Friday
Hurricane Lane has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but as CNN notes, “thrashing winds and relentless rain will remain a threat into the weekend.”
Scott Morrison becomes the sixth Australian Prime Minister in ten years, according to Reuters Morrison’s win to replace Malcolm Turnbull followed a week of political chaos. According to the article Morrison who was a treasurer under Turnbull took over the “Liberal Party,” which is the “senior partner in the conservative Liberal-National coalition.” A new election “must” be called by May 2019.
Opinion — As I can find no real information that the “senate” is working on a solution that has to do with anything about lowering “ridiculously high drug prices,” my solution is less government not more.
For highlights from the speech President Trump gave on Friday at the Ohio Republican state dinner we turn to twitter user Daniel Dale, a Washington correspondent who works for the Toronto Star who live tweets during each President Trump speech.
President Trump during his speech in Ohio, thanked congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) video via Kyle Griffin
President Trump: The great Jim Jordan, how good is Jim? Where’s Jim? Where is Jim? I love — come here Jim. Don’t ever wrestle him even if you’re bigger than him, don’t wrestle him. You know people don’t know this about Jim, he was one of the best wrestlers ever in college wrestling and when you see the way he fights — every time I watch him, I say to my wife, look at that guy that is tough. He lost one match in three years of college, what happened in the fourth year by the way?
He then thanks Jim Jordan.
Saturday
On Thursday Axios reported that Michael Cohen, last year, told Congress, he didn’t know if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting in advance. Axios also reported that Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen’s attorney tells Axios, that “nothing has changed,” regarding Cohen’s sworn testimony last year.
*Flashback*
November 22nd 2016
According to Trump Twitter Archive President Trump has tweeted using Attorney General Jeff Sessions name 16 times. The first negative tweet about AG Sessions is dated July 25th 2017
*End Flashback*
Senator Lindsey Graham July 2017: “Holy hell to pay,” when speaking about replacing AG Sessions.
Senator Lindsey Graham August 2018: After the election I think there will be some serious discussions about a new Attorney General.
Senator Ben Sasse from the Senate floor: I find it really difficult to envision any circumstance where I would vote to confirm a successor to Jeff Sessions if he is fired because he is executing his job rather than choosing to act like a partisan hack.
At Fox News’ website I found no reference to this statement. Based on later tweets it now appears President Trump was simply offering Fox News a tip.
According to the Washington Examiner President Trump might be referencing an article that was posted @ Real Clear Investigations that states, “In fact, a technical glitch prevented FBI technicians from accurately comparing the new emails with the old emails. Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.”