Thursday, May 30, 2019 The Mueller Press Conference Leaves Everyone Annoyed Yesterday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller addressed the public for the first time since the release of the “Mueller Report,” an over 400-page document detailing the government’s investigation of potential Russian interference in the 2016 election. The press conference was anything but informative, providing incoherent legal reasoning, once again confirming why tasking the executive branch to investigate itself may very well be a fool’s errand. From Sean Davis of The Federalist:   “Let’s start with the Mueller team’s unique take on the nature of a prosecutor’s job. The standard American view of justice, affirmed and enforced by the U.S. Constitution, is that all are presumed innocent absent conviction by a jury of a specific charge of criminal wrongdoing. That is, the natural legal state of an individual in this country is innocence. It is not a state or a nature bestowed by cops or attorneys. Innocence is not granted by unelected bureaucrats or federal prosecutors…   “The order appointing the special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. We conducted that investigation and kept the office of the acting attorney general apprised of our work,” Mueller said. “After that investigation, if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” According to Mueller and his team, charged Russians are presumed innocent. An American president, however, is presumed guilty unless and until Mueller’s team determines he is innocent. Such a standard is an obscene abomination against the rule of law, one that would never be committed by independent attorneys who place a fidelity to their oaths and impartial enforcement of the law ahead of their political motivations… Multiple federal agents and prosecutors reached out to The Federalist after Mueller’s press conference to express dismay at the former FBI director’s behavior.   “I’d have been crucified under this rule for a ‘not innocent’ comment about an uncharged party,” a former federal prosecutor told The Federalist. “I literally cannot fathom holding a press conference to say that an uncharged person was not innocent.”   Charles Cooke of National Review took a similar stance, admonishing Mueller’s assertion that evidence of innocence is necessary for stating a crime was not committed, indeed a genuine warping of the American justice system:   “I’m sorry to be a broken record on this, but this line from Robert Mueller infuriates me:   If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so.” Mueller – David Drucker, @DavidMDrucker   That’s not how it works in America. Investigators are supposed to look for evidence that a crime was committed, and, if they don’t find enough to contend that a crime was a committed, they are supposed to say “We didn’t find enough to contend that a crime was committed.” They are not supposed to look for evidence that a crime was not committed and then say, “We couldn’t find evidence of innocence.”   Finally, Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire weighed in on Wednesday evening with his own set of takeaways, namely reminding people that Mueller did not release any genuinely new information but rather has set the stage for Democrats to attempt impeachment: “Did Mueller clarify anything today? Only that he exceeded his original mandate — that after conducting a thorough investigation, he was willing to inject himself into the political process rather than sticking to his role. That’s damning not just for Trump – who will now have to face down Democrats calling for his political head – but for a career prosecutor who decided that the business of criminal prosecution was too difficult, and that he’d prefer to serve as a roadbuilder for impeachment.”   Alex Trebek’s Cancer “Near-Remission” America’s beloved host of Jeopardy! has announced some wonderful news in regards to his stage 4 pancreatic cancer. According to Trebek, his cancer has been responding to positively to chemotherapy, with some tumors decreasing by over 50%, placing him “near-remission.” From Fox News: Trebek revealed that he cried “happy tears” when he learned that the treatment was working after struggling with it for weeks. He noted that he believes he has a distinct edge over the average person battling the disease.   “I’ve got a couple million people out there who have expressed their good thoughts, their positive energy directed toward me and their prayers,” he shared. “I told the doctors, this has to be more than just the chemo, and they agreed it could very well be an important part of this.”   He continued: “I’ve got a lot of love out there headed in my direction and a lot of prayers, and I will never ever minimize the value of that.”   What I’m Reading Today No, Defining Men as Men in Federal Regulations Will Not Kill Trans People (The Federalist) Declaring Facebook a Utility Wouldn’t Assuage Users’ Concerns (NRO) Political Correctness Blinds us to the Causes of Anti-Semitism (The Federalist) How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right (Quilette) There are Two Types of Airport People (The Atlantic)   Beauty Recommendations: FENTY Edition Recently, Rihanna dropped a limited edition line of new summer products at Sephora. 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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray May 30, 2019 HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Indicts Soviet Socialism. Establishment Reviews Downplay It By Warren Henry The ongoing suppression of the truth by the Communist Party is evident throughout the mini-series. You might not know this from reading the New York Times. Full article Federally Funded Study: Common Core Sunk U.S. Kids’ Test Scores By Joy Pullmann In several cases student achievement reversed under Common Core, and in every subject studied students would have been better off if states had not adopted Common Core. Full article How To Make Sure Terrorists Like John Walker Lindh Don’t Stay A Threat After Release By Todd Bensman Convicted terrorist John Walker Lindh was released from prison a week ago. What’s the government doing to make sure former terrorists don’t reoffend? Full article John Durham Needs To Investigate Why The Info Generating The Mueller Probe Is All Linked To Hillary Clinton By H.A. Goodman At a certain point, it can’t be mere coincidence that every major figure involved in probing Trump’s campaign is linked to Hillary Clinton in some manner. Full article Why No One Should Climb Mount Everest By Kyle Sammin When did a monumental achievement in human history become just another bumper sticker on a rich guy’s car? Paying your way up Everest isn’t impressive. Full article Why Ending The Death Penalty Only Benefits The Worst Criminals By Russell La Valle Capital punishment isn’t vengeful or vindictive, it’s a repayment of justice proportional to the most shockingly evil crimes. Full article The Intellectual Dark Web Is Collapsing Under Its Contradictions By Sumantra Maitra The IDW is quickly turning into a passing fad, which was inevitable for this ragtag group of people bound together by very little more than their support for free speech, which is not enough to provide cohesion. Full article How Reboot Culture Transformed The New ‘Twilight Zone’ Into A Hyper-Woke Bummer By Caroline D’Agati Jordan Peele’s ‘Twilight Zone’ reboot trades the magic of the original for something more glitzy, but ultimately less satisfying. Full article Health Care Can’t Stay Between A Woman And Her Doctor If It’s Socialist By Paul M. Curry Democrats have not realized that a government that controls health care has the power to control health-care decisions. Full article Why Fears About Iran Attacking The United States Right Now Are Overblown By Patrick Tortorici Let’s cut through the media’s hysterics and have an honest look at Iran’s missile capabilities and political repercussions should they think of using them. Full article 25 Years After Jackie Kennedy’s Death, Melania Leans On Her Example By Stephanie Green Twenty-five years ago this month, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died at her apartment in New York. This summer she would have been 90. Even in death, she continues to permeate our culture. Full article CNN Anchor Mocks Rape Survivor For 2nd Amendment Views By Madeline Osburn ‘I’m a mother of two, and if a predator or anyone else tries to harm me or my family, they have to come through my firearm first.’ Full article Robert Mueller Just Put Nancy Pelosi In A Hard Place By David Marcus Nancy Pelosi is desperate to stave off impeachment, but Robert Mueller just made that harder. Full article Mueller Just Proved His Entire Operation Was A Political Hit Job That Trampled The Rule Of Law By Sean Davis As he showed at his press conference on Wednesday, Robert Mueller never cared about the rule of law. Instead, he turned it on its head just to get Trump. Full article Podcast: Populist Moments In Politics And Culture Around The Globe By The Federalist Staff Ben Domenech and Niall Ferguson sit down at the Hoover Institution to discuss rising populism in elections, foreign policy, and culture wars. Full article Robert Mueller Formally Resigns As Special Counsel By Emily Jashinsky In a Wednesday morning press conference, Robert Mueller announced the formal conclusion of his two-year special counsel investigation. Full article DEFIANCE THIRTY YEARS AFTER TIANANMEN A stunning piece in defiance of the Chinese regime’s utter destruction of public statements about Tiananmen, by the NYT’s Chris Buckley. http://vlt.tc/3nj6 “For three decades, Jiang Lin kept quiet about the carnage she had seen on the night when the Chinese Army rolled through Beijing to crush student protests in Tiananmen Square. But the memories tormented her — of soldiers firing into crowds in the dark, bodies slumped in pools of blood and the thud of clubs when troops bludgeoned her to the ground near the square.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a free trial today.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2019 The Federalist, All rights reserved.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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• Is the vision of a Roman-style armor erroneous as a way to see the Armor of God?
• Haters pounce on President’s Tweet: ‘I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected’
• Liz Wheeler: ‘Since when does mainstream media care about truth or accuracy?’
• Two more illegal aliens with child sexual assault convictions caught by border patrol
• 5 ways to save money and shoot more regularly
• Rare earth minerals are China’s trade war trump card, but is it really a threat to America?
• Mueller’s parting gift to the President
• Zechariah 12:10 – look upon me whom they have pierced
• Trish Regan was strategically cordial as she highlighted China’s socialism in Liu Xin debate
• New elections in Israel: What it means for Bibi and the U.S.

