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Trump OK with DOJ releasing Mueller report without White House seeing it, Lindsey Graham says

President Trump said he's fine with the Justice Department releasing special counsel Robert Mueller's final report without the White House having a chance to examine it first, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham. Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the revelation during an interview Tuesday evening with Fox News' Shannon Bream, offering a potential solution to Democrats concerned the president might try to assert executive privilege on key aspects of the report before they see it.

"[Trump] decided that the White House is OK with releasing it without looking at it," Graham, R-S.C., said. "I talked to him just a few minutes ago, the president, and he said let it out," he added. "There'll be some things in there I think will be interesting in terms of conversations. But the bottom line here is that Mueller has looked at this for two and a half years. He's concluded that no one on the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians and that the facts regarding obstruction were insufficient for him to make a decision. Therefore there is no way you could prosecute a case that the prosecutor is unsure."

Mueller concluded his nearly two-year-long Russia investigation last week and sent his final report to the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's report to Congress on Sunday that said Mueller's team found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.

During an interview Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said he would "have a problem" if the White House got to see a summary of Mueller's final report before he does. "As we know from the Nixon tapes case, the Supreme Court decided … executive privilege cannot be used to shield wrongdoing and certainly they should not get an advance look at the report," Nadler said on "Fox News Sunday." "The report should go public in its entirety and see what the chips fall." Not satisfied with just a four-page summary, Democrats in Congress have clamored for the entire report to be released. In a letter Monday, House Democrats gave the Justice Department a one-week ultimatum to submit Mueller's full report and the underlying documents to Congress. Certain that the report has exonerated him, Trump said Monday it “wouldn’t bother me at all” if the full Mueller report was released for Democrats to examine.

Graham, who had dinner with the attorney general, said Barr told him he plans to release a version of the Mueller report to the public in "weeks, not months." "The report is being looked at for a couple of things," Graham said. "We cannot release grand jury information because It violates the law. So he's going to check with Mr. Mueller to make sure that everything that is grand jury related is taken out of the report because the law requires that. He's going to go to the intelligence community to make sure that we don't release classified information or sources and methods that may jeopardize our national security. He's going to talk to some prosecutors who have cases associated with this to see if anything in the report would undercut them." Graham predicted Barr will turn the report "over to the committee and then I think he'll come to the Senate hopefully sometime in April."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-ok-with-doj-releasing-mueller-report-without-white-house-seeing-it-lindsey-graham-says

Devin Nunes predicts criminal referral delivery next week

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., predicted Tuesday he will likely make criminal referrals as part of an investigation into alleged political bias in the FBI and Justice Department by the end of next week. During an interview on Fox News, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee he is targeting "people who lied to Congress, perjury, criminal conspiracy." Noting that "will be hopefully by the end of next week," Nunes said his team will work to "make as much public as possible."

His most narrow prediction yet for his criminal referral delivery comes days after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his nearly two-year-long Russia investigation and sent his final report to the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's report to Congress on Sunday that said Mueller's team found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.

Previously Nunes had said he wanted to see what was in Mueller's report before taking criminal referral action. Although Congress has not seen the full report, and Democrats are demanding its release within a week, a Justice Department official told Reuters Barr plans to make public a version of it within "weeks, not months." Nunes has not named anyone who could appear in a referral, but he has railed against what he says is collusion between the Democrats and the Russians, pointing to use of the unverified Trump dossier by the FBI to obtain warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign official Carter Page, as proof of an unraveling operation to undermine the president. That dossier, compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, was funded in part by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

"What needs to happen is we need to have full transparency in this matter. Full transparency," Nunes said Tuesday. "There was a lot of – the FBI and DOJ have claimed falsely that this investigation started in July 2016. That was a lie." "We need to know all the informants and everybody they were running into the Trump campaign because what happened here is wrong," he added. "The FBI, the Department of Justice should not be able to use counterintelligence capabilities that are used to target terrorists and other bad guys around the globe against political parties. Republicans and Democrats should agree political opposition research from one candidate should not be used to let the nation's top spy capabilities be used against political parties."

Nunes has looked to Barr, who on Feb. 14 became attorney general, to make headway towards completing an investigation begun last year by a joint GOP-led task force comprising the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee. Key to this effort, which has been bolstered by intelligence panel Republicans, is investigators looking over roughly 15 transcripts of interviews conducted by the task force last year.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-predicts-criminal-referral-delivery-next-week

Lindsey Graham on Gun Confiscation Laws: ‘Every Right Has Limits

During Tuesday’s hearing on confiscatory red flag laws, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “every right has limits.” Graham supports red flag laws, and in early March, he told CNN the confiscatory laws represent a place Republicans and Democrats can “come together” on gun control. Ironically, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was able to use the hearing as a venue in which to promote her “Extreme Risk Protection Order of 2019.”

