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Today's topics, of which there are many!

*Michael Cohen is in court this morning seeking a protective order to prevent the FBI "taint team" from reviewing potentially attorney client privileged material seized in the raid-- what it all means

*We learned yesterday that among the materials seized are potentially **tapes!!!!!*** of conversations between Michael Cohen and the President, RNC politicians and others

*Let's not forget that Cohen also had a campaign finance role at the RNC

* We also learned from Michael Avenatti yesterday that Cohen intends to seek a stay of the Stormy Daniels case on the grounds that Cohen will plead the 5th if called to testify. This is HUGE, and here's why.

*Avenatti also tweeted out overnight that Cohen is implicated in an NDA sought by a big GOP donor against a mistress the donor got pregnant who then had an abortion-- here's the significance of that tidbit

*"Will Michael Cohen flip?!"

*The breaking news out of the Mueller investigation yesterday on four areas of obstruction of justice by the President-- REMINDER: THIS IS A CRIME

*"What will happen with Mueller's report?"

*The difference between indictment and impeachment

*The nascent Scooter Libby pardon, and what it all means

*Rachel's warning last night: my thoughts

*Some curious things happening around Pence

*And why it's a good day to keep your chin up

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Today's topics:
*Pompeo is currently in his confirmation session on the Hill; what to expect
*Legislation to protect Mueller, and what to take away from that
*Bannon's new tirade
*The GOP's plan to discredit Comey in the coming days, what it tells us and how to respond
*Blank subpoenas requested by Mueller for Manafort's trial and why this is a nothing burger
*Hush payments to silence folks who might implicate Trump in bad behavior and why they matter, plus the new one that came out this morning and what to make of it
*Action items for today and how to keep on keeping on

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Today's topics:
*Speaker Ryan is not running for re-election, and what we can glean from that
*"Why are so many Republicans not running for re-election?"
*"Why is Mueller waiting so long?"
*Dana Boente's handwritten notes confirming his conversations with Comey concerning the President's obstruction, and a little primer on hearsay exceptions under the Federal Rules of Evidence
*No, the investigations don't stop if the President resigns (and why we should all love April Ryan)
*Cohen's response to the FBI raid, and why it might signal his willingness to flip on the President
*And the craziness of this morning's tweets, and why I am more hopeful now than ever that this democracy will be saved, and/but we all need to do what we need to survive until this whole this is over

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Today's topics:
*the raid on Michael Cohen's office and hotel room, and how it came to pass
*what we know about what the FBI seized, and what it means for the President
*a short primer on the crime fraud exception to attorney/client privilege, and why it's very bad news for the President and anyone else who communicated with Michael Cohen about actual or potential crimes
*the "clean team" and "taint squad" theories of why Mueller may have referred this out
*Cohen's involvement in a payment to Trump's Foundation from Ukraine
*the RNC's potential involvement given Cohen's role as a finance official for the RNC
*"Why is the GOP so silent?"
*"What's your predicted outcome of this presidency?"
*a few words on the President as caged animal, and what to expect
*and lastly, some comments on Facebook and the Koch brothers, and the potential impact to you and to #ResistanceLive

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Today's topics:
*the Republicans using impeachment as a threat to get the base up in arms for 2018 (I'm not worried)
*Syria and McCain's comments
*"were documents being burned in Trump Tower?"
*Congress is back in session-- action items for today
*Zuckerberg set to testify before Congress this week
*And remember: commentators have opinions, but how impeachment goes down is going to be based on what Robert Mueller knows that we do not yet know. Take what you read with a grain of salt.

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Special Saturday #ResistanceLive 4/7/18

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Today's topics:
*Manafort's storage locker and his newly filed motion to suppress
*John Bolton and how to take action
*Scott Pruitt and my prediction on how long he'll last
*Trump's statement on Air Force One that he didn't know about the payment to Stormy Daniels and what it means
*This President is NOT, I repeat, NOT unstoppable
*And what you can do to keep your chin up today.

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Today's topics:
*Last night's Washington Post piece, the difference between being a "subject" and "target" of Mueller's investigation, and whether this is all a part of a bigger strategy on Mueller's part
*"slow or fast?" how will the next indictments drop? Some thoughts.
*The "warning shot" to the President contained in Mueller's filings shoring up his ability to go after Manafort
*Van der Zwaan's sentencing
*And some thoughts on chaos and organizing, both for the 2018 election, and to survive

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Today's topics: 
*Sinclair Broadcasting and their propaganda machine
*Stephen Miller and the immigration hardliners meeting with Trump at Mar-A-Lago
*Papadopoulos getting drunk and talking to strangers again about the campaign
*Trump inviting Putin to the WH
*And it is SO SO SO quiet. Something big is on the verge of dropping via Robert Mueller. Feel it?

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Today's topics:

*How Michael Cohen and his attorney are ruining their own case with regard to Stormy Daniels

*John Dowd's purported discussion of pardons with counsel for Flynn and Manafort last summer

*Shulkin leaving the VA and his scathing op-ed

*And wow is it quiet or what. It's only ever been this quiet right before indictments, so that's the good news.

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Today's topics:
*Mueller's 11 p.m. filing last night in Van der Zwaan's sentencing
*Gates and his connections to a former Russian GRU agent
*Congress demands statements from the DOJ line of succession
*Stormy Daniels' lawyer seeks to depose the President
*Manafort floats a trial balloon for a pardon
*And it's so quiet you should take a break, because something big is coming

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