Mandatory flu vaccines for all students under 30 in Boston

Hundreds of people, mostly parents with their children, gathered near the State House in Boston to protest mandatory flu vaccine shots, on Sunday. People held "No Mandatory Flu Shot Massachusetts" to show that parents were against Governor Charlie Baker's recently issued order for mandatory influenza vaccinations. The order is for all students under the age of 30, aiming to lift the burden on the central healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents could be seen holding banners reading My Child My Choice, Repeal Flu Mandate and ''This is Massachusetts, not communist China" with their children at the rally.

Sounds like a Harvard push..

John Ratcliffe says he is coordinating with John Durham and plans to declassify more documents soon

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed he is coordinating with U.S. Attorney John Durham in the federal prosecutor’s inquiry into the Russia investigation and expects to make further declassifications public soon. Ratcliffe, who has overseen the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies since taking over the role in May, shed a bit of light on how the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is assisting in the "investigation of the investigators" investigation during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News and insisted he is working to ensure that any intelligence documents he releases don’t "prejudice" Durham’s inquiry. “We’ve actually, for several months, been coordinating with his team of folks to make sure that he has access to all of the intelligence community documents that he needs,” Ratcliffe said of Durham. “He’s looking at the same, some of the same documents that I am, and so our work is running on parallel paths. Now, his is a criminal investigation, and he’s not sharing his findings or the work that he’s doing, but I’m coordinating with him to make sure that he has the intelligence documents that he needs to do his work, and what I don’t want to do is declassify something that might prejudice his work, so we’re going to have to coordinate as we go forward the completion of his work with my ability to declassify documents, and so we’ve communicated along those lines.”

Durham collected his first guilty plea this month from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to a false statements charge for altering a CIA email in 2017 that helped justify the continued Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretapping of onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page by fraudulently adding that Page was "not a source" for the agency when the CIA had told Clinesmith and the bureau on multiple occasions that Page was an “operational contact” for them. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham contends the FBI misled the Senate Intelligence Committee in early 2018 about British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s primary subsource — recently revealed to be Russian-trained, Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Igor Danchenko — who the FBI knew by then had undermined the credibility of many of Steele’s Trump-Russia allegations across multiple interviews with him in early 2017. Ratcliffe recently declassified the FBI memo showing Danchenko undercutting the reliability of the now-discredited Steele dossier. “I was a congressman, and in that role, I felt strongly that the FBI had continued a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign without a proper predicate, in other words, illegally continued it, and obviously the Clinesmith plea and documents that I declassified in connection with that are related to that,” Ratcliffe said. “The question now is: Did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counterintelligence investigation at all? And that’s the issue that John Durham is looking at, and it’s also the issue that I’m continuing to look at.”

DOJ Inspector General Horowitz wrote in his lengthy December report that the FBI's Russia investigation, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, was "opened for an authorized investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication." But Durham, along with Attorney General William Barr, disagreed with the assertion that the opening of the investigation was justified. “When I went through confirmation, I pledged to a bipartisan group of senators that I’d look at all of the underlying intelligence surrounding the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia and Russia’s interference and this idea of Trump-Russia collusion, so I’ve spent the last three months doing that,” Ratcliffe said Sunday. “And I’ve declassified certain documents — and I plan to declassified additional documents, but I’m not going to prejudice John Durham’s work in connection with that, so we’ve had to coordinate with this office about the timing of that, but I’m optimistic that I’ll be declassifying additional documents soon.” Durham is looking into whether former CIA Director John Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations. “There was definitely Russian interference,” Barr said in June. “I think Durham is looking at the intelligence community’s ICA — the report that they did in December [2016]. And he’s sort of examining all the information that was … the basis for their conclusions."

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What we know about CNN host Chris Cuomo's 'shocking' conversation with Michael Cohen that Tucker Carlson plans to reveal

Fox News host Tucker Carlson told his audience on Friday that next week he intends to share details of a conversation that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen secretly tape-recorded with CNN's Chris Cuomo. This tape is one of many that have been "floating around" for some time but have never aired publicly, Carlson said before noting with a chortle that Cuomo, who is the brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was captured on at least one of them. "Cohen and the governor’s brother had a pretty shocking conversation. Bottom line, Chris Cuomo is not the person he pretends to be on CNN. And there is more. This is a developing story. We'll have all of it for you next week. Tune in," Carlson said as video played of Cuomo lifting weights at a gym. Although the tape has yet to leak publicly, Cuomo was pressed to talk about it in the summer of 2018 after the FBI seized materials from Cohen, who later that year pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations for hush-money payments to two women during the 2016 campaign who claimed to have had affairs with President Trump. Trump has denied those relationships. On July 24, Cuomo played on his show, Cuomo Prime Time, a recorded conversation between Trump and Cohen about buying the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal's story about her alleged affair with Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported a day later that federal investigators obtained 12 tapes belonging to Cohen, including a conversation with Cuomo that was nearly two-hours long. The report narrowly focused on how Cohen talked about arranging a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about the affair she claims to have had with Trump in 2006. “I did it on my own,” Cohen said in regard to the payment.

Rudy Giuliani, who became Trump's personal attorney during the Russia investigation, appeared on Cuomo's show a couple of days later, praising the host for how he conducted himself during his chat with Cohen. The former New York City mayor said he could make the judgment because he read the transcript. "You did exactly the right thing. In fact, Chris, thank you for doing it because you questioned him the way a lawyer would question him, and you got everything out of him," Giuliani said. "I couldn't have done a better job of getting him to corroborate my client's statement than you did. And he did it three or four times." Cuomo said he wouldn't talk about it, insisting he remained bound by an off-the-record agreement. "I can't talk about it," he said. Giuliani argued that Cuomo was released from the off-the-record agreement because of Cohen's actions. "He put it on the record by taping the darn thing surreptitiously, by lying to you," Giuliani said. Still, Cuomo refused, insisting it was a matter of journalistic integrity. "Because somebody else does the wrong thing doesn't mean I'm going to do the same thing," he said.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who last week announced her resignation, participated in a 32-minute interview with Cuomo the following month in which they discussed the tapes. While Cuomo pressed Conway to talk about Stormy Daniels, she pushed him to address the two-hour tape that captured his talk with Cohen. "Tons of stuff," he said at one point. Cuomo then explained why he would not talk about the tape publicly. "He asked me not to record it, I said, 'I won't,'" Cuomo said. "He said, 'Just to be careful, let me have your phone,' I said, 'Here.' He then said, 'We'll take our phones. I'll put them away.' He did. He then recorded me on a secondary device." Asked how he felt about it, Cuomo said Cohen's actions were "dishonest" and "a bad thing to do." Cuomo claimed he has nothing to worry about on the tape but then suggested there is a reason why Conway and the Trump team would want it disclosed. "You know what we talked about in the conversation? I'm not going to tell you, you know why? Because it was off-the-record, and I respect that, even though he did me wrong. That's called integrity," Cuomo said. "What do you do when people aren't watching? I'm still not going to burn him even though he did something wrong," Cuomo added. "He can answer that for himself. I'll tell you what, there's nothing on it that I'm worried about. I know why you guys want to leak it but — hold on a second, this isn't about me. You tried, you failed. He's on that tape, on there with Michael Cohen, and he's lying about not knowing before these payments, and you should admit it," he added, referring to the taped conversation between Cohen and Trump.

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