Breitbart News reported that Feinstein’s bill seeks to encourage more states to adopt Extreme Risk Protection Orders, i.e., red flag laws, which allow for the issuance of court orders to confiscate firearms. On Monday, Feinstein boasted about the fact that the Senate Judiciary Committee would be hearing her gun control push. She tweeted, “Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on these laws and my bill. This is a commonsense measure that would help keep guns out of the hands of those who would harm themselves or others.”

During the hearing, Feinstein pointed out that Florida adopted a red flag law after the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting. She praised the fact that Florida officials moved “quickly after Parkland to pass an extreme risk law,” but did not mention glaring examples of the law’s failure. For example, Florida’s red flag law did not prevent the August 26, 2018, Jacksonville Landing shooting (three innocents killed) or the January 23, 2019, the SunTrust Bank shooting (five innocents killed). Feinstein also lauded California and Illinois for adopting red flag laws, but she did not mention the fact that California’s law did not prevent the November 7, 2018, Borderline Bar & Grill attack (12 innocents killed). She also went without mentioning that Illinois’s red flag law did not prevent the February 15, 2019, Henry Pratt Company Shooting (five innocents killed).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/26/lindsey-graham-gun-confiscation-laws-every-right-has-limits/

Report: Facebook, NBC, Axios Paid for Flattering Wikipedia Pages

Facebook, NBC, and Axios all reportedly paid for flattering Wikipedia pages — managing to get negative sections removed, and positive sections added in. Google currently prioritizes information from Wikipedia at the top of search results.

According to HuffPost, Facebook, NBC, and Axios paid former Fast Company and Inc.com Head of Digital Ed Sussman, who boasts a 100 percent success rate, to “do damage control” for their Wikipedia pages. “Most of Sussman’s changes” to Axios reporter Jonathan Swan’s Wikipedia page were reportedly approved, including changes which sought to downplay Swan’s previous mistakes, while “Facebook’s PR agency paid Sussman to tweak Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s page.” NBC also reportedly hired Sussman to make the company look better on Wikipedia following sexual misconduct allegations against NBC host Matt Lauer, and news that the company decided not to publish Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein story.

“The vast majority of the people who propose and make changes to Wikipedia are volunteers. A few people, however, have figured out how to manipulate Wikipedia’s supposedly neutral system to turn a profit,” HuffPost reported. “That’s Sussman’s business. And in just the past few years, companies including Axios, NBC, Nextdoor and Facebook’s PR firm have all paid him to manipulate public perception using a tool most people would never think to check.” NBC and Axios confirmed to HuffPost that they had paid Sussman to edit their Wikipedia pages, with an Axios spokesman declaring, “Axios hired him to correct factual inaccuracies. Pretty sure lots of people do this.

HuffPost also reported that “Sussman proposed that [Wikipedia] editors remove a portion of [NBC employee] Chuck Todd’s page that mentioned a potentially embarrassing 2016 Daily Caller report about an invitation found in the leaked emails of former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.” “According to the invite, Todd and his wife had hosted a dinner for Hillary Clinton’s then-communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, and her husband. Sussman asked that editors remove any mention of the report from Todd’s page because Wikipedia had previously (and correctly) determined the Daily Caller to be an unreliable source and, according to Sussman, ‘it is not sourced elsewhere,'” HuffPost explained. “This, however, is untrue. The invitation was reported in both the Observer and The Florida Times-Union, in addition to the invitation’s appearance on WikiLeaks itself.” Despite this, the fact was removed.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/18/report-facebook-nbc-axios-paid-for-flattering-wikipedia-pages/

Fourteen Republicans Vote with Democrats to End National Emergency

Fourteen Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday once more to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency on the border wall. Democrats and recalcitrant Republicans voted to end the Trump national emergency but ultimately failed to override Trump’s veto of H.R. Res. 46. The bill failed 248-181, featuring strong Democrat support for the bill; however, some Republicans voted again for the Democrat bill. Thirteen Republicans voted with Democrats last February to end the national emergency.

Rep. Katko was reportedly absent for the previous vote to end the national emergency. Many Republicans have said they oppose any form of executive overreach, which includes former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal alien amnesty. However, one federal district judge ruled in August 2018 that DACA was illegal, whereas many lawyers have argued that Trump has the authority under the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to reappropriate money to build the wall. The House vote comes as a Morning Consult/Politico poll suggests that nearly three-quarters of Republican voters would more likely vote for a candidate if they backed Trump’s national emergency on the border. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), one of the leading voices on pro-American immigration reform, issued a statement on Tuesday reiterating his support for Trump’s national emergency. “I sincerely hope today’s vote falls short of the 2/3rds majority necessary to override President Trump’s veto. If not, more American will die due to our porous southern border,” Brooks added.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/26/fourteen-republicans-vote-democrats-end-national-emergency/