Is the vision of a Roman-style armor erroneous as a way to see the Armor of God? Posted: 30 May 2019 05:43 AM PDT You can practically hear the trumpets of war blaring in your mind when you read Ephesians 6:10-18, but is the vision of our promised protection built on false assumptions? The concept itself is sound and there is nothing that can take away the words or the implications of the Letter to the Ephesians. We are […] The post Is the vision of a Roman-style armor erroneous as a way to see the Armor of God? appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Haters pounce on President’s Tweet: ‘I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected’ Posted: 30 May 2019 05:28 AM PDT They have their “GOTCHA” Tweet from the President. Now, his detractors are having a field day with poor wording as the President tried to highlight the silliness of the whole Mueller probe and his statement yesterday. Early Thursday, the President Tweeted something that caught many by surprise. In a two-part Tweet, he said, “And now […] The post Haters pounce on President’s Tweet: ‘I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Liz Wheeler: ‘Since when does mainstream media care about truth or accuracy?’ Posted: 30 May 2019 04:50 AM PDT The buzz may have died down about two videos – one doctored and one edited properly – of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, but only because the damage was done. This is how the left operates, which makes it how the bulk of mainstream media operates. They take one thing, associate it with another, […] The post Liz Wheeler: ‘Since when does mainstream media care about truth or accuracy?’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Two more illegal aliens with child sexual assault convictions caught by border patrol Posted: 30 May 2019 03:45 AM PDT Border patrol did as border patrol is wont to do: catch illegal aliens who had been previously convicted of sexually assaulting children before being deported. In less than a week I reported on four other instances. Now, it seems as if they’re coming in pairs, though both were arrested in separate instances. Reyes Arroyo-Valencia, 31, and Fernando […] The post Two more illegal aliens with child sexual assault convictions caught by border patrol appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

