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Anonymous ID: f3c885 Oct. 30, 2018, 12:07 p.m. No.3665897   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6164

Chuck Grassley: Kavanaugh and 'the caravan' might save GOP

 

Sen. Chuck Grassley said in an interview here that the Republicans might win congressional majorities next week because of “Kavanaugh” and “the caravan.” Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Republican enthusiasm picked up in the aftermath of the explosive hearings on Capitol Hill to examine allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh, nominated for the Supreme Court by President Trump. He was ultimately confirmed on a party-line vote, with one Democrat and one Republican, respectively breaking ranks. Grassley, R-Iowa, said GOP enthusiasm is holding steady since partly because of fears about a migrant caravan making its way north through Mexico toward the Southern border. The migrants, from troubled Central American countries, are hoping to be granted political asylum by the U.S. But Trump has warned that they are filled with criminals and carry diseases. "It did away with the lethargy of the Republican base. We've got enthusiasm as high as what the Democrats have now nationally,” Grassley said in an interview with the Washington Examiner, regarding the partisan Supreme Court confirmation process. “The caravan may be the second boost, but the Kavanaugh thing is the instigator of any boost we had."

 

House Republicans are laboring to defend a 23-seat majority. Senate Republicans, in better shape because they’re competing on a favorable map, are likely to pad their 51-49 advantage. It’s unusual for politicians to discuss policy priorities in starkly political terms, although it’s typical of Grassley, a seven-term senator know to speak his mind and speak plainly. This approach certainly hasn’t hurt President Trump — at least not yet. But occasionally, such honestly, or, speaking like a political operative, can get politicians in trouble. In 2015, when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was on the cusp of becoming the next speaker of the House, he suggested in an interview on Fox News that House Republicans formed a special select committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya to weaken Democrat Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election. “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.”

 

House Republicans ultimately selected Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to succeed John Boehner as speaker. Ryan is stepping down at year’s end, when he will retire from Congress. McCarthy is again the leading Republican to become the speaker, if his party holds the House majority.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/chuck-grassley-kavanaugh-and-the-caravan-might-save-gop

Anonymous ID: f3c885 Oct. 30, 2018, 12:13 p.m. No.3665949   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5956 >>5975 >>6033 >>6063

NBC reporter tries, fails to explain why she sat on exculpatory Kavanaugh evidence

 

NBC News sat on exculpatory evidence exonerating Justice Brett Kavanaugh from the ludicrous allegations that he had participated in gang rapes when he was in high school. Why? Because the “news value was limited,” NBC reporter Kate Snow tried to explain this weekend. Yes, really.

 

Snow authored an article published on Oct. 25 highlighting then-unreported inconsistencies in a signed declaration from a woman whom celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti claimed could corroborate his client Julie Swetnick’s allegation that she witnessed Kavanaugh drugging and sexually abusing girls when he was just 15 years old. This too-late report came out the same day that the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it had referred Avenatti and Swetnick to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. And it made NBC’s already atrocious Kavanaugh coverage look even worse. And it rendered NBC’s decision to air a one-on-one interview on Oct. 2 between Snow and Swetnick even more inexplicable and indefensible than it already was.

 

Snow’s Oct. 25 follow-up report revealed that she and her team knew as early as Sept. 30 of serious inconsistencies and discrepancies in one of the chief allegations leveled against Kavanaugh. The story also made it clear that the network knew by Oct. 4 that the Avenatti allegation was a deliberate or deranged lie. NBC even reported that Avenatti himself tried to “thwart” their “reporting process” and apparently placed words in the mouth of his supposed witness. And NBC said nothing about this for more than three weeks. I contacted NBC last week and asked how it justified sitting on what it knew about the errors in Avenatti’s story in the days leading up to the Senate’s Oct. 6 vote to confirm Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Though Snow declined to respond to me directly, she took a crack at defending herself via social media. “Important context to my and [senior NBC producer Anna Schecter’s] story regarding a second woman Michael Avenatti put forward to corroborate Julie Swetnick’s claims about Brett Kavanaugh,” she tweeted Saturday. “My interview with Ms. Swetnick aired on October 1. She was making serious claims, so we took care to provide viewers the full context around her allegations and our reporting with a 13+ min piece.” She added, “We also made clear – in the interest of full transparency – that NBC News had not been able to independently verify her claims. After repeated requests to Avenatti for corroboration of Swetnick’s story, he had conferenced us into a call with a woman. The day after our Swetnick [interview] aired, Mr. Avenatti tweeted out a sworn statement from that other woman. It was inconsistent with what she had told us.” ''None of this absolves NBC from airing an interview with a woman whose story the network could not verify in any capacity. But it gets worse.''

