ABC News Reporter Has Bad News For Those Waiting For Mueller Bombshell

ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said on Sunday that those who are hoping for a "bombshell" in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation are likely to be disappointed, according to his sources.

Karl made the remarks while appearing on ABC’s "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, where he discussed a recent report from The New York Times that claimed that FBI officials were investigating President Donald Trump because they thought he was working for Russia and against American interests.

"What I am getting is that this is all building up to the Mueller report and raising expectations of a bombshell report," Karl said. "And there have been expectations that have been building, of course, for over a year on this. But people who are closest to what Mueller has been doing, interacting with the special counsel caution me that this report is almost certain to be anti-climactic."

"If you look at what the FBI was investigating in that New York Times report, you look at what they were investigating, Mueller did not go anywhere with that investigation," Karl continued. "He has been writing his report in real time through these indictments and we have seen nothing from Mueller on the central question of, was there any coordination, collusion, with the Russians in the effort to meddle in the elections? Or was there even any knowledge on the part of the president or anybody in his campaign with what the Russians were doing, there’s been no indication of that."

https://www.dailywire.com/news/42113/watch-abc-news-reporter-has-bad-news-those-waiting-ryan-saavedra

>>4743095 (LB)

Also, Special Country in caps. SC=Supreme Court?

>>4743064

Thank you baker

Reminder…

>>4743211

you will like this one too (sorry I know I posted last bread, but it's that good).

Best advice from our Commander In Chief.

New Planned Parenthood Chief Leana Wen Says Abortion Access Still No. 1 Mission

Dr. Leana Wen, the new president of Planned Parenthood would like to make one thing clear: She is not backing down from the struggle for abortion rights.

“This is the fight of our time,” Wen said in a recent interview with The Daily Beast. “This is the time to fight with everything we have, because women’s lives are at stake, and we have to emphasize that reproductive health care is a fundamental human right.”

Ever since Wen took the reins at Planned Parenthood two months ago, much has been made about the differences between the 35-year-old and her predecessor, Cecile Richards.

Wen is a doctor and public health advocate, not an activist from a deeply entrenched political family. She has pushed Planned Parenthood to expand its offerings beyond family planning, to mental health and drug addiction counseling. Her first major act as president was to embark on a 20-state listening tour focused on promoting these non-abortion services.

But Wen, the former Baltimore commissioner of health, is adamant that Planned Parenthood is not losing steam on the reproductive rights front. After BuzzFeed News published a profile illustrating some of these differences this week, Wen shot back on Twitter, claiming the headline “completely misconstrue[d] my vision for Planned Parenthood.”

“Our core mission is providing, protecting and expanding access to abortion and reproductive health care,” Wen wrote. “We will never back down from that fight—it’s a fundamental human right and women’s lives are at stake.”

That declaration was a departure from traditional Planned Parenthood talking points, which often downplay the organization’s work on abortion and emphasize its other health services. And it sparked a predictable outcry from conservatives set on painting the organization as obsessed with ending pregnancies.

“Planned Parenthood President Acknowledges The Truth: Abortion Is Indeed Their Core Mission,” blared a headline from The Daily Caller.

“Is abortion Planned Parenthood’s ‘core mission’ or is it just 3 percent of what the group does?” tweeted National Review writer Alexandra DeSanctis. “Their new president can’t seem to make up her mind.”

But Wen seemed not to notice the criticism from the right, or at least not to care. In her interview with The Daily Beast, she doubled down on her commitment to not just providing abortion, but advocating to keep it accessible.

“I know this as a physician, that it's not enough for us to provide health care if people literally cannot get access to that care,” she said. “So serving patients, which is our North Star, must also go hand in hand with fighting restrictions and making sure that we have champions who will protect women's rights and reproductive rights around the country.”

While reproductive rights may be more imperiled than at any other time in recent memory—many members of the Trump administration are hostile to abortion rights, as are the majority of the Supreme Court justices—it is also an exciting time to be Planned Parenthood.

Democrats are the majority in the House of Representatives, meaning there will be no more meaningful threats to defund the organization for at least two years. Twenty-five states now have pro-choice governors in place, and 19 have sympathetic legislatures. For the first time in years, Planned Parenthood can move from solely playing defense to putting some points on the scoreboard.

On a political level, this means helping to advance “proactive” policies like New York’s Reproductive Health Act, or Oregon’s Reproductive Health Equity Act, which codify the protections of Roe v Wade into law. Planned Parenthood is pushing dozens of states to introduce policies like these in 2019, Wen said.

On an organizational level, going on the offense means rolling out new services on top of the reproductive healthcare Planned Parenthood already provides. Wen said she wants to expand mental health options at Planned Parenthood clinics, as well as offering patients help with health insurance and even housing.

“Our work will always center on sexual and reproductive healthcare—that's what we do,” she said. “But we also know that our patients don’t just come to us with one thing. They come to us with many needs, and it's our obligation to meet people where they are.”

full: https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-planned-parenthood-chief-says-abortion-still-no-1-mission?ref=author

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>>4743498

old one, but another very good one..

To think back to those times, and all that has happened since….it's been truly glorious!