5 ways to save money and shoot more regularly Posted: 30 May 2019 03:21 AM PDT As great of a hobby and sport that shooting is, firearm lovers all know how expensive it can be. Guns themselves are expensive, then you have the ongoing costs of ammo and range time. In this article, we’ll cover 5 tips to save money so that you can spend more time shooting! 1) Factor in […] The post 5 ways to save money and shoot more regularly appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Rare earth minerals are China’s trade war trump card, but is it really a threat to America? Posted: 30 May 2019 01:06 AM PDT In recent days, China has been banking on their dominance in the rare earth minerals market as their hedge against the trade war with the United States. They went so far as to issue their strongest threat, “Don’t say we didn’t warn you.” Before you disregard the threat as passing, it’s important to note they’ve […] The post Rare earth minerals are China’s trade war trump card, but is it really a threat to America? appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Mueller’s parting gift to the President Posted: 29 May 2019 07:46 PM PDT Contrary to most of the hot takes and analyses I’ve read about Robert Mueller’s press conference and the clear inferences he made about impeachment, I see this as a parting gift as he walks out the door and does whatever he can to get out of the public (and Congressional) spotlight. He has reinvigorated calls […] The post Mueller’s parting gift to the President appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Zechariah 12:10 – look upon me whom they have pierced Posted: 29 May 2019 06:27 PM PDT And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that […] The post Zechariah 12:10 – look upon me whom they have pierced appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

