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On February 15 2017 09:05 Gorsameth wrote:

I would love for relations between the West and Russia to improve. But that's hard when Russia occupied and annexed part of another country, wages a covert war and repeatedly threatens our allies.

Its hard to improve relations while Putin is trying to define his legacy by rebuilding the USSR.

The White House kept Vice President Pence in the dark for weeks about the warning it had gotten about national security adviser Flynn from the Justice Department, Pence's press secretary, Marc Lotter, said Tuesday.

Pence did not find out until Feb. 9. Trump was first informed about the Justice Department's concerns regarding Flynn on Jan. 26, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at Tuesday's daily press briefing.

Flynn's actions as President Donald Trump's short-lived national security adviser are under scrutiny after he resigned Monday night over phone calls he shared with Russia's ambassador to the United States in December — before Trump took office. Among the topics discussed included U.S. sanctions imposed by the Obama administration against Moscow for its alleged role in the 2016 presidential election.

The date the vice president knew is significant because it is when the administration became aware that the Washington Post was about to publish a heavily-sourced story that confirmed Flynn and the Russian ambassador discussed sanctions, despite public denials from Flynn and other incoming senior administration officials including Pence, then the vice president-elect.

Flynn's departure — so far the most high-profile of Trump's senior team — comes after the White House said he misled Pence and other senior administration officials about information he shared with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn had claimed that he had no substantial communication with Kislyak, which Pence later repeated to various news outlets.

On February 15 2017 09:41 Howie_Dewitt wrote:

What, in your opinion, do you think Putin still needs to rebuild the USSR in all but name? I'm not knowledgeable on anything (still in high school, graduating this year and the "Modern World History" class covered everything from 1900 on except Russia after the revolution (got to Stalin and stopped at the beginning of the iron curtain), the two world wars (they said we knew enough about them), and this century besides the two American wars. I never got to understand what really happened between the USA and USSR, it why people were so scared.

Office of Government Ethics Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. is recommending an investigation and possible disciplinary action be taken against Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to President Trump, for urging shoppers to buy fashion products sold by Trump's daughter Ivanka.

"Under the present circumstances, there is strong reason to believe that Ms. Conway has violated the Standards of Conduct and that disciplinary action is warranted," Shaub wrote in a letter to White House deputy counsel Stefan C. Passantino.

Conway appeared on Fox and Friends Thursday morning, where she addressed Nordstrom's recent decision to stop selling Ivanka Trump's line of products because of what it said were poor sales.

"Go buy Ivanka's stuff is what I would tell you. I hate shopping, and I'm gonna go get some on myself today," Conway said.

Ivanka Trump has a successful line of clothing, jewelry and shoes that is carried by numerous retailers.

But a boycott of Trump products got underway last year after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood video, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women by the genitals, and that appears to have hurt Ivanka's sales.

Her product line "was successful enough that these companies would have all kept carrying it on its own merits had this not happened," says retail consultant Jan Rogers Kniffen. "They weren't just carrying it because it was Ivanka Trump selling it. They were carrying it because it was actually selling to a customer."

In recent weeks, several large retailers have dropped all or part of the line, while others have chosen to de-emphasize it in their stores.

"They're all just stepping out of the way. They're saying, 'We don't want to be in a fight with the president, but we don't want to be in a fight with our customers either. We're getting out of the way,' " Kniffen says.

"She has tied herself to a very controversial figure that many women believe is trying to take them back to the 15th century. Anyone associated [with] Donald Trump is toxic," says Eric Schiffer, CEO of Reputation Management Consultants.

But the retailers' decision did not sit well with President Trump, who accused Nordstrom in a tweet last week of treating his daughter "so unfairly." Conway echoed the charge on TV.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer later said Conway had been "counseled" about her comments. Trump himself has not addressed Conway's remarks, and she told an interviewer later that day that she had the president's full support.

On February 15 2017 09:52 Logo wrote:


The last part is easy to explain. You had a country stockpiling a massive number of nuclear arms and threatening to use them Then another country racing to catch up in # of nuclear arms to stay as a power in the world then at one point positioning the arms so aggressively as to bring the world down to a single person preventing a very likely start to a nuclear war.

On February 14 2017 23:48 oneofthem wrote:
btw leftists who defend trash like greenwald etc, look where your heroes are at. lol just lol

While most news outlets gave wall-to-wall coverage of the resignation of his national security adviser on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tried to draw attention to the "real story."

Why, Trump wondered on Twitter, "are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington?"

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There were at least a couple of outlets, however, that gave ample coverage to what Trump described as the "real story." Fox News, in contrast to its cable news competitors, repeatedly framed Flynn's resignation as a betrayal of trust between the White House and intelligence community.

Trump's tweet came about 90 minutes after an interview on "Fox & Friends" with conservative pundit Laura Ingraham, a Trump booster who was floated as a possible White House press secretary, about what she described as "death by a thousand leaks."

On February 15 2017 06:25 Gorsameth wrote:

No, its Spicer in damage control mode because the National Security Advisor just had to step down over illegal actions with Russia

Also lets see how Trump responds to Russia breaking that Cruise missile agreement held up since the Cold war.
Actions > words.

On February 15 2017 10:44 GreenHorizons wrote:



Technically they were violating it while Obama was president too. It's just moved beyond it's "testing phase" designation.

On February 15 2017 10:56 oneofthem wrote:

the story came out because of observed movement.

On February 15 2017 10:25 IgnE wrote:


where's greenwald? at least post a link if you are going to post these cryptic "lol" posts