Anonymous ID: f3c885 Oct. 30, 2018, 12:18 p.m. No.3666012   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6180 >>6299

Denmark foils Iranian assassination plot

 

Iranian spies were foiled as they plotted to carry out an assassination in northern Europe, according to officials in Denmark. “The assessment is that an Iranian intelligence agency has planned an assassination on Danish soil,” Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said Tuesday. “This is completely unacceptable. In fact, the gravity of the matter is difficult to describe.”

 

Iranian officials targeted the leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, an organization that seeks to carve an Arab state out of western Iran. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service detected someone “conducting reconnaissance” of the target’s house last month, leading to an investigation and an arrest. “With regard to the man in custody, an investigation is ongoing,” the Danish security service announced. “However, when PET now states that there is sufficient basis to conclude that an Iranian intelligence service has been planning the assassination of an individual living in Denmark, it is not only based on the case against the man in custody, but on comprehensive intelligence efforts.”

 

Denmark’s announcement marks at least the second time this year that Iran has been accused of plotting an attack on European soil. An Iranian diplomat credentialed in Austria was allegedly part of a plot to bomb a Paris rally of Iranian dissidents in June. “This happened just as the regime has been putting a full-court press on European countries to stay in the nuclear deal,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last month in New York. “As a just response to this support for terrorism, a few weeks ago our ally France indefinitely postponed all non-essential diplomatic travel to Iran. That is a good first step, and we hope to see more actions like this from other nations. We must put pressure on the regime to rein in its destruction and demand that Iran act like a normal country.”

 

President Trump’s renewed sanctions on Iran’s oil industry are scheduled to take effect next week. Iranian officials denied the Danish allegations, maintaining that they are another effort to undermine Western support for the 2015 nuclear deal. “Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Tuesday that the publication of such ‘spiteful’ media reports and its attribution to Iran is a plot by enemies to affect Tehran’s growing relations with European countries,” Iran’s state-run media said. “He emphasized that these claims are the continuation of plots and conspiracies hatched by known enemies who are against good and expanding Iran-Europe relations at the current sensitive conditions.”

 

European leaders — particularly France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — are lobbying for Trump to avoid the most aggressive implementation of the coming sanctions. “The main risk of the pressure strategy is that it pushes Iran to restart its nuclear activities,” French President Emmanuel Macron said last month, according to Reuters. “So if we want a chance for this pressure on Iran to produce results, then we need to make sure it doesn’t opt for the worst option.”

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/denmark-foils-iranian-assassination-plot

Anonymous ID: f3c885 Oct. 30, 2018, 12:29 p.m. No.3666135   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Kate Snow Net Worth: Know About her Husband, Kids and Age

 

Kate Snow is an American TV journalist, who currently serves NBC news as a national correspondent. Kate Snow is also regular for Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News and substitute host for weekday broadcast. She is an Emmy winning correspondent and anchor for NBC.

 

Kate Snow Husband - Chris Bro and Children

Kate Snow is married to husband Chris Bro, a radio presenter and host. The couple is blessed with two children, a son, and a daughter. However, if the inside reports are to be believed, then Kate is having a very hard time trying to hedge her married life. Some sources also claim that the much-loved couple is about to split, however, no news has been confirmed. She was born in Bangor, Maine to father Dean R. Snow, an anthropologist, and Iroquoian. She was too young when her family moved to New York City, after which she spent all her life over there. She attended Cornell University and following the graduation joined Georgetown University earning master’s degree in Foreign Service.

 

https://ans-wer.com/biography/kate-snow.html