Trish Regan was strategically cordial as she highlighted China’s socialism in Liu Xin debate Posted: 29 May 2019 06:07 PM PDT There was a very important foreign policy win for the United States as Fox Business host Trish Regan debated Chinese state television host Liu Xin. It was likely missed by most Americans who are familiar with our own media stars, but most in China are not. Now, they got a feel for American media by […] The post Trish Regan was strategically cordial as she highlighted China’s socialism in Liu Xin debate appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

New elections in Israel: What it means for Bibi and the U.S. Posted: 29 May 2019 05:48 PM PDT Just before the deadline for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new Israeli government, his Likud Party called for a vote to have new elections in September. This move puts the future of Israel and our relationship with our best ally in the Middle East in a state of turmoil. The parliamentary system […] The post New elections in Israel: What it means for Bibi and the U.S. appeared first on Conservative Christian News.

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05/30/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Trail vs. Trial; MeToo Double Standard? Never Bitter By Carl M. Cannon on May 30, 2019 09:54 am Good morning, it’s Thursday, May 30, 2019. Last night, as I toggled between a televised Washington Nationals game and the Stanley Cup finals, a goofy story lit up my phone. Even in our currently deranged political environment, this sounded pretty preposterous. I thought it must be something from The Onion. But no, it apparently was real. It seems that on President Trump’s weekend sojourn to Japan, some genius in the White House thought it best if the commander-in-chief was spared the torment of gazing upon a U.S. Navy destroyer-class ship moored in Yokosuka harbor — a ship named the USS John McCain. And thus, according to the Wall Street Journal, the ship’s name was covered with a tarp, a barge was ordered to anchor in the sight line of the McCain, its crew was given a weekend pass so that sailors with that forbidden name on their caps wouldn’t be in the presence of the president. Further reporting this morning reveals that when Navy brass heard of this, they put a stop to it before Trump even reached Japan. For his part, the president insisted he knew noting about it. I have no reason to disbelieve him, but am nonetheless put in mind of a fascinating account of John McCain’s difficult relationship with another U.S. president, also a Republican, one fleshed out in The New Yorker magazine 14 years ago this month. This story had a twist, as I’ll explain in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Democratic Candidates May Be Trading Campaign Trail for Trial Duty. Phil Wegmann examines the implications of Robert Mueller’s comments yesterday, which have heightened talk of impeaching President Trump. Claire McCaskill and a #MeToo Double Standard? Mark Hemingway explores the sexual harassment allegations against the former senator’s husband, and why they received so little press attention at a time when other men were being spotlighted. Pelosi Demanded Better Trade Deals — But Ignores USMCA. Liz Harrington wonders why the speaker is not bringing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to the House floor. Sanders-AOC Credit Card Cap Would Harm More Than Help. In RealClearMarkets, Alfredo Ortiz argues that the proposed a 15% ceiling on interest rates would lock many poor Americans out of credit completely. Want to Fight Climate Change? Burn More Trees. In RealClearEnergy, Radovan Potocar argues for a counterintuitive environmental solution.  Progress on Prisoner Rehabilitation. In RealClearPolicy, Brent Orrell and Caleb Seibert discuss interventions that can to reduce the likelihood of recidivism for some inmates.  * * * In her superb New Yorker magazine profile of John McCain dated May 22, 2005, Connie Bruck delved into one of the riddles of McCain’s character: Why was he not more bitter? This was a theme explored by McCain himself in the best-selling books he wrote with Mark Salter, but mainly as it applied to the North Vietnamese who tortured him and other American prisoners of war. Bruck was interested in something more contemporary at the time, and highly relevant to domestic politics. In 2000, McCain had upended the established order of things with his landslide victory over George W. Bush in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary. John McCain may have been the son and grandson of admirals — U.S. Navy royalty, in other words — but Dubya was the son of a president and grandson of a U.S. senator. He was Republican Party royalty. But after New Hampshire, Bush’s campaign wasn’t rescued by the genteel GOP establishment. It was aided and abetted by a guerilla campaign featuring dirty tricks and rumor-mongering by South Carolina conservatives that was so nasty nobody has taken credit for it to this day. What Bruck wanted to know was how McCain managed to put that behind him and stay in the Republican Party (even after John Kerry offered him the veep spot on the Democrats’ 2004 ticket) while forging a working, even cordial, relationship with Bush 43. The 2000 presidential campaign was the first electoral contest McCain had ever lost, Bruck noted, adding that “for someone so competitive that he didn’t speak to his best friend in prison for days after losing to him in a bridge game, this defeat was particularly hard.” When she asked him about it, it was clear that McCain had wrestled with this himself and worked it out in a way that gave him some measure of peace. He looked to an example — a negative example, in this case — provided by Theodore Roosevelt, one of McCain’s political heroes, who was defeated by Woodrow Wilson in 1912. “Roosevelt was very bitter at the end of his life,” McCain told Bruck. “And I took a lesson from that — that I would not be bitter.” “Americans don’t like sore losers!” McCain added with some heat. “They want you to move on. And that’s what I did. I didn’t complain, didn’t express outrage. I moved on.” That attitude, along with the fact that he wasn’t a general election candidate in 2000, apparently prolonged the life John Sidney McCain III. It seems that at the 2000 Republican National Convention, George W. Bush’s advisers chafed at the level of media coverage McCain was receiving. In an equivalent gesture to covering up his name with a tarp, they sent word to McCain adviser John Weaver. “Would you guys please leave the convention? You’re getting too much attention.” Weaver reported that he and fellow McCain aide Rick Davis “went to New York to go to Le Cirque and get drunk.” But with unexpected time on his hands, McCain decided to go a medical facility in Bethesda, Md., to have a troubling bump on his face checked. “The next week, he called — it was malignant,” Weaver recalled. “If he had waited another month or two — and he would have, if he’d been running — it would have been lights out.” McCain was diagnosed with a recurrence of melanoma, which had first surfaced in 1993. “The cancer put him in a hurry,” Weaver said, “and made his zest for life even more robust.”  Carl M. Cannon   Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences  Copyright © 2019 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email becuase you opted in at our website. 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 From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann

FIRST READ: Everyone’s missing (or ignoring) the biggest red flag from Mueller

As everyone continues to parse Robert Mueller’s words from Wednesday – “It’s time to impeach!” “Trump is exonerated!” “Congress needs to do its job!” – most politicians and commentators are still missing his unequivocal message.

Russia clearly interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

Here were Mueller’s last two sentences from yesterday: “I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments—that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election.”

“That allegation deserves the attention of every American.”

Well, guess what isn’t getting attention today.

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Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election resulted in the ouster of the chair of the Democratic National Committee.

It produced Hillary-versus-Bernie chaos entering the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

It helped launch scores of stories looking into internal Clinton communications – from John Podesta’s hacked emails.

And it aided part of Donald Trump’s closing message, with him mentioning the word “WikiLeaks” some 140 times in the final month of the general election – a race decided by fewer than 80,000 votes in three states.

The lack of urgency and attention to that interference remains, in many ways, the real scandal.

That applies to a president who continues to describe that interference as a hoax.

And it applies to a Congress that’s been unable to mount a united front to prevent future interference.

Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.

The Dems’ oversight strategy has been “an incoherent muddle”

As congressional Democrats continue to play Hamlet on impeachment – “To impeach or not to impeach, that is the question” – Lawfare’s Ben Wittes makes an excellent point.

Democrats are experiencing a crisis – or failure – of oversight.

“Since the Trump administration has made it abundantly clear that it will not cooperate with routine congressional follow up to the Mueller report, what questions does Congress really want to explore and which questions are less important?”

“Is it to evaluate Trump’s conduct?”

“Is it to establish a factual record to support some piece or pieces of legislation?”

“Is it to set the table for impeachment? Or is it to dramatize and bring to life the 448 pages of the Mueller report?”

Bottom line, Wittes says, “Congress’s current strategy is an incoherent muddle.”

Over to you, Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders…

2020 VISION: Freeze frame

By the way, if you wanted a taste of what the 2020 Democratic presidential race MIGHT look like if Congress does go down the impeachment rabbit hole, you got it yesterday after Mueller’s statement.

The 2020 field took second (or third) stage.

Impeachment most likely would relegate the Dem race to the backburner and freeze the contest until afterward.

Just imagine what impeachment – or a similar storyline – might have affected the 2008 Obama-versus Hillary race.

Would Hillary’s debate flub over drivers’ licenses have received the attention it did?

What about Obama’s J-J speech in Iowa? (“I don’t want to spend the next year or the next four years re-fighting the same fights that we had in the 1990s.”) 

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On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden holds Memorial Day commemorations in Delaware (NBC’s Mike Memoli says Delaware has a strange quirk where many towns still celebrate the original Memorial Day date of May 30)… Bernie Sanders remains in Nevada… Amy Klobuchar also campaigns in Nevada… And Pete Buttigieg holds a “Mayor’s Night Out” town hall in South Bend, Ind.

TWEET OF THE DAY: Out of sight

DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 50. 

50.

That’s the number of days that passed between Israel’s last national election (on April 9) and when Israel’s parliament dissolved (on May 29) after it was unable to form a government, per the New York Times.

A new vote is set for Sept. 17.

THE LID: Ante Up 

Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we checked in with the new rules from the DNC to qualify for the third debate.

ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss 

Joe Biden’s personal family losses are becoming a feature of his interaction with voters on the trail, NBC’s Mike Memoli writes.

Our White House and Hill teams report that the response to Mueller within the Trump administration has been “muted” — but that Trump is feeling the pressure on impeachment.

And the New York Times notes that House Democrats are trying to figure out how to get more from Mueller.

Louisiana is the fifth state to pass a fetal heartbeat bill, and Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards says he’ll sign it.

Trump says he didn’t know anything about a decision to move the USS McCain out of sight during his stop in Japan.

And Nancy Pelosi is taking on Facebook.

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The Mueller Press Conference: More Confusion, No Clarity Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile: How Robert Mueller dropped the ball on his one big job, the pro-life movement is on the verge of a major victory in Louisiana, a reviewer finally gives Michael Wolff what he deserves, and some far-flung strange and scary places you can read about soon. You Had One Job, Robert Mueller! Mueller’s press conference was extraordinarily frustrating, for a variety of reasons. First, Mueller emphasized the grammatically muddled point, “If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so.” As Charlie Cooke lays out, this is not the legal standard in … Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories Socialists Crave Power, Not Equality Michael Brendan Dougherty A quintessentially socialist spirit is rising in the hearts of men and women that would impose political doctrines on every institution of common life. Silicon Valley, America’s De Facto Censor Michael Brendan Dougherty Silicon Valley’s behemoth companies are incapable of steering through the cross-pressures pushing them to censor more. Pelosi: Impeachment Not ‘Off the Table’ but Dems Still Need to Make a ‘Compelling’ Case Jack Crowe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she has not yet ruled out the possibility of opening an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. ADVERTISEMENT Protectionism Is Iatrogenic Government George Will President Trump may think he’s helping U.S. farmers and manufacturers, but he’s only making the self-inflicted problem worse. Don’t Blame the Surge of European Anti-Semitism on the Populists Jonathan S. Tobin The main reason violence against Jews has increased in Europe is the recent increase in Muslim migration. Mueller’s Press Conference Makes the Impeachment Tightrope Tougher to Walk for Democrats Andrew C. McCarthy Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Wednesday press conference upped the pressure on Democratic leaders who think impeaching Trump is politically ill-advised. Bad Law Is Corrupting the Obstruction Debate David French The law places too much power in the hands of prosecutors and the courts, and it gives citizens inadequate definitions of prohibited conduct. Dem. Presidential Contenders Urge Impeachment after Mueller Press Conference Jack Crowe A host of Democratic presidential candidates have strengthened their calls for impeachment in response to Robert Mueller’s Wednesday press conference. ADVERTISEMENT GIVE THE GIFT OF NR Gift Your Grad! Move that special grad in your life in the right direction. Enter coupon code MYGRAD at checkout to get 60% off all NR gift subscriptions. SEE MY OPTIONS Photo Essays Top Shots National Spelling Bee ADVERTISEMENT       Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.